That's Putin's doing. His bluff was strong and he had a big pile of material, so the West is using a Russia technique known as the salami slice method, by slowly escalating and gauging the reaction from Putin. It means no world war 3 scenario, no allies that have to come to his defense and also not letting Putin taking whatever he wants with just bluff and threatening speeches. It is costly in lives and material though.
They'll give it all the social interaction and wisdom scraped from YouTube clips.
For even more fun, add in the children of Gaza wanting to escalate upward in the same way as Israel did and Iran becoming a nuclear power. If those two things ever combine things can get very ugly.
You don't want to stop a war of your job and status depend on that war continuing
Same with water usage. Everybody has to reduce water, not wash cars while industry and agriculture who use like ¾ of the water don't do anything
Usually people will work less hard to save some energy for that extra day of work they have to do.
€15.99 for three pizza with free delivery and a €3 discount for picking it up yourself. It's s weird way to say €12.99 and €3 for delivery
Seems more general an issue with wealth distribution
"the subspace equivalent of loud bangs and black smoke" ~Iain M. Banks
“The year is 50 B.C. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well not entirely! One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders."
Sorry, first thing this reminded me of.
And unskippable ads in solitaire
I know of one, PAL-V, that is a flying car that is street legal and can be ordered right now. It's 500 grand and needs a pilot license. Those flying cars are not for the poor.