There’s a few sides to the Soviet shopping thing. Price controls in the USSR meant that the shopping experience was very different in general. You could afford everything, but anything unusual or desirable tended to sell out immediately.

Yes, it was pretty typical. People had money, but couldn’t spend it. Rents were super cheap as well. So cheap they didn’t even cover the maintenance costs of buildings.

On a Mac Apple‘s Office suite is the better choice.

She didn’t mention neet, so I’m good.

Ketamine and alcohol can make you nauseous but unable to control your body so you asphyxiate in your own vomit.

Using existing roofs uses no extra space.

I remember being able to find things much easier, especially when looking for older news articles.

That doesn’t support your statements.

instead, every two weeks, she buys at least $35 worth of groceries online to avoid a $6.99 fee for a smaller order and pays a $7 monthly delivery charge not covered by her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits.

You’re using fact for conspiracy theories.

Did you read the article you linked?

The problem isn’t raw materials only, it’s production capacity. Missiles for patriot are only produced in low numbers per year. Increasing production capacity will need investment and time, and of course governments ordering more of them. The same is true for other high end weapons systems.

Finding a new source for raw materials might include construction of new mining and refinery facilities.

Enpass works well for me across platforms.

Gambling is addictive and can ruin lives.

China doesn’t distribute automatically produced goods fairly.

Social services are quite limited in China compared to European countries for example.

Long term planning and strategic thinking is truly their strength. For decades they have stolen and copied to catch up. Western countries and businesses only saw the profit margins of this huge market and went in.

It worked pretty well for China overall. Nowadays they can make pretty much everything.

What’s considered hate speech or incitement changes constantly.

When did Israel threaten to nuke Palestinians?

Germany supports the existence of Israel, not all of their policies.

medieval idea

Multiethnic empires were medieval practice.

Ethnic nationalism was a liberation of the people from imperial rule after those empires collapsed.

They were invited refuge

The League of Nations had designated Palestine as a future homeland for the Jewish people. Only a minority of local Arabs welcomed those that came.

Palestinian Arabs started the violent Arab Revolt in 1939 in order to stop Jewish refugees from immigrating. The British accommodated them by severely restricting the number of Jews they allowed into the country. They took it seriously. Thousands of Jewish refugees were held by the British in camps on Cyprus during the 1940s.

Golda Meir claimed they’re not real

She claimed there was no real separate Palestinian Arab identity from for example the Arabs in Jordan. That might even be true for the 1920s and earlier.

It took a while for Palestinian identity and nationalism to fully emerge and organize, including calling themselves Palestinians. By the founding of the PLO this has clearly achieved.

The name Palestinian was used by Jews in Palestine to describe themselves before Israel‘s independence. During the British Mandate Palestinian Arabs were not so fond of the word Palestinian to describe themselves, although some did.

It’s mainly an argument about the emergence of identity and the how words change meaning over time.