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Between existing ATC and pilot shortages, the government shutdown, and other industry stressors it feels like it's not a great moment for flying. But at least so far we don't have aircraft crashing into each other!

But I'm curious how things look to insiders? Is it just business as usual with some adjustments to schedules? Are people overworked? Does it feel like it's just a matter of time until something happens?

You see throughout pre-history cases where you have vast lava flows covering hundreds of square kilometers of land. The Columbia Basin Basalts are what specifically made me think of this. It's hard to imagine something like that happening right now anywhere on Earth. It would be cataclysmic and kill or displace millions of people.

Unless it didn't actually happen that quickly? Were these enormous lava flows relatively quick cataclysmic events like a sudden flood? Or was it more like heightened volcanic activity in a region over tens of thousands of years causing layering? Like would current ongoing lava flows in Hawaii register the same way with future geologists as one big event?

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Curious what people like in this genre of sword. Looking for weapons that are obviously fantasy in their pattern/design but are made well enough to be used for testing cutting and swinging around.

This just popped into my head and now it's going to bother me. Do large companies have deals with certain airlines to use those airlines for their business travel in exchange for better rates, miles, priority boarding, etc?

Are there any mods that add the ability to spend cash to get community center bundles? I don't want to do Joja but I'd like to do some games where I don't necessarily feel compelled to work every angle to get the CC done.

Alternatively something that creates more narrow routes for unlocking, like replacing all of the bundles with a specific type of bundle (farming, mining, fishing, etc) would be fine.

Kind of a straightforward question I guess. Obviously even now our count isn't perfect but we probably reasonably close. Do we have any idea who the first person to accurately estimate the population of the world was and how exactly they were able to do it?

Every once in awhile people talk about Texas or the West Coast seceding and generally speaking most people think the possibility is utterly absurd. In that context I'm wondering if the idea of states seceding from the union was also seen as absurd or unlikely prior to it actually happening. What was the time frame from people starting to talk about secession to it happening? Was it a long running topic of discussion or did it occur suddenly and take everybody by surprised?

I'm wondering how the goals and plans of the US changed before and at the beginning of WW2 compared to the end. It's always said that the US and allies were only willing to accept unconditional surrender but was this always the plan? When Japan attacked did they essentially seal their fate or would the allies have accepted something less than that at first when things were a bit more shakey?

I'm looking for examples and suggestions for tours, museums, and visits related to infrastructure and industry. Especially ones that might be interesting to a curious kid. Some examples:

Museum of History and Industry Boeing Future of Flight and Tour Viewing Deck at Seattle Transfer Station Northwest Railway Museum Viewing tower at the Port of Tacoma

I especially would be interested in tours of active places of industry and infrastructure such as bridges, railways, ports, water treatment, mines etc.

Any ideas? I'm in the Puget Sound region but would be interested in hearing about places across the state.

I realize it probably would haven't been known as Operation Paperclip to the public at the time but there were a few high profile German scientists in the US such as Werner Von Braun.

I was sparked by seeing this song from Tom Lehrer mocking Von Braun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

Would this song have been subversive? Was there any significant public knowledge of brining Nazi scientists to the US after the war or any immediate public backlash against the idea?

I'm wondering what two large and distinct cities are located closest to each other. That is to say two cities where they are located close together but do not otherwise form a single contiguous metropolitan area suburbs in between them.

The question popped into my head after looking at Glasgow and Edinburgh on a map. They are quite close together but with some countryside between them. I don't know if locals would generally consider them to be a singular metro area but that gives you some idea of what I'm looking at.

I'd like to take my 7 year old daughter to start doing some regular volunteering in the community. We are over in Federal Way but I suspect there would be more things in Tacoma and the Fed Way sub reddit sucks.

Any ideas of good, safe volunteer opportunities for a 7 year old. I was thinking some kind of park cleanup because we love the outdoors.