Same, although instead of chapo I was one of the "Bernie bros" on Facebook in 2020.

The US Midwest, as well as much of Canada, is built like that. Winters are long and cold, so houses are more or less built to keep heat in, but not to keep heat out, or cool down quickly once hot. I say more or less because historically energy has been so cheap that instead of properly insulating like people do in Europe for example, many just turn up the heat in winter. So even when people can afford to buy and run an AC unit and the power grid cooperates, the AC can often only cool one room, and maybe not even quite handle that sufficiently.

In historically temperate areas like the pacific northwest, homes aren't really built with extreme temperatures in mind, so anything outside of the usual 5-25°C range is very uncomfortable very quickly.

Many of us are here cause r/GenZedong got quarantined two years ago for the crime of being honest and popular. Not that gz was exclusively about China, but it was one of the few spaces you could be on reddit where "China good actually" didn't get you immediately dogpiled and likely banned.

Blackrock has $10T of assets managed vs. Blackstone's $1T, so definitely not smaller. They just have different focuses (real estate and private equity for Blackstone, and traditional stocks for Blackrock), and have been separate companies for a while.

We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

We also have no idea as to why quality engineers are turning up dead.

Thanks for your professional input, I really appreciate it.

Your last paragraph is especially important. I overlooked that part, although it's obvious in retrospect.

Just wait until the then-president pulls a Trudeau (Senior) by declaring martial law to put an end to the separatists.

In case you didn't know, there's a browser plug-in called Sponsorblock which help skip those in-video ad segments. It relies on user input to work, so someone has to watch the video and timestamp the ad segments and maybe a couple other important points in the video, but it works really well most of the time.

Ah yes, the age old crime of "spamming" news on a ... checks the title ... news forum.

There's an argument to be made there. In terms of the lived reality in the Baltics that's entirely likely. In terms of the second point though, the portrayal of westernized, there just isn't as much media or political attention on the Baltic countries in the US. In Europe there is some, given Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are EU members, but that's more on a dry international relations level.

This may just be my subjective take on it all though.

That's fair. I also didn't mean to imply that anti-depressants aren't currently without value. Even just speaking from personal experience, my family would look a lot different without them.

I always wonder if anti-depressants would even be necessary in a people's state on its way to communism.

My take on it was that they're hoping for another Yeltsin, someone who will ring the NYSE bell just like Zelenskyy and announce that Russia is for sale.

All of the US officials and thought leaders in the international politics sphere at that time knew what NATO expansion would mean and knew what concerns USSR/Russia had, and at least publicly took them seriously. I'm not coming with the exact names now, but it was types like Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Mearsheimer, etc. There's even a white paper from one of them, probably during the Clinton administration, discussing how a proposed expansion is playing with fire and should not be considered.

The agreement at the time, which IIRC the West German chancellor confirmed, was that NATO would expand eastward in that the DDR would be taken over by the BRD, but beyond that the alliance would move no closer to Russia.

In terms of the mainstream economic metrics liberal economists always like to cite, Ukraine is the worst performing nation in the world since the Yeltsin coup. You can even ignore the last four years to take the war and covid out of the picture, the story remains the same.

Out of all the formerly Soviet states, Ukraine is the closest to the US, is portrayed as being the most "western," and is the one which gave up its resources to western [allied] kleptocrats.

Meanwhile the post Soviet states which kept some level of resource and economic nationalism, and while capitalist at least have a national bourgeoisie rather than an Atlanticist one, are much better off in terms of their real economies and sovereignty.

The US debt is meaningless so long as the USD remains the global reserve currency. With the current trends of dedollarization that may not last for much longer.

It may be a splitting of hairs as well, but I would argue that domestic US financial policy vis a vis US workers has been austere for fifty years. Expenditures on private industry only grow, while any and all services for the services for the people are ruthlessly cut.

I usually look through a few reviews, both on computer journalism sites and forums for real world experiences.

This one seems perfectly sufficient, especially for the price. Won't break any records, but it's not supposed to. It's better suited as a secondary storage drive though, there are better options out there in terms of an SSD to install your OS to, specifically ones with some DRAM cache and a higher TBW.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p3-ssd-review

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/crucial-p3

Turkish Missile Crisis Part Two: Ukranian Escalation Boogaloo

Let's roughly estimate it at one trillon US dollars per year.

I'm surprised a Jason Kenney vanity project actually got finished.