We live in inflationary times

>>Why didn’t you evacuate the building…

Probably because Japanese building engineers take earthquake codes seriously- as the video capably demonstrates.

In the US? Well, if you’re close to an exit get out first. It’s a better place to discover if the contractor followed the rules or lobbied their way around them.

Is that Whitman? Cute.

NASA committed to working with Von Braun because he was a rocket expert. They just took care to not ask too many questions about Von Braun’s resume

Yes. Sadly my AutoCorrect disagrees

..for good reason. There was the minor legal complication of Brunhild belonging to Calvin Candy.

Django didn’t care and wanted to go in shooting , but Fritz Doc Shultz made the logical point if they got out of Candyland alive he- and his wife- would be hunted fugitives for the rest of their days. If and when Django’s luck ran out ,his wife would be “repossessed” and end up back on the slave auctions.

Thus the charade. The goal was to get signed legal papers proving Django’s wife is no longer a slave. With a side bonus of not gunning down a plantation full of assholes.

She was Myanmar’s Slobodan Milsevic. Fuck the Tadamadaw, but Suu Kyi had it coming.

Well, that explains a lot.

A curious and positive combination of amazing storytelling, good character development- and 1980s level cliche action. The early episode shootouts look like they were ripped out of a Michael Bay film, and naturally the CIA can engage hostile fighters on their own soil with impunity provided Jack Ryan’s attached to the element. The only thing missing was a 5/11 tactical pants plug in the script.

My suggestion: save the bullet trading for the final two episodes when the tactical stuff actually matters for the plot. And keep John Patrick Ryan, Case Officer, away from the armory in Season 4.

A curious and positive combination of amazing storytelling, good character development- and 1980s level cliche action. The early episode shootouts look like they were ripped out of a Michael Bay film, and naturally the CIA can engage hostile fighters on their own soil with impunity provided Jack Ryan’s attached to the element.

My suggestion: save the bullet trading for the final two episodes when the tactical stuff actually matters for the plot. And keep John Patrick Ryan, Case Officer, away from the armory in Season 4.

Clearly he was shunted through the wormhole back home , but exited at a time decades after he left Earth.

It’s like any other new media technology: if Zuck can get porn to work on it , they’re set. If not, Metaverse is deader than Elvis.

>>…which you would know if you were anything but a raging reactionary

Fuck the Chinese Communist Party. Is that enough reactionary rage? Would you like to know more?

Hopefully the taikonauts make it back alive. Chinese build quality and “space travel” is a risky combination.

The US Constitution doesn’t require the President to be a CEO first, but fundraising realities mean this is a de-facto rule. To raise the $300 million + needed to campaign for US office, one has to either be very wealthy (aka a CEO) or a lifelong political operator with decades of experience in Washington DC. Usually these career politicians sit on boards of nonprofits and for-profit companies , so they still serve as executives.

According to Ahti, the Turtle is our new Director.

Slavery. The Romans integrated slavery in a way very alien to the modern understanding of the term. With slaves integrated into the social fabric of the Roman civilization and being a valuable commodity to boot , the pressure to invent technological labor saving advancements wasn’t there.

Using slaves to accomplish a task would always be more cost effective than using a machine , especially when the number of slaves one owned was a social signal to boot. Much like driving a Mercedes signals success in some cultures today , having a lot of educated and capable slaves equaled similar sentiments back then.