Exactly, they’re going to be doing training exercises anyway.

Key on your last two words here.

You obviously believe that you're smarter than the actual military professionals who worked on this problem every one of whom apparently had never seen an actual balloon before. You believe if you had been sent up there on a paraglider with a nail on the end of a stick you could have brought it down for $300. You believe if you could just get your brilliant ideas out there to the People In Charge rather than in Reddit comments the world would run smoothly.

I believe you may be wrong

>homes are also getting larger and more modern

Okay, but we're talking about poor young people. The ones not buying homes. They're living with family or in apartments with roommates (as opposed to getting married).

With all the subdivisions of regions in other places why the hell would Australia & NZ be lumped in with Asia?

no, "smaller"

look up the criticism of 3d pie charts many here know maybe

well, it wasn't a weather balloon

How tf do you miss a balloon??

No. Most countries that did not vote Yes are either fearing Russia, are shitholes themselves or are dependent on Russia. India is the biggest of them.

Would have been cleaner to use actual US Census regions found on their website.

Poor Mexico. So far from god, so close to the United States.

Is Nathan Right?

I feel you, but you're upset about money that has already been spent. The problem starts way before the missile is fired.

Okay Einstein Fortune teller Patriot, you win the argument. Have a great day.

CIA will fix that. As they always have. As they always will.

It might be that we have space lasers that could assassinate a person from a satellite in space. Might be bullshit. But we don't want to show our weaponry on a balloon where we aren't even sure it's not Jim Bob Michigander doing a science experiment.

Yeah it's like saying Ford F-series is a 1948 technology.

"Finally i get to fire a missile" is probably what the pilot was thinking. Otherwise just a boring day at the office.

Even "Europe" is a stretch given most of their territory is in Asia, but Western Europe?? What are these guys on?

If it has no consequences, then it doesn't take balls to do.

The GA vote probably has more importance as a short-term PR boost (or burden) with headlines like these, so the countries that voted against the resolution probably were able to do something more in terms of moderating the Russia-China axis than the rest of the countries. Why? Because the only reason countries have to vote for anything not relevant to their politics is for something in return -- so every vote against is something Russia (or perhaps China) had to trade in. Of course most things aren't wholly zero-sum like that, but it's still the important thing to keep in mind with almost any assembly vote -- but especially GA -- that much or most of the real work is in the whipping behind the scenes.

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lol, did they really miss a missile on a balloon?
thats in itself is an achievement

I don’t know why anyone would care how much it cost, except if they were reaching for reasons to confirm their disdain for the president who made the call.

It's effectively the same thing. Hence why that measure is used. It matches perfectly with 1 - rental rates.

I don't dispute that housing costs have outstripped income gains. However, when you look at the drivers of that, homes are also getting larger and more modern (read: expensive to build). Asbestos was in basically all old homes because it was dirt cheap. Same with shag carpets. Same with lead in paint, etc.

Edit: Home sizes more than doubled from 1960 to 2010 https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes-decade-by-decade.html

The English speaking Caribbean countries are even more democratic than the rest in the Latin American basin. From Bahamas in the north to Trinidad and Tobago in the south, all sound democracies.