that gave me a bit of whiplash cause i used the same source; i’m not sure what the difference between ‘milled’ and ‘rough’ production is and which a food-aid or food-trade deal would involve. technically 70 tons of milled would be leftover from the figure i used but ‘literally’ is a word that can contain <10% inaccuracy

sounds good for them but i wonder where russia would get all that rice considering 700 tons is literally their entire annual production

Go more woke! Hang more!

nazi journalists

MODS MODS an official statement from a politician isn’t news 3 tiny paragraphs have to be filtered through a journalist or i can’t read it

the headline being serious editorializing

what do journalists do i wonder

Turkey gets to do whatever the fuck they want, and BRICs is not a military alliance

the US has zero credibility sticking to agreements & every two weeks a general or politician openly talks about attacking China. this is going nowhere

wearing hi-vis and looking busy works

but the actual content suggests these literally are just meteorological stations, due to the scope of the investigation “found hundreds of illegal foreign-related meteorological detection stations” seems like they probably haven’t made the regulations clear enough to the companies & stakeholders “foreign-related” is very broad and doesn’t sound like they can prove the data goes to foreign intelligence, just out of the country. which seems like something meteorologists would do routinely, weather is international.

the US states and territories sorted by population, not Nevada’s page. but apparently the territories’ numbers not appearing on that table is only on the new dark mode, not the normal white layout of the page

24th in income rank

remarkable confluence because i did not look up income by accident. my mistake was thinking the territories in the wikipedia table were not included in the number rank because their entries in the table don’t have a number displayed. but it is actually counted which offsets the states’ relative positions. just put them into a different table, damn.

anyway i couldn’t find an actual budget document, just the 90% cut to the military on their website so who knows what arithmetic is behind this promise to Nevada.

Nevada is 24th of the states, hardly ‘lowest’. but without recreating their whole budget on the back of an envelope i would assume the very lowest states would get less than a 50th, freeing up larger shares for other states. Nevada particularly might be pegged for a greater energy investment than it locally needs, because they’re well positioned to host solar that can be sent to surrounding states.

35 is clearly the population(?)-adjusted proportion Nevada would get of the 900b.

but it is a bad graphic in that the largest investment by far in renewable energy is exactly the same size as the others

can we get a hell yeah?

can the US get embargoed from these things for invading other countries too?

can they really leverage something like Greece on the second economy of the EU? and how well can capital actually avoid tax while staying within the benefits of the EU? if it were elementary to cart off to a more friendly EU country wouldn’t EU firms be swirling between memberstates after like every election?

US weapons only seem to be for bombing civilians

this is so farcical, does anyone actually believe these US 4D-chess explanations of how unwavering support of Israel and impudent demands of surrender to the resistance constitute an effort to “defuse” the situation

pouring gas on the fire and screaming “i’m trying to put it out!!!”

Not exactly a large fighting force

they’re not there to hold down a trench

actually shocked they still hadn’t normalized relations since 2008, my god Russia is on half their border. apparently these bad relations have adversely effected their trade relations as well.

this will surely be a beneficial step forward

there were not decades of cuts. Obama’s “modernization” efforts were categorically expansion and escalation.