Putin is paranoid and insane.
If he ever pushes the button and the Russian soldier “following orders” all of them will stand trial at the ICC for war-crimes against humanity and the entire-planet earth.
The first nation that attempts at launching nukes success-or-failure will get crushed by the rest of the world.
Nuclear-Mutually-Assured-Total-Destruction is not a joke. It is reality we live in everyday.
I know from real experience unlike a lot of REEEEEEE … sorry but not sorry that you like to jump to conclusions.
You’ll find that “student accomodations” are probably the biggest scams in the UK. A lot of Indian-origin residents/citizens esp. the first-generation, they have the same “Indian” mentality. You’ll find that the 2nd-gen children of these people are more “British” and less “Indian” mindset.
Case in point, the elderly property owner does less than the “minimum” maintenance, charges crazy rent-prices, re-arranges rooms to fit the maximum occupants, almost regular issues like heating, plumbing, mold, etc completely ignored. While suddenly announcing that rent is increasing by 20% “due to inflation, or needed for maintenance” … don’t pay? get out and your deposit is forfeit. Ever showered in cold water during the entire February in the UK ?
You will find that the 2nd-gen children if they find out the elder is doing this, will immediately rectify the situation and probably takeover if they can. Else you are outta luck and on your bum in the middle of winter which no one will want to be.
Netanyahu and the Likud? Right-wing party of Israel weren’t they found to have funneled money and funds and weapons and all kinds of shit to support Hamas activities just to maintain their control over the state of Israel?
Either way, the Region is FSCKed beyond belief. And the CCPPCC and Russia have more fingers in more of the Mid-East Asia pie just as much as Europe/America.
No foreseeable workable solution for next 10 years.
“Shake it, baby!”
India is a very corrupt democracy. As an Indian, I can tell you that sports are inherently corrupted to the degree in which money flows into it. For example, cricket is a sport rife with corruption to the point that the entire world cricket organizations and matches and tournaments are all suspect due to the heavy involvement of Indian corruption spreading its vile degenerate fingers into everything cricketing worldwide.
The only way you can trust anything here is if there is an independent individual measuring system that is completely corruption immune and resistant to external influences.
For example, physics, chemistry or scientific measurements. If a boxer is doping or throwing their fights etc. You can measure for those.
So a very unique set of circumstances allowed for a successful story to happen. And it was like catching lightning in a bottle. Kudos to GL’s wife having a guiding hand in shaping important parts of the story. So did so many authors have a collaborating hand in creating the StarWars-EU stories. Many authors worked together. They did not create garbage.
I have distinctly separated “Dismal Disney StarWers” and the EU-StarWars and the GeorgeLucas JarJar-StarWars.
I personally prefer EU-StarWars + the Original Trilogy. GeorgeLucas almost “accidentally” stumbled on a winning formula for a successful Space-Opera and many many many great and successful writers in the EU-StarWars made it the cohesive SW-EU that it has become.
Disney and its garbage writing/production/corp-greed can take everything to their grave.
I WILL NOT CARE about the “new” and “canon” BS. Not Ever.
EDIT: Gatekeeping is probably the only way to save Successful Franchises and IPs these days. So many upcoming “creatives” think they are BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS. I will be vocal. YOU GET THE EFF OUT OF MY HOBBIES. And if you think naively that authors work in a vacuum, well I guess you never understood how EU-StarWars happened so I don’t expect you to have valid arguments.
I really like the Anime-style using Game-mechanics to tell the different stories. I can imagine a run of 10-Seasons, just based on the many diverging storylines in the actual Nier:Automata gameplay loop!
Also I have no problem with Main-character is blown-up. Restart from last-save point with less information about the previous playthrough. Its very Gamerified storytelling. Quite nice actually.
Controlling Fossil Fuel prices can prevent other private entities from driving up inflation of commodities. It doesn’t have to be permanent, you could effect a set goal for 6 years, evaluate the results every 6 weeks, and tweak the pricing to prevent inflation/deflation cycles.
While you control the transport costs, you can now plan on how much energy it is consuming to do the logistics. Even setup renewables for the remote regions with medium to large capacity backups ( not just chemical batteries, but pumped storage and other practical solutions ).
You could increase the buffer between different urban zones, commercial, industrial, heavy commercial, dense residential, suburbian.
All of these things can be measured, calculated, even funded by simply controlling the Fossil-fuel prices.
Imagine 10 or 20 stadiums with Extra-Large battery backups, only on game-nights the full bank would see utilization, rest of the time, half or even quarter of the load can be saved up for fluctuations. In emergencies the stadium provides power, safety, shelter and communal support.
So many things can be planned around transportation and logistics. Fossil-fuel literally drives a lot of the traffic. Measure, calculate and control that and you have a reliable method to make sensible common sense decisions. Transparent for all citizens to see the data and the correlation. Accountable for every cent.
If everyone was being responsible, there would be a social net, a garbage sorter job, a garbage recycler employer, an ethical reasonable salary, and it would be a safe governed work environment, it would give dignity back to the downtrodden. People would reject corruption.
Garbage dumps get set on fire, the fumes are toxic, medical waste gets thrown out and mixed in, people who are living on garbage dumps are in HELL. NO ONE SHOULD LIVE ON GARBAGE DUMPS!
Set up NGOs and involve government orgs to regulate and oversee care and attention for these people.
These things cannot happen in India because the indian population will not care. FUXK YOu GOT MINE is a typical indian mindset.
I live in India. I have 3 sorting bins. 1 composting organic waste bin, 1 non-recyclable plastics/glass bin, 1 recyclable plastics/metal/paper bin.
I spent 3000 INR buying the composting organic bin ( to support the local business selling it and reusables about 1000 INR per year )
I get back about 200 INR every 6months for going to local recyclers with roughly 2 to 5 kilos of metal + plastics.
About 2 kilos of waste not-recycled every month total ( 2 people ) .
GUESS HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DO THIS IN INDIA.
Im sad my fellow humans do not understand what responsibility is like.
Y’all need to watch laowhy86 and serpentza on YT as well as their OG “The China Show” ( and not the Bloomberg copy-crap CCPPCC kowtowing ). China Fact Chasers on YT has clips if you dont have time for long form content.
Xi-BaoXe. Winnie the Pooh. 6489. Free Tibet. Free HK. Taiwan No.1 Country! :-D
If you mix rice with turmeric ( another attempted cash-grab-by-patenting ) you will get “golden rice”. Not sure if it will have Vitamin-A so thats what supplements are for.
It doesn’t absolve the need to study the Golden rice for health problems. If Monsanto/Bayer made this “healthy rice” I will be even MORE skeptical of this. Corporations have been well-known for greed and mutual-human-extinction.
I trust the rice that was humanly modified and grown over 20,000 years rather than the rice that was suddenly placed in the market by a greedy-corporation in less than a century.
I believe pfizer? and some other pharma companies have now admitted to the non-zero risk for blood-clots and fatally-low platelet counts due to the vaccine. We still do not understand the full long-term impact of the vaccines. We need to stop the vaccine rollout and study the long-term and wider population effects now so that if in 10 or 20 or 30 years down the line if we start seeing people developing abnormal long-term systemic chronic effects due to the vaccines, we now have a MASSIVE study-patient-base available.
Medicine has to be RESPONSIBLY applied and while vaccinations are necessary they still have to be studied to death to ensure their safety and efficacy.
Private corporations DO NOT GET A FREE PASS.
Extreme examples bring to light why whataboutism is so prevalent. Find a better answer than “public nudity never hurt no one” … is not the correct answer.
I heard that during COVID lockdowns, couples in Paris parks were left-alone if they were caucasian while the non-caucasians we beaten by the cops without any warning whatsoever.
I heard somewhere that only the Top 2% of OF-“models” make 80% of all the revenue and the rest hardly make enough to pay for a meal a day.
“Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth”
I rest my case when people say: