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s4tch

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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i won't post every time i come across this fat fuck, this picture just reminded me when the wife was our law class lecturer at university. she seemed to be a nice person. once she skipped a few weeks and classes were held by a substitute. rumor said his husband beat her. btw she makes very few public appearances, this time is an obvious public stunt.

 
s4tch

s4tch

Senior Member
#710
Mar 23, 2015
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#710
let's write a condemning press release and get done with it, right?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...m-was-jammed-russian-interference-2025-09-01/

or for once fight back. cut russia off the internet, start spending big money on cyberattacks against all and every possible russian target, sanction every single country that buys russian gas and/or oil (yeah that would double my monthly bill but i'm happy to contribute), pressure that imbecile murican administration to let ukraine use long range missiles against russian targets, use the confiscated russian assets to finance ukraine's efforts, ban all russians to enter the eu, deport and expel all russian eu residents without any single exception, including the sons and daughters of russian oligarchs studying at european universities, confiscate the private properties of russian citizens within the eu, sanction every company that fails to close their russian branches, ban russian ships from entering any eu water and port, etc

russia is a terrorist state and this is an act of war. one thing is sure, they won't stop testing the eu's inability to respond
 
swag

swag

L'autista
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#712
Sep 23, 2003
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#712
s4tch said:
congrats poland. they are a big country so it's not a surprise when they have a high total gdp, but they also increased their gdp per capita considerably. good job

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Because they were such a failed country at $980 billion?

I hate these arbitrary nonsense measures. They're not even on the US dollar, so their GDP actually puts them in the 3,650,000,000,000 Polish złoty club. WTF is THAT?
 
s4tch

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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#713
swag said:
Because they were such a failed country at $980 billion?

I hate these arbitrary nonsense measures. They're not even on the US dollar, so their GDP actually puts them in the 3,650,000,000,000 Polish złoty club. WTF is THAT?
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it's the process that deserves the praise, not the 1bn milestone. that's why i mentioned the gdp per capita growth

inflation make sure hungary will get into the 1bn usd club eventually lol
 
swag

swag

L'autista
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#714
Sep 23, 2003
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s4tch said:
it's the process that deserves the praise, not the 1bn milestone. that's why i mentioned the gdp per capita growth

inflation make sure hungary will get into the 1bn usd club eventually lol
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Make no mistake: this is no slight on you or Poland and their growth.

It's just that everything is so metric-obsessed they end up celebrating arbitrary nonsense. Like do I really need to hear that NVIDIA is the first $5 trillion market cap company when market cap is a fantasy math game where we presume that the going rate for the float of a handful of exchanged shares that day somehow extrapolates to every shareholder on the planet who all sell to an imaginary army of funded buyers that materializes out of thin air?

Convert US dollars to Euros, and it's still €4 trillion.

We humans celebrate some of the dumbest shit that's little more than numerology.
 
s4tch

s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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swag said:
Make no mistake: this is no slight on you or Poland and their growth.

It's just that everything is so metric-obsessed they end up celebrating arbitrary nonsense. Like do I really need to hear that NVIDIA is the first $5 trillion market cap company when market cap is a fantasy math game where we presume that the going rate for the float of a handful of exchanged shares that day somehow extrapolates to every shareholder on the planet who all sell to an imaginary army of funded buyers that materializes out of thin air?

Convert US dollars to Euros, and it's still €4 trillion.

We humans celebrate some of the dumbest shit that's little more than numerology.
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i didn't take it personally and you're right. numbers are universally loved: managers like percentages, headlines are full of numbers that are easy to retain, what's your body count videos go viral, muricans love to discuss their wages, people measure their biceps, horsepowers sell cars, you name it. football fans often love numbers too, and i'm guilty in that too. it is what it is

btw i just checked, their economic growth isn't bad at all, around 3% (equal to world average, well above eu avg) for last year. still, it might be trump's weak dollar that pushed them through the 1bn line lol
 
swag

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
85,119
#716
s4tch said:
i didn't take it personally and you're right. numbers are universally loved: managers like percentages, headlines are full of numbers that are easy to retain, what's your body count videos go viral, muricans love to discuss their wages, people measure their biceps, horsepowers sell cars, you name it. football fans often love numbers too, and i'm guilty in that too. it is what it is

btw i just checked, their economic growth isn't bad at all, around 3% (equal to world average, well above eu avg) for last year. still, it might be trump's weak dollar that pushed them through the 1bn line lol
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I'd celebrate 3% growth more than some arbitrary $1 trillion GDP club. But it's less impressive of a number, so we get distracted. :p
 
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