Noven [any] @ Noven @hexbear.net

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Caliban and the Witch is a solid read

I'll always remember how the movie First Man failed at the box office because it wasn't blatantly propagandising about the Americans winning the Space Race but instead just a movie about a deeply lonely and traumatised Neil Armstrong. Americans just want to see Neil Armstrong and his pal Buzz Aldrin sticking an American flag on the moon while the riff from Free Bird plays

We do not support class traitor Vi and Ku Klux Kiramman

Youtubers used to work 10 hour a day grinds trying to make daily videos to feed the algorithm whereas now you just need a few hours of high quality content a year to live comfortably off Patreon/Nebula/etc revenue. I'd feel like an absolute fraud too and pretend i'm burned out

The fact that you can remove the link to your tweet from any quote tweets on bluesky removes one of the fundamental aspects that make Twitter work (bullying annoying people)

Phrasing it like she's gonna start calling Latinos slurs because they weren't good little minorities voting for the Dems

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.

Someone in the bodybuilding community posting about politics

It's not about Jordan Peterson

I need to know how many people in that 1-3% said Italy

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