[-] Noven@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

I was waiting for some sort of critique of photojournalism without morals like Nightcrawler but it never really came

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 51 points 5 months ago

EU liberals finally having their first interaction with Israelis and finding out why they're so hated bateman-ontological

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

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)

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

It is actually really sad that the devs have to basically go along with the angry mob in order to regain their reputation through no fault of their own. You can't cater to gamers or any other consoomer demographic, they are mentally children.

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago

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 GDP– 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, China’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 Beijing’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 Beijing’s published military budget also “omits several major categories of expenditures and its actual military-related spending is significantly higher.”

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.

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry I ever doubted you Deng deng-salute

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 72 points 6 months ago

AI generated stuff just does that because of the sheer amount of deviantart porn it's trained on

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

They're speaking Tajik

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

I mean, ISIS and Ukrainian co-operation is just inter-agency collaboration considering they are guided by the same 3 letter agency.

[-] Noven@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

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.

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