Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths). A quarter of all countries were subject to some type of sanctions from 2010 to 2022.

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

The media narrative this week will be that this is bad and China shouldn't have done this. But also it's good that the US did this for the past decade and kept adding additional export restrictions and sanctions on China.

This is Gaza, before and after 7 October 2023. Satellite images captured by Planet Labs PBC cast light on the scale of destruction caused by Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave over the last two years. Gaza Strip 1/10

Contrary to what people might think religion is actually moral relativism. I don’t know why people think otherwise. It is very obvious if you ever talk to anyone religious they cherry pick and do whatever the fuck to the actual teachings to fit their superiority complex

Israel has set aside a budget of $900,000 to influence public opinion through these influencers from July up to December 2025. 2/2

NEW: A list of pro-Israel American influencers who attended Israeli events from August to September has been identified, just days after it was revealed that they were being paid approximately $7,000 per post 1/2

america runs on americans believing that no matter how challenging things get here, that we still have it remarkably better than the rest of the world. if we knew what life was like in other countries the whole thing would be so much harder for them to manage

I tap the damn sign all day every damn day! I swear.

I’d like to propose the adoption of “American Century of Self-Humiliation” and “The American Cultural Devolution” as official phrasing for future discussion about the US.

It’s always good when bad people die.

Some Fucking Nazi: *dies* People Who Accepted the Genocide of Gaza and Police Brutality and Murders of Trans and Queer People as Unavoidable Parts of Society and Insisted For Decades You Simply Must Shrug Off For the Sake of Some Imaginary Sense of Harm Reduction: violence is never acceptable

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths." (1/?) Cont.

"the starving child was sick. so it's fine" — the newspaper you give your money to because they have fun word games

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

HelloChinese is a getter alternative if that’s what you’re learning!

I love good old Quake...hey wait a minute.

⬆️Perhaps the best part of this directory is the screenshots for "Mario Smash", the cancelled Mario game for Virtual Boy. These are VERY high quality and high resolution. The pixels are clean enough, someone could accurately recreate them all in pixel art with some patience.

The original argument was that Trump wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US. E.g. tech products. If you build in the US, some high tech components required to be imported from China would be subject to a 145% tariff. If you build the product in China and ship to the US, it's a 20% tariff.

China didn't steal your jobs, nor did it steal US IP. The US exported both deliberately. Jobs were moved to China for higher returns, sacrificing domestic labor. That's not theft, it’s just capitalism functioning as intended. The tariff exemptions align with that.

One thing people need to understand is that the US could literally just work together with China and create a better world for everyone with abundance. It’s precisely because the US wants to maintain its hegemony and does not want other countries to develop that we’re in this mess.

Though the Ōkami sequel is still very, very early in development, we visited director Hideki Kamiya, Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, and Machine Head Works studio head Kiyohiko Sakata for a two-hour interview and asked them all we could. bit.ly/4gFmzEy

One of the defining features of British politics is how cheap politicians can be bought for, and yet the idea that someone might see that and buy two of them is entirely lost on people

Some writer at Disney is a true Belieber.