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Ukranian grain is cheaper and undercuts local growers.

Western officials press Ukraine to hold elections despite war -- Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/24/ukraine-elections-war-russia-west/ My question is, how do you hold elections when millions of voters are behind Russian lines? If anything, the people whose opinion...

The counter-offensive started about two months ago. There's another 2-3 months before bad weather returns. It's half time for this season of fighting, and the score is 0-0. We can draw some conclusions from this, but it would be unfounded to assume the second half of the fighting season will go...

If it's the same, it's not much of a defense to insist you're merely repeating other's catastrophic mistakes.

It was a really bad idea to go from the profound emotional destruction of Oppenheimer to a theatre full of excited girls.

Dysphoria / euphoria are probably two sides of the same coin. They're a difference of language, and ultimately can't be reconciled any better than the old philosophical question of if you and I see colour the same way. I think you're looking at this with a bias in how you view harm. Your...

It would be a lot more helpful if you would take the extra step of picking one of those videos and providing a link to it. YouTube's algorithm gives everyone different results. I have no idea which of those videos you read.

This list has very little LGBT representation and not a single sapphic story! Edit: the Handmaiden is apparently sapphic, I haven't seen it before and I missed it!

No poll option for split affiliation? My dad renounced Democrats after Carter's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis. My mom is a left-leaning independent, who may have voted Republican every so often earlier in life, but now would never. I'm conservative by disposition, leftist by experience.

Both! Going to see Oppenheimer first, with Barbie as an existentialist pallet cleanser

I don't disagree, but I'd also add that it doesn't have to be tragic. If it were a recognized condition that had decades of research behind it indicating that giving people fins made their lives better, I'd say give those people fins.

What of the population that weren't ethnic Russian, or the population of ethnic Russians who had a pro-European outlook, or of the ethnic Russians who didn't care strongly and would rather their homes not be turned into a battlefield? If you were to wager a guess, how many ethnic Russians in...

Was there no room in Russia?

I think something is being lost in translation. In English, "public use" doesn't mean the same thing as "using in public."

After more searching, I've discovered other pieces in this pattern like a mug and this pitcher: Sold in 2021 for $99 US I went back to value village to make sure I didn't overlook matching pieces. Alas, nothing else there. On my way out though, I came across two vacuum tube radios, one from...