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Who says it can’t be aesthetic and be within regulation?
AFAIK it’s just generally more expensive.

Well here stairways also need to be usable in case of emergency, especially fire. Everything has fire codes that must be observed, we frigging don’t call a stairway an emergency stairway just because it’s legal. AFAIK even if you have 3, they ALL need to be according to safety protocols.
Also AFAIK we need to have at least 2 “emergency” stairways already above 2 floors.

We (Denmark) helped USA in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan we even had the highest rate of fatal casualties among allies, compared to the size of our population.
Now we are not buying American made defense equipment anymore, apart from contracts already signed, and we are working to get rid of Microsoft in government organizations and public services.
Many European countries are doing the same, no more helping the American military industrial complex, or the American government when they have an F35 program with budget overruns. Which we actually did when we signed our F35 contract with USA.

Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.

But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.

OK fair enough, but that’s not what it looked like to me when I read the headline.
I don’t use anything Microsoft, and I use only very few Google things for basic functionality of my phone.

What? How was Mozilla ever in any kind of OS integrated way in bed with Google?
Google was just the default search engine in their browser. That’s it, and it’s dead easy to change the default search engine in Firefox.

Why are you making a completely false equivalence, to make Mozilla look bad? Also Firefox is open source, so Mozilla even lets you use a fork, with all the functionality of Firefox with whatever you don’t like changed.

Did he ever hear about DNA evidence, that shows without a doubt that all humans are the same species?
Not only that, we are a species of very little variance! Especially considering how widespread across the globe we are.

But he was probably Christian, and thinks DNA evidence is false, because it doesn’t confirm his racist views.

Too bad USA doesn’t help Ukraine instead. USA even promised they would, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal!
Even under Biden the help was only halfhearted. The amount was significant, but the abilities of the equipment Ukraine was allowed to get was very restricted. Obama too wasn’t any help in 2014 either, and let Russia take Crimea without issue!
It’s not just Trump and republicans who are guilty of making USA untrustworthy. Democrats are part of the problem too.
We need to kick USA out of NATO, and invite other including non Atlantic democracies to join instead. USA has stated they are not sure they will honor article 5 (The musketeer article), and if they won’t, they cannot be part of NATO anymore. Because that’s the whole purpose of NATO.

Buildings with just one emergency exit stairway are capped at three stories in San Francisco. Anything taller requires two stairwells.

That text makes little sense, because if there is only one stairway, that’s the friggin stairway, and not an “emergency” stairway.
I know most American buildings have elevators even if they only have 2 floors, but it’s weird to call a stairway that is often faster to use, when it’s just a few floors, an “emergency” stairway, just because it’s the only option when the elevator doesn’t work.

Especially if the elevator and stairway are in connected shafts, it’s quite obviously not enough to only have 1 stairway, there needs to be a 2nd stairway with it’s own separate shaft in case of fire, because you can’t jump out the windows at 4 stories height.

Europe AND North America.
Nuclear war was as much a threat against North America as it was against Europe.
USA was also attacked by Japan in WW2, so USA too could conceivably be attacked again.

EU was to created in huge part to maintain peace in Europe.

To be fair the numbers are from June 1st, and are for the month of May. So a tad newer than you graph that state March as the latest.

By the standards of what democracy is. Namely representing the will of the people. You simply can’t do that when there are only 2 options.

Yes all Republicans should do that. It makes you STRONK!

If it’s too much chaos for you, you need to buy a bunch of crystals, and place them in strategic places on your body, and let the crazy flow through you.
This way you adapt to your surroundings, and everything will make sense without even thinking about it. And you definitely don’t want to read scientific papers, they will just confuse you.

Hallelujah to the brave new world.

The numbers are 3 weeks old, but they are still good. 😋

AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. And as long as you are not trying to exploit the friendship to gain advantages at work.

The headline is untrue. That’s just propaganda for the Russian people. The truth comes a bit down the article:

The war in Ukraine has become existential for the Kremlin.

Problem for Putin is he can’t admit defeat, because it will probably mean the end for him.
There is no way the Russian administration can still think they can wear Europe down.
They thought so initially with the gas, limiting supplies to show Europe the consequences of helping Ukraine.
Now it’s pretty obvious that Russia was depending way more on European money than we were dependent on Russian gas.
The cost for Europe aiding Ukraine is peanuts compared to the resources we are allocating to build stronger military force in Europe now.
Russia is practically broke already, and the government is essentially cannibalizing everything they can. so they have very few resources to build their economy, and no good options to borrow. Every major branch of the Russian economy is running at deficits. The government, banks/finance, the entire energy sector, Weapons industry. Agricultural production is failing, and industries in general are wearing down, because they can’t afford to invest, because profits are low and interests are high. The government can’t afford to maintain infrastructure, so literally almost everything is being worn down now because of the war.
There will also be very little help from outside. So the Russian economy will suck for a really long time after the war, and it will probably take more than 2 decades just to get back to where they were before the war. And EU has decided to continue boycotts even after the war.

There is no way the Russian administration and Putin don’t know these things, and they also know that the countries that support Ukraine have nowhere near similar problems, and Ukraine too is doing way better than Russia. With lower inflation and interest rates, better government finances, and industries that actually make money.

Russians have only recently begun to feel the effect of the war on their dinner tables, but the harvest this year is predicted to be way below average for many reasons like using lower quality seeds, worker shortages, and poorly functioning infrastructure.
So Russians can look forward to wildly increased food prices, in part due to inflation, and in part due to failing harvest.

Russians are said to have high capacity for suffering, and they are going to need that.

So really? How likely is it that Russia truly still is on a “break Ukraine and exhaust the west strategy”?
Isn’t it more likely just propaganda? And the administration just doesn’t know what else to do to survive a little longer.

No they don’t, their voting clearly shows the opposite.

I’m not saying Trump isn’t awful, and things aren’t bad. I also clearly state democracy in USA isn’t safe yet.
But Trump is failing more than he is succeeding.

I am not American, but I really hope they will work to improve democracy. The concept of a president controlling the entire administration is both awful and not representative of the population. A democracy that result in a 2 party system is only barely a democracy.