LydiaK

Soccer mom from🇺🇸, here to support Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

76k followers and can barely scrape 1000 views now.

We are being “Starlinked”

This platform is absolute dog shit

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

We already have a European security architecture in place.

This includes international agreements under which Russia has undertaken obligations, including with regard to sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The problem is that Russia is not respecting these agreements.

All our focus should be on ensuring that Russia actually fulfils the obligations it has already undertaken.

My press remarks at the @G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting ↓

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

Wow, I am surprised. Good for Finland! If "well over 50%" can really afford this, it may be one of the best, most affordable housing markets in Europe. Texas and central regions of the US might be similar.

Let me describe the housing market where I live, San Jose - San Francisco metro area. Notoriously one of the "worst" places in the world for housing affordability! But all of Western USA, Canada, Australia are catching up fast to this "business model" of how society, real estate and birth rates work.

Population of the area is 7 million. I did a quick search: a 150 m2 home costs $2.3M in San Francisco, around 1.6M in San Jose, or 2.05M in the surrounding areas. Your monthly mortgage plus property tax will be around $13,000. The bank wants to see an annual income of around $450k to give you a mortgage for this very basic, old home. Surprisingly, 17% of the popualtion has that much income. Two doctors, two people with technology careers will have enough income. All other careers and professions - you are genrally among the 83% who do not make enough.

"Move to Texas then," say the Boomers, but moving a 5h flight away from your family and all connections can create more new problems than it solves. Plus, it can be hard for anyone psychologically to take a 50% pay cut just hoping that you can live in a house that is 70-80% cheaper like-for-like. Some do move to Texas, but most young people in the SF area live like in European cities, in rental apartments, with one child at age 39.

Even for couples whose income is above $200k and above $300k, the second child can seem like a luxury they simply cannot afford, as they are stretched out to the maximum paying rent and paying the expenses of their first and only very expensive child.

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

Interesting! Different story in the US: it was definitely easier to afford square meters 50 years ago than it is today. Also, social attitudes have changed in many ways in 50 years across Western countries. It used to be acceptable to leave a 4-year old home alone. Today it is seen as irresponsible. It used to be ok to just put 2 or 3 or 5 kids into one room. Today, it is not seen as resposnible parenting by most. Affording an own room for each child is generally seen as the standard. Some might say thay 2 children sharing a room is ok, but not probably not 3.

I'm curious, how much does a small family home cost outside Turku or Helsinki? For example 100-150m2. The kind of home that makes 2.0 TFR possible? What percentage of the 30-40 age cohort in those cities has a high enough income that this house is even a possibility, either to rent/buy?

I will be very surprised if you estimate it is over 50%.

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

This shows that housing space exists. It does not show if a 30-year old can afford it. Much of the square footage can be owned by older people. A couple may think about a second child, but that does not mean they can magically now afford 160m2 of living space on their income. Most probably cannot afford 120m2 to have the average per-person space for 3 people.

[Raphael Glucksmann @rglucks1]

Nous mettrons fin à nos dépendances énergétiques à la Russie.

Ce régime nous fait la guerre. Nous ne pouvons donc pas financer leur machine de guerre qui met au péril notre sécurité.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

This French election candidate is NOT Putin's puppet, so Musk's algo crushes his visibility.

Do what you can to boost him.

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

@Brian_Peotter I'd love to see the same type of table for women. Need a column added for stay-at-home moms and caregivers. Who is more likely to be on disability - men or womem?

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

@DrewPavlou US lost around 418,000 men fighting in World War 2.

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

@AbakpaJob You'd go to a 3-day music festival and not even bring a phone charger. Nokia batteries lasted a long time! Remember how we texted on those things... press the 5 three times to get an m and so on. Completely normal.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Never forget russian genocide in Mariupol.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Serial killer with a gun demands potential targets give up their bulletproof vests to advance peace deal.

[Marek Magierowski @mmagierowski]

Martin Bormann, quoting Adolf Hitler during an event at the White House, and presenting a gift to Eleanor Roosevelt. November 1942.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Watching Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, speak from a White House podium bearing the U.S. presidential seal while quoting Vladimir Putin is an image I will never forget.

Dmitriev praised Maria Lvova-Belova as a great humanitarian. She is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes involving the unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children.

He then presented Melania Trump with a painting reportedly made by a girl who, according to him, “chose to remain in Russia.” It read: “I love Melania.”

Melania Trump went on to praise Newsmax for its integrity in covering the operation in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where the outlet’s journalists traveled under Russian military guidance.

And to complete the scene, Davyd Arakhamia, head of Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People parliamentary faction, joined from the Ukrainian side to praise Melania Trump.

All of this at the White House.

Russia’s war against Ukraine continues.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

In races called, 17 senators are being replaced, already the biggest turnover in the chamber since 1980. The departing senators average age is 70, their replacements 55. The number of senators under 50 nearly doubles, from 8 to 15.

[Тётя Роза @Anakoyher]

Если ты убил 52 человека, ты серийный маньяк Чикатило. Если ты убил 2977 человек, ты международный террорист Бен Ладен. Если ты убил сотни тысяч человек, ты «гуманист» Путин. Не перепутайте.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we examine the ties of Donald Trump and his family to Russian intelligence operatives and the Kremlin. His current dealings with Putin may shock some people, but the pattern of collusion has been clear for more than a decade.

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[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

When your opponent pulls off a skilful operation, you’ve got to respect him.
I don’t remember a better stunt to humiliate and belittle America than the Homeland Security adviser sending his kids to the President’s Halloween line in Russian military uniform and dress.
GRU (or possibly SVR)–USA: 10–0.
This must rank among the top 10 mindf..ks of all time.
And I really want to know how they got to him.

[LydiaK @K2022Lydia]

The Trumps did not dress the child. Trump has been taking directions from Putin since 2016 and before. Russia is rubbing it in our face and having a good laugh about it. Russia hands Trump the talking points and thoughts, and Trump presents these lies as his own brilliant ideas. Russia hands staff these costumes, and they just throw these on their kids, "yay, free costume". Allowing your children to star on Kremlin TV propaganda. Everyone at the White House is too dumb to realize they are being used as fools.