Honestly, I live in a tiny town none of you have ever heard of, faaar away from anything worth nuking. On top of that, it’s shielded by mountains on most sides. Hell, there’s a 15km long tunnell 5 minute walk from my house in case we need to shelter somewhere. Me and mine will probably be fine, but my livelihood will disappear.

But I’m a pretty handy guy who can probably build a decent power source from scrap I have in my basement considering there’s a river nearby, so even if the rest of the world goes to hell, we’ll manage to keep some sort of society running.

And I grew up on a farm, and could run one if needed. And there are quite a few farms in the area, so I guess being a farmhand will be my new career. I wouldn’t like it, but I’d manage.

Sucks that I wouldn’t be able to shitpost about it, though.

I just want to point out the most important thing here: Thank you for using the superior date formats.

But his pal Benny swore to fight Iran to the last American breath.

I think I saw a Tom Scott video o the Falkirk Wheel

I certainly hope so. But I doubt it.

It doesn’t take many flight hours to realize how many backups and contingencies there are in a normal SEP aircraft in case something fails.

And the common denominator for all these techbroesque personal air transport vehicles is the obvious lack of any of those.

From now on, whenever I see “AI”, I will parse the text as referring to Actual Indians

Fuckall. Iran isn’t in a position to do mych of anything, and the rest prefer stability and even benefit from a potential rise in crude prices.

Go ahead, provided you refer to the Whitehouse construction project as the Epstein Ballroom

One can hope

Epstein Fury*

I refuse to call it by any other name.

Any era where music is released as part of albums, I guess.

I wanted to mention rush, but I couldn’t narrow it down to one album.

On a related note, I got tickets to see Rush next year, as I figured it’ll be my last chance.
I decided to treat myself:

That’s as close to the stage as I could justify with my paycheck. Closer is ridiculously priced, even by ticketmonster standards.

I’d argue that you got the band and the reason right, but with the wrong album. Chaosphere. Not as dreary as their later albums, but the seeds and saplings are clearly there.

Plus every metal drummer I knew back then tried to learn New Millennium Cyanide Christ.

Seconding Rubber Soul. In the same way Pantera managed to separate metal from the glam, Beatles separated pop/rock from the campiness of earlier and contemporary bands.

Yeah, percussive is a better word. And not in a typical funk-style slap bass either.

I guess was that it started the east coast rap scene with the kind of sound I later would recognized from some other artists.

While I can guess why, I’m not experienced enough with rap or hip hop to answer properly, so could explain what makes the album hugely important?

I’d say for the same reason I posted Hendrix earlier: Primus deserves to be on the list because nobody had played a bass like that before.

My suggestions:

• Boston (self titled) pretty much transformed how music was produced, using the studio as an instrument.
• Jimi Hendrix - “Are you Experienced”. Because a guitar had never been played like that before.
• Nirvana Nevermind - Arguably not the first grunge album, but it pretty much put the final nail in the coffin of 80’s music.

Excluding the IT aspect of my job, I am unable to walk past a ship without thoroughly examining its mast to see which antennae it has and determine the capabilities.

Some tidbits I’ve noticed:

• A HF radio is popular, despite the ship otherwise not being rated for areas where HF radios are required.
• Older EPIRBs are indestructible provided that the battery and the hydrostatic release units are changed on schedule. I still see models around that are decades old.
• Starlink is seeing more and more offshore use, but nobody is getting rid of their VSAT.
• Iridium is starting to make a dent in the amount of Inmarsat-C installations after Iridium became approved for GMDDS.
• Fleet77 is gone. Haven’t seen it in ages.