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― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Originally posted by Lancer View PostSo how powerful is Russia?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by pchang View PostTry http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Dinner View Post
Capable of limited regional war but not really capable of major war against great powers. Fortunately, Putin seems to understand this.
You are just a f*cking blind idiot, who doesn't see the truth!
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Originally posted by Dinner View Post
So... 1930’s snow making technology? Used on 3rd rate sky sloops around the world and has been for most of a century.
You turn yourn own every Olympics into disaster!!!
FOR TWO WEEKS IN THE winter of 1980, a small town in upstate New York had an Olympic Village filled with 1,800 of the world’s most elite athletes. Despite Cold War tensions, the mood in the village was jovial; the athletes shared meals, traded pins, and gathered in the Village’s “psychedelic room full of blinking electronic game machines” for endless rounds of pinball. Emotions ran high, as most Americans fondly remember the 1980 games for the “Miracle on Ice” victory over the Soviet hockey team, one of the iconic moments of any Winter Olympics.
But a short six months later, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons had converted the Olympic Village into Federal Correctional Institution Ray Brook, still standing today. The ice skaters, skiers, and hockey players were replaced by hundreds of incarcerated young men. The dorms turned into cells, the game room turned into a prison chapel.
This was not an accident. From the get-go, America was intent on building living quarters for the planet’s greatest athletes that could double as a medium-security prison for around 1,000 people. State and federal legislators vowed that they would not let the Lake Placid facilities turn into another crumbling piece of infrastructure, and instead argued that building a prison would be a practical investment to accommodate the nation’s skyrocketing number of inmates.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...-into-a-prisonLast edited by Serb; January 4, 2020, 13:58.
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