Playing with train tracks & F-16s

[malada]

Ukrainian railways are a wider grade matching the old Soviet sized tracks and trains.

They're starting to redo some of the lines to the narrower Europeans Union's standard. This will increase the speed at which supplies can be moved from the EU to Ukraine and deny the system to Russian trains.

This does mean that Ukraine will need new locomotives and train cars... but they probably need to be replaced anyways. Hey, more jobs for European workers. I am including Ukraine as European.

I've also heard that Norway will be donating 22 F-16 fighters to Ukraine. Only 12 are airworthy and the rest are parts machines. It's a start and long overdue.

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[acelightning73]

When I worked at United Nations Radio, there was one of the guys there who couldn't believe a woman was capable of understanding complicated machinery. I came back from "lunch" one night and he offers me a challenge: He described how one of the big Ampex studio audio tape machines might have been attempting to malfunction, and handed me the schematic. I looked at the diagram, and played with the machine to watch it fail, and determined the rewind/fast-forward relay was shorted internally. He handed me a replacement and I replaced it. And it worked just fine. He had bet me money that I couldn't do it, and he paid up. (I spent the money on Chinese takeout.) And I never let him forget it.

Another time,this asshole watched me arrive for work, dripping wet - it was pouring rain outside, and he said, "You're all wet." I said, 'It's raining, and it's two blocks from the subway to here." He replied, "Well, it doesn't rain inside taxicabs." What a dickweed.