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Zelenskyy is a better representative of the values that America stands for than America itself under its current regime.
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God has no hands but ours.
We are here for a reason. Not by accident. Not by mistake. We chose this time, this place, this life.
But what will we do with it?
The world is loud, full of fear and division. It wants to pull us into its drama, make us forget why we’re here. But we are not here to fight battles that were never ours. We are not h…
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My dad called me this afternoon to tell me that the field between our houses was covered with robins, that it wasn’t just one robin that arrived as a sign of spring but a whole field full.
What he didn’t say was that birds were my mom’s thing. She would have been the one to notice. He did in her stead and made sure to bring them to my notice, too.
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I love talking Vulture's annual stunt awards with Brandon Struessnig. Lots of fun stuff this year about FURIOSA, THE FALL GUY, those ads during the Oscars that featured stunt performers, and more.
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You really can’t understand our current moment without understanding the history of the American South.
Because you better believe that the bad guys understand it.
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This is the best short speech about Trump's desecration of our democracy since he's re-entered office.
Read it, absorb it, but most of all, share it.
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Put a chick in it and make it gay!
When it’s cold enough to see the melody
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Not sure if I’m supposed to say this here, but here goes:
Lamenting the loss of what once was on another site, I love “following” people here simply because I cannot get emails on the regular from all the ones whose wonderful work I want to see.
I also love that there is no follower/following count here (at least that I can see—I’m inept at such things). Who cares?
I also noticed recently that I can’t see how many likes, etc. there are on a note without a further step.
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MICKEY 17 is, sadly, not very good. It's neither funny nor fun nor exciting, the central metaphor is unbearably belabored, and the movie jettisons all the interesting ideas from the book in favor of tedious timeliness.
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A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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Norway has just decided to increase its support to Ukraine for 2025 from 35 to 85 billion Norwegian kroner ($7,81 billion). Compared to the size of the population, the Norwegian aid equals $483 billion from the USA.
Tusen takk, Norge!
A bomb is nothing more than stored potential energy unleashed in a concentrated form upon an enemy. To produce a bomb, you need to either create that primary energy or pay for it in exchange for equally valuable services. Or you can print funny money for a short period of time and trick people into thinking that your IOUs are money good. The latter is what the EU is currently doing.
Hold on. Is an American trying to lecture us on defecit spending? Trying to imply we have nothing of value to export? While we have a trade surplus and the United States is in a massive trade defecit? Bold
Maybe so. And maybe you can argue that the lecture is hypocritical. But it’s still correct. And even if the US is guilty of excess deficit spending, its energy endowment and production is multiples that of Europe’s.
All fiat is fantasy… some fantasies just last longer than others.
Agree.
Even they lose value faster than many others as well.
This is the problem with trying to “front run” a recession. Hypothetically, the supply plain shortage following a global quarantine should have caused a recession, but central banks emptied their short term reserves to try and stop that. Now we’re dealing with the fallout.
The only difference between the US and the EU is it the US owns the printing press for the funny money
“This one’s for a $250k Lamborghini, I’d hang on to that one!” (Or something like that)
And the USA
Fed Reserve and BOJ been doing that for longer.
What happens when USA devalues USD? It’s coming. Only way to make production cheaper in USA and will take at least 2 - 3 years to rival China. Think shipbuilding, effective supply chain, sourcing antimony and gallium (rare earth commodities needed for AI and Quantum computing ) and guess who’s the gatekeeper.
EU is collapsing, because WEF got them by the short and curlies.
Be thankful Trump and his Team are making bold moves to drain the swamp, crea…