Well, bill collectors might have a hard time knocking on their door

Just curious. Why do you write 3/30 instead of 1/10?

In Spanish “Una burrada” is used to describe a massive amount, an excess. I guess it checks out.

I like cheese, but I didn’t know I liked Mozzarella so much

When in my 20s-30s I considered that if I didn’t see dawn, it was a lost day. In my 50’s I owned a restaurant-bar. A few times I did an all nighter. It literally took me a week to recover. It’s called aging.

I would either get a used HP Proliant microserver Gen 8 (I own one. Pretty sweet) or get a mini ITX nas case, 4 or more bays. Depending on USB doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. You can always sell your mini PC. I have slowly learned to avoid the sunk cost fallacy.

There goes another dependable car, motorcycle and outboard manufacturer. Nissan is the Japanese Renault, or any of the Stellantis brands. I have owned 2 Nissans and a Honda. I’d buy a currrent Honda in a heartbeat. I won’t touch a Nissan with a 10 ft pole.

I dunno if I’d like teeth like the ones in the pic. I mean sometimes they’d be fun, but not always.

Well, Bobby Fuckeddy is going to kill vaccines, so no more autism, no?

I have a video conference ring that I set to disco RGB and control with the middle button. Does that count?

Fucking World Central Kitchen! They keep using their so called refugee food in these stainless cylindrical containers so that Hamas can make rockets! Terrorists!

does the “open” have any relationship with open source design, or is it just a bullshit marketing tag? I have browsed their site and seen nothing

Du duaaa

Europe has many stealth subs, I mean scary stealth, like pop up undetected in the middle of a US carrier group and “sink” a US carrier stealthy, several aircraft carriers, and four or five of the world’s top 10 arms exporter countries.

Missiles, Eurofighters, Rafales, Gripens, F35s, nukes, last gen frigates and destroyers…

Overwhelmingly superior in tech, generation, and number to what Russia has and Ukraine is being given. Also a tech and and manufacturing might vastly superior. Ukraine is not Nato. Even without the US, Europe would wipe the floor with Russia, and Putin knows.

That said, if combined with the US would really make it a special operation.

Also remeber that the USSR was able to defeat Hitler because of Allied material, especially US through Lend-lease.

Just wait for Bobbyshkali Kennedyrakshstar to join goverment

A shotgun with buckshot should be enough to take them down, and in New Jersey there are more guns than in Texas. I saw this in a documentary (The Baritones or something)

Whistleblower deaths should have all of a company’s director’s investigated by default. It may be that 99% are innocent, but just one or two seeing their massively valuable stock, and options in danger, may be driven to such actions on their own.

This is actually how the weather was before the 2000’s. I’ve lived in Spain on an off since the 70’s. In those days it snowed in Madrid several times a year. Now it’s rare. Torrential rains on the coast and flash floods were a fairly common occurrence, to the point that a massive river channel was built around Valencia to prevent a flood like they had in the 50’s, and which probably saved the city from the last flood, from the DANA.

But yeah. Climate change sucks. Many climate scientists say that the worst part is not the 1Cº increments, but wildly changing conditions.

What you explain sounds totally reasonable. The thing is that older Boeings And DCs and MDs have an American old school philosophy about them, think of the muscle car era, while Airbuses have been conceived different from the start. Even the 300/310 (2nd gen, with the two man cockpit) adopted a computer driven approach, while on the American ones, the computers were simply an auxiliary feature. The result is that certifying such an integral part of the system, based on computer systems is an iffy proposition. I have seen this same issue, with ATMs. While the hardware may be totally sound, getting computer spares has become extremely expensive. Replacing 286 CPUs, for example is really difficult, you can’t really find new ones on the market. Solutions exist but it’s really about economics. These solutions can extend A300’s life, up to 60 years. That’s fairly long.

DC 3’s still fly, but many have been essentially rebuilt, to the last rivet. Apart from the warbirds, the commercial ones are still used because it’s very hard to find modern planes that can replace the DC3’s unique capabilities. Rough landing strips, robustness, easy low tech maintenance, etc. They are expected to be flying into their 100th birthdays.