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@deloisivete Port. The answer is port.

What wine pairs best with monitoring the situation

@zhusu Outta your depth, buddy. Stick to meme coins.

There will be a temporary ceasefire within next 45 days. The GCC cannot withstand this pressure for much longer. The US military will mostly exit the region. The popularity rate is too low to mobilise ground troops. The next wave of conflict will be ignited by skirmishes in the nearby areas, eg Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Bahrain. This time it triggers a proper Iran-Israel war that lasts at least five years. Nuclear weapon use on inhabited sites won’t happen, but Iran will achieve nuclear capabilities. Eventually peace is reached because of mutually assured destruction guarantees. Both Israel and Iran will have substantially larger territories at the end and both sides will claim victory. The war will not be later remembered as WW3 but will have a different name in each country.

@g_gosden Not sure that’s the flex you think it is, friend.

There are moments in history that may seem insignificant at the time but a British PM standing up to an American president is going to be one of those moments that historians will write about long into the future.

@socktickler What about the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea? What’s the excuse for the high fecal counts in those bodies of water?

India is the toilet of the world. God, in his cosmic sense of humour, created a shit-themed country for the sole purpose of being laughing stock for the rest of us, and then filled it with people that can’t take a joke. For starters, their skin is the colour of shit and they smell like shit. In fact the whole country smells like shit because despite being graciously gifted toilet technology by Europeans, Indians refuse to use them in favour of shamelessly shitting on the street. Their religion involves bathing in a river full of dead bodies and shit and worshipping cow shit, before throwing said cow shit at each other for fun and then eating it. Their food both looks like shit and will give you the shits, as it has traces of shit in it from the cook not washing his hands. Instead of troubling himself with hand washing, the Indian uses the much more efficient strategy of wiping his bum with one hand and eating with the other. Even if he developed a genetic mutation that made him want to wash his hands, he wouldn’t be able to find any soap because Indian shops don’t sell it. Despite these awful standards of hygiene, the Indian rarely gets sick because he has consumed so much shit over his lifetime that he is now immune to the bacteria. This “shit vaccination” is the extent of India’s healthcare system. Indians have a caste system based on the proportion of Indian DNA they have in them, with a lower amount obviously being better. This genetic diversity is shown by lower caste Indians having iron-supplement-shit black skin and the upper classes being the much more dignified shade of baby diarrhoea. Naturally, their flag is has a bumhole symbol in the middle of it to represent their national pastime which is shitting. The country itself is even shaped like an anus-sculpted turd tip about to plop into the Indian Ocean (which to nobody’s surprise, is also full of shit.)

@Eng_china5 Cool. Cool. But where are the sharks with frickin laser beams?

Video posted online by Iranians showing the Iranian navy

@profbensaul @aristioo Meh. Knock it off with the pearl-clutching already. As American interventions go, this was minimally destructive and undertaken with overwhelming approval within Latin America.

My op-ed: “President Trump’s brazen attack on Venezuela has violated the most sacred rule of international law – the near-century old ban on use of force against another country. It returns the Americas to an era of gunboat diplomacy by imperial warlords”smh.com.au/national/austr…

@ai Or they all just go to Texas instead.

Six US states now have bills to pause data center construction. New York just introduced a three-year moratorium. Florida's governor is publicly opposing them. Bernie Sanders wants a national freeze. The same AI infrastructure buildout that's driving $500B+ in annual capex is hitting a political wall at the local level. Energy costs, grid strain, and community pushback are real constraints. The companies that figure out efficient cooling, smaller footprints, and community benefit-sharing will have a massive edge. wired.com/story/new-york…

@AsianDawn4 The 1984 Dune is far better than the re-make and is one of David Lynch’s most underrated works. I’ll gladly die on that hill.

I'm going to say something unpopular. Dune 1984 was a more enjoyable movie than the current version. Current version had better action sequences, but the actors, music, and tone was bland....😅

@DefiantLs Tempest in a teapot. That’s not an outrageous amount of money for this SUV. Also, even if one disagrees with his politics, how about a little credit for being the crime down in Baltimore during his watch?

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott asked about his new SUV that cost taxpayers $165k, "Your station has this severe right-wing effort underway…"

@okaythenfuture Seems you’re overlooking the fourth most populous country in the world. The TFR for Indonesia is 2.14. Isn’t that in Asia?

There is an Asian reproductive malaise going on, it is not sparing any country in Asia at the moment, at current rates Thailand will go from currently having 70 million people to just 32 million people by the end of the century, The country will essentially be Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, and the Chonburi coast by the end of the century, everything else will be open land. Its going to be an entirely different Asia by end of century.

@FitFusion__ Never has so much effort been exerted in the kitchen for something so legitimately awful.

I learnt this trick at a famous restaurant, now I only make salmon like this...

@MaxAbrahms A simple and incorrect view that underestimates or overlooks the very real economic and social progress that has been made in the Kingdom over the past decade. It’s a work in progress and the progress to date has been significant.

A lot of analysts got Saudi Arabia wrong.

@JonahDispatch As opposed to the United Nations, whose record of peacekeeping in Gaza is unparalleled.

Cradles of statesmanship! Incubators of peace!

@Osint613 The shades are definitely an upgrade. He should just own it.

French President Macron: We need more Chinese direct investment in Europe in some key sectors.

@theepicmap Technically, it’s the “Arabian Gulf,” not the “Arab Gulf.”

Names of the Persian Gulf

@WomanDefiner It’s possible to defend “the worst people in the world” if done in defense of a larger principle. Lawyers do it all the time as a matter of due process. The problem, however, is that these acts aren’t protests but are instead obstruction of legal acts by federal agents.

It's really not that hard to not violently attack officers in an attempt to free Illegal Immigrant murderers and pedophiles. That's what's really lost in all this. The people they're defending are the worst people in the world.

@EYakoby This guy? Seriously? Even by progressive standards he’s an intellectual lightweight better suited for tv than academia.

BREAKING: Georgetown has tapped Mehdi Hasan to be a visiting fellow. Georgetown is one of the prime recipients of Qatari funding, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from the Gulf nation.

@Mylovanov Read Jeane Kirkpatrick’s 1979 essay “Dictatorships and Double Standards” and quit with the pearl-clutching. Taking Maduro down furthers the cause of the Ukrainians - indirectly but effectively.

@Mylovanov The US backed many key authoritarian leaders during the Cold War and implemented coups against Soviet-friendly governments whose policies were adverse to the US and would have devastated the economies of those countries. Messy? Yes. But done in service to ideals. Hardly new.

Applebaum on Venezuela operation: Americans have grown used to the idea that we were a good power in the world, we had some ideals. There was international law, institutions that we backed. Once we don't do that anymore, Americans will feel differently about their country. 1/

@JillFilipovic Meh. I’m no Mamdani fan and I don’t care for his policies but I appreciate the oratory here, even if it’s a little artsy-fartsy.

Listen I am as excited for the Zohran era as the next person but I am begging begging begging his speechwriters to allow him to talk like a normal person and not an Oberlin freshman writing a persuasive essay.