Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it
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He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
That lie is about the same level as kid caught with their fingers in the cookie jar. "No, I wasn't going to eat the cookie, I was saving it from you eating it in the future!".
I think we will be saved just in time by nuclear fusion and nobody will learn from this, just like nobody learned from COVID. The majority will probably shrug and go "see, wasn't that bad".
The world emitted half a billion tons more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in the year the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celsius was released.
I'm wheezing in my chair. This is hilarious. Sad, but hilarious. We're speed running our demise.
Now do Europe. How bad is it there?
It's worse than in the Netherlands??? I thought the Netherlands had a higher population density than the UK which would correlate with housing prices, but I guess something else is going on there.
The pirate hat sits well upon my head.
Easy: it's not first pass the post or "winner takes all". You have more variety in your parties and thus voters can identify more accurately with one. Of course there is still the problem of counting votes that isn't solved, as people can still vote more strategically instead of ideologically ("I'll vote for that party, because it's more likely to win against the big party I dislike").
Money cannot control every ideology.
My Lord, I had the distinct displeasure of being granted access to a few pre-mades. Not to be repeated
Why would you stop population decline though?
Did you read the article?
Lad