The main rotor blades can take a surprising amount of abuse.
I found it even more surprising how much stuff can actually pass between the blades.
https://youtu.be/CiDqNRdxTO0

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.
What better place than here, what better time than now?

My grandfather came from Poland and was a pow in Germany.

I hope Winston Churchill is English enough to quote.

Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.

This account from 1946 says

Canada, of its own free will, entered the war in September 1939 because it then realized that Nazi Germany threatened the very existence of Western civilization.

https://www.historians.org/resource/what-was-canadas-role-in-world-war-ii/

Good point, actually.

Canada declared war on Germany in 1939, because it was the right thing to do.

The USA declared war on Japan two years later, the day after Pearl Harbor. Soon after, Germany and Italy declared war on the USA.

The are about 450 nuclear power plants in operation. The number of plants built did not come up in my searches, but let’s say it was double that.

There were three full and two partial meltdowns in nuclear power plants.

That leaves us with a 0.5% chance of a meltdown per reactor.

I know the calculation is extremely simplified, but the risk is still too high for me.

https://youtu.be/xacdDrylrek

I’m doing Eugene dirty, but he always comes to mind.

“We abandon this task, not because it is easy; but because it is hard.”

Not to make light of anything, but “isn’t huge”?

As of 11 June 2024, CECOT had a population of 14,532 inmates. With a capacity for 40,000 inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center

It will be the Biden economy’s fault for sure.

One cannot influence what no longer exists. *tapsforehead

https://www.versinetic.com/news-blog/debunking-ev-fire-myths-after-fremantle-highway-blaze/

The fire’s origin was eventually traced to the eighth deck of the 12-deck ship, far from the electric vehicle storage areas.

Sorry to disappoint, but each country can choose their own coin design and there are quite a few monarchs.

• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Luxembourg
• Monaco

In Germany it’s legal for an employer to visit an employee. The employee is under no obligation to open the door, however.

As this article covers, it doesn’t really make sense to visit an employee, as the issue might not be visually apparent.

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/gesellschaft/krankheit-kontrolle-arbeitgeber-erlaubt-100.html

Idk about Sweden, but in Germany middle management visited sick employees at their homes to check whether they were really sick.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/tesla-hausbesuche-krankschreibungen-100.html

There are a lot of examples on this planet that say “never” without devolving into a cesspool of violence. Maybe take some inspiration from those places.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/25211.jpeg

Curious that there is a gap in the Soviet legislative elections around 1940. I wonder why that is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legislative_elections_in_the_Soviet_Union

“Went to war” I see they lowered the price for antifreeze. Please stay off of it.

It was foreseen. And the “fearmongerers” promptly ignored.

Of course there are donations, but that is not the point of the phrase.

There are no philanthropic billionaires, because they would have started giving away their wealth before even getting close to a billion.

All these people do is buying a little peace of mind.