Author Topic: random foreign news thread (Read 2435 times)

sys · « **on:** July 16, 2021, 04:27:41 AM »

Invalid Tweet ID

MakeItRain · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2021, 01:18:08 PM »

That's hilarious

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2021, 12:26:59 AM »

Celebrities: they’re just like us!

sys · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2021, 07:56:37 PM »

not really news, but an interesting essay (warning, there is no satisfying conclusion drawn).

Why is the Dominican Republic at eight times as rich as Haiti? Why did this divergence only appear since 1960?

Lots of questions, no easy answers.https://t.co/6Uq3RE93hU
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 20, 2021

sonofdaxjones · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2021, 09:25:16 PM »

3 Dams collapse in China. Not sure if they're hydro-electric.

If so, they'll fire up another 5 coal fired power plants.

But they've "promised" to work on that green energy.

sys · « **Reply #5 on:** July 22, 2021, 05:26:40 PM »

interesting thread.

According to this tweet, at least one casualty in every car....https://t.co/8DvJU0aIKH
— Verbatim HKG 🇭🇰🇺🇦 (@VerbatimHKG) July 22, 2021

star seed 7 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 22, 2021, 08:02:51 PM »

Yikes

Spracne · « **Reply #7 on:** July 22, 2021, 08:24:57 PM »

Quote from: sys on July 22, 2021, 05:26:40 PM

interesting thread.

According to this tweet, at least one casualty in every car....https://t.co/8DvJU0aIKH
— Verbatim HKG 🇭🇰🇺🇦 (@VerbatimHKG) July 22, 2021

That is a shocking video. Not sure why the guy filming on his phone is cracking jokes like it's a comedy club, tho.

sys · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2021, 01:48:54 PM »

Temperatures dropped across Brazil - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frost https://t.co/YbWlHm7B7E 1/5 pic.twitter.com/rPfbTCujC5
— Reuters Science News (@ReutersScience) July 30, 2021

sys · « **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2021, 06:37:06 PM »

yeah, coffee is already mumped apparently.

KST8FAN · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2021, 07:56:15 PM »

Quote from: memphis on July 30, 2021, 06:01:54 PM

So is that supposed to mump up alot of crops? I have no idea about growing seasons there.

http://www.soybeansandcorn.com/Brazil-Crop-Cycles

Tom

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sys · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2021, 01:14:37 PM »

not foreign, but suitably random. good news for americans.

A bit cryptic for the uninitiated, but here geneticist Powell signs off on the EPA application to disseminate the Darling chestnut--an American chestnut w/ 1 extra gene conferring resistance to the blight that's otherwise wiped out the species. For more: https://t.co/8QSj5SGCbI https://t.co/qu7wNB3mgb
— 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 (@CharlesCMann) August 12, 2021

chum1 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2021, 03:27:08 PM »

Godspeed, redwoods of the East.

sys · « **Reply #13 on:** August 23, 2021, 04:05:38 PM »

just look at that beautiful valley. tourism is the obvious choice to bring in hard currencies.

Sandstone Outcropping · « **Reply #14 on:** August 23, 2021, 04:33:30 PM »

Quote from: memphis on August 23, 2021, 01:08:52 PM

1. Here's a 🧵 on the coming economic shock to Afghanistan, including some miscellaneous content I cut from the piece or found later.

The big picture: Afghanistan as a whole will run out of foreign currency and have a hard time buying imports.https://t.co/w8kfqNBSl9
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) August 23, 2021

Good economics lesson in there. Wasn't someone saying that Afghanistan has copper deposits the Chinese are interested in extracting? Seems like this would be a good way to fund the regime. Get cash in exchange for the copper. Like a discount Saudi Arabia with copper instead of oil. The Taliban regime would probably just use the cash to buy weapons (like N Korea). Only $600M of medical supplies imported per year - that is like $22.50 per Afghan citizen.

chum1 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 26, 2021, 04:30:58 PM »

Interesting topic.

1. It turns out that big-box stores are an even worse deal for cities and towns – worse than anyone, even their opponents, once thought. pic.twitter.com/ERe1xBNdxY
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) August 24, 2021

DaBigTrain · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2021, 04:58:59 PM »

This seems like it belongs in the random domestic new thread

sys · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2022, 04:04:10 AM »

some dude killed abe with a homemade gun.

The Ex-Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was shot and gravely wounded by a lone attacker with what appears to be a very crude improvised double-barrelled weapon made from pipe, tape, wood and electrical (!) firing components.

Possibly 12G/Black Powder pic.twitter.com/nLRZYoIR1M
— Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura) July 8, 2022

Spracne · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2022, 01:55:10 PM »

I mean, the assassination of a former head of state is pretty big news. Crickets?

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2022, 02:46:04 PM »

Quote from: Spracne on July 08, 2022, 01:55:10 PM

I mean, the assassination of a former head of state is pretty big news. Crickets?

Not really sure what to say about it. People are crazy.

catastrophe · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2022, 02:47:54 PM »

Ted Cruz immediately posted his condolences along with a picture of him meeting Abe to make sure people know he’s still relevant.

chum1 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2022, 02:48:19 PM »

I assume everyone is against it. Probably shouldn't given where the GOP is at these days.

CNS · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2022, 03:08:34 PM »

I have been waiting for someone to post the comment about if we control guns, crazy ppl will just make them for themselves.

bucket · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2022, 03:50:40 PM »

Quote from: CNS on July 08, 2022, 03:08:34 PM

I have been waiting for someone to post the comment about if we control guns, crazy ppl will just make them for themselves.

I was going to post something similar this morning but refrained

Kat Kid · « **Reply #24 on:** July 09, 2022, 08:03:39 AM »

Quote from: Spracne on July 08, 2022, 01:55:10 PM

I mean, the assassination of a former head of state is pretty big news. Crickets?

Abe was bad. Japan’s democracy is more of a joke than ours. The Reuters headline was funny.

This is like a Norm punchline https://t.co/zNnHnClGY1
— Mr. Chau (@Srirachachau) July 8, 2022

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