Are you on dark mode? Because there's a white background originally.

Yes, so leave. It’s horrible. Everything you said has been regurgitated time and time again. You learned it from someone else repeating it. Government consists of a lot of incompetent people just doing a half assed job to get paid. Like everyone else. You, me or anyone reading this doesn’t have an answer. You complaining isn’t accomplishing anything. Run for office if you think you are smarter than those currently in charge. Start a revolution and stop regurgitation.

If we want to progress we need to stand together against any aggressor invading a foreign country for non reason.

And before you ask, yes, that includes what GW Bush did to Iraque. But Saddam Hussein was a dictator so there was not much empathy.

And again, many countries of the 141 are not "the West"!

You haven't a clue how much in tax I pay individually, but that's not what I meant anyways. Stolen from USA taxpayers. If we ran our households like the USA government runs the country, bankruptcy would be the only national emergency the government could afford. There are an awful lot of millionaires in congress to be having all these problems AND have the highest prison incarceration rate on the planet. They're horrible at their jobs, corrupt, or a combination thereof.

I like 3D pie charts. I never understood the hate. In this case it's a single chart with only two parts so I don't see a problem.

I have a Ph.D. and publish. According to accreditation standards, I'm pretty sure I'm good to go in terms of qualification.

Do you also tell that to all TV stations after an election?

Anyone know what happens to the pilot that missed? Does he get reprimanded, extra training, or does he just get made fun of by the pilot that actually could hit it

"willingly" involves choice between passing through multiple checkpoints with full body checks (literally looking for "suspicious tatoos") and robbery (if soldiers like something you have, they take it, end of story) to get to Ukraine vs unrestricted passage to russia

You’re not qualified to be a teacher if that’s truly what you’re taking away from this exchange. Im genuinely floored you can’t understand me, I’ve made it so clear.

You don't have to fire bullets from the ground...

Tens of thousands are about right, in other words about 1%. Which leaves 99% ready to stay and fight. From what I've heard it takes $3-5k in bribes to leave the country, so at least 20% of people could afford that if they really wanted to

Ah yeah let's lump Australia and New Zealand (and the other Pacific islands) in with countries like China, Myanmar, vietnam, and Indonesia. I feel like this is incredibly unfair as basically Australia+the Pacific region are fairly democratic

Bullets don't make it that high due to air resistance. If you point a gun to the sky, the bullets will not surpass 15000 ft or so. You either need an active propulsion or your projectile needs to be shot with extreme velocity like the ones of rail guns for example

How is North America more democratic than Western Europe?

I don't know many countries in Western Europe where gerrymandering is so rampant and the candidate with fewer votes often wins. And yes, I do understand the electoral college system.

But maybe Canada is pulling North America in the right direction.

You've spent over a dozen comments arguing a point I was right about and a second point you misinterpreted. I think we can stop here.

Stolen from you? Unlikely you will pay enough taxes in your lifetime to pay the salary of one grunt in the army. Let’s put a lid on how much the average American actually contributes. You live a pretty good life in this country. Stop being so ANTI

Balloons you are used to tend to be over pressured so burst when a small tear happens (pin prick). Balloons designed to operate at altitudes like that are at an equal pressure with the air around them, so bullets pass through, making small holes that slowly replace the helium with air thus making them heavy and slowly falling.

The missile warhead generates a big pressure and heat wave that disrupts the balloon tearing it apart. Officially they were worried about damage on the ground, in reality they wanted it to land in water and at a spot they could get to quickly so they could recover it.

Two example of why it's not.

In 1998 Canada tried to shoot down a weather balloon, it took 1000 rounds of ammunition and 6 days to do it.

During WW1 zeppelins were extremely difficult to shoot down using machine guns as they only made small holes that didn't leak much gas. It wasn't until incendiary ammunition was brought in that they could be shot down by planes.

Its lucky the Chinese haven't tried sending barn doors flying over America.

So that first pilot cost us $631k?

I'm sorry. A sidewinder missed a Balloon !?

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Next time animate it please

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