Why do the kids seem so happy and healthy looking?

Your account is interesting. There's a lot going on there.

Russia should be excluded from that vote because it's about them, but they also have won over China for exactly that reason.

It wouldn't be the first time something like what you're describing happened. And they Russified a huge swath to surrounding geographic area. Anything is possible, but we shouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to a government that stole that many kids or any kids. https://www.dw.com/en/the-children-the-nazis-stole-in-poland-forgotten-victims/a-52739589

It's a start in the right direction. This conduct from Russia cannot and never should happen, period. What's clear is they intended to use the children for suspected Human Trafficking, Psychological Conditioning, and campaigns for domestic propaganda/agitprop campaigns. The fact that the Russian government would allow this, among many other crimes is absolutely a crime to all of Humanity. Like all the many other things, they have a ton to answer for this.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-children-the-nazis-stole-in-poland-forgotten-victims/a-52739589

Legally, it's genocide, not a war crime.

War crimes are violations of the rules of armed conflict, while genocides are attacks upon a group of people through violence (killing, child abducting) or biological means (birth control, etc) with the specific intent to eradicate said group.

The two concepts must be distinguished or else peacetime genocides could not be prosecuted. They usually still incur the same penalty.

I'm thinking indestructible toothpicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbRVlX7Ql0

Or couldn't we use its strength to make bigger wooden structures? How much stronger is it? And actually, don't different types of wood already have different strengths? So what is this engineered wood being compared to?

Maybe it can give us better hardwood floors

engineered wood can also be used to build taller wooden ladders to help us deal with the towering skyscraper infernos when the wooden buildings catch on fire

Add it to the long list of war crimes.

Yes they are hideous and industrial - destroying the landscape,

I thought bamboo already absorbs massive amounts of carbon

You think it's pulling all that plant mass out of thin air?

oh... wait...

wood 2.0

we cluttering the biome with bio-spam now

got wood?

Yeah, expensive wood is expensive -- it's not like it grows on trees

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I've driven by plenty of petroleum and coal related power plants and production facilities and I'd be so happy if they all got replaced by solar farms.

If your biggest problem with solar panels is the aesthetics you got serious issues the internet can't solve for you.

He certainly gonna try

Yes, it is. It's not just a land grab for them. It's not a war over resources or anything like that. They're attempting genocide.

Clearly you haven’t driven by any

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Hey look, a Russian official just fell down the stairs behind you.