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It failed due to freshet, so lets rebuild the exact same bridge so it can fail again, because we don't have the budget to do it right.

and minimize the amount of raw resources we export, particularly raw logs.

Likely that captured AUV will end up in Russia fairly soon.

We had a head cook out here caught ordering T-bone steaks for the menu and serving Salisbury steaks instead.

It is neat to patrol the yard beside VDC and see plates marked "Polar Class". Each edge is marked with a weld number, so it's clear which plate butts up to which.

Yea it's really confusing, the Yemen forces are apparently doing well elsewhere, but they don't fight as one , but in various different factions, with limited interactions and support. But this is really bad news if they can hold it.

Own goal it seems https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/09/08/a-u-s-ban-on-bombardier-sales-could-massively-disrupt-american-aerospace-analyst/

FIFY

Yes I read about that, the foreign directorate likley did ok with the Iran and Iraq war in full swing, but I still suspect that as they could they would dispose of most the other guys when there was no longer a dire need. Likely the war saved them from immediate execution.

I noticed that when I tried to log in from my phone yesterday I was getting redirected to a bunch of ads?

Assuming he survives his own people. Anyone looking to change the status quo either slowly or quickly suffered in that era. Granted Iran was more stable than Iraq, which went from a province, to a Mandate and then a proto-country.

There is a fallacy that anyone of colour, must be left leaning. I think this is a US European thing. I will argue that most people of colour around the world would likley be leaning to the right/conservative/traditionalists

Your looking at 3,000ish by the Shah over the whole period of unrest. The IRGC beat that tenfold in one day by all accounts. I take the intelligence apparatus switching hands intact with a bag of salt. While the structure might remain the same, the majority of the mid and upper personal would...

It seems the IRGC have been fully in charge for many years, but were content to be behind the curtain, while the Clerics and politicians performed for the public. While there are factions within, and those have been disrupted and reformed by the killing of leaders, it seems the velvet glove is...

Myself and several other people tried to save that engine to be a centre piece of the Vancouver Maritime Museum, sadly with no success. I was onboard the Jeremiah O'Brian when they were running up her triple expansion and used to help out on the Steam tug Master which had a smaller triple...

There was a armed version of the Tutors

Initially they were meant to be able to follow the fleet and be "Afloat Logistic Support Capability" fixing and repairing things as required without having to return to Canada. I see that as much of the logistic side as fuel and ammunition.

I have been trying to teach my kids that you can have opposing political views and still be friends with someone and how to do that. I find the hardcore "loyalists" on both sides, don't know how to do that well. I grew up in very political family, but in a time when the politicians would hammer...

Pretty much all the refined product here comes from Western Canadian feedstock, even the stuff that is refined in Washington depends on feedstock from the Kinder Morgan pipeline. So our fuel has less hands on it and is likely "fresher" than oil you get back east. We also have limited refining...