They were paid for a service that they did not deliver.

They delivered exactly the same service as any other carbon credit seller, the appearance of doing soemthing while doing absolutely nothing.

Because first world nations are spending their own money.

Excuse me? As a taxpayer I can very much assure you they are NOT spending "their own" money. They are spending the money of the citizens of those countries.

They spend either my tax money, OR by printing more money destroy the purchasing power of money I have. Either way they are spending my money.

Dude, get your head out of your ass. Quite frankly, if you want to make a point, make it one that is a little less ridiculous.

Most education facility today is pretty good at stunting the growth of your mind, no aid from ChatGPT required.

Could you explain then why they flock to Sweden, of all the places? It's not exactly known for its ruthless Ayn-Randish capitalism.

I can already pay with my debit or credit card for free, why the hell would I accept a 2% surcharge to pay with that junk?

Who said they won't "change their mind" somewhere down the road? It's obvious they are considering it and just telling me that they won't doesn't mean a thing. That would require me to actually trust Sony.

And at best, I'd thrust them. Into the sun.

Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance,

Why, when no first world nation does the same?

At this point trillions of dollars have gone into climate related slush funds with much of it siphoned off to make some very rich people incredibly richer, with a tiny portion actually going to real efforts to help the environment.

Why shouldn't the third would be allowed to dine at the same trough? Sounds like a racist thing if I'm being honest.

But they at least had to import that problem, the US didn't even have to do that.

More like, we don't copy the content, we distort it to make it as outrageous as possible for more clicks.

Or, as it used to be known in more sensible times, conspiracy nuttery and the ramblings of idiots.

The rest of the world won't, because their own currencies are currently inflating more than the USD.

The U.S. is squarely in the middle of the list of world inflation (you can sort by tapping on column headers).

But the bigger problem is inflation ahead, which is illuminated quite well by the debt to GDP ratio map, where only a handful of countries are worse off... the interest payments for the U.S. debt are nearing exponential increase.

Got Gold?

Whoever is the turd that kills someone over a turd.

This right there is why the rest of the world doesn't think the US is a civilized country. You really managed to get from barbary to decadence without the civilization detour.

You have never checked out "Hunt Down the Freeman", aka "Hunt down the Refund"?

By now, the reviews are mostly trolling, but trust me, it IS the worst game currently available on Steam.

Yes, it's US centric. It's the US that poke Russia and China about it, guess why they poke them and not the others.

Don't kill the messenger, I just tell you why the US isn't bothered with any of the other nuclear powers.