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batushka··on The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
Would a 1.9m blond bloke find a role or would be considered too foreign? Few gigs would help with travel budget.
batushka··on Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook
The more laws available - the easier it is to find a loophole or create a scheme for evasion. Look at tons of tax lawyers and firms thriving on difficult and ever growing laws. Full tax rate is only for loosers who can't hire tax evasion lawyers.

The only way froward is to cut regulation - to be understandable and as equally applied as possible.

batushka··on 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
Some EU countries banned agro chemicals for general public. Now it's only for license bearers - farmers mostly.
batushka··on Spanish police doing an intervention in Fundació puntCAT office
I would love to see Catalunya getting independence. Then as fresh country should make agreements with NATO and EU. So while without NATO umbrella Russia would attack and establish Novobarcelonia to protect it's oligarchs down there :D
batushka··on Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015)
Usually it's a salvation to be occupied by US compared to Russia - they just kill, steal and trash territory making it doomed (Transnistria, Osetia, Ukraine teritories, Kuril islands) - a true Mordor.
batushka··on Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
The most intolerant wins. Society is sinking. "We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world." https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
batushka··on Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
It's very easy to throw statements after the facts and aftermath is known, many years after it happened. But when events are hot, it's another story. Lets forget about Iraq, and return thinking about notion of ally, in it's essence.
batushka··on Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
Never heard of war that wasn't smeared by other side. When rooskies bombed Finland, Molotov told they're delivering bread baskets to starving Finns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_bread_basket
batushka··on Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
Sure, just remember that it works both ways. When your house will burn and you'll be desperate, have a persuasive story ready.
batushka··on Indian IT, “You're Fired”
Let's just name it straight: all this brainwashing about values and being part of company is a con game by HR's. These con artists are not your friends, never.
batushka··on NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars
Better windmills :D This green energy hoax barely sustains communities on earth, why would sane someone risk on Mars? Mission needs reliability - we have nuclear power sources reliably working for decades, powering bigger things than calculator.
batushka··on A shift in China to less toxic coatings for containers increases shipping costs
Hold on buddy, just 8 yrs left
batushka··on Maine Is Drowning in Lobsters
Skin in the game. You can't expect fair play if one does not put and risk his share.
batushka··on America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
US made such a phenomenal win with cheap gas that Europeans still mis. Exposure to cheap energy EMPOWERED people across vast country. Robust chevy v8 powers everything for decades and still going strong: from cars, trucks, boats, generators - you name it.

This came exact opposite in the old continent. The fact we drive efficient lawn mowers is just a sad testament for this failed energy policy.

batushka··on US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High
From the state point huge student debt is wonderful. Fresh workforce starts with negative balance: they are vulnerable and controllable (trying to pay out it or begging for mercy to aid with debt).
batushka··on Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets (2014)
I love how US beats foreign cartels or shortages by true technology (fracking, magnets).
batushka··on “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story
The facts are true, the news is fake.
batushka··on Solar Roof
I hope only rich people will be separated from their money and no loans will be given for this.
batushka··on Maintainers make the world go round: Innovation is an overrated ideology
Here's a reference for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag People all across occupied lands were enslaved (on paper sentenced for some nonsense and send to workjails)
batushka··on Why Chinatown Produce Is Cheap (2016)
Although for Chinese dollar is the King, they form deep communities to aid each other in trade and are loyal. One interesting example of strong communities - I have newer seen a Chinese beggar in Europe, but a lot from neighboring and other countries.
batushka··on Nick Sand, Orange Sunshine LSD chemist, has died
Others would say he created culture. But culture of what? Culture of addiction and spiritual coaches, who are just vagrants in many cases? Enlighten me too.
batushka··on Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles
While ones argued him (why then, if it's total trash?), the others censored him out.
batushka··on Sea Ice Extent Sinks to Record Lows at Both Poles
Comments about climate are so censored here. Bottom is full of flagged out comments with replies. It's like reading CIA doc with half page black.