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@DearEdisson @wlemonesc So Ukraine was compromised since they accepted western aid therefore Russian was justified in its invasion because the Ukrainians had no sovereignty? And this violated the ssr’s understanding when the union broke up?

Russia respects sovereignty, and there have been no official statements on this topic. In 2008, there was a private conversation about sovereignty at the Bucharest Summit. However, at the official level, Russia has raised the issue of sovereignty in conversations with countries that have caused problems for Ukraine. This happened in Munich in 2007 and has been repeated several times. Russia has warned that such policies will lead to problems. However, its warnings have been ignored, and support has continued, leading to the erosion of sovereignty. Today, there is no trace of sovereignty left.

why does russia need crimea for a warm water port when they already have this part of the coastline 😭😭😭

@DearEdisson @wlemonesc That’s an interesting take. Was this assumption explicitly stated anywhere?

Because this is all our land historically, all the varieties of culture there are also ours. Ports have nothing to do with it at all. Russia took back the territories, since at the dissolution of the USSR it was assumed that all republics would become sovereign states. And all internal interests will be respected. In conditions when Ukraine solves the problems of Western countries for money, it is not sovereign - this is impossible. So everything goes back. And real Ukrainians with swastikas go to live in Lviv.

@TheElliottSmith @SBA_Kelly @USTreasury How were they predatory?

@SBA_Kelly @USTreasury These were everyday Americans who lost their businesses and personally guaranteed these predatory loans. You can spin this as fraud but er know this is the federal government failing millions of small business owners forcing them into bankruptcy.

Today, the SBA referred 562,000 borrowers to @USTreasury for collection on $22.2 BILLION in potentially fraudulent pandemic-era loans, marking the LARGEST debt referral in SBA history. The action ends a yearslong de facto amnesty scheme by the Biden SBA, which refused to refer the portfolio to either Treasury or DOJ, even though the loans were both delinquent and internally flagged for suspected fraud. Under the protection of the Biden Administration, none of the borrowers were compelled to repay their debts and fewer than 1,000 faced any inquiry from law enforcement until today. This historic referral would not have been possible without the strong support of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force. SBA is deeply grateful for the leadership of @VP, @AFergusonFTC, and the partnership of both Treasury and DOJ - which now has the files for review. At the SBA, we will continue working to claw back every dollar of PPP and COVID EIDL funding owed to American taxpayers. And we will work in lockstep with the Task Force to bring accountability to every criminal who defrauded America’s small businesses. foxbusiness.com/fox-news-polit…

@ruedaminute @catehall Huh. Is this a gender thing? In my experience you can just not talk and they won’t think anything of it or push. But I’m a man so maybe for barbers with primarily female clients it’s different?

@catehall it's a class thing. it's signifying that you don't want to talk to/relate to the people serving you. However, morally I don't think that's your problem here. If the salon offers it, and you want it I don't think that's on you. Perhaps on the salon owners.

friend says it is Bad to select this option ... but why have it at all if it's not okay? is this me being autistic?

@TimTrytitle @DirteeeMartini Why?

@DirteeeMartini This is likely illegal in the US

All public institutions (except, y'know, sperm banks) should convert their mens' bathrooms to unisex bathrooms. It's wholly allocatively inefficient not to. 50% womens', 50% unisex.

@catherine_zq @SAshworthHayes Are you saying this is a lot or a little?

@SAshworthHayes the commute in question

The headline is doing a lot of work to avoid saying "care worker who needs a translator to talk to journalists was offered a state-funded three-bed house and declined it because it involved moving 25 miles".

@shaunmeasom @ColeFusionHQ 20,000 is crazy. Even in car centric America we only average 12,200 miles. I have to wonder what percent of users this will even impact.

@ColeFusionHQ If you average 27 miles a day it comes to 9,855. Why should they be do high mileage on something that's supposed to benefit them by allowing them out & about? They certainly shouldn't be leaving the UK in it either. As a taxpayer I'm not here to pick up thier euro trip.

Motability covers 815,000 people and until July comes with a 20,000 mile annual allowance, nearly three times the UK average. Surely cutting it to 10,000 and removing free EU breakdown cover is a devastating assault on the vulnerable high-mileage driver.

@ValueCapperLV @janninereid1 Have you personally experienced the disruptions we’ve seen in the videos of carnival?

@janninereid1 I’m currently on my 23rd Carnival cruise…waiting to get off in Costa Rica. I’ve never had a problem with finding stuff to do on Carnival or the other cruise lines I’ve used. Cruising tip: the longer the cruise, the fewer problems you’ll encounter…nothing under a week!!

So, we've all seen the carnival cruise videos...yeah.😏 Well, the cruise line is making some big changes that may, in my opinion, actually make using their cruise ships a bit more doable. Here are some of those rule changes.👇

@HunterButOnTwt @markgadala For sure it adds up. But, from the article “overcharged concertgoers … by $1.72 per ticket … as a result of its anticompetitive behavior”. I read that to mean that if there were a fair market that ticket prices would have only been on average $1.72 less. Really???

@DoorBlueArrows @markgadala It’s an average, and applies to every single ticket - which is *a lot* in the last decade and change. It’ll add up.

This might be the most hated monopoly story in American history: • ticketmaster and live nation merge in 2010 and immediately control 80% of all concert ticketing in america like a perfectly normal company • spend the next 12 years charging whatever they want because there's literally nowhere else to go • taylor swift announces the eras tour in 2022, ticketmaster crashes under the load, 14 million fans can't get tickets • congress hauls CEO michael rapino in for a hearing like a mob boss in front of the senate • rapino apologizes, congress does nothing, ticketmaster raises fees anyway • the DOJ finally sues in 2024 • one week into trial trump's DOJ quietly settles for $280 million — about what ticketmaster makes in a slow quarter • 33 states say thanks but no thanks and take it to a jury anyway • rapino spends hours on the stand swearing he's not a monopolist • their lawyer's actual defense: "we are big. that is not against the laws in the united states." • jury deliberates 4 days • illegal monopoly. $1.72 overcharge on every single ticket

@ColeFusionHQ As an American, the greens now seem like a big tent party that hasn’t caught up to its new status. Housing cap plus open borders is batshit. Trying to appease everyone. They need to learn how to compromise internally.

Price controls on food. Rent controls on homes. Open borders with UBI from day one. A housing cap at 2010s build rates. Cap supply, cap prices, uncap demand. If anything can make life more affordable, then this will.

@fragrantmoment @megalodonultra Yes but age is not a protected characteristic for housing.

@megalodonultra Obviously the person who made the sign had a certain age group in mind

There are Fair Housing Act violations all over the place if just have the courage to see them.

@bbqrqb @DrAsifOfficial Which army?

@DrAsifOfficial Those who are slaves to the West are the ones who live in the West, just like you—you serve in the Western army, pay taxes to the West, and you’re a despicable person who attacks Muslim countries. (You stink; you drink alcohol at night and curse Muslims.)

Khaleejis are just secular, cultural ethnonationalist capitalists with little regard for Islam Only because they speak Arabic, we mustn't assume they have gheerah for the deen Perpetually feeling inferior to the white master, the level of appeasement to the West is embarrassing

@ShitpostRock2 We don’t have enough of them in America for there to be even a regional consensus. Proximity is why the south is the most racist against blacks and the border against Mexicans. I will say we do have them near me. They are well known for scams and stealing restaurant flatware.

I don't think people outside of Europe understand how bad gypsies are. The most liberal Europeans you will meet will have nothing but negative things to say about them An entire group of people who have done NOTHING in their history

@CutieMcKawaii @shumibomber4 Yea but said with an accent at least Japan and nippon sound similar. Idk wtf is going on with Germany.

@shumibomber4 It's a thing we do. We call it "Germany" they call it "Deutschland" Language is funny.

日本を英語にするとJAPANなのよく考えたら謎だな NIHON、NIPPONならともかくＪはどの辺から取ってきたんだ

@realCreabsley @kunley_drukpa If you disagree with what I said then why don’t you make an actual point instead of wasting everyone’s time.

@DoorBlueArrows @kunley_drukpa Read it again, and pretend you have an extra 20 IQ points, to get you to 75.

‘AFRICAN TIME’ AND WAITING FOR AFRICAN BUSES 🇲🇼 Bus stations are probably best place in Africa to experience ‘African Time’ - or at least the version of it where there is a sort of endless waiting for something to happen. What is important here is that in Africa many buses won’t leave until they are completely full. If you ask a bus driver “what time is the bus due to leave?” the answer will be “when it is full” and often in a confused tone as if the question was conceptually difficult to understand. So a lot of the time when you go to take a longer distance bus you have to go off vague hearsay that “it normally leaves about 6am”. Then you have to go to the ‘bus station’ - usually less a bus station more a busy dirt yard with a few Coca Cola vendors and corrugated shacks - a bit before that alleged departure time and sit down on the bus and wait the hour or two for it to fill. Reason you don’t go later when it is probably more full is that even though 80% of the time it fills up slowly the other 20% of the time it fills up quickly and then it leaves and then you miss the only bus of the day. Very time consuming way to travel, wastes a lot of time Wanted to travel by bus with friend between two cities in Malawi once so went to the dirt yard where the buses were. There was one bushvan bus heading to where we wanted to go but it was mostly empty excepted two people. Just had to suck it up because that’s how buses in Africa work. Go and sit down - an hour passed, two hours, three. No AC and hot sun sat in the dirty shantytown station. Bus was filling up at a rate of about three people an hour. After eight or so people had gotten on the original two people who had been sitting inside the bus since the beginning suddenly just got up and left. An African woman said they worked for the bus drivers pretending to be customers so that when customers were deciding whether to invest several hours to sit and wait for a bus to fill up they could look inside and see their bus was ‘already’ half full. Then when the fake passengers did get up and leave the real customers would have wasted so much time in the bus already that, sunk cost, it would be better just to wait a little longer instead of leaving and investing the time in finding another. A uniquely African kind of scam Wasn’t even as simple as the bus seats being full here either. As soon as the main seats were occupied the driver started putting down stools and trying to cram extra customers onto the bench seats. He wouldn’t leave until the bus was completely full. Told the driver that we would pay him the cost of a couple of extra seats if he left without waiting for the bus to fill up completely since it was taking so fucking long. He seemed enthusiastic about the prospect of taking more money but the concept of leaving without a full bus seemed to confuse him - as in he genuinely did not understand what we were asking. Unsure what he thought we were going to pay him for but the promise “we will pay for extra seats so we don’t have to wait until the bus is full until you leave, you can just leave” and “being able to leave without every seat full” was like trying to square a circle in his mind As it turned out we spent so long explaining the concept of ‘leaving without a full bus but you make the same amount of money’ to him that more customers entered during the time it took and it ended up being redundant. Of course he was still expecting the money so we had to explain why we weren’t going to pay him anymore. But he didn’t understand that concept immediately either and it ended up being even more of a waste of time just to convey the point [1/2]

@marschun @mil000 April fools day. But apparently he really did buy it so idk if he’s going to sell or what.

@mil000 What’s the complete context???anyone?

LTT is genuinely so screwed and I think he deeply regrets not being bought out

@HyperZLe @haruki839 Odd. Not true in my experience. I guess we are in different circles. I think it’s fair to say that it depends on where you are and who you’re with. I make 9/11 jokes at work and have no issues.

@haruki839 Don't listen to the Americans saying it's common to make 9/11 jokes. That is a phenomenon of social media, as making light of it the real world is unacceptable.

アメリカの人に温度感を伝えようとすると、「日本における原爆」は「アメリカにおける真珠湾」ではなく「アメリカにおける9.11」です。そのくらい現代日本において茶化すことが躊躇われます。9.11を茶化されて怒らない覚悟がない人は原爆ネタはやめておきましょう。本来不要なはずの喧嘩が生まれます。

@mattswaim @ManuForti00 The churches I’ve attended all generally use resurrection Sunday but aren’t sticklers about it and I’ve never heard them preach against not saying Easter. So not sure how strong the opinions are generally.

@DoorBlueArrows @ManuForti00 Yes, that was a thing even in my later Protestant experience in the 90's, but I've noticed it more and more in recent days Funnily enough, it's mostly just the English speaking Christian world that calls it Easter

If you're not Catholic or Orthodox and you celebrate Easter When are you celebrating it this year And how did you decide on the date