So, if (just spitballing here) Russia were to have wanted to take out Starlink in order to handicap Ukrainian operations, and they didn't want to do something as visible as actually taking out the satellites, what would be the most likely way for them to have done it? And how would we be able to check if that's what happened?

No idea if this is plausible at all, just raising the question for anyone who knows more about this system than I do.

An architect I knew in Paris once pointed out to me that everything that the entire built environment in Paris was quarried from the limestone beneath it; there's as much of the city below ground as there is above it.

Part of his routine is doing outrageously-pricey good deeds, at over a million dollars, such as paying for cataract surgery for 1,000 people. How the heck can a YouTuber afford this? Easy: with the ad revenue of same videos. It turns out people enjoy watching good-deed videos, and these huge giveaways wind up paying for themselves.

It's really quite a clever cycle.