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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The example machines in the first picture are type AT-101 SM which meant they had the glass rinser which is true. The problem? No soap. So you'd often find lipstick on the glasses, not really a "wash".

But the risk of infection is minimal and nobody really got sick from them in any noticeable way, it's just icky. Drunks stole the glasses all the time tho.

Here's a museum talking about the soda machine inside of the GES-2 power plant.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

Imagine a Coke Freestyle Machine that only serves seltzer, but instead of plastic cups you have 2 glasses. This machine is a vending machine that's just installed on the street. There is nowhere to wash the glasses.

This is an older design, but it shows the glasses well.

This is the "classic" design that's Sovietana

This is a modernized replica that you'd use with paper cups

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 hours ago

This is retaliation in every state.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (6 children)

Nah it's actually a real thing, it was a real thing in the United States too. My mom's side of the fam hated the public soda fountains because they thought sharing cups with half the city was gross.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

I was reaidng one of those Cool Russia blogs at one point because i was researching something and it was on epidemiology in the USSR. The article was titled something like "The USSR conquered disease, but is that the whole story?". It basically talks about soviet immunization campaigns, and then at the end complains that in the USSR the soda fountains only had 2 glass cups people shared.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're thinking of The Virgin of Guadelupe which used to be a folk tradition from the 1500's until the Church canonized it in the 1800's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Mexican Catholicism

Is just a normal diocese.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (6 children)

They're protestants they don't recognize the Pope or Vatican II. Anglican Catholic is an ironic misnomer.

Old Catholics (incl Norse) and Anglican Catholics basically want to rewrite the power of the Pope but keep other Catholic shit because they're control freaks.

~~edit: Actually I'm wrong Anglican Catholics got the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter under Pope Frances in 2012.~~

~~For those of you that play Rogue Trader, it's basically a Warrant of Trade for the Church. They now are part of the Catholic order but their Personal Ordinariate allows them to mix up how they do communion and liturgy and shit.~~

~~Fucking 40k ass religion. Though I'm pretty sure the Pope would have stepped in to defrock him personally if the Anglican Church didn't.~~

EDIT 2:

Okay I'm wrong again. Personal Ordinariates allow for the followers of sects of Christianity to worship as Catholics using their own liturgical process when worshiping in a Church under the supervision of the Ordinary. The ACC doesn't recognize the Pope. Anglican Catholics in the US can simply worship as Catholics and take Catholic communion through the Ordinary Steven J. Lopes. The ACC itself has rejected the Personal Ordinariate and is not a part of the Catholic Church.

I repeat. Fucking 40k ass religion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

It's funny because in his movie Religulous he promoted the Christ myth theory which nobody actually believes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Do Americans even get TB vax as standard?

I know I have superior Soviet vaccination regime of TB and Smallpox. But I have never heard of an American getting a TB vaccine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not only do you have to cut that number in half and then by 75% for what would actually be war ready at any given moment. The F-35 is not a bomber, it's a multi-role combat aircraft, and a stealth strike fighter, which means they're a one and done type of air to surface attack. JDAMs, JSTOWs, Paveways, and some laser guided Cluster Munitions that can fit on the F-35 can be intercepted with easier than the plane itself which is a choice. JDAMs and JSTOWs cannot aimed while in flight, they're pre-aimed. So if you have mobile air defense it's pointless. The laser guided stuff is very slow. In practice F-35s would be used to maintain air superiority to protect MQ-9 Reapers from air to air interception. Reapers are extremely vulnerable to SAM missiles, the Houthis have taken them down.

The reason that America is mad about Iskander is because mid-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles which Russia has spent more time developing are emerging as a way to breach air defenses in modern warfare as well as loitering drones. America doesn't have enough cheap swarm tech ready to go because we get milked by the MIC so we don't have anything to pad out missile barrages to attempt to get enemies to make unforced errors in targetting. That's precisely how Russia is getting past the magical Patriots impervious air defense shield in Ukraine.

America would have trouble maintaining NATO bases in Europe as a springboard because Russia would throw meat at every country it was at war with. Also Putin would 100% pull the trigger on launching ICBMs with MIRVs if an overwhelming conventional force was at his doorstep.

Beyond that the trick to defeating Americans is to take out their range extension which at "bombing Russia distances" is typically gigantic refueling planes. Russia or China out of all countries would be best equipped for this task.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

It's been the opposite for me, the older I get the more support I need. I was unmedicated until I was 30 and gave up the ghost.

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