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Counterpoint: Most of the income gap between sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe is predictable-- indeed explainiable-- by the massive technology gap between those regions that existed before the slave trade.

my balding friends mom just gave him minoxidil but he refuses to take it because it was made in israel

NEW: Iran may be attempting to maximize the effects of its limited capacity to launch large missile salvos at Israel by launching small missile salvos throughout the day to impose psychological effects on Israeli civilians by consistently forcing them to take shelter and keeping the country under constant alert. Iran is spreading out its launches throughout the day, often pausing for several hours between launches. Spreading out ballistic missile launches over a long period of time presumably increases the number of times per day that Israeli civilians must seek shelter. Other Key Takeaways: Such a strategy is suboptimal and likely reflects the US-Israeli combined force’s degradation of Iran’s ability to launch large-scale missile attacks. The combined force’s degradation of Iran’s missile capabilities has prevented Iran from consistently launching large-scale missile attacks against Israel during the current conflict, however. Iran has increasingly used cluster munitions in its attacks on Israel during the war, which likely reflects Iran’s inability to meaningfully threaten discrete military targets in Israel and efforts to inflict psychological effects on Israeli civilians. Ukraine and Saudi Arabia concluded a defense cooperation agreement on March 27. The Ukrainian Presidential Office reported that Ukraine will help Saudi Arabia with air defenses under the agreement, which also outlines the foundations for further contacts and includes technological cooperation and investments. The combined force has continued to disrupt Iran’s ability to launch missile attacks, including by disrupting Iranian efforts to regain access to missile launchers in underground bases. US Central Command (CENTCOM) published footage on March 27 showing that it struck bulldozers and loaders that Iran was likely using to try to clear debris and reopen tunnel entrances to underground facilities. The IDF struck Iranian nuclear infrastructure on March 27, including sites involved in plutonium production and the uranium fuel cycle. The IDF struck the Arak Heavy Water Production Facility in Arak, Markazi Province, following repeated Iranian attempts to restore the site following IDF strikes on the site during the June 2025 Israel-Iran War. The IDF also struck the Ardakan Yellowcake Production Plant in Yazd Province.

US officials to The Washington Post: Any ground operation in Iran will not reach full-scale invasion

🇰🇭 Ratinho retires and receives a medal after helping to locate 71 landmines in Cambodia.

This is disturbing and everyone involved should be ashamed!

Peskov increasingly looks like some eccentric figure out of the 19th century. You can picture him as an inventor of extremely toxic elixirs.

Can someone please explain to me why Russia owns this part of Germany?

Whenever I begin to question Sensei Fukuyama’s thesis, I come across something, like this video, that reminds me just how total the cultural victory of liberalism was at the end of the Cold War. Even explicitly anti-liberal movements now seek legitimacy through liberal concepts. Islamists may reject secularism, pluralism, and individual autonomy in substance, but they frame their struggle in the language of freedom, rights, citizenship, dignity, and popular sovereignty. In other words, they have abandoned the pre-modern Islamic world of ideas and its classical political vocabulary. They now operate, perhaps unknowingly, within a fully modern moral universe whose dominant legitimating language is unmistakably liberal. There is no going back to a pre-modern, pre-liberal world. Liberal conceptions are now the yardstick by which all ideologies are measured, and Islamists know that if their project of “Islamic freedom” fails, the people - who also embrace this liberal vocabulary - will take to the streets and demand their “rights” as “citizens.” It would take a systemic collapse on the scale of the fall of the Roman Empire in Western Europe, or even the Bronze Age collapse, to allow the reinvention of an authentically Islamic political and moral order. And this, my friends, is what a total Fukuyama victory looks like. His central argument, after all, was that liberalism represents an endpoint in political evolution, and that no rival philosophy or ideology would generate a more universally compelling language of political legitimacy. Time and again, he has been proven absolutely correct on that point. 😏 !الله، ليبرالية، فوكوياما، و بس

The Left is erasing women—letting men into our spaces, stealing opportunities, and even blocking a women’s museum to push their agenda. We’re not standing for it. We’ve got a country to save.

Pretty wild how WTI crude oil averaged $90-$100 from late 2010 to late 2014.. and everyone just assumed that was normal. Total freakout today... (even with significantly higher average and median hourly earnings)

Scrolling past blowjob discourse, trying to find news on WW3.

What an image. Painful

Again, Western Development Economists inveighing against poor historical context in 1970s Africa, poor data, and sloppy causation over that article will never stop being funny to me. That’s your MO, fellas. You’re just angry cause you’ve been so wrong for 50 years.

¿Logró el comunismo soviético reducir la desigualdad? Un estudio publicado en el Journal of Comparative Economics compara países europeos expuestos y no expuestos al comunismo soviético usando medidas de bienestar comparables entre regímenes: salud autopercibida y espacio habitacional (hacinamiento). Datos retrospectivos y actuales para individuos nacidos entre 1923 y 1970. Los resultados son llamativos. Las tendencias de desigualdad en bienestar fueron comparables entre ambos grupos de países. Los regímenes comunistas no lograron menor desigualdad en salud ni en condiciones de vivienda respecto a las economías de mercado europeas. Sí se observa mayor movilidad social intergeneracional en países comunistas (menor elasticidad entre condiciones de vida en la infancia y en la edad adulta), pero a costa de niveles de bienestar sistemáticamente más bajos. ¿La explicación? La asignación burocrática de bienes privados bajo el comunismo (vivienda, sanidad) fue ineficiente y generó sus propias jerarquías informales: acceso privilegiado para miembros del Partido, élites urbanas y personas con conexiones, frente a población rural y sin capital político. El igualitarismo formal del comunismo soviético no se tradujo en menor desigualdad real cuando se mide con indicadores de bienestar comparables entre regímenes.