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john franco
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IT Professional - “Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”
Midwest Katılım Mart 2022
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@amuse @RepDonBacon Under the Trump administration, new large-scale supplemental aid packages have stopped. The last major one was the ~$61 billion package passed in April 2024.
In 2025, total US assistance dropped to around 390B For fiscal year 2026, only about $220 million has been allocated.
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@RepDonBacon We’re still sending $2B a month to Ukraine. That’s more than enough.
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@dieworkwear America doesn't make scotch but they export used oak bourbon barrels to Scotland to age their whiskey. It's win/win
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why would anyone spend millions of dollars to build a factory in the US and train US workers when tariff policies can be changed on a whim by a compliment or an insult? you either shape your tariff regime around certain industrial goals or you're wasting everyone's time and money
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🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has lifted all tariffs on Scottish whiskey and bourbon following a request from the King
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I'm sad to learn that Antonio Pascariello recently passed away.
Pascariello was a great Neapolitan tailor who made softly constructed suits and sport coats with razor-sharp lapels and slightly sweeping quarters. More importantly, he was one of the best teachers in the region, if not the industry. For decades, he took in apprentices, often international students from East Asia, and taught them the craft of bespoke tailoring.
In fact, if you see a particularly talented bespoke tailor in East Asia today, there's a good chance they apprenticed under Pascariello. His former students include Noriyuki Ueki (Sartoria Ciccio), Jeon Byeong-ha (Sartoria Jun), and Nario Sasaki (Sartoria Tramonto). I recently had dinner with Jeon and another tailor. When a slightly controversial tailoring topic came up, Jeon gave an answer that I thought contained a very Italian perspective. In this way, Pascariello lives on through the lessons he taught his students.
In the last year, we've lost Mariano Rubinacci, Antonio Panico, and now Antonio Pascariello. There are still a lot of talented people in this industry, but increasingly fewer people who have a personal connection to that mid-20th century period when men wore tailoring best.
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@amuse @RepJasonCrow Don't forget Russian and NK talking points too. :)
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@RepJasonCrow You are repeating Chinese and Iranian talking points.
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Trump’s war with Iran has been an unmitigated disaster.
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Which do you think has a bigger impact today: food quality or lifestyle?
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@nedryun US - Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, was removed from power in August 1953. The coup, known as Operation Ajax, was engineered by (MI6) and (CIA) to restore the power of Shah Pahlavi, to regain control over Iran's nationalized oil industry.
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Tehran will never cede control of Strait of Hormuz, senior Iranian politician tells BBC bbc.in/42j4xDc
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@matthewmaddock Michigan requires all registered vehicles to carry no-fault auto insurance (MCL 500.3101 and related sections). Driving (or allowing a vehicle to be driven) without the required insurance coverage is still a misdemeanor under MCL 500.3102(2).
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Every city in Michigan is a driving with no insurance safe zone because there is no longer any penalty. Democrats decriminalized DWLS and Driving with no insurance or plates.
Shawn Gorham@shawngorham
Remember our car accident 10+ weeks ago? Guess what? They didnt have insurance, shocker No Habla English, one of the passengers (prob driver) disappeared from the scene. They gave the police a fake insurance card No accountability, no consequence We were just sitting at a red light. Wife had a concussion and back pain for 6 weeks Our car, which MY insurance is paying $18,000 to fix (won't total it) has now lost half its value due to an accident See this homie with the mask? He disappeared before the police showed up left a lady behind. So we take a loss, my wife is hurt, my insurance will pay up but of course raise my rates to cover it and the other party just gets to walk away with a totaled cheap ass car. Pisses me off - if I tried to pull that shit off I would prob be arrested.
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tenor.com/view/happy-apr… #happy april fools day #happy april fools images #april fool via @gifkeyboard
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I can verify that people at the highest levels of Arkansas politics have known about and have been discussing this picture since at least 2016.
Patrick Howley@HowleyReporter
I have been told that this is a photo of Tom Cotton Candy at the J.R.'s gay bar in DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C.
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🦔 Oracle is reportedly cutting 20,000-30,000 jobs to fund AI data center expansion after US banks pulled back from financing the buildout. TD Cowen estimates the layoffs would free up $8-10 billion in cash flow. The company needs $156 billion in capital expenditures to meet its data center commitments, including projects for OpenAI. Oracle is also considering selling Cerner, the healthcare software unit it bought for $28 billion in 2022, and exploring a "bring your own chip" arrangement where customers supply their own hardware.
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Oracle made massive commitments during the AI boom, banks got cold feet, and now workers are funding the difference with their jobs. Tens of thousands of people cut so the company can keep building infrastructure that won't generate returns for years, if ever. The "bring your own chip" idea is Oracle telling customers they promised data center capacity but can't afford to build it, so customers should bring their own GPUs instead.
I've written about similar situations before with other companies. The AI buildout requires real money now for theoretical returns later, and when the financing gets tight, the workforce absorbs the hit. Oracle is betting that the data center demand materializes and justifies all of this. Maybe it does. But if it doesn't, Ellison isn't the one who lost his job over it.
Hedgie🤗
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UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE. According to nuclear experts, Trump's justification for going to war with Iran was all a LIE perpetuated by Jared Kushner: Nuclear experts are calling out lies by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff regarding Iran's research reactor, stating the facility lacked the capabilities they described. Experts indicated that the Tehran Research Reactor, a 60-year-old facility, was not designed to enrich uranium, as was suggested by Kushner and Witkoff.
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Trevor Lawrence bid farewell to Travis Etienne Jr., his teammate since 2018:
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Part of the reason the USD is the reserve currency, and about 70% of paper dollars are held outside the United States, is that we never cancel our currency. The euro is routinely cancelled.
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@Megatron_ron @grok can you identify this missile as a tomahawk
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BREAKING:
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Footage of the Tomahawk missile strike on the primary school for girls in the city of Minab.
This proves it was the US and that the target was intentional, as the missiles goes into diving mode after finding the designated target
168 girls aged 7-12 and teachers were killed.
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@Glenn_Diesen @grok how can Pentagon is seize Kharg Island - Iran's main oil export terminal
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In the effort of seizing control over the world's energy resources, the Pentagon is considering seizing Kharg Island - Iran's main oil export terminal
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This is absolutely inspiring! 81 years old, 29 sec 200m sprint!
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