Fucking parasites. I know China already has laws against capital flight, but increasing their strength would never hurt. Why would you ever let people make money in your country, with your infrastructure, then have them fuck off as soon as you ask for some of it back?

There are various tools you can use to strip metadata from the final image if you want to.

If you play Fursan Al-Aqsa, then turn to leftism, I think it’s possible. Unfortunately, most gamers are pissed at much dumber things such as complaining about in-game females not being naked enough.

If you VPN into Russia and check the Russia Ministry of Defense website (https://eng.mil.ru/), they post daily and weekly reports on the progress of the SMO. If you add up all the Ukrainian troop deaths in their report from 22 – 28 June 2024, you get 13820 deaths in the week, which averages to ~2000 per day. Russia also lists a bunch of armored vehicles and aircraft they blew up, I do not know if casualties from them were included in the troop death counts.

Here’s the full report if anyone’s interested:

From 22 June to 28 June 2024, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 17 group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles. Enemy energy facilities, infrastructure of military airfields, logistics centres for storing weapons delivered by Western countries to the AFU, as well as assembly and storage facilities for attack unmanned aerial vehicles and uncrewed boats.

Temporary deployment areas of AFU troops and foreign mercenaries have been also hit.

Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy defence and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.

The AFU losses were up to 1,560 Ukrainian troops, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, and 43 motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, 33 field artillery guns, including seven foreign-made howitzers, three Nota electronic warfare stations, Bukovel-AD, and two U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations have been eliminated.

The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on four mechanised and two tank brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on two territorial defence brigades. Six counter-attacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.

The AFU losses were up to 3,230 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 40 motor vehicles, three Grad MLRS combat vehicles, 24 field artillery guns, six of them were U.S.-made.

In addition, three U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 and AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery warfare radars, as well as 11 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.

The units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Razdolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and seized more advantageous lines.

The strikes have been delivered at manpower and hardware of the three mechanised, two airmobile, and two air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The AFU losses were up to 4,410 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 39 field artillery guns, including 11 U.S.-made M777 and M198 howitzers.

In addition, seven Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and 25 field ammunition depots have been destroyed.

The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and defeated units of four mechanised, two infantry formations of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades. Enemy 39 counter-attacks have been repelled in this direction during the week.

The AFU losses were up to 2950 troops, three tanks, six armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 30 motor vehicles, and 42 field artillery guns, including six U.S.-made M777 howitzers.

The units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three formations of the Territorial Defence and two National Guard brigades.

The AFU losses were up to 930 Ukrainian troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, 36 motor vehicles, and 19 field artillery guns, including six UK-made FH-70 howitzers.

The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have defeated units of two formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three brigades of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence.

The AFU losses were up to 740 Ukrainian troops, three tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, 48 motor vehicles, and 23 field artillery guns, 11 of them were foreign-made.

In addition, eight Anklav, Bukovel electronic warfare stations, and six ammunition depots have been destroyed.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have destroyed six M142 HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system launchers, one M270 MLRS launcher, and one transport and loader vehicle together with foreign specialists who ensured their use, as well as three P-18 air target detection and tracking radars.

Air defence facilities have shot down two Ukrainian Air Force’s MiG-29 aircraft, 589 unmanned aerial vehicles, six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, eight U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft guided missiles, one U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missile, and 61 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, Czech-made Vampire and Olkha projectiles.

Over the past week, 56 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.

In total, 615 airplanes and 276 helicopters, 26,777 unmanned aerial vehicles, 533 air defence missile systems, 16,446 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,357 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 11,020 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 23,049 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Hell yeah. If the US can sail a ship between Taiwan and China and call it freedom-of-navigation, Russia has even more right to sail ships between Miami and the Bahamas.

Lexend. It’s a font designed with research to have variable widths to aid legibility.

There’s even an Arabic+Latin version called Readex Pro. There’s a really cool article documenting how they adapted variable widths to the unique connected structure of Arabic writing.

Both are freely available on Google Fonts.

Finally, a post in which I have some academic expertise.

Corals have adapted over thousands of years to thrive in the temperatures in their areas of the globe. As such, they are able to survive the natural rise and fall in temperatures year-round. However, as climate change increases all temperatures worldwide, and makes heat waves more likely and more intense, it directly threatens all corals around the world.

Corals bleach if temperatures reach 1 °C above long-term monthly averages* for one month, and die if it is 2 °C above for a month or 1 °C above for two months. We passed the tipping point where corals start bleaching in the 1980s.

As CO2 levels have continued to rise (past 400 ppm as of today), and as global average temperatures have continued to increase, more and more coral reefs experience temperatures above their bleaching tipping point. As a result, today corals around the world bleach every single year. They bleach so often that they have no time to recover and simply die.

The IPCC and COP’s CO2 targets WILL guarantee that coral reefs go extinct. However, current governments’ policies are not even meeting that standard. In order to preserve coral reefs, we need to not only stop all CO2 emissions, but reverse our previous emissions to pre-industrial levels (280 ppm) and reduce global temperatures through technologies like rewilding, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management.

Until then, we will have to use technologies like electrified reefs (Biorock) and genetic breeding of heat-resistant corals to hopefully preserve some modicum of coral reefs for post-climate change days.

Some people will bring up causes such as sedimentation and destruction due to human activity, and toxicity from waste and sunscreen. While these are factors, they are extremely localized and do not account for the majority of bleaching events worldwide. Pristine corals in the middle of the ocean that have never experienced human activity are also bleaching.

If anyone has any questions around this topic, feel free to ask!

* for scientific and data reasons, long-term monthly averages for any location on Earth are defined as the average temperatures of the hottest months at that location in the 1980s

The US uses Falun Gong as one of their many propaganda operations against China. They even gave Falun Gong their own entire town in New York to build their cult city in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Springs

Shite, woops on the language. My bad. The western brainrot has penetrated my subconscious.

As the US’s importance in global trade declines, Taiwan’s trade will slant more and more toward China, and the 2 regions will become more and more interconnected until they are de-facto unified.

That is the endgame. It’s also why China has quite generous policies toward Taiwan residents, such as easy-to-get Mainland Travel Permits for Taiwan Residents. It’s all to promote trade interconnection.

@redline

This is a quote from the play The Fever by Wallace Shawn. The play depicts a person who becomes sick while struggling to find a morally consistent way to live when faced with injustice, and harshly criticizes the United States’ record in supporting the murder of communists and socialists. The play ends by saying that only blood spilled on their doorsteps will bring the complacent rich to change their selfish ways (which the NYT didn’t like for being too radical).

Wallace Shawn is a socialist, Jewish actor and playwright who has:

• supported whistleblower Chelsea Manning
• worked as a speaker for Jewish Voice for Peace in October 2023 as an anti-Zionist Jew
• narrated a political ad in April 2024 denouncing AIPAC influence

It doesn’t really matter whether we do or not. These kinds of people are utterly useless and treacherous all the same.

Full article is linked here

It seems Red Star is the only caucus in the DSA with decent revolutionary socialist politics, at least according to this overview.

Socialist Majority and Reform&Revolution are both Democrat aligned caucuses. Even worse, they are the two largest caucuses in the DSA.

This issue reflects the fundamentally treacherous nature of the USA white settler left as discussed by J Sakai in his book Settlers, which is mostly only interested in increasing its own share of the colonial spoils rather than actual international liberation.

Please replace “Treasury/ies” in the title with “US Treasury/ies”. There’s kind of a big difference between having a collapsing treasury and having a collapsing US treasury.

Soylent or Huel?

Man tries and fails to cohesively articulate class conflict (the fuck is worker vs merchant?). This is what happens when you don’t read theory.

No, the joke is that they are getting rid of bourgeois influence in exchange for this stuff.

China used its large market to play the capitalists against themselves. First to new market wins, so Western capitalists were begging to get in no matter what.

I do think that as China moves up the value chain, they should still improve and automate their low-value manufacturing. That way, they can never get cut off from needed goods. I don’t know whether this is exactly what they are planning. If someone more knowledgeable could chime in, that would be great!

I certainly hope Iran has nukes by now. They should have learned from North Korea that nukes are the best guarantee of your nation’s future existence. Israel needs someone in the area who can threaten mutual destruction and keep them in check.