Kinda depends on what your downloading. Movies in the 2160p resolution are getting into the 10s of Gigs. And you still need a seed with comparable bandwidth serving the file you want.

https://streamingunity.tv/

There. Just saved you half an hour waiting for your download to complete.

“I am a very real woman who is talking to you on the internet and I am sincerely interested in sending you naked pictures with no plan for catfishing or upselling”

Seems legit.

Debunking three myths about the end of presidential term limits in China

using the justice system against any and all rivals!

It’s always dizzying to see western liberals insist the Chinese state is riddled with corruption, then blow their tops the moment anyone in China is identified and prosecuted for corruption.

I keep coming back to Guo Wengui, an outspoken Chinese billionaire ex-pat who claimed he was being persecuted for his liberal politics and not involved in a string of high profile scams. Six years after his arrival, he was up on charges in New York for the exact same set of fraud charges he’d fled Beijing to avoid. And - almost on reflex - Guo went back to the same playbook, insisting that SDNY prosecutors were pursuing him for his political views and not his defrauding of clients. Changpeng Zhao has a near identical story.

This is a tale as old as time in western politics. From Fulgencio Batista to María Corina Machado and Reza Pahlavi to Wernher von Braun, y’all vacuum up the trash. The US, the UK, and France absorb foreign crooks under the auspices of political refugee status. And then these slimeballs go right back to defrauding people in their new host nation.

I wonder how many more Chinese dissidents Keir Starmer and Donald Trump will rescue after this latest purge.

I mean, imagine a Chinese publication leaping to the defense of Henry Cuellar, Bob Menendez, Eric Adams, and George Santos.

So much of the US news really does boil down to a handful of senior editors having this burning hatred for the sitting Chinese President.

presidents for life

He’s been in office for 13 years. Angela Merkel served for longer as PM of Germany. Narendra Modi has been in office nearly as long, as President of India. FDR served for longer. Calm down.

Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!

The thing about your type is that you only know how to bomb bridges. You’ve forgotten how to build them.

Imagine a president who found corruption in his administration and decided “corrupt officials aren’t useful, they should be removed”.

Damn, setting aside the China Bad hysteria, this is pretty big news

China expels second-highest ranking general, 8 others over corruption

According to the ministry, the Central Military Commission (CMC) Discipline Inspection Commission, the PLA’s top anti-corruption body, investigated the officers and found they had violated Party rules and were suspected of serious crimes involving large financial misconduct. The offences were described as having an “extremely serious nature and egregious impact.”

Imagine living in a country where top officials actually get investigated and removed for wrongdoing.

Must be nice.

Finally going to separate Utah and Arizona with a hard border.

Not sure how I feel about Nevada 2, though.

Also, the gold standard was based on trust too. You trusted that the government would honour your request to exchange dollars for gold.

You also trusted that the supply of gold would not suddenly increase and devalue gold as a commodity. Or that demand for the specie doesn’t collapse because… let’s say, hypothetically, the world’s largest economy stops keeping it as a reserve currency.

The former happened in the second half of the 16th century, in an event known as the Price Revolution.

The latter was part of the Nixon Shock, following the unilateral cancellation of the direct international convertibility of the United States dollar to gold.

Incidentally, Nixon exiting the Gold Standard could more rightly be pinned on Charles DeGaulle.

In February 1965, French president Charles de Gaulle announced his intention to redeem U.S. dollar reserves for gold at the official exchange rate. By 1966, non-U.S. central banks held $14 billion in U.S. dollars, while the United States had only $13.2 billion in gold reserves, of which only $3.2 billion was available to cover foreign holdings.

In March 1968, the London Gold Pool collapsed.

In May 1971, West Germany left the Bretton Woods system, unwilling to sell further Deutschmarks for U.S. dollars.[10] In the following three months, the U.S. dollar dropped 7.5% against the Deutschmark, and other nations began to demand redemption of their U.S. dollars for gold.[10] On August 5, 1971, the United States Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar in an effort to protect their currency against “foreign price-gougers”.[10] Also in August, French president Georges Pompidou sent a battleship to New York City to retrieve French gold deposits.[11] On August 9, 1971, as the dollar dropped in value against European currencies, Switzerland left the Bretton Woods system.[10] Pressure intensified on the United States to leave the Bretton Woods system. On August 11, Britain requested $3 billion in gold be moved from Fort Knox to the Federal Reserve in New York.[11] As Paul Volcker, then Undersecretary of the United States Department of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, later put it:

Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?

Idk if I’m going to pick a fight with a restaurant chain that can harness that kind of firepower.

It’s not the same principle because it’s always one Big Mac.

Big Macs used to sell for $.50 and now they sell for $8. So one could argue the coins are actually a hedge against inflation.

Incidentally, US Forever Stamps serve a similar purpose.

our money has no value anymore since it was taken off the gold standard

Our money has value because it can be redeemed to pay down US-based debts, particularly tax debts. This is - and has always been - the real value of any currency. Go ask David Graeber for the details. But the TL;DR; is that we use coinage as a form of extortion. “You need to give us stuff to get coins which you can then pay us to avoid the threat of state violence.” Roman soldiers working overseas were paid in coins, while they were charged with collecting these coins as a tax, in order to integrate conquered economies into the Roman Empire. You had to provide goods/services to the soldiers so they could take them off you every taxation period.

Literally, money is a protection racket.

Also, who the fuck wants to eat a Big Mac? That shit’s disgusting.

Oh yeah. Americans love their Regime Change.

The Belgian occupation of Africa and the French colonization of Hispaniola had quite a bit in common.

Those 4 have a long way to go before they’re as shite as you.

It’s all the same people. Transnational corporations, billionaire international investors and bankers, and their gaggle of Ivy League friends who all went to the same country clubs and boarding schools.

Bernard Arnault and Donald Trump have more in common than you and your local Parliamentarian.

France has it’s fair share of nukes, too. And we’re a far distance from a US/France war, much less a nuclear war.

But there’s a very good chance Trump would fuck with the French economy. At that point, we all know Macron would fold instantly.

vive DeGaulle

chết tiệt de Gaulle

It’s an excellent strategy, so long as you can anticipate his next moves and preempt them.

It’s a dumb strategy if he can rampage and you have no way to stop him.