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Give them a medal!

> Kyiv registered 9,120 marriages in the first five months after Russia began its full-scale attack on Ukraine last February, compared with just 1,110 over the same period in 2021.

Wow, that's really incredible. Love endures, love strengthens us, even in the darkest of times.

Edit: damn guys, just let me believe in love!

Do they wear wedding rings on right hands in Ukraine?

yes we do

Or, you know, we could stop all stupid wars and let everyone keep living.

Are you suggesting the wedding planner marry Zelensky and Putin? Bro, come on. There's a time and place and this ain't it.

Every place is the place for common sense.

People get married fast so they could move their loved ones to other countries easier. Love is not the primary incentive here. It's same in Russia, people want to leave the country for work and bring their partner with them.

I mean, that and also, living with the possibility of dying at any day makes you slightly more likely to want to “experience everything” before you die

Admirable idea, but what's your proposal here?

If they are doing it to protect their loved ones, it sounds like love is the primary incentive.

Also a lot of men going off to war. There’s both the “why wait” aspect because they could die at any day, and probably some military benefits that are paid out to spouses

Yes, that makes sense.

Who is we? Putin? Or are you suggesting Ukraine is somehow in the wrong?

that’s cool!!

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Love, or human primal instinct.
Remember the baby boomer generation? When our lives are under threat, we flock to procreate.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements/type/1941-1970/post-war-divorces?fbclid=IwAR3MVUrigakD28MP4lt0lQofQ77B14R-E23MAUGxlyIVTOEz_977q-vb8O8

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/march/how-world-war-i-changed-marriage-patterns-in-europe

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12179705/

We'll find out if it's really love in like 5 years by studying divorce rate.

I think you need to sit and think a bit more. We is us, humanity...

Could you explain what you mean?

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Sure, just sitting back and letting your country get bombed to extinction and letting the initial aggressor take everything from your people is the move.

I legit do not know if thats where im supposed to wear a wedding band in america or not. Im a terrible woman

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You do not? Who wears it left?

You are conveniently glossing over that the aggressors are taking lives. If you don’t fight back, you lose everything including lives. If you do fight back you have a shot of not losing the lives of your loved ones.

You can sit on that pseudo moral hill all you want. But I imagine you’ve never been properly punched in the face let alone had your life or the lives of your loved ones threatened. It’s very easy to be pious in a comfy basement with no threat.

Traditionally it’s left side ring finger in America because it’s “closest to the heart” but it’s all made up anyway so really whatever you decide.

My husband and I don’t even wear rings.

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Peace wasn’t an option when Russia decided to invade and start killing. Your mindset is tragically flawed and completely naive to the fact that truly evil beings live in this world and they control a lot of people.

I genuinely don’t believe you’ve been through these tragic events you speak of because you would know that the evil in this world is true. If you’re willing to roll over and die to any threat so be it. But humans typically have self preservation instincts for a very good reason and there is nothing morally wrong about standing up to the evil in this world.

Americans and Canadians lol

They mean not Russia, nor Ukraine, nor America. They're saying humans as a whole, which includes Putin(human) and that also includes Zelensky(human) as well as Hitler(human) they mean we as humans need to learn to coexist without war. It will never happen though because that would mean everybody agreeing on the same thing.

Nice sentiment though

Weird

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Enjoy getting absolutely rolled in life bud. Your opinion is ridiculous and if the world followed that flawed logic, the Nazi’s would still be ruling Germany and likely expanding out further.

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Theyre extremely naive and don't understand what's actually happening in the real world.

Yeah when the enemy is litteraly torturing children, you go convince parents to just let it happen in the name of peace

and many European countries

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UK too, I'm seeing a pattern here... Any Aussies wanna chime in?

Argentinian here, we also wear it on our left hand

Yes, we Aussies wear wedding rings on left hand, third (ring) finger.

They would kill, they are killing and they killed in the past

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Which we’re doing.

Are you suggesting Ukraine is not one of the most corrupt nations on earth? Are you further suggesting that Ukraine is not being used by the United States as a proxy war against Russia? Is Ukraine wrong?

Ukraine is wrong for bowing to US pressure and not simply going back to how things were. Ukraine is also bearing the brunt of that decision. Is that wrong? To continue to engage in a war you will never win, because you couldn’t handle agreeing to not be Americas bitch?

Hmmmm. Yup that sounds wrong.

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My husband and I have a wedding ring for both our left and right hands. This way we are always seen as married no matter where we travel in the world 🥰

Nothing brings a country together like foreign aggression.

Closest to the heart? Heard it was because it was the only finger with a vein that ran directly to the heart

Also if you are a soldier and get killed your wife/husbandgets death benefits. If she is just your gf/bf then they get nothing.

What about the millions of other Ukrainians that still get up everyday and go to work?

Same same

Lol! Russia is undoubtedly more corrupt than Ukraine, especially now since people have been weeded out from the start of the war.

Why is the US supporting Ukraine against aggression bad? Because Ukraine shouldn't exist? Ukrainians would vehemently disagree with you on that. Ukraine wants more aid, not less.

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That title is like 4 out of 10 at best.

Ivan, it's just lunch break, easy on the vodka there, comrade.

Metus hostilis.

So.......you wish there was a magic wand that would stop evil. How very mature of you.

For some reason I always thought it was distinct to Orthodox Christianity rather than a geographical thing, but I could be totally wrong. I don't know any Orthodox Americans, let alone married ones, to stare at their hands.

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Magic wand? Nope, you just stand against it. I can not order anyone to stand in the face of evil. I know what it takes. I'm still paying for it. But we, as a whole, have way more power than Putin or whoever stupid dictator. That is why it is OUR job to do it. Don't just celebrate someone else still standing, stand with them.

Trauma often leads to such decisions - marriages and children, because the human psyche needs the affirmation of love and life to survive the trauma. This is what you are seeing.

Yeah, Im sure you sitting behind a comfy chair on reddit would know the psych of people getting married in a wartorn country. Like what. How can you be so sure.

It's interesting that you've taken a perfectly grammatical headline and managed to turn it into an ungrammatical run-on sentence. Is this a special skill of yours?

I got married and had a kid out of trauma. Workplace sexual harassment, retaliation, and abuse. It's not the same as a war-torn country, but the main reason I changed my mind on those things.

I was not in a war-torn country, but I was in a personal psychological warfare with only one target - me. They say it is as bad as being in a war. At least the books I have read on workplace abuse do. The PTSD is comparable as well.

I think that's more about spousal benefits. Like people who were waiting for dragging their feet rushed now because of the war.

You heard about soldiers in the US getting married quick before heading to Iraq or Afghanistan I imagine this is not much different.

Not including Germany, who wears it on the right.

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I thought it was, too. My friend married a Greek-American guy in an Orthodox Church, and I think they did rings on right hand then and switched to left hand later just because they wanted to.

Imperial America, hiding behind modern banking.

America is the worlds mafia boss. March 2022 Ukraine and Russia were drafting a peace deal. Who do you think shut that down? Who really wanted the war?

Wait you guys usually wear it on the left?

Russia literally rolled in with tanks, not Ukraine. And Russia is the one literally run by mob affiliated oligarchs.

Funny thing is this a Cuban missle crisis in reverse, American expansion via nato forced Russia to act. Funny how people don't talk about the corruption in Ukraine and genocide they where doing ethnic Russians.

If China or Russia via there version of nato wanted to put a military based with missiles pointing to usa in Mexico or Canada u can bet ur ass we would invade 2. Hell if u have oil we will invade in the name of freedom.

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Sometimes article writers just need to learn when to put periods in their titles

Is this really what you have to say about civilians trying to live their lives in the horrors of the war?

You'd be surprised how fast Ukraine went LGBT+ friendly, especially Kiev after 2014.

It's just like what Voldemort came back to power people still needed to live their lives they're still has to be happiness

For a Claddagg, I didn’t think it mattered as long as the heart is upside down to everyone else and normal when you look at it. Every day I learn.

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I'm Orthodox and we wear the wedding bands on our right hand and they are placed on our right hand during the ceremony.

Every vein in your body is connected to your heart lol, thats how they get blood.

"Article writers" don't write headlines. Editors do.

legit like where else is that shit supposed to go huh

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Please go lick boots elsewhere.

This myth infuriates me to an unreasonable extent. If people just stopped to think for 2 whole seconds they would realize "oh yeah, i guess all veins are connected to the heart". Or do people really know so little of human anatomy?

Well by my experience I always see it on the right

58 marriages a day!? How the fuck is this possible?

Right hand, pointing away = single

Right hand, pointing towards the wearer = in a relationship

Left hand, pointing away = engaged

Left hand, pointing towards the wearer = married

Still I learn

That's an example of the US education system at work.

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Pretty sure it’s an Orthodox vs Western Christianity thing

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Yes, in lots of other European countries too, and non European countries

And English and Australians and many others

They should make a dramatized movie about her. Seems like potential for a great story and it could help fund relief efforts in Ukraine or something, sending food and warm clothes to families and soldiers.

My husband proposed to me with a Claddagh ring and I love it! I now wear it on my right hand and my wedding band on my left.

Lately I’ve been trying to be happy out of spite.

Many (maybe most) European countries do

My bad, apologies. I hope you heal from all the trauma as much as possible. I didn't mean to be an asshat and discount your trauma.

Right. His countrymen are dying fighting off invaders and this guy's brave for doing his job? Come on

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we south east asian (the ones who wears wedding ring) have it on our right hand. its the meaning for you that matters most 🙂

How lovely! Guess if I ever travel I'll need to invest in an extra ring!

Introducing: the venule and venous capillaries

My thinking is that (without looking at a detailed anatomy source like a textbook) maybe it's a vein that is still classified as a vein in anatomy and not what we would call a venule or the second half of a capillary bed containing 'venous blood'. Vein direct to heart not like branches of venules to vein to heart, maybe?

Edit: Wuh oh, I made a guess and decided to actually look into it more it's been fairly proven to be cultural belief mostly

Probably a common law <> european law kinda thing.

None, it doesn't matter I guess, everyone can choose which hand to put it on.

I'm 35 and have an engineering degree and my wife is a ICU nurse. I just learned how this stuff works like 6 months ago when I read the Magic School Bus book to my kid where they go inside the human body. Before that I just never even took the time to think about it.

Blood is stored in the buttcheeks

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Amazing that love is finding a way!

I understand. All I meant on this thread was that all we can do is stand against evil and injustice and hope that we find people to stand with us. At the end of the day, if enough of us do it, things will get better. People getting married and having kids in the worst of circumstances is just the human spirit looking for that connection and never giving up on what really matters in life.

there’s a joke here about the asshole ring

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The vascularity system is like a highway- it sometimes branches out from 'main' veins. The ring finger has a main vein running all the way to it, or something. That's also why in movies you see the spurt of blood if someone's fingers get chopped off, it's that vein.

I'm pretty sure death benefits for a partner still require a legal partnership of some kind in most cases. And it sounds as if you're assuming that Western Europe is 'the rest of the world'.

It was alleged that the ancient Egyptians believed this and that's where the tradition came from eventually.

We talk about the soldiers all the time. So it's not like we're ignoring them to talk about him.

Your comment history is wild but not surprising.

>You actually think Russia would be killing Ukrainians if they didn't fight back?

Russia has literally committed genocide against Ukrainians before. Do you not know what genocide is?

Blood from veins doesn't spurt out. Blood from arteries does.

Does the title make grammatically no sense or did my english skills leave my body?

I'm younger than you, not by much, but don't like putting my age on here. I work in IT and my wife is an ICU nurse. We talk about anatomy all the time (she's a biology nerd). I've known since grade school that blood goes everywhere.

However, she makes fun of me for "blood vein". Every vein has blood and it's an oxymoronic phrase... She proceeds to make fun of me... She also makes fun of me for a lot of other human anatomy things I say wrong. It's all in good fun. Until we visit the doctor and she makes the choice for me to get a shot over get oral medication and then proceeds to laugh at me because it hurts...

Dating or being married to a nurse is not for the weak of heart.

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If we wanted to be pedantic, most veins actually join up to larger veins which eventually join up to the Vena Cava which connects to your heart.

I say most because there's also the pulmonary veins which connects to your heart, but that also carries oxygenated blood so its a bit different.

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Swap the second comma for a semicolon and it flows better. For a news article title, at least.

Miss Frizzle really gets us understanding science.

🎶The More You Know! 🌈🎶

Ah thanks, now I get it

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I seriously doubt you're an expert on what the rules are for marital benefits in the entire world. And there's only one area of the world where its very likely that what you said is true. Western Europe.

I was on cloud 9 when i wrote that shit, i dont even remember the conversation.

r/boringdystopia

Gay people oppressed all over the world, not only in Ukraine. Ukraine is at war with Russians that took over Donetsk and Luhansk regions. When Russia leaves there will be no more rockets, very simple. How can you call Russians soldiers? They are criminals. They are invaders. Ukrainian people have nowhere to go to escape this evil. Russians can stop this here and now by just go home. But they won’t, because they feel entitled to choose how other nations should live

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Peace surely will come if all Ukrainians are killed. That’s what you state. Because Russia will not stop and if they defeat us they will come for you. And I didn’t state that Ukraine is perfect. We have issues a lot AND we have bloodthirsty neighbour that prevent us from progress. You can not improve if you only have time to barely survive. This is my last point because I see you have no idea what is going on and just try to be “not like other”

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You know what Ukrainians (common people and celebrities) did for months after February 24? We asked we begged we pleaded Russians to stop this to go against their government to sabotage this cruelty. What Russians did? Millions fled the country and stay silent abroad, millions laughed at deaths of civilians, hundreds of thousands came in Ukraine to kill, rape and still. War will end when this empire destroys itself like many other before it. You believes are naїve - you cannot protect yourself and loved ones simply by diplomacy. How you can create this “change in mind” in Russians? For the past 30 years they invaded 5 nations and only gained from it. They should be thought a lesson. Unfortunately, the best women and man of my people paying the ultimate price for it

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Well… what can I say, continue to live in the world portrayed by Russian propaganda and enjoy your privileged life. Apparently Sovereign country shouldn’t defend itself against invasion and genocide. You do know that Ukraine never was a threat and before 2014 had good for nothing military. What happened in 2014?🤔

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It is brave. Ukrainians stood unarmed before Russians tanks and it changed nothing because they do not see us as equals. Our suffering means nothing to them even more they enjoy this opportunity to punish us. Thank you for telling where are you from but it was obvious that you never experienced situation where the choice is fight or die.

English not my first language and it’s pretty tiresome to make a point to someone who thinks they know better. Have a nice life and enjoy Russian propaganda

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Sigh, u believe anything they tell you

Truth has to be spread somehow

Lol, you spread bs you saw on internet, not truth. I moved to Ukraine long before 2022 so don’t try to tell me what living in Ukraine is like

Never did, but what I posted is the truth. Ukraine are not innocent that just got invaded because Russia just felt like it