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@sickofdischit @ThomasSowell Funny how people feel compelled to falsely add "underage" to an otherwise perfectly consensual activity

@ThomasSowell Really? I think the Crack has effected his memory. He spent more than $250,000 a year on Cocaine and underage Prostitutes

Hunter Biden: "You know what I did for the four years when my dad was president? Nothing. I painted. I made $212k on average a year over four years. I borrowed the rest…"

@historyinmemes Thanks for the explanation

The latitude of Europe compared to Canada reveals a surprising overlap, with many European cities located much farther north than people realize. Latitudes are imaginary lines that run around the Earth from east to west, helping measure how far a location is north or south of the Equator. The Equator marks 0° latitude, while the North Pole is located at 90°N and the South Pole at 90°S. These lines are essential for navigation, mapping, and understanding global climate patterns. Areas near the Equator are generally warmer because they receive more direct sunlight, while regions closer to the poles are colder because sunlight hits the surface at a lower angle. Latitude is one of the fundamental tools used to identify locations anywhere on Earth.

@AriFromKfarSaba Thank you for this

The Hamas rapist-murderers of Shani Luke have all been eliminated by a team dedicated to tracking down and eliminating anyone who planned, executed or otherwise partook in the Oct 7 massacre. Every last one is not an empty slogan, it's a promise

@karl_mmm @chrytime @simoneb94 @lucianadc90 In realta' la funzione primaria e' la redistribuzione dei redditi, nel presupposto (mai dimostrato) che sia una cosa positiva. Giustificare le tasse come pagamento di servizi e' sempre stato un argomento precario e sparira' del tutto dal dibattito nei prossimi anni

@dsimonc @chrytime @simoneb94 @lucianadc90 i servizi si pagano anche per gli altri, non solo per noi. Chiaro che non tutti avranno bisogno di tutti i servizi, ma devono esserci comunque

Ma cosa volete da noi dipendenti pubblici noi almeno siamo obbligati a dichiarare tutto a differenza di chi vive di evasione fiscale

@theiaincameron @geomarcol they would have had the caps tied to the bottle in any case

Either Ireland was desperate to retain this house, or the UK was desperate to get rid of it. Whichever the case, the UK-Ireland border deviates to accommodate it! (Thanks to @geomarcol for this.)

@simongerman600 Yoga interest and anti-guns stance are both correlated with mental instability, FYI

This gun ownership and yoga interest matrix is totally hilarious!

@cullenroche But... don't forget that these events impose a cost on bystanders (in terms of road closures and business disruption) that don't get refunded and qualify them as free riders

I went to the Tour de France last week and it feels like a perfect microcosm of how Capitalism and Socialism differ (and why America is diverging economically and stagnating socially). As an American I couldn't believe how poorly they monetized the event. You have millions of people watching and 99% of them watch for free. The result - the median rider in the event is earning $250K a year, but the public has an event that is loved and accessible by all. The broader result is you don't get the private (and public) investment that coincides with such events in the USA because it's not being monetized well. That is, the teams earn less, the riders earn less and municipalities hosting earn less. So the aggregate result is everyone is poorer, on average, in the long-run because they don't capture the economic value of the event well. BUT, the Europeans love their bikes. Boy do they love their bikes. And you see the happiness and social value of making this a public good instead of a private profit maximizing endeavor. So there's social value in NOT monetizing the event that **arguably** makes it a better overall social value than the Capitalist model. In short, the American model creates a wealthier, more capitalized industry, while the European model sacrifices financial maximization to generate a widely distributed, unpriced public good. Which is better? Most certainly a mix. The hard part is getting the balance right.

Se e' un servizio che non hai chiesto, offrirtelo con l'obbligo di sottoscriverlo al prezzo che vogliono loro non si chiama transazione ma si chiama mafia, pizzo. La gente istintivamente lo sa, e tanto maggiore la distanza tra il prezzo pagato ed il valore ricevuto, tanto maggiore la giustificazione sociale della pratica evasiva.

@simoneb94 @lucianadc90 La più grande idiozia. Offrono comunque servizio di cui tu necessiti imbecille

@PeterDClack Milankovitch cycles operate at a different timescale. Solar variability at another different time scale. So you have (at least) 3 different mechanisms governing climate, every one on its own timescale in the context of the bigger one(s) before them

Earth is still bound to the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, and our planet's average global temperature still hovers around a very livable 15°C. This is far below the world's long-term planetary average of 18°C to 24°C - seen throughout most of Earth's biological history. It makes the idea of a global warming crisis seem out of sync with reality. Despite four decades of continuous climate alarmism, roughly 10% of the Earth's total land area remains permanently capped by glacial ice, which covers 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles). That is nearly a third of its extent during the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago), when continental ice sheets reached their historical zenith. The Antarctic ice sheet remains the largest and thickest body of ice on the planet, extending up to 4.8 kilometers (about 3 miles) deep. It holds roughly 90% of global ice volume and accounts for 85% of total glacial land cover. Spanning 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), Antarctica alone makes up 8.3% of Earth's total land surface. A basic geographical reality is often forgotten: land comprises a mere 28% of the planet's surface. All human cities, towns, and infrastructure combined occupy just 1% to 3% of that land (while deserts take up 33% and forests 31%). We live on an ocean world, and waters cover 72% of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Crucially, the oceans hold 86% of the global carbon reservoir and absorb over 90% of retained thermal energy. By contrast, the atmosphere holds a fraction of a percent of each. The oceans—not human industrial activity—serve as the true long-term regulatory engine for atmospheric carbon dioxide and global climate stability. The current Quaternary Glaciation is part of an ice age cycle that began 34 million years ago with the thermal isolation and glaciation of Antarctica, later intensified by the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles). Carbon dioxide was not the driver of these immense shifts. All of human civilisation, agriculture and technological progress has unfolded within a brief, warm respite: the Holocene interglacial period, which began just 11,700 years ago. Yet for 40 years, the narrative has been dominated by a campaign driven by an unaccountable bureaucratic authority—the United Nations—pushing an agenda of global control. The promised catastrophe of runaway, unprecedented warming never arrived.

@DanieleGiova50 E' impressionante quando ci ripensi. Hai l'impressione che la resa dei conti debba ancora arrivare

Ma quale autorità’ sarebbe cosi’ folle da consigliare lo stesso farmaco genico ad RNA, mai sperimentato , di produzione militare industriale, a tutti i cittadini dei paesi occidentali , bambini , giovani , malati , sani, guariti e donne gravide, e poi imporlo? E facendo poi assumere la responsabilità all’inoculato? E su presupposti poi rivelatisi drammaticamente falsi? In un film dell’orrore? No, nell’Italia culla del diritto e fondata sul lavoro. Daniele Giovanardi Medico.

Today, democracy and the rule of law are being dismantled in Hungary in the pursuit of unchecked power. This is nothing short of criminal conduct. Using retroactive, tailor-made legislation, the government has barred half of the opposition, including its strongest leaders, from politics. This marks the end of democracy. If it is not the people who decide who they vote for, but those in power who decide who the people are allowed to vote for, then democracy is finished. Through a retroactive, tailor-made constitutional amendment, they removed the President of the Republic, dismissed the President of the Constitutional Court, and forced out the Chief Prosecutor. With that, they have dismantled the rule of law as well.

Anne Hathaway is a Degenerate Narcissist.

@metrikk @simongerman600 And what do you think about the tariffs by the EU?

@simongerman600 This may sound too simplistic but his fanaticism about tariffs stems from his inherent belief that it punishes the country by charging them extra Despite many attempts to set him straight he sticks to his guns and treats it as revenue from adversaries I'm not kidding

I’m not an American, so I consider this the problem of the US population. The whole dumb tariff, trade war, and actual war stuff is however the problem of people outside the US too.

@DanBurmawy Who's that imbecile?

Instagram wouldn’t let me call him an idiot in the comments, so I’ll say it here: He is an idiot. Every single person in that video is a useful idiot.

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy. It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy. For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice. Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc. As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love. To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.” As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings. When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder. When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good. Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them. In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.” It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

@melforty4 @libsoftiktok If you let a fugitive refuel the chopper will run out of gas first

@libsoftiktok It’s so the cops don’t endanger the lives of civilians during a high speed chase. They keep the chopper on him until he stops. Everyone in LA knows this. Your click bait used to be better

This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen A driver STOPPED FOR GAS undisturbed in middle of a police chase in LA He could’ve stopped at the mall and gone shopping and nothing would happen to him Complete lawlessness in this Democrat hell-hole

@chiccotesta Dato che il pubblico non ha conti correnti presso la banca centrale, l'intervento delle banche per chiudere la transazione e' necessario. In pratica il sistema obbliga le banche a fornire un servizio senza caricare al cliente il costo. =E' una tassa sulle banche

Il Brasile ha lanciato un sistema di pagamenti chiamato Pix e governato dalla banca centrale che permette pagamenti istantanei e senza nessuna commissione . Permette di aggirare le carte di credito e i loro costi. Ha avuto un enorme successo. Europa ?

@AbakpaJob If communism didn't already exist, and somebody suggested we all must work under a guy for 40 hours a week while they make all the decisions, and nobody except a political elite makes money, we'd beat the shit out of them.

If capitalism didn't already exist, and somebody suggested we all work under a guy for 40 hours a week while they make all the money and decisions, we'd beat the shit out of them.

Rome conquered Greece in 146 BC when they burned Corinth to the ground. And then the strangest thing in ancient history happened. The winners spent the next few centuries desperately trying to become the losers. It actually started before the final conquest. When the general Marcellus sacked Syracuse in 211 BC, he shipped boatloads of Greek statues and paintings back to Rome, and the city went crazy for it. Suddenly every rich Roman had to have Greek art in his house. Decades later Cicero built an entire court case around prosecuting a governor named Verres for looting Greek masterpieces, and Romans ate it up. Then came the schools. Wealthy families started buying Greek slaves specifically because they were educated, and handed them the job of raising their children. So the sons of the men who crushed Greece grew up speaking Greek, memorizing Greek poetry, and learning philosophy from Greeks. The elite eventually sent their teenagers abroad to Athens and Rhodes to finish their education, the way people today send kids to study overseas. Cicero did it. Julius Caesar did it. Their gods were Greek gods wearing name tags. Zeus became Jupiter. Hera became Juno. Aphrodite became Venus. Ares became Mars. Same myths, same family drama, mostly just relabeled. Their entertainment was borrowed too. The first big Roman playwrights, Plautus and Terence, basically adapted Greek comedies into Latin. Their doctors were Greek. Their architecture leaned on Greek columns, the Doric and Ionic and Corinthian orders you still see on bank buildings today. And the art obsession left a strange fingerprint on history. Romans loved Greek bronze statues so much that they mass produced marble copies of them. A huge chunk of what people walk past in museums today and call "Greek sculpture" is actually a Roman copy. The Greek originals melted down or vanished long ago. The knockoffs are what survived. Not everyone was thrilled. Cato the Elder spent his whole life warning that Greek culture would rot the Roman character. He sneered at Greek philosophers, distrusted Greek doctors, and wanted them kept out of the city. And then, as an old man, he quietly sat down and learned Greek anyway. Even the loudest hater caved. The trend went all the way to the top. Virgil wrote the Aeneid, Rome's national epic, by openly modeling it on Homer. The emperor Nero competed in Greek games and toured Greece like a superfan. Hadrian was so obsessed he grew a Greek philosopher's beard and poured money into rebuilding Athens. And Marcus Aurelius, master of the entire Roman world, wrote his private journal not in Latin but in Greek, because that was the language of serious thinking. The poet Horace nailed it in a single line: captured Greece took her savage conqueror captive. Rome won every war on the battlefield and then handed its whole soul to the people it had beaten.

The Western mind, after centuries of moving away from barbarity and cruelty, can no longer comprehend evil without attaching a tangible cause to it. When a mass shooter opens fire, the default assumption is that he must be mentally ill. When rebels take up arms, the explanation is that they must be oppressed. Violence is never seen as an end in itself, it is always framed as a reaction to something external, something rational, something the West can diagnose and fix. That is why Hamas and other terrorist organizations are so disorienting to the Western imagination. Their actions are too grotesque, too irrational, to fit neatly into Western categories of cause and effect. So Westerners scramble for explanations they can live with: “occupation,” “colonization,” “oppression.” They manufacture a tangible reason that makes sense to them, even if it has little to do with the truth. But if we look at history, cruelty has never required a tangible reason. Entire empires conquered, enslaved, and slaughtered not out of desperation or defense, but simply because they could. Vikings did not need oppression to justify raiding monasteries and enslaving villagers. Mongols did not need colonization to rationalize leveling entire cities and piling up skulls. The Aztecs did not need occupation to demand thousands of human sacrifices every year. The idea that cruelty must always have a logical, material cause is a uniquely modern, uniquely Western invention. Islamic terrorism does not operate by those rules. The engine behind jihad is not material grievance, it is spiritual ambition. The reason is not socioeconomic oppression, it is theological conviction. The suicide bomber is not trying to relieve poverty; he is trying to buy salvation. The jihadist who slits throats on video is not traumatized; he is reenacting Muhammad’s example, convinced that every drop of blood shed brings him closer to paradise. Jihad is not a cry for help. It is not the desperate rebellion of the oppressed. It is a religious performance, a soteriological act, a path to redemption.