How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
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コメント (21)
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But how does its smallest, least secure embassy work?
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speaking of Disney World, an original idea was that it would have it's own airport and nuclear power plant. Walt wanted it to be as self-sufficient as possible
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Someone take this guy to Space Mountain
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So it's basically more like an Military Base like Ramstein, but without the Airstrips?
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"What the hell is an acre?" "An acre is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet)" Wat.
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3568 toner cartridges is 892 per color, if we assume all their printers are color. Let's guessproximate they have double the cartridges for black, meaning 713 full refills. If they have 7 printers, that's 100 refills. If they have 14 printers, that's 50 refills. If they have 28 printers that's 25 refills. So, no. Probably not too much toner.
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All these videos and HAI STILL doesnt have a space mountain!
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Hi Sam! Big thanks to Amy for ditching work so she could go ride Space Mountain over and over again. She deserves a raise!
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1:34 This appears to be based on the claim that the Magic Kingdom cost $400 million to build. There are no firm sources for this figure, and none of the sites that use this figure indicate that this figure is inflation-adjusted (the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971). If it isn't adjusted for inflation, then the cost to build the Magic Kingdom in 2009 (when the embassy opened) dollars would be $2 billion, making the embassy about 1/3 the cost of the Magic Kingdom.
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Plot twist: Sam is just mad because Amy went on Space Mountain to do "research" and he didn't...
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The shape of the embassy looks like the shape of oklahoma
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So what I'm getting from this is that the Bagdad embassy needs to install a Space Mountain
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interesting as half
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Honestly, kinda cheap. Elbphilharmonie in hamburg, a concert hall with 2700-ish seats across three rooms, was a lot more expensive, for example.
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Considering how many documents the government prints out on every occasion, I'd imagine the toner cartridge spending is in line with any other agency that's working abroad.
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The embassy houses at least two or three platoons of Marines and somewhere near 5,000 State Department staff and local staff.
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Sam didn't send his correspondent Amy to test the security of the embassy? What is journalism even coming to these days?!
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The lack of Space Mountain is thoroughly disturbing. How do they manage to live in such uncivilized conditions? ;)
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When a 107-acre compound offers more amenities than most cities of the country it's located in.
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anyone else here during the huge IT server outrage 😭? i’m stuck in new york airport rn
