I usually say what unit of measurement we’re counting in: days, weeks or months. For more detail, more specs are needed.

Another 1-in-a-100 year weather event hits. They’re getting quite common for once per century disasters.

Easier said than done. They basically need infrastructure to handle months (average month before 2000) of rain falling in a few days over several countries. Huge storm canals, dams and water basins that can divert and hold up to half a year of rain and that’s assuming climate change doesn’t make it even much worse in a decade.

Understaffing and long waiting lists are the main reasons behind patients’ frustration with health workers

Italy’s legislation has kept wages low, leading to overworked and burned out staff at hospitals

many health workers to leave Italy in search of better opportunities abroad

Add some violence and the death spiral of the health care system accelerates.

Peace with Putin in practice means removing his means of attacking

Damn…

Nor is it the first battery powered train in the world or even first in Germany where this giga-train operates.

Only if the ones being killed are sworn enemies would there be a positive sentiment but that isn’t the case. At best the atrocities are not mentioned If there is a big advantage in trade, economics or military advantage. In this case it’s the military advantage for the USA that’s the key. If not they’d be known as genocidal maniacs until the current leader dies and memories fade after a few decades.

The bigger the genocide, the bigger the “anti” becomes. It’s not a mystery.

Learning on The Learning Channel (TLC)

Did you know that one single Judge has been given the power the censor the Internet? Do you know that no justification needs to be released to the public about WHY a person, account, or post is being censored, removed, or banned?

Replace judge with CEO and ask the question again.

If their nuclear bombers went airborne the second Ukraine troops crossed their borders people would’ve taken them seriously. It would’ve shown how serious they were. But here we are, weeks after the invasion onto Russian soil, and their strong man argument is changing a few words on paper. It’s not very impressive or convincing.

How that proposal looks in winter

And AFD won’t “send migrants back” because that would remove their favorite Boogeyman. Expect don’t symbolic tinkering and not that much more, otherwise they have to start all over again with another minority to blame. It won’t improve these people’s economic situation. EU exit and austerity is back on the menu with AFD.

That sounds like classic Game Theory. Nobody’s going to do it because it a few don’t they have an advantage, except when it’s forced from above changing the playing field.

I think of fossil fuel companies and legacy automakers as part of the Deep State

China builds the cars in Mexico, that forms a tariff free zone with the USA. And USA can’t exactly just ban sales from Mexico because a lot of USA companies moved their operation to Mexico for cheaper labor.

instead of wars, destabilising governments you don’t like, and funding genocidal maniacs.

Instead they’re supporting Russia and Putin in the war, harass the Philippines at sea, infiltrate the government in Hong Kong and prepare to capture Taiwan.

Semper Fi

Always loyal

It’ll be a minor miracle if the work can be arranged so the business has 5 days continuity without people being called or summoned to work on that free day.