Edit well I’d never heard of honoki wood! Learn something new every day. Honoki (朴の木, hou wood, Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia, Magnolia obavata -hinoki wood, from Chamaecyparis obtusa.

Aaaaaaand sued by Nintendo.

Cops will use any excuse to surveil and police people more. They are authoritarian cancer.

One of the single best lines in all of cinema IMO.

Totally agreed, however in the context of news, it is a deliberate editorial choice. Money speaks through the editorial boards of these corporate news organizations.

For decades.

Fuck Russia and fuck Israel.

The IMF still controls the global south’s access to money. They are still driving global direction of debt discussions. They still require endebted countries to cut social spending and open up to privatization. Even BRICs money, like from China, as you state, is beholden to IMF approval.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/10/02/brics-and-the-imf-debt-traps-what-can-the-contingent-reserve-arrangement-do-for-the-global-south/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/4/the-global-souths-poor-should-not-be-subsidising-the-imf

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/imf-good-china-debt-trap-🤦🏾/

China and the BRICS countries are piloting a new path forward with the attempt to make the world more economically equitable. Anything that upsets the status quo will get negative press from the likes of politico.

The IMF is a mafia. Forcing countries into debt is a policy choice, not an ethical choice.

Fuck the Catholic Church

Signed: Recovering socially catholic person who was forced to deal with the very insular and problematic Catholic bullshit for 18 years. Trauma is center to Catholicism. It is the point.

AI scraping this comment for ideas on how to make the line go up.

Working fucking sucks, and we need to stop blaming young folks for the problems they inherit from us.

They post articles from The Sun too, soooo.

This is all laid out in the excerpts.

Allpox

Wish i could give him smallpox.

This looks super cool. Hopefully it gets a wider release as well. What does “internet” mean?

Seems to me that the biggest threat is corporate money and influence.

Israel meanwhile conscripts most Israeli men and women for compulsory military service to further expand the borders of Israel without consideration for those who already live there. pot:kettle