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Russia has 21% interest rates, 8.5% inflation. The ruble has lost about 17% against the dollar. India and China will only trade with it in their currencies. On paper, Russia's GDP looks great. Wartime economies do that, but also starve the consumer sector. The flight of Western capital and technology means Russia only has its home-grown scientists and engineers to keep the oil fields running. They are all retiring, without replacement, as the Russian education system collapsed in the mid-80's. After seeing how easily Russian armaments are getting obliterated in Ukraine, purchasers of their military equipment presumably have significant buyer's remorse. Russia also has a demographic crisis. The population is collapsing, and the meat grinder in Ukraine is not helping. Neither is the drain of able-bodied men leaving, to avoid being drafted. It's pretty obvious the sanctions and market losses are hurting Russia, irrespective of what bluster comes out of the Kremlin that it is not.

IMO 65,000 km is high mileage. I would be checking if the spark plug was oiling up, due to piston/cylinder wear. Changing the oil and spark plug won't fix it, if that is the case. A compression check might be worth doing.

Stand on your weaker leg only for 30 seconds without losing your balance. That will tell you if you are old or not.

MAGA's understand better when they have pictures drawn for them. Just trying to help.

Aluminium forms a passive layer of aluminium oxide on exposure to air. That passive layer is inert to everything except strong alkali or acids. It melts at 660C, I guess that would be bad. I understand. Everything is out to get you. Don't wash your dishes in nonionic surfactants, they are endocrine disruptors. Don't cook with stainless steel, chromium and nickel are poisonous. Cast iron cookware contains manganese. Glass cookware has boron, Teflon is fluoride. About 99% of canola oil is GMO. There's a risk of silicosis if you are in desert areas. The terpenes will get you if you are in a pine forest. Asthma in a wheat field. Funny thing, I have survived 81 years being exposed to all these toxic perils. You take care out there.

Do you really think the USA is so omniscient it can establish cause from across the Pacific Ocean?

Dictatorships by their very nature are not open and transparent, secrecy is de rigeur. Xi is not the kind of leader one gives bad news to. It's quite possible the Chinese don't know either, but are terrified of the ramifications arising from the truth being found, if that truth sees them as a pariah, much as Russia is. Trump is putting tariffs up to 60% on Chinese imports. " Get it done" under those circumstances has to be one of the most fatuous comments I have read on ASEAN for quite a while.

You are proceeding on the assumption the virus was circulating in the meat market permanently, when it may have been a transient. What time elapsed between the appearance of COVID in humans, and testing of animals? Where was Patient Zero working? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/health/covid-wuhan-market-lab-leak.html Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Well, that's an interesting collection of non sequiturs. Yes, America is obese. Australia is not far behind you. You may be right, RFK jr. may address those issues. The main concern is whether he throws out the baby with the bathwater. Fluoridation is one of the most successful public health measures ever, stopping it would be going back 50-60 years. I'm retired, don't have a job. See, you can do it if you try. Not a single error in your post.

I could argue the same about the USA, in terms of tinpot dictatorships and being a nation.

I am not spelling police, it just hurts my eyes to see ignorance compounded. The authoritarian Covidiocy measures in Australia resulted in that country having one of the lowest death rates from the pandemic. America had one of the highest. I don't know where you sit in terms of logic, but that's pretty convincing evidence to me.

He's also as far away from the war as it is possible to get, without going to Antarctica.

Armchair genocide advocate.

If the OP is concerned about a link between aluminium and Alzheimer's, it's an urban myth. The misconception arose when brain schists from dementia sufferers were analyzed post-mortem, and found to contain traces of aluminium. On further investigation, it was found an aluminium microtome had been used to prepare the brain schists. Cross-contamination.

Tyson plodded around the ring. In his heyday, he would been all over Paul like a cheap suit.

Rabies and Ebola are both zoonotic. There were all kinds of wild meats in the Wuhan market. About 38 species, kept in ideal cross infection conditions. I said there were competing hypotheses re the origin of COVID. I'm keeping an open mind.

I did use the word "If" to start my post. There are two competing theories: Mutation of an existing virus in a Wuhan meat market via species transfer. Accidental result of experimentation with viruses in a Wuhan laboratory. The truth may never be known, due to CCP censorship. I very much doubt it was the result of deliberate design and release. While the true death toll in China is estimated to be millions, the total lockdown of Chinese cities resulted in enormous economic damage.

In about 6 months, more than Republicans will realize they have been conned.

I can remember a friend of mine who had long COVID. Prior to it, he could walk 20 km a day for exercise. For months afterwards, he could barely get to the front gate of his house. Apparently unvaccinated patients are nearly twice as likely to develop long COVID as vaccinated patients, 38% vs 20%. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10664948/

It was good enough to communicate with the ward nurses. I did not need to speak Thai with the doctors, they both spoke good English. I was referring to the fact I can't read and write Thai. Can you?

Fluoride is added to drinking water as sodium fluoride, NaF, 99.9% purity. . Its description as industrial waste is a lie promoted by the anti-fluoride school. Ho-hum. The usual COVID delusions. Better public health measures? The USA averages 48 million food-borne illnesses a year. Please get a spellchecker, or post when you are sober.

I'd say the Aro is milder than Mainland. Both brands are quite acceptable.

If true, this demonstration by Ukraine of how far it can reach operationally must be of concern to the Kremlin. Frigates cost hundreds of millions of dollars, getting sunk or damaged by something at a fraction of the cost, does not do the Russian economy much good.