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[Gwadien]

Did you miss all the protests?

I'm talking about Putin not Mr Belarus.

Also, distracting the population from an internal issue with an external issue is pretty common with these dudes, I just think we should step lightly so we don't just fuel a bonfire they're setting up.

 

[Wij]

I'm talking about Putin not Mr Belarus.

So was I.

 

[DaGaffer]

I don't get why we don't just completely isolate these fucking shit pot countries. Well I do know, $$$

Oh, all that wealth stored in the west? Cancer research are very grateful, thank you.

Same with the Saudis. What's that, you persecute the gays? Thanks for the cash!

In the case of Russia its because the Germans gave them a gun (natural gas supplies) and the Russians put it to their head. Add in Germany's knee-jerk decision to de-nuclearise after Fukushima, and it just got worse. HOWEVER, the reliance on Russian gas is going away year on year; although the volume is staying about the same, its dropped from 20%+ of Germany's needs in 2011 to under 14% in 2020, but that's still significant (especially because without it they can' t close off coal and nuclear on time).

If the EU could bin off Russian gas quickly you'd see far more severe sanctions against Putin (and Belarus is just his lapdog) but without that I'm afraid we'll just get huffing and puffing and little else, at a time when they're doing shit that would be enough to start wars in days gone by; Russian hackers bringing down the health system of a sovereign nation and international piracy from Belarus (if you've ever read about the Trent Affair during the American Civil War, its not unlike what happened yesterday and Britain nearly went to war over that).

 

[Hawkwind]

Having effectively broken the 'Chigao Accords' Belarus could be banned from international aviation. Depends on what the member countries will allow to happen. I think they have to be seen to do something.

 

[Wij]

The Belarus KGB wouldn’t do anything like this without approval from Russia. They should be punished too.

 

[Wij]

Cancel Nord Stream 2 now tbh.

 

[Moriath]

View: https://twitter.com/CleverTitleTK/status/1396635919910854659


we should live like this all the time. Its better for the environment and its better for us. As long as you are not a social butterfly

 

[Raven]

Yeah, no, let's not

 

[Aoami]

View: https://twitter.com/CleverTitleTK/status/1396635919910854659


we should live like this all the time. Its better for the environment and its better for us. As long as you are not a social butterfly

lol

 

[Embattle]

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1396763211270086660

 

[Embattle]

Dunno about you but I'm convinced...not:

UN Security Council to hold 'closed door' meeting on Belarus plane

The UN Security Council is set to hold a closed door meeting on Belarus' diversion of a Ryanair plane. France, Ireland and Estonia will raise the issue.

www.euronews.com

 

[Embattle]

Missing man found dead inside Spanish dinosaur statue

Police say it’s likely the 39-year-old got stuck trying to retrieve his mobile phone after dropping it

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

we should live like this all the time. Its better for the environment and its better for us. As long as you are not a social butterfly

Pretty much everyone on the planet but you is a social butterfly m8. Sorry to burst your bubble.

There's lots of things I'd put a stop to immediately and unapologetically if I had the power to do so. But curbing human interaction would definitely not be on that radar. It's part of us as an animal - and curbing that would be an act of self-harm and self-hate for the vast majority of us.

 

[Raven]

UK airlines told to avoid Belarusian airspace after journalist arrest

Britain says carriers should by-pass Belarus after a flight was diverted to Minsk and a journalist held.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Lamp]

Game Show Host: Which of the senses is affected by Heterochromia iridium?

Blonde Contestant: Lungs



(Correct Answer: Eyes. Different coloured eyes)

 

[Scouse]

This is cool. Makes you wonder why we don't rebalance our economies to value intellectual advancement and science instead of megayachts for the rich:

Algae proteins partially restore man's sight

The patient was completely blind before the treatment - now he can see and count objects on a table.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Raven]

The Victorian era called

Florida high school alters 80 'immodest' yearbook photos of students

Eighty students had yearbook photos edited without their consent to hide their chests and shoulders.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

If it wasn't for the fact that the fashion industry fucks kids up (especially poor ones who's parents can't afford to follow fads) I'd scrap all clothing standards and requirements for schools.

It's just another form of normalisation and repression.

 

[Gwadien]

The Victorian era called

Florida high school alters 80 'immodest' yearbook photos of students

Eighty students had yearbook photos edited without their consent to hide their chests and shoulders.

www.bbc.co.uk

I could possibly maybe understand this.

However according to the article there's pictures of lads in speedos for diving etc.

Lol.

 

[Gwadien]

Lol

'French fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault is the world's richest person this Monday morning, with an estimated net worth of $186.3 billion—putting him $300 million above Jeff Bezos, who is worth $186 billion, and Elon Musk, worth $147.3 billion.'

When '.3' is $300million.

Lol

 

[Scouse]

I'd definitely put a personal ceiling of wealth at 1bn.

The rest should be going into health, education & research and environment.

 

[Gwadien]

I'd definitely put a personal ceiling of wealth at 1bn.

The rest should be going into health, education & research and environment.

Yeah but that discourages people being entrepreneurs or something herp derp.

 

[Scouse]

Yeah but that discourages people being entrepreneurs or something herp derp.

Yeah. It's amazing the bullshit billionaires and their government apologists come up with.

It's even more amazing that the idiot public swallows it.

 

[DaGaffer]

I'd definitely put a personal ceiling of wealth at 1bn.

The rest should be going into health, education & research and environment.

But...think of the yacht builders! Why won't anyone think OF THE YACHT BUILDERS?

 

[Scouse]

But...think of the yacht builders! Why won't anyone think OF THE YACHT BUILDERS?

First thing that came to my mind was that apparently Bezos is having a paddock for his horses built on his megayacht.

I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But I suspect I'm not.

 

[Gwadien]

What about the hundreds of thousands of people that they employ? Argghhh!!!!

 

[Scouse]

What about the hundreds of thousands of people that they employ? Argghhh!!!!

Who'd be gainfully employed in other areas when the 185 billion of additional funding got taken off Jeff and put to work doing 'public good' - rather than sitting, useless, swelling Bezos' coffers...

...of course, he'd still be a billionaire...

 

[Gwadien]

I think the thing gets me the most about all this is the differential treatment by 'the authorities' from taxation to getting warehouse rent for peanuts because 'they provide employment'.

We're really trying to make businesses so big that they can't fail - problem is that they all mostly do at some stage and the bigger they are the harder they fall.

 

[Embattle]

I wouldn't disagree with any one who said it is a sickening amount of money, or should I say worth, but the problem is and always has been is how are you going to get it and no matter how much some people whinge people still haven't come up with a single workable way to get it.

 

[Raven]

Mostly through taxation I would imagine.

But it's still middle class people complaining about money It's all relative.