International Politics

[Rendle]

Kalshi "Acquired by 2029" - 35.5%

Polymarket  "Acquired by 2027" - 15%

Personally I think it's much lower. The Greenlanders (Greenlandians?) dislike America even more than they dislike Denmark. Not sure why they would ever willingly become a terroritory of a foreign Government they like even less than the current forsign government they're a territory of. The minerals in Greenland are worth Trillions so I doubt they will take up the "$100,000 for each citizen" offer either.

[Besticus Maximus]

Imagine if they put all this effort in fucking up the world into like, going out into space to mine things or something

[Rendle]

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And space mining too

[Potato]

Imagine if they put all this effort in fucking up the world into like, going out into space to mine things or something

Space mining is still a long way off being economically and technologically viable. The best bet for the moment is to build a base on the moon and use the minerals acquired to develop things to explore space further. The most difficult part of the equation will be to return any minerals to earth so that's why it's not really gaining any traction. 

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I know this because I attended a session on space mining at a conference once and my colleague got into a lunchtime conversation with some engineers from Space X, and other agencies/companies that are actually looking into this stuff.

[Besticus Maximus]

Imagine if they put all this effort in fucking up the world into like, going out into space to mine things or something

Space mining is still a long way off being economically and technologically viable. The best bet for the moment is to build a base on the moon and use the minerals acquired to develop things to explore space further. The most difficult part of the equation will be to return any minerals to earth so that's why it's not really gaining any traction. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I know this because I attended a session on space mining at a conference once and my colleague got into a lunchtime conversation with some engineers from Space X, and other agencies/companies that are actually looking into this stuff.

Bet they could actually get a start on doing it if they pulled their fingers out tbh, it's 2025 lads howay

[Nintex]

So what's the odds on Trump getting Greenland?

At this point all of it is a coin flip within 20 minutes, 24 hours, 2 weeks or never  

In any case the BRICS have been decimated. Even trade between China and Russia is down.  

it turns out Russia not a very reliable ally

[Nintex]

Yep open up those bottles fellas.

Trumpism has reached Iran. Could be never could be 2 weeks. Who knows. 

[Potato]

Imagine if they put all this effort in fucking up the world into like, going out into space to mine things or something

Space mining is still a long way off being economically and technologically viable. The best bet for the moment is to build a base on the moon and use the minerals acquired to develop things to explore space further. The most difficult part of the equation will be to return any minerals to earth so that's why it's not really gaining any traction. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I know this because I attended a session on space mining at a conference once and my colleague got into a lunchtime conversation with some engineers from Space X, and other agencies/companies that are actually looking into this stuff.

Bet they could actually get a start on doing it if they pulled their fingers out tbh, it's 2025 lads howay

I know, right? 

If they can land a man on the moon in 1969, we can at least exploit some minerals there in 2026

[Nintex]

Europe is just smoking and drinking in dunkelgrau

troubled detectives aura 

will ultimately solve the case

[Kazuma_Kiryu]

Meeting went that bad?

[Nintex]

Just got to work out the fine print

[Nintex]

Taliban rizz

A real statesman. Wise words of a steady hand in matters of global diplomacy

[Nintex]

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[Nintex]

They read him the posts now he's mad at Iran

[Potato]

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/16/female-nurses-win-employment-case-over-nhs-changing-room-use-by-trans-colleague

A group of nurses who complained about a trans colleague using single-sex changing rooms at work suffered harassment, an employment tribunal judge has ruled.

The judge found the nurses’ dignity was violated and they encountered “a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment” at work.

The seven female nurses, who work at Darlington Memorial hospital, brought a claim against their employer, County Durham and Darlington NHS foundation trust. It stemmed from their objection to another nurse, Rose Henderson, a trans woman, being allowed to use the women’s changing facilities.

In a judgment handed down to the parties on Friday, Judge Sweeney said: “The trust subjected the claimants to harassment related to sex and gender reassignment by permitting the claimants’ biological male, trans woman colleague to use the female changing room and requiring the claimants to share that changing room without providing suitable alternative facilities.”

The ruling said the trust also subjected the nurses to harassment by not taking their concerns seriously. “This included referring to the need for the claimants to be educated on trans rights and to broaden their mindsets, the later provision of inadequate and unsuitable changing facilities for those who objected to sharing the female changing room with that colleague.”

Sweeney said: “The above conduct had the effect of violating the dignity of the claimants and creating a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment for them.”

The nurses claimed during the tribunal hearing in Newcastle that Henderson stared at them, and one of the nurses alleged that Henderson asked her three times if she was going to get changed.

The tribunal dismissed as “not well-founded” complaints about Henderson’s conduct, saying she “did not behave improperly whilst using the changing room”.

[Uncle]

it's wild how there's a patchwork of these cases and their findings globally, even within the same country

how do you take into account precedent which occurred during an ideologically-captured time? I guess you just don't?

The nurses claimed during the tribunal hearing in Newcastle that Henderson stared at them

reminds me of this, which the girls lost, but was much more egregious

A 21-year-old transgender woman is being sued by a group of sorority sisters at the University of Wyoming after the student allegedly became physically aroused around them.

Artemis Langford faces a lawsuit over alleged obscene behavior in front of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sisters after joining them last September, the New York Post reported.

According to the seven sorority sisters' lawsuit, the 6-foot-2 transgender student, referred to under the male pseudonym Terry Smith in the documents, was seen sporting an erection while watching them.

"Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings," the lawsuit alleged.

The sorority sisters who filed the complaint claimed that Langford, who is referred to as "he" and "him" in the suit, sometimes placed "a pillow in his lap" to allegedly hide evidence of being physically aroused.

The lawsuit also claimed that Langford stared at the women without talking for hours.

Langford was allegedly caught silently watching one sorority member who was wearing only a towel walk down the hall to take a shower.

"She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw Mr. Smith watching her silently," the lawsuit claimed.

[killamajig]

Twelve F-15E Strike Eagles with the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing (48 FW) departed earlier today from RAF Lakenheath in England bound for Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, with one diverting to Chania International Airport on the Greek island of Crete. Several KC-135T Stratotankers and C-17A Globemaster IIIs supported the deployment of the F-15s to the Middle East, as tensions escalate with Iran.

[Nintex]

Trumps toys are going to be smashed by vikings

[Nintex]

Davos is going to be lit fam

[Uncle]

Trumps toys are going to be smashed by vikings

this is all a ruse to draw everyone's forces to greenland while trump takes iceland instead

(greenland being an icy shithole while iceland is a beautiful verdant paradise, a kingly prize for a would-be conqueror)

[Nintex]

Posting the groupchat on main

[Nintex]

Aura farming

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

[Nintex]

Could it possibly be anymore corrupt? 

Putin paying Trump a billion dollars with sanctioned assets  

 

[Nintex]

Will there finally be peace?

[Nintex]

Yeah after the cool part I'm done tbh

Trump has withdrawn the board of peace invitation to Canada and wants to Invoke article 5 over the US border.
The EU might boycott the World Cup.

Macron is still aura farming

[Nintex]

just leave your fortified positions and sell it what could possibly go wrong the board of peace has your back 

[killamajig]