Raphael 🥥🌴

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Raphael 🥥🌴

Raphael 🥥🌴

@ctrleeks

i’m deadly serious

🇺🇸 Katılım Temmuz 2024
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Jeet Heer
Jeet Heer@HeerJeet·
@PaulHChadwick No need to minimize or apologize for Russia -- it's a horrible regime that is committing war crimes. But the overwhelming source of Trump's corruption is Middle East (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel). Focusing on Russia helped avoid this fact.
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Raphael 🥥🌴@ctrleeks·
@_almagesto_ @MegaMogwai it would make sense to have haunter ramp similar to ivysaur. though it would be darkness type so it wouldn’t work with other gengar builds
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Almagesto
Almagesto@_almagesto_·
@MegaMogwai I hope some ramping ability for Gastly or Haunter. If not, Mega Gengar will be in a rought spot.
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Raphael 🥥🌴@ctrleeks·
if only there was some way we could have avoided this
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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Lakshya Jain
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17·
Color me shocked that the Very Online Candidate with no experience and no real campaign strategy beyond "get likes on the internet" ended up losing a Democratic primary to the incumbent mayor of Evanston, Illinois.
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moses hess
moses hess@moseshessstan·
There are two types of Israeli settlers, the first is the modern orthodox type, they move to the West Bank in a suburb that looks like America, with cheap housing that's on land that will most likely go to Israel in a 2 state deal. The second type is the hilltop youth who look like idiots, attack innocent Palestinians, live in caravans, and or isolated settlements on land that will most likely be Palestinian in a 2SS. People think all settlers are the latter that live in the former.
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Raphael 🥥🌴
Raphael 🥥🌴@ctrleeks·
I hear the word founder and I recoil
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Raphael 🥥🌴
Raphael 🥥🌴@ctrleeks·
I can’t find the original bucsune miku in my camera roll so the santa hat is staying
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Raphael 🥥🌴@ctrleeks·
I don’t get why people are treating a half-assed robo call two days before the election as a resounding endorsement
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