Alexandr sub-tropicus
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Reminder that the CEO of BlueSky is literally a half-Chinese childless cat lady named Lantian “Jay” Graber who lives in Seattle and has financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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@KyleJGlen This is probably reinforced by how scary the ballistic missiles are— probably near unanimous public support to permanently remove the threat
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At this point Israel already smells the blood in the water. I honestly can't see Israel agreeing to this only to have to do the same thing in 5 or 10 years. They know they can finish it now.
Amit Segal@AmitSegal
WSJ: Iran sent an urgent message to Israel and the US in which it asked for an end to the war and renewed nuclear negotiations.
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@Agi1eTab1et @stakenut Yeah I think it’s more general, a lot of class and educational segregation has happened since?
Collapse of manufacturing seems related?
Lots of small towns used to have surprisingly deep institutions bc money would flow in eg from Detroit to Toledo to surrounding small towns
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@stakenut @Agi1eTab1et I dunno, listening to lots of TWiV I’ve noticed that many older US guests had good public school teachers in the 50s and 60s that nudged them into science; I think that doesn’t happen as much anymore
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@xuhulk I thought the more contentious demands were things like academic boycott
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sometimes i feel it’s hard to remember that all this is in response to *students asking that their universities change their investment strategies*
Karl Jacoby@karl_jacoby
The Border Wall-ification of academic space: Columbia has fenced off much of its green space, presumably to stop future encampments
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@wartranslated Curious what fraction of fighters on the Ukrainian side you hear speaking Russian
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Footage of the 28th Brigade repelling an assault on a Ukrainian position made from commander's first-person view.
"Interestingly, unlike ordinary units, these characters were well-equipped and prepared. The enemy expected to do everything quickly, but thanks to the coordinated actions of the infantry, artillery and UAV operators, the plan of the invaders literally fell apart from the very beginning." - t.me/ombr_28/1227
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA That’s like thirty people…
(AFU acting very professionally, better to highlight that in every way possible and not fish for grievance against the civilian population)
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🤬 Kursk region in spring 2022. Civilians joyfully saw off the Russian Armed Forces to war.
❗️Now, when the war has come to their home, they run away in panic and complain…
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@IAPonomarenko Are those the retired Israeli systems or did Ukraine get multiple batches?
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Those who provided Ukraine with PATRIOT systems are saving Ukrainian lives from Russians missiles, once again, very right now.
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Very loud booms over Kyiv?
Bucha is hearing nothing. Just crickets in the quiet night.
So far.
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At a white coat ceremony, kinda bummed their oaths didn’t start with “I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses…”
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TIL: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_Anne…
Wondering if China wants to keep Russia as an ally for a Taiwan war or just let them crumble and retake some of this territory...
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@PaulSkallas Peak Ellis Island inflow was when the US was a much poorer country.
It's just an immigrant nation, immigrants have to keep coming to prop up all the layabout native failsons
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When you have money everything is fine. Once you start losing money family members act weird. Things dissolve.
America has a lot of money and that keeps everyone in line. I'd like to see it with 2-3 decades of serious economic problems. It may not be so rosy
kasey@kaseyklimes
This is my favorite thing about the US. I learned how special it is on a Friday night while living in Copenhagen. I had met an attractive girl about my age on the street. In a feeble attempt to flirt, I asked her where she was from. “I’m from Turkey,” she said…
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@Agi1eTab1et Holy cow, I didn't know about that site at all. So cool.
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@Agi1eTab1et It can be really great, just pure enthusiastic curiosity meets time and resources and then they tell you all about it.
But also lots of boring careerism, performance, outrage, scolding, &c
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@Agi1eTab1et I came out of hiding (aka science Twitter) to watch Prigozhin but boy did that fizzle fast.
I guess I'll stick around!
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