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Burgundy Fleming III
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Burgundy Fleming III
@Hippopompous
Technophilish bibliophile. Even-steven gourmet/gourmand.
Near a restaurant. Katılım Mart 2009
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Actress Laura Benanti got her ego bruised while boarding a plane when she ran into a group of teenagers from a theater program and none of them recognized her.
Her caption read: “I guess they weren’t alive to watch The Tonys in 2008.”
How many of you know her?
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"The deepest tenet of environmentalism is that the original sin of modern civilisation is the Industrial Revolution."
This is correct.
When I was on the BBC's Moral Maze, it completely threw me when Matthew Taylor, Blair's ex-policy chief, attacked the Industrial Revolution. I wasn't really expecting it because for me it is a central achievement of Britain's contribution to the advancement of humanity and civilisation.
It marked the moment we broke free from subsistence, scarcity, and the brute constraints of nature. It gave us mass prosperity, longer lives, modern medicine, sanitation, and the material foundations of everything we have taken for granted.
But what that exchange revealed is a deeper divide. For some, the Industrial Revolution is the root of our problems. For others, it is the reason we have the capacity to solve them at all.
If you start from the premise that industrial civilisation is the problem, then policies that constrain hydrocarbons and limit growth begin to look virtuous. If you start from the opposite premise, that human flourishing depends on abundant, reliable, high-density energy, then those same policies look reckless.
That is the real argument. Everything else is downstream of it.
Great piece from @RupertDarwall
mol.im/a/15699301
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@kurrild @helleib @Altingetdk Horribelt.
Gad vide om alle de nye/returnerede M-vælgere var klar over det?
Eller er de vitterligt bare ligeglade, så længe Løkke er i gang…?
Hvem ved - danske vælgere - generelt - virker fuldstændigt afmonterede fra virkeligheden disse dage…
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God klumme af @helleib
hos @Altingetdk om de igangværende regeringsforhandlinger.
Det ender nok med en S-SF-R-M model (og nogle vil mene, at det hele tiden har været meningen). altinget.dk/artikel/helle-…
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A bit of Japanese theater… it’s pretty cool to watch
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As a Biology PhD, I love seeing videos like this because they perfectly demonstrate the incredible, and sometimes terrifying, resilience of deep-sea biology! For everyone wondering, this is a Spotted Wolffish (Anarhichas minor), a species native to the freezing, benthic zones of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
What you are witnessing here is not some undead monster, but a fascinating involuntary neuromuscular reflex. Because these fish are ectothermic and live in extreme cold, their cellular metabolism is incredibly slow. This means that their muscle tissues and localized nerve arcs in the jaw can remain fully viable and reactive to touch long after the animal has been decapitated.
In their natural habitat, they use that astonishing bite force to crush thick-shelled prey like sea urchins, large crabs, and clams. They actually have massive crushing molars in the back of their throats specifically for this purpose! So, while it looks like a scene from a horror movie, it is simply a raw display of evolutionary jaw strength and cold-water neurology.
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On this day in 1981, the U.S. Army unveils the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle. Modelled on the 1976 GMC 26 Palm Beach line of motorhomes, it's fully equipped with machine guns, flame throwers and rocket launchers, along with a state of the art communications and navigation suite.
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Det siges, at man ikke kan sætte på formel, hvornår nogen er dansk.
Det kan jeg selvfølgelig godt. Her er den ultimative, perfekte og indiskutable skala for, hvornår man er dansk. 🤓
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Årets bil i Europa, bilen der skal sikre Mercedes📣
Danske bil journalister taler om bilen, som var den næsten den hellige gral.
Kunderne: Billig plast, og skøre tekniske løsninger kan altså købes for dyrt!
Den bil, er det bedste eksempel på, at nogle journalister er alt for billigt til salg.
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@uffegardel Er der noget Marco Rubio siger her, der ikke er sandt?
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@MBrgger En af dine største tilhængere, blandt mine bekendte, læser ikke bøger frivilligt.
Og selve ideen om at udstille dem i hjemmet fylder ham med væmmelse.
Men sådan er der så meget.
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Sjovt at man ikke ser så meget som skyggen af en bogreol eller læsende mennesker i Donald Trumps bibliotek, der snarere minder om et underholdningscenter for analfabeter.
Breaking911@Breaking911
🚨 NEW: President Trump has shared a video of the design for his Presidential Library in Miami!
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The people most committed to communism in the Soviet Union weren’t the workers—it was the educated elite.
A retrospective study conducted in the 1990s titled "Work Ethics and the Collapse of the Soviet System," examined which groups were most supportive of the Soviet system. The researchers found that, compared to factory workers and semi-skilled laborers, individuals in white-collar positions—especially those with higher levels of education—were significantly more likely to express loyalty to the Communist Party. In some cases, support was two to three times higher among elites.
In other words, the strongest support for the system came not from those at the bottom, but from those in relatively advantaged positions within it.
This runs counter to the common assumption that egalitarian or redistributive ideologies are primarily driven by the least well-off. In practice, they are often most strongly endorsed by people closer to the top of the social hierarchy—those who benefit from the system’s institutional structure, or who are positioned to navigate it successfully.
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@Bagginzes1 @zundamotisuki To be fair, you probably need to be able to distinguish between Chinese and Japanese tourists in the first place.
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@zundamotisuki To be fair, I’ve seen Japanese tourists in California do far worse.
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こう言った迷惑外国人観光客は日本から追放するべき
まともな外国人観光客は歓迎します
海外の友人よ、ぜひ日本に遊びにきてください
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Burgundy Fleming III retweetledi
The Strait of Hormuz matters a lot more to Europe than it does to the US
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Trump: “All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil. President DJT”
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@Hippopompous @ekwufinance Burgundy - you are correct, sir! But it does fire up debate and discussion, doesn't it? I'm heartened by the replies. Here's an article I wrote on the subject: pgcitizens.com/electricity-co…
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Little reminder: After Germany blew up their nuclear power plant cooling towers, last year they blew up one of their biggest coal power plants.
Right in time for the biggest energy crisis in history to hit…
The coal plant was:
- Only 6 years old
- Cost €3 billion
- Produced 1,650 MW
Germany is doing everything in its power to create a perpetual energy crisis.
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