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🇨🇳 Prof Zhang Weiwei: Why did the Dutch Empire fall? Financialization. Why did the British Empire fall? Financialization. Why is the American Empire falling? Financialization. Why is China rising? Real economy over virtual.

@bolderston_mark I love this Cortina model, the twin headlamps and rear arch bulge are beautiful. Must have been designed by the same people that did the Capri?

Ford Cortina MK3 Your Toughts Please and Thanks

@UKMemes2026 your eyesight isn't as good as it used to be

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@Tw_timerAlder @baronantibes There is no 'British' gas. The gas is extracted and sold by private mulitinatonal companies at international market rates.

@baronantibes Yes all the right wingers and Reform tell us if we drill more British Gas our prices will fall. Will they and why are they not cheaper already. Half our gas is British. Are Reform wrong?

British gas produced from British fields in the North Sea supplies roughly 47.5% to 49% of the country's total demand. How come our gas isn’t already cheaper than Europe’s or as cheap as US gas? Why would a bit more British Gas make our gas cheaper? Can someone explain?

@Annatefka41 @Nillo82948721 The same Russian bot farms that are currently promoting the Afd in your country. It's a worldwide problem.

@Nillo82948721 Not American, your German cousins here. Question may be off topic, but what have the English been smoking to vote for call me Dave, for Brexit, for Theresa and Boris and son probably for Farage??!?!

So on behalf of the entire world I’ll ask this question again of our American cousins. What in the sweet name of Jesus were you smoking when you voted in this deluded deranged demented narcissistical orange criminal clown for a 2nd time? Really? Was once not enough for you?

@guyfelicella X is Twitter, but shitter.

Oh no… I heard Elon Musk doesn’t like it when we keep calling it Twitter 😏 Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. You can rename the app, rebrand the logo, and even buy the whole company… But you can’t buy what people call it. It’s Twitter. Always has been, always will be!

@BladeoftheS I fucking hope not. Mocking implies humour. There is nothing humorous about the evil that Israel does to Palestine and its neighbours.

Will Netanyahu be hunting you?

@Microinteracti1 I'm not sure people in the USA realise. This doesn't end with Trump. The USA is burning bridges it can't rebuild.

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation. It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025. Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.”   And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist. Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered. In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius. Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people. And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like. It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@james_xond Mushrooms

People who grew up without smartphones: WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU WERE BORED?

@AManWithAClue @anon_opin You are lost. Look inside. Try to find some dignity.

@m_copperwheat @anon_opin How about you fuck off to their 3rd world shit hole? #LeftyTwats

Making bus shelter benches sloping and park ones divided, so that homeless people can't sleep on them is the distillation of hands-off cuntishness.

@AManWithAClue @anon_opin You are a horrible cunt who we would all be better off without.

@anon_opin @leftytwat_opin bet this poster is a refugees welcome twat. Suicidal empathy.

@LetsImproveIt @anon_opin You shitty cunt!

@anon_opin I think everyone wishes nobody was homeless. Until we achieve that, I'd like to be able to sit down at a bus stop or enjoy a seat in a park. I can't do either if there's an unfortunate lying there.

@UntoldWarFacts The what shepherd?! It was probably rooting for the other side...

🧵 1/7 This dog flew 30 combat missions over Nazi Germany. Was wounded by shrapnel over enemy territory. Saved the lives of an entire squadron. This is the story of Antis the German Shepherd.

@ArtistCyclist YIP, I don't really care about cycling, but I love motorcycling. I'm in the same situation. People have mentioned Debrid to me?

GCN+ was priced at £39.99 per year or £6.99 a month. TNT Sports is £30.99 a month or £25.99 a month if tied into a 12 month contract. As much as I want to watch Paris-Roubaix tomorrow, I just can't bring myself to pay that. The service is no longer advert-free either.

@exQUIZitely visually it looks a lot like assault, which my local arcade had. This was a namco shooter rather than an rts, but the top down graphics are very reminiscent. youtube.com/watch?v=ESBNTO…

German game studios in the 80s and 90s didn't have the same resources or international reach as their UK, US, or Japanese counterparts. Massive hits that crossed borders were relatively rare. Giana Sisters was probably the biggest German-made success of the 1980s, while The Settlers took that title in the 1990s (at least from what I remember of that time). One game (and its sequels) from that era that deserved far more success - and sometimes feels a little forgotten today - is Battle Isle, or more specifically its sequel Battle Isle 2 (Blue Byte, 1994). How it wasn't a bigger commercial hit still surprises me. Maybe it was the limited market or the lack of strong marketing power - who knows? It certainly wasn't the gameplay, which was simply excellent for a turn-based strategy title. The game even brought some real innovations. It was the first CD-ROM strategy game to feature 3D combat animations and unit displays created with raytracing and vector graphics. Granted, that was mostly eye candy, but it helped the game stand out from others in the genre that could sometimes feel dry and too plain, especially to newcomers. It also offered a huge variety of units for air, sea, and ground combat, along with 12 experience levels for each unit that greatly affected battle outcomes. The controls were straightforward enough for new players to pick up quickly, the maps varied in size and terrain (forcing you to adapt your strategies), and the pixel-style in-game cutscenes were a great touch. I couldn't get enough of the Battle Isle series - parts 1, 2, and 3 were all excellent, and the later spin-off Incubation was great too. The whole series is gravely underrated and overlooked. It remains one of my all-time favourites, yet I often wonder how many non-German players have even heard of it.

@archer_rs 5) Eliminate money

Humankind will never evolve until: 1) We remove all borders, all countries are artificial 2) Eliminate religion of all forms, they are all manmade, time to grow up 3) Establish a one world government, working for the benefit of all people 4) Agree single global language

@iAmJoshHunt For anyone normal house prices dropping 20% and means tested pension wouldn't really matter. Normal people live in their house, it's not an investment and a means tested pension only affects the already well off.

Genuine question for anyone over 50… If your house dropped 20% in value, your state pension was means-tested, the triple lock was scrapped, and your private pension pot didn’t keep pace with inflation, what’s your plan? Because at least two of those things are coming. Probably three. And nobody is talking about it.

@forexkeylevels @reginalddhunter Absolutely. Satire doesn't work if it makes you laugh, it's not comedy. Mass and established media has long taken the edge, the power from satire by turning it into a joke. Satire destroys, it doesn't giggle. Alan Moore writing on satire below. goodreads.com/quotes/8218991…

@VishakhRanotra Overcomplication for the sake of it is NOT good engineering.

I love engineers who think of the minutest of the details. This is functional and aesthetic. A well balanced design. Don’t come commenting “but what about the cost to manufacture this”. It’s not always about that.

@Microinteracti1 Alpha (2018) is pretty much about this and well worth watching. youtube.com/watch?v=uIxnTi…

That sigh your dog just did? It’s 16,000 years old. Two studies published this week in Nature pushed back the genetic record of dog domestication by 5,000 years, detaching it entirely from the story of farming. The humans who first lived with dogs had no fields, no livestock, no permanent address. They were ice-age nomads, moving constantly across a frozen continent, and they had dogs with them anyway. Not for agriculture. Not for herding. Just because somewhere along the way, a wolf that wasn’t quite a wolf anymore sat down next to a human fire and stayed. The particular way your dog presses against your leg when something feels wrong, positions itself with a sightline to the door, watches you without watching you – that’s not a quirk. That’s a collaboration 16,000 years in the making, running without interruption through every plague, empire, and revolution since. Dogs are great. I love my dog. 🐕 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1