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@unusual_whales i can has cheep gas pls

Trump on Iran: Everyone tells me it's an unpopular war but I think it's very popular

@unusual_whales I'm wondering if we have even a month. Then again, I thought that before the 2+ months of Trump bluffing. That seems to have played itself out, though, finally.

NATO to consider a Hormuz deployment if the Strait not open by July, per Reuters

@_InfoGram_ I actually kind of bought this one. Makes sense that the gulf states would want to avoid making themselves targets. Good rationale from the liars up top.

Yesterday, 🇺🇸 Trump — “I paused a U.S. strike on Iran because Gulf leaders asked for more time to negotiate.” Today, Gulf officials — “We didn’t know about any imminent U.S. attack.” Now even Trump’s allies are calling him the biggest liar alive. Absolute cinema 🤣🔥

@joekent16jan19 "Killing the Supreme Leader rallied the Iranian people around the regime. By also eliminating many moderate leaders"

The NYT article reveals that our military is telling President Trump what has been obvious from the onset of this war: there is no quick military solution in Iran and our early actions set the conditions for the stalemate we are in now. Trump’s best option is to declare victory and walk away now. Limit our exposure in the region, reduce the risk of Iran restarting the war on their terms, and reset negotiations with sanctions relief as both carrot and stick. The Iranians have adapted to our attacks. They can “win” simply by not losing. Future strikes will be less effective, cost us more in casualties, and further harden Iranian resolve. Killing the Supreme Leader rallied the Iranian people around the regime. By also eliminating many moderate leaders, we’ve left ourselves with mostly hardliners to negotiate with, who are unlikely to give Trump the concessions he’s demanding. Two lessons we should have learned in the GWOT: 1. If you stay within reach of the enemy, they will adapt and ultimately win the long war by grinding us down. Iran is doing this on a massive scale with ballistic missiles, air defenses, and drones—the same concept as IEDs, just more advanced. 2. Attacking a nation will rally the people around the regime we’re trying to overthrow, or around forces far worse. Regime change is a fool’s errand.

@ChristinaTasty The bane of millennial writing.

The issue with therapy speak is it can be used as a lazy way to tell the audience a character had flaws and are not infallible, but they're the protagonist and that it's okay to have flaws. Just like the audience! Meanwhile here, it's two actual characters talking to each other.

@maryarchived She's had so much publicity in the last two weeks. Why is someone behind the scenes turning up the "Hayden Panettiere" dial? No one gives a shit about any of this.

names or gtfo

@jackunheard All Trump has to do is take Iran's promise not to develop a nuclear weapon as a "win" and GTFO of the region. We've done enough economic damage and had enough damage done to our bases. Enough is enough. We still haven't even felt the effects yet, but this summer, we will.

JUST IN: Trump is heading to the White House Situation Room after warning the U.S. is prepared for a “full, large scale assault” on Iran if no deal is reached.

@JosephKahn I moved to LA in 2006 and I feel like I caught the tail end of something, but once we got to the 2010s there was definitely a vibe shift. Especially after Trump got elected. This town feels far more about politics and opposition than creativity.

The problem with LA is the "Everything's Fine" people. These are people that came to LA after its heyday and during its decline after the financial crash of 2008. The more recent the transplant, the less they are aware of what Los Angeles used to be. They have no idea all the areas that used to be lively, or that there was a world class music and night life scene. If you mention there weren't homeless people shitting on the streets everywhere, they call you a MAGA fascist because unhoused people have rights too and Everything's Fine. If you mention entire neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades did not burn down, they say you should not be blaming the mayor for the weather (which is controlled by global warming Republicans) and Everything's Fine. You can say it's really not normal for so many shops to be closed all over Los Angeles with empty storefronts, and they'll say something about equity and that Everything's Fine. The street vendors on sidewalks in front of KoreaTown restaurants that are shutting down? That's totally fine because that's LA culture (no it fucking isn't newbie). Crime? Everything's Fine. These theater kid transplants from Michigan say why are you complaining, move somewhere else. They don't know what they don't know. Then they drink a $20 Erewhon smoothie thinking that's the height of LA culture. Everything's Fine.

@ShadowofEzra I doubt it, but after 2020, do I really give a shit if he did?

Elon Musk’s “baby mama” Ashley St. Clair is accusing Elon Musk of rigging the 2024 election using lasers, satellites, and space technology. She says she has a dead man’s switch if anything happens to her. “In October, Elon told me he was ready to release his ‘anomaly in the matrix.’” “He said he has 10K lasers in space,” referring to his satellites. “This is not a piece they’ll see on the chess board.”

@ShawnDelta6 @zerohedge I eagerly anticipate another Truth social post timed right at market close.

@zerohedge 3 whole days from now lands this right on Friday… oh how convenient

*TRUMP: MIDEAST ASKED IF IRAN ATTACK COULD BE DELAYED 2 OR 3 DAYS *TRUMP, ON IRAN ATTACK PAUSE: COUNTRIES THINK DEAL IS CLOSE *TRUMP: IRAN HAS TO PUT THE NUCLEAR TERMS DOWN IN WRITING

@Justice_f1ghter @ME_Observer_ You're probably right. More stalling.

@ME_Observer_ The World Cup is coming and I guess Trump won't start the war again during it. So before of after it.

⚡️ Reminder / Trump, June 13, hours before the attack on Iran: "We remain committed to a diplomatic solution on the Iranian nuclear issue. My entire administration is focused on negotiating with Iran. Iran can be a great country, but first it must completely abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions."

@ramzpaul This would be funny if it wasn't so exhausting.

That is because Iran is BEGGING for a deal. But they only have two more weeks!

@Polymarket The amounts of shit Iran has about appeasing our demands is pretty obvious. Enough stalling, it's go time.

JUST IN: U.S. source reportedly tells Al Jazeera Iran has “days, not weeks” to deliver a viable proposal.

@BarakRavid It's been a month+ of stalling. This shit is not getting resolved with talking until things go kinetic again.

Senior U.S. official: "It's time for the Iranians to throw bit of candy out. We need some real, sturdy, and granular conversation [regarding the nuclear program]. If that's not gonna happen, we will have a conversation through bombs, which will be a shame"

@spencerpratt I'm in a city just outside LA, but I would totally vote for you if I could.

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down

@MarioNawfal "And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches." Yet everyone isn't watching movies as much as they used to, which is where AI will become the great equalizer, because there are people shut out of entertainment who could otherwise make a creative difference.

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear. And he said it without being anti-AI. Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected. Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet. The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA. And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked. Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product. The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches. What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it. Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next. Those are different jobs.

@TylerDuprey @TheLaurenChen Yeah, they didn't ask the right question. It's not people pairing up based on averages, it's the 4'11" girl who won't date a dude who's 5'6".

@TheLaurenChen That’s a decent acceptance rate. What is everyone complaining about?

Regarding height preferences in dating: 92% of men say they would accept the modal US woman (5'4) 71% of women say they would accept the modal US man (5'9)

@itslinklauren Mate suppression.

As I’ve said, she tells her audience to be promiscuous and have sex with strangers. Meanwhile, she’s living the white picket fence dream with a traditional family. She needs the young girls who follow her to stay single and immature, otherwise her entire business model collapses. She’s a fraud.

@LauraPowellEsq "There’s many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out" This is actually a terrifying statement. Republicans don't have this luxury and he can openly talk about how his side can deal with it while Republicans are shut out.

When asked about the possibility of ending up with two Republican candidates for governor and no Democrats, Gavin Newsom responded: “We all have agencies. We can shape the future… I don’t anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a ‘break the glass scenario.’ There’s many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out, and we’re going to do everything to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’ll leave it there.” It would be nice if he gave a hint about what lengths he intends to go to in order to ensure a Democrat wins. 🤨

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