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@vtchakarova Will Europe start fracking its large shale reserves?

And… the gas production in Europe will be boosted just like I outlined for you over the last few years. Norway, Romania, who’s next?

@paulwharmby @ciphergoth @cremieuxrecueil I didn’t say that. I said it could be made the law in a democratic society.

@marksgreatest @ciphergoth @cremieuxrecueil You honestly think it'd be a fair system to lock people up for life without them ever having been convicted of a crime? There are a few countries that work like that. North Korea springs to mind. Are you really sure that's what you want?

A ten strike law preventing people from leaving prison after that many violent crime convictions would reduce period violent crime by 20% Five strikes would cut violent crime by 40% Three strikes would halve violent crime Two strikes would remove ~two-thirds of violent crime

@Israelwaronhama It’s just not in China Les interest to escalate the situation like this.

坊间传： 伊朗外长去北京索要一枚原子弹， 伊朗要爆炸一枚原子弹吓退美国。 为配合，伊朗革命卫队刚刚宣布如果美国再次发动轰炸，就爆炸一枚原子弹。

@___d_____d_____ @MargBarAmerica What don’t you get about women? Are you gay?

@MargBarAmerica In all seriousness, can someone explain to me why the red scare girls are the way they are?

“he really owned tucker, he’ll own anybody, he’s ascendant” - the most barred out ever 40 year old single mother

@paulwharmby @ciphergoth @cremieuxrecueil Well I guess it does matter somewhat where we are both talking from but you can change constitutions and Act democratically, at least a far as the jurisdictions I can think of.

@marksgreatest @ciphergoth @cremieuxrecueil I think the Constitution/Human Rights Act (depending on where you are) would probably have a lot to say about your opinion, once it had finished laughing.

@ciphergoth @cremieuxrecueil You absolutely can if it’s a democratically elected policy.

@cremieuxrecueil In a democracy you can't give strikes for arrests.

@cremieuxrecueil @elonmusk Does graph show violent convictions or just convictions?

@wastetime @MyToastisNot @wendybar14 @politicalmath You’re a child that doesn’t understand the difference between things and nuance. I don’t spend my time willing messaging children on the internet so I’ll finish this now.

@MyToastisNot @marksgreatest @wendybar14 @politicalmath Lol I avoid having nazis show up at my rallies is by not going to rallies for racist traitor icons But if I was at a rally for a statue of a guy who fought for slavery, and the nazis showed up to join me in protecting the racist traitor statue, do you know what I would do?

The big defense of Platner is this "Sure, ok, he got a Nazi tattoo. But do you *really* think he's a Nazi? For real, you don't *really* think that." This is sickening to me b/c they expect their right-wing opponents to be honest on a thing where they have an entire industry supporting this accusations of racism and Nazism in order to destroy the lives of their ideological opponents. Walz never thought Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute. No one on the left *really* thought that. No one on the left *really* thinks that Musk is a Nazi except for the mid-wittiest of midwits who are so susceptible to suggestion, they are prime candidates for cult membership. The SPLC has pulled in over a billion in donations calling mainstream conservatives anti-Semites and racists when they know that's not true. Just this week, left-wing cartoonists portrayed a black SCOTUS justice as a KKK member. Does they really believe that? Of course not! But they will say that they do. If you ask left-wingers "come on, you never really believed that these people were Nazis and racists", they will just lie to you and tell you "yes, I genuinely believe that throwing up the OK symbol was racist and, if you push me on it, I will double and triple down on it. I will insist that I am an idiot even though these people are obviously not Nazis. I'm locked in on this stupid position and I will use any accusation of this kind to ruin your life even though I know it's not true." They expect you to be honest when they absolutely would not and then they will leverage your honesty to advance their own purposes without EVER granting you the same benefit of the doubt or honest assessment.

@wastetime @wendybar14 @politicalmath Define group? Radical Islamists who want gay people stoned to death attend rallies with well meaning people that want to see innocent Palestinian children not bombed. Are they in the same group?

@marksgreatest @wendybar14 @politicalmath Ok but these boys *were* in the same group

There's finally empirical evidence that the French Revolution was partly driven by high taxes. Areas with heavier taxes between 1750 and 1789 voiced more tax-related complaints and fielded more rioting against the Ancien régime.

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

TrumpRx is not a scam. Is it perfect ? No. That would require them to add all @costplusdrugs meds ! They have done a great job on IVF and GLP1s. If it allows a couple to afford to grow their family or to afford the GLP1 they need, it’s a win.

@thewinterdollx I’ve seen men just do it with make up and a wig. How is there any denying it?

I quite literally went from a biological man to a biological woman via HRT… How is there any denying this? Literally look at my before v after photos - I’ve literally had 0 surgeries or procedures outside of this!

@wastetime @wendybar14 @politicalmath Your stating “ marching with them”. All that is true is they also opposed the removal of statues. Mao and Democrats were both for more public ownership but that doesn’t make them the same group.

@marksgreatest @wendybar14 @politicalmath But thats everybody who was there on that side You think he was talking about imaginary people that didnt exist?

Alice Weidel: “They flood our countries with illegal migrants and force our own people to feed and house them, all while terrorism stalks our street, crime explodes, & Islamic extremism takes root.”

@wastetime @wendybar14 @politicalmath Neither

@wendybar14 @politicalmath Who were the "very fine people"? Was it the people with swastikas chanting about jews? Or was it the people marching with them?

@RokoMijic No media reports on this.

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@george__mack What did he do when he finished the job?

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

@GrayConnolly What is the Russian loss rate?

No serious person (ie not Frank Luntz) believes these were the actual casualty figures (2+ divisions) & it says something concerning about the American blob's loop that no one found these claims ridiculous?

@AlderLaneEggs Kyoto

Where am I ?