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In French as well, FWIW.
French is now in bed with russian? Mont dioaux ;)
In 19th century, almost every Russian either spoke French fluently, was a priest or couldn't read.
McDonald’s to Exit from Russia
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How on Earth is possible to design a high-calorie food (this is a promice of MacDo) which makes you feel hungry shortly? For me it works like a regular food. Sugars and refined flour does this. The foods spike your blood sugar and then cause a crash.
Don't let me misunderstood you, but you say that if I add some sugar or bread to my meal then I will feel hunger sooner. Seems like totally unreproduceble setup for an experiment, every my food intake tells me that the higher the calorage the more fuel.
Try instead replacing some of the fat with sugar.
It's all biological fact.
Research Insulin, blood sugar, and Ghrelin.
Insulin responds to high blood sugar levels and tells all your cells to take in the sugar. Ghrelin triggers when you eat fatty foods and tells you you're full.
If you spike your blood sugar, then you spike your insulin, then your blood sugar crashes. The metric for that is glycemic load.
None of this requires such a high level experiment as you've mentioned, but it could be done.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO McDonalds was among the healthier and reliable choices when it comes to eating out in Russia. I could be reasonably sure I won't get food poisoning at a McD, for one.
Was that because McDonalds is healthier in Russia than elsewhere, or just because the rest of Russian restaurants food is even worse?
IMO Russia doesn't have a very developed culture of eating out and strong traditions of safe meal preparation, so it's really hit or miss in cafes and restaurants. Accidental remnants of plastic packaging, undercooked meat, stuff like that even if you pay mid range prices. In fact, it could be safer to eat in a cheap local diner, but you really have to know one and they generally work limited hours. Without that option I'd go for McD if there's one.
FWIW IMO this is true for many countries.
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#314::gulp::...I guess WWIII it is, then
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#315They never had an issue operating in Saudi Arabia despite the invasion of Yemen. They still maintain their Guantanamo Bay location. How is operating in Russia inconsistent with their values?
These things are not the same.
So what are their values that make the first two acceptable but not the third?
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#316This is a surprisingly well-written, engaging corporate statement. Most statements are pretty bland and purely to the point but after reading this I thought I was reading news coverage of their exit not their own statement.
In Germany this is called "Gratismut" (gratis bravery). It's the current thing to hate Russia, so they don't lose anything by doing a passionate write-up about it. McDonald's also wants to convince you that they have any values, but in reality they have no problem with horrendous human rights violations in other countries.
Exactly. Same as Apple waxing lyrical about privacy, all the BLM bandwagon jumping in 2020, etc etc ad nauseam
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Russia has uniformed soldiers in there conducting war -illegally, if wars are other than illegal, or at least not sanctioned by the UN and also committing war crimes. But I don’t think it’s terrorism. Terrorism usually has a few criteria: not a regular army, and typically don’t use heavy military equipment but rely on guerrilla tactics and aim to terrorize because they are incapable of taking over a territory —becaus…
There’s plenty of evidence though that the Russian army is seeking to terrorize civilians, including bombing hospitals / schools and leaving mines and booby trapping homes of civilians, specifically because they are having trouble taking over the territory. It would be weird to me that a military unit can do what terrorists do and not be labeled that way just because they are officially part of an army and have moder…
I think we need to be careful. Is it the stated goal and mission to terrorize or is that being carried out by rogue units? Most army and war operations do have rogue units —those doing things on their own. Just about any war has this aspect. If this is a criteria then we’ve all been terrorists and calling terrorism ceases to have a defining meaning.
But again it likely depends on how widespread and sanctioned or ignored by superiors these tactics are in the current conflict.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s plenty of evidence though that the Russian army is seeking to terrorize civilians, including bombing hospitals / schools and leaving mines and booby trapping homes of civilians, specifically because they are having trouble taking over the territory. It would be weird to me that a military unit can do what terrorists do and not be labeled that way just because they are officially part of an army and have moder…
I think we need to be careful. Is it the stated goal and mission to terrorize or is that being carried out by rogue units? Most army and war operations do have rogue units —those doing things on their own. Just about any war has this aspect. If this is a criteria then we’ve all been terrorists and calling terrorism ceases to have a defining meaning. But again it likely depends on how widespread and sanctioned or igno…
I understand the need to be careful but when you have widespread reports of execution and rape of civilians in all the areas being invaded by Russia (i.e. all 3 fronts) it seems to be more of a pattern than an exception.