Only if the glass gets into your lungs, though. If it's mixed with the soil it's just sand.

Wasn't aware they used plastic fibers. I guess that would make it lighter, too.

Could never have guessed.

I wonder if perhaps the trade war against Canada isn't really about fentanyl, either.

It has an eerie beauty to it.

I remember seeing some photos a while back of bird nests made out of fragments of fibre optic cable, those looked pretty neat too. On the plus side, when this stuff degrades it just turns into sand. So at least there won't be a toxic waste problem on top of everything else.

I do, however, enjoy it when various flavors of Nazi fight each other.

So, who's going to prison for this? Party of law and order, right?

When one option is live under a brutal dictator and the other option is have your ethnicity wiped off the face of the Earth, there isn't really an option, is there?

You're still missing the point. The people living there, at that time, didn't know what those options would ultimately lead to. They didn't have the benefit of hindsight. And even if they did, they were right there at that moment in time, having to make decisions that would determine if they survived one more day.

Basically every death in the European Theatre of WW2 can be directly blamed on Hitler and the Nazis for starting the whole thing

Poor Stalin, I guess he had absolutely no choice in all the massacring that he did. Hitler made him do it.

Not only that, but apparently the head of the Russian military intelligence, General Andrei Averyanov, was on board and was killed by the strike.

This should really highlight the shenanigans that these "shadow fleet" ships have been getting up to beyond simply transporting sanctioned oil.

Re-quoting from my comment:

And they had to pick sides without knowing what the judgment of history would be.

Emphasis added. They were making the choice without the benefit of that Wikipedia page from 2025 to refer to.

And Stalin was right up there with Hitler in terms of total kill-count, which is why it was a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. There was no good option available.

My dad had a Latvian friend in his youth, and dad would tell me about how sometimes when they'd had a bit much to drink he'd tell stories about fighting on the front lines in Latvia. For the Germans, against the Russians. He was by absolutely no means a Nazi supporter, but he had to weigh the options and try to figure out which one was less likely to end with him and his family lying dead in a ditch somewhere.

It really sucks that Latvia didn't regain independence until 1991. I hope he lived long enough to see that.

Those Eastern European countries faced the ultimate rock-and-a-hard-place situation; side with the Nazis, side with Stalin, or get crushed by both (and whichever one you "sided" with wouldn't treat you particularly well either). And they had to pick sides without knowing what the judgment of history would be.

Honestly, a rare situation where some Nazi collaborators deserve an "it was complicated" footnote, IMO. Though that's a bit much to ask for on a stone monument like this.

They're doing what the "contract" always allowed.

I guess we'll see what people here find to complain about now.