Mr Lu

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Mr Lu

Mr Lu

@MrLu888

"People DO respond to incentives." (Freakonomics)

Central & Western District Katılım Ekim 2017
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Cred
Cred@CryptoCred·
TechnicalRoundup is back. DonAlt and I have been trading crypto for 9+ years and have been doing some version of this show on and off for around 5 years (mostly off, sorry). It's fun and different: lots of crypto history, PTSD trading memories, and occasionally useful trading insights. I like to think of it as the perfect show to listen to while you wait for your AI to finish its output. Thanks to @krakenfx for hooking us up. youtu.be/2aWyTKw-V84
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@cermak Ocividne se neptali sousedu ani v referendu, zda obcane tohoto mesta souhlasi s vystavbou neceho, co jim narusi jejich vyhled .. jinak si neumim vysvetlit, ze tam dakali postavit tak pekny barak. 🤔
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@sciencegirl I really wonder which flight flies so close 🤔
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
Aerial glimpse of Mount Kailash from an airplane window
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@TheFP @Kasparov63 Such acknowledgment would be result of RATIONAL and ADULT mental analysis. Trump is self-absorbed narcissist and deranged psycho. He does not analyse. By his own admission, he only hates. And he hates to guts. That’s why he will NEVER accept that anything good might come from UA
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The Free Press
The Free Press@TheFP·
As Russia helps Iran target Americans, the Ukrainians are coming to our aid. Yet the president doesn’t acknowledge their value as an ally, writes Elliott Abrams. thefp.com/p/trump-loves-…
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@DariaDvorakova @JaroslavBlek3 Presne. A kdyz clovek vidi ten demokraticky karneval neschopnosti, tak je mu jasne, ze Dems nejsou resenim, ale soucasti pbmu Otazka je, jestli dnes, kdy se spolecnost lame na tolika tematech, pouhe dve strany staci na to, aby reprezentovaly vsechny mozne smery a ideologie? 🤔
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Daria Dvořáková@DariaDvorakova·
@JaroslavBlek3 Kdyby se demokrate nechovali jako debilove a nenabizeli za sveho kandidata napul mrtveho cloveka, tak se to treba nemuselo stat.
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@AnnaFromUA_YT Respectfully disagree. As my grandpa used to say in 1980’:“Commies know there is one product which they must not touch: beer. When booze price increases, the regime will fall.” Ruzzia is land of booze, not principles or rights. And Ruzzians will only fight for right to vodka.
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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
ZELENSKYY to BBC: I believe that America is stronger with Europe. I believe that there's no NATO without America, and NATO doesn't exist without Europe. They should not argue who contributed more. This is not a competition. America and Europe are one civilized world with the same values. Any split in NATO will weaken both sides. We want to be allies with a strong NATO, where everyone respects one another and is ready to defend.
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@MOSSADil Well factically, he is not THAT wrong. Apart from killing few leaders and bombarding all those sites - supposedly “obliterated” in 2025 bombing 🤔 - WHAT ELSE has been achieved? Check this detailed thread on Hormuz: x.com/shanaka86/stat…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted. Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial. Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement. Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission. But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all. And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky. The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran. Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes. The strait is not closed. It is under new management. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Mossad Commentary
Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
DELUSIONAL DARIUS: "The coordinated operations between the resistance factions and the Iranian armed forces have led to placing the ‘American and Zionist’ enemies in a state of despair in the region and the occupied territories, and have stripped them of the initiative." Ok, time for bed, Darius.. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@MOSSADil Oh those magical Two Weeks 😂🤡
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Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
‼️ TRUMP: US will be “leaving” Iran “very soon,” says war could end in “two or three weeks,” possibly “within maybe two weeks — maybe a couple of days longer.” He insists Americans are “feeling a lot safer” because Iran “doesn’t have a nuclear weapon,” calling the war a necessary “detour.” On the Strait of Hormuz: other countries will have to “fend for themselves” — “we have nothing to do with that.” Trump claims the US has taken out dozens of Iran’s leaders and reiterates regime change occurred, while also saying it “wasn’t even his goal.” “We want to knock out every single thing they have now,” but “it’s possible that we’ll make a deal before that.” Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
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"I have a lot of powers to do things. We use the powers where appropriate. They're a little severe, and then people accuse me of being a king." -President Trump lol Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

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Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
‼️ Trump signals willingness to END Iran war even if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed, pushing the complex reopening effort to a later phase, per WSJ via officials.  Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
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ian bremmer@ianbremmer·
the corruption is staggering
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@Posledniskaut V kazdem rezimu a v kazde dobe se najdou tyhle oddane svazačky, ktere maji vyrazne vetsi ochotu verne slouzit nezli inteligenci.
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@atrupar Edit:”..paid for by the war on president’s fraud.”
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Aaron Rupar
Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Rep. Jodey Arrington: "We have a war on a nuclear Iran that could be paid for by the president's war on fraud"
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@MOSSADil nobody takes the Deranged Orange seriously anymore .. at the end, he will claim something along the lines that "Finally, opening the Hormuz Strait is a great result of the war, the greatest of all results of all wars!" - but the strait had been open before the war started...
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Mossad Commentary
Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
President Donald Trump stated that Iran had responded to the U.S. 15-point proposal, claiming Tehran had agreed to “most of the points” and had allowed multiple oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz as proof of seriousness in negotiations. Stay updated—follow @MOSSADil
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Brian Krassenstein
Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein·
Dictators in History: - Hitler – “The good of the state stands above the law.” - Mussolini – “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” - Napoleon Bonaparte – “I am the revolution.” - Francisco Franco – “I am responsible only to God and to history.” Trump: "He who saves his country does not violate any law"
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@MOSSADil Maybe a lesson from developments in Iraq, Arab spring, Afghanistan, Syriah, ..?
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Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
What would the downfall of the Iranian regime mean for the United States? 1. The end of the oppression of the Iranian people and the emergence of a nation that is educated, capable, and positioned to become a major ally of the West. 2. A strategic shift. Iran moves from being a central node in the anti-Western bloc alongside China, Russia, North Korea, and Venezuela… to potentially rejoining the Western world. 3. Disrupting global criminal networks. Iran and its proxies, especially Hezbollah, have long been linked to international crime and trafficking networks, including drug pipelines and illicit financing operations . 4. A more stable Middle East. Much of the region’s current instability is driven by Iran’s proxy network: Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and militias across Iraq and beyond. 5. Weakening the anti-Western coalition. The U.S. is preparing to spend over a trillion dollars on defense to counter a bloc led by China, Russia, and Iran. Remove Iran, the coalition’s most active and aggressive arm, and the entire structure is weakened. Bottom line: Iran is not just another adversary. It is the engine driving instability, proxy warfare, and global disruption. Remove that engine… and you don’t just change the Middle East. You strengthen America—and the entire Western world.
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@MOSSADil That is the amount of drones which Ukraine, on average day of Russian bombardment, has to intercept in like 20min, 24/7/365/5th year…
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Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil·
Bahrain Defense Force: We intercepted six Iranian drones today
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Mr Lu@MrLu888·
@GoreTiger64th @DonAlt “Invade Kharg” .. probably time to check the map not only for you but also for Trump. And check the latest known location of Russian navy: on the bottom of the Black sea. No way for US boats to get there.
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GoreTiger@GoreTiger64th·
Trump has more cards to play then Iran does. If the market was that much of an Issue in your situation, Trump would invade kharg and seize Iran's oil. He could approve Israel's plans to start an insurrection in the country. Or he can just keep bombing. The market will stabilize once the British-lead taskforce starts sweeping the strait.
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DonAlt@DonAlt·
The longer Iran waits with a peace deal the worse the markets get Which in turn will lead Trump to be more desperate Which in turn improves Irans negotiation position Looks like Trump is trying to TACO but they got him by the balls The more they wait the more they get
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