mantas

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931.
by mantas 4y ago
Growth rates pumped up by statisticians in nice offices :)
932.
by mantas 4y ago
Referring to abortion as women health issue is strong bias too. Some questions are biased on all sides.
933.
by mantas 4y ago
... and then we get to core issue. Some people don't want 80% worktime for 80% pay, but 80% worktime for 100% pay :) What if many people will keep working 100% time but now get 125% pay? Inflation happens and we're back at square
934.
by mantas 4y ago
Easy to game - declare lower lower base rate for 32 hours that will get to the same number with overtime surcharge? Different people have different relations to work in different stages of life. E.g. it makes sense to work your ass off whil
935.
by mantas 4y ago
And european separated gender beaches too. Locally it looks like women-only beach is most popular of women/men/mixed.
936.
by mantas 4y ago
Article 72. Each Union Republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR.
937.
by mantas 4y ago
If I remember correctly, that was the case, according to some high officials at the time. Alfa asked for written orders but they were refused. Regarding Lithuania's January events, other units did refuse to operate even back then. IIRC
938.
by mantas 4y ago
Well, for the annoyances part, Russia did great work to setup future annoyances that they're now exploiting. Rebel republics in Georgia that were exploited in 2008. Nagorno karabach in Armenia is hot since late 80s and probably will st
939.
by mantas 4y ago
USSR constitution did allow such unilateral exit declarations. Of course, USSR constitution declared many things that were far from truth. But ultimately words on paper do make a difference, even in totalitarian regimes.
940.
by mantas 4y ago
More like Spain constitution doesn't have an article detailing exit process. Meanwhile USSR constitution had such article. Which was used by Lithuania when declaring independence.
941.
by mantas 4y ago
Dissolution as it did was quite organised. Especially when you take into consideration that the society could barely function in market economy after decades of living sovietism. And economically it was a mess with too much focus on militar
942.
by mantas 4y ago
Yeah, USSR should have kept all the occupied countries! /sarcasm
943.
by mantas 4y ago
There's no paper with Gorbachev's signature. Which is pretty usual to Soviets - leave no paper trace was modus operandi since the establishment of USSR.
944.
by mantas 4y ago
The last missing puzzle piece is pretty clear when looking at the full picture. Maybe now that he is gone, nobody will prevent from stating it officially. It's pretty clear that he was aware and gave orders. There're testimonies t
945.
by mantas 4y ago
Yes and no. We have a wide variety of media outlets to expose experience of different groups. That fulfils what you're looking for. You can find opinions of pretty much any group no matter what. What your proposal would do, most groups
946.
by mantas 4y ago
Why should we even go for opinion of opposite gender? What's next, ensure that all political groups offer an opinion? All socioeconomic classes? All age groups? I'd say opinion of average man and woman are much closer than other s
947.
by mantas 4y ago
> a woman will hopefully look at a story Sexism much?
948.
by mantas 4y ago
Removing insulation means house cools down fast once sun goes down. Which is important for sleeping. While there're myriad of ways to handle heat during the day.
949.
by mantas 4y ago
Yes. But those shutters are pretty expensive + extra moving thing to maintain.
950.
by mantas 4y ago
My personal dream is house built into a slope. So earth around half-ish of the house can be used as thermal mass all year round. Currently roof becomes heated. And there's crapton of insulation in the attic. Which heats up during the d
951.
by mantas 4y ago
Long summer days up here mean that evenings stay hot. So „managable level“ is in the middle of the night at best. Obviously solution could be go to bed after midnight and then sleep in :)
952.
by mantas 4y ago
Thermal mass doesn't help if it's hot for a days. Then it just keeps the heat. In winter, the house works great to retain heat. But as I learned during construction when I had to prepare for laying flooring, it took a while to he
953.
by mantas 4y ago
I did that last year. But it doesn't cool down enough in the evening to sleep comfortably.
954.
by mantas 4y ago
Metal shack would be worse in the middle of the day. Insulated house retains heat at night. Spending day outside is an option, spending a night is much worse.
955.
by mantas 4y ago
Insulation protects only so long till it heats up. Then it keeps the heat inside.
956.
by mantas 4y ago
More insulation is double edge sword. I moved into a super-energy-efficient house here in north/east Europe. Heating in winter is damn cheap. But retention works in summer too… so I had to get air conditioner :( And electrical ventilat
957.
by mantas 4y ago
Germany was freeriding on Ukraine's blood to get cheap energy ;) Eurozone allows Germany to freeride as well. Germany makes use of relatively cheap euro, while other countries, who do drag down euro, can't access benefits of crapp
958.
by mantas 4y ago
Looking at crime/homelessness/etc, Eastern europe is now doing better than West :) E.g. coming from East, it's shocking how some West cities treat small crimes as part&parcel of living in the city.
959.
by mantas 4y ago
... and other euro countries have even worse QoL than Germany. Which was able to stay afloat only due to freeriding on other nations.
960.
by mantas 4y ago
> Another commenter mentioned this coming off as a weird article. I think it comes off as just plain arrogant. Pointing to Europe that has suffered from the pandemic, and now suffering from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and going &quo

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