Considering the fact that uranium prices have been shooting up for the past year, the fact that this mine has been sitting idle until last week was seen by Niger as an indicator that the French were snubbing Nigerien uranium (that could have generated jobs, tax revenues, etc.).

Good move by Niger imo

The US disrupting foreign affairs in order to prevent an ally from swaying towards a rival? I've never seen this one before /s

Wait this is for China and not Baltimore

Any sale of a hundred+ billion dollar company takes years. Look at the attempted acquisition of ARM.

The absolute and blatant disregard for human life on show by Israel. All that bullshit about the West caring about human rights and democracy and freedom is just that: bullshit.

All brown people are the same ig

Southern and central China are drowning. Since June 18, the regions have suffered their worst bout of flooding in a decade, furthered by a category 4 typhoon that hit the mainland after sweeping through Taiwan Friday morning, local time.

This is... Absurd? It seems like as time has gone on, NASA has progressively shifted towards an outsourcing model for more and more of its programs.

This model obviously explodes costs, which don't help NASA's shoestring budget. But even in that context, this sounds absurd.

Yes, but see, the hospital was clearly Hamas because it's in Gaza and the Gaza Health Ministry is Hamas.

Not sure tbh

The world literally decided that it was better off with a big short-term bump in emissions than a smaller long-term one. That's the primary motivator behind the switch from coal to natural gas, despite how much worse methane is as a GHG in the short-term (<100 year time frame).