Pavlina Draganova
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Shit's so bad they're reinventing the Ottoman Empire from first principles out here
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
Why don't they just make a big country called Middleast, and put Erdogan in charge of it? It's fucked up I don't understand a thing about this stuff.
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@svershbow Wait only $100 in New York?!? Drop your cleaner's contact info!!
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Spending $100 every other week to have my apartment professionally cleaned continues to be the best investment I make every single month.
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I am obsessed with 'dressed like a rat for the grand sewer opening'.... will be deploying
🍊 bunny 💙💛🍉@fruitybnuuy
wait until the english speakers find out about our other iconic phrases like "dressed like a rat for the grand sewer opening" "free is a fair price" "for free even vinegar is sweet" "looks like shit, and tastes even better" "place where dogs bark with their asses"
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@annakhachiyan Just say you're jealous that she's hotter and smarter than you babe
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I mean she’s some rich Arab with a vanity human rights law practice that George Clooney chose over a hot model or actress because it was important for him to be seen as the type of guy who marries an intelligent and credentialed woman not just for her looks lmao she is really pretty though
C 💒@churchofysl
when someone tries to fear monger me when i say marriage after 30 but amal clooney built a successful career and then got married at 36
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@NickTimiraos @TheStalwart @tracyalloway this isn't what you told us on Odd Lots, pls do an update episode
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By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
The tariffs had a significant effect on trade volumes: Facing higher U.S. tariffs, Indian exporters maintained their prices but reduced the volume of shipments to the U.S. by 18%-24% relative to the European Union, Canada and Australia, the report found.
Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans. The $200 billion in additional U.S. tariff revenue last year “was paid almost exclusively by Americans.”
wsj.com/economy/trade/…
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@jacquemusx The first outfit is great, the second outfit is ugly but unfortunately on trend (that's for all of us to collectively reflect on & do better), third outfit is however 'milenial wearing business casual to the club' attire so neither trendy nor timeless imo
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@ejtmanley @Darren_Mooney a) that is the claim
b) it isn't becoming the norm
c) we have a lot more volume of media being produced today, so it's easy to point to a small cluster of the total volume and make generalizations
d) if you want to watch new original movies in the present day, there are tons
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There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture.
The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in the ‘HARRY POTTER’ TV series.
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@ejtmanley @Darren_Mooney Yes.... but the OG point was lacking the context that pre- and post- Burton version, there were many carbon copies of the exact same Batman across media. The original post claims 'remaking' a carbon copy of a story is some new form of cultural decline. That isn't the case
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@ppdraganova @Darren_Mooney I'm going to agree with original point that Burton was very much doing his own take and vision with the character
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@ejtmanley @Darren_Mooney He mentioned Batman as an example of "new takes on old things", as if we haven't been remaking *carbon copies* of Batman across media way before & way after Tim Burton. My point is we have always remade carbon copies of popular things, it's not a 'new' cultural degradation thing
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@Darren_Mooney You'll lose your mind when you find out we have been replicating the image of Cleopatra across various media programs for literally centuries
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@Darren_Mooney Darren are you familiar with "Superman" or "Batman" or perhaps "James Bond", you should check some of those out. I don't think any new theses need to be written on "new popular thing enters circulation of things that get remade a lot"
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@rissaoffline Omg yes I did read this about a year ago and it clarified so much! Obviously I am biased as a representative of Ask Culture, but I just think it's a much better way to function - and many countries seem to have decided the same and defaulted to Ask Culture on a societal level
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@ppdraganova idk if ur doing the polite clarifying thing but the link is for anyone who hasn't seen it. i'm usually pretty direct and wish that were more standard, but atp if I notice I have to tailor Too much, i just take it as a sign to distance (bc of all the problems u mentioned)
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@caryatis I have noticed fake-agreeing is seen as a super polite high-etiquette thing to do in the US since I moved here, but tbh I think that's to the detriment of your ability to communicate well with each other! Have witnessed so many totally preventable (and hurtful) misunderstandings
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@caryatis Are you American? Bc this is not at all a traditional etiquette rule in many parts of the world, eg in Eastern Europe (where I'm originally from) it's seen as a mark of care & respect to contradict someone if you disagree, and fake-agreeing is seen as duplicitous, therefore rude
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Solar in China generated ~1/3 as much as *all* U.S. generation last month.
And it’s doubling every 2 years.
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan
I don't think people understand how fast this race is. In May, Chinese solar generated over 100 TWh. China has the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. nuclear fleet worth of generation from solar and storage — every year. Soon, it will be an entire *U.S.* worth of generation — every year. (note: U.S. solar generated more than Chinese nuclear in May, and it will soon generate more on an annual basis)
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@nikitabier @kurorosage Because it's 2025 and not 2014, your phone and laptop both have the ability to autofill these fields in a split second. Hope this helps!
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@kurorosage Every time I see an app ask for name and email on the same screen, I die inside.
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The vast majority of mobile apps of Fortune 100 companies are using design mechanics that date back to 2014.
If they adopted the current state-of-the-art, they would see >40% higher rates of user activation. Many of these changes only take a few hours to implement.
Billions of dollars are being left on the table.
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