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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Kuwait Air Defenses Down US Jets
Date: 03/02/26 2:24 PM
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People who don't know anything about engineering would think that. Thanks for proving my point.

I thought that it would be understood that this is an "other things being equal" scenario. If there had been an earthquake or a recent flood or an airplane crashing into the building, of course you wouldn't conclude it was due to an engineering problem.

But if there isn't anything like that - if the building just fell down on a clear day - then it would not at all be irrational to consider that an engineering failure might be a likely culprit. Which is what we're looking at here. There doesn't appear to have been anything that would be analogous to a recent flood or earthquake. Iran didn't do anything to the Kuwaiti systems. So this is more analogous to the "clear day" collapse, rather than something where there's an immediately obvious likely intervening factor.

Again, we'll know more after the Congressional inquests are over. But I don't think there's any reason for your "head shakes" over this point.

I also notice that you didn't provide any examples of posters here being GLEEFUL about these strikes. It's only been a day or so. Were you unable to find the ones you were recalling?
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