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Three top ranking members of Wagner on the flight, Prigozhins main connection to the oil & gas sector, and Prigozhins body squad all on board, I doubt a mercenary army is organized enough to make an actual push without their leadership. You have to remember, a huge part of the Wagner ground forces were recruited from prisons and told "If you live 6 months on the frontline, you earn your freedom." I doubt most of the soldiers are actually loyal to Prigozhin, they just saw an opportunity for freedom from Russian prisons.

The context is that little frog guys make everything better

I loved Shogun by Clavell and I always get recommended Musashi as being a similar vibe. I'll have to pick it up sometime

I started reading the Wool series after recently watching the Silo TV show. Pretty good so far, the world building is surprisingly fun.

One more hoopy frood who knows where their towel is!

Check out Llama cpp sometime, it's foss and you can run it without too crazy system requirements. There are different sets of parameters you can use for it, I think the 13 billion parameters set only uses 8 gigs of ram and the 25b parameter set uses 16gb. Definitely nowhere near as good as gpt, but still fun and hopefully will improve in the future.

Having worked for a state government which maintained data for federal submissions in 15 different versions of the same giant excel file on 15 different computers, it's scary how accurate this is.