Wie Dan🍃
@LudditeHacker
Surfing the Wu Wei Web.
I'm only first order smart so I can't take those metaconsiderations into account.
The quality of the replies I get keeps dropping. I'm probably becoming dumber so my bad tweers keep attracting a worse audience. Maybe I've audience captured myself and the decline is unstoppable at this point idk
Nice thread of Stancil describing how a coup really works in practice and how little attention to rules you need if you can create enough chaos. See also Stancil's reaction here. He's upset, he knows something is wrong, but can't pinpoint exactly what happened.
You had a couple hundred people - we don’t know how many, because nothing was being counted - who just took over the endorsement process for a bunch of races, in 30 minutes, and jammed them through at 9:15 PM on a Saturday. Hard to imagine a process that feels less democratic.
If EU members want a Brexit-style deal with the United States, leave the European Union.
🇪🇺 Donald Trump’s trade deal with the European Union is facing a backlash as key figures in Brussels fume that the bloc has been left worse off than Britain. Get the latest updates ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
Iron discipline. Never a single slip up. The subject doesn't matter at all. Such breadth. I'm in awe. How does he do it?
The Anatomy of Ideological Capture: How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao Recently, I posted a passing aside making fun of how Wikipedia frames Mao's legacy, assuming that what I saw was self-evident. I got predictable pushback from Maoists and tankies, which didn't surprise me. What…
A magnificent example of the European culture we’re told doesn’t exist. Touches my heart every single time.
We waren ooit een echt land
Voor wie de Europese (Duitse) opstelling tov Syrië niet snapt. Het komt hierdoor:
Hebben we al gedaan, en het gaat nog veel meer worden. Jolani is de Duitse hoop dat ze zonder gezeik van het migratieprobleem af kunnen komen doordat alle Syriërs magisch terug gaan keren als het daar goed gaat. Van zo'n sterke wensgedachte komt je niet zo makkelijk af.
We call democracy the election of the kapos by the victims, the choice of the genocidaires by the genocided.
15,000 toy guns,some of which were prizes in crane games, have been recalled. Police found they were capable of firing actual rounds, therefore have the capacity to inflict injury or death So far around 5000 of the imported toys have been recovered
About 350 Godric Gryffindor Swords that were sold at the Harry Potter experience shop in Tokyo are being recalled since they are violating the Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law 銃刀法違反 because the ends of the swords are pointed stainless steel. They sold for about $200.