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@aswillandidea
On the right side of the decline. Watching it unfold & courteously dismantling delusions so you don't have to. You're welcome. Maybe.
Overseas Katılım Ocak 2025
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House now claiming Iran’s published 10-point plan is not the same document Trump called a “workable basis” for negotiations. Trump says there’s “only one group of meaningful points” the US will accept but won’t say what they are. To be discussed privately.
You’re lying!
Iran published its terms publicly, in full, the moment the ceasefire was announced. The US won’t show theirs. That’s a regime that got beaten, signed a deal it couldn’t sell to its Israeli boss, and is now proving once again it's agreement incapable. Just ask the Russians.
And on the question of credibility... who exactly is the less credible party here?
The country that declared Iran defeated 40 times in 40 days? That moved its own deadline six times? That has been non-agreement-capable on every major diplomatic commitment since the end of the Cold War — NATO expansion, JCPOA, Lebanon, Gaza, all of them?
Iran published its 10 points. Signed by the Supreme National Security Council. Released to the world. Between Tehran’s written public commitment and this White House’s secret undisclosed conditions — the credibility gap is a canyon. Iran has proven more credible.
Gerry Nolan@RealGerryNolan
🇮🇷🇱🇧 IRGC Air Force Moosavi: "An attack on Hezbollah is a proud attack on Iran... a heavy response (is being prepared) to the regime's brutal crimes.” Trump the apprentice needed this offramp like an oxygen mask (heavy breathing) and boss Bibi just sabotaged his already humilating offramp. The next offramp will come with harsher terms dictated by Iran. Iran will now hit the Epstein coalition even harder. With radioactive "friends" like Bibi who needs enemies but Trump has both...
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Can President Trump and his negotiating team use this reportedly Iranian 10-point plan as a “workable basis on which to negotiate?” And that “almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran?”
The gaps are planetary distances apart.
1. A binding guarantee that the U.S. and allies will not strike Iran again
2. A permanent end to hostilities, not just a temporary ceasefire
3. An end to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon
4. Full lifting of U.S. sanctions
5. Protection for Iran’s regional proxies and allied militias
6. Reopening the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian conditions
7. A transit fee reportedly around $2 million per ship, shared with Oman
8. Compensation or reconstruction support for war damage inside Iran
9. Recognition of Iran’s regional security interests.
10. A broader framework for long-term negotiations without immediate surrender of core strategic capabilities
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If the regime is begging for time, it is because the regime desperately needs time.
The regime is militarily battered, facing the continued elimination of its leaders, and experiencing the destruction of the remaining economic lifelines that sustain its war-making capabilities and repression apparatus.
A two-week pause makes sense if it leads to terms that permanently strips away the regime’s ability to threaten America and the region—not another deal that preserves fatal flaws.
A deal only makes sense if it is followed by maximum support and maximum pressure campaigns to help the Iranian people to take back their country.
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LGBTQ elders and formerly homeless Manhattanites need seventh-floor studio apartments in one of the densest corners of the city. Let's build it on a park!
#MamdaniVsTheGarden
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
Did you know there are self-described “YIMBYs” who want to demolish this public park in a dense urban neighborhood and replace it with a government-subsidized elder care home?
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That's the little gem of green in Nolita!
A charming pocket park, enjoyed by students, locals, and wandering tourists who still believe Manhattan has breathing room.
Imagine surrendering it for the “deeply affordable” studio apartments (100+ vertically stacked + retail), for low-income seniors. Some units, of course, reserved for LGBTQ elders and formerly homeless Manhattanites.
Because obviously, what an elderly New Yorker needs most is a seventh-floor studio in one of the densest corners of the city. Elevator reliability optional, of course.
Let’s be clear: the “affordable and heavily subsidized” framing was the only politically palatable wrapper for this operation. What’s next - subsidized student dorms dropped straight into Central Park? With a community composting station for extra virtue?
#NolitaNIMBYs #MamdaniVsTheGarden
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Turns out wind doesn't fly planes, solar doesn't power ships, and batteries can't magically refill when geopolitics flips the switch.
All that transition theater left us exactly where we started: hostages to Middle East countries that don't care neither about democracy or about net-zero deadlines.
Energy security isn't a vibe. It's solid and real.
The panic after mere weeks of disruption isn't "proof we need more green." It's proof we got it all wrong.
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Imagine spending years virtue-signaling your way through green policies: banning drilling, gutting nuclear, taxing everything that moves, and lecturing the world about "ending our addiction to oil."
Then, after just a few weeks of actual war with one oil-rich country that incidentally funds terrorism, the entire system is on its knees.
What a glowing testament to green energy's resilience.
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@aswillandidea @atlanticesque Stop chip exports to this man's country immediately
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The year is 1500, I’m buying tulips from a Dutchman
The year is 1890, I’m buying tulips from a Dutchman
The year is 2026, I’m buying tulips from a Dutchman
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Europe, especially the Netherlands, accounts for the vast majority of the world's houseplant exports. The US has barely any exports, we're beaten by Canada. Climate maybe?
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Are you on team 'shoes off'?
Before you ask your guest to take off their shoes, lest they scratch your bespoke resin floor or introduce deadly germs - think twice. They might just write a scathing article about you.
Erika Sanzi@esanzi
Hosting an event or a party at your home and requiring that guests remove their shoes when they arrive is rude. And weird. And reveals an irrational concern over dirt and germs. If you insist on doing this, make sure the invitation includes a warning!
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Hosting an event or a party at your home and requiring that guests remove their shoes when they arrive is rude. And weird. And reveals an irrational concern over dirt and germs.
If you insist on doing this, make sure the invitation includes a warning!
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@Avonleebythesea Did he try to give some relatives away this winter
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Did you know that male elk have around 200 wives and they fight when another male elk comes in to try to take one of his ladies, but also when mating season is over and he has to get this herd through a long winter he tries to give them away. Anyway, I just learned this from my uncle while on a hike today 😅
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Breaking: Iran Surrenders!
(Terms and conditions apply)
More absurd than the Mexican standoff.
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Breaking: West Virginia has surpassed Italy and France in wealth metrics. Europeans are clearly devastated.
Tim Soret@timsoret
That gap is now so large that even Mississippi, America’s poorest state, is richer per citizen than France or Italy, and close to the UK. So our premise has been proven wrong. It’s time to change. I’m glad to see glimpses of a cultural 180, but it’s going to take decades.
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40 yrs ago, a French was 82% as rich as an American. Today it’s roughly half.
Why? The US proved that software, venture capital & tech scaling were the new engines of growth.
So America got Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI… and we didn’t.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
Europoor is an entirely accurate phrase. America is simply in a different league.
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@timsoret Yeah, who would want to go to Italy and France, seriously
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That gap is now so large that even Mississippi, America’s poorest state, is richer per citizen than France or Italy, and close to the UK.
So our premise has been proven wrong. It’s time to change. I’m glad to see glimpses of a cultural 180, but it’s going to take decades.
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Witzelsucht or Ernstsucht?
Depends which part of your head you use to stop the cupboard door.
Either way, your personality is permanently altered -though both come with their own… unique advantages.
GretchenInOK@GretchenInOK
WITZELSUCHT! I have FINALLY been diagnosed! (I am at my best/worst at funerals—unfortunately!)
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I have to admit, I initially assumed Witzelsucht was a notorious Wehrmacht regiment.
After some research, however, I’m relieved to confirm you were fortunate enough to have blocked that cupboard door with the correct brain hemisphere.
Had it been the opposite side, you might have developed a full case of ERNSTSUCHT, roughly equivalent to waking up with Vladimir Putin’s personality.
On the bright side, you would have been absolutely admirable at funerals.
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WITZELSUCHT!
I have FINALLY been diagnosed!
(I am at my best/worst at funerals—unfortunately!)
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Men's essential purchases - decisional process explained.
Spoiler: It will 100% 'pay for itself' in time.
#ToolAddiction #MenBeingMen
Thorstrike@rospigge60559
“Accidentally" bought two chainsaws today. One battery. One gasoline. At first I thought: “Alright… that’s a bit crazy.” Then it hit me: 👉 Redundancy. 👉 Different use cases. 👉 No single point of failure. One for convenience. One for when things actually matter. Funny how the same logic shows up everywhere: • Supply chains • Military systems • Energy policy • …and apparently my trunk Turns out it wasn’t an impulse buy. It was systems thinking.
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