It super does though the specific characteristics vary depending on where it was extracted (iirc crude from the canadian oil sands is borderline explosive)

Yeah, there’s tons of plans out there for DIY helicopters you can get from the hobby aviation community. Usually the sticking point is making the rotor blades themselves, but I’ve seen some people get off the ground with carbon-fibre laminate blades. Not sure I’d trust them personally but it does work.

Oh, I love how rabbit-holey metallurgy can get. One of my favorite topics is the processes used to cool hardened gears that have to be ground. Keeping the temperatures below a certain point so that they don’t lose the temper is surprisingly difficult even with external flood cooling (or working fully submerged), so you wind up with insane looking profile cutters that have cooling lines built into them directly.

Also the techiques to monitor the diameter of abrasive grinding tools get wild, like monitoring the capillary pressure of the coolant spray and similarly insane feats of precision.

Industrial high precision lost-wax usually has a mold made from many layers, often either done in traditional monlith casting frames (big slabs of cement or plaster or casting sand or etc) or formed by dipping the parts into various cement slurries (a bit like a candle. The first few layers are generally a low-additive “print coat” made from ceramics akin to porcelain (that won’t react with the material being cast), and then for strength they’re bulked up with thick layers of stuff that usually has been bulked up with sand and recycled shells of precious castings that have been crushed down.)

It’s a fascinating process.

Oh lol, mixed up you and bizarroland.

No, but metallurgy isn’t a straightforward peocess like they were kinda implying. Gears, especially extremely high performance ones like in aerospace, have partial hardening, surface treatments, even exotic things like mixed alloys to ensure they meet the mechanical demands required of them. You can’t simply cast a gear and expect it to work - in this case if you tried as they were describing you’d likely just have the teeth shear when you tried to take off and you’d be fine, but there’s a real good reason that part costs as much as it does and it’s not just the administrative costs that come with aviation part documentation requirements.

Casting itself is fine for many applications, and advanced casting techniques are incredibly complicated and suitable in one form or another for many applications, but not all things should be cast.

Discover that 3d printing can’t meet the precision requirements and cast metal won’t meet the mechnaical requirements, gear shears, make peace with your fate, fall from sky onto local orphanage’s annual puppy adoption drive.

Ah, I was indeed specifically talking about the meats - I did forget there were all the other traditional accouterments that go along with American barbecue.

We did slip up a tiny bit by literally calling it “American cheese”. Slight strategic error on that one.

Isn’t that primarily a spanish invention? US has a culture built around it absolutely, but most places also incorporate it somehow, especially oceania and any former spanish colonies. It’s not really an “american” food per se as far as I’m aware.

… Naoz?

Full disclosure that I’m not confident on any of these names being right: in terms of candy specifically I’m really partial to Livada Moldovei, Dulcineea Pasarea, Maiastra and those little chocolate cone things I think aren’t called “carmen” but that’s the name written on them? Not sure.

Honestly, I still don’t really know what “real” western food is.

French cuisine is the most classically famous example, but pretty much every western country has hundreds of years of it’s own extremely distinct culinary identity (ex: Germany, Spain, Italy, even the UK (despite the jokes)).

If you just mean the US though, it doesn’t exactly have it’s own unified thing going on beyond what you’ve listed (burgers, pizzas, etc) but there are plenty of foods, and even a few entire genres of food, that are very closely tied to the american identity (Texmex is the best one I can think of). The most “american” american food I can think of is probably hotdish which… I don’t actually recommend seeking out (please don’t hurt me, I just don’t think the majority of casseroles are all that great)

Glad I got to enjoy them before they went to shit, cuz otherwise kid-me would’ve have the impression that “all western foods suck”.

… This is like someone saying “Guys I thought American chocolate was awful, but have you tried this Hershey’s stuff?!? It’s so good!” Like I’m glad you had a good experience but… but I’m sorry that was your good experience.

Absolutely incredible candy comes out of moldova. Damn does that country have an amazing confectionery culture.

I was in a hobby secret santa organized online - I got two presents that year, some very generous hobby additions and the discovery that San Marino isn’t just a region in Italy…

Okay? Don’t think I disagree, but that’s also not relevant to explaining the specific reason it’s being reported less.

They absolutely aren’t as widely reported; but not because of desensitization, it’s for the same reason suicides aren’t reported. Theres been studies showing it’s “contagious” and that reducing coverage helps suppress further occurences.

Oh but didn’t you hear that they were in the top 10 for GDP growth last year, so that means Maduro was actually doing super well??

The narrative spin on this one is getting ridiculous, from all sides.

Trump keeps saying that, but since when do we believe what he says? Real talk the oil is a bonus but it’s transparently a power consolidation and intimidation move - maduro had an apparently very successful talk with a chinese trade envoy earlier in the week, and that’s most likely the reason. Trump can’t risk China getting a foothold in Venezuela, especially one where china might move troops in to shore up their Venezuelan interests against US aggression. That would cockblock his strongman BS and make him look weak, and he can’t have that.