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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No because the Gulf of California is for Baja California, which is that little peninsula you see to the left. Baja California North and South are two Mexican states.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair to Dr. Hawass, a lot of his work is actually around preventing archeological sites from degrading and getting vandalised. Dude is undoubtedly a media whore but he's done a lot of good for the state of antiquities in Egypt.

In interviews, several Egyptologists said that most of what Dr. Hawass was doing for their field was long overdue, things as simple as installing air conditioning at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. He has instituted zoning around major antiquity sites and built visitor centers to prevent further degradation. He also has plans to build regional museums in Egypt, including a sprawling new structure beside the pyramids.

In addition, Dr. Hawass has pushed through a law making antiquity theft a serious crime, and he has limited excavation of new sites in favor of conserving old sites and artifacts. "I made rules for people to follow, for the first time," he said. "People don't like this."

"People don't like dramatic changes," Dr. Hawass said. "But I am well trained, and I believe Egypt antiquities needs this passion. I know who my enemies are, and I don't care. They are the amateurs who want to drill in the pyramids, and the antiquities dealers we put in jail. The failures who do nothing in their lives. They don't like success in general."

Per https://archive.is/MbK19#selection-2215.0-2215.357

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

End world hunger:

-$37 billion a year until 2030 (https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/how-much-money-would-it-take-to-end-world-hunger/)

House all homeless:

No idea how to estimate the M4A claim but yeah easily enough money to do your other two claims. Ridiculous sum of money spent on nothing other than suffering.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

sicko-wistful Becoming increasingly clear Trump has no idea what he's doing and got no meaningful concessions from Canada (as there's no "meaningful concessions" to get in the first place, Canada is already a resource colony/lapdog of the US). Bruv just loves the game of tariffs and deals. Not sure what the point of this charade was.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Want to note China is already dealing with the rebels, too. Some of them have lots of Chinese weapons, and they even made an agreement a year or so ago with a rebel group on their border to clean up the scam call centers there and hand over criminals to China.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The Chilean protest song El pueblo unido jamás será vencido (The people united will never be defeated!) has the exact same sing-along factor and vibe as Bella Ciao, I imagine it's what you're looking for.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really looks like this is going to be another boondoggle African world war a la the Second Congo War (which never really "resolved" anything, this conflict is just the festering wound of that war). If South African gets involved more officially, I expect others to do the same.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 60 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean a ceasefire isn't nothing. The genocide is obviously ongoing but a ceasefire is unambiguously good.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's functionally impossible.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 77 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Fortunes disappear" is a rather large exaggeration I fear. Oh no, Larry Ellison's fortune has disappeared, he's lost so much wealth that now instead of being the second richest person on the planet he's become checks notes the third richest person on the planet. $28.9 billion is not even 10% of his fortune.

[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So I'm only vaguely familiar with this because of the historical context with the First and Second Congo Wars (this is really the Third one), but Rwanda and therefore M23 (Rwandan-backed rebels) are nominally US backed. Rwanda is very much not a "tool" of American imperialism, they have their own agenda and Kagame is a very savvy player in leveraging (and indeed causing) chaos to Rwanda's benefit. M23 directly benefits Rwanda by siphoning off the mineral wealth of the DRC, specifically in the Kivu provinces, which is where this conflict is taking place.

China has some mines in South Kivu, but I don't think they care one way or another so long as the region is stable. They'll play with the DRC or Rwanda. Russia has some mercs hired by the DRC.

 

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