And what possible way has Ukraine lost this war?

Russia’s goal was to topple Ukrainian government and see his complete control over the entire country in 3 days.

Here we are, 3 years into the war and Russia has lost something like 14,000 vehicles, over half a million casualties, and what have they achieved exactly?

Besides turtle tank technology of course.

Every advanced country is going to have population decline, as most women don’t actually want to have kids. Or at least have enough kids to maintain the current population levels.

Isn’t it already?

Stuff? That isn’t very much money. Our monthly grocery bill alone is over $1,000. Plus rent. Plus car payments. Insurance. We’re already over $5,000 a month.

I don’t know what to tell you, but I work in business in the US and work in invoicing in the construction industry.

Everything is done via paper, full stop.

Bank transfers do not generate invoices, full stop. Company to company payments are made using a PO or check. Nothing else, in my experience, are accepted.

These are for amounts of $1 to tens of millions of $$$.

You can over $5000 in cash with you at all times???

Also, most all US small to mid sized business transactions are by check.

I’m not going to take a suitcase with over $10,000 to the city to pay a permit fee, or $50,000 Venmo to pay a business partner.

Unless you are in the marijuana industry, then you have to…

Man, I would never pay rent or a mortgage payment with a deposit. I did that once, and they claimed I didn’t pay several times, and I had no receipt. I had to pay my bank $20 to provide proof of deposit (several times) Fuck that. Also fuck US Bank.

Yes, my wife and my employers both pay using checks as well as printed invoices after direct deposits.

My entire family uses checks to pay each other. I’m not going to Venmo my dad $15,000. And his back doesn’t let me transfer funds to him for since idiotic reason.

He must have been homeless his entire adult life.

I’m mid 40s and didn’t get a credit card until I was 25. And I couldn’t even pay for any utilities, rent or car payments with it. And still can’t. Online bill pay wasn’t a thing until like after the recession.

Quiet and no IR signature. Run electronics for days or weeks without generating IR signatures.

Conflating Bellingcat with the CIA is a hilariously bad take.

“Last year marked the final year of project funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that provided funding for Russian-language workshops at no cost to journalists and human rights researchers based in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We continued our project for the Swedish Postcode Lottery (SPL), which among others supported free trainings on ideological extremism for organisations in Europe.”

You seem to be misinformed. Also, provide proof that the NED is CIA, because that is quite a claim!

That is however a claim promulgated by the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist State:

The United States has long used democracy as a tool and a weapon to undermine democracy in the name of democracy, to incite division and confrontation, and to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs, causing catastrophic consequences.

Link: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202205/t20220507_10683090.html

Thats a great way to potentiall electrocute yourself.

Honestly, Americans could stand to eat a little less than they have been. Like yes, skipping dessert. Americans gained what, an average of 40 pounds during the pandemic? And those pounds never went away either. Personally, I went from 165 to 180. >:(

Does this include google assistant making robocalls or answering my phone on my behalf? I sometimes use it to setup hair cut appointments.

I believe they still make the probes and rovers.

Well, my family is doing our part. We went from 8 people three generations ago on my dad’s side to just one. My wife and I had one son. Everyone else on that side of the family had no children.

My family is definitely an outlier… There were a lot of DINKs and so-called urban professionals who decided not to have kids. Honestly it feels kind of weird now that my parents are in their '70s, as Holidays are now just my wife, my son and myself. We don’t have a family to have a reunion with.

This is the same guy who had the Nazi campaign video posted on his campaign website? Just checking

The US just vetoed a ceasefire agreement in the UN security council.

That’s not bad. Mine was - day one: a little tired and things taste funny.

Day two through 10: slept 23 hours a day and ate food in the 1 hour I was awake.