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You’re kidding, right?

There’s many supplements that help with this. Someone refers to it as snake juice. Various salts and minerals

At this inflation rate saving money makes no sense.

How about now

Ok. Everyone now paying in rubles.

Everyone is now paying in rubles.

Apologies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/business/putin-russian-oi...

“US doesn’t buy anything from Russia.”

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/russian-oil-flows-but-incre...

“Germany has said it wouldn’t pay in ruble.“

True. Due to long term contracts in place, some oil is not purchased using rubles. Still, other European countries including Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Greece and others are purchasing in rubles. Also, India and China are purchasing a large amount of oil. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/who-is-still-buying-...

“By paying in ruble they create an artificial demand for the currency, making it worth more.”

The demand is not artificial. The demand is the damn. Europe still imports 27% of oil from Russia.

“However Russian government can make the same thing with the euro / dollars they receive from oil / gas purchase. “

This is false. They cannot “do the same thing with the euro / dollars”.

“The only reason they asked others pay in ruble is so they don’t have to do the conversion themselves because you know, with all the sanctions it is a pain to do it.”

Again, false. They are deliberately increasing the value of the ruble.

“I’ve never seen anything about the gold standard thing”

https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4498704-russias-3-step-...

I’m surprised I haven’t seen the right answers here yet, so I will chime in.

1. Russia produces 12% of the world's oil and has a similar share of global oil exports. [0] Those purchases are now being made in Rubels.[1] This was a direct retaliation to the USA and European sanction efforts. Before this oil was universally exchanged in USD or EUR. This has helped prop up the Rubel.

2. Russia moving back to a gold standard. [2] This is the single most interesting economic move in my opinion. Russia is continuing to buy more of the worlds gold supply. The Rubel is going to be pinned to the Gold standard. This makes the Rubel incredibly attractive as it can be a stable currency and easier to purchase than Gold itself. My personal feeling (contrary to most comments here) is that the sanctions have a terrible effect on the USA and Europe and have contributed to a world where China, India and Russia will be working to destabilize the USD and its allies. Moving away from the petrodollar, SWIFT and other USD centric methods is a very negative proposition for those of us who live in the west.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Russia

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/business/putin-russian-oi...

2. https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4498704-russias-3-step-...

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This is absolutely correct. They build a nice map of everyone’s contacts and that was the value.

Software is too much. But OP is talking a lot hardware.

For search I think a big issue is you can’t crawl the web like you used to. Cloud flare and others have made that difficult.

They invest in things that drive revenue for them. Including Crispr, WHO, farm land, fake meat, vaccines, etc.

Are they an American or Chinese company?

“The No. 1 objective is preservation of capital,”

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2021/6/21/bill-and-mel...

Perhaps the marketing is good

Is the gates foundation known for investing in things that don’t drive revenue for them?

Right now there is a very popular video floating around China of Biden bragging that this was his idea. Interesting times…

So no.

This logic if flawed. I think your basic understanding of how retention, businesses and unions work is lacking, to say the least.

Mostly likely during this job market, apple identified key employees who are already well paid and made sure to keep them, by granting stock that vests over (4?) years.

The OP is now deleted, however it states there is XX and XY chromosome. How is this behavior? How is this negotiable?

Legit curious.

What’s the real reason? Seems like you don’t want to do it.

You can be accepting of others, however facts are facts. Gravity doesn’t stop existing, because you don’t “behave” as though it does.

“When I was doing the History of Rome [podcast], so many people asked me, ‘Is the United States Rome? Are we following a similar trajectory?’ If you start to do some comparisons between the rise and development of the U.S. and rise and development of Rome, you do wind up in this same place. The United States emerging from the Cold War has some analogous parts to where Rome was after they defeated Carthage [in 146 B.C.]. This period was a wide-open field to fill a gap in our knowledge.”

Perhaps it’s is so. Unrelated to his joke, it’s similar and worth the read.

This legislation is to protect those that paid for the legislation directly. It is not intended for the tax payers.

The people who rule also live in this city. Why is there nothing being done about the crime, garbage and injustice?

Perhaps one could conclude that the violence by police is not based on race. Perhaps BLM is cherry-picking incidents for another cause, not related to police violence.

“But, for one reason or another, they seem to stay relatively silent.”

The one reason is they, are not black.

Saw this in a YT comment:

Ukraine has 26 of these biolabs, all of them funded by the Pentagon. Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, and isn't exactly a hotbed for scientific research, so you've got to wonder why there are so many of these supposedly harmless biolabs.

I hate how much I love this idea.

It seems this is a very American (western?) propaganda driven narrative. I wouldn’t be surprised if these sanctions in the medium term ruin the United States. China is the winner and Russia & India will also benefit. I hope not, but it seems possible.