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Russian military sources are predicting a collapse of the Russian frontline in Autumn due to chronic fuel shortages and a logistical nightmare created by Ukrainian drone strikes.
Today is Pete Hegeseth’s 46th birthday. Here are some FACTS you won’t hear from the news: 7 kids 3 successful marriages 1 term as Secretary of State The corporate media won’t wish him a happy birthday because they hate the traditional nuclear family
It’s deeply odd to me that America is a far less 24/7 hour society today than it was 10, 20, or even 30 years ago. I vividly remember friends from the UK back in 1996 marveling at the fact that in the mid-sized Indiana town where I went college it was possible to buy groceries, clothing, a lawn mower, a snow blower, Lego sets, and bow hunting gear at 3 AM on any given Tuesday of the year. That was peak American Empire, and it’s long gone.
Ive talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. Our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades
I know it's a trivial issue in the grand scheme of things, but not enough is made about how awful the World Cup logos have been since 2014. What used to be colourful and inventive has now become standardised and sterile. Much like football itself.
Here’s an ongoing thread of what places in Greenpoint, Brooklyn used to look like vs. what they look like now.
Nineteenth-century cities grew much faster than modern Western ones. Some grew a hundredfold or even a thousandfold in a century. And on the whole, they did a better job of it than we do. @Aria_Babu, @bswud and I discuss the rise and fall of the liberal city. We talk about: - Why American towns were so much less dense than European ones, even before modern transport technology; - How Thatcher would have done privatisation differently if she had studied the Victorians; - When the Victorians opted for Stalinist-style central planning, and when for carnivorous laissez-faire. And why they were right in both cases; - Why East Coast cities are surrounded by forests, not agricultural land; - How the expansion of Nottingham was blocked by the 'cowocracy', a cabal of cow farmers who paralysed the city and caused rampant overcrowding; - How price controls and inflation wrecked Western public transport, and how they would have done so even without the rise of the car; - How Victorian local governments behaved like private companies owned by local ratepayers, and why this was mostly a good thing.
Man dodges arrows in shootout between tribes, Papua New Guinea 2025
Iran and Israel are allies but no one is ready to have this conversation
Just being in the city is goal for many people. It has replaced doing something interesting in the city or creating something. The city itself is the end goal now.
