This is it:
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

Yeah, numbers from 2012 are useless. Chinas GDP has more than doubled since then.

I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. According to your own quoted numbers:

combined GDP of all NATO members +Sweden = $45.93319 trillion

total GDP of only the five initial BRICS member states = $65 trillion

So you compare NATO+ with only a part of current BRICS and it’s still less.

Better stay inside the closet!

It’s like me boycotting Nestlé.

Relationships are like the blockchain.
There’s no trusted, central database of all relationships that determines what is or isn’t cheating.
That trust is negotiated in each interaction.

Marriages follow the traditional method of a chain of trust. There is a central database that lies with the government or the church, and everyone decides which database they want to trust.

Pioneer
It’s open source, and if you’re on Linux, it’s probably in your repos.
Kinda like a cross between Elite and Kerbal Space Program.

You never read comments you reply to till the end?

When Europe and the US put sanctions on China and Russia, there’s an obvious problem, though:

BRICS countries now have a higher GDP than NATO.

I wanna take a ride on that transbian railway.

Heidelberg, Germany. This town is already more American than some towns in America.

LLMs. Do. Not. Understand. Anything.

the Rat Race, obviously.

If the truck on the bottom right made a right turn instead of going straight, it would cross a cycle lane.

No, there are 2 spots where cars turning right cross a cycle lane going straight, without a traffic light.
One of them is on the lakes coming from the left, the other on the lanes in the background coming towards the viewer.

This is a meat grinder for cyclists.

GIMP 3.0 will come with the next Debian release.
When will that come out?
When it’s ready.
You can get a bit of an idea where in the release process we are by looking at this graph:

Where the green and blue lines dip close to zero, there was a new release.
Next release is probably planned for October 2025.

Between releases, packages are only updated when it’s relevant for security or to fix bugs.
Thunderbird and Firefox are a bit of an exception. Those programs are so complex that backporting security fixes to the current Debian version isn’t feasible. So Debian is forced to ship the new version when security issues in the current version become known.
And they’re also not needed on servers, so the reduced stability doesn’t affect them.

At this point I believe the US simply can’t withhold support from Israel for some reason.
And they also can’t publically disclose why that is.
But the consequences of withholding aid must be worse (at least for those in government positions) than a Trump dictatorship.

People (=male doctors) postulated that when women are emotional or horny, that’s a sickness called “Female Hysteria”.
It was caused by the womb wondering around inside the body.
The cure was to trigger “Hysterical Paroxysm” by a doctor stimulating her genitals with a vibrator.