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@Aaronusmagnus @Ed_of_O @Valen10Francois Some lines might not be profitable, the system as a whole is beneficial.

@Ed_of_O @Valen10Francois This is a Hong Kong one that has to pass some form of Chinese censorship amp.scmp.com/economy/china-… This is an academic one pekingnology.com/p/china-massiv… If you want to read Chinese commenting on it "six lines are profitable" zhihu.com/question/31355…

China's rail system in 25 years jumped two centuries It's the same guy on both photos!

@AdvanOosten @simongerman600 @WorldInMaps Communism is a western ideology though

@simongerman600 @WorldInMaps Strange indeed. It's obviously a political map. Communist countries like Cuba and Venezuela shouldn't be drawn into the Western camp.

Does anyone in the dark blue nations think they don't below to the "Western Sphere". The term is meant culturally not geographically obviously... HT @worldinmaps

@CVolatile93395 @not_a_jug WWI

@not_a_jug What happened to Central Europe?

I have seen many takes on this, but this is how I would categorize Europe

@StranaReforiem @not_a_jug Then spain is central europe.

@not_a_jug Former Habsburg monarchy countries…. Lets say these are Central Europe…. Different from “Eastern“ ….. another different point, Eastern versus Western is Orthodox vs Catholic

@not_a_jug @didaclopez Wait, andorra is not europe?

@JordiGraupera @pvidal10 per parlar de model d escola en català s ha de parlar de model d escola i fent-ho acabes parlant de model de societat. Semblaria que ja hi ha una mica d això implícit en la vostra proposta i no sé fins a quin punt esteu fent servir el català per tapar el debat de fons?

@JordiGraupera @pvidal10 pel que m expliquen amics que es dediquen a la docència el retrocés en l us del català paradoxalment té poc a veure amb política lingüística.

L'escola és el front clau pel català: Els fills de totes les llengües maternes hi passen 8h al dia durant 10 anys. Hi tornem el català per tothom? Com evitem que castellanitzi? DOCENTS I FAMÍLIES CONVOQUEM 1er Congrés de la Doble Xarxa. Inscripcions: Doblexarxa.cat

@JordiGraupera @pvidal10 T’ho dic perquè a mi d entrada em costa imaginar una societat regida per lògiques de suma zero que no siguin mínim autoritaries. Vull dir que poder estan jutjant l èxit de la immersió amb uns criteris impossibles d assolir.

@JordiGraupera @pvidal10 Quan dius que la immersió no existeix ni ha existit mai a Catalunya entenc que vols dir en la pràctica. Quins exemples de lleis similars se t acuden amb un 100% de compliment a tot arreu en tot moment?

@danwilliamsphil @Miles_Brundage Nor there has been a better book than harry potter.

@Miles_Brundage There has never been a better TV show than The Sopranos. Nothing else comes close.

Dune is to sci-fi as The Sopranos is to TV - the first "prestige" sci-fi/TV, and one that many people read/saw when younger and which therefore has a lot of nostalgic associations for many, but is not quite deserving of the pedestal some put it on [hides from tomatoes]

@NewPopLit @yashalevine amazon replaced in person shopping so they hag out on Twitch now.

@yashalevine For teens, malls were great. Unparalleled variety, and you were always sure to run into friends. Definitely better than kids today trapped on their smartphones.

things r so bad americans nostalgic for warehouses built for mindless consumption as ersatz replacement for communities destroyed by automobile technology.

@claraxac De primer de pitis amiga

@nntaleb @didaclopez Not really.

Those who treat humans as machines are also treating machines as humans.

@MrVizzHQ 😂😂😂

Una pareja mexicana vino a España a montar un negocio. Esto es lo que se encontraron.

@RandomRation @duffy3putts @PirateWires The federal government also dictates car companies how to build cars, that doesnt mean you have public transportation.

@duffy3putts @PirateWires Nonsense. I work in healthcare. Medicare helps dictate what private companies do. It has been like that for decades.

In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”

@macleans Being able to learn a second lenguage seems like a good threshold to me.

Canada’s bilingualism policy produces some strange spectacles: French schools in the Arctic, French CBC programming for Albertans, prime ministers speaking French in Australia, a $126-million French-language university in Toronto with just 25 students. In an essay for Maclean’s, commentator @JJ_McCullough argues that these are signs of a political doctrine that has become more revered than rationally defended. “State-mandated bilingualism conflicts with Canada’s self-image as a fair and merit-based democracy,” he writes. “And the worst may be yet to come.” McCullough writes that the usual case for bilingualism rests on shakier ground than Canadians like to admit. It’s often justified as a historic obligation to one of the country’s “two founding peoples.” But he points out that Canada was never meaningfully a country of only two peoples. In any case, he argues that official bilingualism was more of an accommodation to keep Quebec nationalism in check. “Official bilingualism nevertheless remains venerated by all manner of Canadian elites as a taboo in the truest sense,” he writes. McCullough’s point is that the language policy merely privileges a narrow pool of bilingual people from the Laurentian region to the upper ranks of politics, government and public institutions. The result, he argues, is a gatekeeping system that shuts many Canadians out of top careers. “This bilingual glass ceiling on political talent has warped Canadian democracy,” he writes. “Review the heads of basically any senior federal institution, be it the courts, Crown Corporations, the military or some major regulatory board and you’ll find a Canadian elite that remains much whiter and much more Laurentian than the country it rules.” In a country that presents itself as multicultural, meritocratic and inclusive, he argues, official bilingualism is becoming harder to defend as anything other than exclusion with financial and cultural costs. macleans.ca/politics/offic…

@futureghost327 @lookingforgames @ChaseBrowe32432 Demonizing something that millions of people find useful surely will help them understand how to use it responsably, consider better alternatives or opt for the least harmful option when there is none. You are doing a great job.

@lookingforgames @ChaseBrowe32432 If you showed me a USEFUL application of GENERATIVE artificial intelligence for the GENERAL PUBLIC, not software engineers or niche tech fields.

I think maybe Taylor Lorenz is too deep in her tech fandom to see the difference between a genuinely useful tool (the internet) and a bad product in search of an application (generative AI)

Another Trump Team Embarrassment 🇺🇸 DHS Counterterrorism Official Julia Varvaro Under Investigation Over 'Sugar Daddy' Complaint Varvaro, 29, Trump's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, is facing a formal DHS Inspector General complaint after a man claims he spent $40,000 in three months on luxury trips and Cartier jewelry, and that she told him her collection was "TROPHIES from her sugar daddies." She allegedly told him she was "above being tested" when he warned the arrangement could jeopardize her Top Secret clearance, and texted from a Homeland Security conference: "They call me Secretary. I like it... I'm the boss princess." A former CIA officer is now asking how a FULL BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION missed any of this. The administration that promised to hire only the best is currently investigating its own counterterrorism office. You cannot make this up. All Credit to the DailyMail and their team for the story and images. Especially, SHAWN COHEN, US SENIOR REPORTER