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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
  • 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.

  • Trump shot ?
  • Surviving an assassination and forcing a public Biden appearance? He really can't lose.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from July 1st to July 7th, 2024 - Morales vs Arce - COTW: Bolivia
  • 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.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from May 6th to May 12th, 2024 - The Nagorno-Karabakh Nosedive - COTW: Armenia
  • EU liberals finally having their first interaction with Israelis and finding out why they're so hated bateman-ontological

  • Sony backed down
  • 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)

  • I give them five seconds before they start fighting each other for the correct kin.
  • 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

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from April 29th to May 5th, 2024 - CĆ©saire's Boomerang - COTW: United States
  • 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 GDPā€“ 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, Chinaā€™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 Beijingā€™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 Beijingā€™s published military budget also ā€œomits several major categories of expenditures and its actual military-related spending is significantly higher.ā€

    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.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from March 18th to March 24th, 2024 - Ra Ra Rasputin - COTW: Russia
  • I mean, ISIS and Ukrainian co-operation is just inter-agency collaboration considering they are guided by the same 3 letter agency.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from March 18th to March 24th, 2024 - Ra Ra Rasputin - COTW: Russia
  • 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.

  • The only good two state solution
  • You'd think with Yiddish being a High German dialect and Ashkenazi cuisine being German and having them pay reparations for the Holocaust, this would be the first suggestion for a Jewish homeland. Of course, a Jewish homeland in Europe was never on the books and every suggestion was always some place as far away from Europe as possible.

  • Society of cucks
  • They forgot to mention the most effective type of protest: yamagami

  • Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's war
  • One line of police dialogue referring to the game's Scavengers faction has been altered from the English "Couldn't all these assholes bite it out in the Badlands?" to a Ukrainian phrase that translates as "Couldn't all this rusnia bite it out in the Badlands?" As Tarasov explains, "'rusnia' is a Ukrainian derogatory term for russians. Scavengers are the stereotypical Eastern European gang in the game's universe."

    Adding new slurs to own the russians

  • What's the wildest ACTUAL conspiracy you've heard of that would shock most people if they knew about it?
  • When you play host to the EU and NATO its no surprise you end up with the biggest cocaine port in Europe, a vast pedophile ring and a police force so corrupt it had to be abolished

    kind-vladimir-ilyich

  • What's the wildest ACTUAL conspiracy you've heard of that would shock most people if they knew about it?
  • The Dutroux Affair is a wild one to dig into, mostly because of how similarly the Epstein affair played out a few years later. A known pedophile finally gets convicted after the police spend years avoiding his arrest and in the end none of the clients are discovered

    In 1995, Dutroux's mother wrote a letter to the authorities stating that she knew that Dutroux had kidnapped two girls and was keeping them at his house.

    After Lejeune and Russo were kidnapped in June 1995, it took police 14 months to arrest Dutroux, although he had been a prime suspect from the start, having committed similar crimes before. During the search for Lejeune and Russo, police visited Dutroux's house, where Lejeune and Russo were held, twice, on 13 and 19 December 1995 without finding them. Several video tapes found during the search were never looked at. Some of them showed Dutroux constructing the dungeon in which Lejeune and Russo were held. Michel Bourlet, who was appointed lead investigator, said that some of the video tapes had disappeared and that he wanted to have them all recovered and reviewed.

    There were countless hairs found in the dungeon where the two girls were held. Judge Langlois refused to have them tested for DNA evidence even though the leading police investigator, Michel Bourlet, had begged him to have them analyzed in order to know whether more people beside Dutroux were involved.

    At least seven members of law enforcement were arrested on suspicion of having ties to Marc Dutroux. One of them was Georges Zico, a police detective believed to be an associate of Dutroux.

    More than 20 potential witnesses in the case died in mysterious circumstances

  • How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1
    dieworkwear.com How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1 ā€” Die, Workwear!

    Marcel Duchamp once noted in a 1968 interview with Francis Roberts, ā€œIf your choice enters into it, then taste is involvedā€”bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.ā€ For those fortunate enough to live in post-industrial societies, where choices are now nearly limitless, taste is everything. Taste ...

    How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1 ā€” Die, Workwear!

    Twitter suit guy may be annoying but his series on developing your own style from the ground up is great:

    >Everything is contextual to an aesthetic. A hundred years ago, the scope for good tasteā€”what Bourdieu would describe as legitimate tasteā€”was confined to the taste of the ruling class. That is no longer the case today. This means rules about colors, silhouettes, proportions, and other such ideas are contextual to the aesthetic youā€™re trying to create. Iā€™ve written some posts about how to think about silhouettes and color. But whenever a reader emails me to ask whether black pairs with blue or if a particular garment fits correctly, I feel that, in todayā€™s culturally open world, you have to start with the aesthetic, not compartmentalize things as universal rules. This is partly why some guys who favor classic tailored clothing struggle with casualwearā€”they try to transport cultural ideas about suits and sport coats to very different aesthetics, such as workwear or sportswear. Sometimes rules can stretch across aesthetic spaces (like ideas linking romantic languages); sometimes, they do not (like trying to apply English grammar rules to Chinese). Derive your rules from aesthetics and your aesthetics from culture.

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    Whatā€™s a boomer opinion you have?
  • Anyone under 25 should get 1 hour of internet access a day max, anything more is a major cognitohazard

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