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@Linahuaa @airkatakana What causes the back problems?

@airkatakana Friend of mine told me she had a classmate in middle school, who got pregnant twice between age 14-16 from different sugar daddies. She's been a single mom and already has chronic back problems

a 1996 survey found that 4.6% of japanese high schoolers in tokyo had engaged in “compensated dating” (≈ black market prostitution) there are ~3,000,000 high schoolers in japan, presumably half of which are female oomf is following 69,000 underage prostitutes

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

I’m still shocked that more people don’t know that this was designed in a 4chan thread in like 2013 to make a swastika when combined and inflame tensions by calling black people gay and then some person on tumblr took credit for it lmao

CIA: “We are investigating Tucker Carlson for foreign interference.”

My core social values: technological progress, prosperity, public order, cultural cohesion, individual greatness. Truth, beauty, power. Don’t lose sight of your ideals. Your enemies are not perfect anti-compasses.

@ArtemisConsort Would you support other forms of death penalties for the most horrific of offenders like draw and quartering?

Many liberals just don’t know the gritty details of what they’re talking about. I was a soft-on-crime guy when I was picturing a starving orphan stealing bread. When I learned that death-row criminals are mostly guilty of things like “raped a 72 year old woman to death” I stopped caring about their rights or feelings.

@policytensor America can lose a lot but they can’t win a lot, hence why the interests outside of Israel are tiny. No one in America cares about Iran

Actual US interests here are not tiny but massive. The US cannot afford to walk away now without subduing Iran. The petrodollar order, the whole world of the oil monarchies, and the entire US position in the Middle East will be wrecked irrevocably if it does.

They go to the gym around 10am-11:30am.

⛔️Israel is trying to remove the song "Boom Boom Tel Aviv" from the internet.‼️ ⛔️Share and like please 😉😊

life without " Iran this , Isarel that ... "

How do we explain this other than some kind of transmitted memory? There's no gene for "chase sheep but don't eat them"

@avidseries @MamboJambo85 Why is that the case? That’s insanely high

Pretty sure the net increase in female stem majors in the west compared to Iran since 1979 is higher. Even the self proclaimed I/Q ducks up sometimes.

Funny but unfortunately true.

The Fillmore Doctrine. Nothing new but yet another concise, distinguished, and distinctively American expression of classical international law—which is to modern “international law” as Bach to Jay-Z. Unfortunately, for America this ideal has rarely been more than aspirational

@MattWalshBlog @History__Speaks

So he's flat out telling us that we're in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.

We will not bow down to Iran. We will not be defeated. We will fight until the last American soldier has laid down their life for Israel.

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

Andrej Karpathy literally revealed why "perfect grades" are a waste of precious time:

Challenge: "Don't make antifascist propaganda that goes hard enough to double as fascist propaganda." Difficulty: "Impossible."