The Poles didn’t exactly do a lot of fighting during the rest of the war

Korea? Japan? Germany?

Not true. Defense contractors aren’t losing either.

I guess being smashed into oblivion twice in fifteen years can have a deleterious effect on a fighting force.

Looks like they could at least deploy the off road helicopters.

When you got to go to war, but need to bbq by sundown!

I think the same thing- and about what Italian food would be like as well. Before trade with the Americas the rest of the world wasn’t eating tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, vanilla, potatoes, turkey, pineapples, avocados, corn, or peanuts.

And no tomatoes either of course, so no curries...

Probably worth noting that all hot peppers originated in South and Central America. Sure, they’ve been exporting them since the days of Cortez- but all the hot chilis we associate with India and S E Asia came from the Americas.

I say: run ‘em into the ground. Go for 73. Go for 75! But that’s just one of many reasons I’m not in charge of a basketball team.

Forgot to to add at least they didn't follow the Canadian method buy new search and rescue helicopters realize the current ships can't fit them so built new ships to hold them and then cancel the helicopter order

What is this anti-military nonsense? I bet he is some pinko commie liberal who never served a day for our country.

After your last image, I... I have to post this:

And the attacks in Turkey got more attention than ones in Yemen. It boils down to where people expect attacks and how likely people in the U.S. are to have travelled to or know people from those areas.

This seems sort of callous but I don’t think bombings in countries where we associate turmoil drives clicks/traffic whatever in the US. Where something happening in France on Belgium, where American tourists are more likely to go, will.

Honestly it’s pretty simple. Bombings in places like Beirut and Istanbul are expected. That perception may be right or wrong but regardless of that, it’s the driving factor in coverage.

People care more about things that a) affect them and b) remind them of themselves. This isn’t shocking. America is a country that is also the size of a continent: someone in Maine being informed about what is going on in Nevada, someone in Alaska reading up on Hawaii, is geographically far more diverse than someone…

Is anyone else uncomfortable with the public health costs argument for banning this? Smoking has secondhand smoke, fine. For smokeless tobacco, the only way it harms anyone else (other than being a bad example for kids) is that in the aggregate, public health costs might go up if we have to treat people for whatever…