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I bet it’s more like a cake

I think that unlike in some other places in the world, Italy has fully outlawed death sentences more than a hundred years ago, along with slavery.

Is it just me, or is the article trying to make the point that arresting the drug lord was a bad thing?

Yeah, the last time the Russians denied having troops attacking Syrian positions, the US did the “is this yours? I’d like to clean it up otherwise” routine.

It is now known as the Battle of Khasham, with casualties on the US side numbering 1 Syrian fighter being injured, while on the other side accounts differ between 100 and 500 Russian Wagner soldiers killed.

Stock valuations are based on Wall Street feefees, not the actual economic performance of a company. Even if said economic performance is shit, it only affects stock prices as much as institutional bankers feel like it should.

It’s basically a casino run by the super rich, and people in the US get their retirements in its chips.

Why is sociopathy and psychopathy not a condition requiring treatment? This guy would have needed serious help 80 years ago, as he is unable to live in and contribute to society, and now people think he’s qualified to shape it?

Celebrating Christmas close together with family, wife and kids. And this one young ex-sportsman dude that’s somehow in all family pictures now (on his own social media no less).

People were quick to point out that only the wife was wearing shoes indoors, almost as if she only was a guest for the picture.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t care he’s apparently spending a lot of time with a dude any more than I’d care if he was spending it with a younger gal. It’s just fucked up in the context of everything.

Just anecdotally, but Hungarian prices went way up above the inflation that the exchange rates changing would justify. There are a few explanations why it happened in Hungary.

• One is prices are getting “unanchored” and are easier to gouge. Someone used to a loaf of bread costing 400 in local currency will buy one loaf for 1200 as easily as 800. It’s basically nobody knows by habit what the prices are any more.

• One other explanation goes that the uncertainties of the economy get baked in to the price. So if the bread was made for 200, but is now made for 400, the trader will price based on the assumption the input prices might double again, pushing the risk to the customer.

• Yet another explanation is that since prices went up, fewer people buy the same goods, so prices must go up again to have businesses stay afloat. So basically there is an inverse economies of scale effect happening.

• Finally, in these countries it happens very frequently that parallel economies emerge, and societal divides widen. Point is, there is a group of people who get paid by foreign companies in foreign currency, and they earn much better than most that have been affected by inflation, and more and more of the economy is targeting them exclusively.

IDK really, as on the one hand I’m not an economist, only pointing it out that this is not the only place and time this happened.

Hungarians call him the Cockatoo.

Come to think of it, the English translation of that is quite funny, as it is an open secret he has a gay lover that lives together with his family.

Cock-a-too. Giggle.

Nah, the capitalism parts of the NL are the most often criticised ones. It’s a tax haven for corps - did you know IKEA is a Dutch charity? - and the healthcare system is only getting worse because of copying US patterns of private ownership.

Well, that just evidences that the only good way to do capitalism is with a wealth tax and unlimited paid sick leave.

Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.

Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them

That’s just the Netherlands.

• wealth taxes ✓
• insanely good infrastructure ✓
• reasonable worker’s rights ✓
• an actual swamp ✓

Can’t slow down something that’s not moving.

That said, I’d rather play a union made TES6 than another non-union Starfield.

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I love how this still has to be called out like this.

Metals are crystalline, and high stress loads associated with being rotated like crazy make things brittle. IDK how brittle though, steel normally is super stretchy if I remember my studies right.

The thing that Trump wanted last time he was around was for everyone to buy more weapons, because he thought it unfair that the US spends much more on NATO than the EU. He thought that since the US had a much more developed MIC, this would mean Europe paying a shitton of money to the US.

The thing he didn’t understand was that on the one hand, the EU MIC is undeveloped deliberately to let the US win at military exports in exchange of them funding our defense. On the other hand, the US MIC does not fill a lot of niches that Europe needs.

Best example of this is that when he did his big visit to Hungary, he convinced Orbán to up his military spending. What happened though was that he didn’t buy F35s, since Hungary has no infrastructure to field those, he bought Swefish fighters, German helicopters and tanks and an Airbus airliner to ̶t̶̶a̶̶k̶̶e̶̶ ̶̶h̶̶i̶̶s̶̶ ̶f̶̶a̶̶t̶̶ ̶̶a̶̶s̶̶s̶̶ ̶̶t̶̶o̶̶ ̶̶f̶̶o̶̶o̶̶t̶̶b̶̶a̶̶l̶̶l̶̶ ̶̶g̶̶a̶̶m̶̶e̶̶s̶̶ ̶̶ ̶̶act as military transport.

Military spending up, yet not a cent to the US MIC, instead Hungary supported domestic competition. And that’s Trump-friendly Orbán. Imagine the rest.

So what the Norwegian guy is saying is “all bets are off, we aren’t sitting this out anymore”.

True Airspeed here.

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