Living here in Kansas, we have a lot of natural beauty as a plains state. It's not all flat either. We have badlands, Zion-like rocks, hills to hike on, and minimal intrusion to nature.
When it snows, all you see is a sea of snow everywhere, and in the spring it's a sea of prairie grass in the rural areas.
The cities are like Chicago and San Francisco had a baby in terms of the architecture and layout.
Our taxes are also higher than California if you are going by percentage (for property taxes and sales taxes, but not income taxes, except for food). California is "okay" I guess. They could do some tax reform, but it's a large state with some large programs and initiatives, so considering that, it's not bad. Additionally, Alabama has less than stellar in person services, but great online services. Mississippi is often troped as having not the greatest economy, but their economy is based on oil, and chemical processing, and fishing. They are also located in a hurricane zone. That means that they get hit hard all the time, and have to keep rebuilding infrastructure. That's not easy. They also get hit economically every time there is a chemical spill or an oil spill, cause the plant will shut down, and they cannot fish there either. We should probably open datacenters there.
He can get arrested and killed if he speaks out like that against Russia, especially because Putin personally intervened to give him and his wife citizenship. There is an understanding that his actions made the United States look bad and that's why he is getting this and that's pretty much it. If he causes problems in Russia he can go bye bye.
He did upend his entire life to stand up for something he believed in and now is in the sights of the US gov until the day he dies. The fact that he does not also want to be a sacrificial lamb to speak out on Ukraine doesn’t really compromise that fact in my mind.
The term "useful idiot" refers to Lenin - basically it is folks who might not be for the communist cause but are propaganda tools and usually ignorant they are being used.
Well it's the homicide rate I think, which includes any killing by firearm including suicide. I wish we could detect if someone was purchasing a firearm with the express intent for suicide. Shopkeepers generally can because the customer will not express any preferences or have done much research and excuse certain telltale behaviors but you can get around it
Is the suicide rate going up or down with the murder (not homicide rate). That could tell us some things.
Additionally one could always commit suicide with their weapon they got when they were fine and have that count as a homicide and a suicide.
Guided missiles fall under the umbrella of rockets. There are far more guided and unguided missiles in the world than rockets for peaceful purposes.
The primary purpose of rockets is to annihilate an enemy military with a secondary benefit being to put things and sometimes people into space. That's how it was pitched, and that's how it will always be.
I have a large doubt regarding this-- what about Hindi-English hybrid?
Spanglish has been around for a long time, so while it may have the most number of potential speakers at almost half a billion Hispanophones, there are about a quarter billion Hindi speakers, and even more than that when you include the variants and offshoots of it which are linguistically compatible which have English hybrids. As more people are exposed to English media in countries that speak those languages I can see it being a "faster growing linguistic hybrid". Places that already have a lot of exposure to English media would already likely have English language hybrids.
