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We've likely recreated the post-pandemic supply chain problem. Unlike the past, though, once systems start coming back online(slowly), countries have already started looking for more reliable partners and becoming more protectionist. Recipe for a longer, drawn out recession.

Regarding Pareidolia and finding faces in the clouds: Faces in particular because we've been wired by tens of millions of years of front-facing primate evolution to associate with them. Two ellipses above, one malleable center shape(triangle/circle), and a line below means you

Usually the line goes "Why don't you release the hostages, then?" with the conclusion of this moral logic going unsaid. Here we have a sitting member of Congress openly saying that genocide should continue. At least he's honest about the implication of the statement. No shame.

Tulsi Gabbard's own spy agencies say in leaked memo that Tren de Aragua likely isn't being directed by Maduro(they are seen as a security threat internally), undercutting Trump's entire argument for the Alien Enemies Act and a foreign "invasion." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

It's well known that challenging the Lord carries the distinct risk of having an insect gnaw at your brain for a decade.

American Accountability Foundation President Donald J. Trump Helen Keller warned, “Tyrants have tried to do that before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them. You can burn my books and the books of the best minds but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds."

Concerning trend of New Zealand emigration exodus: Still more net immigration to NZ, but it's narrowing as cost of living increases, job opportunities dwindle, and stricter immigration rules from a Right-leaning shift in NZ politics leads to fewer migrants. One of the primary

A bit of good news: Bucharest mayor and left-leaning presidential candidate Nicusor Dan is on track to winning Romania's Sunday election. This after far-right Calin Georgescu was rightfully banned after a fraudulent election with Russian interference five months ago.

The average person minutely follows Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's every utterance, voraciously reads gossip magazines, and watches fake reality TV shows about billionaires firing people. Ideas are like the steering wheel of the Titanic for the Zeitgeist: Most people lack

Racism on the Internet is the same as the Village Idiot problem writ large: In hunter-gatherer societies the village idiot is banished, mocked into submission, or doesn't speak up because of how obviously stupid his ideas are. The problem is when one village idiot finds another

Under the Ottomans there was a paternalistic tenant system - certainly antiquated, yes, but functional and important to how Palestinian society operated at the time and how inheritance worked ostensibly under the Sultan and his hierarchy top-down. As I mentioned, under the

No country, nor any individual, can survive by solely worrying about themselves. Through something like Frankl's inverse intentionality, helping yourself is best served by extending your interest to others, having a larger external purpose and narrative, and empathizing with

On a thread regarding the typical conservative claim of, "but top income earners already pay most of the taxes." Why is this misleading in terms of fairness, and why should top income earners pay a higher percentage? -- Wealth is distributed unevenly close to a Pareto curve(for

Air conditioning at scale is a major contributor to CO2 emissions and unrestricted energy use, which is probably part of the reason Europe is resistant to it(alongside the incongruence of hypercapitalism, overabundance/production/consumerism, and Global South exploitation having