https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/NK-WmPwTyvMsgzeazp4iHG6Rw/
Federal State Enterprise Perm Powder Plant produces crucial components for the Grad, Topol-M, Bulava, Kornet, Pantsir-S and Tornado systems, which are used in Ukraine.
Frankly, given that you work around a lot of explosives and Ukraine has hit munitions plants recently, I'm not sure that having long shifts and no days off is the worst thing that could be happening.
Well, for "Україна", I expect because we're talking different languages that use different scripts. Same reason one says "Tsibili, Georgia" in English rather than "თბილისი, საქართველო".
I don't know about "Ukraine" in German, but all countries register their official English name at the UN, and Ukraine has registered "Ukraine" rather than "Ukraina", and it looks like "Ukraine" in German is the same as "Ukraine" in English. I suppose that if Ukraine wanted to be "Ukraina" rather than "Ukraine", at least in English, they could reregister it.
EDIT: Romania used to be "Rumania" in English, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Romania
The name "Romania" (România) was first brought to Paris by young Romanian intellectuals in the 1840s, where it was spelled "Roumanie" in order to differentiate Romanians (fr.: Roumains) from Romans (fr.: Romains). The French spelling version (Roumanie) spread then over many countries, such as Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany.
In English, the name of the country was originally borrowed from French "Roumania" (<"Roumanie"), then evolved into "Rumania", but progressively fell out of use after World War II in favour of the name used officially: "Romania".
EDIT2: Note that Ivory Coast and Turkey are the two countries that registered official English names that use non-English characters ("Côte d'Ivoire" and "Türkiye"), and that those two typically get ignored in favor of their Basic Latin forms, including, for example, by Wikipedia, since it's a pain to type them on many input systems.
Most countries in the world are party to the Outer Space Treaty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Article II
Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
Basically, all countries realistically capable of trying to enforce such a claim are party to the treaty.
So as things stand, nobody can really own any celestial bodies outside Earth.
I imagine that if humanity survives and spreads and starts to have interest in resources elsewhere, that that may change, but as things stand, the effective value of everything up there is pretty much zero, because you can't own anything other than spacecraft that you launch.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow
I'm not sure that GDP is the best number to use here. That's annual economic activity. I'd think that that wealth would be more-interesting.
According to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wealth
...total global household wealth in 2022 -- which I imagine is closer to what one wants -- is about $454 trillion.
I think that it's more impactful this way.
If you mostly care about sound, there are some that don't have a fan.
One option is a fanless convection heater, like the oil heater Hikermick recommended. These things just use passive convention to transfer heat, so they don't have moving parts. You might hear a few sounds from the metal as the thing heats up and cools down, or maybe the relay clicking on and off occasionally to regulate the temperature, but not aside from that.
They take a long time to come up to temperature, so they aren't ideal if you regularly go in and out of the room, but they work fine for keeping a place at a more-or-less constant temperature.
Another is a radiant heater. These are basically big infrared spotlights, heat lamps. At least some can make a bit of sound when heating up -- I had one that did this, and another that was fully silent.
These are good at heating up a particular location, whatever they're aimed at, quickly, so they're good if you just want to heat something in the room. You can aim it at yourself, have the heat immediately affect you; I've seen them recommended for things like bathrooms for this reason.
Unlike oil heaters, these will emit some visible light, so they aren't ideal if you want the room to be fully dark (e.g. I don't know if you watch movies in your office or something, but it'll light the room at least somewhat).
Not in the conventional sense.
However, the odds can be in your favor if you have a non-linear utility function for the money.
So, say you don't value $2 twice as much as $1, but three times as much or something. Then playing might be a winning move.
Basically the plot in Run, Lola, Run. The protagonist needs a large sum of money immediately or her boyfriend dies, plays roulette.
To be fair, it's not very evenly distributed. I can imagine some states being grouchy that a wildly disproportionate share of their land cannot be put into economic use, when other states are not kicking in something comparable.
https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state
Wyoming has 46.7% of its land be federal. Nevada 80.1%. New York has 0.8%.
Man, now I want Pizza Hut. That commercial clearly works.
That brings to mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_chocolate_(United_States)
The first chocolate ration bar commissioned by the United States Army was the Field Ration D or Ration, Type D, commonly known as the "D ration." Army Quartermaster Colonel Paul Logan approached Hershey's Chocolate in April 1937, and met with William Murrie, the company president, and Sam Hinkle, the chief chemist. Milton Hershey was interested in the project when he was informed of the proposal, and the meeting began the first experimental production of the D ration bar.
Colonel Logan had four requirements for the D ration bar, dictating that it had to:
- Weigh 4 ounces (113.4 g)
- Be high in food energy value
- Be able to withstand high temperatures
- Taste "a little better than a boiled potato" (to keep soldiers from eating their emergency rations in non-emergency situations)
Hinkle was forced to develop entirely new production methods to produce the bars. Each four-ounce portion had to be kneaded, weighed, and pressed into a mold by hand. The end result was an extremely hard block of dark brown chocolate that would crumble with some effort and was heat-resistant to 120 °F (49 °C).
After U.S. entry into the Second World War, Congress planned to shut down the candy industry for the duration of the conflict, deeming it non-essential. Milton Hershey, fighting off attempts to ration sugar, corn syrup, and cocoa, claimed to Congress that chocolate was a vital source of nutrition for the nation's troops.[5] During the war years, the bulk of the Hershey Food Corporation's chocolate production was for the military. Between 1940 and 1945, an estimated three billion units of the specially formulated candy bars were distributed to soldiers around the world."[6]
The D ration was almost universally detested for its bitter taste by U.S. troops, and was often discarded instead of consumed when issued.[7] Troops called the D ration "Hitler's Secret Weapon" for its effect on soldiers' intestinal tracts.[7] It could not be eaten at all by soldiers with poor dentition, and even those with good teeth often found it necessary to first shave slices off the bar with a knife before consuming.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae
Another specimen in northeastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest is possibly the largest living organism on Earth by mass, area, and volume – this contiguous specimen covers 3.7 square miles (2,400 acres; 9.6 km2) and is colloquially called the "Humongous fungus".
Uses
The species is considered a choice edible.
Hmmm. Apparently in national forests in Oregon you can harvest up to a gallon of mushrooms for personal use at one time, no permit required, though you're not allowed to sell or barter it.
...that's kind of amazing that anyone can just go out and eat part of the largest organism on earth.
Children haven't always been yet socialized to avoid pointing out politically and socially awkward things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes