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So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey. And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum."
Katılım Ağustos 2024
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I, with sincerity and purity of intention, invite all Islamic countries and governments to friendship and cooperation in goodness, so that by working together we may take steps toward the advancement of the Islamic Ummah and the resolution of the Islamic world’s problems.
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There’s lots of talk about the Abraham Accords.
Contrary to popular belief, its actually not the Arab or Muslim states who are standing in the way of normalization.
The Arab Peace initiative exists and has been on the table for decades. Israel gives Palestinians 22% of their land back for them to establish a Palestinian State, in return 57 Muslim countries instantaneously normalize with Israel.
Israel just never took that offer, which exposes their bad intentions. They care more about tormenting the Palestinians than they do about normalization with their neighbors and forever peace.
Multiple countries engaged in normalization baby steps with Israel as part of the Oslo Accords, including Qatar. Israel did not honor their side of the deal therefore the normalization fell through.
When the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco signed on to the Abraham Accords the premise was that Israel would in return stop expanding their settlements in the West Bank. They obviously did not honor their side of the deal.
There simply isn’t a framework for successful normalization with Israel.
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@TheHughAnthony Of course you should be sceptical about grandiose claims of retards at the WEF, but the science on this shit is unanimous in favour of human action having real effects on climate patterns
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I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon.
Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.
RS Archer@archer_rs
Apparently climate change is a myth.
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2026 is the year Mamdani gets elected and I’m back in New York after nearly two years.
Only brighter days ahead.
So happy to be back in my city!! 🍎
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شاهزاده رضا پهلوی: «من برای مردم و کشورم مبارزه خواهم کرد. حتی اگر مجبور باشیم این کار را به تنهایی انجام دهیم، تا زمانی که ایران آزاد شود، مبارزه خواهیم کرد.»
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@aakashgupta What you can accomplish if your empire is dialied into winning instead of gay race communism.
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That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.
Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.
The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.
Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.
Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
Ulises@UlisesDavid__
🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años
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He does not think he can win the Presidency.
But he does think he can split the GOP vote in 2028 and hand the Presidency to a Democrat.
And he will do it out of spite.
TMK@themagaking
Thomas Massie received just 47,539 votes in a losing cause in Kentucky, yet somehow believes he has a path to the presidency with JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Ron DeSantis in the Republican Party. His delusions of grandeur are off the charts.
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@SawyerMerritt I was echoes about the interior
The car looks disgusting
I was wrong
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Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce.
• Starting price: $640,000
• Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive
• Range: 280 miles (expected EPA)
• Peak charging speed: 350kW
• 122 kWh battery
• 1,050 horsepower
• 0-60mph: 2.4s
• 800v
• Four-door four-seater
• Four electric motors
• OLED screens
• Weight: 4,982 lbs
• Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm
• Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car.
• Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels
• The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered
• 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S
U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:
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It really does seem like Trump threw the Iranian people under the bus so that he could force countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to normalise with Israel.
Was this war ever about Iran, or was it always with the goal to strengthen the Israelis at the expense of Iranians?
I dislike asking these questions, but they need to be asked sadly.
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If Rubio knew the history or architecture, he wouldn't have posed for a picture here. This monument was built out for the love of emperor's Iranian wife, crafted by the genius of Iranian architects — meanwhile his government today threatens to wipe out Iranian civilization, insulting other civilizations.
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The Saudi and Emirati leak that the outlines of a peace agreement between the Trump White House and Iran are taking shape as follows:
•U.S. unfreezes $25 billion and transfers to Iran, unconditionally
•Sanctions on Iran’s oil sector lifted
•Iran agrees to stop enriching uranium past the same 3.67% that Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan had set, how verified is TBD
•Iran allows the removal of 400 kg of its current 60% HEU, keeping about 10% of their current near-weapon grade stockpile, enough for 1-2 warheads if taken to 90%
•Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic
•Iran does not commit to ending all uranium enrichment and does not commit to ending support for Hezbollah, Hamas, et al
Basically, Trump would be buying Iran’s highest enriched uranium for $62 million per kilogram. And Israel gets fuck all, Iran is still in the nuclear enrichment business.
The deal stinks for everyone except Iran.
Might be the biggest TACO moment of all time…If this is real.
So we went to war, lost American lives, killed civilians to resurrect a lesser version of the Obama deal (JCPOA).
A waste of American lives and treasure.
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As an Iranian, my heart is broken. Torn into pieces.
For the first time in 47 years, President Trump gave us hope and did what no American president before him was willing to do—Only to leave us more devastated than all of his predecessors.
At least they never pretended to care.
At least they didn’t use the people who gave their lives for freedom as pawns in a political game.
I genuinely cannot think of anything more cruel.
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Saudi Arabia will not join the ‘Abraham Accords’ unless there is a binding plan to establish a Palestinian state. Given that the current Israeli government is occupying territory in Syria and Lebanon and bombing other countries, I do not believe this is a realistic prospect. Netanyahu does not want peace.
As a reminder: the Kingdom 🇸🇦 launched the ‘Lasting Peace’ initiative for a two-state solution and the right of the Palestinians 🇵🇸 to an independent state. This is a consistent position that has not changed.
As for the war on Iran: from the outset, the Kingdom has called for dialogue and warned against threatening the region’s stability under the pretext of war. And after it broke out, it stated clearly on more than one occasion: this is not our war. It will respond to militia attacks at the appropriate time and in a manner that protects its national security.
And since the Kingdom’s warnings regarding the war on Iran were ignored, those who made the decision to go to war must bear the consequences of their failure, not shift the blame onto the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش@citrinowicz
There needs to be an end to the false expectations surrounding Israeli-Saudi normalization. Let’s start with the semantic issue. Anyone familiar with the relationship between Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and the broader regional order understands that if normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia ever happens, it will not be branded as an extension of the “Abraham Accords.” From the Saudi perspective, that is not a cosmetic or semantic matter. Riyadh will insist on its own framework, its own terms, and its own political narrative. But that is the smaller issue. To understand just how detached current normalization talk is from regional realities, it is worth reading the recent arguments made by Prince Turki al-Faisal and other influential Saudi voices. In essence, the prevailing Saudi view today is that Israel has become a major source of regional instability, in some respects viewed as even more destabilizing than Iran. At the same time, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who sees himself as a central leader of the Arab world, is unlikely to move toward normalization without significant and visible progress on the Palestinian issue. The reality is that renewed Saudi-Iranian accommodation is far more likely in the near term than Saudi-Israeli normalization. That may be uncomfortable for many in Washington and Jerusalem to acknowledge, but it reflects the region as it actually exists, not as some policymakers wish it to be. Saudi Arabia will not agree to normalization in exchange for cooperation on Iran alone while the Palestinian issue remains unresolved. Contrary to the hopes of some in Israel and the United States, there was never a realistic path toward bypassing the Palestinian question on the road to broader regional normalization. This is also why comprehensive peace agreements between Israel and countries like Lebanon or Syria remain highly unlikely under current conditions. Much of the regional diplomatic architecture ultimately runs through Riyadh, and Saudi Arabia is not prepared to legitimize a regional order that sidelines Palestinian aspirations. From the Saudi perspective, Israel cannot indefinitely hold both ends of the stick, deepening control over the West Bank while simultaneously expecting the political and economic benefits of normalization with the Arab world. The sooner policymakers internalize that reality, the more grounded and effective regional diplomacy can become. And this is true not only under Israel’s current government, but very likely under future governments as well. That is precisely why it is irresponsible to continue selling illusions to the Israeli public on this issue. There is no serious regional pathway to normalization with Saudi Arabia that completely bypasses the Palestinian question. Repeating that promise over and over may serve short-term political narratives, but it does not change the strategic reality in the Middle East. At some point, Israeli policymakers and the public alike will have to confront a basic fact: normalization with the Arab world, especially with Saudi Arabia, will almost certainly require meaningful movement on the Palestinian track. Not symbolic gestures, but substantive political steps. Pretending otherwise may be politically convenient, but it only deepens the gap between expectations inside Israel and the diplomatic realities shaping the region. #IranWar #Iran
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That will never happen.
Saudis left good lives to fight Communism in Afghanistan they volunteered to fight in Bosnia and Chechnya far from their families.
Do you think they're just gonna allow Israel to invade the Land of the Two Holy Mosques? The birthplace of the Prophet Mohammed عليه الصلاة والسلام and The Sahabah like Abu baker Omar Othman and Ali رضي الله عنهم ?
That will be a can of worms that will change the world for good.
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@Hitchslap1 200+turtle=rock
230-rock=turtle—-> 230-turtle=rock
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430=2rock ———->215=rock
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Turtle = 15.
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