BowTiedExpat™
@ExpatAftermath
Recovering expat. Proud lackwit. Performative misanthrope. Normality is death.
This is a fake tough guy who has never been up close and personal with a knife-wielding assailant, let alone one with half a pharmacy's cocktail of stimulants and chems in his system and/or severe mental illness. If a knife comes into play, and you have no choice but to engage…
If you need a gun to fend off someone with a knife maybe you are just a total piece of shit and lack the skills needed for survival. Learn hand to hand combat.
lmao
Legit how is it possible for a UK gov agency to post a job like this?
Here is one real parallel to the Great Depression 👇
Here's a weird question. One institute calculates the "True Unemployment Rate" in the US as 23.9% - that is the percentage of the workforce that for all intents and purposes cannot find a real job (cf. the headline rate of 4.2%). During the Great Depression, unemployment.../
I'll believe that conditions have reached Great Depression levels when thin women are the norm rather the exception
He doesn't explain it, he just asserts it. There is no analysis here. 'Young people can't afford homes' - more than half of millennials own a home. What percentage of the American population owned homes during the Great Depression?
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Imagine President Trump being herded onto an airport bus like a budget airline passenger. That’s how China just welcomed the EU.
idk if anyone knows this, but it probably stopped moving bc the actuators overheated like crazy there's no good way to dump heat from these machines. Moving this much, this quickly probably broken a bunch of stuff bc of thermals that's the secret behind these guys. they're hot
Ulysses S. Grant's visit to China with notable Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang. Grant had traveled to China after his term as president during a two-year world tour. 1879.
Yes, patriotism today involves constructing a system where young Americans aren’t forced to compete with international slave labor for basic white collar jobs.
So-called "culturally attuned talent" when you explain that American values do not include selling out your countrymen to the lowest bidder
Nobody wants to face the reality that most children born throughout history were accidents and in a post-Christian world, there is no inherent worth to breeding. If anything, it's a detriment. There are large swathes of humanity that should have never been born. Before…
There's a good op-ed in the FT with a similar take. I am so tired of the concern trolling on this issue. "All theories for the baby bust, other than choice, get undeserved shrift." archive.ph/SwuiK
It's disgusting tbh. I have such contempt for these people. Lying thieves
Three separate wedding celebrations in NYC, Dubai, and Uganda. It is always the same with these champagne socialists. It is remarkable how many avowed socialists during my undergrad in Trinity spent their study breaks skiing.
Just for one day X should pull an algorithm reversal and crash all its users into the opposite silos
Bongino is a human version of that infinite zoom gif. Always on the cusp of telling you something he knows that will shock you, but never telling you.
Grifter who got hired to stop the thing he grifts about continues to grift.
BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he will “never be the same after learning what he has learned.”
trevorabroad lore: from studying russian to failing a bribe (and getting jailed for it) 21 yrs old began studying russian in college b/c "critical languages" were a long term play in my mind. arabic? saturated post-9/11 by every polisci student. mandarin? that's heiroglyphs. so…
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i'm def exaggerating for humorous purposes - i left for visa reasons but there was many political issues you have to be careful about there. and that was then. it's much different now. if i'm not mistaken you can't even tutor on the side like we used to (and make bank…
i taught english in china in 2013 after spending 2012 living in russia/ukraine and studying graduate level russian courses. i used to cast a vote for my kindergarten chinese students. raise your hand if you wanna spend recess outdoors. essentially taught them majority voting =…
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The speed limit is 85 in Texas It's legal in many states to exceed the speed limit while passing It's legal to take your car on a racetrack It's legal to drive as fast as you want on roads you own It's implicitly legal (judges will consider it) to speed in emergencies Journalists…
If it isn’t legal to drive over 80 mph anywhere in the country, why are cars sold with the ability to do so? Is there any other product that explicitly enables and displays an illegal use case?