Lots of people will come to see something spectacular.
They will get all hyped up, drunk/high, will need somewhere to go potty and puke. Then they will stampede out, leaving bodily fluids, fast food wrappers, and empty cans behind.
I, for one, will wrap Caution tape across my lawn, and sit...
I get you. You are done being yelled at, like any reasonable person would be done.
You don’t deserve to be yelled at or abused.
Btw, as an engineer, really dig your mechanical thingimagig :)
Literally “tabletop twist-in thingy”.
If you want to search yourself, here’s the spelling:
Закрутка настольная
From YouTube video, it does appear to be a tool to load shotgun shells:
Winners always write the history. We are the first civilization that feels guilt over their achievements. That rot will either need to be cut out, or the tree will fall.
Blissful. Definitely blissful.
The lady is 90. Born in 1934, of age to start a family in mid-50s, all adult life spent during the peak of American greatness, not bothered by the modern rot.
Barbaric invaders burning down capitals for whatever goat-humping reason — minimal police response.
Their own people who grow their food dare to complain — riot gear, tear gas, water cannons.
No, I don’t think we should be like Europe.
One of the most prophetic books — The Diamond Age, has battles described as cloud of nano-drones vs. cloud of nano-drones, with the few humans on the battle field in “knight-like armor”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Interesting point.
To counter it: that’s also a country that got cobbled together from expatriates from all over the place, and within a decade they had a fully functional country, due to constant threat from outside.
Not saying we should be like Israel, pointing out that extreme pressure...
We lost a cause to unite us and drive us as a nation. Hunger, religion or survival are strong motivations.
As tough as Israel has it, surrounded on all sides by people who want to destroy it, every man woman and child there is dang sure why they exist and their children serve in the IDF.