ComradeSalad @ ComradeSalad @lemmygrad.ml

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Literally the first result on Google. Also for the concrete, I never said you can’t use it; I just said it’s a less preferable material as it requires more maintenance.

I also never said the garbage plywood houses that they’re throwing up will last 100+ years. But I have seen many ancient wood frames in my life, and that is extremely common in the US.

Not at all, having lived in such housing I can tell you for a fact they require very diligent maintenance. Especially in areas that have high temperature variation such as Moscow, Minsk, or St Petersburg.

Look even at Ukraine or poorer parts of the Baltic and Belarus. Or even Russia back in the 90’s, those buildings crumbled quickly and looked like bombed out wrecks in just a few years.

Concrete is a good building material, but you can’t just leave it without maintenance, especially for buildings.

Granted that’s the true air temperature, it doesn’t take into account wind chill, water chill, humidity, or the city heat island effect.

Also that’s the average typical temperature per month and averages are a bit poor at showing the typical daily temperatures and the fluctuations throughout even the day.

What? I don’t think you understood what I said. There are millions of homes in the United States that are subject to extreme temperature changes, the North East and North Midwest commonly go from -20C in the winter to 40C in the summer. The Great Lakes region like Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Eire, and so on can easily go to -40C because of the water chill.

Plus the Central US is subject to the “desert” effect, where the daytime ground temperature is extremely high due to it being wide open plains, but then then nighttime temperature is extremely low because the ground does not hold the heat.

The Pacific Northwest can go from extremely hot summers to extremely cold and snowy winters. The climate of the US is extremely varied.

You would be surprised. The United States is the size of a continent and just the North East and North Midwest United Stated are larger then all of Europe minus Russia.

I agree, but that doesn’t dent the fact the millions still live in them to this day.

This guy made this completely up, there is no source at all to back up anything he is saying.

There were no “FSB warnings” or “Urgent phone call with locations and times”.

Putin called Bush on September 9th to tell Bush that the anti-Taliban Afghan leader was assassinated by suicide bombers posing as journalists and that this was a bad sign for things to come in the Middle East. That was all that Putin said.

I’m reality, the ALGERIAN intelligence agency actually attempted to contact the CIA and MI6 in the days leading up to 9/11, as they had intercepted several Al-Queda transmissions that hinted at a larger conspiracy and incoming attack.

This was also backed up by British intelligence who had operatives infiltrating several Jihadist groups and they had also heard of an incoming strike against the US.

It’s small police boats used by the coast guard for fast attack operations against narcotraffickers.

So they’re counting speedboats, and other small vessels.

I didn’t say it was impossible, it’s not like if you use concrete it’s going to instantly vaporize and explode.

However it will require significantly more upkeep and repair, and will become dilapidated quickly without proper maintenance.

Just look what happened to all the khrushchevki after the Union fell. Many stop receiving support and fell apart quickly.

Also I don’t know what you mean by the reason not holding water. It’s not the end all be all, but it’s simply science. Concrete expands and contracts to much in the face of water and temperature to make a viable long term building material without constant upkeep.

That’s all true, but stones are also much harder to transport, weigh more, are harder to acquire then wood, and are significantly more expensive then wood. That’s why masonry is much more common in Europe as opposed to the US as Europe has plenty of quarries in close proximity to all its population centers while the United States does not.

On the other hand, much of Europe has extremely limited wood so people turned to stone.

It’s just basic supply and demand, and what’s easier and cheaper to access.

Concrete and metal can not withstand the temperature fluctuations in the United States, that's why wood is used. If you take concrete from -10C to 40C, its going to crack and fail after a few years.

The problem is that the wood has gotten significantly more cheap over the years. But if you've seen actual wood houses, its absurd how they last centuries while concrete weathers and turns to dust, and metal corrodes.

Further, wood stands up just as well as brick and concrete do in the face of tornados and earthquakes... In that they don't. They all collapse. the foundations are made with brick or concrete but its cheaper to rebuild the top if its wood then another material. You're not saving your house if it gets hit with a tornado.

Also concrete requires steel supports in order to be load bearing, which is again very expensive. If you don't put structural steel in the concrete, then you've created a death trap.

China's navy along with the vast majority on that list follow or followed a Green Water doctrine, meaning most of their ships are tugs, small patrol boats, corvettes, fast attack craft, with the biggest ships usually being destroyers. All of those have very low tonnages so that's why their numbers are pretty slanted.

Plus North Korea's navy are mostly WW2 vessels given by the Soviet Union and China.

Us vs Them mindsets are always horrible frames of reference to take. Especially when every actor here has their own unique goals, motivations, and reasons for acting. Russia is not the Soviet Union anymore, they are a liberal capitalist disaster that is a shadow of the Soviet Union. It makes sense to be wary.

We can only hope that this leads to good outcomes, but again, until we see actions and results, we don't have much to go off of.

Plus there's little use befriending the international pariah, sadly enough it just causes more harm then good when you have other options. But now? There's no reason not to.

You forgot to look at the calendar, 9/11 is in the upcoming week.

You have completely lost the plot. What news were you reading that it said this? Can you show me a link or a source? This is completely devoid of what happened. Also what do you mean they sat there and waited for two weeks? They did attempt to storm Kiev, they lost several mechanized elements while breaching the suburbs of Kiev.

They were horrifically overextended and were beaten back, or they would have been cut off by redeploying Ukrainian units.

What do you mean “stay in Kiev”??? Do you think they just waltzed in on vacation?

Puerto Rico would have still been a colony of the Spanish Empire during the American Civil War.

Not really, no. The trains running from those stations are mostly newer, cleaner, and quieter. Especially dedicated lines such as the cross river Jersey-WTC line which drops you off in a luxury apartment area in Jersey.

You don't give the rich enough credit. They will make sure to cater to themselves as much as possible.

Plus the platforms are kept especially clean and polished, and any aesthetical defects such are cracks are solved quickly. The walls are usually tiled as well, the ceilings finished, and the rails aren't left bare.

You can even see a nice group of piggies!

It also didn't always look that way. The oncoming wall used to be unfinished an unsightly, but they tiled it up and added some art for decoration. This is how it used to look, the first picture shows the finished wall.

I agree.

It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario.

These stations need to be upgraded, repaired, and overhauled, but it’s not as simple as “close these stations down and invent a magical bus system for the time bieng”. It’s an extremely sensitive situation and I don’t feel like people are understanding. It’s not that it shouldn’t happen, but the level of disruption would be catastrophic for thousands of people. It’s a bad situation.