Should have started the image with the candle perhaps.

I would simply have skipped the candle as it was the least essential to the joke

Ya that makes sense but looking it up that doesn’t seem to be a major source of wind and I don’t know why not. Probably has an effect but is order of magnitudes weaker than solar heating and Coriolis effect (which having looked it up seems to be the #2 cause of wind).

Typically wind is dissipated by friction losses with the surface I think (bleeding off speed and energy by making waves, waving trees, and just rubbing against the ground) and wind is generated by heat from the sun (warm air expanding pushing against cold air, creating pressure differentials across thousands of miles).

Because wind is quick to regenerate and this does nothing to stop that the result is probably a pretty small drop in average wind speeds around the new mill and no greater ramifications than slightly less pollen travel in the spring.

I’d toss a few stitches in there to pull it back together as you say, except I would probably try to use as many stitches as I could in the space to more evenly distribute the force around the hole. I’m not very experienced at mending stuff though so if someone else comes in and says something else trust them instead.

I love to see people fixing cool stuff though so good luck with an easy and effective repair, my friend!

This is a wild flattening of history and an insane level of whataboutism. Absolutely not. This is neither accurate nor ethical to normalize one of the most brutal chattel slavery systems in history and imply that it is the same as what any other civilization did. To draw direct comparison to their neighbors, where the Spartans would routinely murder their slaves in cold blood and had the practice enshrined in law, the Achaemenid Persians practiced something much more akin to modern prison labor; Still a morally dubious practice as best but not even close to the deeply evil things the Spartans were doing.

As well they should have! The spartan society was built on slavery. And not just regular slavery but some of the most brutal slavery in history. The only thing Xerxes did wrong was not kill enough Spartans.

Pug Jesus is often based imho

They love John Brown for example!