@castropartygirl @teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban HK has a large British population, a majority Cantonese population with a significant minority of Mandarin speakers, and faced an existential threat in the north until Deng.
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@barstoolswe @teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban HK is Chinese though; there was never a risk of ethnic conflict there. LKY’s real accomplishment (imo) was recognizing the existential threat of ethnic conflict and building a majority Chinese nation in the region that exists peacefully, at a time when that was not assured
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I don’t really get Lee Kuan Yew worship beyond authoritarian bootlicking. To me, Singapore feels like the least impressive East Asian tiger. It's a prime port, it started with solid administration, and it's a city-state smaller than NYC.
Compare Japan, China, Taiwan, or ROK.
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@castropartygirl @teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban Why wouldn’t it’s clear peer be HK? City states with a lot of different languages and ethnicities with massive ports against a larger neighbour.
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@barstoolswe @teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban Okay, even if we say SG had a huge advantage in geography compared to Malaysia and Indonesia, that still doesn’t mean its natural peers are Japan/Taiwan/South Korea (or even Hong Kong)
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@castropartygirl @teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban Singapore has a singular geographic advantage that those other countries don’t though.
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@teriyakityrant @StatisticUrban They are all countries with a large native population, and a significant non-native Chinese population that is socioeconomically dominant. That’s a recipe for ethnic conflict (which is why SG was kicked out of Malaysia in the first place)
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@scareyjoe @esparttt @thecheesyboy @SgtKOnyx @wakeywhite That is asymptotically approaching zero. That’s 1/1260 loafs of wonder bread per person per day.
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@barstoolswe @esparttt @thecheesyboy @SgtKOnyx @wakeywhite It's still substantially more than "one one".
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The fact that a large number of euros think American bread is cake because of a single legal ruling in Ireland regarding a single form of bread for Subway restaurants is something that needs to be studied extensively
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@scareyjoe @esparttt @thecheesyboy @SgtKOnyx @wakeywhite There’s like 350 million people in the US. That’s 1/7 of a loaf per person
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@esparttt @thecheesyboy @SgtKOnyx @wakeywhite Who's buying the 55 million loaves?
cnbc.com/2023/10/03/how…
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@landvaluetax @FakeSungate It’s for yield protection mostly. Anyone admitted to Uchicago is hopefully smart enough to run the expected cost calculator and be able to get out of the (not actually binding) contract.
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@FakeSungate It's for price discrimination, which tracks with their econ department
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@JSWindsor19 @jjrhey @AndyBremmen @DenehyXXL The most famous course in golf didn’t admit women until the 2010s and black men until the 90s and they think they’ll waive rules lol. Elon Musk can’t even get into most of these places, they’re that stuck up and in their ways
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@barstoolswe @jjrhey @AndyBremmen @DenehyXXL Non golf knowledge people need to stay out of it. You know ball
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This is such a genius way of capitalizing on your finals victory. A handful of the fanciest clubs in the greater NYC area will now spend the next two weeks aggressively courting him and he’ll almost surely save upwards of a million dollars in initiation fees.
Josh Hart@joshhart
Now we play golf! Just got to figure out where to get a golf membership in NY 👀
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@PhiIlygaming @jjrhey @AndyBremmen @DenehyXXL Pine Valley is a level where if you want to impress someone and live in NYC you’ll go down for the day
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@barstoolswe @jjrhey @AndyBremmen @DenehyXXL Pine Valley is a metro Philly courses not NY. But agree. No club of that level needs promotion.
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@PosterInternet “I have extensive knowledge of data indexing” me on my resume after learning about hash maps in data structures
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I missed this article, just incredible
Pedro L. Gonzalez@emeriticus
"The New Election Gurus," according to City Journal
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@AndyBremmen What? They may allow him a chance to pay $100K for initiation. They’re not going to waive that lol
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@BradJamesRadio @spursbeliever 40 million people is a pretty big market
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@spursbeliever Toronto is the third largest media market in North America.
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Wow Adam Silver you are a GENIUS with the pen
Jamal Cristopher@JamCristopher
Crazy era in the NBA
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@KenHeLive Well, Jerry west & lebron have more finals losses combined than I have fingers😂
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There’s no GM in NBA history that would draft Kobe Bryant over LeBron James..
Including the man that brought Kobe to Los Angeles.
NBACentral@TheDunkCentral
Shaq says he would draft LeBron over Kobe to start a franchise “I’d probably go with [LeBron James] because Bron — and I know this is a Kobe [Bryant] comparison — Bron had it when he came in. It took Kobe two or three years to get it. Bron had it when he came in, so I’d probably go with Bron.” (Via nypost.com/2026/06/12/spo…)
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@Bill93326 @JohnPetersonFW There is no world where a double of crown royal is $70. One must assume that it costs less than $30.
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Canada has always been a football country
Faizal Khamisa@FaizalKhamisa
Never in my life would I have expected this, man. Proper soccer country.
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It does appear that way from the outside; that being said, private schooling is mostly redundant in Miami because the competent local gov’s been able to get around the CRA via intense investment in high-quality magnet (sometimes charter) programs. See: MAST, Archimedean Academy, SAS, Terra, etc.
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Can I just say I am very grateful to the original designers of the Social Security program, some 90 years ago, for designing the program this way?
Because if they hadn't there is 0% chance that either party would do anything to make social security solvent.
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
Social Security needs reform, but neither party is willing to take the lead on doing so. If we continue doing nothing, Social Security payouts will be cut automatically by 24% in 2032… That’s only two presidential elections away. 👉🏻 crfb.org/nostatespared
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Americans have huge stadiums and loud choreography, but totally lack the passion and aggression of other fans
Its just not proper mass sports unless fan brawls are common and players have to apologize to ultras and beg for their worthless lives after a poor season or lost derby
College Football Zone@CollegeFBonX
Nothing in Europe comes close to any of this
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Does this just crush the business for all the bars in the area that theoretically should be having one of their best nights of the last 5 years?
NYPD NEWS@NYPDnews
Starting at 4pm today, vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be closed from West 30th Street to West 35th Street between 6th Avenue and 8th Avenue. No one will be allowed inside the secure area unless you have a ticket to the game, a train ticket, are going to a business inside the area, have credentials, or have some other authorized reason to be there.
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everyone saying that you should contact the venue or get a doctors note....have you considered that disabled people shouldnt HAVE to do stuff like this simply to attend a concert???
an ౨ৎ@twoaugustsago
invisible ink does anyone know what happens if u need a phone or watch for medical reasons like for tracking things
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