A very apt descriptions

Scheme just refers to a system. And you need buy in else billionaires just pull up their flag and move their capital.

The fact these people can borrow against their portfolio and thus have no income is ridiculous.

Facebook is able to make very accurate profiles of their users. Maybe they should just send someone to the address of the uploader of csam and other horrible stuff to break their legs.

In all earnest, the fact this issue is as big as it is on their platforms is only because for some reason they let it get this bad. If they want specific stuff off their platform they can just make that happen… specifically by targeting the sources… In cooperation with law enforcement and or nasty lawyers and a court summons.

We will learn when they are there from Russian telegram channels crying about shot down mig 31’s and harm missiles hitting AA radars.

I am by no means an expert. I’d guess the active carbon in the filters.

No definitive answer, but it’s about the filtering abilities:
https://www.google.com/search?q=why do ffp masks have a shelflife&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m

So the government acted quickly, signed a contract for the delivery of PPE that was delivered. Then the pandemic died down and the PPE eventually was not needed.

I understand that these numbers are astronomical, but it does seem like it was done for the right reasons and in the right way.

For a government to get the volume they require, they need a supplier to scale up. A company scales up the way this supplier did requires investments and thus income. Meaning large orders.

And then this stuff has a 3 year shelf life meaning the existing contracts where sufficient for usage and the stock went to waste.

Can you imagine if the government had not made these provisions and the peak of the pandemic lasted 6 or 12 more months. This was an insurance premium… an expensive one… but an insurance premium. People don’t whine their house did not burn down even though they paid the premium.

My only dissapointment would be if it turns put elsewhere in the world there would have been an actual need for this stuff and instead of eating those costs, incineration was cheaper.

Yes, the Soviet union collapsed under a lot of internal pressure and strive. And when the Soviet army was overextended and the government could no longer control their Empire. Losing in Afghanistan showed internal forces that the bear was not unbeatable.

I think it is safe to say that the Russian empire is getting more than a bloody nose in Ukraine.

So in this case there will be plenty of parties that have a bone to pick with the Russian empire and see the Russian army is … well … Busy.

But probably they will settle for opening the books on the EV manufacturers and their supply chains. And then either we will see the companies are state sponsored, or the western manufacturers are price gouging customers.

Maybe the US has some end of life tomahawks laying around with a Typhoon trailer. And maybe some more atacms. Or even JASSM.

But still… these can lurk in the greyzone

And it will only get worse.

They also have the tracked version from Germany and France (a varians of the m270). Mars has a double launch unit compared to himars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System

But in terms of launches, himars can fit 1 atacms per time and mars or equivalent can fit 2. There where at least 2 launches per vehicle.

And the unitary warhead was not officially announced for Ukraine.

Nah this is exactly how Americans see it.

The middle class is scared shitless while in reality redistributing the wealth of the top 0.01pct probably would resolve 90pct of the inequality.

I’d call it Burqa logic. As there you see the exact lo.gic at work.

Apparently this is also done against misinformation. This way the source is clear and it cannot easily be taken and used as “proof” of something else.

It’s hilarious to me how the same solution to keep flies out would work for this too.

This got a good chuckle out of me.

Holy hell

This kind of stuff is trivial for the IRS to find if they wanted to. Just crosscheck revenue, purchases and wage costs and such. And when stuff is off balance, audit. Here in the Netherlands they even look at how much mayonaise and water a restaurant uses to estimate revenue. Same as number of cans of hair product for hairdressers.

And if a company is found at fault they force them to switch to predominantly taking card payments instead of cash to make it even more transparent for the IRS.

Apparently they also estimate people’s net worth by looking at registered cars, real estate and the length of you yaght… and this is pretty accurate to determine if an audit is in order.