5T to continue, 2.5T to stop.

yup

Oh yeah, I see that in the graph now.

Penguin Per Pangolin

Government spending on R&D in China increased by 90% to US$133 billion in the decade leading up to 2023, according to the most recent purchasing-power-adjusted data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By contrast, in the United States, spending rose by just 12%, to $155 billion.

I think they’re not taking into account PPP. China is very likely spending more on science in PPP terms which is what really matters.

I guess they’ll have to board and kidnap those tankers then.

A few bombs ought to help with that.

I also enjoy discussing attack vecrors with my wife.

It’s the classic case of capitalists not understabding where their profits come from. If enough of us get laid off, we’ll remind them. Increasing exploitation only works to a point.

Is Bibi looking for an off-ramp? Cause it’s not up to him anymore. It’s up to Mojtaba now, or whoever else is left after they kill him. They can keep destroying the world economy with a few drones a day for many years to come.

I don’t think so. They can’t manufacture their weapons if the rest of the world stops exporting parts and material inputs to them. They are very far from self-reliant.

I understand that but the Israelis say the same thing as they’re killing Lebanese, Palestinian, etc. journalists in the region.

Tbh, after observing everything that’s happened since the start of the war in Ukraine, then Gaza, now Iran, I’ve come around to the conclusion that all dehumanization is counterproductive. It leads to too many errors in judgement and excess death even on “our” side as we preclude ourselves from taking off-ramps.

Whenever you see a rocket landing next to a civilian and you feel regret that it missed, that’s a sign it’s time for some self-reflection. 😄

Consider how our opinions would have been shaped if there was no reporting from inside Gaza and all the info we got was from IDF or IDF-approved reporting from Israel. The purpose of sending live reporters in hostile territory is to avoid that outcome.

I’m sure some US oil execs think they’ll come ahead from this, and they’re probably whispering in Trump’s ear. Except they might not survive the incoming economic shock themselves in a classic capitalists-ignoring-agregate-demand situation.

Could it be just good cop / bad cop like they played during the so called negotiations?

Recently watched an interview with Sanchez and I was quite impressed, especially in comparison to the UK meatheads.

I feel like Israel wanted this at least in part.

Copy-pasta from my comment on the topic from a diff thread:

“The masks are off,” Dmitriev wrote. “U.K. and EU warmongers are showing how deeply anti-Trump they really are. They tried to hide it for a long time, but now everyone can see it.”

State-level trolling.

At the same time, Dmitriev’s comments were widely seen as effectively encouraging additional countries to join military action against Tehran — one of Moscow’s key strategic partners.

Except it may not be contradictory in terms of goals. Russia does not want the EU to be a US vassal. Not for altruistic reasons but because it’ll be easier to restore trade with an unaligned EU. At the same time Russia might (perhaps correctly) consider that NATO cannot reopen the strait given how trivial and cheap it is for Iran to keep it closed. The longer the war lasts, the longer the strait stays closed, the more everyone needs Russian fossil fuels. And at the same time any naval assets that enter the strait are likely going down, which would diminish the naval capabilities of these actors as well as their military power projection.

It’s a jobs program. Jobs programs are great but this one is exremely inefficient as so much money is scooped up by the top.