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She should do as much time as he was originally sentenced to.

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Macron just forced a decree to decrease the size of a jar of Nutella.

I am currently admiring the French. They kind of seem like one of the few modern nations where the citizenry actually give a shit about democracy.

I wish we had that attitude in North America.

It was never about NATO expansion. He doesn't give a shit about NATO. (Or rather, he didn't until he realized that NATO's alliance wasn't as weak as he thought it was.)

Putin just wants Ukraine. The "ethnic Russians in Donbass" and "NATO expansion" is just fake justification. It's nothing but a greedy, imperialistic land grab. He's going to throw Russians into the meat grinder until he either owns all or Ukraine, or until he fucking dies.

Why is he doing it? Look at basically any major successful project from the Soviet Union. The Moskava. The T-34 (and subsequent Soviet-era models). Kharkovchankas. That massive plane I forget the name of and too lazy to google.

All of it was built or designed Ukraine. Ukraine was the industrial heartland of the USSR. There is no USSR without Ukraine's industry and resources.

Putin simply wants it for himself. He wants the industry. He wants the ports. He wants the breadbasket of Europe. He wants another avenue for gas pipelines. He wants the glory and power of the USSR, because despite what Putin wants you to believe, the USSR was never just Russia.

It's nothing but a resource-grabbing imperialist expansion in an attempt to "save" Russia (read - make himself look good and even richer).

You gave permission to whatever app you posted the photos to.

Judges and prosecution need to be fired when thus happens. Nit just a taxpayer payout. Why would they care about ruining people's lives if there's no consequence?

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Stopping NATO expansion? Estonia and Latvia are NATO members and have borders with Russia, why doesn't Putin have a problem with those countries?

If they're publicly accessible on the internet, I don't think it really matters. You don't need a warrant to look at someone's public Facebook, but you do to get to their private messages.

Houthis fighting the US armed Saudis.

Crowd source? Like Reddits hunt for the Boston bombers...

The message, apparently : keep Ukraine, whatever, but nothing else!

Yeah, real powerful message.

According to Our World In Data, the global population growth rate peaked in the late 1980s. It will take several decades beyond that for the absolute number to also peak. It's crazy that some people living today will see a day when the global population will peak when we've been fed about population overload for so long.

>We still use them anyway, I don't get it.

It's essentially ritual behaviour and endures the same way. People believe it like they believe any other magic, and institutions exploit it for public approval like any other magic.

She found him on the street and said she had no doubts he was the perpetrator to the best of her ability.

You saying she knew it wasn’t him but just wanted someone punished?

China already had this in a way with their social credit score system. 😱

So trust the police with even more powerful tools?

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No, sorry for the confusion. As an example...mental health crisis shouldn't require police as the first response. But fire/emt won't respond, so police become the default response.

Personally I don't think fire/emt SHOULD respond to mental health crisis. There is a risk of violence there that they are not trained or paid for. But neither should police, whose training is "eliminate the threat" be the first response.

Either way, EMTs would still respond to your grandma having a stroke because that is clearly within their primary job description.