I agree but Biden believed in the system so was always asking Congress for more funds. It's rough when half the politicians don't care. This is kinda chiding Biden for not being authoritarian enough.

I mean that is the political reality we live in the USA. Half the politicians (the majority of today) don't care and would just as soon trade the Donbas so Trump can save a little face and would rather align with Putin than the EU (Republican Traitors).

If Biden wanted to be a dictator he could have sent more aid but some politicians still believe in this democracy thing. Up until election day Biden was asking Congress for more money and weapons to send them.

Not just that but when you have 2 vendors the level of vendor-lock-in is rough so much so that many airlines buy from both companies just to diversify and make sure they have a good bargaining position when times to re-order. Pilots, mechanics, ground crew, a lot of these folks are trained on a specific aircraft so there is a lot of consideration.

There was a good video about how and why airlines choose their aircraft and Boeing's short term issues probably play not as big of a role as we'd think, there's still production orders for another 4000-plus 737-MAX.

Wendover Productions - How Airlines Decide Which Plane to Use

We also transplanted a worm into the brain of a former heroin addict and current fascist's butthole addict, and he is now in charge of health.

Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Oh shit this is precious AF, keep going with your absolute proof that your reading comprehension skills are shit.

The Rus' people started in Novgorod. The Rurikids spread to Kyiv, and the conquest moved north from there.

You are weaving quite the alternative history, here.

The name Kievan Rus comes from Russian. It was not a name ever used by the Principality of Kyiv.

I assumed you were Ukrainian due to the bullshit Ukrainian origin myth you're peddling, which is just as stupid as the Russian origin myth.
The Rus were Vikings that came over from Scandinavia and integrated with the Slavs.

And the Ukrainians apparently have you. I suppose Putin is worse... but frankly, I think you're both fucking disgusting.

That particular bullshit doesn't come from America. It's a European sentiment.
They were the Evil Empire over here.
My friend Antje from East Germany (pre-Soviet collapse) still sings Russian praises to this day. It's fucking bizarre.
But that's neither here, nor there- you're just as guilty, just less dangerous.

You've now adjusted "crime, median income and life expectancy." to be "all metrics", which is even more laughable.
You selected 3 metrics, and assumed that since some of the ethnicities listed are unimpacted in those metrics, racism is disproven.

The fact is, all that was accounted for was exposure to pollution. Period. That exposure to pollution is affected by redlining and other systemically racist systems. Reading any more into that is an argument you're having in your head, not one that I made. That's what makes it a strawman.

If this logic seems "crazy" to you, it's simply because you're not an intelligent person. And that's ok.
Perhaps you ate too many paint chips as a child. It happens.

Correct, that is what I said.

That is what I said.
However, that is not how you described it:

Are you legitimately confused by this, or are you trying to throw chaff into the air?
Every single one of those is entirely orthogonal to the practice of redlining, which wasn't even economic in nature- simply racial. It led to racial demongraphics being focused in shitty places.

No, it's your bullshit strawman.

a redundant array of inexpensive drivers of internal combustion engines. It's like how my wife and mother-in-law like to drive the car while I'm sitting behind the steering wheel.

No need. I think with your above capslock malfunction, and your complete lack of understanding of what the idiom "biblical scale" means, and your subtle intimations that somehow the cost of fossil fuels might not be enough to counter the literally billions of people who would not be alive today without their advent.

Truly, you're just a fucking idiot.

A real lightweight could get quite tipsy on a single Big Little Thing tall boy, 19.2 oz, 9.5% ABV. They're like four bucks at my local grocery outlet, too.

I used to have a fairly unfortunately serious drinking habit, but I've scaled back, and one of these gets me a nice buzz on. And I'm a big dude.

I also genuinely enjoy IPAs, while I would generally rather not drink a Pilsener and despise sours. But I'm not mad at people who want to drink those other beers, and a lot of people think an IPA tastes like Pine-Sol. People should let people like things, yeesh.

It's a formerly very common slang word in English, which you wouldn't know about, Ivan. Thanks for outing yourself, though. I honestly appreciate it.

The money "the industry" puts down for decommissioning never covers the cost and we always have to make up the difference.

Lives are saved, and lives are lost. But more importantly and validly than doing the math on the net, we should talk about whether we have alternatives now. For some purposes, no. For most purposes, yes. Therefore we can reduce our use of fossil fuels, and we should, because it will save still more lives. The debate is not over whether we ever should have started burning fossil fuels, because we could not have gotten here without them. It's about how quickly we can and should stop.

The health system is a problem, the diet is a problem, but the pollution is also a problem. Pretending it is not is literally insane, and it benefits no one except the owners and investors of the fossil fuel industry — and even for them there are significant negative effects.