Stanley Devastating

I support ineffective altruism bc effective altruism makes the world a better place, and if the world is a better place you benefit from that, which is not very altruistic of you is it? it would clearly be more virtuous if you altruism was well meaning but made everything worse.

@BALUCIAGA She isn’t right. As you can see for yourself the map on the right with equal areas is shit and useless. Mercator projection otoh is extremely useful for navigation purposes bc it preserves the bearing (direction of travel) between two points. Other projections exist as well!

she’s right. the mercator projection distorts size by enlarging regions farther from the equator and making Africa look smaller than it actually is.

Jim Hacker: Humphrey, we have to do something about Iran. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Prime Minister, the government is already doing a great deal. Jim Hacker: Such as? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Monitoring developments, coordinating with allies, reviewing contingency plans and expressing concern. Jim Hacker: That all sounds like nothing, Humphrey. Sir Humphrey Appleby: On the contrary, Prime Minister. In diplomacy it is vital to appear active without becoming involved. Jim Hacker: The Americans are bombing things, the Iranians are firing missiles, the Strait of Hormuz is practically closed and we’re… appearing active? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Precisely. Jim Hacker: Innocent people are dying, Humphrey! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister. That is why the Foreign Office is drafting a very strongly worded statement about it. Jim Hacker: A statement won’t stop a war. Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, Prime Minister, but it will ensure that we are on record as having been extremely concerned while it was happening. Bernard Woolley: If I may, Prime Minister — the Cabinet Office has identified six possible courses of action. Jim Hacker: Good! What are they? Bernard Woolley: We can condemn the escalation, call for restraint, urge negotiations, support our allies, assist defensive operations or participate directly. Jim Hacker: And what do they recommend? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Supporting our allies. Jim Hacker: That sounds suspiciously like participating. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh no, Prime Minister. Participating means fighting. Supporting merely means allowing others to fight from places that technically belong to us. Jim Hacker: Humphrey, if Iranian missiles hit one of our bases, we’ll be in the war anyway! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Prime Minister, but we shall have entered it with the invaluable diplomatic advantage of being surprised. Bernard Woolley: It’s generally considered the safest way to enter a war, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: How on earth can that be safe? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Because if the war goes badly, we can say we never meant to join it. And if it goes well, we can say we were there all along.

@lachyolof @Bd_irB_ll but that’s exactly why it’s silly to abolish dropping down, for the fans and the spectacle of the thing you want to reward teams for achieving something with money AND a chance to win a trophy.

@Bd_irB_ll If the most important aspect of football wasnt funds youd be right Finishing dead last in UCL provides more money than topping the EL table “2nd tier” clubs are gifted are high bare min as a reward for their league efforts and “3rd tier” clubs are given the opportunity to earn it

These aren't the second tier of European clubs, these are the 3rd tier. The second tier are stuck at the bottom of the CL with no hopes of competing for anything

@JoePostingg Nah they got thrashed by the Huns and had to repeatedly pay them tribute.

The Roman Empire never really lost military superiority, they held that till the bitter end... they lost military supremacy and their ability to absorb attrition faded... and that was enough.

@AdamPollock @PolitlcsUK @thetimes Name them all after Anglo-Saxons pls. Ethelred, aethelwulf, wulfhelm, feologeld. Lots of bangers there.

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes They’re all terrible apart from Athelstan, which goes incredibly hard

🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]

@henry_hill94 But the other teams in it were miles worse than most of these teams. It is a bit unbalanced, and you can tell that by the number of times the sole Italian and English reps have made the final. You basically only get good matchups when the 5 big 5 league teams meet.

This image alone demonstrates why creating the Conference League was such a brilliant idea. 8 quarter finalists from 8 different nations. Winning it will mean everything to the victorious fanbase. A rare W for one of footballs governing bodies.

@StarlyChili are they good?

@devastatingstan Founders were barça fans Club is quite old now (1925)

Fun Fact: o Cruzeiro nunca foi eliminado na fase de grupos será q dessa vez rola?

@Babs_SP He was part of a Brazil team that flopped badly in the WCs, part of serial bottlejob PSG team during his peak years, clearly inferior to the best players of his generation while lacking their more professional attitude, cringe sycophant "friends". The Drake of football.

I always say this - it’s very odd that the Brazilians of the 2000s get heralded as poster boys and inspirations and Neymar with a near identical career trajectory gets painted as some sort of style over substance player. Think it has to do with social media and nostalgia

@PaulaGhete Yeah if you like someone you want them to dress up a bit sometimes ofc but you think they look cute and lovable first thing in the morning. idk why anyone would want to be with someone with more optimal husband stats but didn’t feel like that.

women look better with make-up. and I think that we should try to look our best, especially for the ones we love. at the same time, if I need to wear make-up every single day so that my boyfriend/husband likes me and treats me better, what the fuck are we even doing here?

@motivatedjoy2 @dhaaruni hiiiii nice to meet you!!!☺️☺️ do you want to get some food sometime? XD

@devastatingstan @dhaaruni I hate you all

@Krishan_A_Patel @dhaaruni yes I know what she was really talking about! :D

@devastatingstan @dhaaruni That’s not the problem being referred to – it is mostly East Asian / South Asian men and Black women who are heavily discriminated against on dating apps.

@Softnessa_ He should have waited. He was holding up a whole plane’s worth of ppl and clearly was not in a hurry himself.

A lady on this flight was upset because an old man was taking a long time to get his bag down and she was late for her connection. She finally says “sir!” And this man, nearly 80, looks at her and says “I am not obligated to participate in your anxiety.” Got his bag, and slowly walked down the aisle. He gagged the whole plane.

@elephant_ben it’s strange i don’t really understand how a 40 year old woman could be so unsympathetic to the sexual desire of a 20 year old even when she herself has been that 20 yr old. It‘s like they still believe desire is corrupting and shameful for a woman.

TBH, we are rapidly approaching a world where the de-facto age of consent is 21, for good or bad. Not saying that is good or bad but its just the current future of sexual ethics.

@climatepaige Not recent, no Paige. Just been a lurker. Truthfully it was probably from that viral interview with one of them when you asked about the Beatles. now I get your poly crashout tweets every day and I dont get why you are suddenly making your brand being rude to them.

@devastatingstan You recently followed me so you must like it!

If you are polyamorous, you are not experiencing true intimacy. You do not want to love — your eternal and infernal desire is to BE loved. You want to absorb affection, admiration, and devotion from every source that unwittingly makes itself available to you, as if you’ve got a nutrient deficiency somewhere. The way you experience intimacy reminds me of the way a child pulls out a bag of sugar from the pantry when their parents aren’t looking. Though the child could taken any one of the smaller treats, they are instead greedily pawing raw sugar granules into their mouth, not caring how badly they will rot their teeth. Even as their stomach starts to hurt, they will still shovel the saccharides inside of them until they either vomit or pass out on the floor. Ultimately, you do not care about meaningful connections — you are instead intent on gorging yourself on every love source that you can get your hands on, regardless of whether or not you actually enjoy it, as if you are a prize farm hog, conditioned by your owner to overeat at the trough until you burst.

@mrzeal7 @LitSego when people are idiots that can’t detect very obvious sarcasm they come around and cry “big meanie with the big meanie words i have the reading age of a child and the temper of one too”

@devastatingstan @LitSego When people make stupid takes they come around and cry 'sarcasm' 🙄. Bitch gtfoh

Good luck convincing clubs to release their African players for the next AFCON when all it might lead to is wasted time, only for the title to be handed to Morocco two months later.

@mrzeal7 @LitSego Yes it’s in the original tweet I wrote, specifically the last sentence clown

@devastatingstan @LitSego Is the sarcasm in the room with us fool?

@Putinfails @wartranslated Rail is very quick to repair though, and you have to be extremely accurate to hit it in the first place.

@wartranslated Air defenses to me is a priority, together with hitting anything that fires a missile. Oil and Gas must still remain easy targets. Logistics have been spared so far, Rail is vital in Russia. Eventually repairing rail if you can't move by rail must start snowballing. So hit rail

"The offensive has lost momentum. There is no strategic breakthrough. Successes are coming at too high a cost." - The situation at the front from the Russian side, in short: they’re screwed, and they admit it.