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Privilege = (Power + Perques + Prestige) without Performance

@DeanAbbott The main character does his best to do right in an environment that is tarnished. Sometimes he bends the rules, but not his principles. It was unfortunately not continued past one season. I was not the only disappointed viewer.

@Red_Rabbit_001 Might look it up.

What's a really good mystery series I could watch that isn't super violent?

@TheBrancaShow It is definitely about China, but that doesn't mean it isn't about other things, too.

This is the correct answer. It's only about China. It has ALWAYS only been about China.

@DrEliDavid Americans don't play chess, or checkers; they play poker. Pretty good preparation.

Looks like only the American side are experienced in negotiations

@StockShaman It reminds me of this: nationalreview.com/corner/in-germ… Just when you think people have reached peak stupid, they surprise us all.

Canada has fallen.

@MarioNawfal I think it is likely that they can tie in a persons heartbeat as a confirmation signature to the existing locator technology, to be sure that the person they want to rescue is still alive, but as to what you are describing ... I have my doubts.

🇺🇸 The CIA’s new secret weapon, Ghost Murmur, changed the game. It uses quantum sensors made from synthetic diamonds + AI to lock onto a single person’s heartbeat from up to 40 miles away. Are they buried deep in a cave? Or a mountain? It doesn't matter. It'll find you. No radio signal. No heat signature. No escape. It was first used in April 2026 to find a downed U.S. airman in Iran when everything else failed. If your heart is beating… they will find you. Friend or foe. Insane leap in surveillance tech. The caves aren’t safe anymore. Source: NY Post, Lockheed Skunk Works, All Telly (YT)

Short of using nukes, the ultimate deterrent weapon of the Islamic Republic was the threat to close the Straits of Hormuz. They have exercised their doomsday option and now it transpires they have no map of the minefield. Though it caused economic hardship especially in Europe and Asia, the IR's ultimate weapon failed to bring down the world, could not prevent the destruction of its arsenal nor bring the Gulf states down to its knees. If the US Navy clears the Straits, and as is probable, the Islamic Republic comes to terms, the path may be clear for the revival of Lebanon, the full re-opening of the Red Sea and relative peace in Southwest Asia and the Levant.

@christopherrufo This is in the ballpark of the "one-time" billionaire asset tax. Getting rid of fraud would eliminate the need for this ridiculous tax.

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple senior HHS officials estimate that, under Gavin Newsom, California's state Medicaid program has lost 25 percent of its budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings.

Food for thought. In The Prince, Machiavelli teaches that a ruler’s first duty is to secure the state, even if that means speaking and acting in ways that shock polite society. He warns that “men in general judge more from appearances than from reality,” and that a successful prince must be judged on the effects of his words, not on whether they conform to genteel norms. Trump’s recent language toward the Iranian regime is not a lapse of self‑control; it is a calculated act of deterrence aimed squarely at the leaders of a state‑sponsored terrorist apparatus. He is negotiating through intimidation, signalling resolve, ruthlessness, and a willingness either to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages” or to ensure that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in terms that pierce the bubble of diplomatic euphemism and force the IRGC command to reassess its risk tolerance. In that sense, Trump is acting far closer to Machiavelli’s prince than to a modern liberal statesman: he is willing to appear vulgar, even “unhinged,” if doing so strengthens the fear of his threats in the minds of his adversaries. What is striking is not that a leader dealing with such a regime would use this language, but that so many in the West seem genuinely unable, or unwilling, to recognize the strategy. They clutch their pearls about tone while ignoring the basic logic of coercive diplomacy: when you want to stop a hostile regime and its terrorist proxies from further escalation, you must shape their expectations, not placate your own commentariat. Machiavelli’s blunt counsel is that a prince must sometimes speak as both “man and beast,” combining law with the language of force to protect his people. One is left wondering whether our political and media classes have forgotten the oldest lessons of statecraft. Has no one read The Prince?

Argh! What an embarrasment for 🇨🇦!

@LokiJulianus Sounds like a solid business model. Create the perception of need, then be the first to fill it.

Kind of interesting how one “frontier AI lab” has branded itself as the “safety conscious one” while at the same time, there is a growing radicalization to ratchet people into “doing something” about unsafe AI development.

The plight of Indigenous Women in Canada is such a perfect example of how modern Leftist thought has no ability to think past 1st order effects and why its all about feeling virtuous over actually solving problems. We often hear about "murdered and missing indigenous women" and how they get killed at much higher rates than other Canadians, and that these women rarely get justice. The subtext is always that, somehow, the reason for this injustice is some mix of "colonization", "the patriarchy " or "white supremacy". We often hear how bad society is because of this, and how we need to "do better", "check our privilege", and that this is somehow a failing of all of society. Now at the same time, there has long been a push to address indigenous overrepresenation in prisons, and the solution the Leftists have landed on is the Gladue Rule becoming embedded in the justice system, which requires the court to consider the effects of residential schooling, racism and other factors when deciding sentencing on indigenous ppl found guilty of crimes. In theory, this could be considered an admirable attempt. In practice, what it means is simply that indigenous ppl who commit crimes will almost always be sentenced to significantly less time than anyone else. But heres the kicker; between 70-80% of murdered and missing indigenous women are killed by Indigenous men. And then these men are giving ridiculously light sentencing BECAUSE they're indigenous, denying the victims justice. The Crown in this story asked for 16 years for this man shooting his wife in her sleep. He was given 6 years, he'll serve 3. So the injustice against Indigenous women is in large part CAUSED by Leftist attempt to address it. Its a classic example of modern Leftism being so far up their own asses they're pontificating to the rest of society about a problem that THEY THEMSELVES are causing. Modern Leftism is not capable of solving actual social problems, it's simply a way for privileged bourgeoisie white liberals to virtue signal about their moral goodness at cocktail parties while the marginalized ppl they claim to champion continue to bear the brunt of their shallow and superficial political activism.

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@thinkingwest Anything by David Macaulay

If you read books like this as a kid, let’s be friends

@TheLastRefuge2 He made a terrible error and now he is paying. Is he going over the top to make the game obvious?

I'm sorry this is happening to you.

@SharylAttkisson Nutella-filled bomboloni. 🧑‍🍳🤌

Do you like Nutella? Elaborate.

@flatbush711 I wonder about the time window involved in this exercise. Is it decades?

Once again Trump was fully briefed and.........Does Nothing🤨 twitter.com/TheSCIF/status…

Human nature does not change. For this reason, history is the most dangerous area of study.

@catturd2 He is compromised.

He’s insane.

@QuintusCurtius Despite technological transformations over the ages, there are men (and some women) who are able to recognize and shape the moment.

One of the biggest lies of historical studies is the idea implanted in students' heads that character and personality in history matter hardly at all, and that the course of history is determined by vague, abstract, "forces" or "currents." Such a view removes the idea of agency from historical experience. It encourages passivity, cowardice, and inaction. It demeans the concepts of heroism and virtue. Things in history happen because men make them happen.