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They make the SU-30MKI at home, and they're working a homegrown 5th gen fighter to replace it in the 2030s

Why would they buy the F-35? They might as well admit their own planes suck, and they're never going to do that.

Being the Big Boss is really easy. Being the underboss (which mods generally are) is much harder. Doing so in a committee is the worst.

There is absolutely a systemic pressure radicalizing these men. It's always partly their fault, but nowhere near fully

Remember that this process almost always happens before they turn 20, and usually to young teens

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Damn, that's a tough choice. Gimme an extra happy meal and both.

The helicopter is a helicopter. After about a week, it arrives and if it spots you, it follows/observes you for nonspecific reasons.

The helicopter is also extremely loud, drawing zombies from a huge distance to you. The best way to deal with it is by being inside, so it doesn't spot you. Then it'll just fly around and not do much.

Look at these streetcars ~~taking profit away from the petrochemical industry~~ being dangerous!

So yesterday, I cooked this amazi... Hey woah, I didn't do anything wrong! You can fire m... What do you mean I did it again?

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Absolutely not. I like my air as clean as possible, with as few volatiles and particulates in it as possible.

It's a bit of both, or four things, really.

Measles is insanely infectious. Covid has a reproductive number around 4 to 5 depending on urbanisation etc. Measles is generally estimated around 15 in the general population, but numbers go all the way to 200 for children in schools (as in 1 kid infects 200 kids).

The measles vaccine is not perfect. It's only about 97% effective after 20 years, meaning that if you had the shots, you still have about a 3% of getting measles.

In Canada (and basically everywhere) measles vaccines are given at age one.

And Alberta is full of complete fucking idiots who never got vaccinated. And those absolute morons tend to cluster is "crunchy suburban mom" clusters as well as "far right conspiracy nutcase" clusters.

What ALWAYS happens is some unvaccinated kid gets measles, spreads it to other unvaccinated kids, and you get a small local outbreak. Some random unlucky 3%ers might get caught up, or some even less lucky babies, but generally that's the end of it. That's what used to happen, because overall immunity was high, and importantly, the parents of the unvaccinated kids were vaccinated.

Now, the unvaccinated kids from the 90s are having kids. So when a small local outbreak happens, the sick kids bring it home. The parents spread it outside, to their also-unvaccinated friends and THEIR unvaccinated kids, and we've got not one outbreak, but a whole bunch.

And that's where the trouble starts, because 97% immunity is actually damned low. That's 126000 people in Alberta who can get sick, and that's much higher than the number of unvaccinated idiots (thank god). But now we've got tendrils of measles reaching out anywhere, finding new pockets of unvaccinated idiots where it can pop up.

And there's a fifth problem. And ironically, that's the problem that nobody gets measles anymore. If you asked your great grandmother what you should do with a kid who has ten thousand little red bumps, she'd tell you to lock that kid in the bedroom, slide food under the door and keep them away from your other eleven children. If you ask your 28 year old neighbor, she'd probably tell you to rub crème on the poor kids irritated red skin.

People don't recognise measles anymore. It's not a scary disease like it used to be. Nobody knows anyone who lost sight or hearing thanks to measles. Nobody knows anyone who lost a child to measles. I don't even know anyone who knows anyone who has seen measles. And that's great... Unless your collective health depends on it.