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survibal of the littest

Asibov Sobilowe Katılım Mayıs 2012
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@FoidCooker @RandomPerson242 @lacherbauer @LokiJulianus @ThomBrady5 Ofc it takes time and work. But only a self-loathing depressive, propagandist, or moron can take a holistic look at the arc of US hegemony and think it reflects wanton global ambition. There’s some ambition, but far more often the US could’ve taken advantage but chose not to
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Just Loki
Just Loki@LokiJulianus·
If China invaded Taiwan, Europeans would say it wasn't their fight, shut down our overflights, and try to cut a deal with the PRC.
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Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️@razibkhan·
jonathan ac brown of georgetown is in hot water for his comments about grooming gangs and his very anti-american positions on foreign policy, despite being a distinguished professor at georgetown brown converted to islam at 20. he is a sunni who adheres to the hanbali tradition
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Jesse Kelly
Jesse Kelly@JesseKellyDC·
People who’ve lived their entire lives in Christian-based Western civilization will never appreciate how lucky they are. For most of human history, this is just how it was. The rules you think are rules are actually quite unique. Barbarians roam the globe. We’re blessed.
Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf

ENGLAND: Muhammad from Pakistan attempted to rape a 13-year-old British girl. He defends himself: "I couldn't control myself, she is very attractive. I was overwhelmed.” Look how casually he says that, like it’s a normal thing in his culture. Evil!

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RedWave Press
RedWave Press@RedWavePress·
NASA pilot Victor Glover CLAPS back after being asked what it means to be the first black man to visit the moon: “It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history, but that it becomes human history.” “I also HOPE we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these first. That one day, this is just—and listen to this—that this is the human history.”
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James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯
James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯@mr_james_c·
Asymmetrical morality is destroying Western civilization. Example: - US and Israel bomb Iran military targets - Iran attacks civilian shipping - US and Israel blamed for economic consequences - Iran barely criticised You see this over and over again. "Oh the US should have planned for this." Ok sure, but you're still allowing Iran to attack civilian targets without any sanctions. It's one thing for Iran to respond by attacking military targets, but the moment they attacked civilian infrastructure and shipping in the region the rest of the world should have condemned them and started punishing Iran. But they didn't. Total moral failure.
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Magatte Wade
Magatte Wade@magattew·
China lifted 800 million people out of poverty not through communism but by creating Special Economic Zones where capitalism was allowed to function. Shenzhen went from a fishing village to a megacity because the government said "in this specific area, you can build freely.” That should tell you something about what works and what doesn't. Even the world's largest communist country had to let capitalism in through the back door to feed its people.
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Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️@razibkhan·
if 35% of han chinese-descended population claimed "actually we're manchus," gave themselves manchu names and practiced siberian shamanism to the exclusion of chinese ancestor-worship and claimed that the manchu emperors were much better than chinese emperors, they would care
Syed@Gypsy_heart8

China has been conquered by several foreigners from steppe lands up north. Are they as obsessed with the lingering remnants of those conquests as the modern Indians?

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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
ZELENSKYY to BBC: We went through difficult relations with Iran. We did nothing to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers and crew, didn’t admit it, and didn’t let experts in. Then the full-scale war started. They handed Shahed drones to Russians to kill our civilians. I asked them to stop. They promised there would be only one batch. They lied and kept supplying weapons. That’s why I consider them accomplices of Russia.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water. On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports. Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming. The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed. The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce. Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.
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Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth has offered scientists a window into the behavior of these large, elusive mammals.

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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.
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Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood@bswud·
Britain needs to reckon with the fact that it is not just a developing country economically, but also in political culture. - There are widespread perceptions of corruption. - Governments are not capable of pulling off large projects without enormous consent generation schemes through established interest groups (NGOs) and massive side payments - The government is not trusted with expropriation tools - Even left-wing governments cannot raise broad-based taxes (and the far left opposition don’t make the case for broad-based taxes, but that they can extract loads of money from the rich and other scapegoats) - Even right-wing governments cannot take away state welfare entitlements - There is a dizzying array of inconsistent privileges - Parties are becoming less ideological and more tribal. There are explicit ethnoreligious parties standing, and bloc voting is becoming more and more common. - Everyone thinks that all politicians are liars - Almost no one is willing to take a hit in the interests of the country, and no one is expected to. I think all of these things are connected, and I also think it’s foolish and self defeating to pretend we are Britain of the 1950s, or Denmark, and that we can simply implement the most efficient policies by deciding to — we just need more political will! Instead, we need to be realistic about what a country in our situation can achieve. We need to come up with ways to steadily build state legitimacy and state capacity, by stigmatising dishonesty and using the tools of the past, which worked when we were last in this situation. The government can’t be trusted to spend money, so taxes need to be hypothecated to things voters want if we want to raise more. Large projects need to involve more specific deals with losers, overriding objectors with local support not (nonexistent) national fiat. Anything controversial needs to be approved in a party’s manifesto, or in a referendum. If it can’t be voted through, it cannot be implemented. If the voter doesn’t want it, they need to be convinced, or it can’t be done.
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i/o@avidseries·
"Moral panic" — that is, an exaggerated fear that a specific group poses a threat to society's values and safety — is how Wikipedia described the systemic sexual abuse of thousands of white girls by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in the UK.
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James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯
James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯@mr_james_c·
The below describes everything going wrong with the Western world today, from Iran to Net Zero: "I just did [Thing]." "How dare you! You need to follow [Procedure] before you can do [Thing]!" "But we followed [Procedure] before. It led to [Result] which was a disaster, it's what created the necessity for me to do [Thing]. Now that I've done [Thing] the situation has improved a bit." "That's not the point. [Procedure] was developed by experts. [Result] is irrelevant, and probably happened because you didn't follow [Procedure] exactly." "But [Procedure] keeps changing." "You're not an expert so you wouldn't understand. You should leave it to the experts." "But then nothing happens and we end up with [Result] through inaction." "Exactly, that's also an aspect of [Procedure]."
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Russian Garbage Human
Russian Garbage Human@RusGarbageHuman·
>be rock dove, 5000 BC >perch on a sheltered cliff near early human settlements >humans approach with grain >no way out, heart racing >they don't hunt you >they offer food and shelter >be domesticated pigeon, 3000 BC >bred by man for meat, eggs, and sometimes beauty >you live in lofts beside humans >many civilisations discover this >be messenger pigeon, 1350 BC >your homing instinct carries news across deserts and seas >Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans all depend on your wings >news of war, notable events, and even Olympic results travel faster than any horse or runner >be carrier pigeon, Middle Ages to 1800s >you connect monasteries, armies, merchants, stock exchanges, and kings >you are the fastest communication on Earth >you cover 200 miles a day >there was even a London to Paris pigeon post route >be war pigeon, 1914-1945 >you fly through bullets, shrapnel and poison gas >Cher Ami takes a bullet, loses a leg and an eye, but still delivers the message that saves 194 men >dozens of your kind are awarded medals for heroism >be common pigeon, 1950s >radio and telephone finally make you obsolete >your human keepers release you or let you escape >but you were bred to stay near people >be racing pigeon, 1970s-1980s >peak of pigeon fancying >working-class men in industrial towns and council estates keep lofts on rooftops >every weekend thousands race you across the country >even the Queen has her own loft with around 200 pigeons, she is a keen pigeon fancier >you are a beloved hobby, a passion handed down through generations since the 1800s >be pigeon, 2026 >you do exactly what humans bred you for ten thousand years to do: live among us in their cities >you flock to squares and rooftops >they call you “rats with wings” and “vermin” >spikes on ledges, nets, poison, birth control in the feed >after millennia of loyal service, we despise you for existing
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>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses

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MCDG
MCDG@MateOfTheUnion·
@mattyglesias The fact is, any word-mangling this admin uses in order to contend NATO should involve itself in Iran could just as easily be used to demand greater US involvement in Ukraine. US may have regional interests in ME but Europe is existentially threatened on it’s eastern flank.
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@Jmizzle212 @rcarnold1 @zriboua The reason they can *actually* exercise control now is because they were *capable* of exercising control before. Capabilities developed precisely to achieve this kind of leverage. That’s just the facts. What should be done about those facts is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Zineb Riboua
Zineb Riboua@zriboua·
@KenGardner11 They are exhausting their arsenal while gathering data on them due to absolute tech superiority of US, we unfortunately don’t get accurate reporting because of internet shutdown and only IRGC has access to it and come on X to play the triumphing axis. But they are in BIG trouble.
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Zineb Riboua@zriboua·
No TACO No ground troops No deal with IRGC Operation Epic Fury on going with delegation of Strait of Hormuz security to allies (I suspect UAE first in line, and other Gulf countries which takes time to set up so that U.S. doesn’t leave a vacuum once it is done with operation, 2-3 weeks makes sense)
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Joyce Karam
Joyce Karam@Joyce_Karam·
No matter how this war ends, the level of Arab Gulf mistrust/public anger at Iran regime is a new reality for Tehran to reckon with. Arabic social media tells a very different story than English posts. There is no going back to pre-Feb. 28.
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