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When the Iranian Foreign Ministry is the only rational actor…

Trump is pausing arms sales to Taiwan. Everyone thinks his support is wavering after Xi made him dance like a performing monkey.

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

More evidence of how badly Trump has lost the war in Iran. Iran has destroyed over two dozen US MQ-9 Reaper drones since the war began - nearly $1 billion in losses and about 20% of the Pentagon’s prewar fleet, Bloomberg reports.

A large crowd of Greenlanders has protested outside the new, larger US consulate in the capital Nuuk. Amid placards with Trump and Epstein and No Means No, the crowd turned their backs on the consulate and stood in silence. “Greenland is not for sale," said protest organiser Aqqalukkuluk Fontain.

I was just remembering that Farage didn't hold any surgeries in Clacton for months (I mean, does he now?) citing the fact that he was very vulnerable because gov't had not given him enough public money to keep safe. But it now turns out that he had already pocketed £5m for security. Hmm. 🤔

I hope I live long enough to see the brilliant satire movies about Mangolini’s last days. As well as the memes that follow it.

How about: a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

What Trump is doing to the world. From The Economist:

It's kind of fascinating how the red-brown phenomenon is exclusively the reds following browns and never the other way around

From the other march, apparently, for those who missed the point of my second post.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

just gonna note that although the specifics have not been as bad as my hypothetical example, I called the 'Trump parrots Xi's language on Taiwan' thing before the meeting happened.

Well, colour me surprised...

* Summit with Putin - got nothing out of it. * Summit with Xi - got nothing out of it. * War with Iran - got nothing out of it. Starting to think this whole Art of the Deal might not be true.

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?

Not only is there no World Cup boom, hotels are seeing lower reservation rates than In the same period last year. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

“My name is Reek. It rhymes with weak”

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Homeschooling. This is also the effect of homeschooling. There is almost no supervision of US parents who homeschool, and very fee states have standards for homeschooling.

Serbia has picked up the metal mantle from Finland 🤘🏼 #Eurovision

San Marino is bringing a proper party anthem and doing diamond vibes better #Eurovision

Lithuania smashing it with weird metallic death vibes. Who needs the Blue Man Group? #Eurovision

The song from Belgium is meh but the choreo and projections are cool. Maybe they’ll go to the final #Eurovision

The song was …. ok #Eurovision

Don’t underestimate getting the crowd to sing along to pop rock by the cool moms band #Eurovision

[clears throat] Montenegro is giving Salem witch trials. It’s giving convent horror movie. #Eurovision

Finland, buddy, what happened? The fire doesn’t make up for the bland song. #Eurovision

Oh Italy with your 70’s vibe and men dancing together. Love it, even if the vocals are a bit off #Eurovision

Voguing. Outside bras. Georgia is channeling 1990’s Madonna. #Eurovision

Portugal heartfelt as always. And for them it’s always a winning strategy. #Eurovision

He’s brought a knitting grandma and classical statues. Hitting all the right notes for the show.

Greek Tony the Tiger is jamming, and quite a change from last Greek entries #Eurovision

Ooh, loving Croatia’s face designs. Not expecting the pagan vibes #Eurovision

Female folk pop group. Sounds promising already #Eurovision

Say what you want about Eurovision, but Moldova's entries over the years have single-handedly made me want to visit the country.

Great light show but generic song from Sweden. #Eurovision

Bold start by #Moldova clearly stating “we are part of Europe” #Eurovision

I have no idea how to end this thread, so I'll just say this: There are a lot of completely miserable people on here, and they will tell you, earnestly, that you owe it to them to be just as miserable as they are. Please do not listen to them. You are loved, and you deserve your joy.

Dogpiles exist to give everyone a nice hit of dopamine, but it's also a way to punish outgroups AND as a way to keep the ingroup in line. After all: if you see the horrible shit the ingroup does to the outgroup, you're incentivized strongly to not end up in the outgroup.

The greater good, of course, in this case was "making me as miserable as possible". Because the most fundamental thing to understand about dogpiles is that they have leaders and they have followers, and every single follower knows that they could be the one at the bottom of the next pile.

But the thing that makes dogpiles different from just "a bunch of people being mean" is that dogpiles will seek out their own internal justifications to continue. For that, they turned specifically to this post I wrote the day before in response to a post from Annenotation:

".. Patel told him the vetting wouldn’t be an issue so long as he wasn’t active on social media, didn’t donate to Dem Party & didn’t vote for Harris in '24 election “It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,” says Driscoll, who became acting director of FBI..Patel eventually fired Driscoll"

The fundamental issue is that in fact people don't really vote based on the party who serves their economic interests.

I’m starting to believe that we’re living in such a shitshow because quality science fiction has never been part of the school curriculum. Anywhere.

If you can't spot the sucker at the table, you're the sucker. And statistically, 95.5% of the people on these sites are suckers. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...