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It depends on do you count in unfinished tales or not.

Galadriel is at least 500 years older than any of the soldiers with her and she already fought hundreds of years in four wars against Sauron's forces in first age. And typically for Tolkien she is also supreme special person, who is taller, stronger, more athlete and fairer than other elves, who are supreme species compared to normal humans (those without elven ancestry). As she is also highly skilled with magic even without one of the eleven rings of power. I would say they nerffed her from what she is in Tolkien's mythology. There tensions between men and elves was between descendants of men who fought in Morgoth's side and elves who fought against ancestors of those men. It is dynamic that has potential for some good drama, but most of it will be new fiction as there is quite little in Tolkien's stories about how that dynamic worked. Tolkien described Harfoots as brown skinned. So them being black is according to source material, but in Tolkien's stories Hobbits didn't come up until third age. Harfoots were first Hobbits that moved to west Middle Earth in third age. Harfoots also took their fairer skinned kin, Fallohides, as leaders because Fallohides were generally more bolder breed. Tolkien newer really specified skin color of dwarves , but as Tolkien was writing Silmarillion, Lotr, and Hobbit like they were English myth, it is lead to typically portray dwarves as white and with stereotypical Scottish behavior. Arondir belongs in Silvan Elves, which again are race that Tolkien didn't detail that much. Which gives more creative freedom when creating new characters I personally can accept most of the creative choices the series so far has taken, but not Elrond's hair cut, that just personally offends me.

I mean that developer usually takes loan for its project which it pays with money it gets from the home buyer/s And developer also pays salary for its builders and other staff. So money spend in the houses don't just sit somewhere without being used and when money is in circulation bank is able to get more money from market to loan it to other buyers. So as long as bank keeps interest rates that it pays to other banks and financiers lower than interest rate it takes from home buyers it is able to make profit with money it never had.

It has been know for long time that republicans are actually communists

In house loans there is the nice factor that money comes back to circulation in most case pretty much as soon as the loan is approved.

Yes in my understanding it is to make it possible to most people buy house. But I have not familiar with reasoning behind the scheme so it is just guess

Or maybe go with Swedish model where home loan is not mean to be paid back ever as people pay them back for 50+ years. I call it system where banks rent properties to people but don't need to suffer from any obligations of landlord

They will do it again either same year or next depending of if course is organized multiple times in year or only once. It is grant not loan (268.23€ per month plus 80% of their rent, although there is cap that depends on city where you live). Additionally government gives guarantee for low interest loan (interest rate is 0-1% depending on bank, max amount is 18000€ in five years). Half of loan is written off if student graduates in time. So if student takes loan and does not graduate they will pay that loan back in 10-15 years depending of their plan with their bank. Government grant is for five years (in master programs) and universities kick students out after 10 years if they don't show progress in their studies. Student needs to pay back their grant money if they don't get enough study credits (30 credit points, so about 800 hours worth of credits) during a year.

University education should be free, because students learn best when they focus solely in studying instead trying to joggle work and studying. Living for students is already expensive even without needing to pay for education. Educated people are benefit for whole nation. Universities should pick their students by their academic merit and nothing else. People who have been good students in elementary and high school, have ability complete university. If students don't have real interest and discipline they don't really spend any resources as they don't participate in the education. Universities should follow progress of their students and have counselors to help students to over come their difficulties. To be fair: I personally benefited of Finland's free education from preschool to university education and study grant from government for living expense. as I come from working class family with 4 kids where only one of the parents had job, so we didn't have much money to spent, but me and all my siblings were still able to get university education and high paying white collar job.

It depends who did the killing. In Al Mabhouh's case most of complexity comes from fact that Israel send it own agents to do the killing. If Ukraine agents did the hit, it also adds quite lot complexity in the scenario. Like how Ukraine infiltrated its agents in Russia during war time. How Ukraine agents acquired needed information and explosives (as it not that easy to smuggle them over the border). How Ukraine agents hide from Russian authorities and (planned to) escaped the country. Killing itself is only small part of such operation regardless of fact do you blow bomb in car of suffocate person with pillow in their hotel room. As target Al Mabhouh seem one that would be more likely to be assassinated by state operators than either of Dugins

It was quite complex assassination. Bomb seem to have put in car, which was registered in Darya's not her fathers name (according to leaked government documents) during cultural festival which Dugins participated. It seem that it had remote trigger or timer as it exploded five minutes after car left the festival area. Bomb seem to have designed only to kill people inside of the vehicle. Assassin(s) had pretty good knowledge about Dugins, their schedule, which car they drive. And they had access to explosives and trigger, were able to bypass Toyota's theft deterrent system and knew where explosive needs to be installed in order to kill driver instantly. They also installed explosive in festival site's parking lot during daylight. Russian investigators believe that it was contract hit, which probably will not make it easier to prove who was actually behind the hit.

Metformin has worse adverse effects than any of the Covid vaccines And results to help against covid don't seem very convincing https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201662

School and other civilian buildings without civilians are just buildings and using them for military operations aren't against any international law. You can even use have troops in hospitals with weapons as long as hospital is just for military personel Journalists are civilians, so if they were present then civilians were present. Question is were their life but in risk when they shared room with Ukraine troops in the school. Your text betrays your crappy understanding of international humanitarian laws too, so you at least have something common and you can also add AI in same bunch, they also don't have good understanding of how humanitarian law works. And you seem to have something against journalist as you keep attacking them even though I have not even mentioned who was the person in question (I give hint none of them was Tom Mutch). I find it funny that you think that journalist are so bad sources but people in Russian prison camp and troll accounts are good sources. I would like to also point out as we seem to have lost from the original point which is why AI's report about Ukraine troops has got people angry, even though reports from UN and Human Right Watch that told about same issue didn't, that I do believe that Ukraine troops have broken humanitarian laws and probably also committed war crimes during the war, and AI got people angry because they just do shallow reports with poor details and their main focus is to wrote snarky summaries to make their target sound bad.

Nothing according to Russia, as they say there was accident that caused their ammunition stores to explode

Reporters AI didn't interviewed lived in one of the schools AI was talking about in their report. You can make your own conclusions were they eyewitnesses or not Ukraine army putting setting their troops that they endangered civilians (which includes those reporters). EDIT: Dismissing reporters just because they are reporters is just arrogant and stupid, considering they they are trained to document and retell things they witness. It is their job to seek full picture and report happenings with details. So they are excellent eyewitnesses if you want to report what is happening in area where they are currently themselves working to report what is happening. But it is good that you think reporters are unreliable to tell what is happening and are pack a sad when people don't think they are important, that is attitude that you should keep when you read reports from AI's reporters

No, but they are people that were in the front lines seeing where how Ukraine used those schools and hospitals that Amnesty's report was about. Also there was no impartial people as they interviewed civilians (which reporters are) in front line towns EDIT: As report was about putting lives of civilians in risk. So not taking account of view of certain segment of civilians in area is just shoddy work and I can't see anyway how it could be seen as good. That is not detail, that is accusation without detail. Where they did such, when they did, how often they did. How much risk increased for civilians, did Ukraine forces do anything to mitigate risks, etc.. Details. I am sure if article was about Russian actions you would also praise it for it supreme accuracy and excellence EDIT2: This is one example of Amnesty's shoddy work, as this was not in original release, they added that paragraph after getting critic about their report being Russian propaganda piece. And they show they good practices by not mentioning that they edited their report after its release

Considering that they use same supply lines and ingredients there should not been any big changes in taste until they run out of supplies in storage and need to replace them

Their greatest achievement today has been, replacing nuclear power with coal power, and they have audacity to call themselves as protectors of nature

AI did their typical way half asset job with their reporting (ignored calls from multiple international journalists that tried to give them their input for the article, they don't give any details how international humanitarian laws were broken and so on, which is typical for them in all of their reporting, which is why they usually fail to get any done to correct the breaches they report) and in case of original version of report of Ukraine's breaches they didn't contextualized their findings and their last report of the war was over month ago, making it look that it was just Ukraine that had recently broken international laws (fact that Russia used immediately in their messaging). Amnesty usually gets away with their poorly written reports because they report wars and issues that don't have much interest, but in case of Ukraine, Ukraine has vested interest and they currently have lot of sympathy. Also current global political climate is unstable and people have much stronger reactions towards certain issues (Ukraine conflict being one of them). Amnesty has used to criticism towards their work, but they have relied on supporters to be disinterested of details which has given them ability to do their job poorly in past, but now they found out that when they report about issue that their typical supporters are actually interested in they typical shoddy reports will not be received favorably. Shoddy reports work only when their reader is already agreeing with issue in first place and report just strengthens their biases. In my opinion people should not support organisations like Amnesty International and Greenpeace (and many others, but I have personal issues with those two, so they get to be my examples), who do shoddy pseudo political work in name of better world but at end just cause harm because they don't have any actual interest to do work that actually would solve the issues they claim to try to solve.

At least Russia has find useful purpose for all that natural gas they don't deliver Germany via Nord stream 1. Picture shows about 30 m high flame from Nord stream 1's compressor station in Russian Karelia, picture is taken from Finland about 20 km away of the compressor station. 30 m flame means about 100 MW power, so they have burn about 10k euros worth gas per hour for past week

Technically its origin is in Denmark, as it was first found in monkeys in laboratory in Copenhagen, Denmark. With Spanish flu logic (named after ones who first reported about it) it should had been called Danish pox

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No, I like live in country where there are protections for employees, but Pennsylvania is not place where employees have legal protection, like I said employers there can fire people without giving any reason if they feel like it. So if they fire someone who is protesting it is not any different them firing person who didn't nothing. So if person does not like how things work in their home state they should protest for change laws there. Pennsylvania is under republican control, so this republican voter most likely has at least in past agreed with their employment laws and that employers should have right to fire anyone they like to fire.

Pennsylvania is 'at will' state where employers can dismiss employees without cause. So maybe he should next time go protest Pennsylvania's worker laws instead. And sue his employer if he thinks that they have defamed him instead of not going to work in state where there is no employment protection.

Yes natural gas from Russia