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And to celebrate that fact, Europe is joining the US in imposing massive tariffs on China's electric vehicles and solar cells. Yay.

ISTG stands for It's Studio Giblets

Ironically this is probably made by Biden's team to scare people into voting Biden because those Russkis are tryin to steal our 'lection!

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

So instead of having people spend 60% of their income on housing we will have some slightly annoyed people who aren't in the neighborhood they want to be in, spending <20% of their income on housing. Sounds like an improvement to me.

I'm not your Buddy, Holly

When you decommodify a thing the state takes a role to ensure the good or service is provided to all. You can have a mixed system with private and public construction. But as long as there is a robust public housing sector, prices for all houses will be much lower than in the current system where we have scarcity.

Chunus v Jorch beard contest.

Sounds like he has Nosferatu plans

You aren't. There's more backstory.

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you'd be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

Then it's not getting the freshest photons.

Apple is also super good with software updates on old hardware.

Except for that time they deliberately slowed down older phones with software updates so people would buy new phones.

Went downstairs and had a cup

Municipal drinking water is tested multiple times per day in Toronto, as it should be. Testing once and assuming the complex machinery and chemical levels are the same a week later is pure folly.

Note that this is different from testing well water, which shouldn't change much. Testing well water once a year is a good idea though.

That was very amusing.

Reminds me of buying coffee at franchises in China. They won't take cash. You have to have the app, and the banking app.

I have to hand my phone to a coffee shop worker to scroll through infinite options and then look at my banking app because..... It's more convenient!!!

Yes, he is essentially pro Western which is why the NED funded the Levada center.

Putin had a meeting with the other candidates yesterday, by the way. I think that opposition is likely kept out of power by various means.

Especially important if the opposition is funded by the UK and US, like Navalny's Democratic Alternative. Navalny's highest national polling was 9% with many Russians unaware of who he is. He was a creation of the West, and an unsuccessful one at that.

The Russian communist party functions in Russia's political scene and gets some significant support from the population, though it is far less popular than Putin. We might consider them to function as controlled opposition.

But Putin himself doesn't control everything. Just read Medvedev's scathing speech criticizing him as Putin sat on the stage next to him.

We can criticize their system and say it isn't a fair system so that's why Putin is popular. But let's not pretend he isn't popular. And let's not forget that Putin brought Russia out of the economic collapse of the 90s and into the fifth largest economy. He did so by regaining state control of key industries that had been sold off cheaply in the 90s, under the direction of a team of Harvard economists via US NGOs.

Russians appreciate having jobs, housing and food which they didn't have when the country was sold out in the 90s. They credit Putin with putting the country back on its feet.

The point I'm making is that he is popular in Russia. Ergo, why wouldn't he get elected? And more specifically, his election result is exactly in line with the US-backed polling company prediction.

As for how he runs the country, whether there are lies, I'm not making a point on that.

We should question the original Western narratives about a stolen election when we can see the evidence of Putin's popularity. You can read articles in western media that affirm Putin is popular in Russia.