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Once ‘Ultra MAGA’, Trump Supporters Fume About Iran on Truth Social nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/… via @NYTimes

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@freedomrideblog @loonlake55 Yeah that tuition is now $44k/year but security job salaries haven’t risen 11 fold since then.

@doc_satoshi @loonlake55 Yes. That's what I mean.

Too many young people are resenting Boomers, claiming that Boomers had it " easy " financially in their youth. Here are a few fun facts about growing up Boomer. 1. Almost everyone grew up with one bathroom. Mom, Dad and all 3-6 siblings. 2. If you did get to take a vacation, you drove. With no air conditioning. No cup holders. No iPads. Just black vinyl seats and bologna sandwiches. 3. There were no club sports. No Parks and Rec activities. Summer camp was for rich kids. Get yourself a bike, a stick and a few friends. If you were bored, you laid in the grass and looked at clouds. 4. You ate what was served. Even if it was chicken livers. No DoorDash, no backup Totino's rolls. 5. No AP classes, no PSEO, no "fun" elective. They assigned you to a class. You went. You did what they asked. Or else. 6. Unless you had rich parents, you had a nice VFW wedding. Maybe rent a room at a modest hotel. 7. Most Boomers got their first pedi and mani in their 50s (when their feet got farther away). We didn't even know people got massages in real life, only in Hollywood. 8. You packed your own lunch for decades. 9. No one knew what red light therapy was, a facial, a spa day, or a cold plunge. Your gym was the YMCA. Usually in a rather old building. 10. We grew up with 18 percent inflation, 14 percent mortgage rates, 3 million continuing unemployment claims, and 200 other applicants competing for the same job. Now, this is not to say Millenials and Gen Z have it easy or don't face problems. It's just to say, nobody has it easy or doesn't face problems. My only hope, as my mom would say, is I live long enough to see my kids' kids complain about how easy they had it!

@freedomrideblog @loonlake55 UNC Chapel Hill med school tuition was $4k/yr in the 80’s. A colleague paid for it with an evening security job throughout med school.

All true but you don't mention that boomers could count on full-time living wage employment with benefits, public universities that were so cheap they were almost free, and the ability to buy a home if you saved well enough. Few people were in college loan debt beyond the first few years of graduating.

@21WIRE @RWMaloneMD I have patients who were shot where the bullet lodged near the spine and still appears pristine on x-ray decades later.

@RWMaloneMD Surprise surprise, Bugsy’s running cover for the deep state…

True story... "They show only that the bullet was too fragmented to confidently link it to ANY gun. This is not uncommon, and DOES NOT mean the bullet didn’t come from Robinson’s gun."

@jasonhickel @BenjaminNorton Experienced if first hand and it was a nightmare. Living standards literally plummeted overnight and a colossal brain drain was triggered.

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc. SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core. gh.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…

@NickSzabo4 @RKelanic Then why aren’t they doing it now? Are any US Naval vessels close enough to enforce that?

Trump still has a way to make this look to the electorate like a U.S. victory. Namely, the U.S. can *also* charge a toll at Hormuz. Iran controls the north shore. The U.S. via its GCC proxies controls the south shore. We both have military veto power over commercial shipping at Hormuz, and neither of us can take that power from the other. We can split the proceeds.

Wars reveal information about countries' relative military capabilities and interests. That's one of the most important insights from the bargaining model of war. Iran believed before the war that fighting the U.S. would strengthen its bargaining position -- and Iran was correct. This war has revealed that Iran wouldn't topple after Khamenei's death, that Iran is highly resolved, and it can inflict damage across the Gulf at low cost, indefinitely. It revealed that Iran can gain massive leverage -- and perhaps even collect "tolls" -- from controlling shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. By contrast, the war has *hurt* U.S. & Israeli bargaining power compared to where it was before the Geneva talks in February. That means we'll get worse terms now than if we'd accepted Iran's proposal then. Why is the U.S./Israel position worse? Decapitation strikes failed to induce Iran to surrender (always an unlikely prospect), nullifying the U.S./Israeli theory of victory by day 3. No new plausible theory of victory has emerged, and it's doubtful one will. That hurts the U.S. position. Trump has proven highly sensitive to oil market swings, and even *removed sanctions* on Iranian oil. As @edwardfishman noted, Iran gained more sanctions relief from closing Hormuz than through any diplomatic means, including the JCPOA. The disruption to oil markets, and Trump's concern about them, also hurts the U.S. position. Now that the war has bogged down into an attrition battle, where Iran can impose costs with cheap means like drones and missiles and Israeli interceptors seem to be running low, the U.S. and Israel are on the losing end of the damage and casualties curve. Costs and casualties will get worse, not better, over time, and that further hurts U.S./Israeli bargaining leverage. Trump is now considering, frankly, foolhardy military gambits, potentially to seize Kharg, islands in Hormuz, or perhaps the highly enriched uranium trapped somewhere under rubble in Iran. These would be significant escalations putting U.S. troops on the ground. None are likely to end the war, and all would likely cause U.S. casualties. In the business lingo, Trump's BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) is way worse -- not least because of the shadow of Afghanistan. The U.S. forces being surged to the Middle East (2 MEUs plus some airborne units) are comparable to what George W. Bush used to invade Afghanistan in the autumn 2001. What started out as a limited mission to topple the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden, who instead escaped through the Tora Bora mountains, evolved into a ground campaign that eventually ballooned to over 100k U.S. troops in 2011. The clear imperative here is for Trump to deescalate, credibility costs be damned. This war is existential for Iran but not for the United States, Iran will keep fighting with cheap means like drones, and it will eventually outlast the U.S. just like the Taliban did in Afghanistan. That, or Iran could fracture into chaos, creating refugee flows and breeding terrorism for decades to come. (Terrorism isn't an existential threat to the U.S., but we shouldn't be creating the conditions for it.) Trump doesn't like backing down, but that is what needs to happen here, and stat, before ill-fated escalation leads to more needless deaths. @defpriorities

@DavidHundeyin Swahili was proposed as a global language around 50 years ago by the UN but oyinbo ignored it.

Personally, I'm learning Swahili and I think as an African, wherever on the continent you come from, that language is the future for a variety of reasons. That's the most important language our kids will need to speak over the next 25-40 years. I'm not wrong about this. I'm just early.

@pati_marins64 Wait for the Hollywood Blockbuster depicting how they escaped

American military cannot leave Iraq With an order to evacuate bases 10 days ago, military cannot leave and remain under intense fire from Iranian drones and local Shiite militias. Iran managed to open fire against almost all American bases in the region to the point that the military had to abandon these bases in a billion-dollar loss. Patriots were powerless in the face of the number of attacks. However I believe that the anti-drone systems of these bases were not strengthened for an eventual confrontation with Iran. Later I will write how this redraws the role of the American military presence in the Middle East and completely broke the confidence of Asian countries in the American ability to give them protection.

@truthstreamnews @_whitneywebb For that market to work, the population has to be dumbed down. Idiocracy was a documentary.

“We stole all your knowledge and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

@simpatico771 Do they need to sink it though?

Translation: "Sink a carrier and we nuke"

@milesdeutscher Maybe they need a Snickers bar hehe

Are anyone else's LLMs (Claude & GPT) absolutely fucking stupid today? The quality of responses are much much worse than usual. Must be something to do with conserving energy/data centres.

@milesdeutscher Bro are you safe? Ensure personal security, your X audience can wait.

This is the time to go ALL IN. While everyone else watches Netflix this weekend, you could get ahead with AI. My advice: pick 1-2 tools/workflows from this list and learn them like the back of your hand. Your goal: have a working prototype by Monday.

@jakeshieldsajj If you watch the videos of missiles landing the answer’s pretty obvious

Every Sunni Muslim country has allied with Israel over Palestine Do most Sunni Muslims support Israel or just your leaders? This is absolutely shameful yet I never see it discussed

@RnaudBertrand @FriedaLi3 I think they should rethink that otherwise the end result will be similar to the end of the Cold War where all peripheral parties were picked off then delivered the coup de grâce to the Soviet Union.

A lot of people around the world, including in the Global South, are wondering why China - given its growing status and power - isn't more active in the defense of countries suffering illegal attacks in terms of international law? I'm thinking about the question of Palestine, Venezuela, or Iran, for instance. I think the answer probably has to do with the fact that China doesn't want to become a U.S.-like world policeman, but I'd love to hear how Chinese legislators think about this matter.

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@Brightersonic_1 @mykael_yuddy If you read that interview carefully they were actually disappointed COVID didn’t kill more Africans.

@mykael_yuddy If you aren't special he wouldn't bother with you. Remember during Covid, when he and his wife estimated how many bodies will be littered everywhere in Africa. I know you don't see your self worth, you think that we're being paranoid because what could we possibly have?

Why is it dehumanizing? What's so special about Nigerians - and Africans in general - that makes Bill Gates want to spend billions to depopulate you?

@herd_member @richimedhurst @chia_project @bramcohen One of the few cryptocurrencies that can still be mined at home

@richimedhurst It has a recent centralisation issue though. And there is still the issue of how to transact with zero trust. Take a look at @chia_project and the way offer files work. Chia (xch) was built by @bramcohen, the guy who made bittorrent.

I wasn't going to bother with anything related to crypto in the cyber security book but the way they are moving to outlaw online anonymity in the UK and EU, my advice for now is to get your hands on Monero and save it for a rainy day. Bitcoin is no good, you must convert it to XMR using Cake Wallet.

@DanDicksPFT This is why I never vacation in Mexico

Airports shut down, military getting involved, power may soon be cut, our resort is surrounded by burning cars, the situation is intense!

@e_samierr @dom_lucre @grok Bots on the loose today. Can’t even rephrase the same question.

@dom_lucre Are the files authentic, and where did they come from? @grok who does Dr. Harry Fisch currently work for?

🔥🚨BREAKING: Famous Jewler TraxNYC is offering an ounce of gold for anyone who can film theirselves asking Dr. Harry Fisch why he and Jeffrey Epstein were chatting about Pizza & grape soda in the recent files released.

@qwright99924750 @insiderlauren @LizCrokin @Crux41507251 Because they’re doing something much more sinister with them. If it’s only single use then you need an insatiable supply of them.

Arianne Rothschild trafficked a mixed race girl to New York for Epstein - using their ‘Oreo’ code work. Food code words are frequently used within the files relating to girls being trafficked. Arianne Rothschild you should be behind BARS. cc: @LizCrokin @Crux41507251