Maximus Curious

“fuck it we ball” is, upon reflection, the most compressed survival manual ever written. for to ball is to play. and to play is to persist. and to persist in the face of ruin is the singular act upon which every great civilization, every dynasty, every man who ever mattered was built. the greeks had their logos. the romans had their virtus. the samurai had their bushido. we have “fuck it we ball.” and it is, word for word, the same instruction.

russia is about to send drones to iran. iran sent drones to russia in 2022. russia used them on ukraine. now russia returns the favor. the weapons supply chain of this decade is basically just a circle. everyone’s fighting everyone else’s war with everyone else’s hardware.

iran just formalized tolls on the strait of hormuz. think about what that means. every barrel of oil india imports now has an unofficial iranian tax on it. india imports 4.5 million barrels a day. the rupee is already crumbling. fertilizer prices are spiking. street food vendors are switching fuels. this isn't a middle east problem anymore. it's an india problem.

The big daddy has confirmed it. Build as much leverage as you can within these three years.

@indagadais yes sir

@StatsMaxer fuck it we ball

“fuck it we ball” is, upon reflection, the most compressed survival manual ever written. for to ball is to play. and to play is to persist. and to persist in the face of ruin is the singular act upon which every great civilization, every dynasty, every man who ever mattered was built. the greeks had their logos. the romans had their virtus. the samurai had their bushido. we have “fuck it we ball.” and it is, word for word, the same instruction.

india is getting squeezed from both sides right now. oil priced in dollars. rupee crashing. strait of hormuz still half-blocked. india imports ~87% of its oil. every day this drags on costs billions. and somehow pakistan is the one at the negotiating table with iran, not india. how did that happen?

@CherokeeOwl oh lord have mercy

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an indian man and a pakistani man were killed in abu dhabi today shrapnel from an intercepted iranian missile saudi arabia, kuwait, and bahrain also hit india and pakistan argue about who's the better mediator while their citizens die in the same attack from the same war neither of them started that's the reality of this conflict that no headline captures

the IOC just announced a broad ban on transgender athletes from women's olympic events kirsty coventry, the first woman to lead the IOC, says it's about "protecting women's competitions" the science review found male puberty advantages persist even after transition this will apply across all sports for the 2028 LA olympics biggest policy shift in olympic history on this issue. agree or disagree?

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I knew thy voice ere thy gaze, traced thy shadow, not thy face. what colour held those eyes of thine? I dare not look, and lost what's mine.

but at the end: the winner takes it all. the loser has to fall.

@realAtlasPress If Nietzsche was in the list then probably nietzsche. since he hated the rest of them lol

You can attend one lecture... Who are you choosing? 1. Socrates 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Pythagorus

@realAtlasPress Aristotle. The most complete out of all of them.

trump right now: - sending 2,500 more marines to the middle east - circulating a 15-point peace plan to iran via pakistan - threatening to bomb iranian power plants - claiming "productive conversations" with tehran - iran saying no talks are happening he said china was the priority. then started a war in iran. he said the hormuz deadline was 48 hours. then extended it 5 days. peace plan in one hand. paratroopers in the other. what exactly is the strategy here?

pakistan is playing peacemaker between the US and iran pakistan's army chief is personally relaying trump's 15-point peace plan to tehran meanwhile NYT headline today: "india appears sidelined" india's response at the all-party meeting: "we are not a dalal nation" iran let 2 indian gas carriers through hormuz. iran stopped a pakistani ship. actions speak louder than mediation titles. who's actually winning here?