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The frog of war. All my intelligence is artificial. A fintwit founding father and Emeritus Chair. A macroprudential risk obfuscatooor.
Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau's critique on religion convinced me there is God. @Pontifex is trying hard to undo that.
And here we go again. A new day, a new anti-men/poor women article from the NYTimes. It never ends. Feminist scholars have come up with a new term ‘mankeeping’ which frames women supporting their men’s mental health as a burden on women. This is truly toxic. Sickening.
Male loneliness epidemic > women most affected New term just dropped to denigrate coupling up (mankeeping) because you know what society needs more of? Single women exhausted by emotional labor! I can’t believe anyone uses the phrase “emotional labor” unironically
The coping will continue until morale improves
It is very strange reading headlines implying that the country that is unilaterally making things more expensive for its own people is somehow "winning" relative to places that are not
The intellectual impotence of the lieberal left on full display

BREAKING - It has been revealed that the $100 million raised for Los Angeles fire victims was funneled to over 188 NGOs, many unrelated to the fire, including a musicians’ charity and an NGO whose whole entire job is to raise money for other NGOs.
PROPS TO AMERICAN EAGLE MARKETING TEAM FOR TURNING SYDNEY SWEENEY INTO COLIN KAEPERNICK FOR LIBS. 256D CHESS.
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
Satanism and witchcraft still ok? Asking for a family member.
Go home. We don’t like your brand of bigoted Christianity.
this should terrify everyone. the whole world is malnourished
Not even bluesky will buy this argument. Mostly, because your number $25 Bn is vastly inaccurate. The USA spends multiples of it annually already to combat hunger and inequality.
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
What a time to be alive.
To fully grasp how big a trillion actually is. A million seconds is 11 days A billion seconds is 31 years A trillion seconds is 31709 years There’s something deeply evil about the idea of a trillionaire actually existing
Euros upset about getting crushed on trade would be better served being mad at and replacing their occupational ruling class of castrated bugmen who agreed to those terms
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The dems never imagined their "wait it out" strategy on Trump would have to last 6 months, let alone 4 years. They thought it would be a couple of months, max. Now, with the EU and Japanese trade deals as well as the passage of the OBBB, they are starting to see the…
Either let France rule the EU, as a de facto continental French Empire, or scrap the whole thing. I'm not even joking.
Either let France rule the EU, as a de facto continental French Empire, or scrap the whole thing. I'm not even joking.
FFS
I apologize to all viewers. I was too effusive in making my point about the great economy we have..
I see no issues here. Actions have reactions. She’ll learn.
Subway manager locks up 10-year-old girl for walking on floor he just mopped: officials trib.al/93JmgKC
And look at us now.
The share of goods in total UK exports has fallen to a record low, in a sign of Britain’s shift towards services as the economy absorbs the impact of Brexit and oil price moves on.ft.com/3J74Zhq
Ursula: LNG from the US is more "affordable and better" than pipeline gas from right next door. Europe is being destroyed, and it is deliberate.
I only averaged 42.069 km/hr
WE HAD THE FASTEST EVER TOUR DE FRANCE EDITION THIS YEAR 😮💨 Average speed: 42.445 km/h. 🤯 #TDF2025