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Europe’s plan for war didn’t need lots of artillery shells. However Europe isn’t providing Ukraine with the air power needed to fight without lots of artillery which makes one wonder if they have enough capacity to build more if a competent Russia had attacked Europe instead.

Several thousand dollars (including labor) is not cheap. Now scale that to every house.

Still the cheapest source of energy long term but when you need to come up with the money up front it is expensive.

10k needs to be reported to federal authorities, which is annoying but not a big deal. They would someone prefer you to withdraw less, but they won’t tell you this as withdrawing just under 10k a few times to escape reporting is a bigger deal than a single larger withdrawal that must be reported. (come to think of it, this 10k number is 20 years old, probably changed since)

When dealing with that much money It is generally best to work electronically. There are logs of what happened so if there is trouble investigators can figure it out. Cash is anonymous and so if there are problems you have less ability to catch whoever stole it. I’m assume that your need for money is legal of course.

Serviced by three men (I’ve seen women doing the job too), one to sit in the armored vehicle holding a gun but otherwise bored; one to old a gun and watch the work but mostly looking bored; and one to open the machine and replace the cash. The first two are there to keep the person doing the work honest and be ready if someone attempts a robbery (have 40k in cash makes them a target). That is in a safe office building, I’m sure they have stricter policies in bad neighborhoods.

This needs a full analysis, but I suspect it is far more costly than the grid while being less reliable overall. Ukraine because they are at war is a partial exception, but even in their case it probably makes sense to fix the grid where possible and when the grid is down greatly reduce energy use to minimize the need for local power.

Batteries are expensive. Solar is expensive. By having a grid you can trade energy around. When your sun is shining you send some someone elsewhere (very far away) under clouds, then when you have clouds you get energy from them. In this way you both need much less batteries and/or much less need for solar cells (that sometimes will not produce used energy because your batteries are fully charged)

imo most countries signed it only after verifying some other allie (read US) would not and would place mines for them in war. They are far to valuable for any military leader to agree to not use, and only a fool doesn’t listen to their generals about what is useful for defense.

It is a useful identifier only in the context of how black men a different (from “normal men”?). Most of the time black men are just men, but there are a few ways they are different. If you are not specificity trying to bring out one of that cases where black men a different you are continuing the idea that black men are different which doesn’t help most of the cases where they are different. There are a couple medical instances where black men are different that should remain, but for the most part differences between black men and [normal?] men are just about discrimination and so if that doesn’t apply to what you are talking about then black men is a harmful lable.

I suspect he would never mash potatoes.

According to Wikipedia there are 2,338 Aldi’s in the US, and 614 Costcos. Aldi also has some other brands though I’m not sure how they compare. Of course location matters, depending on where you live you will have access to different stores.

Eggs have gotten expensive lately. Still worth getting if you can find/afford them, but probably not as useful today as a few years ago, or in a few years.

The food shelf I volunteered at a couple weeks ago says peanut butter is one of the hardest things for them to get (I assume something like caviar would be harder but that isn’t something most people eat so who cars) . So might not be good advice. Nuts tend to be very expensive in general so probably not the best advice, but might be useful for variety when OP can get it. (technically peanuts are not nuts, but in this case lumping them together makes sense). You can make your own nut butter fairly easially in a minimal kitchen if you can get any nuts (including at a local park where they are often ignored)

Try different types of potatoes. The common “Russets are rejects from the french fry industry”. (direct quote from a Potato farmer I met a few years ago - I’m guessing he doesn’t grow Russets and always take the quote with some salt). Different types of potatoes work well with different cooking styles.

(everything else I have to say has been well covered by others)

Aldi is just as cheap as Costco and no membership needed. Plus the potions are much smaller which means less waste if you are not a large family. Aldi is likely to be nearby as well unlike costco which tends to be only a couple locations in a large city. Only downside to Aldi is less selection, we use regular grocery stores for things we can’t get at Aldi.

That is rare but if they really did that the job becomes non trivial. I’d still do it mysely, but I know how to do tile - it isn’t hard but this is now a month long project.

No, but most replacement parts are semi universal parts that can be adjusted to fit the vast majority. However you need to know what toilet you have as each almost universal part doesn’t fit something another one will. Odds are you have a common toilet that any universal part fits - but there are toilets that are not compatible ith anything.

before doing anything though should you replace the whole thing is a question worth asking. do you prefer a round or engladed bowl; what about the height; maybe you want one without stains; or a low water use version that works? It wouldn’t cost much more to replace the whole thing with one that fits you better.

They won’t. While it is unknown if there is intelaigent alien life it is known that none is anywhere close. When distances are measured in tens of lightyears for close thing they can’t get here and back in time to make a difference. Most distances are measured something much larger. Just the milkyway is 25 thousand lightyears to cross.

note that are farthest detectable radio waves have gone maybe 100 lightyears: odds are your are dead before they know we are here.

Most Christian think of it like a cartoon. At least from what I can tell. Nobody actually seems to believe Peter is at the gates, but it is sometimes fun/useful to pretend that is what happens instead of trying to figure out what the judgement day really means (we often think of that like a court room with God as the judge and jury, but the scripture is not clear and so it isn’t really any more correct that Peter at the gates)

You can get by on bad nutriton for a long time but I wouldn’t call it alright.

But your point still stands. If someone is content to not improve

He is eating a lot of fast food. That is not okay, it is harmful to your health (at least in the US). It is possible to find healthy restaurant meals, but it isn’t easy, if you care at all about health you need to cook yourself to get it. Of course once you know how to cook you discover you can cook much better than a restaurant meal for a lot less money.

If you attempted this you would find the majority of electors report it and you get arrested. Electors are the big party supporters and so most are not going to take a bribe. Well maybe you could get the Harris electors (who know they will lose anyway) to support a moderate Republican, but you won’t get any republicans to switch to this new candidate. The never Trump republicans who would thus be willing to switch their vote are not electors.

You are thinking of a fitness treadmill which is commonly used as a clothes rack. I’m thinking of a treadmill for use at a desk which lacks those side rails to hang clothes on (and also goes a lot slower) . Some people walk on them all day while typing, and it sounds great, but I don’t know if I really could use one all day while working.