They have traditional values in Russia. It’s just that they are Stalin’s traditional values.

…and I can prove it!

I’d like to believe that, but I can’t see it happening.

Of course, there is a tractor company in Alberta, Canada that is making old school tractors without all the bells and whistles, and selling them for a fraction of what John Deere charges.

So maybe…

I hate to break it to you, but wages have become less and less fair. The person who created these plates may have been able to support a family on a single income.

They are increasingly expensive because the people at the top are demanding a higher and higher proportion of the income.

A lack of puritanism in their history?

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Numbers were often imbued with a mystical significance. For example, 40 with spans of time indicated that the time was chosen by God. 40 days and nights of the flood, the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years, Jesus going into the desert for 40 days.

People in groups of 12 were chosen by God. 12 tribes of Israel, 144,000 (12x12x1000) saved in the Rapture, 12 apostles, etc.

3 and 7 were similarly associated with God. Tions of examples.

Just picking a small nit: Matthew is not considered the oldest gospel, Mark is. There may be fragments of Matthew that are the oldest, but it is generally agreed that the writer of Matthew was influenced by the already-written gospel of Mark. Luke was written around the same time as Matthew, or a few (5-10) years later.

Also the largest proven reserves in the entire world.

That was only a master’s degree.

I think the subtext is, “it doesn’t matter, because they were Asians”.