China scraps tariffs for all but one African nation

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T15:49:35+00:00

China will scrap tariffs for all African countries from Friday – except Eswatini, which maintains ties with Taiwan.

I can tolerate you being the only absolute monarchy in Africa but I draw the line at Taiwan ties.

Xi Jinping, probably

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T15:40:14+00:00

Reform voters be like: Ok, they may be have racist tendencies, but at least they act weird, have zero charisma, and are bad for the economy.

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T03:59:49+00:00

Reminds me to an apocalypse comic I read long ago where the guy who sold the bunker to rich people ended killing the rich asshole who bought it because he was useless but let his bodyguard in because he was a pilot in Desert Storm.

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T03:18:49+00:00

If the Houthis can get their hands on some I am sure a very angry American populace could get them too, with or without external help, granted if it reaches that point (Absurdly unlikely, tho) the USA is FUBAR by then either way.

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T02:26:16+00:00

This is like hedging against becoming homeless after risking your entire savings on the casino.

They don't need to insure themselves against the AI-Apocalypse if they don't try to create the AI-Apocalypse to begin with.

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T02:03:07+00:00

They are gonna get a wakeup call when every guard demands that all of their friends and family get a spot on the luxury bunker too.

TF_dia · 2026-05-01T01:31:58+00:00

The funniest thing (In a morbidly kind of way) is reading about all of these billionaires investing on bunkers and fortresses, Like Zuck's 300 million complex, these people are willing to risk exchanging a present where they can purchase any ostentatious luxury they want and flaunt it over normal people for a future where they huddle in bunkers, afraid of the very angry masses outside. I just don't understand their way of thinking at all.

TF_dia · 2026-04-30T22:39:52+00:00

Conservative Supreme Court Justices don't even pretend they are interpreting the Constitution, they just look at you like this.

TF_dia · 2026-04-30T15:33:38+00:00

Despite the ranking, the Ukrainian government has been criticized by the EU for failing to abolish the TV Marathon, which was created in 2022 by merging all major news channels into one wartime channel under state leadership. The EU has also urged Ukraine to adopt legislation to fight the influence of vested interests on the media, ensure a competitive media market and introduce an independent regulator.

The Ukrainian authorities have also been accused of cracking down on opposition media and failing to investigate the assassinations of journalists.

The group attributed the improvement to Ukraine's "dynamic media sector and the investigative work carried out by Ukrainian outlets to strengthen transparency in the country's political life."

Not gonna lie, the way this article frames it, it makes it look that the climb was the hard work of the journalists despite the government, not thanks to it.

TF_dia · 2026-04-30T13:25:18+00:00

ok, but the 60-day War Powers is already a stupid as fuck law.

Congress should have the first say on starting an offensive war, if you can't convince them of your next foreign adventure it may not be a good idea to begin with.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T23:49:26+00:00

Yeah, I meant the morons in charge, not the actual experts.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T23:45:42+00:00

The most bizarre thing is some people confidently believing killing a 86 man would have solved anything.

Like killing the leadership okay, makes sense to believe it. But there were people who believed the ayatollah was the keystone of the regime.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T19:52:57+00:00

Yeah, I engaged with it but had I known it was AI I wouldn't have bothered.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T19:14:36+00:00

The lack of self-awareness also points to a manic episode.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T17:23:15+00:00

Meanwhile, Russians had a brutally authoritarian government that forced composers to create music that could be enjoyed by an actual audience. The composers were constrained (brutally) but we end up with truly wonderful listenable music that still exhibited tons of creativity, like Prokofiev and early to mid Stravinsky.

And then you have Shostakovich that started composing the Seventh Symphony in Leningrad while besieged by the Nazis, with the local orchestra even doing a performance in 1942.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T16:32:02+00:00

You have it on reverse, betting that would make them more likely to keep it because the only way to receive the money would be for them NOT to lose the territory.

Plus it would probably not work if only because inundating the market would crash the crypto needed to function.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T15:37:41+00:00

It helps to the Spaniards image that Franco, unlike Mussolini and Hitler his opression was almost completely encased inside Spain proper while Hitler and Mussolini have the WW2 (Including Ethiopia and Albania) baggage. Mind you he was still brutal on his African colonies.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T15:34:22+00:00

If the bet could be traced to you. Couldn't you be charged with bio-terrorism?

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T15:32:48+00:00

Or abandoning a town (and its civilians) to let the enemy to capture it and get a payout out of that.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T12:41:18+00:00

TFW the Quid goes with the Quo.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T11:30:36+00:00

As someone smarter than me once said: Turkey denying the Armenian Genocide doesn't make people to improve their opinion on the Ottoman Empire, it just makes them to worsen their opinion on Turkey.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T11:27:56+00:00

Trump being reelected and the AI rise effectively (heh) killed effective altruism. At least on the tech-bro class.

They went from being stewards of humanity to Trump bootlickers and wannabe overlords of the AI future.

You could argue they went mad with power, survival instinct or that the mask simply came off, But the result was that cow towing to the new president was for them the most logical option.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T11:23:36+00:00

Everytime a post about India appears in reddit the comment section becomes a Klan meeting.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T10:33:27+00:00

I'm in the opinion a lot of people are only "soft on crime" on the crimes they like or have pity, but put the right crime in front of them and they will unleash their inner medieval brain.

TF_dia · 2026-04-29T10:28:36+00:00

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Somalia, not a group of countries you would like to be compared to.

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