@DanielEllis95 @morazla12 @cosyposter a dude somewhere is going to make bank with female scarecrows.
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@morazla12 @cosyposter Its not particularly expensive, and you never know what information will lead to.
Ozempic was created based of the study of lizard saliva.
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"A European study found urban birds flew away sooner when approached by women than men. Men got about 1 metre closer on average before the birds scarpered. It held across 37 species and five countries.
Scientists don’t know why. They controlled for height, clothing color, direct gaze, and long hair being visible.."
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The U.S. condemns the Global Sumud Flotilla as a baseless, counterproductive stunt organized by a sanctioned pro-Hamas entity. Unlike organized assistance mechanisms coordinated with regional partners thanks to @POTUS's peace plan, this flotilla circumvents mechanisms designed to ensure humanitarian assistance is received by civilians. Our allies should take decisive action against this stunt, and participants should face any relevant legal consequences.
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@Okla_Hombre @aguynamedmikesm the 'market' used to pay $0 not that long ago before the govt abolished it. the market, without oversight, will tend to $0 for fast food labor.
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@aguynamedmikesm Except zero McDonalds actually start ANYONE at $7.25.
The MARKET raised the wage - not the government
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The average McDonalds restaurant takes in ~$4million/yr in revenue.
They spend ~$2 million in non payroll operating expenses.
Raising the minimum wage to $25/hr would give each of the ~50 full time employees a pay rate of $51,000/yr. That would increase their payroll costs to $2.5 million per year
Each McDonalds would operate at a net loss, unless they massively cut payroll costs through automation. That means job losses.
The laws of economics are undefeated.
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
I co-introduced historic legislation to increase the minimum wage to $25. As someone who taught economics at Stanford, here is why it makes sense. The real minimum wage was $14 in 1968. Today it is half, but productivity has increased 2.5x. Instead of extractive capitalism, we need a free enterprise system that pays workers what they are worth.
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@sludge_sol @ilangoldenberg Actually our country and Israel are republics, and the people get to routinely select the leaders. Trump is who we selected, and Netanyahu and his policies are the preference of the overwhelming majority of Israelis.
Deal with this reality.
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Three scenarios for where we go next on Iran. All point to the same conclusion: the best option is to take a deal to reopen the Strait in exchange for ending the blockade. They also underscore how misguided it was to start this war in the first place.
1. Base case: we eventually reach the obvious deal — end the blockade for reopening the Strait and a ceasefire. Could take 1 month or 6+. Meanwhile, global economic damage mounts. Better to cut this deal now.
2. Iran concedes and a broader deal follows (including nukes). Possible, but unlikely. The US lacks leverage, and Iran rarely backs down once it draws a line. The blockade also strains US military resources and shifts focus from Europe and the Indo-Pacific. It can’t go on forever.
3. Escalation resumes. Trump and Iran don’t want it, but incremental Iranian pressure (attacks on tankers sporadic drones at the Gulf states) could trigger US responses, with Bibi pushing escalation. We climb the ladder again.
But we likely end up back where we started. That’s the point: there’s no real victory here. This was always ill-conceived—thousands dead, no progress on nukes/missiles/proxies, major US military costs, allied rifts, and global economic damage—only to end roughly where we began
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@PollakDan @ilangoldenberg or, israelis and americans get fed up of paying through their noses for no tangible benefit and take power from netanyahu and trump to establish a normal government.
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@ilangoldenberg Really bad analysis.
Much better option: Iran economy collapses and the people of Iran take power, end the nuclear threat from Iran and establish a normal government.
Your 'best option' is an Iranian regime talking point.
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@benshapiro Also side note, Ben I would fight tooth and nail for you, I know you have the moral high ground - the day you cheat on your wife or don’t practice what you preach is the day I won’t hold you in such high regard, but I don’t see that happening with you, ever.
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That's a lie. But hey, if you curse a lot, maybe people won't notice that you promote stealing, murder, terrorism, and communism from your multimillion dollar mansion while zapping your dog.
hasanabi@hasanthehun
a literal terrorist credited you for his radicalization you fucking loser
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@DoctorLemma Unfortunately, he was only expelled from archaeological societies and such.
He should've gone to prison.
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Japan once had to rewrite its history textbooks because their most celebrated archaeologist had been burying his own discoveries the night before he dug them up.
His name was Shinichi Fujimura. He wasn’t even formally trained. He worked at a factory and taught himself archaeology as a hobby in his spare time.
In 1981, he made his first big discovery. Then another. Then another. By his fifties he’d worked on over 150 dig sites and found something important at almost every single one.
The objects kept getting older. The history of human life in Japan kept getting pushed further back because of him. Some of his sites were declared national heritage landmarks. One small town near a dig even invented a souvenir drink called Early Man. His colleagues nicknamed him “Divine Hands.”
A few archaeologists quietly thought it was strange that one man kept finding things nobody else could. They were mostly told to keep quiet.
Then in the year 2000, journalists from a Japanese newspaper got a tip. They hid cameras at one of his dig sites overnight. The next morning they had footage of him in the dark, digging little holes and placing objects he’d brought from home.
He confessed. He’d been doing it for nearly twenty years. Across forty-two different sites.
Museums quietly took his finds off display. Schoolbooks were rewritten again, this time to remove him. The man who’d given his country a deeper past had made the whole thing up.
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@mbenaharon @DalrympleWill or the white folks leave israel and let the arab natives sort it out
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@DalrympleWill Sounds like Palestine should really stop trying to destroy Israel, sign a peace deal and have a state where they can import whoever they want, the same way Israel does.
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Tibeto-Burmans from Mizoram in Northeast India who converted to Christianity in the 1940s then, inspired by a dream, began converting to Judaism in 1951, have more right to live in Israel than Palestinians whose DNA proves them actual descendants of Bronze Age Canaanites
Amit Segal@AmitSegal
A plane carrying 240 new immigrants from the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community landed this evening at Ben Gurion Airport.
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@GustavG90487706 @MuenzenMeister the sister, presumably, did a lot of productive work for society, which was, presumably, taxed before she could buy the house. it was also taxed through its existence as it will in the future. inheritance tax is a perverse attempt to introduce the state into family relationships.
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@MuenzenMeister Der Mann könnte das Haus für die Steuer beleihen und dennoch hat er mehr Vermögen als vorher für das er nichts für die Gesellschaft geleistet hat.
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Ein Mann erbt das Haus seiner Schwester in Potsdam.
Wert 1,1 Millionen Euro.
Erbschaftsteuer: 270.000 Euro.
Die hat er nicht auf dem Konto. Also muss er das Haus verkaufen um die Steuer bezahlen zu können. Beim Verkauf kassiert der Staat nochmal 71.500 Euro Grunderwerbsteuer.
Über 340.000 Euro verdient der Staat daran dass die Schwester ihm ein Haus hinterlässt. Und das Haus bleibt nicht in der Familie.
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@mashabani @Narjes_Rahmati it makes no sense to you that some people prefer x to y and that businesses, therefore, cater to x?
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I don't understand why some Persian restaurants market themselves as "Mediterranean".
Iran is located 1,000+ miles away from the Mediterranean. We have nothing to do with hummus etc.
Rant over
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@ganeshsonawane @teja2495 80 years ago, men needed 'intense focus' when they were testing nuclear bombs and trying not to get killed in europe from enemy fire. the bar for intense focus has fallen evidently.
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I found Dwarkesh’s line of questioning around Chips<>Uranium a bit crazy but his raw interviewing mechanics is absolutely insane. Even in heated discussion, he didn’t talk over his Jensen even once and stops the exact second he start speaking. The level of intense focus this requires, especially when navigating tough pushback from someone like Jensen Huang is next level.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
The Jensen Huang episode. 0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains? 0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute? 0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler? 0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China? 1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia make multiple different chip architectures? Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!
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I mean, no sympathy for the imperialist navy people but what...precisely is this?
Clash Report@clashreport
📸 U.S. sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraf carrier are reporting poor-quality food and small portions during a long deployment near Iran. Because of extended operations and strained supply lines, crews are relying on limited resupply at sea, leading to rationing and lower morale. Families say sailors are often hungry, and mail disruptions mean they can’t send extra food or supplies. Source: USA Today
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@nikitabier @perplexity_ai @AravSrinivas I haven’t tried perplexity because the only people that talk about it are getting paid, and they’re being sneaky bitches about it.
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Today we're releasing Personal Computer.
Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser.
We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.
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@kickstart0225 @daveweigel because israel's how the us gets to control middle east politics, oil markets, and petro$ while earning billions from the region through arms sales and investments.
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@daveweigel How about this rationale. Israel can do whatever the fuck it wants. They want an “iron dome”. Fine. Get an iron dome. Why the fuck is this country obligated to provide it for them?
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The rationale, explained to me by a Dem who wants to stop funding Iron Dome: The defense system makes Israel more aggressive, confident that it can launch operations without much damage to its own cities.
(Most Dems are still at "no offensive weapons, missile shield okay.")
Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender
NEW: It's not just AOC — opposing U.S. funding for Iron Dome has become mainstream for progressives in Congress. Reps. Maxwell Frost, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal, Greg Casar, Jared Huffman, Mark Pocan and Jim McGovern all signaled they oppose it. @axios axios.com/2026/04/15/ira…
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I made a big deal to @haugejostein about the importance of visiting rural areas in inland provinces to serve as a grounding contrast to the relatively wealthy countryside in a rich province like Jiangsu, but then rural Shangrao (Jiangxi) had village houses like this. 🙄
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@ManInDamascus @DavidBRich999 @Rurik_Varangian @biggvvicc @firasmodad it's easier to astroturf twitter with accounts like yours
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@DavidBRich999 @Rurik_Varangian @biggvvicc @firasmodad Why wouldn’t they just use AK47’s. They have tens of thousands.
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Forgive my skepticism. I see a handful of combat rifles - a combat shotgun, a few AKs on the far side near the soldier - less than ten in total. The rest are hunting rifles. Is Hezbollah fighting Israel with hunting rifles?!
LTC Nadav Shoshani@LTC_Shoshani
A school in southern Lebanon used by Hezbollah:
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@BillAckman bro spends so much time whining on twitter. when do you find the time to make your millions?
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Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so.
Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations.
Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami.
These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more.
While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help.
I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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@slattemar @MikeHowton @stevemouzon does rc have a strange property where it acts as a sponge on steve's bridge but not in Mike's house?
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@MikeHowton @stevemouzon This is a great comment because those situations are exactly the same and you totally proved him wrong. Well done with this comment. Great comment.
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Reinforced concrete is fragile because it is self-defeating: the host material (concrete) is a really heavy sponge, delivering water right to the reinforcing that supposedly makes it strong, but water rusts steel. This bridge endured for less than a decade.
Jim Dalrymple II@Dalrymple
In 900 years none of this will exist or even be remembered bc it turns out modern reinforced concrete doesn’t last very long.
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@BarakRavid israel's most egregious violation is... checks notes... buying illegal wheat? good attempt by barak to whitewash israel's reputation.
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UPDATE: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar sent a text message today to his Ukrainian counterpart & wrote that unfortunately it is too late & the vessel has already left the port of Haifa and therefore it cannot be detained (the Israeli Foreign Ministry knew about this vessel two weeks before it arrived at the port).Senior Ukrainian officials tell me they made it clear to Israel that they are demanding the confiscation of the wheat cargo
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨🇺🇦🇮🇱 Ukraine today asked Israel for clarifications regarding the fact that a vessel allegedly belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” docked at the port of Haifa with a shipment of wheat originating from territories that Russia occupied from Ukraine during the war, according to a senior Ukrainian official and another source familiar with the details ❗️Why it matters: This incident could turn out to be a significant violation by Israel of U.S. and international sanctions imposed on Russia and its “shadow fleet” ❓If this is indeed the case, it is a serious incident that contradicts the declared policy of the Israeli government 🚢 Ukraine is demanding that Israel detain the Russian vessel, which Ukraine claims is under international sanctions, and prevent it from leaving the port 🕵️ Behind the scenes: A senior Ukrainian official told me that Ukrainian intelligence identified the preparations of the Russian vessel to depart from the Black Sea with a cargo of grain originating from territories that Russia captured from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Ukrainian intelligence prepared a file with information on the matter and transferred it to the Prosecutor General’s Office in Ukraine on March 20 🇺🇦🇮🇱 On March 27, Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, met with senior officials at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, handed over the information, warned that this constitutes a violation of sanctions, and requested that the vessel not be allowed to dock in Israel 🛳️ A senior Ukrainian official told me that, based on the Prosecutor General’s request, a Ukrainian court issued on April 8 a detention order for the Russian vessel 🏗️ Today, after the Russian vessel docked at the port of Haifa, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General met with Israel’s ambassador to Kyiv, Michael Brodsky, and handed him a request for international legal assistance - and for the detention of the vessel
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