Wars. Lots and lots of wars.

You reminded me of Gunship- Fly For Your Life (great music and incredible visuals)

https://youtu.be/Jv1ZN8c4_Gs

It’s really starting to feel like WW1 again. Now that we are going back to a multipolar world order, shit is starting to rapidly spin out of control. I expect the current wars to get worse, and new ones to break out. My money is on China invading Taiwan next. :/

Fucking idiot Russians. Incredible lack of military discipline, and sloppy leadership. I bet some idiot 22 year old who has never heard of the disaster flew it into the structure while the commander was fucking off somewhere else.

Ford survived, despite him being a full blown Nazi CEO about a century ago.

They are dumping hexavalent chromium into the ocean too :|

That is going to poison the environment and all sorts of seafood. You do not want to ingest that form of chromium at all.

A certain leader eats a shitload of them each week, so we can only hope xD

That feels a little on the nose…

Break up Russia.

Funny how both the president and VP both married immigrants or people of color, and he staffs his admin with people of color who are empowering neo Nazi freaks, who will throw them under the bus when things get bad.

This shit happens over and over again, and they never learn. Why can’t people just be normal? Marry who you love, then don’t go out of your way to be a fucking asshole.

Perhaps a sonic weapon at the right frequency could crack the wires?

Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them?

We thought the same thing back in the late 90s and early 00s. It didn’t work out very well for us. It gave them the economic and technological means to surveil their people and build up their military, while we benefited from cheap goods, but at the cost of losing our manufacturing base and electing someone who probably has serious brain damage. Who will now run our country into the ground.

All in all, I expect serious damage to our country, and China to go after Taiwan with their considerable military to grind up their young men, who have no chance of ever having a family after the one child policy screwed up their gender balance so badly.

If you have to hitch yourselves to another state, I recommend Europe over China.

That’s why ebikes are considered better than analog bikes by some metrics. Outside of electrified trains, there’s pretty much nothing as efficient as an ebike for distance /calories burned + electricity usage (minimal, compared to EVs)

https://youtu.be/HW5b8_KBtT8

This is why I started ebiking. I’m usually going up steep hills, or hauling groceries or other stuff. Having an ebike totally changed the math on whether I need to actually drive or not.

You guys gotta be more like America on the bike lanes one.

Just have crippling, insane traffic, where it takes you three hours to move five (5) city blocks (this has actually happened to me).

Suddenly, a new bike lane gets you across the city in 26 minutes.

It made the bike lanes very popular, haha.

The entire plane has to be redesigned from the ground up, that’s what he’s explaining. The F-35s are caked in sensors like a valve index. They have special paints and materials that absorb radar, making the radar profile look more like a bird than aircraft-sized hunk of metal, which is useful against Russian and Iranian anti air SAMs, the same ones taking down Ukrainian jets. But that also includes the body shape, the engine intakes (even engine blade materials), everything.

Can the Europeans create an F-35 class platform? Absolutely. But you can’t just retrofit your way out of a brand new generation of plane. It’s like trying to retrofit a Ford F-350 super duty to conform to Japanese Kei truck regulations and weight classes. You end up redesigning the whole thing.

Honestly, probably a good thing, politics aside. These areas are all ones that are gonna get fucked by climate change tomorrow. My only hope is that it’s blackrock’s stupid “”“investments”“” getting destroyed in a hurricane or getting turned into a desert.

Weren’t they sending soldiers to Ukraine to protect them?

And when is Ukraine gonna join the EU, as promised? If you are gonna promise things, you gotta do them. I’ll believe any of these when I actually see it. :P

This is mostly true, haha. Though…

I held open a door in Canada and got berated for it by someone in their 40s. He wanted me to slam the door in his face, which I get if it was an apartment on the east side of Vancouver, but this was not the case, lol.

I’m always amazed that Canada has more extreme personality types than where I’ve lived in the US. Generally people are more nice, but the mean ones are jaw-droppingly mean, lol. Always gives me a bit of culture shock whenever it happens, which is probably once every 10 visits or so (I visit often).

The most recent one was someone who was extremely bothered that we rented out a space for a wedding and admonished the groom that he was using a community space an hour before it was set to open (we got permission from the landlords to use it as such.)

All that aside, Canada is not for sale, Fuck those cunts in the Trump administration, and you guys were fully justified for what you did in 1812. 😎

Well, there is one way, and most of us would welcome it at this point, lol.