Chris McGeehan 💙

Yeah I'm done with the misogynistic paedophile's hell site. Byeeeee

@kinginvestings You get a partial refund. It just comes in the form of your premium being lower.

Car insurance logic is wild. No accidents. No tickets. No claims. and you still pay full price every year. Safe drivers deserve partial refunds.

@carin__fischer @smuazshah @Microinteracti1 Trusting that Russia doesn't have designs on areas beyond Ukraine would be idiotic. And Ukraine should now join NATO after Russia broke all their previous promises and invaded them, to avoid it happening again.

I think the war will be over once a compromise is reached and NATO stops having designs on Ukraine. It's a complicated history. The US broke all the promises it had made to Russia in the 90s. I don't believe Russia has any designs on areas beyond Ukraine. But no longer relying on the US for back up is a good idea..

Trump says U.S. 'absolutely needs' Greenland Trump saying the US “absolutely needs” Greenland is not just reckless rhetoric. It is a warning signal. If the United States even attempts to coerce or annex territory from a NATO ally, it would trigger one of the most severe self inflicted economic shocks in modern American history. This is why it is genuinely frightening. The moment the US crosses that line allies would immediately reassess exposure to the dollar, US debt, and American markets. Treasury yields would spike as foreign buyers pull back. The dollar’s reserve status would be replaced because the US would have proven it is no longer a predictable rules based actor. Sanctions would not be symbolic. Europe, Canada, and others would be forced to respond economically. Supply chains would fracture. Defense cooperation would freeze. US companies would face retaliation, regulatory barriers, and capital flight. Insurance, shipping, and energy markets would price in permanent geopolitical risk tied specifically to the United States. And here’s the part MAGA strategists do not understand: America’s economic power is based on intimidation. That borders matter. That alliances matter. Break that, and the US does not become stronger. It becomes radioactive. Annexation talk is not “strength.” It is the geopolitical equivalent of lighting a match in a room full of gasoline. The fire would not start in Greenland. It would start in bond markets, currency markets, and global trade. And once that confidence is gone, no amount of flags or slogans will bring it back. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@__tommyFR__ @MichaelShurkin We could replace every single US tech company product.

@MichaelShurkin The US knows we don't have the means to replace US tech so this is just bluffing

This is the kind of threat Europeans should be making re: Greenland.

@PressingDaily @GnosisWolf It's not that though. It's the company demanding riskier and riskier stunts in order to maintain relevance and keep paying those people.

@GnosisWolf “You know I just woke up and decided to increase my chance of dying today” -Redbull athletes

Well, this is just plum crazy!! 🤔🤯🤪 Does Willy Wonka run that company?

@elcidtango86 @MetalHedgeFella @Microinteracti1 You can't fight fucking Canada bro. All of the geographical advantages the USA has and that's the one weak point and you think you'd steamroller them. It's delulu.

@MetalHedgeFella @Microinteracti1 And we will roll Abrams main battle tanks through your cesspool cities. You will do as you are told or you will be annexed but hey try us and see, dipwad.

@ShaunKay544514 @Joncue5 @Microinteracti1 Which would simply be ignored by the rest of NATO.

@Joncue5 @Microinteracti1 And America would veto it.

@smuazshah @Microinteracti1 @carin__fischer No there would be a number of legitimate responses less than war. We absolutely should continue supporting Ukraine hard even if the US annexes Greenland, perhaps even more so to secure our eastern border quicker and then switch focus from Russia to the US.

@Microinteracti1 @carin__fischer I dont think people understand- war is the only legitimate response to such brazen threats and instead of wasting time in Ukraine, EU should be securing its borders from the United States!

@GenocideReaper7 @EuropeanPan We burnt Washington before we could do it again if you want. It'd be dumb for all of us though.

@EuropeanPan Quick question lefty, what's it been like spending your days defending socialism only for it to lead to your enslavement and being so weak, if the last free nation on Earth wanted to take the land your overlords own, you couldn't stop it?

Sacrificing parts of European civilization to daddy Trump just to own the "the eUrOcRatS" is the most retarded self-flagellating take I've seen today.

@FreeAndyT @NitrocelluloseD @FUDdaily I own a property built in 1874 and it’s a piece of shit. Assuming the entire street is of a similar quality, the whole lot should be demolished and replaced. Generally our building regulations are better now than ever. Some old stuff is survivorship bias.

@NitrocelluloseD @FUDdaily Yes makes complete sense when looking at infrastructure When it comes to buildings, however, the main issue is we no longer build durably We use cheap materials, installed badly, by under skilled people who have no craftsmanship or pride, no substance to anything, no foresight

Britain's propensity for pettifogging rules is often exasperating, especially when it comes to building infrastructure. Everything is made a little slower and costs a lot more. But it's also at the core of who we are and why Britain has been the great civilizing force in the world. It is not innate to the species. I noted this on a trip to Kuala Lumpur once. Great highways are built into the city with no corresponding pavements or pedestrian infrastructure. Walking into the city from a suburb is an obstacle course, and all but impossible for the partially sighted. One thing I noted was the absence of basic planning enforcement. Small businesses pop up on the side of roads, and owners take it upon themselves to install concrete ramps up from the road to their premises. That means when it rains, all the water is diverted out from the gutter and into the middle of the road. Every rainstorm sees the roads flooded and traffic brought to a standstill. Pools of standing water in ditches become breeding grounds for mosquitos. This could be averted with intermittent inspections and fines, but this kind of work is not done at all - just as there is no real regulation of street food vendors. Food safety regulation is virtually non-existent. Out of curiosity, I ended up down a particular rabbit hole looking at Malaysian food safety incidents. There was one major case of salmonella traced to street food vendors because the ice they put in their cola came form a fish processing warehouse. Building regulation also has little attention. It is a regular occurrence for buildings to burn down with occupants trapped inside because fire exits have either been bricked up or locked. As to construction standards, virtually nothing built outside of the central business district will last more than fifty years - especially if built with Chinese steel. Even worse, though, is India, where residential apartment blocks are built without any connection to mains sewerage. Effluent just runs out into the streets. When it comes to roadworks, contractors can simply dig a hole without regard to existing under-street infrastructure and will often leave it unattended for weeks. Generally speaking, this doesn't happen in Britain. We all complain about potholes but Brits don't really know how good we have it. Even today we build infrastructure in the expectation it will still be around in a hundred years. Meanwhile, Chinese motorway bridges bult less than twenty years ago are close to collapse. And speaking of China, it is a country with absolutely no regard to material safety or construction longevity. Everything is a façade. While China has made superficial cosmetic advances in civil engineering, little of it will last the test of time. It's all for show. One can't help but notice that countries that don't have or enforce these kind of rules tend to also be the most corrupt places on earth. It is the fundamental reason why poor countries stay poor. There is no concept of the public good. This is especially true of China and India where pollution controls simply do not exist and there is no penalty for dumping rubbish and toxic waste into rivers. As such there's a reason the phrase "import the third world, become the third world" exists. Third world psychology is profoundly different. Any notion of considering the impact of ones own actions upon others and the immediate environment is a wholly alien concept. There's a reason Pakistani areas in Britain are litter strewn slums. The pollution they create is always someone else's problem, and if we didn't already have established public sanitation systems, they wouldn't bother to create them. There's a reason they enjoy a certain entrepreneurial advantage over natives and that's because they consider the rules of the system to be entirely optional. They will only obey rules where there is a probability of being caught. This is also why high trust societies, where observance of the law is the norm, end up having to increase spending on enforcement when there's a large intake of third worlders. This is why I constantly bang the drum about local enforcement. If we were properly enforcing food safety rules, building regulations, environmental regulations and planning rules we would remove the competitive advantage migrants enjoy by being rule breakers. These rules may cause irritation to the law abiding, who very often have to fork out extra just to do something as basic and building a conservatory, but these are the rules that make a functioning society tick. This is also how you can tell when a society is in decline. A declining society will have generous welfare programmes but will gut local authority enforcement, and turns a blind eye to the slow rot until the decay is normalised. Much the same can be said of crime. The moment you go easy on shoplifting, the entire social contract falls apart. We were able to observe the decline of a Western civilisation in real-time by looking at South Africa, which abandoned enforcement of property rights, and casually allows anyone to tap directly into water and electricity mains to steal utilities. Elsewhere in Africa, anythign that isn't under armed guard is stolen. Railways are ripped up, copper is stripped from telecoms masts and electricity substations and nobody bothers to maintain roads. Without the civilizing instincts of Westerners and their rules and regulations, society very rapidly falls apart. When you import third worders on a large scale you essentially import that cancer. A very recent example is the wholesale plunder of the American welfare system by Somalians. The system is contingent on a basic moral code which simply doesn't exist among primitives. The family and tribe comes first. There is no concept of national collective. High trust Western societies exist to be plundered. Any obligation to contribute is also an alien concept. But this is why I'm also hugely sceptical of right wing libertarians who want to rip up regulations and cut the size of government. Tory "austerity" massively diminished local authority headcounts to the extent that basic civic administration is all but abandoned, and they closed the courts to save a few quid. What you have now is dereliction, squalor and a sense of impunity. It may have saved a few quid so far as the bean counters are concerned, but the cost to society is incalculable. You might save a few quid by making some environmental health officers redundant but what you get is streets infested with rats. The bottom line is that a functioning civilisation depends on rules (and enforcement of those rules), and a public that instinctively understands the benefit of them. The advanced civilisation we live in today (and take for granted) took hundreds of years of development - but it can all be pissed away in a generation. We're seeing the beginnings of this in Britain. We see ever expanding government doing more of what it shouldn't to buy off voter cohorts and less of what it should in order to maintain civilisation. We abandon bin collection to bump public sector pensions and salaries, while libertarian ideologues delete government departments they don't understand (or are not affected by their absence). Each turn of the two party system is equally destructive. In both instances it comes down to one basic premise. We have lost sight of what government is actually for. Until we can agree on a satisfactory answer, we will continue to decline.

@Ranjit61416017 @FUDdaily Zoning generally is worse than the UK’s planning system. There’s many videos from US creators about the flaws of zoning.

@FUDdaily You can have better regulations such as those of Japan where they have a zoning system instead of the planning permission system that stifles new construction

@sandygrains @inquisitivesprt Yes it is actually.

@inquisitivesprt I don’t disagree, but citizens reporting on each other is never a good idea

Techbros always creating tools to share more data with the police. Like, they could do this for bad infra, police breaking rules, any physical civil problem that could help traffic, but they’d rather surveil fellow citizens rushing for who knows what emergency or 10 min delivery.

Launching superconducting magnets into space to protect the Earth from Carrington-scale solar storm events is actually a necessary requirement to Kardashev. Far more dangerous than asteroids we can see coming. These can come with ~30 min warning. All electronics destroyed.

@hecate40 @esrtweet Breaking norms that benefit you too does not make your neighbourhood safe and prosperous.

Ultimately a great power will do as it seas fit and no one can stop them. Acting from a sense of enlightened self interest is always helpful. It is in our best interest to make our neighborhood safe and prosperous. Anyone having kittens over it can try to come after us, but they arenot that dumb.

Since there's a lot of screaming about the legality of black-bagging Nicolas Maduro going on, let's talk about the game theory of international law. Before I do that, though, I'm going to acknowledge that the Trump administration's legal posture doesn't even implicate international law significantly. Their theory is that Maduro stole an election, is not the legitimate head of state of Venezuela, and is a criminal drug-cartel leader; universal jurisdiction applies. This is why a photograph of Maduro restrained by a soldier wearing a DEA patch was released. I'm not here to state a position on whether that legal posture is valid; I want to instead outline a game theory of the "rules-based international order", which people are complaining has been violated because the US black-bagged a head of state. There are two different ways to establish a framework of governing law. Most people only understand one of them, which is the imposition of law by a ruler or coalition with force dominance. I'll call this "unitary law". The other mechanism is mostly only understood by a handful of libertarians; it is law as a violence-minimizing equilibrium among a number of roughly equal agents playing an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. In such settings, cooperation evolves naturally and doesn't have to be handed down by a single ruler or coalition. I'll call this "IPD law". "International law" is enforced by an uneasy combination of both mechanisms. This is more difficult to see than it should be because there's also a lot of air and bullshit around "international law", bullshit consisting mostly of wordcels trying to cast magic spells on people with guns. The air and bullshit is why it's common to say that international law is a mirage, or a fraud that only serves the interests of the strongest powers. This isn't true: what is true is that if an international norm is not sustained by being a stable strategy in an IPD game, only force majeure by a dominant power or coalition can uphold it. Here's an example of a moral good that was established by unitary law of nations: the general abolition of chattel slavery, which happened because a dominant coalition of Western nations said "Fuck your sovereignty, we're no longer tolerating this anywhere our militaries can reach." Here's an example of a moral good that was accomplished by IPD law of nations: generally humane treatment of prisoners of war in armed conflicts. This didn't develop because great powers unilaterally said "stop doing that", it happened because even a great power at war with a minor one is exposed to effective tit-for-tat retaliation if it abuses POWs. If you want to understand "international law", you need to be able to disentangle three different things that claim to be international law: unitary law imposed by great powers, IPD law enforced by the threat of pain-inducing defections in an international tit-for-tat game, and wordcel bullshit. The thing to bear in mind is just because there's a lot of wordcel bullshit going around in "international law" doesn't mean there isn't a reality underneath.

@mrmarek_ @NightKingV2 @mysk_co It is. It's edutainment. Duolingo's goal is to get you to keep using Duolingo, it is not at all the best, most effective or quickest way to learn a language.

@NightKingV2 @mysk_co not true

Duolingo's iOS app collects various device signals and identifiers to track users, including battery level, keyboard languages, and system uptime. It's a privacy-invasive app, so never install their native app. Instead, use their web app in a private browser like Brave or Psylo

@David387448 @wontbeurdrug @fxingalx That's the one.

@cjeam @wontbeurdrug @fxingalx

a girl just turning freshly 18 and working up $2m in one day the second she made an OF is truly dystopian. such a pedophilic society we live in

@ProlifeLowlife @ufc_asdf @The_RichT @kingkapoor72 @metpoliceuk @GBNEWS @SkyNews @MayorofLondon @Keir_Starmer These are really self-defence laws, you just want to be able to carry weapons around, which we aren't going to allow sorry.

@cjeam @ufc_asdf @The_RichT @kingkapoor72 @metpoliceuk @GBNEWS @SkyNews @MayorofLondon @Keir_Starmer That’s really effective against a criminal that has a machete or even a gun 😒 I’d rather not rely on bringing a broom to a knife/gun fight. Criminals obviously don’t care about weapons laws, sure you see how law abiding citizens are disadvantaged by not being able to prepare

Shame on you, @metpoliceuk. I insisted that you visit my property, but you refused. Now my home has been attacked again twice in the span of one hour. What are you waiting for? @GBNEWS @SkyNews @MayorofLondon @Keir_Starmer

@khuilonumbers @Tomthescribe I don't think whether your plan succeeds or not can determine if it's more or less moral. That seems a bit "everything's legal if you don't get caught".

@Tomthescribe I have to listen to people justifying russia invasion of Ukraine saying how "humane" it was because the civilian victims were less than Iraq or Gaza (nevermind Ukraine is the one trying to protect them and not russia) By the own logic, the US Venezuela SMO was superb

@Coketart69 @GameRoll_ @EFCevie I've heard the same. I've heard groups run the gamut from carefully working with prosecutors and police to get safe convictions, all the way to those run by abusers trying to deflect from their own guilt.

@GameRoll_ @EFCevie Just say your a Pedofile bro

i got called a pedo defender for saying these predator catcher channels don’t care about protecting victims and instead just want content to get engagement on, yet every time i see another video of them i get proven right.

@ipatrol6010 @CageFooName Which is why it's the wrong end to approach risk management from. Someone will always have a ciggy lighter on them and try to light the drapery on fire. The solution is to make the venue able to deal with that.

@CageFooName I mean, that would simply lead us back to the issue of "banning something does not stop it from happening"

This is going very small v viral and if it turns out I am wrong and it's already banned but they did it anyway I am in Big Internet Trouble