Minnesotan here. I don’t agree with this statement. Although the vast majority of lakes do have some spring water feed, it doesn’t usually create a weak spot in the ice. Typically lake ice weak spots are at water inflows and outflows from rivers, and these are almost always marked with stakes. The lakes are quite safe to travel on, especially when snow build-up occurs and only plowed roads are traveled by heavy equipment (and the plowed roads are always such that they avoid weak spots). That being said every year people do fall through, but that’s almost always operator error.

That’s a tough call honestly. The cold and lack of oxygen would be a serious issue, but you only need to last a couple hours. I think I’d take my chances on landing gear before 11 days on a rudder.

I grew up in the area as well lol. I’ve always been a little more cavalier with ice, but usually stick to snowmobile.

I swear this ice rescue on red happened every year

Actually 6 inches of ice is plenty for a four wheeler *if you know what you’re doing. With 6 inches of ice a stationary or slow-moving four wheeler will not fall through. The risk comes from moving at high enough speeds to create a “wake” under the ice behind you. When you suddenly stop the wake will catch up to you, and when it reaches about 3ft behind you the upward push of the wake and the downward push from the four wheelers can cause the ice to break apart.

I played this in 2010! It was super fun. They gave me a donkey named “Diablo” that they normally don’t use because he’s so wild, but the dude thought it would be funny.

Laika

Soup with a side of chili?!! You sir are totally unhinged.

Both over-rated. I’d take Zlatan, Rooney, or Neymar over them any day

Fun fact- “Rare Earth” materials are not at all rare. They are actually very common in the earths crust.

Fun fact- Sauerkraut was actually the primary food to prevent scurvy. Cheaper, easier to transport, and lasted much longer.

Technically they go to the federal reserve and get money at a lower interest from them, then give that to you at a higher rate. They may choose to sell your debt, but it’s not necessarily a given.

Well first off there shouldn’t be wood under your tiles. Someone decided to not use tile underpayment.

Second, your tiles are screwed and you should probably remove them. Personally I’d replace the tile with vinyl plank flooring. You can easily install that yourself.

But that’s not at all how these numbers are calculated. It’s not on a per-employee output. It’s sector based. The individual jobs are totally irrelevant.

That’s not at all how these numbers are produced…

Maybe I’m old school or biased (manufacturing engineer) but I have a hard time believing that economies that aren’t primarily agricultural and industry are healthy. Value creation is firm. Value provided is less so.