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    What Are You Doing Right Now?

    And not just the kathoey high on Thai iced coffee. Though the quake was a 7.7 in Myanmar, I love how people are only asking about Bangkok. :shifty:
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    'Murica!

    When you fail to read the ending of the book... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization ... Import substitution policies might create jobs in the short run, but as domestic producers replace foreign producers, both output and growth are lower than would otherwise...
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    Lloyd Kelly

    Kelly's anus is gonna get rekt
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    'Murica!

    This is what happens when you choose loyalty over competency. This is only going to get worse in this administration over time.
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    'Murica!

    Isn't that his OnlyFans?
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    Stephan Lichtsteiner

    And today we have Koopmeiners, with the grinta of a wet sponge.
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    'Murica!

    Soft power?
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    What Are You Doing Right Now?

    Both will have advocates like some wannabe Incas. But the last pole flip I believe was 780,000 years ago, which is still <<< 34 million years ago
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    'Murica!

    Māori so f'ed
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    'Murica!

    All part of Trump's broader strategy to ensure the 2026 World Cup and the LA 2028 Games has full US home field advantage. He's just thinking ten steps ahead of y'all.
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    Gillette ups the ante, unveils 5-blade razor

    Dude... 4D! You can shave across time and space! And since this thread started before YouTube existed, here goes:
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    'Murica!

    "But Hillary's emails..."
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    A1 - Artificial 1ntelligence

    Isn't that redundant? Like, aren't all AI bots Chad bots? Nice. v4. Chickenegro Then you will love this LinkedIn post from last week: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonwardley_conversations-from-the-future-x-i-activity-7308467018154864640-fsyB/?rcm=ACoAAAArDAABGT9X75CcQmvZun0lXiQF2yeCisY...
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    'Murica!

    If she were UK, it would be balcony. (see: Liam Payne and auditions for the UK's World Champion Balconing Olympic team: https://balcon.ing/) If she were Russian, it would be window on the 177th floor. If she's American, the answer is naturally, "Vaxxed?"
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    'Murica!

    I also came across this lovely backgrounder... this is essentially Trump's motivation for tariffs and mass re-domestication of manufacturing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrialization It was an economics recipe that developed nations (including the U.S.) gave many...
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    'Murica!

    When you delusionally believe a nation-state leader is a corporate CEO, suddenly you believe you can fire citizens and outsource your legislative branch to the Philippines to save money.
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    Thiago "The Fired Fraud" Motta

    His approach to team formation just reminds me of Jeremy Irons as the gynecologist who invents his own instruments in Dead Ringers
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    What Are You Doing Right Now?

    My main thesis there is the egoism of modern man, who believes it is the evolutionary pinnacle of all creation, intelligence, all superiority. It is a kind of colonialism expressed across time rather than space. We are born in many cultures (not all) that like to believe in some progressivist...
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    'Murica!

    If you think you can trust the USA for the rights of its documented legal immigration system, just wait when it starts defaulting on T-bills :)
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    What Are You Doing Right Now?

    Ok, I gotcha now. Yes, I could see keeping secrets. Things if exposed would ruin families, businesses, etc. So there's financial and prestige incentives involved for keeping it secret. Isn't that the story of the House of Savoy these days? Or a lot of murder plots, for sure. But keeping...