And what possible way has Ukraine lost this war?

Russia’s goal was to topple Ukrainian government and see his complete control over the entire country in 3 days.

Here we are, 3 years into the war and Russia has lost something like 14,000 vehicles, over half a million casualties, and what have they achieved exactly?

Besides turtle tank technology of course.

Fun fact, there are over 5 billion tons of naturally occurring uranium dissolved in the ocean.

More accurately, this would be like if the United States conducted a drone strike on a Mexican taco stand in Tijuana.

Conflating Bellingcat with the CIA is a hilariously bad take.

“Last year marked the final year of project funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that provided funding for Russian-language workshops at no cost to journalists and human rights researchers based in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We continued our project for the Swedish Postcode Lottery (SPL), which among others supported free trainings on ideological extremism for organisations in Europe.”

You seem to be misinformed. Also, provide proof that the NED is CIA, because that is quite a claim!

That is however a claim promulgated by the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist State:

The United States has long used democracy as a tool and a weapon to undermine democracy in the name of democracy, to incite division and confrontation, and to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs, causing catastrophic consequences.

Link: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202205/t20220507_10683090.html

It’s funny, it’s pretty similar to what the US government did when they sent in settlers out to the west. Once over enough settlers staking out clams of land, it ended up crowding out the native Americans which led to conflict, and then you ended up with Custer killing bison on the Great plains.

When you are arguing that words have no meaning, you have already thrown away your own argument.

You did use the term “erase.”. What about all the Palestinians living inside Israel.

Obviously it sucks that people are dying, but hamas started the war FFS. They 100% knew it would cause huge civilian losses.

War does not automatically equate to being a genocide just because people due. Otherwise, every war in history would.be genocide.

There are Arabs & Palestinians that serve in the IDF too and have killed Palestinians. There are other Arabs in Jordan and Syria who have also gone to war against Palestine.

You are using incindiary rhetoric to win an online argument, but your description doesn’t fit the facts.

What about when the Palestinians tried to overthrow the Jordanian government, and when they successfully did it to Lebanon?

Mixed use buildings for actually quite common in much of the world and can work quite well. See what you do though is you put them on the market for anybody to rent, and not force people to live in your company housing.

If you go into any major city you’re going to run into mixed use buildings.

Short answer is nope. Commercial and residential building codes are very different, as are the engineering requirements.

It’s not that there might not be plumbing, it’s that there is zero plumbing in most office buildings aside from one clustered section for floor where there’s 5 to 10 toilets for each gender.

On top of that, you have completely different mechanical systems. An office building for instance may have one single mechanical system for the entire building, whereas an apartment would need separate mechanical systems for each individual apartment.

Then you have the kitchens, bedrooms and interior partition walls that are vastly different than an office building, plus the requirements for exterior windows which precludes larger office buildings with deeper floor plates from being converted at all without demolishing the interior portion of the building. Curtain wall systems that may or may not be compatible between an office and residential building (non-operating windows)… Not to mention the stair and elevator systems are probably not going to work either.

So in the end you’re probably looking at gutting the building down to the structure and removing every piece of the building including the outer envelope, roof, all of the electrical plumbing and mechanical systems… In the end it may or may not be cheaper just to build a new building from the ground up.

Source: am architect. And yes, I have done conversions like this in the past.

Green berets, other special forces.

CIA isn’t particularly helpful aside from smuggling drugs and doing actual dirty shit.

Thank you for doing some research.

This is more of a renters rights movement than a religious one.

Farm work is a lot different today than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Back in the '80s and '90s, it wasn’t uncommon for kids in rural communities to do farmwork like picking berries.

Fast forward to today and that would never happen. Farmers have very exacting standards and require very high productivity standards that only skilled adult laborers can meet. They’re not going to hire kids or other Americans.

This reporter did a good job capturing just how fucking difficult farmwork is:

https://youtu.be/Yg3WFt72RM8?si=_P4GIFppISGNVvZU

I use it at work all the time and frankly, it’s completely functional. I also prefer the Bing image search over Google images search these days… And I was a hardcore googler back in the day!

As an American, I really hope that Saudi Arabia crumbles and implodes. It’s a horrible country with horrible leadership and governance.

Either that, or they would weld the people inside of their own apartments while they raise the temperature to 118° for 90 minutes.

Problem solved! Congratulations citizen, plus five to your social media score. You’re now allowed to buy hot dogs from 7-Eleven.

You need a bigger balloon