It has begun

EU liberals finally having their first interaction with Israelis and finding out why they're so hated

Found the report

To better understand the size and scope of the Chinese military budget, adjustments for differences in buying power and labor costs are necessary

According to the World Bank, the whole-of-economy GDP– purchasing power parity adjusted conversion factor was 3.99 yuan per dollar in 2022.29 This is noticeably lower than the average market exchange rate of 6.74 yuan per dollar in 2022,30 indicating that the true buying power of Chinese military spending could be higher than it first appears, if purchasing power parity remotely holds for military goods.

They're literally arguing that if the Chinese military was as inefficient as the US military their budgets would be the same

the United States military budget is one of the most transparent in the world; meanwhile, China’s ranks as one of the least.9

While these adjustments for differences in buying power between the US and Chinese economies help paint a more complete picture of Beijing’s budget, this $549 billion topline estimate does not include the vast uncounted military expenditures that China notably excludes from its military topline. In its annual report on Chinese military developments, the Pentagon confirmed that Beijing’s published military budget also “omits several major categories of expenditures and its actual military-related spending is significantly higher.”

Your military needs to uphold stock market prices through inflated military contracts, of course it's going to be more transparent on spending so Wall Street can gamble responsibly.

AI generated stuff just does that because of the sheer amount of deviantart porn it's trained on

At this point any government not trying to intervene is complicit in the crimes of israel. If the international rules based order means anything, 800 murdered in a hospital attack should erase any right for the state of israel to exist.

Crowd of thousands protesting in London right now. Haven't seen a turnout like this since the summer of 2020

They forgot to mention the most effective type of protest:

One line of police dialogue referring to the game's Scavengers faction has been altered from the English "Couldn't all these assholes bite it out in the Badlands?" to a Ukrainian phrase that translates as "Couldn't all this rusnia bite it out in the Badlands?" As Tarasov explains, "'rusnia' is a Ukrainian derogatory term for russians. Scavengers are the stereotypical Eastern European gang in the game's universe."

Adding new slurs to own the russians

She just died? Wow.

https://nitter.net/JosephPolitano/status/1699528251490619566?s=20

Demand for weight-loss drugs Ozempic/Wegovy is so large that the government of Denmark (where drugmaker Novo Nordisk is from) now has to publish GDP data excluding it Since the first half of 2022 (left), headline GDP growth has been 1.7% (blue), but ex-Pharma it's -0.3% (green)

Reminded me of folks in the news megathread talking about Denmark juicing their GDP a while ago. Pretty funny that it's inflated the figures by so much now that separate GDP figures have to be published to show that the economy sans-Novo Nordisk is still contracting.

Prigo has simply disappeared into one of his disguises and gone to live a quiet life in Argentina