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Ketchup sauce on pasta? Where do you get your restaurant recommendations?

False equivalence.

So you're saying what? Surrender?

I agree that Putin is all in, there is no way out for him but his demise. The 64 trillion dollar question is how many people he takes with him.

Nuclear winter

Haters gonna hate. This isn't a Chiang Mai topic.

Cisgender gay Boomer here. I really don't understand those very high numbers. They sound incredible. I am very skeptical of them. Bill Maher who is often obnoxious but also often right talks about the power of being trendy in youth. I bet in 20 years that the Z LGBTQ numbers will be much lower. The way its going gay bars will need to rebrand as just bars.

There are more than you think and many are working remotely. I agree some will turn to overstays, working illegally, scams, etc. and some that shouldn't be going home will be forced to. A lot depends on how the war lasts and what Russia looks like after the war, and in that I wouldn't be optimistic.

Um. No.

It's true-ish. Is Paul T. Goldman Real or Fake? Is It Based on a True Story? (thecinemaholic.com)

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Covert mobilization continues.

I expect the rubble to be down at least 25 percent this year. It's being artificially propped up right now and that isn't sustainable. The energy they sell is deeply discounted.

OK. Here's what I had heard and I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily true but it is interesting. The story goes a hotel in Pattaya was telling distressed Russian guests that they could go to immigration and request a "safety" extension. I assume that if the hotel did that they were confusing this with Covid extensions which have stopped. As far as I know there is no war based safety extension.

It's more like a new hot war.

I heard some kind of rumor about that but are you suggesting that they're seriously considering it?

He lost the popular vote and the electoral vote. It's called math. Enjoy.

Treasonous nut case. That she now wields considerable power in congress poorly reflects on America's fascist maga party and the hayseed white nationalists that voted her in.

They can fly out. Land crossings now require an appointment giving them time to investigate the people. They can fly back in. Military age men that have been abroad for multiple months are subject to interrogations and device inspections. Speaking out against the regime is severely criminalized. No not to North Korea. Too much like home. A few by boat to Alaska though! Also at the Mexican border.

I've heard estimates that as many as a million have fled. They are showing up all over the world where they can get in. Many bring their families. Babushkas are staying though.

What did they know and when did they know it?

Well nimble anyway.

Russians have developed niche companies that facillitate Russians abroad using their bank cards. They pay a fee for that of course. I heard something new and interesting yesterday. Russian companies fearing they will lose key male staff to Putin's meat grinder are sending them abroad to work remotely for them. Amazing. There was talk from their regime of making it illegal to employ Russians remotely but I guess that hasn't happened yet or isn't enforced.

You're wrong.

There are different classes of Russians.