I watched Seinfeld and Frasier when I was in university and I absolutely loved both of those shows, despite how the leading actors have turned out to be.
Sometimes it's okay to live with a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Edit: Friends on the other hand was trite and full of stolen jokes, and mostly liberal nonsense.
For an outsider, it seems like Russia gets punished for the same crimes that other western nations have committed and continue to commit even today.
Europe and America still continue to support invasions and occupations in the middle east and hence these sanctions seems especially hipocritical.
My comment on colonialism was in response to you mentioning Russia's historical conquest of Eastern Europe. European countries were busy colonising other parts of the world during the same time so they're not better than Russia.
Yeah colonialism and military conquest is only bad when it's done to you, not when it's done by you.
And as for the Copenhagen criteria are there any metrics that can be used to determine whether a country is a functioning market economy or politically stable enough, or is it just a set of vague guidelines to keep the membership limited to whoever they like?
You're getting down voted only because most people on this platform are from US and Europe.
While I get what Putin is doing now is indefensible, I have not heard a single explanation as to why Russia has been excluded from NATO and EU. Nor have I understood the western paranoia regarding China. And all I can surmise from this is that US and Europe have continued their exploitation of poor countries through corporations and tried to exclude Russia, China and their allies from the global order.
Does this include the spending done on AI and data centers? Imagine the state of the economy if there wasn't a debt fuelled economic bubble floating around.
If the gross margins are higher on the GLP optimised Food options, the companies will be incentivised to sell more of those rather than conventional products. And more shelf space and ad space etc will be allocated to these too, making conventional products less readily available.
I believe all advertising exists to manipulate people. Behaviour change is a key aspect of marketing, from how things are kept at a store shelf, to putting the right hoarding on the right street, it's all done to guide consumer choice in a profitable way.
Advertising was never about giving you information, it was to make you feel cigarettes are cool or you need an more expensive toothbrush to be more confident. Advertising moved away from giving you information to 'connecting with consumers on an emotional level' decades before the Internet.
While yes information age has made advertising a lot more effective than it was 25 years ago, but brands were still trying to get you get the most money out of you back then, same as today, only their tools of doing so have improved vastly.
Thanks for the detailed response, I'll probably need to Google a bunch if stuff in here which I will.
But to the point that didn't make sense to you: The american economy is considered to be big/high growth simply because it's financial sector is so big. And yes this could mean it's markets are efficient, but efficient at what? Often it's trading stocks or debt instruments or some obscure financial instruments, and if that's the case then the size of the economy seems quite made up just like Elon's wealth.
Why does this headline imply that the news might be untrue?
I watched Seinfeld and Frasier when I was in university and I absolutely loved both of those shows, despite how the leading actors have turned out to be.
Sometimes it's okay to live with a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Edit: Friends on the other hand was trite and full of stolen jokes, and mostly liberal nonsense.
That's Dune for you.
I still see fewer NAS motherboard options on Aliexpress than a year ago.
ABCs, New and improved by AI™
That's fair i guess.
For an outsider, it seems like Russia gets punished for the same crimes that other western nations have committed and continue to commit even today. Europe and America still continue to support invasions and occupations in the middle east and hence these sanctions seems especially hipocritical.
My comment on colonialism was in response to you mentioning Russia's historical conquest of Eastern Europe. European countries were busy colonising other parts of the world during the same time so they're not better than Russia.
*cyclists whenever shimano drops a new upgrade to the same 10 speed derelliuer.
This is why Star Citizen keeps getting more and more funding.
Harry Potter was the Mr Beast of Millennial kids.
The protagonist and the villain are both top 1%ers with class consciousness.
Yeah colonialism and military conquest is only bad when it's done to you, not when it's done by you.
And as for the Copenhagen criteria are there any metrics that can be used to determine whether a country is a functioning market economy or politically stable enough, or is it just a set of vague guidelines to keep the membership limited to whoever they like?
You're getting down voted only because most people on this platform are from US and Europe.
While I get what Putin is doing now is indefensible, I have not heard a single explanation as to why Russia has been excluded from NATO and EU. Nor have I understood the western paranoia regarding China. And all I can surmise from this is that US and Europe have continued their exploitation of poor countries through corporations and tried to exclude Russia, China and their allies from the global order.
Does this include the spending done on AI and data centers? Imagine the state of the economy if there wasn't a debt fuelled economic bubble floating around.
Wealth and Asset Taxes now!
If the gross margins are higher on the GLP optimised Food options, the companies will be incentivised to sell more of those rather than conventional products. And more shelf space and ad space etc will be allocated to these too, making conventional products less readily available.
I believe all advertising exists to manipulate people. Behaviour change is a key aspect of marketing, from how things are kept at a store shelf, to putting the right hoarding on the right street, it's all done to guide consumer choice in a profitable way.
Advertising was never about giving you information, it was to make you feel cigarettes are cool or you need an more expensive toothbrush to be more confident. Advertising moved away from giving you information to 'connecting with consumers on an emotional level' decades before the Internet.
While yes information age has made advertising a lot more effective than it was 25 years ago, but brands were still trying to get you get the most money out of you back then, same as today, only their tools of doing so have improved vastly.
Yeah i guess when you stop looking at GDP as a real fact about the real world, then it makes more sense. That's funny 😂
Thanks for the detailed response, I'll probably need to Google a bunch if stuff in here which I will.
But to the point that didn't make sense to you: The american economy is considered to be big/high growth simply because it's financial sector is so big. And yes this could mean it's markets are efficient, but efficient at what? Often it's trading stocks or debt instruments or some obscure financial instruments, and if that's the case then the size of the economy seems quite made up just like Elon's wealth.