Wish we could see that in the west.

I mean, where do you think the rest of the WHO’s funding comes from?

$500m over 5 years isn’t even that much for the world’s second biggest economy, that barely breaks them into the top 10 funders. Certainly welcome given Trump’s withdrawal but back when the US was lead by marginally sane people, it was providing twice that amount every year.

No, what’s on second.

Well, who are they donating the money to? Don’t leave us in suspense like that.

It says he was convicted in a Russian-controlled court which is not at all the same thing. International law is clear on this and Russia is clearly breeching it.

Try putting some more effort into your trolling, I quoted the actual appropriate law.

He is a member of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine and as such is unambiguously not a mercenary by the definition used in the Geneva Convention and so is owed the protections afforded to prisoners of war.

Specifically, article 47 of Protocol 1 is clear that a neccesary condition to be considered a mercenary is that a person:

is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict

The fact that Russia has a history of ignoring this is not the knock-out argument you seem to think it is.

What’s a little contravention of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War between friends?

Tony Hoare: “Introducing NULL was a billion-dollar mistake”

Brendan Eich: “Hold my undefined”

Neat, I’ve always wanted a Palestine. Where can I pick it up?

Also trees, natural light and less densely packed desks than in any office I’ve ever worked in. Unironically looks better than having a job.

You’re also not really supposed to dig military tunnels under schools…

I don’t know of a proof that pi is normal in any base (even non-integer bases) so I’d be interested to see on what basis you can guarantee it.

Obligatory “pi hasn’t been proved to be normal”

On the scale of human warfare, “a few months” is pretty new. Frankly, its fairly new on the timescale of the Ukraine war at this point.

It’s also not going to explode so probably less of an issue on the whole than all the UXO there…

Because the secret is where it is, not that it exists.

They literally describe it as “the size of a forearm” so that about tracks with 3-4 inches diameter.

That was the guy’s dog being excited to meet new people, I remember the reddit thread.

Most claimed “hypersonic” missiles can’t actually manoeuvre at those speeds so you can spot them at distance and work out where you need to send an interceptor missile. We saw this with Patriot batteries vs Kinzhal in Ukraine.

Those would count as services which Trump explicitly excluded from his calculation, presumably so that he could claim the US has a larger trade deficit than it actually does. Although given he basically pulled the formula out of his ass anyway I’m not sure why he bothered to fudge the numbers as well.

While that is true, I do think there is an opportunity for the EU to get a real economic and diplomatic boost by strengthen ties with the traditional western allies in the Pacific now that America is torching its bridges there. Whether or not it can manage to get all member states to agree quickly enough to actually take that opportunity is a different matter though…