2022 LC Thread—New Year, New Thread

This seems like a question I may not want to know the answer to.

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Sounds like some sort of crafting formula in Minecraft.

https://twitter.com/hering_david/status/1591167872537006080

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What it accomplishes is that you don’t get thrown in Chinese prison.

Your pony should check out the health care thread.

For context: Chemnitz had been renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl-Marx-City) while it was part of the German Democratic Republic.

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They have a giant Marx bust, featured on a heavily used stamp back in the day.

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Still there:

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“Heavily used?”

I thought a stamp could only be used once?

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:queen_amused:

I remember it being on almost every letter we got from our eastern relatives.

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fun fact, i recently learned that L’viv is informally Banderstadt.

bah, i forgot that thread existed

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https://twitter.com/livfaustdiejung/status/1591469426154643459?s=46&t=6Kc3y4FqJOMHHrHGAFjMnQ

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I approve.

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https://twitter.com/FlightEmergency/status/1591549331857080322

Is it just me or have these air show disasters been happening a lot the last few years? Probably just seems that way because of social media.

This is one of the reasons the death rate of pilots is so high, air show crashes.

Isn’t the potential for a collision or crash one of the reasons to watch an air show?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-explosion-istanbul-istiklal-street

likely suicide bomber

I wouldn’t say so - not in the same way as watching F1/Nascar/Touring/Rallying whatever.

There’s an element of thrill with the purposeful near misses in aerobatic displays - Red Arrows etc - but most of an air display is just seeing different types of aircraft doing aircrafty things.

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