@Genetics56 1991 Washington is a pretty big miss.
I think last season’s Indiana would beat LSU. That Tiger team deserves respect for what it accomplished, but I’m not sure how all-time great it really was.
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Darin
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Kids these days don't know how good Nebraska 95 was.
Hot Take City 🤧🤧🥴🥴@HotTakeCity904
Do you agree??
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Great to join the No Kings protests in Shoreline and Edmonds today. It’s inspiring to see so many people peacefully standing up for our democracy. As long as I am Governor, Washington state will never bend the knee to Donald Trump.
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@GovBobFerguson So visionary to come up with the idea of making people who don’t want a thing pay for it anyway.
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Light rail now connects Seattle to the east side. Historic day!
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@jpnexpert @BrianMcDonaldIE Low wages and low cost of living is *usually* worse than the opposite. Places where people’s time is at a premium are the best places, if you’re a person.
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A low cost of living combined with low wages is often worse than higher wages paired with a proportionally higher cost of living. With low incomes, people struggle to afford even moderately priced imported goods, no matter how much they try to cut expenses. In contrast, those with higher wages have greater flexibility—they can reduce discretionary spending and still afford such items. For example, skipping a few luxuries each month may be enough for someone with a higher income to buy an iPhone. But for someone earning a low salary, even an entire month’s income may not be sufficient to purchase the same device even when the cost of living is very low.
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Nominal GDP is a terrible way to measure a state like Russia, and it's one of the reasons poorly informed Western pundits keep misreading the country.
On PPP, it’s the world's 4th largest economy (over $7 trillion) and bigger than Germany or Japan, with full-spectrum industrial capacity. That’s not a "middle power."
Russia can build nuclear submarines, icebreakers and nuclear power plants, launch people into space, produce advanced weapons, export energy at scale and, perhaps most crucially, feed and fuel itself.
Italy can’t.
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
'great powers, including China, Russia, and the United States'. Russia is not close to being a great power - it's economy is smaller than Italy's. What differentiates it from middle powers like Italy is its willingness to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its people in imperial wars, and Russians' willingness to be sacrificed. Comparing Russia to the two superpowers is common, but it is a category error of epic proportions.
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@jpnexpert @BrianMcDonaldIE Because its productivity is low and Norway’s is high.
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Not necessarily—and that’s the point. A country can have high levels of investment, strong productivity, and significant consumption outside its borders. It can produce a wide range of goods through highly automated factories aimed primarily at overseas markets. Likewise, a country may possess abundant natural resources and strong defense industries, yet still maintain relatively low wages, as seen in Russia.
The real question, then, is why Russia’s GDP per capita is not closer to that of Norway and other Scandinavian countries.
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@jpnexpert @BrianMcDonaldIE Capital investment is the cause of
productivity is the cause of
wages is the cause of
consumption.
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If Russia’s productivity is considered low, just imagine the productivity levels in most other countries. While the relationship is not exact, median wages are often roughly about half of GDP per capita. This means that unless wages rise, a country is unlikely to achieve a higher GDP per capita. Of course, the relationship is more complex in reality. Still, countries with higher wages tend to have higher GDP per capita, as stronger wages support greater consumption and, in turn, higher overall economic activity.
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@PattyMurray Dear Patty: Your mental decline seems to think raising minimum wage for home care workers and you not having to participate in Medicare is lowering American taxpayer costs! DO YOUR JOB, fully fund DHS and pass the SAVE America act!!! ❤️🇺🇸
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Republicans will talk all day long about their voter suppression bill and fake voter fraud—but they won't say a thing about how they'll actually lower your costs.
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@SenatorCantwell @SoundTransit An extraordinary assembly of mediocrities.
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The completion of @SoundTransit light rail across Lake Washington is a historic moment for the region. And just in time for the World Cup! This expanded service will integrate Seattle with the Eastside. In 40 minutes, commuters will be able to get from downtown Seattle to a job in Redmond and it will provide an affordable traffic-free option for getting to the airport or future Sonics games. The economy of the Puget Sound is bigger than the economies of 36 entire states – expanded light rail will help ensure it remains a place where people want to live, innovate, and work into the future.
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Who is the first person you think of when you think of Illinois football?
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@beau_throws @Steve_Sailer it’s a thing now. Javelin is no longer dominated by the Nordic types.
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Huge! Another Asian javelin thrower right at 90m!
Owen@_OwenM_
NATIONAL RECORD!!!!!! 🚀 Rumesh Tharanga 🇱🇰 launched the javelin to 89.37m at the Champions Meet in Sri Lanka. He moves into the top 30 on the world all-time list. 🎥 Sihath Abeyrathne (IG)
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@BrianMcDonaldIE @jpnexpert Controlling for cost of living kind of begs the question.
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@jpnexpert According to the IMF, Russia average official incomes are pretty much in line with the Eastern European average, when adjusted for the cost of living.
And that data excludes the vast shadow economy.
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@jpnexpert @BrianMcDonaldIE Russian wages are low because Russian productivity is low, which is low because who would invest capital in Russia?
Right?
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@BrianMcDonaldIE Russia’s GDP is low because of low wages. Not sure why they have kept wages so low when many barely useful countries in Europe have higher wages.
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@Ed_Realist Hm. I’m missing something.
It sounds like you’re agreeing with the thesis that men need purpose. But “big if true” suggests both surprise and skepticism.
Or…were you being ironic? That’s easy to miss.
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@darin4really Um, you should look up what "big if true" means.
Also, do let me know when men didn't flounder if they didn't have jobs, women or purpose.
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"Men without work, purpose or a family to provide for tend to flounder."
hahahaha.
Big if true.
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
"A sobering new report on young men in America makes it plain: Men without work, purpose or a family to provide for tend to flounder. And when men flounder, they don’t suffer alone. The women in their lives suffer. Their communities suffer. The wreckage is shared." @Deseret
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@DUDEtheLesser @darin4really @TheJazzTiger @CinemaTweets1 Actually only 4 or 5 of the films really reflected the books they were made after.
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Daniel Craig is the best James Bond ever. Enough time has passed. Sean Connery is second, but don’t get too nostalgic: all of Craig’s Bond films were hits, some more than others, but Craig never made a bad Bond film. That includes Skyfall- the best James Bond film ever made.
Kalshi Culture@Kalshi_Culture
Behind the scenes of Casino Royale, 2006
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This is a travesty and why we need driverless cars ASAP
Andrew Feinberg@AndrewFeinberg
JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods showed signs of impairment and was arrested at crash scene on suspicion of DUI, sheriff says.
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@txsalth2o I more or less solved the problem by resolving to sleep in my side or stomach.
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Anyone have a magic hack to stop snoring?
My husband does noes strips & mouth tape, we have white noise but still- he wakes me up, I shove ear plugs in, can still hear him & I start thinking about the all the other things I can do with the pillow…
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