Far-right parties are winning in Europe because the European Central Bank forces countries to adopt ‘austerity’ policies. These policies destroy jobs and reduce people’s quality of life. So people vote for whoever promises to fix this - either the left or the far-right. But the ECB can’t permit an anti-austerity government, so they crack down on the left. The far-right is tolerated as long as it only targets random Syrian refugees.

No it’s like a duel where one person keeps shooting himself in the foot and the other gets increasingly confused.

I just looked up smartphones with headphone and SD card slots on GSMarena, and there are 159 models even from 2025. That’s more than I expected. And most of them are actually affordable and worth the cost - I wouldn’t recommend half the devices on this list purely based on price to performance ratio.

That’s the real reason. All the talk of drug smuggling is just a distraction.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

Also most of the rights we enjoy are thanks to the French and Russian people who had a whole lot of negative thoughts about their kings and expressed them loud enough for the ruling classes in the rest of the world to hear.

If you lose enough money, you trigger an integer overflow and end up with a profit!

I actually like it. Smartphones in India are usually a little cheaper than elsewhere, since they assume they can make up the lost revenue with ads. And at least on Xiaomi devices, you can stop all OS-side ads by removing just one app.

I think it’s a lot simpler than that. Venezuela has oil.

I don’t think the government will risk significant increases in fuel prices on the eve of the Bihar elections. On the other hand, it is quite possible that they agree to stop buying Russian oil from Russia as a compromise - it could be bounced off a third country so we can technically agree to the US demands.

Pretty sure he had them buried long before he died. (Well, that’s the story anyway. For all we know, it could have been completely made up by the Han to discredit the Qin.)

Because the real power of the US isn’t the ICC exemption or the UN SC veto, but their six thousand nukes and the biggest navy in the world.

I mentioned those too (‘any south Asian alphabet’). But it’s okay.

The only way there is going to be any peace in Gaza is if Hamas is driven out of Gaza for good.

The people of Gaza, even those who have turned to violence and extremism, are native to that land. The majority of Israelis are not. So the fairer solution for the conflict would be for the settlers to go back wherever they’re from, and leave the locals alone.

We can start with America and work our way down the list from there.

I wish. And while we’re at it, tell the British Museum to return the stuff they stole.

Gameplay? Xiangling (Genshin) - She does more damage.

Story? Focalors / Furina - peak character and peak storytelling

This silly meme tells you everything you need to know about Xiangling (apart from ‘every team becomes 10x better with XL in it’) and everything Furina wants you to know about her.

Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.

I already mentioned those?

Latin (Romaji)

Mobei. The Han replaced the Xiongnu as the major power of east Asia, and caused a westward migration of central Asian tribes that would result in the sack of Rome. I made a meme about this a year ago.