Makes sense. Ukraine diverting precious resources to attack an ally.

Arcos knives, which are excellent, and great value, ARE made in Albacete, Spain. 10 year warranty, BTW. Not life, but not shabby.

Festool, Fein, Metabo, are German top shelf. Virutex, Spanish, make incredible woodworking tools.

You’ll get what you pay. A lot.

AEG were originally that, AEG. German quality. They were bought by Atlas Copco, and stayed top notch. They are now TTI, which has positioned as prosumer(ish) level, and they don’t make a marketing effort, so they are somewhat rare. I own an Atlas Copco era router that is simply great.

Bosch green are garbage, like Black and Decker, etc.

Bosch should do as Black and Decker. Brand their tools by use level;

Black and Decker-garbage

Stanley-prosumer

DeWalt-pro.

That way B&D doesn’t dilute DeWalt.

Einhell is really hit or miss.

For DIY Lidl has a fantastic lineup, hand and power tools. Their battery ecosistem is really good, and batteries are half the price of Brand names.

Their black tools (Performance) are prosumer level. They can’t go head to head with DeWalt, Makita, Bosch blue, Milwaukee, etc. But they are definitely above The Ryobis, Bosch green, Black and Decker, etc. I own quite a few, and some are truly impressive.

I owned a sign shop for over a decade, so I kind of have an informed opinion. We were 80% Team Yellow, and I still keep a few. Also, the newer generations are just not the same as 10-20 years ago. Most of the DeWalts I kept were made in USA, UK, or Germany. Not usually the case now.

I haven’t owned Makita, but have only heard good things.

We had a couple of Hilti. Hilti is on another level, but you’ll pay for that quality.

Man, Russians should really stop smoking.

not only this, but infrared homing solid fuel rockets, with a small warhead, designed to enter the exhaust and detonate, with really cheap and crude IR sensors should be easy and cheap to produce. These shaheds don’t have any sort of evasive or decoy capacity.

Winnie the Pooh actually seems competent. An unmitigated, spherical SOB, but competent.

I’ve been posting this for years. At close to medium range, a flying sawed off shotgun with buckshot is pretty devastating.

Scientists at Cornell University

may be

closing in

That looks much more like a mega yatch than a navy ship.

Three land borders, actually. Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera.

The ECU (Euro Centric Union)? The E-ish Uion, The MWU (Mostly White Union)…

Turkey is way closer. Morocco is way far from meeting requirements. Absolutist Monarchy (parliamentary democracy in name only), way off in economic make-up…

Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Southern France, Greece…) can provide all needed solar, wind, hydro, tide, and other renewable power to all EU. Actually tide is better in atlantic coasts. Why lay humongous cables (power is not data) across an ocean?

Canada can contribute many other things.

That picture of Putrid has a real Brezhnev vibe to it.

Worth it 100%. Knowledge is power. Simply knowing why shit was happening in my life, and how to be ready and prevent/mitigate, has changed my life. Meds for ADHD and the other issue have also made my life much, much better.

I was diagnosed in my late 50’s. It was a complicated process because there is another mental health co-morbidity that shares some traits.

After going through the more than a year long process, we are working on dialing in the meds.

One of the challenges for diagnosis is that the attention economy is shortening a lot of people’s attention span, causing many people to feel that they have ADHD, and diverting resources from diagnosing people who actually have ADHD. Not saying that the issue shouldn’t be addressed. The combination of these factors, and the rather long and complicated process of a proper diagnosis is a challenge.

2000 things from where? Canada? Mexico?

Generally speaking the US is vulnerable to ballistic missiles, or interior attacks. Shahed style drones are not really viable.