The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

Watching the news about trade tension between the US and China, I got completely distracted from what the IMF's chief economist,Gita Gopinath was saying because she's a rather attractive person. 

I understand.

[celedhring]

Googled her and my current account surplus went up.

[Tonitrus]

Elbows are pointy.

[Admiral Yi]

Great hair, some camera angles work better than other.

By IMF Chief Economist standards she's a 10.

[Habbaku]

I'd say by any economist standards, she's a 10.

[Eddie Teach]

Great hair, some camera angles work better than other.

By IMF Chief Economist standards she's a 10.

By 47 y.o. standards she's a 10.

[derspiess]

She's 47??

[Richard Hakluyt]

A big pay packet can really help a woman's looks.

Having said that I agree with the consensus. What a wonderful world it is sometimes.

[celedhring]

The regional government finally caved in and gave the taxi drivers a more restrictive regulation for ridesharers, which will kill them as an "on demand" service (now you'll have to book them at least one hour in advance). The strike has now spread to Madrid, where taxi drivers demand the same concessions from their regional government.

It's been a very ugly strike, besides the transit chaos there's been several smashed vehicles, and some wounded in clashes between Uber and taxi drivers. I'm personally infuriated that we're giving in to thuggery.

[celedhring]

Map of the day, stolen from the Spanish EUOT



France surprises me. Was expecting to see WWI there. Same with Germany and WWII. Those premodern wars lasting decades were bloodier than I expected.

[Tamas]

Stuff like French War of Religion must be a wild guestimate I reckon.

Plus for Hungary that cannot possibly include the Jews. Around 600 000 Hungarian Jews were eradicated during the war. The rural Jewry basically got erased. A common sight in all village cemeteries during my youth (nowadays I guess they have crumbled/have been removed) was the Jewish corner entirely unmaintained.

So that's 600k. Just the 2nd Army lost 120k men after the disaster at the Don, and that's actually dead/missing not all casualties.  So we are easily at the 720k mark and we have not counted the 70+ days siege of Budapest where half of the causalities were civilians, plus all the fighting through the country and the army's involvement in Yugoslaivan and Ukrainain occupation etc.

[celedhring]

I suppose there must be a bit of a disparity in the criteria. The Spanish Civil War number looks very low unless they are counting only combat deaths, while it's hard to believe the numbers touted for the 30 years war of the French Wars of Religion are meant to include combatants only. Or the Polish one.

[Tamas]

I suppose there must be a bit of a disparity in the criteria. The Spanish Civil War number looks very low unless they are counting only combat deaths, while it's hard to believe the numbers touted for the 30 years war of the French Wars of Religion are meant to include combatants only. Or the Polish one.

Yes this map sucks

[celedhring]

 

I meant well.

[Tamas]

I know.