Hans Castorp
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If Starmer had just done Swinnyism across the rUK he could have had polls like Swinny (another very boring man) - and that was what he was elected to do! Instead, he chose (was pushed down?) the path of Mandelson/McSweeny/Blair, and here we are.
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SNP success is accounted for entirely by not fucking up. They inherited Brownite New Labour domestic policy and left it entirely unchanged. Innovated in no way in any sector but refused to do Toryism or whatever Starmer is up to and are reaping the rewards.
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Forgot to mention an important fact of omission. UAE is completely excluded from the diplomacy, along with Israel. We can read this as evidence of the Saudi-Emirati confrontation reemerging due to their divergence on Iran policy once it became obvious that the Iranians had this in the bag. The entire Islamabad show must be making Abu Dhabi furious and fearful. They’re on the menu.
Policy Tensor@policytensor
As we work towards the Islamabad Accord, a natural question arises: what explains the central role that Pakistan is playing? Pakistan leads the quartet with Saudi, Turkey and Egypt. Of all these powers, Pakistan is closest to China. And it is through Chinese intervention that the quartet have been able to bring Iran in. On the other side, of all these powers, Pakistan is also closest to the Trump White House. It seems to have been instrumental in bringing JD in, and make other concessions up front like the release of frozen funds. Pakistan is also closest to the Saudis, who are really the diving force behind the quartet diplomacy. It’s not quite right to say that Pakistan is acting as an agent of the Saudis. Perhaps one can say that they partially represent the Saudis while also serving as the neutral convening party. This suits everyone just fine except the Israelis who want to fight the war to the last American JASSM. The Israelis are also alarmed at the quartet itself. Bennett made it very clear that this four Sunni power axis is directed at Israel. And they are not wrong. It is a counter-balancing coalition against Israel masquerading as a counter-balancing coalition again Iran. We will learn a lot more later on about the exact role-playing here. What did the Chinese offer to the Iranians to get on board? What was on the quartet agenda re Israel? Do the Saudis want a hard bargain or a sort bargain with Iran? And is Russia standing behind Iran? TBD.
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Hans Castorp retweetledi
Iranian delegation being received like heroes on the runway in Pakistan.
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"آج میں آپ سے ایک تاریخ ساز موقع پر بات کر رہا ہوں، ایسے موقع پر جب اللہ تعالیٰ کے فضل و کرم سے یہاں جنگ نہیں بلکہ امن کی باتیں ہو رہی ہیں۔ وہ فریقین جو کل تک جنگ میں آمنے سامنے تھے اور خطہ تباہی کا منظر پیش کر رہا تھا، آج الحمدللہ دونوں فریقین بات چیت کے ذریعے معاملات طے کرنے پر راضی ہو چکے ہیں۔
اس انتہائی اہم پیشرفت پر اپنے برادر ملک ایران اور امریکہ کی قیادت کا تہہ دل سے شکریہ ادا کرتا ہوں، جنہوں نے میری تجویز قبول کرتے ہوئے ناصرف عارضی جنگ بندی پر اتفاق کیا بلکہ میری پُرخلوص دعوت پر دونوں ممالک کی قیادت اسلام آباد تشریف لا رہی ہیں، جہاں امن کے قیام کے لیے مذاکرات ہوں گے۔ پاکستان کو اللہ تعالیٰ نے میزبانی کا شرف عطا فرمایا ہے، یہ صرف پاکستان کے لیے نہیں بلکہ عالمِ اسلام کے لیے بھی ایک لمحۂ فخر ہے، اور جس کے لیے ہم ربِ ذوالجلال کا جتنا بھی شکر ادا کریں کم ہے۔"
~وزیراعظم محمد شہباز شریف کا قوم سے خطاب
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It concerns me that there are two different things we've decided to call "hashbrowns" while one is far superior to the other
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@manaita_foooo @VkTg_Vroad Don’t Japanese people eat red meat rare?
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@VkTg_Vroad 普通にアイツらバカなので生焼けのラムとか出して腹壊すことありますよ（経験談）
やっぱり狩猟民族って野蛮なんすよ(((
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モン・サン・ミシェルのオムレツ、あまりにも生で腹壊す奴が続出してるけど、観光地で初見さんしかいないから成り立っているって聞いてパリの安宿で爆笑した
まいたけ@shimejinoeringi
イタリアのティラミスとかフランス本場のチョコレートムースとか生の卵白が使われてし、卵かけご飯をしないだけで生卵を使う料理色々あると思うんだけど毎回こういうやつ湧いてくるの何？
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nah, these are superior
holly 𖦹@norrisnovels
the urge to own every single one of these waterstones classics
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@HSVSphere @leepavelich They all have silicosis and will die at 50.
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@leepavelich This doesn't even look that bad. They could improve shard loading, otherwise it looks like a fine environment to work in. Very far from the trailing end, the hard work is automated
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We always talk about the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution, but how about the trailing edge?
Dane@UltraDane
The more you watch, the worse it gets.
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@TheMurkyDepths People missing the wood for the trees here by talking about these as buildings - where’s the street scape!
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Yep it's dreary shite. If having a flat roof make them 3-4 storeys at least.
This is the result of endless compromises resulting in dogshit. Many other examples
Sam Bowman@s8mb
The new build estates on the outskirts of Cambridge are truly shocking. Is it any wonder that people there hate the thought of expanding the city when this is what they can expect will be built?
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@whoismrzero @Empty_America Yeah also lots were Presbyterian or Reformed which is not high church Anglican in vibe either.
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@Empty_America But, many New England WASPs were Congregationalists, as well, which was not High Church.
Also, High Church Episcopalianism didn’t become common until the Anglo-Catholic revival movement in the mid-late Victorian era.
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The other thing to understand is that the "P" in WASP didn't mean what you might think.
They had zero cultural relationship with anything like modern evangelicalism, southern Baptists, etc.
Especially in NYC, many were attending very high Episcopal Churches, like this:
serena shahidi@glamdemon2004
Been reading a lot of old books satirizing traditional WASP culture and I would love for someone smart to explain to me why Catholicism became the aspirational right wing trad country club aesthetic instead of Protestantism…? 🤔
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@lmartods How on earth can these guys complain about a lack of stable budgets from Congress? Beginning to wonder if the US is suffering not just from wasteful private sector contracts and revolving door but old fashioned money-missing officer corruption.
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Like literally think Americans don't understand how depleted their war fighting capabilities are, I mean Brits understand but Americans I don't think do
2 Nut (Pick Up) 🇵🇸@hueoops
it’s because the u.s.a. air force has a crisis level shortage of pilots, not whatever white mumbo jumbo that is being said on twitter dot com
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@WilliamHogeland Yes, unlike post war US heyday of psychoanalysis, insurance is now reluctant to pay for psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Lots of reasons why it fell out of favour, mostly not smart, as you say, but patients don’t get psychoanalysis to the extent they might have because of insurance.
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@morbidsymptom Insurance rarely covers psychoanalysis, but also people were smarter then.
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Hans Castorp retweetledi
This exactly what I was getting at the other day about who is subordinate to who (government, capital, military etc) and how that defines a system more than if "markets" are present (they're always present in every system).
Bloomberg@business
Chinese officials tell private refiners to keep fuel production at 2025 levels — even if they have to incur economic losses bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@SamoBurja @mattyryze Cut off genocidal Israel and offer genuine concessions to Iran which reintegrate it into the world economy. Doubling down on this war is morally wrong and strategically foolish. There is no “winning” it.
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@mattyryze How do we get peace while Iran doesn't want it because they (not implausibly!) believe they are winning the war?
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This might be a long war. If it is a long war the United States should try to win it.
The prerequisite for winning it is similar to what would be needed to win a war against China:
Complete military reform, drone manufacturing capacity, energy resilience. Let's go.
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Do not attempt to change history:
This war started in 2018 when Donald Trump, in his previous mandate, withdrew from the nuclear deal signed by the US in 2015.
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So this is me. And while I’m not upset that this dude is making fun of me online, I do have to say I am pretty confused about the punchline
I am wearing a fairly… normal outfit? Was at a dive bar watching the u of a game wearing a u of a sweater. Oh well
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