Nissan vanette and ford focus. Don’t miss either of those and have an automatic now. I still drive a friend’s van from time to time which has a clutch, whoch is good so I don’t forget how to drive it. Although it still feels completely natural since I drove manual for 2 decades.

I think you vastly underestimate the catch-22 Putin has steered Russia in. They’re not recovering from this economic disaster this century. They’re damned if they do (continue the war) and damned if they don’t. That’s also why NATO considers Russia a significant threat to regional stability even if the war were to end where they get everything they wanted. It’s a lose-lose situation for Russia, but continued aggression to keep the war economy going is currently the path of least resistance.

Infrastructure spending? This is Russia we are talking about. From every ruble spent by the government, at least 75% disappears if not more. The systemic corruption in Russia will obliterate any supposed advantage they have by ending the war.

And those foreign assets are only partially government assets. These include investment accounts of normal Russians, payment to companies that have been held back, etc… We are talking billions but Russia is bleeding billions every month now, and the release of those assets will only partially mitigate the unfolding souffle like collapse of the Russian economy. It’s not a sudden crash, just a general return to poverty.

A return of fossil fuel sales to prewar income would help, but I don’t see that happening as long as they occupy the Donbas and Crimea. Some sanctions will be lifted in case of a peace agreement but not even regime change will roll back all of the sanctions.

Except he does feel humiliation and I think he feels it more intense than most. I’m not a psychologist but it appears to me as one of his main motivations to do something. Because deep down he’s a deeply insecure little shit and all this strong man stuff is just a facade he puts up.

I would argue humiliation is what he fears above all else and that makes him lash out even stronger.

My honda civic has this perfectly balanced (this is a stock photo):

Beautiful, but is there really a difference in pronunciation of hose and dose? I always pronounce them similarly…

I still have a copy of wikipedia from 2021 somewhere on my NAS.

Megacancer balls

Sounds about right for average US bagel size.

It wasn’t a connecting flight.

Singapore doesn’t fuck around, which my cousin found out the hard way when he had to leave Australia after a year of travelling/working and he just took the cheapest flight (pretty much the only one he could afford) out of the country, which went to Singapore. Of course he had no clue about Singapore and when he arrived without a visum, they took him into custody and interrogated him for over 12 hours. After they put him on a plane home (in Europe). In the end he rode the cheapest flight out of Australia all the way home, so that did work out for him.

This is just one day. Most of these stocks are still up for the week.

If it comes, it comes. I have made my peace with the times we live in.

If he’s okay with it, I don’t see any issues.

Sure, but they also suffer the consequences of their own focus on pushing out more and more SUV’s instead of focusing on EV. Volkswagen actually made the correct choice going fully for EV’s, but then backtracked under shareholder pressure. And the EU as a whole failed to protect local battery production and technology, allowing itself (although this also goes for the US, Japan and South-Korea) to become completely dependent on Chinese raw materials refinement and battery production and technology.

China on the other hand, not suffering from fair and free elections, had a much easier time keeping its eye on the ball and sticking with a coherent long term vision.

That being said, I do think it’s good for Germany to become less dependent on their car industry. They have a lot of industries screaming for highly qualified employees and the car industry has been vacuuming up a majority of those. These people becoming available for other industries will provide significant benefits as well.

Idared and something similar to crimson crisp, but it’s not that one. Her dad says crimson red, but that doesn’t really exist. One last one that is also very similar and we will plant next year is a Slovak variety called Solivarské ušľachtilé (red noble apple tree).

I’m going to an apple (the fruit) exhibition this afternoon and my wife just asked me how much cash I have. I will be able to answer this later today.

Edit: we didn’t buy any because my wife just wanted to find out the names of the apples from her childhood. We found the names, but they weren’t selling those.

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Buying the blueprints would still remove the need for extensive testing, but you make a good point. After I posted the comment, I actually wondered about how hard it would be since there is so much information about nukes publicly available.

Well, France or the UK could also share their technology, or even Pakistan or India. I imagine it’s easier to buy the technology from an ally than developing it from scratch.