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>You seem to be suggesting that instead of elections, people can decide who their leader is by having a civil war instead.

That's not my position at all. You cut context.

>I don't think it is chauvinism to prefer a system where fewer people have to die to effect political change over one where inevitably many more people die.

You and I agree here.

Would you say Russia has free and fair elections? Their election only months ago did provide a supermajority of seats.

If yes, would you agree than the average Russian supports Putin and the war?

>This is a callous viewpoint. My heart goes out to the Russian citizens living in an effective dictatorship.

You call me callous, that's fine. It would seem others agree with you as I'm quite downvoted. I have a surprising number of Russian interests like Chess. The Russian chess community rejected this war.

We have to remember that our liberal democratic way isn't the only way. It is not our place to tell other countries how to run their countries. That is up to the Russian people to decide. Do they agree with Putin and if not, are they as strong as the Arabic people? Will they overthrow Putin?

Shrug? Russia can do whatever they like to their people. Not our place to tell them what's right or wrong in governing their own people. Our problem is the unjustified invasion of Ukraine.

I look at recent history and many Arabic people rose up against their governments. Those people are a strong people and they did it despite high risk of throwing their civilization into civil war or worse.

Canadians have been there to help refugees from those torn countries each time. We will be there to help Ukraine just as we did for Syrians.

As for Russia, we are done being lied to by them. We don't need any interaction with them anymore. They are completely blocked for the immoral and unethical invasion.

The best way to end the war is diplomacy and sanctions. Not making the war much deadlier and larger.

Ukraine didn't join military alliances. This isn't our war.

Russia has done lots of things before this, but they weren't invasion of a sovereign nation.

We don't approve of this war ethically or morally. Russia is no longer invited to be involved with us in any way.

For a long time the nimby and environmental folks have lobbied against nuclear power. You can look up their reasoning. Without nuclear, you are effectively arguing for coal or other fossil fuels.

Here in Ontario, canada we have no coal plants. We have some hydroelectric, but mostly nuclear. For every MW of renewables created, we have to build 1:1 parity for fossil fuel as we stopped building nuclear. So if the goal is to get to carbon neutral, we aren't doing it. Not even in the plans to get carbon neutral. Largely due to lack of nuclear. Now some environmentalists are arguing for nuclear power, very confusing.

I dont think we should build any more nuclear fission. The better future option is nuclear fusion. I realize we haven't quite figured that out, but lets build the first one and figure it out.

Title for me says: European shares and Wall Street futures drop after fire at Ukraine nuclear plant

I doubt NATO is considering a noflyzone and has declined.

First of all, why is there male and female to begin with? Why dont we just have non-discriminatory competitions? If the answer is that no women can compete against the top male competitors. There is a biological difference between the sexes.

There's 2 good videos on this subject.

Joe Rogan on Fallon Fox. This is his domain of expertise and he clearly argues that there are sports in which trans shouldn't be able to compete against women.

Neil Degrasse Tyson interviewed Joanna Harper on the subject of trans people competing against women in sports.

It certainly seems like society needs to discuss this issue and make some hard decisions.

>Not only does the position exist, but it's a good example of a false belief. Identifying and excluding such beliefs from public debate is very important.

Ukraine doesn't exist. This is all fake news by western countries to smear Russia.

Would you like to debate me on whether or not Ukraine exists?

No, that's not a real position to debate. Instead what the article is doing is no different than all the 'science deniers' stuff. How dare you deny the dogma of science!

>There are certainly people who think that Covid is a hoax. There aren't many, but they do exist.

Sure, but there's no point writing an article about such a non-existent position. Unless the point is to strawman. Which we have seen far too much of lately.

At what point do you as the nuclear plant operator consider chernobyl 2.0?

You know Russia would ultimately take the blame.

>502 Bad Gateway

I'm originally from the Detroit area. Naturally you have lots of factory mentality. Wherein workers will not work unless you're standing behind them whipping them. Largely speaking unions got very strong because these middle managers live and die by metrics they themselves dont control and can become brutal to their workers. Like for a long time you couldn't go to the washroom while at work. So what would people do? They took a dump right there on the job.

Somehow this is how managers are trained; and this is how you're expected to operate as a manager. Doesnt matter if you're white collar or any other collar. Your manager is expected and actively trained to micromanage you as often as possible. Your manager will come by hourly or so and look at or ask you what you're working on. They'll often input how you're doing it wrong... even if they have absolutely no chance of knowing how to do it properly. The bikeshedding becomes extreme. It mostly demotivates people to be responsible for everything and often 1 person ends up responsible for everything and that person takes all the heat from the manager.

Russian currency will eventually bounce back some as it trades into other asian currencies. Not to mention the currency is still backed effectively by natural resources. But nobody wants to rush to those exchanges because that currency is going to be wrecked. BUT there will be a firesale. Russian folks are going to be working for cheap and be dumping those resources to maintain.

There's going to be a ton of due diligence on all these. Eventually it will be determined that Russia didn't intend to do it. It was some newb who shouldn't have shot. Won't matter. Eventually Article 5 will be triggered by Russia. That's the problem about the fog of war.

Recently had a co-op who would argue with you about literally anything; even if they were literally just wrong.

Something went down, contact X.

Coop: X isn't the same company. It should be Y.

No seriously, same person. Contact either will be same person.

Coop: Same name, different people. I need contact information for X.

No seriously, same person.

Coop: I called some absolutely third party and they didnt know who I was talking about.

So what are you going to do now? You really need to contact X. The sooner the better.