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One of the silver lining of this war is that people are realizing how oil dependent we are, not just via transportation but in daily lives. Plastic, light, durable and cheap have been a plague to Asia's water ways, is of course made out of an oil and gas derivative. Naphtha is a flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture derived from petroleum refining, coal tar distillation, or natural gas condensate. It is key to making plastic. Its supply is shocked of course, and hence higher prices. Yes, when you buy cheap food in Thailand at a stall and it is contained in a plastic bag, you are essentially also consuming naphtha. Prices have gone up. We should wean ourselves of plastic. Rather terrible for the environment and health. asia.nikkei.com/economy/southe…

ZELENSKYY: I want American people to understand: we are your allies in Europe. World has no distance anymore — when drones already strike thousands of kilometers. One, two, three years — drones will strike ten, twenty thousand kilometers. With reactive engines, they will be very cheap. There will be swarms of these drones. You can’t defend that by yourself. The world has to help countries defend themselves and push the aggressor back. That’s why, i think, Americans need us, and we need the United States.

Why Afroman doesn’t use the N-Word

Sometimes, a girl's first pimp is her own mother

You know what? We don’t even have a caption for this. The joke writes itself.

Slot machines when you win .75 cents:

Young girl tried… grandma said hold my experience 🔥

the rare cuckquean

Just a few.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Be William Banks - born in the United States in the mid 1990s - become a small underground comedian - December 2023 travels to Connecticut - steals five Israeli flags from private homes - gets charged with minor theft - launches a website selling merch using his arrest photo - announces an eight month prison sentence online - starts posting videos and photos from inside a jail cell - rents an abandoned jail near Miami for a few hours - posts a prison escape video - over 20 million views - public records prove the prison was fake - launches MOSES token on Solana - token pumps - creator sells, price collapses - launches second token BANKS - same pattern - says the goal was to take money from crypto traders - claims around 50k dollars donated to Palestine groups - starts a new story about being lost on an island - gets a girlfriend - travels to Argentina - fights in a real boxing event - loses by TKO in round two Surely one of the strangest people in the history of the internet

Iran was too hard.

The Rise of Chinese girls in America. In 2018, Charlie Munger explained why Americans have so many adopted Chinese Girls. “Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes” Charlie explains why this happened: “Because there was so much poverty in China and it was so overpopulated, if an American couple who had no child of their own, they could go to China and adopt a poor Chinese girl.” He makes a very important point: “So in every important city of America, people soon learned that they got better babies by taking the unwanted Chinese girls from the Chinese farms. Those babies on average worked out better than if they had their own children. So everyone wanted a Chinese girl." Charlie explained how they are winning in America: "Every American private school is full of the discarded Chinese girls and they're getting all A's and winning prizes. They're spectacularly successful. You go to Minnesota and see these Chinese girls, they're playing the difficult instruments in the orchestra."

It takes a Roman Catholic like Elbridge Colby to make such specifically Roman Catholic threats against the Pope, the old American WASP elite would never think of something like this. "We will schism and raise up a new Pope, with a see in Chicago specifically out of spite."

The Pentagon summoned the Pope's ambassador, told him the United States has the military power to do "whatever it wants," and warned that the Church better take its side. They even invoked the Avignon Papacy, a dark chapter in history when a government used military force to bend the Church to its will. So where exactly does this end? If the Pope refuses to fall in line, what's the next move, bomb the Vatican? thedailybeast.com/trump-official…

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

The Philippines built a $30B call center empire on one thing: English-speaking graduates who could think on their feet. 9 in 10 Filipino children now can’t read a simple text by age 10. The pipeline didn’t break overnight. It’s been draining for two decades.

How does a country go from one of Asia’s highest literacy rates post-WW2 to this? Mass promotion culture. Teachers pushed to pass students regardless of readiness. Schools rewarded for low dropout numbers, not actual learning. A generation of graduates who technically finished school. And can’t read.

Iran has told mediators that further negotiations are conditional upon a full ceasefire in Lebanon -WSJ Iranian officials also warned they would continue to carry out attacks on regional countries, including Israel, if attacks on Lebanon continue.