Go to 2016:

The number of people in poverty globally is 600 million.

Go to 2024:

The number of people in poverty globally is 614 million.

Go to 2029:

The projected number of people in poverty globally is 602 million at current rates.

For 13 years. Globally poverty will be worse than it was in 2016, every with China lifting one billion people and counting out of poverty across the previous decades.

13 years under a western led world order, and the world ended up with more people suffering and in poverty than when the count started. All of it with America in charge of global affairs.

Did Mexico. The neighbor right next door. Become a global power under US leadership? No. It did not.

Did East Europe. Under European leadership rise up to become a developed economy? Slowly and steadily with growth slower than the developing world.

Did Africa, under western guidance, continue to grow richer and prosperous? It did not. Its growth stalling until Chinese businesses came along.

The western led world order failed the world because it could no longer improve the lives of the rest of the world in any manner. The Chinese led world order, meanwhile, continues to improve the lives and wealth of nations beyond China itself while managing to keep growing China as well.

The time of the western led world order has ended. You are only worth the last dollar you help everybody else make, and America is no longer capable of helping anybody else make another dollar, and Europe is too busy growing Eastern Europe. For the rest of the world, the only sane choice is to be friends with China and to support a Chinese led world order and its growth over time.

Conclusion:

The west is a marketing and advertising economy. Not an actual product development economy. That is why the Chinese and East Asia is overtaking them now. East Asia has more to offer the world than the west, as modern China's slate is far cleaner than the one of the West. China never caused a world war. China never colonized the world. China never nuked another nation. China didn't torture middle eastern or korean civilians.

China is more humane than the west today. China will replace the west as number one, and the world will be a better place for it.

It's been widely reported that Ubisoft is currently in talks with advisors about ways to stabilize the business, with the most recent reports suggesting that Tencent was set to buy out the company and take it private. Those talks seem to have stopped, as a significant term in negotiations revolved around the Guillemot brothers' insistence on retaining control, which is likely a term that Tencent probably wouldn't want to agree to. After all, the Guillemot brothers essentially put Ubisoft in this predicament in the first place.

For now, the negotiation halt seems to be a strategy both sides are playing. Tencent will continue to snap up shares and raise its stake. At the same time, the Guillemot brothers will want to wait until late February to early March to reignite negotiations, as Ubisoft is set to release the highly anticipated Assassin's Creed Shadows on February 14. An Assassin's Creed Shadows failure gives Tencent more opportunities to increase its stake at a lower share value.

Despite Ubisoft's board launching an investigation into the company's struggles (of which 5 members are from the Guillemot family, by the way), no one, at least to those I've talked to, believes it will lead to any change. Speaking with past and current Ubisoft employees at various levels in the company, it's widely speculated that CEO Yves Guillemot would rather go down with the [Skull & Bones] ship rather than give up his position with a similar sentiment reflected about the other Guillemot brothers. It's a hurdle the company will somehow need to overcome wherever Assassin's Creed Shadows lands, even if it's a success.

Yet, on the flip side, Ubisoft continues pumping money into Project U, Project Scout (another Battle Royale heavily inspired by Apex Legends), Project Maverick (a Far Cry extraction-based shooter), NFT games, and several more titles that almost everyone with common sense will say is not going to provide a return on investment. To be clear, I'm not saying that Ubisoft needs to stop trying "new" ideas (the Animal Crossing-inspired ALTERRA in development at Ubisoft looks phenomenal in my opinion), but some projects are so blatantly destined to fail, that it's mind-boggling that the company continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, that they don't have, on projects in the hopes that they are the next Fortnite.

So Mr. Xi Jinping reportedly told PM Narendra Modi that he wished to visit Vadnagar, Mr. Modi’s village, as Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsang once stayed there. And when Hiuen Tsang returned to China, he supposedly resided in Xi’s village.
Interesting historical link btwn the two. pic.twitter.com/gmVHxqfDjh

— Mudit (@muditfx) January 10, 2025

Ahh those were the days my friend.

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

🇺🇦🇪🇺‼️🚨 Ukranian boys aged 16 - 20 are leaving Ukraine in masses, buses full drive to Europe daily!

There are even organized tours for the boys to leave!

The upcoming lowering of the mobilization age to 18 scared people! pic.twitter.com/ut97L1DfXW

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 11, 2025

as i understand it, ziz is an ex-miri employee who became disillusioned with the rationalist community after (according to her) anna salamon and michael vassar implied that miricult's accusations (that lead members of miri, including eliezer, were having sex with high schoolers)…

— Celene Nightingale (@toasterlighting) January 23, 2025

Trump launching his coin on Shabbat when Jews can't buy has to be the most anti-Semitic thing he's ever done

— ScienceRespecter (@InLuvWScience) January 18, 2025

So I watched this video like 2 years ago, and ever since then thought it would be pretty cool to have a Japanese chef's knife. I haven't bought one yet, but when I googled Takamura Hamono, this came up:

https://old.reddit.com/r/chefknives/comments/o59f5z/everything_awful_about_business_insiders_takamura/

Is this true? I went and googled some more and found this:

https://takamurahamono.jp/series/series01_2.html

This seems to be the Uchigumo-Hana line, and it's hard to find out how to order it.

Like.....I don't know, is there a fact checker for these videos now? Or a blog?

What if the Momotaro gold label doesnt feel like miner aesthetics with the softest skinrub known to man?

Are the kimonos shit for the girl weeaboos?

Are the inksticks shit too? I might've wanted to try that.

!weebs come mourn with me.

How is this real?

!g*mers !edgelords

History repeats itself. As farce and then it just keeps getting more r-slurred.

@X

people are actually insane because did you really think we were going to see Jim fucking Carrey executed by firing squad in a kids film https://t.co/3Ze4CEdAhg

— Hatter🎄 (@RibbitItsRiver) January 9, 2025

Would've been a huge get to have the director of Buck Breaking on the pod