@FrancAndrad @maiamindel “they weren’t anti-Catholic, one of them had to actively suppress the desire his guys had to burn effigies of the pope”
So you’re saying they were anti-Catholic lmao. That’s evidence for not against
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The sum will not add up. It is madness to rack our brains over this sum. But there is nothing else we can do except try to add up this sum.
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@maiamindel You are lying. George Washington banned anti-Catholic celebrations in the army. Why do leftists blatantly lie and manipulate history to fit their purposes?
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the founding fathers saw islam as a really cool foreign religion and catholicism as basically a mental parasite commanding a legion of violent fanatics
Jason Harrison@nominalthoughts
Kinda funny (not) how the “heritage American” types are endorsing Catholicism over Protestantism
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@YorubaCowboy @asubparusername no I think it kinda does lol. it makes perfect sense that the map that’s best for maritime navigation would become the standard map in a world dominated by maritime trade and travel
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@asubparusername it just being good for nav doesn't explain why it left naval colleges to be the default map alongside globes
and it's true that it does align with a number of imperialist narratives
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exhibit 1 billion of people thinking Mercator projection is a conspiracy and not just really convenient for navigation.
Seba🇿🇦@Sebabi_M
That’s because the world map is a lie. 🤣 Africa was drawn small for a reason. He who writes your story controls your imagination and your power
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@i_zzzzzz discovering that 20% of every energy intensive industry is co-located with the gulf’s oil/gas was the rare simultaneous “oh that makes a lot of sense” and “why would they do that” moment
“you know the global economy’s glowing red weakpoint? we made it bigger, redder”
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It's sort of cool when a crucial part of the global supply chain breaks down. You get to learn about how all kinds of different things are made
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@STFUabtChicago @ajlamesa isn’t it effectively weighted for ridership by being a rate per X passenger miles though?
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Mark Twain said there are lies, there are damned lies, and then there's statistics.
That chart isn't weighted for ridership, capacity, or geographic coverage. One city's idea of transit can differ dramatically from another's.
For example, few city transit systems have two major international airports, one at either end
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“Chicago saw a jump in the passenger assault rate during the pandemic, like other major systems. But as ridership bounced back, most other comparable systems generally saw a drop in assault rates. Chicago didn’t — instead seeing its rate steadily rise through 2024.”
Gregory Royal Pratt@royalpratt
The CTA isn’t the hellhole its worst critics say. But its workers and passengers have been assaulted at rates at least double those of comparable public transit systems around the country, according to a @talia_soglin and @joemahr analysis of federal data. chicagotribune.com/2026/03/22/cta…
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who the fuck is that
DemNewsHQ@DemNewsHQ
Would YOU support this all-star lineup in the 2028 U.S. election? Why or why not?
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@abs_sweetmarie Never seen the Fast & Furious films, but I assume this is a parody of a scene? Which one, and do they actually set any in the middle east?
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@notnild @SaddyGengar_ @paddy_joy CSA is part of the ISS program and has sent 9 astronauts to space. presumably any country that makes a significant contribution (e.g. sending astronauts or providing ship modules) gets on the emblem, regardless of whether they have a launch program
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_…
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ほ、ほんまや…劇中に出てくる大国さえも消えてますやん。映画はフィクションだけどワッペンには現実の外交が反映されるのか…
だいたい怠惰@2079qeqeYour
アメリカの映画館では買えるらしいプロジェクト・ヘイル・メアリーのワッペン、外交上ちょっと気まずい国の国旗が全部取っ払われた結果なんか日本主導の計画みたいになっちゃってて面白い
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@RyanWJanzen @AnalyticaCamil1 i don’t understand how anyone can look at the degree of geopolitical restraint Iran has shown over the last few years - not retaliating when its proxies were attacked, negotiating after it was bombed on its own soil - and think “these guys are gonna nuke NYC”. insanity.
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@AnalyticaCamil1 Oh ya! You are one of those “let’s wait until they wipe out NYC before we do something” people.
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They weren’t an imminent threat because they weren’t fucking shooting at us until we shot at them first you fucking moron
Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain
Please tell me more about how Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Should we have waited until their ballistics could reach Bermuda?
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@write_tor @EOpsych i’ve never understood this line of thought tbh, like yeah it’s true that most fare enforcement programs do not break even directly, but the real tradeoff isn’t “cost of enforcement” vs “tickets issued”. the risk of enforcement is the only way to make people pay in the first place
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@EOpsych the amount of times i’m on a bus where there are more fare enforcers than actual riders, and it’s like, you had to pay all that salary just to maybe make sure than you didn’t lose 5 bucks
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OK, but also fare collection and enforcement makes buses so much slower.
Public transportation is so beneficial for everyone (reduces traffic and pollution, correlated with increased life expectancy and reduced health care costs) it should be fully funded.
Bus fares largely
urbanist slop hq@SlopHq
the thing that gets people on transit isn’t free fares it’s not having to check a schedule. a bus that costs $2 and comes every 6 minutes will outperform a free bus that comes every 30 minutes every single time. frequency is the product. the fare is a rounding error
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@RHinthe859 @LRYALL0140 @kpottermn venezuela oil production total: 1 million bpd
hormuz supply shock: 20 million bpd
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@LRYALL0140 @kpottermn Have you seen the control the US has over Venezuela recently?
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NEW: In a letter to employees, United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline is prepping for oil to hit $175/barrel &
“doesn't get back down to $100/barrel until the end of 2027.”
United is shaving 3% of off-peak flights - “think redeyes, Tues/Wed/Sat flying” - this spring & summer.
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@Lib_Development i enjoy improvement districts because they generate absurd turf wars. like municipal feudalism. every now and then there will be an article about some mayor couping a SID and i'll think 'it's nice to know city politics is still about who controls the trash slush fund'
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Not another one of these stupid microtaxes
Chi Urbanist@chi_urbanist
The Chicago Tourism Improvement District
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@transraven332 @dialupready @ettingermentum yes, of course, that's why the '100 corporations' line is so absurd. they said '100 corporations are responsible for most emissions' like it was something superfluous, when the numbers actually say "the foundation of the industrial economy is responsible for most emissions"
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@Machzero0 @dialupready @ettingermentum You have no choice but to burn that oil if you need to earn in income at a job, use electricity to power anything, cook food, or stay warm.
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Wrong. It was Ukraine.
Ben Judah@b_judah
Little appreciated how October 7th has derailed mass climate activism.
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@N0tAnthonyDavis @isaiah_bb i want osborn to win so bad just because there’s no path he could take in the senate that wouldn’t be hilarious.
reliable Dem vote? funny.
fetterman 2.0? funny.
basically just Susan Collins, using his swing seat to direct a gazillion dollars of pork to Nebraska? amazing
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@AntiFaHR3 @as_a_worker TBF most of the biggest releases have been the exact kind of crisis it was meant for (massive oil shock caused by war), but yeah Congress selling off oil as part of ordinary budgeting in a bunch of years looks pretty insane in hindsight
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@as_a_worker My dad actually helped design this program back in the 1970s and he would be horrified we are treating what was designed as a one time crisis reserve like a giant backup tank.
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The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in huge salt caverns. It was only designed to be topped off and emptied 5 times with an operational lifespan of 25 years. It’s been topped off and emptied 9 times since 1977. The faltering empire relies on what were once redundancies
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@postoctobrist one of those weird quasi-open world stealth-with-crafting sections they have in some of the newest ones. someone’s planted Russian nerve gas in the laundry room aboard the USS Gerald Ford, and you need to find 3 bottles of alcohol and 2 rags to start a fire.
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you’ll get this and a Maduro-but-Castro raid where you pull him out of his bedroom and black bag him (sidearm only section) but on the way out there’ll be two guards in big armour you have to flank repeatedly and it’s going to take forever
yoshimi red@nise_yoshimi
in the new call of duty game you will spent the entire game standing around a US military base remote piloting missiles into a fake middle eastern country named 'Qataristan'. and then sometimes you'll press R2 to film a drone strike that blows up the battalion burger town
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@dialupready @ettingermentum it’s still amazing that like 87% of people bought that line
like sure, oil companies worked to perpetuate the petroeconomy, but we’re the ones burning all that gas at the end of the day!
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@ettingermentum no it was that fraudulent “100 companies 70% emissions” article that allowed people to disclaim responsibility for their behavior
The Guardian ranks among the biggest climate arsonist for publishing that dogshit
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@CJeifler @mattparlmer JASSMs outrange everything in the Iranian arsenal by more than 100 km. being able to lob JASSMs at Iran doesn't mean that US aircraft have full freedom of operations over Iranian airspace.
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@mattparlmer you cannot fly a B-52 unless you have total air superiority you dummy, it's basically like flying a zeppelin. It's slow as fuck and has ZERO anti-radar countermeasures.
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This continued expenditure of scarce standoff munitions plus the F-35 incident gives me the strong impression that claims of air superiority are wildly overstated
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
USAF B-52H heavy bomber departing England on an Iran strike mission today, carrying a full load of JASSM cruise missiles.
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@aeratis @PariahSwag @GondolaGunGuild learning that he died in 2013 was insane. you're telling me that the Red Napoleon lived to see the Harlem Shake? the Dien Bien Phu guy saw the introduction of the iPhone?
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@PariahSwag @GondolaGunGuild Oh dude it’s way crazier than that. That’s Võ Nguyên Giáp. He was already 31 in 1942 when he formed a foundational cell of the Viet Minh. He was in the military until he was in his 70’s and still lived to be 102 years old
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@FutureInclined @humantransit and what do you imagine the excluded third option being here? only some parking is replaced with residences/workplaces/other trip generators, which only moderately increases travel demand?
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@humantransit You are arguing from the excluded middle. Go back to school and leave the bullshit rhetoric at home.
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Self driving taxis will further reduce parking, allowing more infill. Nice.
What will the infill do? Increase travel demand in a fixed amount of street space.
So we’ll end up with self-driving gridlock, and regret having disinvested in space-efficient buses and trains.
Harrison Finberg@harrisonfinberg
Infill may trend this direction over the next 20 years as self driving cars take over. No valuable real estate on parking, you send your car to go park somewhere ugly and out of sight or use cheap robot taxis.
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@Be_Radiculous @souljagoyteller nah, IIRC the physics part of senior lab finishes somewhere in the 60s with Bell's theorem and the biology parts of senior lab come up to almost the present day.
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@souljagoyteller She teaches at St. John's, where I believe Einstein's books are literally the latest science any of the students study
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Unless you’re planning to study the philosophy of science, is it really worth it for the average humanities student to read Newton’s Principia in 2026?
Zena Hitz@zenahitz
It is the hardest of the great books, in my opinion. Also an incredible entry point into seeing the foundations of mathematical physics and what this form of thinking both offers and obscures.
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