World Trade graph.

Crid - read the comments there.

1. Does not include services, entertainment, etc, just material goods and manufacturing.
2. Weirdly counts both imports and exports - so the numbers double for an old industrial economy like China, which imports raw materials and exports finished goods.
3. See other good critiques in the comments there.
4. It's from the IMF. Really?

When you're the only uncircumcised gay man in Israel:

https://twitter.com/tyler_posting/status/1416862245880045571

> BenDavid at July 19, 2021 2:29 AM

How dare you.

> Sixclaws at July 19, 2021 6:20 AM

Some tweet sales pitches are easily resisted.

When you're the only uncircumcised gay man in Israel:
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Looks more African than middle eastern.

Ben & Jerry's have pulled out of Clusterfuck City, aka Palestine, due to wokie outrage.

Their Twitter feed is full of people now completely outraged that they'll keep operating in Israel.

It's a fun bunch o' threads if you want to see how submitting to wokie pressure does absolutely nothing to mollify their insanity. Check it out.

> Ben & Jerry's have pulled out
> of Clusterfuck City

And Toyota has essentially pulled out of the Olympics in Japan, of which they're a top sponsor. They won't have a presence at events or any ad tie-ins.

• More than a quarter of COVID-19 patients still symptomatic after 6 months

• "Practical application tests demonstrated the human body covered by our metafabric could be cooled down ~4.8°C lower than that covered by commercial cotton fabric."

(Stolen from Ellis News Items)

Wait so the wokes complaints have resulted in the Palestinians not getting to have nice ice cream? Or was it just in the Settlements and the Palestinians weren't getting it anyhow?

Correct - no ice cream for the occupied territories any more.

Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Israel (proper) will continue to make and sell ice cream in Israel, though.

I'm not paying attention to the Ice Cream Story.

Is that okay? Kind of like Britney Spears... I'm sitting this one out. Is that fine with everybody?

Let me know how it ends.