The language isn’t the problem with COBOL, it’s the likelihood that you will be maintaining (not adding to, but maintaining) a software system that may not have any docs and the original implementers are dead. Next, there will be nobody to verify the business rules that are specified in the code. Finally after you make a mistake about a business rule, you will be thrown under the bus.

I have full confidence that the US Military could take Greenland, I don’t have confidence that the US could deal with the international fallout that would come from it.

What’s a zipper merge?

Screams in Midwestern

Like getting shanked, then getting in trouble because of the zero tolerance policy (even when the parents brought up the offender before).

At this point Linux and Windows are more like Xbox and PlayStation back in the the 2000’s, except Linux has a compatibility layer to allow it to run a lot of Windows games.

It’s okay Snarf, we know you did nothing wrong.

Or depending on the location and water availability, a two tier reservoir system that pumps water to a higher reservoir to store the energy and let’s the water flow back to the lower reservoir to create electricity.

Different risks of course (if there’s a damn failure there’s a flood), but there are more energy storage options than just batteries.

Bruh, what’s your public transit solution for folks living outside major metropolitan areas (something the US has in spades)? When someone says small town America think towns with sub 5,000 people.