No surprises there. Unlike Ukraine, Belarus seems ready to bend over, so all Putin needs to do is make Lukashenko wealthy.

He’s realised that his star power has faded in the US and he needs new fanboys.

I didn’t dispute the data, I’m saying that the source isn’t neutral.

The data may very well be accurate or not, I don’t know enough to comment either way. I suspect it’s not entirely accurate because both Russia and China have a history of massaging numbers and having inaccurate reporting.

But putting that aside - Russia and China both want to get rid of the US dollar as the dominant currency for their own interests. It’s not surprising that Russia-China trades are now conducted mostly without the use of US dollars. The fact that this comes from a known government mouthpiece means it’s just nationalist self-promotion.

Questioning the motive of the source is always good practice. If you see an article saying “Survey shows Hyundai emerges as the best car brand in 2023”, it would make a difference if this news was taken from the Hyundai website or BBC.

It’s not a matter of being pro-US or pro-Russia/China. There are skewed news sources in ever country, the US included.

Why not cover that up? Ugh

Yeah. I think only a minority of people are calling out their bullshit and everyone else is still swallowing the propaganda.

Putin really deserves to be tried for war crimes.

This now has to be the official lemmy gold image.

Damn my first computer had a cpu that was 300Mhz

Probably a troll post lol

Geez thanks for pointing it out.

Bug report closed.

Thanks for your report, this is a feature and not a bug. There was no weather that day.

For new users, no need to explain in too much detail. Just get them onto a big instance (lemmy.world is probably the best now) and after they start, they can learn more about instance.

Yeah as everyone else said, nothing in the Internet is truly private.

That said, I believe the fediverse is better for preventing use of your data because no one server/instance has all the data. This makes it harder to track and use your data across servers/instances.

Hahahaha I’m loving all this malicious compliance.

FYI, global times is a well known CCP mouthpiece.

Rule 34 of the Internet.

12ft.io as well, but it’s becoming more useless. More and more websites pay them to render it useless.

“Genuine manmade leather” 😂

I never knew that. Cool!

This is actually quite impressive