one third plus one half of one third is one half.

Yeah, numbers from 2012 are useless. Chinas GDP has more than doubled since then.

I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. According to your own quoted numbers:

combined GDP of all NATO members +Sweden = $45.93319 trillion

total GDP of only the five initial BRICS member states = $65 trillion

So you compare NATO+ with only a part of current BRICS and it’s still less.

It’s like me boycotting Nestlé.

When Europe and the US put sanctions on China and Russia, there’s an obvious problem, though:

BRICS countries now have a higher GDP than NATO.

I love this quote, thank you for that.

I disagree. I am just a lowly worker bee, but I wouldn’t switch with any of the billionaires. I have lots of things they could never even dream of:

• I know my wife loves me for me. Cause we got together when I was unemployed and facing homelessness.
• I know who my friends are.
• I don’t have enemies.
• I can go outside and take a care-free walk in the sun wherever I want, not just in spaces I own.

Trump strikes me as a deeply unhappy man. Bezos and Musk, too.
All their money and influence can’t buy them the feeling of being loved and respected for who they are.

Probably got some tech from Russia in exchange for their delivery of fresh meat to the grinder.

Unfortunately, that’s just war.
There never was, and there never will be a moral army in war.

No they aren’t. Most of every population is women and children.

Saxony. Although it’s basically controlled by Russia already.

It’s the same boiler-plate statement they release after every US election.

If he was, Ukraine would be North Korean by now.

From a bunker with a decade’s supply of maple syrup

In this case he used pictures from actual children and transformed them into CSAM using AI. So there’s no question about the age, and there are real victims, too.

There are other instances that align better with your views than lemmy.world
Of course, they’re all defederated by most others, for good reason.

Trump is a fascist, and anyone in favor of Trump, too.

Literally just give us phones that can do what they could do 10 years ago, with modern batteries.

When an area isn’t survivable without air conditioning, any power outage can kill millions.

The official goal is still 1.5, but that’s kind of irrelevant, since we’ve been over 1.5 for an entire year already, and the only reason the official number is still at 1.4 is that the number is averaged over several years and it’s technically possible temps will go down next year.

The genocide in Gaza and the invasion in Lebanon were “limited ground incursions” so I don’t trust Israels wording here either.