The rules will be the same as they always are: First Come First Served, and Might Makes Right.

Absolutely true, but the point isn't whataboutism (well, sometimes it is, but it shouldn't be). The point should be admitting and owning our mistakes and doing what we reasonably can to:

a) admit that we did and validate the experience of the people who suffered from it
b) make sure we're not still doing it (way too often we still are, just through subtler means)
c) try to make reparations if we can

Even getting to step 'a' is a big fucking step. Nobody's innocent, but honesty is the foundation on which improvements can be made.

You need to work on your reading comprehension then, because as I said:

OP's comment is clearly saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation. That's why they said "BUT I'm not stupid". They are agreeing that it would be stupid to go there now, that's why their statement of wanting to go there is made conditional on a "but" that is false.

Like saying, "I love spicy food and I wish I could eat a whole ghost pepper at once, BUT I'm not stupid [implied: so I WON'T eat a whole ghost pepper at once]"

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond to your 4-word insult comment, because I think it's important and I'm assuming you either didn't realize that OP is saying they currently won't go there because of the political situation, or you're saying that the existence of the current political situation completely erases any potential historical or cultural value the people and the country may have or have ever had or ever will have and that's a really awful thing to say and I can't imagine how someone could have that attitude without intentional hyperbole unless they're being a disgustingly intolerant bigot.

Iran is a beautiful country, in most of its history it was Persia. They were fierce warriors yes but also academics and scholars. They provided the foundation of modern astronomy and mathematics and were a beacon of civilization and education. We literally use "arabic" numbers today because of them. There is beautiful architecture, beautiful geography, beautiful wildlife in Iran and none of that had any choice about the government. There are wonderful people there, including ones who protest the regime and fight for democracy and human rights.

The modern tyrannical islamofascist government sucks and of course nobody should go there now or at any foreseeable point in the future, but it's not stupid to want to go there, and if they had a safe, friendly democratic nation (which it should be pointed out many of the people in Iran and who have fled Iran's current regime would also like) I absolutely would love to visit too. I'm less interested in North Korea, personally, but I can understand that it might appeal to others and there might be interesting places and things and people there too that I'm just not interested in or don't know about. I would also love to go to Russia too. Again, I would only do that without the government or the bad parts of their culture, but I still love many of the parts of their history and culture. I don't hate the people or the land. I hate the evil governments and the shitty cultural attitudes.

Try not to have shitty cultural attitudes yourself, appreciate and avoid invalidating the good parts of other people's cultures, and it will help the world to be a better place where we can all get along.

wasn’t the League of Nations largely the brainchild of Woodrow Wilson, US president during WW1?

Yes it was, quite ironic that the US never became a part of it right? But they've always been like that. I can't figure out why anyone would rely on an agreement with them when every 4 years they switch from Jekyll to Hyde, do an about face and throw you to the wolves. They're useful allies when they want to be useful, but I wouldn't rely on them or trust any agreement with them any further than I can throw it. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I've always been partial to restarting the League of Nations, which notably never had the United States anyway... sounds familiar.

Invade Brazil, install puppet regime, attend summit.

Zelensky is still the one trying to start WW3 though.

Collecting action figures is still niche and will definitely draw some ire. Hell, even adults collecting plushies is a problem for some.

Another classic example is adults who enjoy model trains. "Weird" is about the best you can hope for if people are feeling particularly generous and accepting. Our society loves to judge adults who indulge in any form of fantasy and have not let their inner child die. Personally I think the world would be a much better place if more or even most adults kept in touch with their inner child. I'd rather have joy than hate. But some people are just awful, and a lot of other people who I don't think are necessarily awful themselves have this herd mentality that compels them to follow these awful people and try to mimic their awful views to fit in with what they perceive to be the herd, somehow without ever triggering any empathy or even having any thought enter their head about the feelings of the people they are mocking, bullying or victimizing. Even I do it sometimes. I try very hard not to, but I know I have.

125F is the maximum recommended storage temperature. Like the people who overfill their tanks, it will probably be okay for a bit above that, but you run the risk of rupturing the safety valve. Not sure how hot your garage typically gets, but it's probably not an ideal storage place. FWIW propane's maximum recommended storage temperature is only 120F, so if CO2's not safe in your garage neither is propane. Some ventilation would probably help keep temperatures down. Keep in mind this is actual physical tank temperature we're talking about. Direct sunlight matters -- humidex and "feels like" temperatures don't.

Yes, they're all pretty much the same except for threaded vs quick connect. Some people prefer the ones with steel braided hoses for safety. The main "danger" of overfilling is that once the ice melts to liquid and boils to gas the pressure will go to the moon and burst the safety valve (permanently), becoming a broken tank with a small leak that vents gas quicker than the liquid can boil. Large amounts of rapidly venting CO2 create thick fog rolling along the ground (as seen in many halloween displays for example) so the leak would be obvious and is not dangerous as long as you don't lay down and stick your face in it and try to breathe for awhile. If you don't notice it you may be surprised to find your tank is empty when you go to use it, and any attempts to refill it will immediately start leaking. Anyway, it's an expensive mistake so you probably won't make it more than once. Technically the burst disc can be replaced, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.

It's easy to avoid as long as you understand that filling can only be done reliably by weight, not by time, feel, eyeball or pressure or anything else. Whether you're using dry ice or liquid from another tank, the weight of the tank is all that matters. An empty tank is a particular weight which can be measured as it will have to be completely empty before you attempt refilling it anyway. A full tank is a higher weight. The weight you should not exceed should be printed on all tanks but for Sodastream-size tanks can hold exactly 410g above empty weight. Less is fine. More is risky (some people do exceed it regularly though, but that's on them and their wallet) Pressure is mostly meaningless for a liquified gas like CO2, the liquid phase maintains constant pressure as dictated by temperature and physics.

Liquified gases don't really "explode" like pressurized gases, they either vent, or leak. This can be noisy and visually dramatic but is not a safety concern. Even a catastrophic failure will remain mostly liquid for a long time and is just a spill of increasingly cold liquid that is creating fog (more and more slowly as it uses up all the available heat by becoming cold). The gas doesn't appear instantly, the liquid has to boil to make more gas, and that takes a lot of time and heat it has to absorb first before it can do that. The biggest risk is frostbite, not explosion. The liquid CO2 gets very cold when boiling freely, because of all the surrounding heat it's absorbing to try to turn into gas. It is not a fast process. This is also how dry ice works, and why it stays ice for so long, and why we can use it to make things very cold for a very long time. FWIW propane is also a liquified gas, and behaves mostly the same way, except that it is flammable, which can make it explosive under certain conditions. Some people are bothered having a propane tank next to their house, but most people aren't. CO2 isn't flammable or explosive, it's safe enough to have in your kitchen in my opinion. In a pinch it can double as a fire extinguisher. :P

Their goal was to get attention, to force the media and public to start talking about it, to force western governments to pretend to care about it, ratchet up the international pressure by another notch. They have done everything they need to be successful at that. Now that they've been seized, it's our jobs to do what we can to make the rest of that happen.

Drinkmate is honestly a similar-but-better design, speaking as someone who moderated Reddit's sodastream community for years. And I think most users of that subreddit would agree with me. Sodastream just has better marketing and all the market share so it has become the "Kleenex" of the category as the first one anyone thinks of and often the only one they even can name.

Assuming North America, you can get standard Sodastream->CGA320 "direct connect" adapters that let you hook the machine to a standard CO2 tank of any size (it won't fit inside the machine but I don't consider that a functional requirement). Similar adapters are made for other regions I just don't know their specific sizes and terminologies.

Why isn't there a Berlin airlift for Gaza? Why aren't navies escorting aid ships? Those are rhetorical questions, you don't need to answer it for me. I know most governments with any ability to project power support the genocide.

The problem honestly isn't even the seawater, necessarily. Even that is technically fixable.

Where it gets potentially unfixable is that most naval architects seem to think that the ship probably twisted her keel lying in that position. Non-naval-architects might not appreciate what a catastrophic problem that is, to put it roughly in automotive terms that's like having a twisted frame on a car (it's actually significantly worse, but that's the closest layperson analogy you're likely to get). There's nothing you can do to to a twisted frame to exactly straighten it, and it will never drive "properly" again, in fact it can be extremely unstable and unsafe. Cars that this happens to are basically without exception considered "totaled" and for good reason.

Ships, in general, and warships, in particular, can be put under pretty extreme forces by the water they are in, especially at high speeds or heavy seas, and even small imperfections in the shape of the hull can cause very serious hydrodynamic drag and forces. These effects can be even stronger and more dramatic than aerodynamic effects on cars or airplanes since the water itself is so much thicker and heavier as a fluid. A ship with a twisted hull is almost certainly a write-off, and if you stubbornly refuse to accept that and do everything you can to mitigate it, even if you are lucky it will still likely be a poor, dangerous sailer that can never safely approach anything near the sort of speeds it was originally designed to achieve. A warship that can only go half the speed, and half the range it was designed to, with a non-negligible chance that it may be so poorly handling that it is at least uncomfortable and hard to crew, if not actually dangerous or even doomed in heavy weather, is not a very useful warship, no matter how hard you are committed to putting it into service despite the damage.

Yeah, maybe it still floats, but that's only a small part of what a ship is actually expected to be able to do in the real world, and "modern warship" is a pretty unforgiving role that needs every bit of performance the ship is supposed to be able to provide. It's not an situation where you can accept having a scratch-and-dent salvage title if you want it to actually be good at its job. That's why people are considering this a total loss (and it still will be no matter how much work they put into it).

Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I'm sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there's nothing we can do about it.

Yeah a good analogy is refloating the Costa Concordia. They patched the hole and emptied the water and it certainly floated, fixing the hole in the hull wasn't the problem. Refloating it didn't return it to passenger service, it was just step one of being scrapped, because that's all you can do with a ship like that short of completely rebuilding it from scratch. Repairing it would be vastly more complex, risky, and expensive than simply replacing it. It's salvage and scrap, that's all. You get it out of the way so its not blocking your route as a hazard to navigation, anything you can salvage you salvage, then you scrap it.

Now, on the other hand, if you wanted to do some theatrical performance of how you are the greatest and most resourceful country on Earth, you could certainly refloat it and jury rig it piecemeal until it looks like a perfectly functional ship again, as long as nobody has to go inside and it never has to perform any significant functions. If you want to use it as a floating barge to launch missiles from (like the first of its class, which is rumoured to have no engines as it has never been seen moving under its own power) then absolutely you can refloat it and use it for that no problem. That might be a good way to save face if you're a recently-embarrassed despotic banana republic with nuclear weapons and no functioning economy, and plausibly that is what will happen here.

I think it is still pretty painful to acknowledge for a lot of people, honestly, so it's not surprising. At least they're only downvoting and not jumping into the usual rounds of whataboutism. The goal is to learn from history, not to justify anything that is done or make anyone feel bad, but I'm also not going to apologize for it if it does make people feel bad. To those downvoters: If it makes you feel bad, you know what will make you feel better about it? Do something to make things better. I'm not saying you have to, I'm just saying it might make you feel better about acknowledging the history. Your call.

Doing a racism is the well-known cultural tradition of the white people and our ancestors.