grandepequeno [he/him]

And they’re all gonna have 2 throwaway lines doing the most shit brained political analysis of hezbollah

Fires still raging on in portugal. It’s getting pretty bad

And get this, just last week we donated our ONLY 6 KAMOV FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS to, guess who?

Also a 28 year old brazillian worker died in one of the forest fires because he had gone into the forest to retrieve his company’s equipment.

we should all be more brazillian

Huge fires in the north of portugal (again). Haven’t looked into this in a while but usually I see the huge, dry, eucaliptus plantations as the reason for the rapid spread of these fires, there’s been a major increase in that because it’s an export crop that portugal carved out a small niche for itself in the eu market.

Last week the defense minister (from a party that can’t even get elected to parliament anymore outside of a coalition with the main center-right party), said something about Olivença being portuguese and Portugal not abdicating sovereignty over it, which is a small 11k people city on the frontier with spain that was supposed to be given back to portugal after the napoleonic wars (there was a treaty or something), but never was (I think this is a trueanon rule) and just kept being spanish. He was mostly mocked because no one really cares, and imagine being from Olivença and seeing your minimum wage reduced from 1k euros to 840 euros.

I’m happy this will soon be a thing I can forward to everyone who yells about pol pot

At times like these, hopefully catholics do

Oh yeah it was due to a lot more than just him, I worded that badly

reaching the end of his mandate without accomplishing the constitutional reform that was the whole point of electing him

It’s certainly not as egregious as I thought. Though obviously no one wants to hear something like this

More info from the british state controlled media:

China will “gradually raise” its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget.

The top legislative body on Friday approved proposals to raise the statutory retirement age from 50 to 55 for women in blue-collar jobs, and from 55 to 58 for females in white-collar jobs.

Men will see an increase from 60 to 63.

China’s current retirement ages are among the lowest in the world.

According to the plan passed on Friday, the change will set in from 1 January 2025, with the respective retirement ages raised every few months over the next 15 years, said Chinese state media.

EDIT: Even more info:

Retiring before the statutory age will not be allowed, state news agency Xinhua reported, although people can delay their retirement by no more than three years.

Starting 2030, employees will also have to make more contributions to the social security system in order to receive pensions. By 2039, they would have to clock 20 years of contributions to access their pensions.

The state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in 2019 that the country’s main state pension fund will run out of money by 2035 - and that was an estimate before the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit China’s economy hard.

The plan to raise retirement ages and adjust the pension policy was based on “a comprehensive assessment of the average life expectancy, health conditions, the population structure, the level of education and workforce supply in China,” Xinhua reported.

Fuck it here’s the article

Every zoomer/millenial thinks they’re THE special zoomer/millenial

This, I don’t have any trouble believing Trump personally wants to end the ukraine war because it means that he can claim the mantle of peacemaker or something (even if liberals and people from his own party will hate him for it), the question isn’t whether he’s sincere, it’s whether he’ll fold once he gets set aside by the deep state and made to understand the importance of shackling europe’s security to america.

Unironically if project 2025 was real, and trump actually made an attempt to get rid of non-party but probably democrat-inclined officials in the us government and state department I’d actually put money that he’d end the war too.

Don’t worry, nothing ever happends

Exactly

Reminder that this is about the government making federal judges an elected position rather than appointed

That’s cool, I actually hadn’t heard it before. I also like this song about Amilcar Cabral’s life

Now I understand

So western media fabricated a story about Iran arming Russia to justify more sanctions on Iran.

Maybe I’m missing the point but what does that have to do with pro-Resistance" or “Pro-Russian” media?

Unlike me who won’t have kids due to no game

We’re unironically now in the sonic inflation phase of the sonic cycle, where sonic fans overhype the next mainline sonic game