modern day vikings gonna loot’n’pillage

first two paragraphs should be enough to convince anyone that it’s not news, just a highly biased opinion piece

Argentina’s statistics agency on Wednesday published annual inflation of 254% as January inflation edged down to 20.6% from 25.5% a month earlier, just below forecasts of 257% and 21% according to analysts polled by Reuters.

that part is really confusing - it’s down 20.6% to 254% from 257%?

depends on what side of the battlefront you’re on

still very impressive.

so what? the UN isnt going to do anything about it.

this article was far more interesting and informative --> https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/14/identifying-the-mystery-vessel-at-the-site-of-trinidad-tobagos-national-emergency-oil-spill/

if found guilty, yes - generally people in that situation arent actually paying you back though, that’s why you have homeowners insurance.

it’s different because it’s not your house, it’s a country.

it seems like one of the key defining principals of the fediverse is platform evolution - mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history.

why not just hold it, frozen, until Putin dies/gets assassinated and someone not batshit crazy takes his place?

good, now do India!

random man evades police, crashes car, breaks into someone’s house & threatens them. police then solved the problem.

in regards to that definition then: yeah, I’d say people are, on the whole, more enlightened than they were a century ago. the scientific method is more thoroughly accepted/baked in at a societal level, and the mass adoption of digital communication facilitates a greater sense of community… though the resulting communities are often at odds with each other.

it’s not really difficult to recycle plastics (depolymerisation) - but it’s not cheap to do it at scale and there really isnt any way to profit from it, so it’s just not done.

but Ukraine launching drones at Russian cities is ok

Bernie’s retiring from politics then?

Rwanda is blameless then?

anime/manga high school of the dead zombies is my favorite example

just like Germany’s V2 rockets! but using proven tech

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