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@theVonSchmidt @mhdksafa Someone hasn't been reading the news

@mhdksafa You are an idiot The only risk of nuclear weapons in IRAN is if the IRGC gets their hands on one. The population of IRAN is not the enemy. And they don’t support the military. Your running a fear campaign

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to touch the hot stove with my bare hands. But now I get to do it whenever I want

@arvofart @izamamaa No, they think they shouldn't be able to afford groceries and think that cookies are a good cover to launder their repulsive inner thoughts

@izamamaa You think the working poor shouldn’t be able to afford groceries because they hypothetically might buy cookies sometimes?

When I go to the store and see them advertising big tubs of chocolate chip cookies as EBT eligible it makes me not care about it getting shut down.

@wordisbond Hell yeah king, happy birthday

3:00pm: Crowbar and Eye Hate God 6:30pm: 9 Holes at Monterey Park Happy birthday me.

@extra_beef_ Load-bearing normalcy bias

I think those of us living in the imperial core haven’t fully come to grips with the fact that it’s over and this is all just a charade.

@moorehn Quick high temp stir fry of green cabbage in sesame oil is divine

I also think cabbage is unsung. If you stir-fry it, especially with onions, until it softens and brown a little, it adds such sweetness (along with all the nutrients ofc)

My new favorite dinner to make is Singapore rice noodles. In my version I use cubed, browned tofu instead of eggs (I keep the shrimp!), stir-fried cabbage and onion, and Ethiopian berbere spice mix instead of Chinese curry powder. It's so good, so healthy, packed with protein, so filling and so easy.

Great timing. Let’s start working on this now.

@JoshGalt @academic_la Now more than ever

@academic_la but I was told solar and wind power and electric cars were gonna save the planet?

The oil crisis is spreading throughout the world. Many countries are going to extreme lengths to ration their supply as a result. Here are all the cases I could find: 1) The Philippines declared a national energy emergency. Government offices have shifted to a four-day work week, and agencies must cut fuel and electricity use by 10–20%. 2) Sri Lanka instituted a weekly public holiday for public officials and schools. It has also revived a QR code-based fuel rationing system that limits private cars to 25 liters of petrol per week. 3) Pakistan closed schools for two weeks and cut free fuel allocations for government vehicles by 50%. It also hiked high-octane fuel prices by 60%. 4) Bangladesh, shut down universities and colleges and implemented five-hour rolling blackouts for households to prioritize the garment export sector. 5) South Korea launched a nationwide energy-saving campaign and released a record 22.46 million barrels of strategic oil reserves. It also temporarily lifted limits on burning coal. 6) Thailand ordered civil servants to work from home, set office air conditioning to 26–27°C, and halted petroleum exports to preserve domestic stock. 7) Japan and announced its largest-ever release of strategic oil reserves, approximately 45 days' worth, to stabilize local markets. 8) Egypt ordered early closures for malls, restaurants, and government offices while switching off illuminated billboards. 9) Myanmar introduced an "odd-even" rationing system where private vehicles can only purchase fuel on alternating days based on their license plate numbers. 10) Nepal is a state-run oil corporation has begun rationing cooking gas by filling cylinders to only half their normal capacity (7.1 kg) and is urging a nationwide switch to induction cookers. 11) India has invoked emergency powers to divert liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) away from industrial users to prioritize household cooking needs. 12) Slovenia became the first EU member to implement fuel rationing, limiting private drivers to 50 liters of petrol per week and businesses to 200 liters. 13) Bhutan has officially banned the sale of fuel in jerry cans to prevent hoarding and has established strict rationing priorities for emergency services. 14) Vietnam is accelerating a transition to ethanol-blended gasoline ahead of schedule to reduce its reliance on pure fossil fuel imports. 15) South Sudan has begun rationing electricity in its capital, Juba, due to the high cost of oil used for power generation. 16) Laos has made working from home mandatory for all non-essential civil servants and introduced rotational shifts to reduce commuting demand. It gets worse. Gulf producers are nearly at their maximum storage capacity; once they run out of space to put unsold oil, they will be forced to "shut in" (permanently close) wells, which can cause long-term geological damage to the oil fields. This is the worst oil crisis in history. And it is going to get so much worse. unlike previous shocks, this crisis has wiped out the world's spare capacity because major producers like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are physically cut off from their customers by the Strait of Hormuz closure. All for what?

Zionist terror plot foiled in NYC, Trump killing hospital patients in Cuba, Israel torturing a Palestinian baby and invading Lebanon, Epstein pedophiles still free, ICE getting away with murdering people Liberal corporate media:

they don't want to give head they want to endlessly critique giving head

@1776Polling @JucheAffirmer Project strength to the benefit of whom? They've won

@JucheAffirmer Surely it would be better to project strength? I can't imagine that any war that did occur would last particularly long.

The Chinese have already fucking won, mate. Why would they need to cause trouble for themselves by using the military? They are content letting America's suicidal war torpedo the entire Taiwanese economy. At that point, what other choice besides integration will they have?

@JakeRainwater @shenanigan_man @JakeWallinger This is the first one I saw, and every day since. Not even in the "for you" feed, regular posts

@shenanigan_man @comvintern @JakeWallinger I do think there was an uptick after Val Kilmer’s death. Everyone rewatched it and started the memes started flowing

Guy at Dunkin hit me with one of these when I asked if I could grab a straw

@gilbert_henry @RnaudBertrand

🙄 Private food safety (that relies on reputation, liability, direct consumer feedback) would be orders of magnitude safer than a state monopoly department that answers to bureaucrats instead of the people actually eating Or do you trust notoriously ineffective/corrupt outfits to keep you safe? Do you ascribe such blind faith across all government departments?

Libertarianism: "We abolished the state's role in food safety" China: "We didn't"

@thostalk @MnmzzzCS @eastblocvisuals One of my friends from DDR told me specifically about how coveted and rare blue jeans were when she was a kid

@MnmzzzCS @eastblocvisuals Why not, they’re easy to make if you have cotton. It was probably western brands that were coveted, not the pant fabric itself

Once upon a time in East Germany

@JakeRainwater @JakeWallinger

@comvintern @JakeWallinger Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, brother. They’ve been here the whole time. You’ve now been illuminated.

Postmodern Bessent: Ceci n’est pas un chokepoint

State Department: Operation Epic Chungus is going well stop asking questions. IDF: I NEED air defenses NOW IRGC: I am writing a phd in Kantian Shia Philosophy Lebanon:

Decided to check. What happens when Trump always lying gets priced in?

@PYSHuang @oomfprotector Visited the Swiss Alps with my family and one morning I got an early head start and hiked up a cliff face trail while my wife and in-laws left a bit later and rode up the gondola. It did not cheapen my experience! And we all got to be together at the top!

@oomfprotector had a similar thought when i was visiting sites like this in china last summer but then i saw there were a lot of elderly people and families w young children and i wonder how many more ppl get to see these with the ease of climbing

china stop turning every natural formation into disneyland challenge: difficulty impossible. At the top of the "stairway to heaven" is a set of escalators they built through the mountain to get up to the peak, and at the top of *that* is a damn burger king