I don’t understand why you’d use GDP here. Is the assumption that, normalized for currency differences, all countries have the same gdp? That’s not true.

I think argued earlier that tue money goes less far in the us because the cost of living is higher, so then normalize by cost or standard of living? But even that would assume that the average wage in the country is supporting the same lifestyle in both Russia and the us. Which it isn’t. Some countries live “better” than others.

I think raw numbers are probably best here. 100 trillion in military spending is 100 trillion.

I think they’re probably more worried about the us invading them. We’re the ones who’ve been invading countries most in the past 100 years, not china.

This is exactly what he was saying though, isn’t it? Biden literally used the sotu a few weeks ago to publically call them clowns and you just ignored it. You have a narrative in your head you want to be true, so you’ll seek out whatever you need to make it that way. It’s a waste of time to pursue your vote. It’s already decided.

All those people who told me they voted for him because he was rich and therefore couldn’t be bought seem to have gone very quiet.

And a bunch of poor people paying his and his billionaire friends bills for them.

I mean, the loss of the headphone jack was a downgrade for no reason beyond profits. Big screens were a tradeoff made on purpose because customers demanded it.

6 in phones are in no danger of disappearing though.

I hate small phones. I switched back to an iphone SE years ago and realized it was a pita to use anymore. Everything is… too small.

I’m in Thailand and knockoff Disney stuff (and Legos) are pretty normal. And it’s nice. The kids buying them have to deal with seeing their ads plastered all over town, so it’s nice there are versions they can buy. I just wish they were so shitty quality and the big companies markup wasn’t so fucking insane. Lego sets pretty regularly hit $200-$300 here. There literally is no Nintendo Thailand, so game prices are pretty random based on import fees that retailers can negotiate (or sneak through).

The nice thing is no one gives a shit about piracy. No risks really.

Signing doesn’t provide security of privacy protections. It just means you paid apple a fee.

He’s 83 too and there’s plenty of fox news articles out there about times he’s confused bush and trump or ebola and COVID.

I always think Biden should take this asa sign the court is too small. 9 justices apparently isn’t enough to handle the caseload and the court needs to expand.

Wasn’t Biden on Seth myers literally last night?

But not voting for him means fucking over lgbt, women, and minorities. Good work! You’ve made a great statement to the world about who you care about.

But what are the chances that one person hangs out with three people who have similar opinions? Sounds impossible if you ask me.

The vast vast vast vast majority of men in the world are uncut and fine.

The vast vast vast majority of the worlds men have foreskins though.

Circumcision is taking a kid and doing something irreversible to them without consent. Trans treatment is taking a kid and preventing irreversible things from happening until they consent.

I think Biden makes compromises. That’s the leftists argument against him. But here he’s probably weighing the cost of pissing off a Jewish block of support and leftists.

I also doubt it’s much of a choice. The leftist won’t support him regardless because he’s not bernie sanders.

I think they’re (fox) probably sending a message to him here that he better do what they want.