[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 20 hours ago

I actually might need to side with Amerikkka here, unfortunately. Imagine declaring war on a Friday. You'd really change your fucking weekend plans for a war? Where people shoot at you?!??! So you can protect rich people's assets brow

But that's where the beauty of the Belt & Road Initiative comes in. Out of the 193 countries in the world, 152 of these countries are part of the BRI. And a very common characteristic many of these countries have is: they owe debt in USD, to the US government or other Western lenders.

This is where China's strategy could become truly clever. China could use its US dollars to help Belt & Road countries pay off their dollar debts to Western lenders. But here's the key: in exchange for helping these countries clear their dollar debts, China could arrange to be repaid in yuan, or in strategic resources, or through other bilateral arrangements.

This would create a triple win for China: they get rid of their excess dollars, they help their partner countries escape dollar dependency, and they deepen these countries' economic integration with China instead of the US.

TL;DR China is the Sun God Nika and the US is the Gorosei. luffy-pog

Also bullish for bitcoin.

I haven't gotten very far in it and I've been exposed

Yeah, fair enough. Elden Ring was a masterpiece. I hear they did it again with DLC. Then, as far as I'm concerned, they exited stage right. Beautiful performance

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cognitohazard Suffer with me, comrade.

It has the conclusion of Wano in it.

https://x.com/dailyportgas/status/1845388148085489753

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My hobbies sound fun. Food tastes delicious. Energy is running through me. We're so fucking back. Lets fucking go!

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 131 points 4 months ago

Shout out to someone who knows how to shut the fuck up

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 79 points 4 months ago

The problem with Trump is not that he can't read the room. On the contrary, that's part of the problem. The room is filled with transphobic, military thumping, chauvinist, xenophobic, treat gobbling bullshit.

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I'm undecided until I see them.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 79 points 8 months ago

"damn, you're uncommitted? is there anything i can do to convince you?"

"yes"

"ah, well, nonetheless..."

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 82 points 8 months ago

I don't think Biden being a pragmatic choice is a settled matter. I haven't seen anything that implies he is a meaningful distinction on things I care about.

Israel? Nope

Student debt? Nope

Abortion? Nope

Unions? Nope

Climate change? Nope

The border? Nope

Homelessness? Nope

War on drugs? Nope

Inflation? Nope

Tax lobbying? Nope

Healthcare? Nope

LGBT protection? Maybe if you squint your eyes

Campaign finance? Nope

Difference between productivity and purchasing power? Nope

Copyright? Nope

Breaking up big business monopolies? Nope

Oh yeah...

And...

WAR????????????????? FUCKING NO

The worst most hawkish fascist military might that has ever existed and continues to constrict the entire planet? Nope

The only difference is whether fascists get radicalized or they get emboldened

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Run it back you coward. 3 more days in Termina, 30 new masks, 3 new transformations, 6 new dungeons.The woke media won't admit it'd be GotY even if they recycled the assets because they want to keep making AAA games.

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https://nitter.net/aaronbronsteter/status/1712211098764501027

(can someone help me make a nitter link please?)

In order for McGregor to be eligible via USADA, he'd have to wait 6 months. On October 9th, the UFC representative was like "Iunno bout allat."

As someone with many years of combat sport experience with a little MMA alongside a working knowledge of MMA in the UFC and otherwise, it's quite the meme to have people not get USADA tested. Of all the problems with fight prep, I would have put dehydration for weight cutting at the highest problem over USADA testing. It's apparently annoying, but for a sport whose history includes people juiced to the gills, it seems like the superior alternative to allow people to fight without jeopardizing their health. When the UFC pays out so poorly, it's not really worth your health for a lot of would be fighters. It's also why you can't kick to the head on the ground. Sure, there are times that the combat sports shows its sportiness with unrealistic exchanges and sometimes it gets abused by people waiting to be stood back up, but if it means people are cracking each others orbital bones, it's a respectful addition for the fighters.

As a lefty, It seems like the enshittification continues. Can't afford to properly test fighters because McGregor needs to come back NOW. Now fighters are going to be stood back up by a ref so they can use their uber muscles to break another man's orbital bone with a giga punch.

I try extra hard in chess when the opponent has an Israeli flag rat-salute

"Never thought I'd post side by side with a lesbian trans Jew"

what, why?

"Just never crossed my mind"

luffy-pog

evil cops imply the existence of good cops which makes the game unrealistic

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It's recently come out that, on September 10th, Lauren Boebert was removed from the play Beetlejuice in Denver. This would be all fine and good, right? A politician is being an asshole. The sky is blue. Well, Hexbear, it is anything but fine. Anything but.

The plot thickens when it's revealed that, beyond the vaping and the being loud (which is it's own struggle session whether that's based), that part of her contribution to getting owned was that she was giving her partner an over the pants handjob. Now, this would have gone through the news cycle with a sensible chuckle for me, but, my fellow hexbearians, do I look like I'm having a sensible chuckle? NO! This is literally me right now. See, what had happened was that this news circulated to the website that I like to post on. The title of the post was "boebert was giving a no-foolin for-reals handjob during the beetlejuice musical" This post got some of the most vile, vitriolic comments I've ever seen in all my posting.

>no-foolin for-reals handjob >over the pants rubbin Y'all that's not even a handy to a seventh grader. @regul@hexbear.net

unironically this @WoofWoof91@hexbear.net

Let's get one thing straight here, hexbear. Over the pants is a handjob. This is my central thesis. Let's start with the most obvious positive case. If you have sex with a condom, do you call it over-the-condom sex? Of course not! Protected sex, maybe, but you wouldn't call it not sex. Would you call a blowjob with a condom not a blowjob? Of course not! If you did that'd be annoying and weird. Let's try not to be annoying and weird. skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. Repeat it once more for the people in the back getting a handjob rn: skin-to-skin contact with the genitals isn't a requirement for something to be called a job. If home runs are so unambiguous, why is third base so "ambiguous?" Because of a single fringe case. If it wasn't for the existence of this fringe case, then there's be no argument about how getting your genitals stimulated works.

Fairies, monsters, and others that go bump in the night, let me introduce you to the water jet/bubbling system of a hot tub. Wikipedia defines a hot tub as "a large tub full of water used for hydrotherapy, relaxation or pleasure." Let's explore that last word, pleasure. Whom amogus hasn't used a hot tub as it was meant to be used. I think this is where the friction comes from, the jet stream in a hot tub. Dissenters will say (like sniveling cowards) "b-b-but WDYMP, the hot tub isn't sentient, it can't give you a job!" Let's get one thing straight, if you had your hands over the edge of a hot tub and your partner was pushing your crotch into a jet stream, that would be a type of job. The solution, my compromise for the haters and losers, is what I would like to call the jetjob. It would be a normal jetjob if they're pushing you via hands on the buttox into a water jet, and a reverse jetjob if they're using their feet. It would be a backwards jetjob if your back is facing the water jet. This also expands the capacity for a combo jobs because your crotch is facing your partner. This would be the exciting introduction of the triple job if they're using a hand, their mouth, and the water jet. I propose that, upon climax in such a fashion, one would exclaim "Tic tac toe, three in a row!"

With this, let's get one thing clear, over the pants is a type of handjob the same way that over the condom sex is a type of sex. If we can start using the term jetjob, then it will be easier to recognize when something is a job and when something is not. This would also be a step closer to communism. Thank you. I hope I haven't fractured our fragile community too deeply with this.

Just want to take a second and say thank God I had Warcraft 3 instead of Roblox growing up.

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Critical support for Ganondorf? Seems pretty based. ESPECIALLY considering all the nonsense the Hylian royal family pulled in the shadow temple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWNGI87ptq4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H68zNGvit0

Edit: watching through the video, it becomes morally gray because there are, in fact, guillotines in the shadow temple. It's hard to say who was right and who was wrong because of this.

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