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I still have to ask what you're trying to argue. I mean, my argument is that Holodomor is a reason for Ukrainians to hate Russia, because Russia is responsible for it being as bad as it was.

That there haven't been a huge number of famines otherwise, continuing into modern times, isn't something I've argued.

That there was a famine that killed 3-5M Ukrainians less than a century ago, that might negatively affect the views Ukrainians have on Russians even before Russia invaded again, is what I figured relevant here.

...it was fun...perfect thing to accompany a drink in the other hand.

Something to do while talking to folks...

Great excuse for a break, and when they made us go outside....it actually was a chance to hang with upper upper management quite often and get their ear when you otherwise would never see or meet them...that was always helpful in business.

I'm a bit of a firebug too, so lighting them was always the best part.

It also mean you always had a REAL lighter to hold up at concerts when cheering for encores....people holding phones up now...ugh.

Too bad they can't some up with a healthy way to do it....but oh well, at this point in my life, I'd rather do what I can to extend what I have left....but man, I sure do miss it.

I think you're already plenty concerning just on your own!

Looking, I'm not seeing much. Can you name a few cases so I can see what happened?
I'm actually seeing more exonorations because of DNA. I did find one case, but that was a police lab contaminating a sample by not properly cleaning equipment, not a DNA database problem.
I've read write-ups where they find a relative of a suspected offender in the DNA database, but in those cases the officers DID go for collaborative evidence. More DNA from more relatives, for example, to nail down the actual suspect.
For example, my dad found a relative via DNA testing, she was the result of an affair. Having DNA from multiple relatives allowed him to narrow down the possible father to two brothers. That is enough for a warrant, but probably not an arrest.
'Too many officers' isn't a problem I think we're anywhere near yet, more the wrong type as officers.

The police can screw anything up, of course, and prosecutors are sometimes little better. However, I'm not aware of any actual arrests based 'solely' or even mostly on a cosanguinity comparison. Instead, they use the cosanguity match along with other evidence to get a warrant for the suspect's DNA.
My dad, before he passed, got big into genealogy and ancestry. A 4% match, while a low percentage, is still enough to reliably indicate relationship. We have stenography systems that can still make a match with less remaining.
I've read some write-ups on what can happen. They get the initial hit of a possible cousin or such. They can then hit up other people in the family tree in many cases. The parents, a different cousin, it can all help nail down what section of the family tree the sample matches. Eventually they get it down to a person.
At this point, they generally haven't actually arrested anybody, but gotten a warrant for a DNA sample.
Haven't seen any cases where they both arrested and took somebody to trial without a direct DNA match.
As for bail - you do get bail money back if you pay the bail directly. It is a bail bond, where you pay a 3rd party to put up the bail money, that you don't get it back.
For what is generally a 'cold case', they don't arrest people willy-nilly.

Are you OK? You don't seem OK.

Okay, some thoughts on this:
1. The data has already been handed to the police. They've been using it to solve decades old rape cases and such.
2. Unless YOUR DNA turned up at a crime scene, it is unlikely that the police are going to arrest you over it. Unless you have an evil twin out there, it's not a very realistic problem.
3. The problem is also actually WORSE than you state. You see, YOU don't need to submit data to be found. In a number of the cases, a semi-distant relative, like a niece, submitted their DNA. This gave them a match with their suspect as a relative. So they go looking for family members who might have been in the appropriate area at the appropriate time. At least for now, only really used for rape and murder cases, where they're willing to expend a lot of funds to solve it. Between the relational DNA match and the location, they can often get a warrant for an actual DNA sample.

I've also seen video of where the suspect blew a 0.00 on the breath test and was promptly arrested for DUI despite it. Then a full test and workup at the police station, only for the police to have to release him because they found nothing. The teen was in high school sports and drug tested like every other week anyways. Of course, he ended up suing for stuff including the arrest after the 0.0 (what reasonable suspicion was there other than him being a snarky and somewhat cold teen?) and the police ended up giving him city money (because that doesn't affect the police budget at all) to go away.

It's time to learn about the REU!

"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

I think it says something that despite the US invasion of Afghanistan, all the destruction and death of that, by reports most Afghanis still hate Russians more.

The US is "the assholes who don't understand us." Russia is "those fuckers"

Don't forget that one of the first actions after the failed lightening strike was to conscript pretty much every man they could out of the Donbass region (where the mistreatment was supposedly occurring) and send them to the front lines to largely get killed.

If Ukraine had been mistreating them at anything near that level, the region would have been depopulated long ago. Russia managed to kill more in the area in a year or so than Ukraine would have managed with its supposed "mistreatment" in centuries.

Restoring relations with Russia was Petro Poroshenko's platform, the incumbent that Zelensky beat.
That said, as a powerful neighbor, militarily and economically, good relations with Russia is a good thing, remember?
The invasion was triggered by Zelensky getting too close to the west.
If he was so for Russia, why would Russia need to invade?

Yes, a blurry version of it that we can't see the details of, such as his blown up version that doesn't necessarily contain the stuff he said.
Besides, I already acknowledge the Nazi link, while pointing out that the Totenkopf has an extensive non-nazi history in the area
If that's all you have to go on, it's not much.
It'd be like insisting the Nazis were nice people because they used the Swastika as a symbol, because it was traditionally a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

You know that comparing him to Saddam isn't doing you any favors, right? Saddam is widely held as evil in the West, right along with Hitler, Stalin, and such.

The Klan were already in positions of power. My understanding is that while heavily right-wing and nationalist, Ukraine felt they could be contained and channeled. It's a different strategy, but it seemed to be working.

Well, if you're going to admit to being gullible, I'm not going to argue with you about that.
Again, why would I care about the Tsars? They're gone. Who are you going to pull out next, the Mongols under Ghengis Khan? This is what I mean about "whataboutism" - You keep pulling up other examples of bad things, as though that excuses Russia's actions.
Was England (and most of Europe) evil during colonialism? Yes. On the other hand, given that the 40 year period you mention ended in 1920, IE "over a century ago", that means that everybody responsible for that tragedy is already long dead.
That said, if India still had a policy of hostility against England for it, I'd completely understand, I might even bring it up as an example.
But England isn't the topic here - Ukraine and Russia are, because Russia is actively invading the Ukraine.
Heck, after Maripul, if it was really about Azov, Russia could have declared it "mission accomplished" and gone home. Instead, Putin's terms of surrender are basically "Ukraine becomes Russian again." It's blatantly obvious what his goals are, and it isn't "denazification." That's just one of a long line of excuses used to obfuscate the goal, and only the gullible (which you admitted being) believe it.

Also, for the most part...a degree is MOSTLY to get your foot in the door right out of school and starting out.

After a few years....you then are dependent upon experience and contacts you've made to get better jobs that pay significantly more.

Why would you think you want to work for someone with arbitrary hiring criteria irrelevant to your actual abilities?

Money.

I mean, that IS the reason people work...right?

I mean hell, if they paid me $300K/yr to scrape dead cats off the road, I'd switch careers in a New York minute...

College is about learning to think.

Partially.....but in these modern times, college isn't JUST about the higher eschelons of thought....it is also training for jobs.

You learn chemistry to doing chemistry things, you learn engineering to learn engineering things ...you learn biochemical lab work to learn biochemistry.

Sure, you need to learn to reason, etc....but it is far from a pure form of education for education's sake and learning to think, you ARE there to learn real skills...at least the ones hoping to actually earn top $$ when they graduate.

That's why the majoring in non-binary trans Eskimo communism studies really isn't the best idea of how to spend your hard earned $ for school.

I'm pretty certain an electric motorcycle will be at least as dangerous as a gas one.

That just wouldn't cut it.

Part of the motorcycle experience is the visceral feeling you get with the engine rumbling beneath you....the sound, the smells. Also, the connection to the machine with the gear changing, engine braking...clutch, etc.

You feel connected to the road more....

There is a lot of things that make riding an ICE motorcycle enjoyable and a true experience for the rider today....a motorcycle is NOT just about transportation from A to B.

Hell, some days I get up early on Sunday morning before traffic hits (In the New Orleans area...on Sundays you can often have the roads to your till about 11am.

But I'll get up early, gear up and just "ride".....with no set destination in mind. I'll ride familiar roads....I may veer off and explore roads unknown...I just ride.

I saw your reply to someone else and no....adding "speakers" to simulate the sound just isn't going to cut it.

If the only choices I was was an electric "motorcycle"...I'd like not bother anymore...at least half the experience that makes it fun and give one a zen feeling, would be gone.

I think I've got an excellent chance of being able to ride my normal motorcycle till I'm too old to do so...gas isn't likely to disappear in my lifetime, nor will ICE transportation....especially not in the US.

But if it does happen, I do feel sorry for those in the future that can never experience it.