Damn I’m so glad I had left the US 4 year ago, at the very last moment sort of. It’s not even a Trump thing, it’s just generally the mass psychosis thing

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Does the DPRK in any way fight against the western anti-DPRK insane propaganda? Aside from the officials’ statements, which I don’t think have much effect. My impression is not much. I look at China where the anti-propaganda effort is ramping up. Including the new visa-free regime for so many countries (Belarus did it first). I know that the DPRK is working on some resorts, but that seems to be targeted at friendly counties like Russia. But the tendency seems to be that the westerners live so poorly now, that it could be beneficial to just open up a little. So why not?

Crazy how 10 years ago AMD was a penny stock, around $4 vs Intel’s $27, and now they’re $135 and $20 respectively. I think abt this more than I should because I’ve always been team red and almost bought it. But now it’s too gambly to buy any

It’s a bit murkier than this. The EU will first and foremost give this money to itself:

Under the proposal, 90% of the funds would be initially allocated to the European Peace Facility (EPF), the bloc’s mechanism to reimburse weapons delivered to Kyiv, and then to the newly created Ukraine Assistance Fund (UAF). [ x ]

From this language, it’s not even clear whether this money will go to procure new weapons or to reimburse themselves for the already delivered ones. It can go either way or be some mixture of both.

i’m not walking these many steps up regardless

Marx having “the coolest beard in the room” is just objectively true