In addition to sustaining life, water can be turned into rocket fuel on the moon, so it could be a lunar gas station rather than needing transport from earth where it takes way more fuel just to reach orbit.

wdym ignoring your own people ? Thats not how budgets work. Germany military spending is not even 2% of the GDP, and 15 Billion just isnt that much money all things considered.

The MoD already has a certain budget for Aid and other programs extend that ceiling. For example, a lot of the Aid to Ukraine is just Ukraine buying stuff from German companies and handing the bill to the Governmnent.

Most people get that a government budget plan =/= wages. The MoD can spend the 15 Billion how they want, that will have 0 effect of wages because as it turns out the MoD is not responsible for wage regulation.

We need prosthetic clinicians too!

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There was an index on democratic governance, only South Korea, Taiwan and Japan passed with flying colours. India was mid level.

Lots of Asians have democracy?

Crime has spiked in recent years, to a level near Marseille

With countries like Cuba the official numbers are crap, look at the excess deaths numbers, which was 550 per 100k for Cuba.

Worse than the US.

They just lied! lol

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Understatement of the century!

There is always risk. However, sitting on physical cash is a bad idea. I googled the inflationary changes and those numbers are correct.

The least bad option is to park cash in a savings accounts. At least you get a fraction of inflation.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot)

> Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has been dissolved after it refused to comply with a tough new party registration law imposed by Myanmar's military, according to junta-controlled media.

> The public voted overwhelmingly for the NLD in 2020 but the military refused to accept the results and seized power months later, detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and others.

> When asked if Aung San Suu Kyi had commented on the upcoming election run by the regime through her lawyers or other members of the party, Tun Myint said they did not have contact with her.

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Yeah yeah but that was way before I was born so I don't really remember or know much about that, only the few bits my parents told me

Other than the ones from FP25 back in the day, right?

considering some people have bad luck with stock market, it might not be that bad

A bad attempt at diversion would be if Japan went ahead and sank that thing.

> diplomatic immunity extended to their children MUST be abolished

While it's easy to say that as a knee-jerk reaction, you have to realize that families of diplomats have to have diplomatic immunity. The whole point of diplomatic immunity is so that people can conduct diplomatic duties freely and safely, even during periods of political tension and armed conflict. If that doesn't apply to families, then it becomes simple to manipulate diplomats via their families.

The actual mechanism you want is that foreign officials home countries have the ability to waive immunity in the case of a serious crimes unrelated to their diplomatic role. This is the mechanism that needs to be employed more often, particularly in cases like this.

Bad attempt at diversion?

Weird how none of these predictions turn out to be true, but people keep believing in them.

If only you could all appreciate the similarities between climate-related doomsday prophecies and biblical doomsday prophecies fed to the masses in earlier times.

How big are these glass beads? I hear beads and I imagine very small.

Why?

These people were making/retaining money (by reducing tax exposure) via shady means. They didn’t lose money in the trading activity.

Putting cash in a mattress is a sure way of losing value. $100/€100 in 2005 is now worth $64.92/70.68.

That's a good idea in case Ukraine tries to circle around the globe and counterattack from behind.

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I am ‘hoping’ to bring out the trash in the coming years.

The Pacific watching Ruzzia throw missles at it: This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!