The Baloch Liberation Army and ISIS-K somehow grew significantly since 2022 when they started targeting Chinese workers in Afghanistan and Pakistan

It has begun

Enzo Fernandez has 7 (SEVEN) black French teammates at Chelsea and is on contract until at least 2030 alongside most of them, genuinely the dumbest footballer of all time.

Surviving an assassination and forcing a public Biden appearance? He really can’t lose.

It’s wild how the UK still has FPTP despite having multiple third parties with double digit percentages. It’s not even like America where 95% vote D or R, Labour and the Tories are on 55% combined.

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

Sony is a dinosaur company ran by businessmen who still believe if they make the games really hard you’ll be forced to put more quarters in your PS5 to keep playing, the average lumpengamer will not be able to manifest this into any other concessions from more competent billion dollar publishers (or more important issues than consumer rights)

None of these tribe boundaries are from the same time period, by the time the Hungarians crossed the Carpathians you already had Al-Andalus covering all of Iberia

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.

I’m sorry I ever doubted you Deng

They’re speaking Tajik

I mean, ISIS and Ukrainian co-operation is just inter-agency collaboration considering they are guided by the same 3 letter agency.

Makes me believe the ISIS stuff is true since a huge number of central Asian and Russian muslims were recruited by ISIS with the aim of carrying out more attacks on Russia.

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.

The response to photos from the explosion are actually unhinged, how is your response to seeing a tragedy “we must commit equal and opposite tragedies in response”

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

In London, two-thirds of live births last year involved parents where either one or both were born outside of the UK, the highest percentage of such births of all the English regions and Wales.

This has “broader national public policy” implications explained Travers. Given the different fertility rates across various ethnic groups, “in areas with relatively low migrant populations, we’ll probably see the proportion of people born there will be lower than in big cities such as London”, he said.

Gotta remember to add a little bit of fuel for the Great Replacement folks

I’ve never seen downvotes used for anything other than indicating to others who to dogpile on, without it a lot of people simply won’t know which side of an argument they should be on