it’s actually awesome that hunter biden is like this crack-smoking law breaking failson but also he really believes in this patriotic lib democratic norms type stuff
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business associate, asked Hunter why appointees from the Obama/Biden Admin arrested him.
Hunter explained, “It’s democracy…every presidents family is held to a higher standard…it’s the price of being the most powerful group…
Why this design? It’s adaptable to streets that can’t get a bus shelter and can be affixed to existing bus signs with no new permits required. This simple treatment provides shade during the day and utilizes solar energy gathered to light the stop at night.
Weight loss drug Ozempic causing selloff in candy and beer stocks, per Bloomberg.
Walmart said it’s already seeing an impact on shopping demand from people taking Ozempic.
That sent shares of food and beverage companies sliding, some to multiyear lows.
Crazy.
my crank byzantine opinion is that the fourth crusade was the fall of the roman empire, the nicean rump state was too discontinuous in its institutional make up and self identity to be considered a continuation of the byzantines
The fact that the Byzantines were able to claw their way back from this and hang on for another 250 years is both one of the great triumphs of Greek history and also one of the all-time Westoid fumbles
this doesn’t say as much about the smog in la as it shows alhambra is bizarro world. somehow in the middle of a sprawling metropolis every resident there manages to resemble a country bumpkin in outlook and knowledge
people like to say this a lot about the financial press but it’s just that american news orgs are pretty consistently poor at international coverage. like it doesn’t benefit bankers to get accurate coverage of atrocities
ok to be serious for a sec i just can’t feel anything but disgust for this dark brandon shit after everything with gaza and i’m not really sure how you guys still vibe with it
wanna hear what blew my mind? even though this era is known for fordism, it was aerospace not automobile manufacturing which was the
#1
employer in america in the 50s and 60s
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@MedvedevRussiaE
there are a billion tragedies to come out of the failure of the interwar years but one i think about frequently is how everyone just gave up on trying to make multiethnic polities work
look, all i'm saying is that SF and the Bay Area would be so much cooler if someone built a Statue of Colossus on Alcatraz
with one of these bad boys, SF goes from our
#2
city behind NYC, to
#1
in America and
#1
in the world. guaranteed.
pokémon games has graphics ranging from great to pretty good until they transitioned to hd, which gamefreak was clearly not prepared to handle. which would be fine if they like, adjusted to match the new dev environment but instead they just kinda gave up
@quantian1
tbf they’re not really in the first book either, other than a bit where duke leto tells paul they can’t fight the harkonnens inside a space guild ship because they’d get pissed
all great empires build grid cities: romans, chinese, americans etc. it’s just easy to do. the european squiggly street layouts are the remnants of podunk little castle towns with populations of like 5000
“The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930”
watching the deficit balloon to unprecedented levels over the last 5 years: ok now democrats will compromise on spending goals because they don’t want to increase the deficit
everyone’s talking about how funny the idea that fdr caused the dust bowl is but also the dust bowl didn’t cause a famine? like, the problem agriculture faced during the great depression was that there was a glut not a shortage of food
@VellowVperedist
“so in this timeline the germans won WWI-“
“but they didn’t.”
“no but like america didn’t join WWI in this-“
“america fought in WWI. what’re you talking about?”
this tweet is a joke but this is literally a core part of america first. from its inception america first types have always argued for expanded imperialism in the US’s “near abroad” as an alternative to other forms of engagement. it’s not hypocrisy, it’s all consistent
french nationalists view of world war 2 is honestly so funny. it’s like “ok, we lost right away in 1940 but actually we fought honorably. and it was petains fault. then nothing happened between 1940 and 1944 i guess. then suddenly de gaulle shows up and beats the germans
i like this conception of the president as kingly figure, the arbiter of justice and giver of laws, as opposed to like the head of the executive of a massive bureaucracy
@OneShoup
yeah i believe only two metro areas in japan have actually seen consistent population increases - tokyo and osaka. other than that it’s been stagnant or declining local populations, even in the mid tier cities like sendai
anyway in the off chance anyone who follows me hasn’t read this phenomenal piece by
@BuddyYakov
, it’s been my guiding star when trying to understand the postwar political economy, i return to it time and time again, you NEED to check it out
@sociologyWV
@Scholars_Stage
the claim that marx was unknown before 1917 feels obviously not true though? or at least incredibly anglo-centric. the german sdp was an explicitly marxist party and had a majority in the reichstag!
the fact that this is the first map that comes up when you google roman empire is probably not good. it makes people think conquests which barely lasted two years were actually part of the roman empire in any meaningful way