Of course its a hype right now. But at the same time AI improved my daily working live in the past year so much! I can outsource a lot of annoying tasks to AI and focus on the more creative tasks and everything strategic.
The idea of corruption is quiet complex. There are even economists that argue, that slight corruption leads to a more efficient economy, due to minimizing beaucracy.
Nevertheless, corruption can lead to people loosing faith into their government and therefore its inability to fulfill its role in society.
Therefore, this index measures 'perceived corruption' and not 'level of corruption', being closer to an index measuring the trust in the state. If you are interested in a more in depth explanation, I would suggest watching economics explained video to this topic: https://youtu.be/s4C1xiyGaGs?si=rTkOZAWbGKXzjLok
But a single 'this index is bullshit meaningless' is not paying justice to the complexity of this topic.
But this will piss of western countries. I don't want to travel to a country, where criticism of Russia can lead to deportation.
At the same time: the old men visiting Thailand for their sex workers are mostly pro-Putin, due to their similarity of interpretation of 'traditional family values' and the general value of dominating others by force and money, so at least their sex tourism sector won't take a deep hit – if thats what Thai people want.
UNRWA isn't some kind of company you can punish – its the lifeline for millions.
UNRWA has to investigate how something like this could happen and prevent it from happening ever again – especially since Israel has claimed it for years now and was proven correctly now.
But the immediate reaction of UNRWA has shown that it was not the intention to aid terrorists, but a lack of proper oversight and control. So support needs to continue, alongside a reform of the processes of the UNRWA.
Its so sad what happened to India in the last decade. It was an uprising democracy, with a huge tradition and rich tradition.
But the last years you only hear about rape culture, nationalism and being subservient to Putin to get more arms. Maybe Modi is keeping the economic growth high, but the international reputation of India is taking a huge hit.
That will be 100 % vetoed. Most nations have a veto right for selling of companies of strategic value, for example Germany has vetoed a lot of sales after the selling of Kuka hugely backfired.
Germany is world class in producing production facilities and Kuka has been one of the most successful companies. These robots you see assembling cars? There has been a time where they were almost all manufactured by Kuka – a german so called 'Mittelstand' company. From 2016 to 2021 Midea – a Chinese company bought Kuka and ultimately decided to make them privately owned again instead of publicly traded. Relatively shortly after this, all patents where transferred to China and a lot of European Companies decided to ditch Kuka due to their strategic dependency and fear of technology theft of China. Since then, the EU has decided to block a lot more sales of European companies of strategic importance to China – especially since its not an even playing field, due to European companies not being allowed to buy Chinese companies in the same way.
I am pretty sure some similar Veto will happen with AMD.
Let's hope they can succeed. But prior experiences with NPPs leave me sceptical. So far no country succeeded with such plans. Even China is lacking far behind their plans – and they don't have to account for any concerns of the population (justified or not).
Which is still Hamas fault. If you place your military facilities in houses of civilians, refugee camps or even hospitals, these become legit targets. Which is why the term 'genocide' is completely missplaced. IF Israel would target civilian houses, that would be a war crime (even though still not a genocide), but since there have been countless proofs of Hamas using them for military purposes, they are legit targets.
So yes, Israel is allowed to bomb a children's bedroom – because of Hamas.
Data from china is shady anyways. For example right before publishing their 2023 economic data, they silently reduced their 2022 figures – officially because they changed how they where calculated – making a 1.5 % growth to a 5.2 %, hitting their 5 % growth target.
In economics Chinese figures where debated for years now and no one really trusts them anymore.
Incredible how many fake news regarding Gaza are on lemmy. The public library in New York has not been closed due to budget cuts. Thats plain and simple fake news: https://www.nypl.org/speakout
Of course its a hype right now. But at the same time AI improved my daily working live in the past year so much! I can outsource a lot of annoying tasks to AI and focus on the more creative tasks and everything strategic.