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They are really hard to find ripe. They don't ripen until picked - but unfortunatly there is at best one day between ripe and rotten. That is at best, if they bruise at all while handling they will got rotten fast.

Not really worth buying if you don't live where they grow - about half of the ones I buy are rotten before we can eat them - and I pay 5 times the cost as they go for in a tropical location.

A shelf is a bad idea in a bench - you need easy access to the bottom to adjust clamps all the time. Now an assembly table can benefit from shelves and such - but they don't need the strength this has.

Money is easy to ship anywhere. Things are much harder. Thus everything worth doing is going to be local. Various options have been mentioned. Your local food shelf may have a place for this as well.

They 100% work - just as well as they did in 1700. The slow speed means nobody will use them exclusively. I'm not sure if they need extra labor as well (assuming modern controls) but that is another potential reason nobody would use them. They couD though.

Also because both sides lack a large air force. NATO doctrine was always have enough of an air force that artillery can't do anything. Russia was always "we can't control the air but our artillery is still win the day". It isn't clear who is right - and this war will not prove it.

They work. However they are a lot slower - by enough that no shipping company can compete using them. I'm not clear on if they scale to the size of modern ships either.

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as buying it. So I walk around once in a while looking for winning tickets. I haven't found one yet, but who knows. Bonus - I get some much needed exercise in the process.

one will close - but everyone will go to the other 3 on the intersection thus saving them for a few years. Then another.... and soon the one across town closing helps those left.

the average car is 12 years old so there is a lot of life left in gas stations even after all new cars are ev. once you have a station a lot of the costs are sunk costs so you won't close just because demand drops a little. Chains will build less as the numbers stop working but they will build in places for a while while closing other locations.

There are still a few stations without that, but it has been the norm for new or remodled stations for decades in the us.

Gas makes money. The margins are low - but the volumes are high. Most people are not buying what is inside so while margins are higher the profit is about the same

The US needs to be able to shoot down 2000 "things" per days, and likely far more. Ukraine proves that - they shot down almost that many UAVs just yesterday. Patriot is a part of that - Russia has launched a lot more than just low speed drones (though that is the majority), in enough that 1000 patriots per year is not enough even if they were a perfect 1 launch to on intercept (no misses, no training/test launches, and no launch two at one incoming just in case - I don't know how patriot is used but all of those seem reasonable).

We need to increase the patriot production capacity asap. We also should take Ukraine up on their offer. One Tomahawk (which can take out production of future drones/missiles) for 10 of their drones seems like a good trade for both.

When you first start translation is useful. However you need to get beyond that fast if you are to actually learn.