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@ShawnRyan762 Economic productivity is the foundation of America power. Petrodollar let us export Fed inflation. China has an even more inflated and manipulated currency. There is a currency regime shift underway, but the winner will not be fiat.

The petrodollar is the foundation of American power. Since the 1970s, oil has only been sold in dollars, forcing every nation on earth to hold dollars, fund our debt, and keep us dominant. Iran just systematically dismantled that. They closed Hormuz, cutting 25% of global oil supply. Spiked oil to $118 a barrel. Then forced ships to pay in Chinese yuan for passage. Now Gulf states are dumping US treasuries, bond markets are selling off, inflation is surging, Deutsche Bank is warning of a petroyuan era. Every link in the petrodollar chain is snapping at once. When it's gone, your borrowing costs explode, your savings erode, and America loses the financial weapon that has kept us dominant for 50 years. China wins without ever pulling a trigger.

@lrodrig20 @CedraCrenshaw It's a choice of sacrifice - one income vs. another child to the state

@CedraCrenshaw The vast majority of parents can't stay home to homeschool their kids. This is not an option for 95% of families.

Politician: I'll give you the $14,000 that would have been spent on your child in public school Homeschooler: It doesn't cost $14,000 to homeschool a child. Many families spend less than $1,000. Politician: But don't you want the money? Homeschooler: No Politician: Why don't you want the money? Homeschooler: First, it's government money. Second, strings are attached. Third, it's bloated with waste that drives up prices. Politician: Then what do you want? Homeschooler: I want you to stop stealing my income in the form of property taxes for public schools that I don't use and just leave me alone. Politician: But if I did that, I wouldn't be able to make you a dependent, controllable part of my voter base. Homeschooler: exactly chooseeducationindependence.com/resources/

@nickitruesdell My kids had fun with the end of the 1776 play/movie, when Jefferson and Adams argue whether it's unalienable or inalienable.

Today my teens will begin copying the Declaration of Independence. Not only will they get all the language arts benefits listed below, they will be more intimately acquainted with one of the most important documents in our history. Reading it is very important; reading and copying it is lasting. (We’re providentially in the thick of American history, and a lot of our copy work comes from our history lessons. They just recently copied Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech.)

@reddit_lies One of these things is not like the others - Illinois?!?

> American posts they'd prefer to live in America > One of the most controversial posts of the week on all of Reddit

@DennisPrattFree As with everything else here, the efforts of individuals dwarfs the orgs. Classic seen vs. unseen.

> "Prove to me that LPNH is helping move libertarians to NH!" First, I have the best handle on in-migration as I see folks coming through my inn as they investigate NH. My current estimate is FSP_Inc and LPNH are about tied for the impetus for in-migration. Second, I don't believe data matters to you. I could do backflips to gather alternative data sets, but it wouldn't satisfy you until they matched your bias. You'd likely find fault with all others. (And excuse me if I'm wrong, but I've been yanked down this path way too often.) Third, while I appreciate your concern, it comes down to this: “Are you moving to NH to build the libertarian homeland?” If yes, that’s great! You can build alternative groups and attract the libertarians you prefer. I’ll help you. I've built fantastic tools to help you. If no, that’s too bad—for you, for your affinity groups, and for liberty-for-real. But as an outside observer, you don’t get a say in who actually moves here to build. My recommendation is to stop throwing stones and instead build here what you want. But I get that stone-throwing is much easier than building (though I question whether it's more fun or fulfilling!). #BuildDontBitch

@Homeschool_LLC OK for grad school STEM, but not business anymore

Are the Ivy League colleges worth it or ones to avoid?

@bwags Sadly a US phenomenon. International soccer and volleyball are well-produced and stable streams, with knowledgeable announcers.

sports in the streaming era are so cool. is it easier to find? no. is the broadcast weirdly dark and gray? yes. is the connection more reliable? definitely not. it must be cheaper then? also no

@sagharborcap Introduced by an obscure rep name Gerald Ford

This is literally the most UChicago thing I have ever seen

@BasedMikeLee George Bush the elder?

When you find out that a candidate for public office was trained or previously employed by the CIA, are you more or less likely to support that candidate?

@BrittanyinTexas That's an indictment of Harvard

Trump just called Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “low IQ.” Let’s be clear: She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard & earned a law degree. She’s one of the most qualified legal minds in the country. Trump? He insults accomplished Black women because he can’t match them.

@NHSenateDems Now do Virginia redistricting

Republicans just made it harder for young Granite Staters to vote. Ayotte signed a bill banning student IDs at the polls, reversing a law that's worked without issue since 2013. If your ideas were working for people, you wouldn't need to shrink the electorate to win. #NHPolitics

@ChiTownPanthera @RealJamesWoods @deneenborelli You desperately need to read Sowell. And if you want conservatives to shut up, go to Bluesky.

@RealJamesWoods @deneenborelli You’re only nominating him because he hates blacks as much as you do. That’s it. If he was speaking for reparations and fairness for minorities you’d be calling him a n word. Stfu

Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.

@ChrisExpTheNews Yes, used to find a better one at Asian groceries, but I think this is the best Amazon one.

@toowm You used out before?

If Japanese Twitter can still read me, I promised to tell you the next time I was making mapo tofu. Howdy. These are the ingredients I'm using, along with the eponymous tofu, and some ground pork

@ChrisExpTheNews amazon.com/dp/B07PW1S84L

For the life of me, I can't find a decent shaoxing wine. The stuff at the store is all basically salt water. I was told a dry sherry is the closest Western approximation, so I'm going with that instead.

@barnes_law I get it, but the Federal government shouldn't be involved at all with loans, homes, or jobs.

The Trump plan for young men: maybe get sent to war, but you get crypto, prediction markets, online gambling, pot and shrooms. No go on loan relief, access to home ownership, better jobs, or lower cost of living.

@GrapheneOS @WIRED @WIRED is the @splcenter of the tech world

WIRED (@WIRED) has gone ahead with publishing an extraordinarily inaccurate article about GrapheneOS. It presents a highly inaccurate history of the GrapheneOS project heavily based on fabrications from James Donaldson. WIRED failed to incorporate most of our responses to his inaccurate claims. Donaldson has fabricated a whole alternate history of the project and Copperhead including leaving out the fact that it had 3 co-founders rather than 2. Donaldson lived off income brought in by Daniel's open source project created prior to the company. He certainly didn't fund it as he claims. Prior to publishing the article, a fact checker at WIRED asked us a long series of questions about the project. These questions made it extremely clear that the article was largely sourced from fabrications from Donaldson despite it not being specified. It's not a real history of GrapheneOS at all. Our community manager spring-onion (Dave Wilson) handled nearly all of the communications with WIRED. He's a public-facing member of our moderation team and well known in our community. WIRED first reached out to Daniel, promised the story wouldn't be about him and were handed off to spring-onion. WIRED heavily misled about the article. They led us to believe the article would be about GrapheneOS with little coverage of the history. They repeatedly reassured us it would hardly have any of the content it ended up being based around. Therefore, we had no opportunity to properly address it. We made a forum post at discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-origin… which contains an overview of the situation along with the unmodified answers we provided to WIRED's fact checker. You can see for yourself what we provided and that it wasn't anywhere close to adequately incorporated into the article. After the article was submitted, we received that list of questions from WIRED's fact checker. We realized the article was largely going to be a fake account of the history of the project based on Donaldson's claim. That's when we made these posts: x.com/GrapheneOS/sta… bsky.app/profile/graphe… A small portion of our response to those questions was incorporated, but not most of it. There's also more we weren't asked about which we can now see is in the article. We tried to address that at in the initial overview at discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-origin… prior to the submitted answers.

@Champaign_Room Need Mirk the Merc

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@drantbradley @Trillionsouls The same way that they walked, talked, and got potty trained, by love and attention. Your logic argues for the state taking infants from the hospital.

@Trillionsouls I’m wondering how illiterate parents are supposed to homeschool their kids.

To The “Everyone Should Homeschool” Crowd, you live in a bubble. ~Yours Truly, Reality. “According to the National Literacy Institute, 21% of U.S. adults are illiterate, while 54% have a literacy comprehension below a sixth-grade level.”

@SethDillon I trust @TheBabylonBibi more

If you love America but support Israel, you're "Israel First." If you love America but don't hate Israel, you're still "Israel First." The only way to be "America First," it would seem, is to openly hate Israel. The problem is that this group is dominated by America-hating Nazis, America-hating Islamists, and America-hating progressives. It's an Anti-American movement wearing the flag as a disguise, like a transgender wearing a dress.

@BowtiedQueenBee That area is far from ocean, less Noreaster snow.

Honestly sounds like an amazing deal, if you don’t mind snow.