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That's still a thing, but I'm pretty sure missiles are pretty heavily nerfed in the current version from the VB6 days.

Yeah. I think one of the worst I've personally seen was "A woman's place is in the home", which I'd love to link as an example but have never been able to find on Youtube (I experienced it on one of those "X00 Classic Cartoons! DVDs you used to be able to buy at Walmart, where they just dumped a ton of public-domain stuff on a disc and sold it).


It is from the 20s (I think - had a resemblance to the Betty Boop and Popeye shorts from that era in both style and degradation), and I dimly remember it being European rather than American, but the premise is that a Happy Family is visited by a door-to-door vacuum salesman, except that the vacuum is a musical instrument that Mother is talented at. She becomes a famous musician playing to packed concert halls, while Father and Son starve in their filthy hovel. Eventually she's visiting them when another door-to-door salesman comes by with a trumpet, which she starts using to clean the floor. She gives up her career and everybody is happy again! Cue the title moral.

I just checked info for four major national brands of all-purpose flour (Walmart, Pillsbury, Gold Medal, and King Arthur) and none have significant levels of sodium (most were zero, one of them was 3).

Basically any protection can be waived if there's a legitimate workplace need, or if there's no possible Reasonable Accommodation.

There was a strong belief in early Christianity that the Second Coming, and thus the end of the world, would be very soon. This is due to Mark 13:30 ("Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.") which was long interpreted as "my disciples will still be alive when I return" message. A more modern interpretation of this is that He was prophesying the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, which the disciples interpreted as the End Of Days because they could not fathom something so horrible.

@Madman198237 who do you think have the upper hand in the sky atm? and will adding a couple wings of F16 will change that in any way?

The sky is neutral. Ukrainian SAM systems are doing a pretty effective job of restricting where Russian jets and choppers can operate, because Russia's proven quite incompetent at SEAD/DEAD missions. Ukraine (aided by Western HARMs and guided artillery) has done very well with SEAD/DEAD, but has no counter to long-range AAMs fired from Russian territory, and it turns out that long-rang air-to-air missiles are one part of the Russian military that actually works.


A supply of Western fighters would be a limited solution to that problem, because no Western country has a directly equivalent AAM - the Phoenix is long retired, and neither Meteor or AMRAAM have the same range. Ultra-long range AAMs are in development, but not ready for service yet. The primary advantages of Western fighters would be the ability to operate any ordnance that NATO is willing to supply (pretty handy, because both HARM and JADM would be much more flexible on a platform they're native to than when kludged onto a Mig-29 or Su-27, and other weapons would become an option), and (probably more important) they would be available in huge numbers. The Polish Migs being given now are probably the very last ones  NATO can get, which means that any Ukrainian aircaft that goes down is gone forever. This also increases pilot losses because there's a powerful incentive to try landing a damaged fighter in the hope of preserving a literally priceless war machine, or at least bringing home spare parts that can keep other birds flying. Were F-16s to be provided, a Ukrainian pilot that punched out would have a good chance of expecting a shiny new one from Uncle Sam to arrive by the time he's ready to get back in the fight.

None of this mitigates the extreme practical difficulty of actually getting the things there. Not only is operation completely different (which we know, because so many NATO allies have had to undergo the conversion from East Bloc to NATO aircraft), maintaining any combat aircraft is a nightmarish task. Training any single mechanic is probably simpler than training a pilot, but you need many times the number of mechanics as you do pilots. I would be shocked if there isn't a lot of training happening that nobody's admitting to, but it is a real obstacle.

You all know that for better or worst, this will likely result in Trump being elected again right? People seem to mever get enough of electing charged criminals. Add up some sex scandal and probably there will be statues of him.

He scraped out a narrow win nearly seven years ago, and every election since has rebuked him. He's very likely to win the GOP primary next year, but the general election is a far more difficult target.

That is "individuals can be prosecuted as part of this list of offenses". I posted the list of offenses that section refers to, all of which require organized activity. "If a group does X in an organized way, individuals in said group can be prosecuted" =/= "We can start prosecuting people for individually doing something that is very tangentially connected to X".