I hope that Mazda isn’t a diesel one.

Imagine a company that sells a lot of products online. Now imagine a scraping bot coming at peak sales hours and looking at each product list and page separately for said service. Now realise that some genuine users will have a worse buying experience because of that.

That’s what you get for liking hibiscus.

Well, my wife still needs to get to work whilst it is getting fixed and the repairs are going to take months. If we choose to repair the car we will not be able to buy a new one so it’s a bit of a Catch-22.

Even if the car was fine, we would be still selling it. She had trouble with parking a car as big as a CX-5, and that car burns a bit too much diesel for her 70 km a day commute.

We are most likely to buy a car that’s at least 10 years old, we can’t afford any better. Probably we will be buying Toyota Auris for about 6K.

The first quote I got for the car was 1200 euros.

The engine repair guy said the repair would cost at least 3000, but the parts are hard to come by and it might take months just to get them. Getting them from the manufacturer would quickly inflate the price. And even if we replace all those parts, it would still prolong car’s life for 3-5 years.

Yes, but it would be as expensive as the car. It is also technically possible to replace a bunch of parts in order to fix it, but they are hard to get and expensive to get from the manufacturer.

Yes, it is something very similar to that.

Might be, might be. Or WellThatSucks if we have one.

The engine doesn’t supply the oil to some of it’s parts properly, so parts like the turbo compressor went bad.

The car is too old for that.

Yes. But to see the defect, one has to remove the underside of the engine which we didn’t do.

“arbūzas” for Lithuanian

Ah, yes , the XTV, just like porn, but the one getting fucked is you!

You are forgetting The Wind Rises, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke at least.

Whatever stops them from doing their own Congress of Vienna II: Baghdad Boogaloo?

TIL. Cunk’s real name is Diane Morgan.

Does anyone else remember the “Yeah boiiii” game where you jump over obstacles?

BLT is also an abbreviation for a Russian swear word “blyat” which is the appropriate thing to say upon receiving this sandwich.

Thanks.

I avoid random X/Twitter links like the plague, since that platform is full of Deceptive Imagery Persuasion. Any video or photo can be taken out of context to mean the wrong thing. I could not find the CNN’s original video, maybe someday it will be easier to search for them.

I have been using Google for long enough to know that it often shows us what we want to see, not that which is most likely to be correct. :)

Characterizing the Influence of Confirmation Bias on Web Search Behavior It’s not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse

Now I see the foundations of your beliefs I can better understand your opinions. I still do not agree with them though, because I believe those foundations to be somewhere between flawed and ideology-driven.

First of all, Euromaidan was a coup, by it’s definition, but it was not instigated by the west, which I assumed was your opinion.

Regarding Russian economic data you seem to be flaunting, Russia has made it hard for outside sources to verify any of it.

Pollution Reveals What Russian Statistics Obscure: Industrial Decline Russian Economic Optimism Is Based on Suspect Data

I yet or bothered to translate the German or French links, but a lot of other articles I actually mostly agree with: Ukraine will struggle to achieve their objectives without western aid despite past successes.

You seem to derive a lot of your opinions from mearsheimer.substack.com source but the sources the author uses to prove your points often come from rt.com which is like, the worst source for this discussion.

I understand that these Internet debates are not for changing minds of my opponents, but to show my points to people who are not yet decided.

I will, however, refrain from posting on lemmy.ml in the future, because I can see that you are a mod of several communities on this instance and your overall conduct in this post has been rather childish and disrespectful. I feel like mods should hold themselves to a higher standard.

No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

Russian propaganda talking point.

If the west didn’t run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would’ve been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

Euromaidan was not a coup.

That’s complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.