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track record IS 'we cut the gas, you pay in rubles, we send the gas again' simple tactics, presumably based on the existing treaties even, Russia may not even be in the wrong, technically you can't just go and claim the track record is otherwise, with no evidence remember my remark is...

I understand "republic" to be government by the governed. this includes the original Roman res publica which was not any form of democracy. and I expect a Western-style democracy to have 3 independent branches (legislative, executive, judicial), with at minimum the legislative being elected by...

but isn't that wrong no matter what the subject is? telling someone how to feel or what to do (when not asked for advice) is always deeply disrespectful (jokes about forest fires are best left to those concerned, similar to how jokes about jews are best left to jews) that doesn't preclude me...

evidence: As of September 2022, Russia had cut gas deliveries to several European countries -- for example Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Finland -- citing a failure to comply with rouble payments in each case. In May, the EU softened its stance on gas trading restrictions, leading...

yes. the message is, if you lift the sanctions we send gas again. now impossible. the pipeline destruction is in the interest of those who wish German sanctions against Russia to continue, not in Russia's interest claim not proven claim not shown Kherson is not lost. Tors'ke is a big village...

it may be in the interest of some politicians one party campaigns on "don't freeze for idealism" against the sanctions that cut our gas supply, so many politicians are caught between voters who support Ukraine and sanctions, and voters who want gas. If the pipeline is inoperable, they can say...

it's the same deal, in principle, though as with lactose in the NZ example, there are different types of crude oil, and if a country is not equipped to refine that oil (e.g. Norway), they ship it to a place that is (e.g. UAE). from an article about the USA oil imports: “They spent billions of...

Source: https://www.oglaf.com/ (NSFW = cartoon nudity)

that makes sense if you dig deeper “New Zealand is very, very good at making some of the best lactose in the world, which is the basis of pretty much every pill. Every tablet, every pill, in the world is predominantly made from pharmaceutical grade lactose and New Zealand is one of the best...

Yes. All that proves is that people are quick to accuse Russia. I was trying to find news about the investigation, but couldn't. Russian gas giant Gazprom said it was pumping extra gas to Azerbaijan so that more could be sent to Georgia via different pipelines.

example: WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to pass a bill to slap sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline sponsored by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, a day after Democrats unveiled their own legislation. The tally was 55 in favor and 44 against the...

I couldn't find the exact commercial, but this one comes close: Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WeBqwTwSugw

no, that was entirely the point!

Side note: From the abstract: "We find no evidence that the provision of public transportation affects VKT." Germany had local public transport essentially free from June to August 2022, and preliminary data shows a congestion reduction of 20-30% in some areas. I believe this topic warrants...

yeah, if you ignore the method a researcher uses to arrive at a result, your crititism is likely to be meaningless From your excerpts, an elasticity greater 1.0 means more lanes generate disproportionally more traffic, i.e. traffic get worse than by 1:1 when you build more roads? have I got...

the pipeline damage lacks evidence the Russians have no motivation to destroy it you know who else had a fleet in the Baltic recently and hates Nordstream? the USA (The Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) left the Baltic on Thursday 22nd, if you...

failure to update one's position based on new facts coming to light is a hindrance for anyone searching after truth and understanding it's also a mark of true conspiracy theories, as they're set up to be unfalsifiable and thus never have to change majorly with new facts they simply adapt one...

the quotes are from when it was thought Trump would rush it before election day that did not happen

this is a fact President Donald Trump acknowledged the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic in a February interview with journalist Bob Woodward and acknowledged downplaying the threat in an interview a month later, according to an account of Woodward's new book. “I wanted to always play it...

Opinion! Your US distribution has 9 states over 10 million and 6 states under 1 million. France has 7 departements over 1.5 million and 5 under 150,000. (Data at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_departments_by_population ) In my opinion, the US population figures aren't that unusual.