Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Observations

 1.  Is Russia losing the war?

'Losing' is not the word that I'd use.  There's no doubt that the common Russian on the street has no 'tread' on his feelings and whatever happens....happens.

I do think economically....with Putin running things, there's no real GDP for 2022, and likely to be fairly dismal for 2023 as well.

Rebuilding the military assets from losses?  Oh, that might take an entire decade, and if they have lost 25,000 young men.....it will have an affect on society in the decade to come.

2.  Did the Germans admit today that of their 350 Puma APCs....only around 150 are operational?

Yeah.  Pretty dismal news for any war preparation.

3.  City pool in Gottingen (Lower Saxony) allowing topless situation?

Well....yeah, after a long bit of discussion.  They signed the rules to allow this.

4.  Are Germans hyped-up about Twitter?  

NO.  So this is an interesting aspect.

Most Germans use two media apps.....WhatsApp and Facebook.  Instagram comes in third at 41-percent of Germans using it.  Twitter is used by 21-percent of people (2021 numbers).

There are around 7-million regular users (out of 83-million in population) in Germany.  

Some journalists and politicians are hyped-up but it just isn't a big deal with most Germans.  Most know Elon Musk, and if you asked how they ranked Twitter for misinformation or propaganda.....even before he came along to buy it.....folks were probably in the one out of four believing some propaganda/misinformation was 'somewhere' on Twitter.  (note, I said some)

If you asked me out of the 7-million users here....how many were in the age group of 15 to 25....well, there's no statistical data existing but I would imagine half of the 7-million are in the youth group, and it's their primary way of getting news or sports info.    

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