The top one is taken from a website called vividmaps where it’s countries the USA has had some sort of conflict with

List of wars being involved in is not a list of countries being invaded and occupied, nice try though.

The bottom map is just a white map.

Garbage meme 1/5

See? You could have said that instead of posting falsified maps

honestly the map is too unserious to merit discussion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People's_Republic_of_China

Total pinko shit.

Nope. Let’s not do this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63 – Stephen King wrote a book about a timetraveller who goes back to that day to try prevent Doctor Who from airing (presumably because it spilt the about timetravel)

powerful posting.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/1024/cpsprodpb/179F7/production/_99095769_trump.jpg

What’s the Situationist term for this? Absorption or something.

Wow.

This should save Yunus.

I don’t think the issues you raise are valid.

It costs more than zero to levy a fine, but we are talking about many billions in income here. Your point would be valid if gathering staff and then fining Google 9 billion were a net zero. It isn’t.

We are likely better off having that money reinvested in preventing other companies from these practices.

Which is what I suggested. The best way to prevent these practices is libre alternatives.

Take some of that money you get fining surveillance-capitalists and use it to fund privacy-respecting libre alternatives

• Fined Facebook €1.2 billion in May 2023

• Fined Facebook €390 million in Jan 2023

• Fined Microsoft €561 million in March 2013

• “fined the company [Google] more than $9 billion for anticompetitive practices since 2017” (2019 article)

The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Taiwan was $51.0 billion in 2022.

That confirms the title.

President since April 2000

also, their parliament building is on fire rn

B.I.T.

Pretending not to notice that fat people are fat is unique to Western culture.

Nobody in Africa would see a problem with this. I bet Asia is the same.

Funniest post of the week

Over the last decade, the EU has grown relatively less powerful than America – economically, technologically, and militarily.

I got curious about this so I checked wolframalpha: in 2009, the EU had a bigger economy than the USA; in 2022 the USA’s was bigger by 53%