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@DLHopePope

Katılım Kasım 2020
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Jarvis
Jarvis@jarvis_best·
As long as folks are talking about Cormac McCarthy let me tell you this is a top 2-3 all time novel for me.
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Don Linguinistan
Don Linguinistan@DLHopePope·
fyi if you are filling out march madness brackets at work and your coworker asks you why you didn't organize a women's pool, it is your job to be honest and tell them it’s because professional women’s basketball is worse than middle school boys basketball and no man watches it for fun
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Ashtyn Butuso
Ashtyn Butuso@lil_buts·
fyi if you are filling out march madness brackets at work and your coworker didn't organize a women's pool, it is your job to be annoying and ask them why that is
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Don Linguinistan
Don Linguinistan@DLHopePope·
@avidseries “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture”
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i/o@avidseries·
Which of these Republicans do you like the least?
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Steve Hou
Steve Hou@stevehou·
China’s state media turned the US-Iran conflict into an AI generated cartoon and captured the gist of the conflict pretty perfectly! Cinematically really well done! A+ trolling! Thanks to @AngelicaOung for adding subtitles!
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Jarvis
Jarvis@jarvis_best·
@christopherrufo All the Pretty Horses succeeds in humanity and relatability and character development where those books fail (or at least take a long time to get there)
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo·
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd

About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.

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Alice
Alice@AliceFromQueens·
Here's a conspiracy theory you can have for free. The war is actually about Iran, Russia, and the US colluding to destroy Arab oil and gas production, aka their biggest competitors. The goal is to drive oil up to $200 a barrel and split the bounty among them
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@jason
@jason@Jason·
Balaji might seem out there at times, but he’s almost always just 6 months and 60% ahead of the consensus
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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thiccy
thiccy@thiccyth0t·
is wti hard programmed not to trade above 100 so that trump isn’t allowed to taco?
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99% Johnny Graz
99% Johnny Graz@jvgraz·
Is anyone else uncomfortable having this rabidly pro-Israel group running their own private intelligence service on us?
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Jon Hoffman
Jon Hoffman@Hoffman8Jon·
Two years ago this week, I published this piece on how Israel is a strategic liability for the United States. This has been the case for decades, but the past two years have proven Israel is arguably the greatest strategic liability the United States currently shoulders abroad. The US-Israel special relationship is not sustainable. The pathologies of the special relationship with Israel have hindered Washington’s strategic maneuverability in the Middle East and inhibited US leaders’ ability to think clearly about the region. Lobbying on behalf of Israel has steered Washington’s regional policies in directions contrary to US interests. Israel’s foreign policy is inherently aggressive and expansionist both in the Occupied Territories and the wider Middle East. And it is getting worse. The special relationship binds Washington to this agenda, subsidizing it while entangling the United States in a host of protracted crises that would otherwise be avoidable. At every turn, it pulls the United States deeper into the Middle East. The special relationship emboldens Israel and incites widespread regional hostility toward the United States. The unparalleled levels of American political, economic, and military support for Israel allow it to avoid the policy trade-offs that typically constrain other states. The result is perpetual conflict subsidized by the United States to its own disadvantage. The last two years have marked the apex of the US-Israel relationship, characterized by total Israeli impunity guaranteed by the United States. they have epitomized the dysfunctions of the special relationship for the United States—blind support for Israeli policy and disregard for American interests. Nothing the United States receives from Israel justifies the profound negative consequences of the special relationship. It is unidirectional, yielding virtually no benefit for the United States while actively undermining US interests. This is particularly the case when it comes to Iran. The US-Iran rivalry is primarily a byproduct of the special relationship, which policymakers in Washington and Israel invoke to strengthen their partnership, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of conflict and greater American regional involvement. This cannot continue. The United States needs to fundamentally reorient its approach to Israel. The special relationship needs to end.
Jon Hoffman@Hoffman8Jon

My latest with @ForeignPolicy It's past time for a fundamental reevaluation of the US-Israel relationship. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/22/isr…

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Don Linguinistan
Don Linguinistan@DLHopePope·
don't agree with most of your politics but agree with you on this as someone on, what I'm sure you would consider the far right, I'm tired of this shit you may not believe it, but a lot of us voted for Trump, (knowing he is a buffoon) truly believing he was our best shot at not starting new wars in the Middle East and redirecting energy back to the US to re-industrialize we were wrong. every right wing person I know who's under 40 and not jewish, is fully blackpilled over this. feels like it doesn't matter who you vote for, your tax dollars end up are going to end up bombing a lot of civilians in Libya or Syria or Iraq or whatever Trump, Obama, Hillary, John McCain, John Kerry, Biden....doesn't matter. the bombs are going to fall.
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