My first weeks were somewhat different - untypically good mood, often giggling about trivial stuff and telling stupid jokes to my coworkers, but not caring much about anything at all. I guess this is how dope smokers feel like when they are high. It was fun while it lasted.
And it is awesome - not only there would be less air polution, but also less noise pollution. A diesel bus is loud. I just hope that garbage collecting trucks will soon also be fully electric or at least hybrid - it makes a lot of sense because of the constant stop and go, and even hybrids are much quieter than normal diesel trucks.
It is an improvement. Given the choice of sitting around all day and feeling like shit or sitting around all day and feeling okay, I'd always go for the latter. I lost motivation years before starting taking SSRI.
Kosovo is an independent country the same way Abchasia is an independent country - in name only. It is a puppet state controlled by Albanian mafia.
It is only in the last 20 years that the emergency medicine has improved so much as to really make a substantial difference there
This is also not correct - for example more soldiers participating in the Crimean war were killed by cholera than by weapons. Typhus was rampant among soldiers during the WW1. The use of antibiotics made wounds far less likely to be deadly and so did blood transfusions that were perfected by the 1960ies.
As for the Taiping rebellion - true, I guess I am too eurocentric. But there was a reason that WW1 was supposed to be the war to end all wars - never before Europe has been that ravaged and only WW2 topped that, so the wars in Yugoslavia or all the conflicts which resulted from the breakup of the USSR were small potatoes in comparison because of the far smaller scale.
Hahaha seriously? Might still makes right and most of the time countries that wage war don't even bother finding excuses. Best case they call it a police action, which is a perversion of the term.
East Timor is the only example of a reverted annexation from that list, and it took an armed separatist rebellion to do that - so much for the multitude you have claimed. The part with fewer people dying is only true because WW1 and WW2 set the "standards" so ridiculously high. Well, that and better medical support. Compared to the 19th century wars the second half of the 20th century is pretty much competitive.
Oh, I can find you several annexations in the past 50 years, no problem. Albania basically annexed Kosovo from Serbia, Israel annexed the Golan heights from Syria, Armenia annexed parts of Azerbaijan, India annexed Goa, China annexed Tibet, Indonesia annexed East Timor and so on. Even the German reunion wasn't an actual reunion, it was an annexation of GDR by FRG, albeit a peaceful one. Besides, there has been a shitload of wars since WW2, just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they did not happen. Peaceful my fat arse.
Just to clarify, you want to sanction the USA until they return Texas and California to Mexico? Or maybe the UK until they return Gibraltar to Spain? Poland and Russia until they return East Prussia to Germany? Germany until we give Schleswig-Holstein back to Denmark? Shit, I can go on and on and on. You won't believe just how many countries have annexed parts of other countries in the past.
Well, if we go by the GP's logic ("There is no need to placate the Russians. They have a GDP lower than Italy") then who cares about the Baltic states? They together have a GDP lower than Hamburg.
Ah, the Ukrainian dumbass is back. Now he is too stupid to realise that a drought in one place doesn't mean a drought elsewhere. Let ke explain it so you can understand: Frankfurt am Main is on the roughly same latitude as Kharkov, but when they had -20 degrees Celsius and a shitload of snow, we had +8 and a drizzle, which is, by the way, not how a winter is supposed to be in Germany. It has been years since we had snow for longer than a couple of days. Last January I saw birds trying to find food for their chicks. In January. That is global warming, dumbass.
Not really, because the untaxed amount of wages is usually coupled to the existence minimum, which is coupled to the standard welfare amount, which is - wait for it - the same amount of money that is the basic income. So, for the employed nothing changes, but unemployed and underemployed get their welfare money with no additional hassle and the cities need fewer civil servants to process all this. It also means that studens can concentrate on the studies instead of getting a part time job, finishing faster, which, in a country with a right to an education, actually might save money.
Read TFA carefully. The basic income is set at one single precise amount for everyone and with no strings attached. That is what a universal basic income is.
Simply because the basic income is very low. 560 Euros won't go far in Finland, which is a very expensive country to live in. You seriously won't work ever again if you get a basic income of $400 or so? My unemployment benefits were thrice as much about a decade ago and I live in Germany where the cost of living is way lower than in Finland, but still I have looked for a new job (and found it and am still employed there). I used to live on what amounts to a Finnish basic income as a student and it wasn't fun at all. Never again.
Well, only if you consider 50 times the normal thyroid cancer rate being harmless. But what would I know, I only had a girlfriend from Belarus who had her thyroid removed thanks to Chernobyl.
Not quite true. The sanctioned products still enter the Russian market - via Belarus, where the products get relabeled as local produce and then resold to Russia at a premium.
I get it, you are a polack swelling from nationalistic pride. Because what Poland has is a bunch of old German tanks that Germany gave them for free because it was cheaper than dismantling and a bunch of slightly modified T-72M (where the "m" stands for "monkey model"). Nobody takes them seriously because basically the only reason polacks can afford playing soldiers is that they are the largest receiver of the EU subsidies. Without them Poland would have no army to speak of.
US Navy never had a reactor accident not only because of the training but also because of a quite different reactor construction, generally quite small reactors built from prohibitively expensive materials and ridiculously high fuel enrichment (nuclear submarines run on almost pure U-235). Naval reactors are also refueled just once or twice in their (rather short) lifetime. Nuclear propulsion works, but it is so expensive that only a military organisation with basically limitless funding can afford it. Civilian nuclear propulsion won't ever happen, icebreakers are the only exception.
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My first weeks were somewhat different - untypically good mood, often giggling about trivial stuff and telling stupid jokes to my coworkers, but not caring much about anything at all. I guess this is how dope smokers feel like when they are high.
It was fun while it lasted.
And it is awesome - not only there would be less air polution, but also less noise pollution. A diesel bus is loud.
I just hope that garbage collecting trucks will soon also be fully electric or at least hybrid - it makes a lot of sense because of the constant stop and go, and even hybrids are much quieter than normal diesel trucks.
So by your logic you will be okay with Russia keeping Crimea after a few decades pass? Hypocrite.
It is an improvement. Given the choice of sitting around all day and feeling like shit or sitting around all day and feeling okay, I'd always go for the latter.
I lost motivation years before starting taking SSRI.
Hear hear.
I start to seriously miss the 1990ies web, with frames, the blink tag, and netscape now buttons.
Kosovo is an independent country the same way Abchasia is an independent country - in name only. It is a puppet state controlled by Albanian mafia.
This is also not correct - for example more soldiers participating in the Crimean war were killed by cholera than by weapons. Typhus was rampant among soldiers during the WW1. The use of antibiotics made wounds far less likely to be deadly and so did blood transfusions that were perfected by the 1960ies.
As for the Taiping rebellion - true, I guess I am too eurocentric. But there was a reason that WW1 was supposed to be the war to end all wars - never before Europe has been that ravaged and only WW2 topped that, so the wars in Yugoslavia or all the conflicts which resulted from the breakup of the USSR were small potatoes in comparison because of the far smaller scale.
Hahaha seriously? Might still makes right and most of the time countries that wage war don't even bother finding excuses. Best case they call it a police action, which is a perversion of the term.
East Timor is the only example of a reverted annexation from that list, and it took an armed separatist rebellion to do that - so much for the multitude you have claimed.
The part with fewer people dying is only true because WW1 and WW2 set the "standards" so ridiculously high. Well, that and better medical support. Compared to the 19th century wars the second half of the 20th century is pretty much competitive.
Oh, I can find you several annexations in the past 50 years, no problem. Albania basically annexed Kosovo from Serbia, Israel annexed the Golan heights from Syria, Armenia annexed parts of Azerbaijan, India annexed Goa, China annexed Tibet, Indonesia annexed East Timor and so on.
Even the German reunion wasn't an actual reunion, it was an annexation of GDR by FRG, albeit a peaceful one.
Besides, there has been a shitload of wars since WW2, just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they did not happen. Peaceful my fat arse.
Just to clarify, you want to sanction the USA until they return Texas and California to Mexico? Or maybe the UK until they return Gibraltar to Spain? Poland and Russia until they return East Prussia to Germany? Germany until we give Schleswig-Holstein back to Denmark? Shit, I can go on and on and on. You won't believe just how many countries have annexed parts of other countries in the past.
Well, if we go by the GP's logic ("There is no need to placate the Russians. They have a GDP lower than Italy") then who cares about the Baltic states? They together have a GDP lower than Hamburg.
Ah, the Ukrainian dumbass is back. Now he is too stupid to realise that a drought in one place doesn't mean a drought elsewhere. Let ke explain it so you can understand: Frankfurt am Main is on the roughly same latitude as Kharkov, but when they had -20 degrees Celsius and a shitload of snow, we had +8 and a drizzle, which is, by the way, not how a winter is supposed to be in Germany. It has been years since we had snow for longer than a couple of days. Last January I saw birds trying to find food for their chicks. In January. That is global warming, dumbass.
That is a seriously scary picture.
Elon Musk is working on building a JC Denton.
Not really, because the untaxed amount of wages is usually coupled to the existence minimum, which is coupled to the standard welfare amount, which is - wait for it - the same amount of money that is the basic income. So, for the employed nothing changes, but unemployed and underemployed get their welfare money with no additional hassle and the cities need fewer civil servants to process all this. It also means that studens can concentrate on the studies instead of getting a part time job, finishing faster, which, in a country with a right to an education, actually might save money.
Read TFA carefully. The basic income is set at one single precise amount for everyone and with no strings attached. That is what a universal basic income is.
Let me guess - the last time you have used windows was in the past century?
It is similar to current welfare programs, just with far less bureaucracy and humiliation attached to it, that's all.
Simply because the basic income is very low. 560 Euros won't go far in Finland, which is a very expensive country to live in. You seriously won't work ever again if you get a basic income of $400 or so? My unemployment benefits were thrice as much about a decade ago and I live in Germany where the cost of living is way lower than in Finland, but still I have looked for a new job (and found it and am still employed there). I used to live on what amounts to a Finnish basic income as a student and it wasn't fun at all. Never again.
Well, only if you consider 50 times the normal thyroid cancer rate being harmless. But what would I know, I only had a girlfriend from Belarus who had her thyroid removed thanks to Chernobyl.
Not quite true. The sanctioned products still enter the Russian market - via Belarus, where the products get relabeled as local produce and then resold to Russia at a premium.
I get it, you are a polack swelling from nationalistic pride. Because what Poland has is a bunch of old German tanks that Germany gave them for free because it was cheaper than dismantling and a bunch of slightly modified T-72M (where the "m" stands for "monkey model"). Nobody takes them seriously because basically the only reason polacks can afford playing soldiers is that they are the largest receiver of the EU subsidies. Without them Poland would have no army to speak of.
Why not adding buckwheat? The effect should be similar, but for a way lower price (in Germany at least, buckwheat is seriously cheaper than quinoa)
Poland?! What are you smoking?
US Navy never had a reactor accident not only because of the training but also because of a quite different reactor construction, generally quite small reactors built from prohibitively expensive materials and ridiculously high fuel enrichment (nuclear submarines run on almost pure U-235).
Naval reactors are also refueled just once or twice in their (rather short) lifetime. Nuclear propulsion works, but it is so expensive that only a military organisation with basically limitless funding can afford it. Civilian nuclear propulsion won't ever happen, icebreakers are the only exception.