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jonathanwthomas

@jonathanwthomas

Writer and Publisher of @Anglotopia. Churchillian. Digital Marketing professional. Husband and father. Dreams of Dorset. Huge Trekkie.

Indiana Katılım Temmuz 2008
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These 90s Hallmark miniseries still slap! Merlin FTW!
Pulp Librarian@PulpLibrarian

The Odyssey (1997). Hallmark Channel presents the greatest of all legends, with some help from Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Armand Assante is Odysseus, who leads his men back from the Trojan War through many perils until he can see Greta Scacchi's Penelope again. Christopher Lee and Isabella Rossellini make guest appearances. It is pretty faithful to the source material...

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Could never figure out why folks like Tom Holland (the historian, not Spider-Man) were so against it. It seemed to me burying a busy road that was always jammed would have drastically improved the Stonehenge Landscape.
Alex Deane@ajcdeane

We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.

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This is super interesting. But also, this is what most farmers voted for, so🤷. Guess we're all just going to be screwed.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers. At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford. Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel. This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices. The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years. The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground. Full analysis in the link. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@Sparkpoodle1 People are dumb, that's the big deal. They think they're smarter than the 150 years of science behind pasteurization.
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@Katie_Classique No, the finale was an hour too short. I'm still pissed that it ended with them arriving home, and then nothing.
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What he said.
Andrew Neil@afneil

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

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Exactly. The left has to jetison purity tests for every possible opinion. A man running the biggest city in the country, that has a population LARGER than the island of Ireland, does not need to give a shit about a sectarian problem that has largely been resolved.
Tim Miller@Timodc

I’ve seen several people with vastly different political ideologies quote tweet this with vague posts about how the answer is obvious and i cannot for the life of me imagine why the mayor of new york (or any non limey) should give a shit about this.

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"They should teach us how the government works." They did! It's so stupidly easy to understand; they teach it to fifth graders. You can read the Constitution anytime! It's free! I could go on. Don't blame the school system for the fact you didn't pay attention or are incurious.
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jonathanwthomas@jonathanwthomas·
"They should have taught us how credit cards and retirement accounts work." They did! But you can also find out everything you need to know on one Google search. It's not hard to read.
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Same. They make me irrationally angry. I feel like the only person that paid attention in Econ 101, US Government 101, Lifeskills Class, History... basic reading. Like we were taught all these things. You just didn't pay attention.
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