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"Paris to Voyager, you got me this round. Splitting the missile at the bottom just as the bonus plane flew over was a dirty trick, but it worked."

But they are all disagreeing, scoffing at each other with "akshully" statements about things they don't understand.

And the fate of the entire country rests in their hands.

They are for half of them.

Very yes. They could reveal their location for starters, which could spoil a mission and put lives at risk, but if they use the same device on both this and the ships network, you risk compromising the ship's network or even the Navy itself, giving our enemies all kinds of sensitive info.

We are in the midst of a world war being waged in cyberspace and the US is losing. Incidents like this are a genuine threat.

Finally we get to see the whole Jackie Jormp-Jomp story.

Even without these, look at who makes the products on our stores' shelves. Our entire economy is upheld by slavery in other countries; slavery at home is no surprise.

"Million to one shot, doc"

The forests wouldn't exist were it not for pre-colonial salmon numbers. Their rotting carcasses are responsible for almost a quarter of the nitrogen in all the soil in the British Columbian and Tlingit forests (that goes up to 70% in riparian zones). The environmental impact of dams is no more forests as they die of malnutrition. So in a way you're right, no more forest fires if there's no forest. We can do better than dams and MUST do better than dams.

Minor mitigations at best. Those environmental impact studies aren't about finding a way to cause no interruption to nature, they are about acceptable losses determined by pro-dam lobbyists if any regulations exist at all. But these are the exact kind of laws both Democrats and Republicans have been gutting for decades in favour of small government.

Turning a river into a lake is not good for river dependant life. Blocking half of it behind a wall is terrible. Fish ladders are not a replacement for open river, it will only save an "acceptable" fraction of some species like salmon, not allow full passage of all life in the ecosystem.

Most dams in the US were built for flood control near towns, not power generation, so these old dams beginning to show faults is especially dangerous to people.

Here's my favourite Practical Enginerring on the failure of the Orville Dam spillway: https://youtu.be/jxNM4DGBRMU?si=O6T91xjCgxH7demP