Ah, I see.
Kepabar
joined 1 year ago
Eh, I'm here to relax and have fun.
Not be told I'm a piece of shit who deserves to be executed because I had the audacity to be born every ten minutes.
I did that for my employees this year.
Pissed off I've client who wanted us to work on their project this week because it's when they are least busy.
When I demanded 20k to pay out my guys to make them miss their week off they backed down.
If anything, that supports the idea that the poll numbers should be even harder against the war than they are reported.
It was all part of an effort to economically hurt Russia in response to the war.
Best case scenario was Russia deciding the hit to their economy was not worth the war and back pedaling. No one realistically thought this was going to happen though.
The next best case scenario was for the changes in quality of life for the average Russian would create enough internal pressure that the war would be called off.
This hasn't happened yet but internal support for the war has been dropping over the last year and some of that is attributed to the dismal state of the Russian economy, which is a direct result of things like Lush pulling out.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/02/russians-support-of-ukraine-war-collapses-finds-poll
And even if neither of these come up fruition, the more Russias economy is damaged the harder it is to fund their war effort. This gives Ukraine a bit more breathing room in their war effort.
While the effect of a single company like Lush is unnoticed, it's the collective effect of everything from these pullouts, to trade sanctions and other soft power diplomatic plays which total up to a noticable effect.
A lot of people.
Just because things don't turn out how you hoped doesn't mean you didn't make the right decision at the time with the information that was available.
Too often we judge past actions only through the lens of hindsight. It's useful for learning what went wrong but it's not useful for judging if something was the right decision or not.
Stormlight Archives vibes.
It's well documented that the leadership of both sides had some difficulty getting their soldiers to go back to fighting after the truce.
The average soldier did not want to fight. Leadership had to threaten charges of desertions and treason to get them back to fighting.
Why does everyone keep saying child poverty?
Like, do children in other countries have some sort of massive wealth I'm not aware of?
It happens, but it's limited to mastectomies.
There is also the argument that messing with hormones during puberty is probably not a great idea.