Sacred bovine! I would not go through all that in normal life. I am sure that the reason we have this process is because top managers don' t have to follow it.
Official poverty rates fell last decade across the US, but the *asterisk* is that 2009-2011 rates were affected by a severe and long-lived recession. 2019-2021 rates were affected by #COVID-19 and its related economic slowdown, but also by stimulus packages.
#MS had the highest previous rate, at 21.0%, the only state above 20%. #NH had the lowest previous rate at 7.3%. Ten years later, #Mississippi's rate fell to 18.1, which still appears to be highest; #New_Hampshire's rate reached 5.6%, which likewise appears to still be the lowest.
« Reflecting on the historic roots of today’s Ukrainian resistance, Paievska recalls a series of atrocities that serve as grim milestones of Russian imperialism in Ukraine. Her starting point is the early eighteenth-century sack of Ukrainian Cossack capital city Baturyn by Russian imperial troops, which was accompanied by the massacre of an estimated ten thousand Ukrainian civilians. “Ukrainians have not forgotten Baturyn,” she says. “We have not forgotten the forced famines and the mass executions and the deportations. The genocide of the Ukrainian nation has been going on for more than 300 years. How much longer can this continue? How much more blood must be shed?”
Ultimately, it is this sense of historic mission that Paievska believes will help Ukraine win the war. While modern Russia remains trapped in the imperial past, she argues that Ukrainians have a clear and compelling vision of their future as an independent European democracy. »
[This is an anti-colonial war of independence, but the Cheap Left either keeps its mouth shut, tacitly supports Putin, or explicitly blames the U.S.]
The main reason why demands for negotiations between #Ukraine and #Russia are so utter pointless:
Since the amendment of the Russian constitution in 2014 (after the annexation of Crimea and its incorporation into Russian territory) and the amendment of the Russian constitution in 2022 (after annexation of the four Ukrainian oblasts and their incorporation into Russian territory), any Russian president or his negotiator would break the Russian constitution and commit high treason if he were to negotiate over these territories. At the same time, every Ukrainian president or his negotiator would break the Ukrainian constitution and commit high treason if he were to negotiate over these territories. Both presidents are obliged to defend and preserve their respective constitution.
That is: Russia as well as Ukraine, at the price of breaking their constitutions, cannot negotiate over these territories. Thus, only the war can decide who will have to amend his constitution.
So much contra the cheap Left who claims a) that negotiations are possible if people only want to; and b) that in reality it's the USA that is prolonging this war. Learn something!
The situation nearly had me and other dining room customers in tears, but one compassionate manager was able to resolve it and comfort the obviously upset customer.