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Elerond

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Their greatest achievement today has been, replacing nuclear power with coal power, and they have audacity to call themselves as protectors of nature
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. It is but it means that power plant will be down several days and you need alternate sources to replace it, which may cause issues when you have multiple nuclear plants going offline same time during energy crisis. And things are made more difficult by fact that original plan was not continue use these plant, so there is not fuel in storage for them and some of needed maintenance breaks have been skipped because they were needed in original plan.
  11. Only problem with those three has been that they are filled with end of life uranium rods (uranium is reprocessed to max), so they need process new uranium rods for all of them and they all need be shutdown for fuel change in short time frame and it is possible that all three need to be offline same time. Reactivating already closed nuclear plants would be much bigger project.
  12. India just buys Russian oil and sells it to west and Greece is so nice that they help them to hide origin of the oil when Greece tankers carry the oil. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-india-violating-the-eu-oil-embargo/a-62291074 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/greece-emerging-new-hub-russian-ship-to-ship-fuel-oil-exports-data-shows-2022-05-19/ As there is no sanctions against Russian oil in the EU, there is not illegal in what they are doing, but when energy companies in EU say that they have stopped using Russian oil they probably don't tell truth as most of them buy oil from Greece. Strangest thing is that Russia is make less money from oil than before as they sell it to India with massive discount, and also India don't seem to make much profit of the arrangement. Meaning that it looks like that EU's energy companies are the party that seems to make most of the profit, because market price of the oil is so high, as they seem to buy oil cheaper than before Ukraine crisis, but sell fuel in record high price because of oil's market price.
  13. There has been issues where some countries have had problems to pay Russia, because banks have refused to do transactions in fear of breaking sanctions, but those issues have not been concern of US companies.
  14. There is no block for exporting Russian grain and fertilizers. Russia is blocked exporting grain and fertilizers they have taken from Ukraine. Russia has self blocked its exports because they feel they aren't treated fairly. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-04/card/russian-ministry-recommends-suspending-fertilizer-exports-8gJNAaRR7PBi6HvV4T3o So US farmers haven't been able to buy fertilizers from Russia even though there is no import duties, because Russia doesn't sell fertilizers. Media seem to be very lazy when it comes to details why these negotiations happen.
  15. Yes, it take only 2h to go from Helsinki to Tallinn with ship and it cost 20-40€.
  16. Tallinn's Old Town is not only medieval looking it is medieval. It is part of Tallinn that existed already during Hanseatic League era in 1400s It is common that Estonians speak English. Estonia is part of EU's eastern block, so they will have different views of things than western European countries. Although it is probably most western of east block countries. Their education system is decent in western standards. There is divide between Estonian speaking population and Russian speaking population and current world situation probably has not made things better. Taxation in Estonia favors rich. Estonia's consumer price increase is highest in EU, which is important factor to take account if you want to do business there. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_manr/default/table?lang=en current situation has not made things easier
  17. They live with their parents and it is told that they have not been touched by man aka virgin. Meaning that they have not yet reached marriage age in culture where it is normal to marry daughters away long before they reach age 18.
  18. Have you listened Evangelical Christian sermons? They seem to have forgotten why they were called Evangelical in first place. It is modern Christian sects that have twisted Sodom and Gomorrah and many other stories in bible as political messages
  19. I am not sure, Christian seem to love point story of Sodom and Gomorrah as their example of what happens if you don't follow Christian way of sex live. Story told by person who offered his (underage) daughters to be raped by his neighbors in order them not to question his guest and then same poor fellow was so poorly after disaster in his home town that he had sex with both of his (underage) daughters so often that they become pregnant and he tells how it was all the daughters fault. And we should learn from this story that the narrator was holy man worth of saving where all the other people in Sodom and Gomorrah where sinful and deserved to die.
  20. Yeah I actually read German government report. Like in that politico article mentions EU has already imported more gas from Russia this year than they have budgeted for entire year. Norway has increased amount of gad they export. Meaning that Germany and Europe aren't running out of gas this year, but fear is how next year would look like. Even then it is gas price hike that they fear more than lack ofgas
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