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- bjladams8
- joooo chill your titsmilfhunter
- nice! mold it!bezoar
- That's really good, Ben!
Humungous nipples, mind.
Not sure that's a bad thing though.Nairn - BJ hey i haven't seen your for years, how r u doing mate? I love this stuff, are you planing to make more of these?sted
- I thought this was a pie at first.fooler
- i thought its a strawberry sundaypango
- canoe7
Romania calling
I love it when the class clown says, "fix your country," meanwhile back in reality, Romania has been a HUGE benefactor of foreign aid, namely from the United States.
Recent aid breakdown:
FY 2024: The US committed a $920 million Foreign Military Financing (FMF) loan to support Romania's military modernization, along with an additional $60 million in grant funding to cover loan fees.
FY 2023: The US committed approximately $40 million in aid, with $23.4 million allocated for military purposes and $16.6 million for economic purposes.
FY 2022: In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US provided an additional $148 million in FMF assistance to Romania.
Other Security Assistance: The US also provides International Military Education and Training (IMET) funding to professionalize Romania's military and has provided excess defense articles.
Energy and Economic Support: The US has supported Romania's nuclear energy sector through grants for small modular reactor (SMR) studies and has provided support for cyber security modernization efforts.
Romania receives significant assistance and strong support from several key international partners and organizations, with the primary contributors being the European Union (EU), Germany, and the United States.
Primary Benefactors and Partners
European Union (EU): As a member state since 2007, Romania benefits extensively from the EU budget and recovery funds, which support infrastructure, research, environmental protection, and various structural reforms. The EU also works closely with Romania on internal security, such as strengthening border controls.Germany: Germany is Romania's single most important trading partner, with a bilateral trade volume exceeding 40 billion euros. It is also one of the largest foreign direct investors, with a focus on the automotive supply industry and retail sectors. Cultural and educational ties are strong due to a historical German minority in Romania.
United States: The U.S. is a key strategic ally and investor, with significant foreign direct investment inflows (around $2.5 billion in 2023) concentrated in IT, energy, and manufacturing. The U.S. provides over $100 million annually in military assistance to help modernize Romania's defense capabilities and enhance Black Sea security.
- Since joining the European Union in 2007, Romania has received over €100 billion in EU funds for infrastructure and community development.canoe
- While allocations are large, Romania has struggled to absorb EU funds efficiently, because of bureaucratic constraints, administrative inefficiencies & delays.canoe
- This kind of structural weakness means that Romania sometimes misses opportunities to convert external funding into sustainable growth.canoe
- Given these points, one could argue Romania exhibits elements of a dependency syndrome, at least when it comes to public investments and infrastructure dev.canoe
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- I've never said the US is perfect, or that Trump doesn't suck, but I also don't run around on the Q and talk shit about Austria, Mexico, or any other country.canoe
- Should be fixing his own country, not fixating on other countries, since he's so passionate about national responsibility.canoe
- clowncanoe
- “Mind your business”
— little bitchmonospaced - romanians living in austria rank on a top spot when it comes to unemploymen, must be that -skill issue- our romanian here is talking about.neverscared
- Cringemort_
- Cringegrafician
- But compare Michigan your shitty state with Romania nextgrafician
- also learn how EU works and how strategic partnerships work
Also how small nuclear reactors work :)))
Dumbassgrafician - bla bla bla tele blacanoe
- Comparing a US state to a sovereign country makes absolute zero cents to anyone with a brain. Your insecurity is getting the best of you "Dumbass".canoe
- So you have no clue how small nuclear reactors works do you?
dumbass!grafician - Learn how small nuclear reactors (don't) work then we will discuss geopolitics you fucking morongrafician
- < All this is peanuts money dumbass
Romania's defense budget for 2025 is approximately 8.55 billion EURgrafician - < also most of this shit is probably NATO investments, we are just too close to Russia so you give us money to cover the front )))
We bought boats from Turkeygrafician - The US doesn't even make ships anymore you idiotsgrafician
- https://www.reuters.…grafician
- YOU buy boats from South fucking Koreagrafician
- https://media.tenor.…neverscared
- bla bla bla bla blacanoe
- mort_4
- I was going to +1 this but I'm currently questioning the idea of + itselfcanoe
- There is no spoon. Use a fork.mort_
- Bold of you to think that fork is not really a spoon.canoe
- sorry guys but my reality is way more real than your realities and I have no interest in hearing about your realities as they're all wrongIanbolton
- Reality sucks anyway. ;)mort_
- Cool mood boardmonospaced
- This wine brand speaks to me.monNom
- mort_6
- Most religions are equally valid.CyBrainX
- Depends who’s doing the validating.mort_
- meanwhile in the real world those elves are mostly located in China's countless factories, and Pippa Timothy is a fagrzu-rzu
- ^ wow.Continuity
- that escalated quickly...dedlaast
- I'm here for the drama .palimpsest
- I'll get my coat... again :)rzu-rzu
- Gardener0
- BIG GULPS!! EH!AQUTE
- US-13utopian
- queens of the stone agekingsteven
- NOFXmonospaced
- +1, but Fucking hell.Nairn
- Krassy4
- Size doesn't matter?ApeRobot
- She's always been a class actHAYZ1LLLA
- where her music belongs pretty muchsrhadden
- She’s not going to be able to keep that usb plugged in while the other end is in her...mort_
- But that would be entertaining to watch.mort_
- finally!akiersky
- I guess it's legal to sell it to kids too? :)rzu-rzu
- Never heard of her 'til today. her lyrics are wackcanoe
- Her music makes AI Shop sound like Grammy material.utopian
- this would be cool in 2010milfhunter
- Almost makes me want to check out her shitty music or remember her name... but nah. She can shove it up her ass.cotton
- lol @cottonOBBTKN
- duckseason2
- From a former Housemarque devduckseason
- yup, looks amazingNutter
- maaaan i'm addicted!ok_not_ok
- Gardener5
RIP of the day
Steve Cropper : Guitarist, Songwriter and shaper of Memphis Soul Music - 84
"play it Steve"
- Nairn12
drum n bass
Funny to see this pop up now as I've just randomly put this on
- +1 amazing trackfuturefood
- one of the best labels..first 10 or so releases all classicsdee-dubs
- +1canoe
- The 90s were the best time in electronic music... Good Looking, Goldie, Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack, the list goes oncanoe
- pumpspumppumpsmilfhunter
- i picked up the debut Lamb LP in a charity shop the other day and it's so goodscruffics
- +1OBBTKN
- One of the greatest tracks EVERnecromation
- Never heard this before but me LIKEYstoplying
- @scruffics - Lamb! :..)Nairn
- these ‘heroes’ just sampled jazz‘ OGs, cranked the BPM and subwoofer, and called it a revolution.. OGs in the back: ‘Nice beat... that’s my solo tho!‘;-)uan
- I lesrned that from youtube docs 30years later;-) I still love them and think it was revolutionary...and the OGs still have their own legacy! take notes AI hatetsuan
- Gardener4
RIP of the day
UK's first multi-screen cinema in Milton Keynes to be demolished to make way for flats, I worked there for 2 years when it opened in '85 - R.I.Pieces
- Dude, when's your memoirs going up for preorder? I'm in (like sin)!
; )ideaist - haha yeah I should do something, I left to travel in Asia for over a year when I left this job too, such debauch in Thailand & Burma!Gardener
- for your viewing pleasure on the opening weekend : https://images4.imag…Gardener
- Fantastic.ideaist
- Bummer! Hope the cinema closures arent a trendtoemaas
- The UK's first multi-screen cinema, in '85?
You sure?Nairn - yes! https://en.wikipedia…Gardener
- I remember one in Long Island about 10 years before that. Yes, I am old. I saw Young Frankenstein there.CyBrainX
- People have multiscreen homes now, so it mustve been hard for them to compete ;-)Ianbolton
- Ah,*mulitplex :)
New, fangled 80s terminology.Nairn - born in 67-68?robthelad
- Dude, when's your memoirs going up for preorder? I'm in (like sin)!
- palimpsest8
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fhans_glib - I'm weirded out because I read this paper this week and did not expect to see it here.garbage
- Is this the new woke?ApeRobot
- That's my boi, garbage!palimpsest
- ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔmaquito
- ฅʕ•̫͡•ʔฅpango
- (◔_◔)grafician
- Is it a method to make me feel stupid? Very effective.jagara
- 6-7utopian
- ^ApeRobot
- ^palimpsest
- The self-fulfilling prophecy.palimpsest
- https://sites.socsci… For the bored.garbage
- Dude!palimpsest
- w
- canoe6
Grafician Hate Why?
Timeless confesses and confides in QBN by letting us know that it's been a tough 9 months trying to find something worthwhile in his field.
Grafician's first response: "username doesn't check out" because he's a black-hearted troll... and that's why so many people hate him.
- c'mon... let's be honest with ourselves... we all thought it, didn't we?scruffics
- ^ no ... ?Continuity
- yeskingsteven
- nocanoe
- Definitely did not.monospaced
- wtf are you even talking about!??!grafician
- looking forward to you posting your shitty album so we can have a laughgrafician
- it's going out on one of the most respected underground electro labels in the UK,,, fuck do I care what you think? xoxocanoe
- he doesnt want sympathyand therefore no friends.. he is and underevolved human when it comes to emotion + he doesnt care if he lies = full on lunaticneverscared
- This post is cringe overload. I’m here for it.mort_
- #truecolorscanoe
- cringe as you are cringe overlord canoe!grafician
- I'd rather have mort_ with his questionable morals call me cringe than shitpost on every last member like you. Dirtbag. Your entire life is cringe!canoe
- Questionable morals? What did I do?mort_
- lol so now @mort_ do you see what I have to deal with :))grafician
- Well, maybe I didn't understand why you said cringe mort. I read it, that me calling out someone who kicks Timeless while he's down, is cringe.canoe
- Maybe you meant that graf kicking Timeless while he's down is cringe.canoe
- Stop acting like a victim graf, you earned all the downvotes you get from more than just me. xoxocanoe
- oh god jesus fuckkingsteven
- lolmort_
- wow lolgrafician
- timeless7
RIP of the day
My career as a designer.
Been out of work since June 2024. What do you think I can do for the rest of my working life (15/20 years)?
Wrong/right/sarcastic answers only.
- https://s.abcnews.co…dbloc
- Maybe you can retire early in a lower cost economy, like Somalia? Average annual income is under $600 USD, for $6k you're good for a decade.everyangle
- OnlyFanspalimpsest
- We've all been through those ups and downs, as long as you keep learning skills and kickstarting your own projects you will bounce back for sure. Hang in there!spl33nidoru
- I'm in betwixt career(s), freelance, etc. as well @timeless. it's shit some days, BUT other days? Less so...
...Hang in there!
XOideaist - AIutopian
- username does not check out
but anyway, what kind of design do you do?
Plenty of jobs for UXUI designers everywheregrafician - Maybe plenty of jobs but even more applicants. Been looking for something new since March. Getting interviews and making it to final few but not the final cut.microkorg
- Where do you want to work?
What are your former colleagues doing?bainbridge - Looker Studio... there's still an element of design in those.canoe
- Agreed about how many UX/UI jobs there area but they seem so vastly different from what I do - motion design, even though they use the same job title.CyBrainX
- I was in the same position...
but thankfully, a good buddy of mine that's a project manager had recently moved to work at a local electric utility ...exador1 - i was talking to him, and got an offer to join him there as his UI/UX guy...contracting, but it's full-time contract, and he has YEARS worth of projects coming.exador1
- so that's worth exploring...not sure where you are, but look into gigs at unlikely places like utility companies, medical companies etc...exador1
- also, what saved my ass was KNOWING the right people, and them knowing and valuing me...exador1
- not sure what your network is like, but basically hit up every single person you've worked with, co-worker to client...exador1
- and see if there's any stones you haven't turned over yet so to speak...exador1
- Timeless, whatever you end up doing, don't quit on yourself.utopian
- Any hobbies / interests you can turn into a sustainable (money and mind) thing?canoe
- I hate to say it, but I agree with utopian re: AI. It's a whole new realm.
For a while, at least.Nairn - I completely pivoted ~8 years ago. Started saying yes to any “building” work. Ended up making sets for SNL and other shops, & now run the floor at one of them.hardhat
- ^ username chks out...
OP>I'm in the same boat... i'm making ends meet freelancing and helping out brands here and there but its not so sustainable... yes toAI_me_ - flipping burgers? doing something with your hands? something AI cant replace for the upcoming 10 years at least..milfhunter
- Enlist!garbage
- LOL @flipping burgers :)))grafician
- When somebody can't find a job in this plentiful industry I call it "skills issue"grafician
- "I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to win."palimpsest
- @pali do you have a new job or still coding scripts for your tourism client after 20 years?grafician
- mort_9
- The Kama Suturepalimpsest
- ^ lolmort_
- flol pali!
_niko's been mentoring you!Continuity - Haha excellent, my work here is done_niko
- I'm not even worthy of your gaze, master.palimpsest
- :):):)_niko
- stick to the Hoist or the Ramp.
Zimmer if you're feeling frisky.Fax_Benson - Hip Hip Hooray?sab
- Oh no wait half this forum is fucking old :)))grafician
- Eat. A. Dick.palimpsest
- What age are you graf?mort_
- all of you are older than me so I will post last and close the lights around here bitches :))grafician
- futurefood3
UFO of the day
Yooooo! Captured two bright, fast moving objects in formation similar to the last post. This time, I was monitoring the camera directly when I noticed them in the top frame. Filmed in infrared on December 01, 2025 @ 23:08
I immediately looked up to visually see them and NOTHING was there! Nothing but black sky and the moon. Trippiest thing ever.
I tried finding them again in-camera, they were gone.They made zero sound and seemed invisible to naked eye. WTF?
Confirmed they were not satellites. Screenshot below
Objects circled in red
https://imgur.com/a/cNvPG9JVideo clip here:
- damn, forgot to add proper image links to display.futurefood
- +1utopian
- I don’t see anything in the videomonospaced
- ^
Beginning of the video, top left corner.ApeRobot - Ah.monospaced
- how far is the closes milbase?sted
- *closeststed
- so probably satellitesgrafician
