Russia has propaganda now, on how life is better without internet.
With gloomy pictures showing people using their phones and looking unhappy, contrasted with people walking together holding hands and smiling.
(Seen on Jake Broe on youtube.)

You are spot on that if gold was cheaper it would be used more. It is such an amazing material.

No it would not tank to be as worthless as paper, which was what I argued against.
You are arguing against a strawman.
If gold was only used industrially like steel or other metals, and the value was according to that, it would still be way more expensive than steel and aluminum.
Yes the shortage inflates the price, I never argued it didn’t. But it is absolutely not worthless as the post I responded to claimed.

You can grow trees and make as much paper as you want.
You can’t do the same with gold.
Paper is cheap because it is dirt cheap to make and the resources for it are both plentiful and easy to get at.

Gold is expensive, because it’s in limited supply, and you can’t make gold, and gold is very hard to extract. It also has many functions due to its special properties and it is often hard to replace with other materials.

Gold is as worthless as paper

FALSE!
If a lot of people want to pay for it, it’s obviously not worthless.
Gold also has value as a metal of many uses, and in many situations gold is not easy to replace.
So even without being pretty and non corrosive and rare, it would still have value.
Also your post is extremely besides the point of Russia liquidating assets.

there are 430 Teboil stations in Finland. This is about one fifth of all 2,250 Teboil stations that exist in Finland.

What??? That does not make one bit of sense! So are there 430 or are there 2250? And what was the actual purpose of showing 2 numbers?
Sorry, but I have to downvote this for being nonsense.

The Russian economy is collapsing now. So there is no way Ukraine will lose this war.
But supporting Ukraine will help them get their territory back, and make Ukraine win faster.

It’s really disappointing that so many countries don’t help more. The average being only a tenth of Nordic countries per capita!

if it wasn’t desperately needed elsewhere.

That’s kind of the point no?

Absolutely moronic headline, it’s a gigantic straw man argument, as you say nobody wants to pay higher taxes just for fun.
Also it’s an absolutely shit article with near zero content for several full-screen page scrolls on a 32 inch monitor!!

You are dead wrong, Estonia is represented in many fora that has China’s acute attention.
Estonia is a small country, but they are a country with an independent voice, that is participating in decisions in for instance EU and NATO.

Estonia has been absolutely killing it the past few years on foreign affairs, and has the attention of many countries that are way bigger than them, especially in Europe.
Also they work directly together with Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania, on foreign policies related to the Ukraine war.

Your knee jerk reaction that a big country can just ignore a small country, is naive and wrong. Especially regarding Estonia which is very respected and influential. There’s a reason they are so often in the news on their political announcements.

I don’t understand the purpose of that, or how that would be irony.
Looks just like a dumb comment to me.

What a moronic question to ask on a Steam Deck sub?
Of course I have, and Steam deck was priced very aggressively, but info on who makes this Steam Machine and how it will be priced is 100% absent here.
There was a pretty massive attempt at launching steam machines years before Steam Deck, and that it didn’t go well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

Following a two-year testing period, Steam Machines and its related hardware were released on November 10, 2015. By 2018, many Steam Machine models were no longer offered on the Steam store.

How does that raise the question whether I’m aware of Steam Deck???

There’s an LED strip, y’all!

Cool, I hope they keep that idea. 😀

Anyways it all depends on price/performance is good.
Previous attempts at 3rd party Steam Machines were not good in that regard.

IDK, I haven’t used a tablet for years now.
I have a 6.7" Phone which is great for portability and easy to read, and when I want the bigger screen I use a “real” (old fashioned) computer, either laptop or desktop.
I still prefer the desktop format of a (Linux) PC. 32" desktop monitor is great IMO, and super for gaming.
The tablet fills a hole that doesn’t exist for me anymore.

You are the only one here claiming anything about genocide. The research was on forced labor.

Oil production is lowest in 4 years it’s down to half now, and so are the prices. Meaning that Russia only has a fourth the revenue that they had 4 years ago.

I don’t think tomorrow is what most have claimed, but maybe “any time now”, which has kind of been true for the past year.
The signs have been clear for a couple of years now, that the Russian economy can’t handle the war effort against Ukraine in the long run. But the time scale is very hard to predict, if not outright impossible. But in the beginning we knew that when the war chest Putin had saved up was dry, it would only be a matter of time before the Russian economy would see a steep downturn, those early predictions have come true.
But if for instance we get an extremely mild winter, Russia might actually push through it this year too.
But the way it looks, the infrastructure is collapsing, one aspect is that Russia commonly has centralized heating plants, that supply hot water to apartments. These are often based on waste heat from electricity production. And we known in many areas they are behind on maintenance of those, which potentially can leave people without both electricity and heat.
How bad this goes is hard to predict, but we are seeing problems already, despite we are only just out of maintenance season!
The Russian economy, infrastructure and population have been stretched beyond their limits for some time now, the real question is when the parts begin to snap.
I am pretty certain this winter will do it to a big enough degree on the economy and infrastructure for the population to snap too.
The story from the power plant where the workers strike is an example of it. Remember this is GRU (KGB) country, workers don’t complain unless they have really really serious reasons to do so. If you complain you risk going to prison, and going to prison is almost like a death sentence in Russia.

All the Scandinavian countries support Ukraine more than Canada.
So although we appreciate the help from Canada, canadianaffairs.news can fuck right off with this moronic rhetoric.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-aid-to-ukraine-by-country

Norway has given 14 billion against Canada 13 Billion.
And Canada is a country of about 40 million while Norway is only 5½. So per capita Norway is giving 7 times more than Canada!

I agree, Those 2 are connected, because Putin knows he won’t survive politically if he ends this war at a point where Russia has gained almost nothing, at extreme cost to the country.
And for Putin, not surviving politically is probably the same as simply not surviving.