Literally the only thing that was stopping all these people before was the physical impracticality of drinking enough beer and the price of harder stuff, same thing with opioids later on, laudanum was heavily abused
It was a whole crisis in the British Empire, basically as soon as industrial scale distillation stills brought liquor (gin) down to its modern relative price to beer, towns were literally emptying out of people who collectively drank themselves to death.
If anything a federally backed pipeline would be awful for Smith as it would ingratiate Albertans to the federal government and not net her interests the money they support her to lobby for.
It's because the goal isn't a pipeline as much as they want the feds to help pay for a pipeline, or create the regulatory conditions for one, so that the primary profit remains with the private enterprise that backs Smith.
Just purely on size they're quite a bit bigger, structure gets complicated when you need lots of big ports for the missiles. Onboard nuclear reactors are incredibly expensive and so is the shoreside infrastructure needed for them you can go on.
To be fair, a bunch of yours are nuclear ballistic missile subs, which are leaps and bounds more expensive and complicated, you'd probably have a lot more subs if it were not that case that you need the ability to launch nukes.
Basically gotta dodge poppy seed bagels for the next few days and I'm off to the land of union pay and government-grade benefits this summer
I think the goal is that you have to hit all the categories when you piss or you're not cool enough to get hired
So anyways they started with over a thousand so I'm basically the GOAT now and will be insufferable until the ego high wears off
One drug test and background check away from the job
yep, the goal is to basically keep the yards chugging for decades so the order number is surprisingly large even if the rate is low, and I mean, hell, 15 principal surface combatants with AEGIS suite and a SPY-7 is a severe deterrence to basically everyone but the USN and PLAN
Basically the only negative thing you could say is 24 mk 41s is a little narrow on the Rivers, and we could do with more true icebreakers and replenishment ships, but if the RCN gets at least 75% of it, it would be awesome
The corvette thing is interesting because they want these things to be able to actually fight unlike the Kingstons, lots of talk of 12x Mk 41s + NSM box launchers on them, whether as a bolt-on mission module or built in.
In the CAF, I think I'm most up on the RCN at the moment, even if we don't end up with the full order totals for everything, it's going to be a very capable force that can play in the same ballpark as the big European fleets:
15x River-class Destroyers
8-16x Multi-Mission Corvettes
12x Submarines
The Admiralty Office is right there, you could even have a First Sea Lord type dude
And there's gonna be doing the Vietnam "but we killed more people / blew more shit up" cope when the impending economic crash makes them back off
You can't just say that and not show us
My earlier criticism stands, Asian music/marketing execs just toss their cigarettes off a skyscraper, walk into the boardroom and say "Give me an understrength platoon of girls" and refuse any number that isn't large enough to conduct fire and maneuver against an entrenched weapons position.
Once you get low enough you switch to submarine ops. Reduce altitude to FL 1 and then Dive Make Depth 50, Aye
Can't smell the donkey manure and hay, gotta get lower
Oh, I meant it in the American sense in my post
It's unconfirmed, but there is speculation we may see some defections from the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo seats as well.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
At least two Labour MPs (one UK, one Aus) and three Democratic Congresspeople in talks to cross the floor to the Liberal Party, as per leaked internal memos
No need to overleverage into an election with popularity as collateral when real quarterly growth in the caucus continues apace
Why, when society has basically spent the last two decades blowing off annoying religious puritanism into irrelevancy are titanic payment processors suddenly afraid of some small ass advocacy groups being mean to them.
The NEC has a bunch of stuff in regards to how AB's market will interact with neighboring crown corps. Imported power is only permitted sold at market clearing rate (i.e. the most expensive generator currently employed to meet demand at that given moment)
There might still be room for this given the whole pipeline / clean electricity deal thing that Carney is trying to work out with Smith. Her people might hate it, but probably can't be seen turning down an offer to let AB run its own pipeline assessment without the feds and accepting it.
For reference, Canada basically has a bunch of barely interconnected grids that are more tied in to the US than each other, which given current events and where we're going tech and energy wise, is an issue
