Please don't mislead the public with disinformation:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early

The documents reinforce former CIA Director Robert Gates’s criticism of “pressing ahead with expansion of NATO eastward [in the 1990s], when Gorbachev and others were led to believe that wouldn’t happen.”[1] The key phrase, buttressed by the documents, is “led to believe.”

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This latter idea of special status for the GDR territory was codified in the final German unification treaty signed on September 12, 1990, by the Two-Plus-Four foreign ministers (see Document 25).

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The documents show that Gorbachev agreed to German unification in NATO as the result of this cascade of assurance

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According to the Russian memorandum of conversation, “Woerner stressed that the NATO Council and he are against the expansion of NATO (13 of 16 NATO members support this point of view).” (See Document 30)

Thus, Gorbachev went to the end of the Soviet Union assured that the West was not threatening his security and was not expanding NATO

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NATO’s expansion was years in the future, when these disputes would erupt again, and more assurances would come to Russian leader Boris Yeltsin.

The Patriots are the “New England Patriots,” a region, not just a city. Fun fact: they’re the only NFL team with a name tied to neither a state nor a city.

The Pats’ stadium is in the Boston ‘burbs but roughly halfway between downtown Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. Indeed, the team’s private jet is parked at and typically flies out of PVD.

I analyzed data pulled from my Kindle to make the visual. Analysis and chart done in R. I used illustrator to add gradients to the “plumes” and lay out the final viz.

I read 94 books last year, roughly split between fiction and nonfiction. More details about my 2022 reading here. At the bottom of this post I documented how I grab data from my Kindle.

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Yup. According to the Tatar video I just watched, 15% of Russia is compromised of ethnic minorities of which the Tatars are largest.

Both political scientists and Russian leaders have cited this diversity and the large land mass without natural defenses as why Russia gravitates towards strong-man leadership.

It doesn't matter how much muscle you have, as it's weight dependent number. Protein is also important in not-losing muscle. 1g/kg is about recommended amount not to lose muscles in general, even if you don't partake in fitness.

Anyway, my point was to OP - it's really hard to overeat in protein. Until a very high number, which is hard to achieve, protein is the best choice, compared to fat or carbs.

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Well done!! I started at 232 a year ago. I’m at 207 now with 205 being my lowest. You’re killing it! I know how hard it is.

That’s an unnecessary amount of protein for people who aren’t weight training or maintaining a large amount of muscle

See, it's not about them being minorities, it's about the rich and powerful vs. the poor and powerless.

Source: I weighed myself every day, logged into Excel

Tool: Excel into Power BI for visualizations

I used a 3-day rolling average as my primary metric to smooth out the high variability day to day. While I hit my goal a few times on a single day, I only considered my goal met when the 3 day rolling number hit the line.

Starting a weight loss journey around the holidays is tough, but not impossible. You can see some of the big upswings when viewing at the week level are all around the big holidays and weekends where we had holiday "stuff" going on (eating and drinking a lot). Week 11 started the Monday after Christmas, the only WoW increase in weight up until that point.

Another interesting, but maybe not surprising, datapoint is my average by day. Mondays are always my heaviest (coming off of the weekend) and Thursdays are always my lightest (coming off Mon-Wed of healthy eating and exercise). By this logic Fridays should be my lightest, but about half the time I give up by Thursday night and have some wings and beer.

Where's Crimea? It's in no way legal occupation but i'd be surprised if the 2021 russian census didn't include a territory they've been claiming and occupying since 2014

also i think you should read a bit more of that meta analysis especially on:

Sex and Gender

Biological and Innate

Abilities and Achievement

> Humans are born with innate abilities, such as the ability to learn a language, but the language they learn, if any, depends largely on their experience. Similarly, they are born with the innate ability to count and discern quantities, but how they develop those abilities depends on their environment and learning experiences. Abilities are developed in supportive environments.

ALSO science and engineering are very different fields. The relationship between male and female scientists is way more balanced than that of m:f engineers. You’re trying to make the woke point that women and men have exactly the same aptitudes and this is simply false. OFC there are women who have aptitudes usually found in males but that’s not the usual case. There’s so many biological and societal factors that makes us different from another.

Let’s see a scatter plot of the two

Probably because "Downtown" Chicago is really big. And I guess if you measure the center of it to be in the loop, Soldier Field us pretty far away.

Don't worry, you're soon going to be out in Arlington Heights.

i appreciate u doing research and i agree. u literally repeated my point. “NATURALLY” has nothing to do with biological in my prev context. i repeatedly already said natural abilities in context to what skills people have tendencies for be it biological, cultural, societal doesnt matter.

for most engineering positions while communication is a part of the job it isn’t the most important part. female PMs are better than males for instance. There is space for women leads in tech. My point is that a majority of women wouldn’t do well in the Engineering department due to reasons you highlighted above

also i’m not sexist. you just don’t see the value women’s roles hold in society. If women don’t do them and men can’t society would fall apart. best luck to you

Can anyone explain why the area near the top-right is pink? Most of the other low proportions seem to be near borders, where people may perhaps identify as belonging to a former state that was absorbed into Russia. But this area has always been part of Russia, has it not?

The Holodomor is considered:

• Genocide by 23 countries and the European Parliament
• Criminal act of Stalin's regime by 6 countries
• Crime against humanity by 5 international organizations

Besides that a lot of the world has no clear stance on it. But straight up saying that it was not genocide is disagreeing with a lot of governments. And the official definition of genocide includes intent:

>acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

Moving the goal post fallacy. You established that number of languages and ethnic groups present was the criteria for measuring diversity. Once your criteria was challenged, you then introduced a new methodology based on a researcher using fractionalization, a methodology that happens to achieve your conclusion.

The US is a very diverse country given its constant flow of immigrants and lack of lengthy history or genealogy. Can you claim other places are more diverse that have a bunch of tribes and ethnicities that belong to greater ethnic and linguistic families? Sure I guess. Certainly can’t try that claim in most countries though. Most are low immigration, low minority counties. European counties are basically ethnostates that don’t come out and say it. But the numbers and immigration policies don’t lie.

i appreciate u doing research and i agree. u literally repeated my point. “NATURALLY” has nothing to do with biological in my prev context. i repeatedly already said natural abilities in context to what skills people have tendencies for be it biological, cultural, societal doesnt matter.

for lost engineering positions while communication is a part of the job it isn’t the most important part. female PMs are better than males for instance. There is space for women leads in tech. My point is that a majority of women wouldn’t do well in the Engineering department due to reasons you highlighted above

So in your opinion the women interviewed were 30x better than 50% of your current workers, and were all turned down cause they were women? Yeah… I call bullshit

Well here I am on the receiving end of my own stick. Had to google about Ingrians. Realised that I heard about them but didn't know how they are called in English. We call them Ижорцы, but beside that my knowledge was limited. Haven't realised that population was that small though or that they were victims of repressions, not that I am surprised though.

I am myself is kore-saram (Soviet Korean), my people had some history with USSR "relocation" history. And just like crimean tatars we happened to be in Uzbekistan. That's why I am kinda biased at this topic. I just thought you are another white knight who heard about injustice, quickly googled it and went on moral spree to defend the downthrodden. I apologize for misjudging you and for my indecent behaviour towards your person.

So what I gather from both comparisons is that cheeseburgers are always very good value for your money.

Legend could be bigger, you got plenty of room to spare.

Said Putin