@NaravaneAdwait @ajxyred If you think China's meteoric rise in the last few decades was a result of aggressive wealth redistribution from rich to poor, then you are mistaken.
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For Sale: Mandate of Heaven. Never Earned
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For Sale: Mandate of Heaven. Never Earned
@dsertedd
Waaaaaaaa
Katılım Şubat 2017
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@ajxyred Any fucking idiot can turn a already rich city state into an offshore banking hub. How about admire real leaders who transform a country of peasants into a global superpower in a couple decades?
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@IrishPatri0t irrelevant but why is the lower jak so overengineered? is this the author self-inserting? do they think their point is made stronger through the simulacrum of their face?
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Me when the CIA time travels back 7 years before its founding and puts an ice axe into Leon Trotsky's skull
🧡Lulu🌾;@ItsLulu_7
The CIA orchestrates the divide of the left
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@UrbaneSlave More like Burger King isn't surrounded by anti-gentrification mass hysteria...
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Can somebody help Novara Media's, Rivkah Brown to join the dots. The same private equity firm that owns Gail's owns Burger King. No broken windows at Burger King. No pro-Pal graffiti either. Burger King doesn't have a Jewish founder.
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@mandarin_3104 @Conquistatohead @TheGhostSleepi1 No. I am saying that London's desperate need for affordable housng means making some aesthetic sacrifices - ones that are completely neglible.
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@Conquistatohead @dsertedd @TheGhostSleepi1 Couldn’t have set it better myself. The irony is they believe this intellectualism is some sort of fight for the “common people.” Meanwhile it’s just intellectual elitism which tries to convince people the should be satisfied by less.
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The trick is to create high rise buildings that people might actually want to live in.
Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall
London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy
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@sensiblehuman96 So... they compete in a free market? Is that meant to be bad?
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Regardless of the Israel/palestine element to this, Gail’s entire business model is to monitor independent cafes and then if they’re successful set up right next to them and undercut their business. And they’re owned by Bain Capital, a yank investment firm.
Sebastian Payne@SebastianEPayne
New contender for worst column of the year: "[Gail's] very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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@EVKontorovich Would the Sino-Soviet border conflict have been better resolved by mutual, leadership-destroying nuclear strikes on Moscow/Beijing? Or was it 'better' (in a strict realpolitik sense) that a few dozen soldiers (with little effect) die to give each power a sense of completion?
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Historian misses saturation bombing and machine gun charges across no man’s land.
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی@arash_tehran
On Larijani's killing: Do we realize that, until recently, it was extremely rare for countries, even those at war, to simply kill each other's top political officials? Are we ready for this to be the 'new normal'?
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@honremand @danhind this but the other way around. May The City of London consume All of The United Kingdom
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@Tom_Gann The fearsome fifth column... middling bakery chains...
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Incredible cutting of the screenshot here. This is the whole paragraph - one that makes clear Gail’s complicity.
Giles Coren@gilescoren
Wow, this is some mad fucking antisemitism from @guardian - and a truly honking piece of restaurant writing into the bargain.
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@aswren The Police visited me and started laughing at the bald spot on my head. For hours they laughed. You know this is a true story because you read it on the internet.
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@evanhill many people's first impression of Cormac McCarthy isn't great - particularly due to the lack of speech indicators. bit of a skewed comparison here
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Welp time to walk into the ocean
Kevin Roose@kevinroose
We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing. 86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@BarneyFlames dont think there's much tension between 'lets build high speed rail that will benefit millions in multiple ways' VS 'this data centre doesnt really do a whole lot for the economy, local or national'
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a fun game is to take a smug dem tweet about how the chuds are too retarded to understand we can have good infrastructure
... five minutes later ...
haha chuds think we should build infrastructure, FREAKING RETARDS
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@puhcko Evidently not that clever, considering the huge ecological impact any detonation of nuclear weapons would have - thus negating any DEBATABLE benefit of wiping out the USSR and co.
and that is for one single consequence.
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Reminder that the smartest man to ever live, John von Neumann, inventor of game theory, was a relentless advocate of nukes. To quote:
“If you told me we were going to nuke the Soviets next week, I’d ask ‘why not today’? If you told me we were doing it this afternoon, I’d ask ‘Why not now? What’s the hold up?’”
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D@RVAwonk
“Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases.” These are the models that are going to be given autonomous control over weapons systems.
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@brianluidog a rigorous humanities education would tell you there's more at play here beyond 'smart people do science', so thank you for proving everyone's point
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In Hong Kong when you choose your high school subjects, they test everyone and the smart students get to choose first. By the time the dumbest students get to pick, only humanities subjects are left for them. This is more functional than in the West where they pretend it's equal.
ً@prinkasusa
i hate the fact that math and science smart students are considered smarter than english and history smart students
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@gmbarnard22 Who cares. She was Head of State. It's not an Ambassador's place to offer commentary on domestic poliitcal affairs
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my goat is washed........
Hiroshi Suzuki@AmbJapanUK
Birthplace of Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher in Grantham!!
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