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  • Collection of Pinned Threads

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  • Mildly interesting

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    MikM
    Be careful, Mark. Luckily you live in a very solid house.
  • Dont Drink the Water

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  • Collapse of the Russian Federation?

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    taiwan_girlT
    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-worse-shape-than-moscow-says-report-eu-shows-2025-05-13/ The report, prepared for talks of European Union finance ministers, said that while still relatively stable, the Russian economy was only superficially resilient and that underlying imbalances and structural weaknesses were growing. "The fiscal stimulus of the war economy has kept the economy afloat in the short term, but the reliance on opaque financing, distortionary resource allocation, and shrinking fiscal buffers makes it unsustainable in the long term. Contrary to Kremlin narratives, time is not on Russia's side," it said.
  • The Ukraine war thread

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    HoraceH
    @Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread: @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread: Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along. For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate. I'm sure he loves it when people underestimate him.
  • Privacy Invasion? - License Plate Reader

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  • Emir Force One

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    HoraceH
    So, the new Air Force 1 is racing neck and neck with all those new factories. Which gets completed first in the breakneck, edge of your seat race that'll last 10 years?
  • And now, the corruption.

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    taiwan_girlT
    Definitely seems like "creative accounting"
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    taiwan_girlT
    @Mik That is a good point. I remember hearing a CEO who said, "the only decisions I SHOULD make are those that nobody else CAN make."
  • Beyond the antivaxx stuff MAHA is either banal or fake

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    Doctor PhibesD
    He frequently contradicts himself, essentially meaning you can't believe he means anything he says.
  • A lizard tale

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  • Trumpenomics

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    jon-nycJ
    Sure, but that assumes the common man and the higher income folks both have similar intuitions that tariffs are going to harm them economically in the immediate future.
  • Hey guitar peeps and Bach fans

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    Tom-KT
    I'm a guitar play but I'm no peep of this guy. He's way over anything I can contemplate. I want that guitar/lute though. It's cool.
  • What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?

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    jon-nycJ
    Me too, honestly, as regards Weiss. I think things changed a bit when her funders took a very public pro-Trump stance. But I hold out hope she might be turning it around. She was criticized by people such as Claire Lehman and Andrew Sullivan, whom she surely imagines as part of her 'tribe'. Also the tariff stuff is probably not so popular in her circles. We'll see.
  • Funny Pics

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    jon-nycJ
    lol
  • Maybe this person can explain how tariffs increase prosperity

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    jon-nycJ
    At least they can use them most of the year. What I don’t get is people who put them in up here.
  • Menendez bros eligible for parole

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  • Anybody have an FP subscription?

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    jon-nycJ
    Thanks. That worked.
  • Where’s RFK when you need him?

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    jon-nycJ
    Brain worms.
  • Nature is Metal

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    HoraceH
    @taiwan_girl said in Nature is Metal: @Horace Interesting that they instinct know whether the eggs will be good or not. She didn't know, beyond waiting enough time for them to hatch, which is a month. But she sat on them for a month. She only knew after they didn't hatch.