Well, yeah, because we've got twice that on stoves and 240 on regular outlets? So it's still just half of what most of Europe is using. Which would very well explain the difference in experiences.
I agree with a lot of that but honestly, what is the Russian capability currently to open up a new front anywhere if we are not talking nuclear war?
Sure they're prepared to waste a lot. But can they waste that much without getting into so severe issues that even their propaganda won't push through? Oh right, I forget, propaganda is basically for foreign states and domestically you can just use threats of violence and arrests.
Also "carrying capacity" is a poor way to talk about bad infrastructure.
The world isn't full. It's built wrong.
And what actions are those? Like partnering with the west to install a far-right regime?
Why would you partner with someone if you have direct access yourself?
but I wouldn't even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.
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Username does not check out. My crow friends love meatballs.
You're probably on that puny ~110-120 volt supply.
Electric isn't bad when there's enough of it.
I'm currently looking directly at a ~400 volt stove. (My sauna stove, not mainly for cooking, although grilling sausages in a sauna is not unheard of.) I think my cooking stove is on the same sort of high power supply though. And even the regular outlets are 240v.
If an empty bank account is unobserved, is it truly empty?
The amount of money I don't have remains the same, does it not?
Yeah I think we all do.
What was it I was watching, yeah, Momoa's new Hawai'i show, and it had a quote in it I found kinda nice: "men practice for war all their lives, yet fear being wrong more than death" or something to that effect.
It honestly do be crazy to me how much humanity is wasting on war.
because it just seems to be a catch-all for when they’ve
That's exactly what it is, actually. It's a diagnosis of exclusion. Ie when you've excluded "all you can think of" (=all they can be arsed with/you can afford) and you still have symptoms, you get IBS diagnosis.
I have it as well.
But IBS is a functional disorder of the large intestine, whereas most of the bad bowel movements I have are kinda orange-ish in colour and very often float. Which lead me to finding out about steatorrhea, having too much fat in your stool. Because that is more linked with small intestine disorders, like celiacs and NCGS.
So essentially I've been hurting from this since the 80's, literally, and the doctors have always either shrugged or just plain not given a fuck. Despite almost four decades of similar symptoms. But then last year I tried an exclusion diet, just rice, fish, potato and chicken, as they're all very low on allergens, especially if you leave out garlic and onions and other allergy-triggering spices.
For meds, the best I had at one point was Litalgin, but it was banned because it lowered white cells or some such. (It was known at the time I used it, you just had to check them regularly but now you can't get it anymore.) But also now that I've mangled my ribcage last year, I got amitriptylin for my ribs and while reading about it on Wikipedia, noticed it's also used for IBS when nothing else helps. And yeah, I think I'm in less pain (from that) than I was before starting it. But it does cause me quite heavy fatigue. Like as in I didn't have anywhere to be so I slept like 14 hours.
It's just so fucking annoying when the doctors are like playing tennis
"no this is a psychiatric thing!"
"nuh-uh, it's a somatic disorder!"
"no it's not, none of the labs are positive!"
"but this guy is clearly suffering and he isn't in any significant way psychiatrically sick so it must be somatic"
"but none of the tests show anything positive so it can't be somatic and thus must be psychosomatic!"
repeat ad nauseam for about thirty years
"Good"?
That's... putting it mildly. It was a straight-up landgrab, a classic war of aggression.
I know it’s not the most pro-Ukraine take out there, but what matters TO ME is that it is my genuine opinion and is consistent with my moral framework and understanding of reality
I think I believe you.
Yeah, that's a nice comment, and restores my faith in at least some Russians. Thanks. I'd love for the political divisions to just go away so we could actually enjoy each other's cultures. But as of now, eh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
I most certainly can say that I've formed my own opinions, yes. Having them has caused a lot of issues, but yeah, I can definitely say they're mine and I'm not just "going with it" in I hope anything I do. Well sometimes the thought-out thing is to "go with it" but that's a whole other issue that's not relevant politically, as in, I'm talking about using public transport basically, not conforming to fascist political ideologies.
Various other Russians on the platform, take heed
And you also have to manage politely telling them how silly they've been.
Once got a ticket for "a broken DVD-drive". Went on over. 'Twas a CD-drive.
"Well what was the issue, why didn't my DVD-drive work?"
"Well if you look real close, this is actually a CD drive and thus incapable of reading DVDs"
She took it well enough with humour. Some don't..