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941  Economy / Economics / Re: Is the US economy in recession? on: April 25, 2023, 06:24:00 AM
Meanwhile, US sovereign credit default swaps are flying to the moon. Shutdown is coming.
942  Economy / Economics / Re: Germany surprises everyone, the economy keeps growing on: April 24, 2023, 08:53:11 PM
Surprises? Germany losing money and being a poor nation would be a surprise, them growing and getting better is not a surprise to anyone at all. People flock to Germany more than most other nations to live there for a reason, and that reason is that people at the top actually wants to make that nation a good one, and that is why they are as rich as they are today. This is also a proof that if governments wanted to solve issues and make everyone better, all they have to do is follow Germany.

However, between bad politicians, and terribly one sided media that lies to you, and fools who believe those lies, you are not going to get that in most other nations. So it should be remembered that Germany doing better is what is expected, not a surprise to anyone at all.
Don't talk nonsense as long as the Green Party is in power in Germany - Germany will be a miserable bedding of the USA, spitting on its own economic interests. With leadership like this, Germany doesn't need any external enemies, they do a great job of shooting themselves in the foot. What is at least the recent closure of the last three nuclear power plants (against which, by the way, were two-thirds of the German population).

Cherry on the cake - the dismantling of German nuclear power plants will be carried out by the Bavarian company NUKEM Technologies GmbH, which on December 14, 2009 was sold to the Russian Atomstroyexport for 23.5 million euros. Grin
According to statistics, nuclear energy is 6-8% of all electricity in Germany. This is not France, where more than 50% of all electricity is produced at nuclear power plants.
If they are talking about security, then it is ridiculous when nuclear power plants of other states are located near the German border.
After shutting down the nuclear power plant, Germany increased electricity imports from 1.3 gigawatts to 6 gigawatts, mostly from nuclear plants in France and a little from coal plants in Poland, Bild reports. Eco-friendly.
943  Economy / Economics / Re: Germany surprises everyone, the economy keeps growing on: April 24, 2023, 07:55:53 PM
Surprises? Germany losing money and being a poor nation would be a surprise, them growing and getting better is not a surprise to anyone at all. People flock to Germany more than most other nations to live there for a reason, and that reason is that people at the top actually wants to make that nation a good one, and that is why they are as rich as they are today. This is also a proof that if governments wanted to solve issues and make everyone better, all they have to do is follow Germany.

However, between bad politicians, and terribly one sided media that lies to you, and fools who believe those lies, you are not going to get that in most other nations. So it should be remembered that Germany doing better is what is expected, not a surprise to anyone at all.
Don't talk nonsense as long as the Green Party is in power in Germany - Germany will be a miserable bedding of the USA, spitting on its own economic interests. With leadership like this, Germany doesn't need any external enemies, they do a great job of shooting themselves in the foot. What is at least the recent closure of the last three nuclear power plants (against which, by the way, were two-thirds of the German population).

Cherry on the cake - the dismantling of German nuclear power plants will be carried out by the Bavarian company NUKEM Technologies GmbH, which on December 14, 2009 was sold to the Russian Atomstroyexport for 23.5 million euros. Grin
944  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 24, 2023, 04:26:29 PM
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I think the main purpose of this ICC warrant was an attempt to disrupt Xi's visit to Moscow, and when this failed, everyone somehow quickly forgot about the warrant, as if it did not exist at all.
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Well that's some brain gymnastics right there. Why would it disrupt Xi's visit? Xi isn't really a price winning human rights activist either as they don't even recognize Dutch extradition treaty.
It sounds like you are just undermining the legitimacy of the warrant. And yeah, warrant exist, you would know this if you just looked it up, why do you think it's forgotten? Don't tell me, because he isn't arrested?
Nah, that would be a stupid answer.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-prosecutor-karim-khan-kc-issuance-arrest-warrants-against-president-vladimir-putin
Russia has not ratified the Rome Statute, so for Russian citizens this warrant is a legally insignificant piece of paper. It happens, the USA, Ukraine, China and many other countries have not ratified the Rome Statute either. Moreover, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the incumbent president cannot be held criminally liable. And also in accordance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons (Adopted by resolution 3166 (XXVIII) of the UN General Assembly of December 14, 1973), heads of state enjoy absolute immunity. It sounds like you are just undermining the legitimacy of this Convention. Grin
945  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 24, 2023, 02:18:07 PM
Now evaluate what wording is applied to these actions in the report. The offer of free trips is "mobilization for the recruitment of children." The field trips and school program are "political re-education" to "erase his identity" and the lack of information about abuse is due not to the absence of such treatment, but to "cover-up due to cultural stigma and the risk of retaliation." Grin

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1649290778965835776

Pretty interesting talk
I think the main purpose of this ICC warrant was an attempt to disrupt Xi's visit to Moscow, and when this failed, everyone somehow quickly forgot about the warrant, as if it did not exist at all. Along the way, it turned out that the prosecutor who signed the arrest warrant has a pedophile brother (which was probably the lever of influence on him from the US State Department, they love such methods). This whole story is not worth a damn, if Putin is accused of such savagery sucked from the finger as kidnapping, then there is nothing to accuse him of at all. Even the production in Bucha was more believable.
946  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 24, 2023, 01:48:41 PM

And again, somehow Putin invades Ukraine, orders the massive kidnapping of children, flattens cities, kills civilians and military without any distinction, but for Branko all this is about the US "not being able to de-escalate" - meaning accepting the de-facto situation and white-washing the invasion current result.
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By analysis of all of the credible information I can piece together, Ukraine made massive use of human shields and still does.
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That is false information, obviously without any proof attached other than your xenophobic discourse. People leave in cities. The RF is shelling cities often with no strategic objective nor other reason than to create panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia has forcibly transferred thousands of Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.[3] Evidence of this has been collected during investigations conducted by several international organizations and groups, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The International Criminal Court, Amnesty International and Missing Children Europe, and by journalists for media outlets such as The Observer and Al Jazeera.[4

Looks like a dystopia, something so difficult to believe, yet so real. And this calls from the ones calling "nazi" here and "nazi" there to anything that is not what they want to hear.

Is Al Jazeera a "Ziocon" organisation? Amnesty International? You are really running our of credibility, if a xenophobic discourse like yours had any ever.
The basis for the ICC warrant was the report of the Conflict Observatory NGO, which was created by the US State Department specifically "to investigate Russian atrocities in Ukraine."

According to the authors, they did not conduct interviews with witnesses or victims, but only collected information available from open sources, most of which are Russian-language media, using Google Translate or Deepl. As stated in the report, children from different settlements of the LPR and DPR received vouchers to Russian camps, while "most of the parents, as it turned out, gave their consent for the child to visit the camp." At the same time, vouchers "were provided to children from Ukraine absolutely free of charge." “Many of these parents are on a low income and wanted to take advantage of the free ride for their child. Some hoped to protect their children from the ongoing fighting, send them to a place with good sanitation, or provide them with nutritious food not available where they live. Other parents just wanted their child to have a vacation."

The report also said that the children were taught a "school curriculum", conducted "free educational excursions to cultural or patriotic places throughout the country", lectures by Russian veterans and historians, and military events. Local government officials and agencies provided school supplies. Also, “in the camps covered in this report, there are no records of child abuse, including sexual or physical abuse” and “almost all camp participants returned home in a timely manner.”

Now evaluate what wording is applied to these actions in the report. The offer of free trips is "mobilization for the recruitment of children." The field trips and school program are "political re-education" to "erase his identity" and the lack of information about abuse is due not to the absence of such treatment, but to "cover-up due to cultural stigma and the risk of retaliation." Grin
947  Other / Politics & Society / Re: BRICS is a concern for all on: April 24, 2023, 01:23:42 PM
BRICS is only an alliance because Europe and North America couldn't form bridge a partnership with India and Latin America. Even Mexico is more closely aligned to China than it is the U.S. And of course, China is poisoning the world with fentanyl; entire laboratories with pharmaceutical chemists whose only purpose is to manufacture poison and distribute it to the world. Do we want these people in charge of global order?

I'm not against countries distancing themselves from NA/EU -- but consider what the consequences are if China becomes a closer ally to major countries. Xi Jinping is a commie dictator.

Only someone who lives in United States and a US colony and is feeling the pressure of dumping the dollar such as inflation+recession at the same time, would think dumping dollar (ie. what BRICS does) is the "wrong direction" for those countries to go Cheesy

Dumping the dollar was the right move when the gold standard was done away with. Unfortunately the mistake these countries are making with their cooperation with China is adoption of RMB. It's like dropping one cancer in trade of another.
The US government has no one to blame but itself for making the dollar a toxic asset for half the world. The misuse of economic sanctions by the United States has made dollar settlements too risky in many trades. A natural reaction to the unacceptable risk of freezing funds is to switch to settlements in local currencies. And since China is the "factory of the world", the share of the yuan in international settlements began to grow rapidly. I think none of the BRICS countries are happy with the prospect of getting rid of one addiction and falling into another, so some solution will be found, but in any case, the trend towards abandoning the dollar in international settlements is obvious and will increase.
948  Economy / Economics / Re: SPENDING MORE THAN YOU EARN on: April 23, 2023, 03:27:07 AM
One of the main problems of the modern world financial system (and one of the main reasons for its inevitable future collapse and total dismantling) is that it encourages the strategy of "spend more than you earn." If you have a high credit score, you can take out more credit and afford a better house and better car than your friend with a low credit score (and less debt). It's the same at the state level, more developed countries have higher credit ratings and snowballing debt against a background of higher living standards. Moreover, it becomes a problem for the state if its citizens massively begin to switch to a savings model of economic behavior, because this is fraught with a recession and a loss in economic growth. Therefore, in a crisis, states are beginning to spend even more to spur consumer optimism, increase inflation and devalue the fiat savings of their citizens. And you have no chance in this game if you don't have bitcoin.
949  Local / Политика / Re: Чей Крым on: April 22, 2023, 06:06:31 PM
Эт-то что еще за хуебина?  Shocked Выглядит слишком тяжелая - это она вчера на Белгород ебнулась?
Нет. Эти пятиметровые "гостинцы" с тонной взрывчатки на борту предназначены только для Вооруженных Свинопасов Украины.
Я думаю это не УПАБы вызвали бурление пердака у Игната, а обычные фугасные авиабомбы образца середины прошлого века, генно-модифицированные УМПК (универсальными комплектами планирования и коррекции). Получается сука ржавый франкенштейн, но "если это выглядит глупо и при этом работает - то это не глупо".
950  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 21, 2023, 02:17:10 PM
Seems like Bakhmut going to fall before the SpringOffensive™. And that will make that offensive rather difficult to pull off for the west.
It seems that the "road of life" Artemovsk - Chasov Yar was physically cut by Wagner fighters and the supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk was complicated to the extreme. It is already becoming a tradition for the APU to get into the cauldron and then heroically try to carry out the extraction procedure.

Any thoughts on the possibility of victory day parade in Kiev on May 9th 2023?

Seems like it would be naive and foolish to think it's possible. 


Ukrainians will be fighting Russian aggressors to death.
Well, that means they'll die.

Yes, Captain Obvious, aggressors will die. That's the whole point.
In Kyiv on May 9 2022, a traditional parade will be held in honor of the victory of the USSR over Nazi Germany. It is naive and foolish to doubt it.
I advise you to consult with your psychotherapist about this painful fixation, it seems you have quoted this post of mine a dozen times already. I'm sure it can be cured if therapy is started immediately.
951  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 21, 2023, 11:37:31 AM
Seems like Bakhmut going to fall before the SpringOffensive™. And that will make that offensive rather difficult to pull off for the west.
It seems that the "road of life" Artemovsk - Chasov Yar was physically cut by Wagner fighters and the supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk was complicated to the extreme. It is already becoming a tradition for the APU to get into the cauldron and then heroically try to carry out the extraction procedure.
952  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Being Russia and Russian now on: April 21, 2023, 10:21:46 AM
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on a minute, are you telling me that the sanctions against Russian banks, oligarchs, and technology imports have had no impact on ordinary Russians' economic lives? Are you sure you didn't just make that up?

I mean, I'm no expert in international politics, but it seems hard to believe that the global restrictions meant to decrease Moscow's war chest wouldn't have any effect on the day-to-day lives of regular Russians. Sure, the joblessness rate might not have increased, and the general store may look the same, but I find it hard to believe that there haven't been any changes.

Perhaps the crowds at some Moscow malls have decreased, but it's not significant? And local brands have replaced McDonald's and Starbucks? That's crazy! I can't imagine how ordinary Russians are coping with all of these changes, or lack thereof.
Here is a video in which two students from Africa who study in Russia, as part of some kind of challenge, are trying to buy the maximum amount of food for $ 10 in an ordinary supermarket. Video comments deserve special attention.
953  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How Russia is surviving NATO-backed sanctions on: April 19, 2023, 08:45:18 AM
Name a measuring method which proves that "Russia is doing just fine".
Here is an interesting article in the Washington Post about this. Its essence is that more than 90% of Western sanctions against Russia are a fiction. It seems that few Western companies want to lose the Russian market, even declaring the opposite in words. Maybe that's why the effectiveness of sanctions is so low?

There is no problem selling coffee to the RF citizens, nor even providing consulting. That is absolutely fine.
At least now you understand why people in Russia don't take to the streets to overthrow Putin. Very little has changed in their daily lives since the start of the special operation in Ukraine.

Now, try to find the technology you need to produce modern means of fighting and modern means of production and you will know why there are T-55s in the frontlines. What is next? T-34s?

The RF economy is unlikely to collapse big time like a super-nova style explosion. But the erosion is there, as it happened with the USSR: the young and prepared leave, the citizens have to be forced into conscription, growth is stagnant for a BRIC country...

But what is more, things are unlikely to go back to where they were. Putin's war of aggression has permanently damaged RF stance in the world.
I do not think that Russia has any serious problems with the production of modern types of weapons. I don’t know where you got this story about the T-55 from, but this is hardly a mass case, perhaps a single episode, or even a fabrication of Ukrainian propaganda. The Nizhny Tagil UralVagonZavod alone produces several thousand armored vehicles a year, including hundreds of T72B3 and T90M main battle tanks. This is several times more than the entire united West can transfer to Ukraine without compromising its own combat readiness.
954  Local / Майнеры / Re: Майнинг здох? on: April 19, 2023, 08:14:02 AM
Хочешь сказать что на ферме из 3060 можно кино делать?
В принципе можно, но пока результат выглядит крипово (мопед не мой, если чё  Grin).

я хз кому кино надо делать дома. я скорее про умный дом и всякие забавы с ним связанные. когда по погоде определяется на сколько окно открывать, а по твоим предпочтениям в разные дни кофеварка включается к твоему обычному пробуждению. ну условно. и это не алиса какая-нибудь.
Интересное направление в домашней автоматизации - голосовое управление локальной нейросетью, натренированной на твой голос. Я думаю не за горами всякие нейросетевые плагины к home assistant.
955  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who is losing? Finland joins NATO. on: April 19, 2023, 07:42:09 AM
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You jokers are so funny. So is Finland. Lol. All they are doing is trying to keep the Finns inside.
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If you only knew how stupid and childish that sounds and how ridiculous your sources are. In Finland we have a free healthcare, free education, free speech, clean water, free government pension and ton of other things you can just google. And Finland is one of the least corrupt countries in the world. Why would Finnish people want to leave? So maybe you don't know anything.


Cheap vodka? Grin
956  Other / Meta / Re: AI-generated post discussion thread: how to identify & report on: April 19, 2023, 07:39:44 AM
For me, I think AI generated text would sound almost too perfect with tenses and wordings to begin with. It would also touch every point as in a summary of what text books chapters or web pages would provide.
No one is beyond mistakes, but most times these human text points can even be made better with the use of text apps like Grammarly to correct errors and appropriate tenses in order. Hence, why it is reviewed on second note.
Unless one is foolish enough to not write on a few points, wherein more details is inputted than necessary, it could be easily detected as AI generated. Thank God for AI text detection tools, else who could really note the difference.
The US Constitution is 92.26% generated with AI/GPT. Grin
957  Economy / Economics / Re: Sanctions at work:Russia posts its second highest deficit in the post-Soviet era on: April 19, 2023, 07:14:29 AM
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Would the US Treasury Secretary lie? Yellen says sanctions may risk hegemony of US dollar.

Well, she has the right to say anything Smiley But this is "the assumption of a negative scenario", this is not a fact.
This fact is easy to verify.
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In a Monday note, strategists Joana Freire and Stephen Jen calculated that the greenback accounted for about two-thirds of total global reserves in 2003, then 55% by 2021, and 47% last year.

"This 8% decline in one year is exceptional, equivalent to 10 times the average annual pace of erosion in the USD's market share in the prior years," the authors said.

The drop-off in the dollar's standing as a reserve currency accelerated since the start of the war in Ukraine in particular.

"Exceptional actions" — namely sanctions taken by the US and its allies against Moscow — made many nations less willing to hold on to the dollar, the report said.
958  Local / Политика / Re: Кто кому угрожает? on: April 18, 2023, 07:22:22 PM
А вообще я думаю что ты хоть и поднаторел в психолога, но расширенное сознание тут явно не при делах. У многих оно, и на этом форуме никого не удивишь. Солдатская муштра это у тебя, или возрсат, уж не знаю, лучше свой мозг проверь на предмет "влезания" туда - криптоанархист (нет такого слова) анархист он против любой власти. Особенно против самой "гаечной" власти, с затянутыми гайками. А ты получается на ее стороне из-за личных интересов. Какой же ты после этого анархист? Вроде не нацист - признаешь украинскую нацию. Значит и с психикой нормально, хотя ты типо же разбираешься в этих делах, стоп-сигнал отрабатывает, нет пока профдеформации, ну или она только начинается...
Как анархист, я не против любой власти. Распространённое заблуждение, что анархия это хаос, хотя анархия скорее склонность и способность к самоорганизации. Прежде чем ломать какой-то стереотип, полезно выяснить - это клетка тюрьмы, сковывающая свободу духа или перила лестницы, помогающие по ней подняться. Те гайки, о которых ты говоришь, гораздо сильней затянуты сейчас на Украине, и даже в США и в Европе, чем в России. В России охуенно много свободы на повседневном бытовом уровне. И меня, как идейного криптоанархиста, это вполне устраивает, потому что я не идиот, чтоб сражаться с ветряными мельницами, и именно повседневный бытовой уровень меня в основном и интересует, собственно в нём я живу.
959  Local / Политика / Re: Кто кому угрожает? on: April 17, 2023, 09:41:51 AM
Дополнительная сплошная польза гиперзвука в том, что даже нет нужды прикручивать к тому Кинжалу ядерную боеголовку, на скорости в десять махов он и с обычной полутонной полезной нагрузки в тротиловом эквиваленте в любом авианосце гарантированно аккуратную дыру просверлит и глубоко в трюме нихуёво бумкнет. А системы ПРО даже сэрегировать не успеют.


Ты меня вообще с кем-то спутал.
тут действительно ты прав.
Перепутал тебя с человеком, а ты скучный нацист.
Не нацист, а крипто-либеральный патриот. Это у вас там в Салорейхе все нацисты, наркоманы, подлые террористы и еретические раскольники, а у нас то в России-матушке все сплошные патриоты, зожники, смелые диверсанты и чистокровные православные гиперборейцы с неполживыми светлыми лицами. Понимать надо. Grin
960  Economy / Economics / Re: Sanctions at work:Russia posts its second highest deficit in the post-Soviet era on: April 17, 2023, 09:25:57 AM
PS yes. Have you noticed - how have recently been activated, synchronously, "writers" on the topic "the world is abandoning the dollar"?
Moreover, the variability is wide - from "the BRICS countries are abandoning the dollar", to "the WHOLE world is abandoning the dollar" and even - "all countries are draining the dollar and buying gold."
True, when checking "information" it turns out that these are all "wet fantasies"
Guess what it's for? Smiley))
Would the US Treasury Secretary lie? Yellen says sanctions may risk hegemony of US dollar.
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