Quentin B

It's a small, small detail in the typhoon of insanity coming out of the man, but simply trying to visualize a F-150 trying to drive around any japanese city is deeply funny.
These things are larger than many Japanese flats!

The key buyers and distributors for these in LMICs would have been PEPFAR (gutted by the US) and the Global Fund (ongoing huge cuts). If they don't buy large enough volumes, economies of scale won't work pushing price up everywhere etc etc.

Though generics will be produced for low income countries:
- there is no info on pricing AND it would need be very, very low; we are talking about countries where 40$ a year would be a significant barrier to access
- middle income countries are not included and a lot of them have huge PLHIV pops

The article is a way-off reading of the situation. Lenacapavir is an almost vaccine and could be a game changer, but access is a massive ongoing fight.
In the US the drug is priced at 28k per year (!!!)...

Trump says insane things, but that was his brand from day one and he doesn't appear old the way Biden did.

I also think that this framing reduces the question to "what was said" vs "what happened". Biden at the end of his term just looked old and out of it, beyond the words that came out of his mouth. His general vibe was very much "some amount of age-related dementia"...

As a French that has witnessed such practices from friends and colleagues across the Atlantic I can attest that it is distressing. No steak deserves to be murdered this way, no matter their crimes.

Yes and saying internet 1995 is missing the difference between a system exists and a system is deployed and used. The internet of 1995 wasn't the stuff of revolution, that of 2015 was. And by then you do see it in the data where it shapes the economy.

O'Brother where are thou - great movie ;)

Worth pointing out: cuts are bad, but also the smallest problem here. It's the freeze of current grants and the chaos of an unilateral, immediate withdrawal that is responsible for a lot of the damage. Regardless of views on aid, leaving no time to adapt was unnecessary and evil. And saved no money.

Minister Amer for example sounds very different from later rappers, because it comes from a different generation? I think?

On banlieue-speak though; I wouldn't overstate connection with ethnicity, you can be white and grow up in the same neighborhood, and I would call it more of a slang than an accent per se; people code switch a lot in and out of it.
Agreeing too with saying that hip hop singers mimic previous singers

In agreement with the comments above:
- immigrants bring accents from country of origin, they usually gone for 2nd generation migrants, as the French ed system is unkind to non-standard accents
- Class + geographic accents, i.e. a somewhat distinct banlieue-way of talking

And you would open a discussion by "Moi, je" to invite dissent or discussion. "Moi hier je suis allé voir Sinners, j'ai adoré".
Interestingly I never thought of it as working differently in English, but it's probably because of growing up speaking french and assuming it works the same.

Agreeing with comment above. To me it stresses a views' difference, in opposition to a different view. As in "J'aime le rouge" if answer "moi, j'aime aussi le rouge" doesn't make sense. But "Moi, j'aime le blanc" would. It acknowledges the previous statement and positions oneself in contrast to it.

Fair, was mostly responding to myself after some introspection.

But also I think a focus on the models produced for the domestic US market is a false lead - in Japan cars are very tailored to local taste and circumstances, yet the brands have a huge export market. Ford can do well abroad without selling any F-150.

I mean or his mom's name is Margaret Sanchez right, we'll never know because none were tried.
But that's my point - the visit by Rep officials serves the same purpose as a gang initiation. There is no way back one everyone knows what you did (tattoo/ enthusiastic support for police state)

Grew up in France, went to North America for the first time in 2022, to downtown New York, thought I was losing my mind. It's not an original thought, but US cars are insane. I have seen and ridden in city buses the size of a suburban.

There is an interesting parallel between the man who tattooed MS across his chest - assuming it was to show loyalty in an overt and "dangerous" way - and the Trump team... Doing to same, publicly tying themselves up to the Trump boat to the point where it might land them in jail.

Isn't it the wrong way to look at the question though? Isn't the value of the U.S. to Chinese manufacturers is its consumer market? So the question for China is different - not whether it can do without imports (probably can) but whether it can export somewhere else?

Haven't read it but it sure is a wild synopsis.

On Eastern Germany nothing comes to mind right away, but I'm sure it's out there.

Eastern Germany pre-reunification? I can think of 4-5 movies off the top of my head, including in English

And yes further down the list you will find example of countries who could shoulder more on their own budget, but that's burying the lead: no one could have dealt with the immediate removal of funding. It left no time to fill the gaps, and broke not just some aid programs but entire health systems.

And the bottom line from the article is "some countries have become over reliant on aid for core functions"? No shit! These aren't countries where governments have become complacent. These are countries in crisis so deep the government isn't able to provide even the most basic services. 4/

These are the people paying, right now, the cost of the chaos. But also, look at these Economists numbers!!! US aid alone is over 50% of government health funding in the top 10 countries, and over 150% for the top 5. 3/

Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

First and should be top of mind to all: People, many, many people, will die. Some already have, and there will be more to come. Headlines are full of the Texas measles outbreak, but the MDR TB outbreaks across Africa have already started from the treatment interruptions. 2/

Which countries are most vulnerable to Donald Trump’s aid cuts? In one country American aid is the equivalent of almost 350% of the government’s health spending

The numbers published by the Economist of the most affected countries by US cuts should send shivers down anyone's spine, and the coverage in several of their recent piece "with crisis comes opportunity" is... Odd. 1/

Folks are trying their best to find platforms to bring awareness of the emergency in the middle of the constant noise - this is my go at it.