About the term “astroturf”on todays show, it refers to grassroots.
Grassroots definition:
Noun
People at a local or low level rather than at the center or upper levels of an organization or movement. Often used with the.
The lowest or most basic level of an organization or movement.
adjective:
Of, or relating to people or society at the local level; of the grass roots.
Of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group.
Fundamental.
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“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast”.
Viktor Frankl
I guess florida man hasn't completely passed the baton to california man yet
careful with that empathy gentlemen 😂
Russia's Navy Port At Sevastopol On Fire After Massive Ukraine Missile Attack
Not looking good
“Currently, the Biden administration is moving toward supplying Kiev with either ATACMS or GMLRS missiles. These are long-range systems and the administration was previously reluctant to supply them on fear of direct escalation with Russia.”
When monkey discovers plan to save the world
A buddy always laughed at the industry when he’d see these things on the ramp, he always says he wants to talk to the engineers of something like the cessna 152 just to see the look on their face when they learn that little guy made in 1965 is STILL flown as a daily flight trainer almost 3/4s of a century later. And those are actually somewhat safe, if you want REAL nightmares, there are more than a few twins that really show their age w/ exhaust routing accelerating corrosion on their own spars. (That’s why the old 310s are so cheap, they’re deadly)
Imagine a VW beetle being used that long. Driven every day, all day from sunup to sundown. Now imagine it’s parked on the florida coast. People don’t think about planes the same way, for whatever reason. YOu have 100-hr inspections done that will catch a whole lot of problems (cessna’s better for this than piper, from what I gather) but not every aircraft was designed to be flayed open and inspected to that degree. Why design an easy system to inspect the main spar when all your life as a plane drafter has seen your designs end up in a junkyard within 20 years no matter how advanced you make them?
They never knew they were making infrastructure we’d be using for 100 years without replacement. https://youtu.be/KmlXj6NFKIs
RT: https://poa.st/objects/bdecda3c-49c5-4753-9417-00b844f364a9