@scip_hannibal @UsingLyft I stand corrected didnt realize Africa is 50/50 urban rural though what is "urban" vs "rural" is subjective.
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Invictus Maximus
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@Azariah2024 @UsingLyft I think you need to update your view of African countries. There’s a vast difference between Ghana and Niger for example.
And Ghana, CIV, Kenya are majority urban countries like a 1/3rd of African countries.
Your explanation is useless for Ghana as it’s 60% urban.
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Ghana has a much lower violent crime rate than Argentina. And even if one assumes that it is being underreported and double the rate, it is still significantly safer than Argentina.
It’s annoying how people attribute everything to genetics when there are better explanations.
Pay Roll Manager Here@UsingLyft
Eventually you’ll all realize that this is clearly the result of genetic differences at the mean between races. THIS DOES NOTNOT MEAN EVERY BLACK MAN IS GENETICALLY PREDETERMINED TO BEHAVE CRIMINALLY. What it means is the following: • There are millions of genes that influence temperament, intelligence, and personality traits • Some of these genes influence your patience, your longterm thinking, your stubbornness, antisocial tendencies, impulse control etc. • The genes that influence these things are found in all human groups, however due to mate selection over thousands of years, they’re more or less common in some groups than others. • Amongst men and especially amongst black men, they’re found more frequently and that is why no matter where you look on earth, black men are usually over represented amongst criminals. • Again this does not mean all or even most black men are prone to criminality and certainly not genetically predetermined to commit crimes. If everyone understood this we could begin to fix it.
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@Porkchop_EXP !!! I still remember "Malaysia truly Asia" as a child lmao. It truly was a banger
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Malaysia dropped the banger “Malaysia truly Asia” 30 years ago and proceeded to do absolutely nothing about tourism ever since.
Never been to a country less concerned with attracting tourists than Malaysia. They are so self-sufficient (also economically) they just don’t care. No one is simping for tourists, just generally friendly, soft-spoken, relaxed, and polite people. Incredibly underrated country.
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP
Malaysia is the most gatekept country in Asia.
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@UsingLyft @scip_hannibal Incidentally its not even that I disbelieve that there be something going on genetically between races.
Its that you cannot fathom that an African society would be actually be relatively safe. The implication here is that violence in black males is not "inevitable"
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@UsingLyft @scip_hannibal you've probably never visited a range of African countries or immersed yourself in the literature. This is likely you just extrapolating from US/ SAfrican experience to universalize your intuitions.
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@policytensor the devil is in the details. if "conclusive" commitment is zero enrichment its not going to happen
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Good red lines. Very good. Very, very good. This is the most dovish thing I’ve heard so far.
Joseph Haboush@jhaboush
JD Vance lays out “must haves” for Iran deal, including need for Tehran to hand over enriched uranium and “conclusive” commitment to not develop nuclear weapons. “We have the cards,” he tells Brett Baier.
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@divya_venn thinking that *your* issues are so unique is actually a common trap.
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the really great thing about being smart and self aware is that instead of falling into common traps and patterns normies fall into you invent entirely new ways of being mentally ill that are way harder to identify and fix
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A surprising amount of adulthood is just finally accepting that no one is coming to impose the structure you need. You either build it, or you drift inside the structures other people built for you.
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@lmartods is this a temporary or permanent fix based on your experience
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As a track engineer I can see why they can build so quickly but impressive nonetheless
Tasnim News Agency@Tasnimnews_EN
Tehran-Tabriz Railway Reopens After Reconstruction The strategic Tehran-Tabriz railway line, previously damaged by a US-Israeli terror strike targeting Iranian bridges, has been fully reconstructed & secured, enabling the resumption of int'l train services between Tehran & Van.
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“oh i want my coffee to taste good and smooth” grow up!!
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that’s because specialty coffee is stupid and you should be embarrassed
lito@litocoen
this made me lol italy is the most beautiful country in the world but god its coffee sucks
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Interesting comment. Russia and Iran are both basically gas stations and nothing else, certainly nothing else of positive human worth in current world affairs.
Robin Brooks@robin_j_brooks
A blockade collapses the blue bars below to zero. This collapses Iran's business model, which means there's no money for imports and the red bars go to zero. Iran is a gas station masquerading as an Islamic Republic. Time to shut down the gas station... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-much-doe…
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This is wonderful. Will buy all of these this week. 60-90% off their highs. Perfect opp.
Anyone who thinks the average company is going to waste time recreating all this software and hosting it and maintaining it are high on their own supply.
The golden rule of investing is buy when there's blood in the water.
Some of these companies will not survive but so what? Others will adapt and thrive and have the cash and vision to make the pivot.
shirish@shiri_shh
bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭
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@policytensor I thought your assessment has always been that a nuclear event is highly unlikely
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It feels very much like we’re heading into a nuclear crisis here.
Policy Tensor@policytensor
Depends very much on how this plays out. Seizure of Chinese ships is straight from the century of humiliation, with hated treaties about ships remembered with special force. The US might fail to anticipate the Chinese reaction to such an event. It could be very coercive. Very. All the way to seizure of Taiwan.
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@bezos_killer @barbourtwat @LemanWalters its actually not too much. it knows its own limits and respects it
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@barbourtwat @LemanWalters Yeah the occasional "too much" building is good
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Please please please we’re not citing St Pancras hotel as an example of taste surely
David James@drdavidajames
Separated by 150 years, a few yards and an infinity of taste.
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@lnqdty @LemanWalters if this is what gaudiness looks like give it to me
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Tisza now ahead with 40-50% of the vote counted. 🇭🇺🗳️
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@balazscseko is there any indication where things may land based on voted counts
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@RichPendergrass @wil_da_beast630 its simply not true that the US can "wipe out" Iran. The US has already expended half its missile capacity. A groundwar would be ruinous.
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@wil_da_beast630 This is obvious cope by a far leftist.
Like we can obviously wipe out Iran. But is that winning?
The problem is the commander in chief, who was once sharp even by his (honest) critics account is no longer operating on that level. We're in a bind with no clear exit ramp
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I don't like braggadocious talk about this sort of thing, but we seem to have killed 7,000 Iranian troops and lost 15 people (albeit largely due to armor: 600 hurt). Iran's entire senior leadership is dead. Their nuke program is gone.
This is all being quite openly discussed, in real, "gray net" spaces. We should push harder on the Strait, but what does "they won" logically mean?
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
America is the first country in over two centuries to lose a war to Iran, thanks to Trump
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