He's wearing rubber flipflops. He'll be fine.
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Plenty more about to be delivered too. Eg. the first Belgian F35 rolled off the production line last week. Poland's set to start receiving theirs sometime next year.
That's the interesting thing about Ukraine. Putin's clearly delaying in the hopes of a Trump win and set his hope on attrition and numbers, but at the same time a lot of EU countries are going to have F16s they want to get rid of soon. Perhaps that's why the Russians have been threatening countries like Romania, trying to dissuade them from offering logistic support to Ukrainian F16s.
Should be interesting.
Bit of a tangent, but given that the F35 will replace the F16 as a nuclear bomber for the Netherlands and Belgium, and the Germans are replacing their tornados for the same reason, I wonder if Poland might at one point become part of the nuclear sharing agreement with the US. They'll have the planes to drop them. Kinda makes sense with Kaliningrad being a thing.
Seperate network that's physically not connected to a network which connects to the internet or cameras with local storage.
You can't hack into the wildlife camera in my backgarden. It doesn't even have wifi, just an SD card.
Of course, that's less useful if you want to check up on your house when you're away.
Agreed.
Here in the EU my insurance gave me a rebate for every safety feature, and that's not charity, simply them looking at the statistics. A lot of this stuff is now also legally required on new cars.
A lovely place to visit, but the work culture is a potential negative for those thinking of making a longterm move.
Arguably "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is a reboot. Not sure if the The Office counts.
Off the top of my head: Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica.
European perspective:
We've faced a lot of migration after Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Climate change is likely to displace billions in the coming century, so it's not going to get any better.
You can't simply not address migration, pretend mass migration doesn't (also) have negative effects on communities or affect the social fabric of your society. If you do that, you only embolden the far right, who get to pretend they're the only ones offering solutions.
Sure, plenty of those concerned about immigration are racist. But plenty also have legitimate concerns.
You're better off being honest about it. Admit that there are downsides, show the electorate you have a plan to deal with those downsides, and that the plan doesn't just involve dumping newly arrived migrants in the poorest areas of your cities where public services are already overstretched. Emphasise the positives too.
It's easy to be ok with immigration if you live in an affluent area, are well educated, have a good job, never use public transport, and none of the housing in your area is affordable for recent arrivals.
It's far harder when you live in an already deprived area, where good jobs are hard to find, where you're forced to rely on already overcrowded public transport or crumbling public services, only to be confronted with hundreds of new faces who don't speak the language, increase demand for housing, and depress wages. Especially when you're already struggling and are now forced to compete with these new arrivals.
Politicians who hand waive these voters' concerns, are likely to be seen as elitist and out of touch. Often by traditional left wing voters. And justifiably so.
Comments along the lines of "Hurdur, if a migrant can take your job, you must be dumb." are also inherently classist. Elon Musk is not richer than you because he is that much smarter than you. The world is simply not fair. The world is full of very intelligent and talented people, who are forced to do menial jobs, because that's what it takes for them to survive, and because they were never afforded the opportunities they deserved. Those who pretend otherwise are no better than the stereotype of an out of touch boomer who goes on about the young not being able to afford a house because they eat too many advocados.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_101%3A_Zombie_Apocalypse
And:
... the generation of a “Zombie virus” cannot be firmly excluded according to the currently available biological evidence ... In keeping with this conjecture, an interesting simulation of an imaginary Zombie outbreak reveals that most of the US population would turn into Zombies within one week from appearance of the first case ... the transformation of Rabies virus into a “Zombie virus” will always remain a tangible threat surrounding human future
For those wondering, outside of the museums, this is (some of) how WWII is memorialised in Berlin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Wache
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_with_her_Dead_Son
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church#Spire_and_memorial_hall
Filthy mudbloods.