i actually read the Odyssey in the original greek. complete waste of time, i have no idea what those symbols mean

This is just a tempo issue. Speed it up to 1.25 or slow it down to .75 and watch, much more fire song

Iran's FM: "Humanity has come too far as a species to allow a lawless bully to take us back to the law of the jungle."

What if Iran’s nuclear weapons program was just all the friends we made along the way?

Breaking 🚨🇦🇷 | Argentina Outgrows China: 5.8% Annual Growth Beats China’s 5.4% in First Quarter

Former Toyota chief was born in 1925 and died in 2023 at 97. As a teen and young man he watched his father struggle to build good Japanese cars in Imperial Japan. As an adult he succeeded, making Toyota the world's top auto maker. By death he was watching China rise with EVs.

Mick Jagger has been performing since 1962. That is 63 years! A lot of decisions, anxieties, plans, strategies, and expectations start to look extremely different when you assume you could be doing something for 63 years and project that out.

Morris Chang was a smart high schooler when the transistor was invented. He started working in the chip industry in *1958.* He founded TSMC in 1987 at the age of *56 years old.* He is 94 years old, still going, witnessing possibly the rise of AI and advising political leaders.

so many artistic problems can be corrected, like monet not understanding how to paint water and picasso's crippling case of bálint's syndrome

I agree with the overall direction of this post. It's an good take. But the chart is slightly deceptive given that supply shocks will throw off the correlation over any serious time frame. And I always find myself wondering how this argument disregards the strong theoretical

unusual_whales Every great technology cycle starts this way -> massive capital inflows, little to show for it, and the loud chorus of “bubble.” Railroads, electricity, the internet. returns didn’t come from early spend, they came from infrastructure maturity. The graveyard is full of companies

I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and

Selling stolen oil and putting billions of dollars in a bank in Qatar to be spent without Congressional approval is not Constitutional. Only Congress can appropriate money. The President can’t legally create a second Treasury overseas for his own piggy bank. Wake up Congress.

Hey Salesforce , I manage a charitable school in Asia that has been told our Slack prices will increase 7-fold in the transition to Alibaba Cloud . We were given 3 months to switch. We do our budgeting by the school year. Anything you can do? Students will be affected.

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we

MSNBC is live defending the second amendment and the conservatives on twitter are explaining that the existence of a firearm in an interaction with a federal agent is a justifiable death sentence. I’m beginning to feel like no one actually believes anything

If these guys are going to charge around like maniacs, pushing people so hard they fly into the snow, and then reflexively blast pepper-spray, all within seconds, they either have catastrophic lack of self-control, or have deliberately chosen to rapidly escalate these situations

DHS>MN WTF, POS

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Rose Blumkin was one of Warren Buffett’s favorite operators. She ran Nebraska Furniture Mart. Here’s how he described her… Mrs. B… probably makes more decisions in a day than most CEOs do in a year (better ones too)… I have been asked by a number of people just what secrets