A clickbaity opinion piece from 14 years ago? I'm not impressed. I thought we were talking about the Russo-Ukrainian War anyway.

I see. Yea that makes sense, thanks.

I figured they were just okay giving out the free advertising to one of their own. But stolen also makes sense.

Honestly someone should just look up the photographer, email him and politely ask him if he was paid or not.

edit: Likely case: They asked him for it and he happily donated it, so long as they kept the watermark, and they were totally cool with that.

western and ukrainian media been saying russia collapsing, Ukraine winning, for 4 years

This really just indicates you don't read any western media. Because, no, that is not what they have looked like the past 4 years at all.

This guy may have been saying it, I'm not sure, but he's just a guy on youtube, he can say whatever he wants. If people want to get their information from a guy on youtube, that's up to them.

Right, but free advertising in every Syrian passport will help his business, which will make money, which can buy food, which is edible.

Giving the photographer the credit for his work is a win-win for everyone involved.

edit: Ooooh do you think the watermark means they stole it and never paid him? I didn't consider that possibility.

Why is that mildly infuriating? Personally I think it's actually kinda cool that they're okay preserving the attribution for the artwork like that. Photographer is probably a Syrian national, so it still honors the nation and all that.

Iowa/Missouri maybe?

Growing up where I did you'd hear about famous outbreaks, I recall one where a particular county had a few dozen touchdowns in one storm. But most people here have never seen one directly.

But like I said, treelines limit vision here by quite a lot.

A dozen funnel clouds is pretty easy, those are genuinely common. 2 touchdowns in 25 years also sounds about right for you guys' conditions, that is not so common. And sure, the heaviness of the rain doesn't indicate tornadoes or anything, but tornadoes and rain absolutely do show up in the same circumstances and tornadoes absolutely can be obscured by rain.

You tornado alley folks are also particular in the Great Plains having sightlines that are absolutely huge. The rest of us in the midwest have tornadoes too, we just also have treelines. You cannot expect see a billion miles in every direction from the highway, your line of sight in one direction may only be 100' or less.

Anyway, you may have the most, but you guys don't own tornadoes.

Probably. Consider too, it's actually kinda rare to see one, since the storm they're happening in often has heavy enough rain that you can't see very far, especially if it's in the evening.

In these cases, you hear them before you see them.

Even worse, apparently only a single base had all the supplies for it. That was a single point of failure that, when struck, caused the failure of the entire supply mission.

You'd think the Navy would be a little better prepared. Here I thought redundancy was an important part of military conduct and operations.

Can rivers eventually carve through solid rock?

He already knew he could. He budged it during Avengers Age of Ultron, and he probably would have noticed it move (Thor did). But he stopped trying so he didn't embarrass both himself (by claiming to be worthy of godhood when he's a pretty humble guy) and Thor (by being just as good as him despite being mortal).

So, when the opportunity came again, it was a no-brainer. He knew he could, and he knew it'd be useful to him.

Yeah, if anything about it bothered you, that was probably smart. The trilogy is, among other things, a very slow yet steady escalation of horror.

She did write two other trilogies in the same setting following different characters that you may prefer more. Different narrators does change the prose, but she still manages that same fluidity, which is what I always loved so much about it.