And he meant that as a compliment

They are talking about Israel’s Hasbara. St Petersburg and Moscow are code for Tel Aviv & Haifa

True, but atleast unlike the west, the commercial banks in China are all state owned. So, any debt by local Governments can be written down or written off.

I remember scanning Hexbear ip and finding prometheus running on some port (i informed them on matrix and they closed it all). It’s an entry level dedicated server from OVH, Sandy Bridge Xeon i think.

India & Sri Lanka were both in the Non-Aligned Movement and had good ties with USSR/Eastern Bloc. India was the first country where a Communist Party was elected in a bourgeois democracy system. So, Communists had significant influence on the state even if the state itself was aligned mainly with the bourgeoisie. Communism/Socialism wasn’t considered a no-no word in these countries unlike the West.

and see

and also see this article on the resistance Israel faced trying to build ties with India

Skibidi toilet infighting?

“There’s been a spate of different policies [to destock],” Macdonald said. “The policies sound good in principle, but it just depends on where the government is going to get the money.”

Like how they got the money for high speed rail. These pricks will never ask “where the government is going to get the money” when it comes to U.S. military spending, for that, money is always available.

all of this would’ve been positives (but not enough) before Israel escalated its genocide and Brandon gave unconditional support.

sounds great for tax collection.

Economists have long complained about the low labour productivity in Greece – one of the lowest in the EU, while Greek workers already have the longest working hours in Europe compared to the EU.

And the solution to that? Increase the working hours, that’ll make people more productive.

I thought EU was so progressive wholesome chungus 100 what happened

Yappington

now i want to pressure wash it

Soy dads smh my head

Real men abandon their children

On the license plate of the car in which Putin and Kim Jong-un rode together was placed the DPRK flag with the number 7・271953 - the date of the signing of the armistice agreement in the Korean War (July 27, 1953). visited Pyongyang last year To participate in the celebrations on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the “victory in the Patriotic Liberation War of 1950-1953,” as this event is called in the DPRK https://ria.ru/20240620/aurus-1954395570.html

the article i linked mentions this

Even if the service sector is included in GDP, there is a conceptual problem associated with measuring its output, since what constitutes the rendering of a service is difficult to distinguish from what constitutes mere transfer payment. After all, one may derive satisfaction from making a transfer payment exactly as one derives satisfaction from the performance of a musician; how then can we include the one and not the other within the ambit of GDP?

the question is whether service sector as a whole should be measured and included.

i also do not believe prostitution as a service creates no value. what is ‘value’ depends, sex does provide pleasure and it is being done for payment. one could argue art (Paintings, Movies, TV Shows, Games etc) shouldn’t be included either because there is no tangible value being created.

Отлично!

i think it would depend on how its laundered.

if a person pays a sex worker $100 and the sex worker (assuming no middlemen) reports it as just someone friendly giving them money for nothing in return (gift) then that transaction itself won’t be counted in GDP.

if a person pays sex worker $100 and the sex worker runs a nail salon as a front, then that $100 would be counted because the ‘customer’ paid to get their ‘nails done’.