The only military invasion of Donbas was done by Ukraine. Large majority of the local population are Russians who don't want to be part of Ukraine.

As for the missiles, that is a practical matter of national security. US would certainly, and rightly, go to war to prevent Russian or Chinese nukes deployed within 250 miles of Washington DC, "independent, democratic" countries be damned.

It is also a matter of global security. Russia has

I think Russian population in Ukraine should have the right of self determination, based on precedent of Kosovo which NATO countries occupied and then recognized as independent even though ot had no legitimate claim to statehood.

I wouldn't support Putin invading the rest of Ukraine, provided they dont allow NATO missiles to be stationed there - see Cuban missile crisis for precedent.

99% of people in California can afford live in La Jolla, Pacific Palisades etc. We are not just talking what is pretty, but overall quality of life. Most of greater LA is not a worse place to live than se many medium size urban areas across the country. Why do you think California is losing population? It may not be overrun with homeless, drug addicts and criminals like Downtown and South LA, but it's still pretty grim and way more expensive than what you get for it. Not to mention taxes.

They already can. From Musixmatch front page:

  "Verified artists are able to manage and distribute their own lyric catalog on any international music channel â" such as Spotify or Instagram."

If you can't be bothered to do so and expect fans to decipher your mumbling, don't get mad when they get it wrong sometimes.

Just about everybody from car manufacturers, to utilities to oil companies are currently installing chargers all over the place anyway. Why should taxpayer have to chip in?

It's next to impossible to reach a critical mass without a new and more compelling product. There can never be another twitter, it has to be something else.

Sites like Gettr, Parler, Gab have found a niche in conservative politics but that's where they will remain unfortunately.

It's easy to switch, but people just don't do it. It's easy to never see an ad on the Internet but people still sit through ads before every youtube video they watch (shudder).

Lol, you literally asked for studies.

Ok, if you don't want studies, let's talk personal experience. How much do you wear a mask for on a daily basis? I don't know but I am guessing like many people who casually support this practice, you probably work from home a lot and only wear a mask occasionally?

Maybe it varies by person, or by mask, but I had to wear a mask for 5-6 hrs only a few times, and it was HELL each time. I bet almost everybody who has to wear a mask for work, can't wait to take it off. Making 5 year old go through that for literally no reason, and with evidence that it is harming their learning, social development and even hurting them physically is absolutely child abuse. How is it not?

I will add links to studies and some articles that further link to multiple studies below.

Btw, it is completely illogical to frame the question as a choice between wearing masks and getting Covid.

They get Covid anyway. 30 kids in the same room will pass the germs around, mask or no mask. Not to mention that cloth masks are mostly worthless against Omicron and that young kids take them off and constantly touch them and cover them with dirt, toxins and bacteria from their hands, which then have direct access to their lungs.

Most European countries have never required masking of young children and many have not required it at schools in any level. US is very much an outlier among countries with serious scientific base in masking 5 year olds.

The masks are stunting their development and causing their first year of school to be an utterly miserable experience, not to save them from Covid (which presents less risk to young kids than flu), but actually for no good reason other than maybe to placate teacher unions.

WHO and European equivalent of CDC recommend against masks for small children:

- https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/...
- https://www.who.int/news-room/...

Most countries other than the US do not mask young children:

https://news.yahoo.com/true-co...

Studies showing that masking students has zero or almost zero benefit:

- CDC's own study showing masking students (as opposed to just teachers) has no measurable benefit: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...?
- https://www.acpjournals.org/do...
- Teachers in Sweden with no mask requirement have average risk of catching covid compared to other professions: https://inproportion2.talkigy....
- No correlation between mask mandates and cases in schools: https://www.medrxiv.org/conten...

Studies and articles showing masking is harmful in several different ways for kids:

- https://www.researchsquare.com...
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
- https://www.hhs.gov/about/news...
- https://japantoday.com/categor...
- https://www.theatlantic.com/id...
- https://www.theatlantic.com/id...

Great strawman there. No, making a child put a cloth on their face is not child abuse. Making a young child wear a cloth on their face 7 hour a day for a whole year is child abuse. There are plenty of studies that show that this does more harm than good.

Making kindergarteners wear useless masks 7 hours a day, even now, is unforgivable child abuse imho.

Agreed, everything about it is political. Restrictions will be lifted due to Democrats looking at polls, not scientists looking at data.

If something that kills 60% happens completely different measures will obviously be warranted and put in place.

I don't get your point. Do you mean we should keep restrictions just in case, even though we know they are currently doing more harm than good? Imho, people shouldn't speak of restricting people's basic rights in such a casual way.

I don't like the overuse of the word monopoly either but regardless this is awful behavior by Apple. 30% of in-app purchases in 3rd party apps goes to Apple, and no alternative payment processors allowed? Market rate for payment processing is like 2%.

They already have it. If you care about it, don't use Chrome.

When Germans, Irish, Italian, Jews and Chinese arrived there was no welfare state. You either worked your ass off and lifted yourself up or you were screwed. Current immigrants can get a better life in the US than in their home country by doing absolutely nothing except being here.

he said that if Congress doesn't like what he's doing, they should come up with a law themselves
 
a) They don't have to come up with a law. Congress is not a law factory with lack of new laws being some kind of a horrible problem that the President has to fix.
b) If they come up with a law that he doesn't like, he already said he will veto it.
So, what he is really saying, pass a law I like or else I'll do it.