Not saying you’re wrong but it helps when the unions organizing this literally fought the Nazis as Resistance organizations, a third of the population works for the government, and, crucially, 2/3rds of the population are less than 2 hours by train.

Imagine going to a protest after work then going home for dinner and not having to take vacation days/travel many hours/etc.

Russia is basically crabs in a bucket personified. They can’t win, but the closest thing possible is to bring everyone down.

I mean, if she’s 63. If she can pump out kids still, that’s not odd, that’s a medical miracle.

Buffalo resident here. The city advises other cities around the world on rapid snow removal, but this was a whole new level of batshit insane weather, almost all of fueled by wind and lake effect snow. Last month some of us had seven feet of snow dropped on us in a day, but shrugged off as usual. The extreme lack of visibility from the wind (basically a hurricane with snow), which we aren’t prepped for, in narrow streets is what made the situation a nightmare. This isn’t a US thing, New York thing or even Erie County thing, just an alignment of circumstances such as geography (this was a ten mile thin corridor, where anywhere outside of it was relatively untouched), as well as poverty and income inequality issues that made this weekend so deadly.

It’s best if you have so much money that handing over a pile money for procedures is like buying groceries. Yeah, there’s technically ‘access’ to the best medical care on the planet, but that’s like saying nothing’s stopping me from eating wagyu beef and caviar every meal, except, well money.