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@jon-nyc said in “You people” on steroids: You know it would have been less embarrassing to take the L then to have done whatever this is you’re doing now. At the end of the day the Magtard of Crown Heights misquoted him twice and lied about the audience. It’s fair that you didn’t know the source having seen it on Reddit. Now you’re out of excuses. I can’t be the only one beyond bored of reading you on this thread. If you're not embarrassed by your own behavior in this thread, then it would fit with my description of your psychology. Your claim that the second sentence erases the first in "I'm like you. I'm no better than you." remains ridiculous, and the vehemence with which you claimed it, to the point of calling me an intentional liar for not going along with it, only points to your own delusional nature in adversarial discussions. As usual, you are fractionally as coherent as you think you are. As for the description of the audience, it was probably an honest mistake, given the venue and the obvious intentions of the interview. He may or may not be forthright in admitting that there were plenty of white faces, with the updated information. As for the lack of the ... between the sentences in the quote, I'm sure you'll get over that someday. The story as told is a far cry from a pure hoax.

@jon-nyc said in Is he wrong?: [image: 1771958560702-img_0775.jpeg] Nope. Not wrong. Of course, that goes both ways.

@Mik said in The Worlds Biggest Fast Food Chain............. Coming to America: We have some bubble tea places here. Can't imagine why I would ever want something sugary like that. Maybe Americans will unexpectedly discover that they really like sugary stuff?

@taiwan_girl said in Beyond the antivaxx stuff MAHA is either banal or fake: As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers face an unusual barrier: Many don't know what it looks like. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260224/Hospitals-fighting-measles-confront-a-challenge-Few-doctors-have-seen-it-before.aspx Kinda surprised, it feels like every other physician I see is from some country where measles is still more prevalent than here, even with the outbreaks.

@taiwan_girl Arthur Dron is a 22-year-old graduate student of journalism at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2020, Dron published his first collection of poetry, Dormitory №6, which has been translated into Lithuanian, English, Polish, Italian, and Belarusian. However, now, instead of visiting lectures and receiving awards for his work, he is protecting Ukraine on the battlefield and writing poems about the experience of war. Despite the gentle quietness of his poems, Dron’s voice is loud in the sphere of modern Ukrainian poetry both in Ukraine and abroad. First Letter to the Corinthians Love is patient. Love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous. Love is terrified like a beast but it perseveres. Love could give up and abandon it all but it perseveres Sometimes, love has gunshot wounds to its legs or bullet fragments lodged in them. Tourniquets squeeze love’s legs, or it has no legs anymore. Then love’s friends carry love. Love digs trenches and lives in them. It gnaws ice from the bottle cut in half when it gets thirsty at negative four. Love takes up combat duty, gets into position with hernias, fevers, prostatitis, with blast injuries, asthmas and allergies, with a high probability of not making it back, with thoughts about the most significant one. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things! Love can distinguish by ear the shots of rocket launchers, the strikes of mortar shells, and the movement of tanks. Love’s eyes hurt when it stares into the thermal imager for too long. Love wakes up at night when the mice in the dugout crawl under its field coat. Sometimes, love vomits long in the trees after heavy combat. Every now and then, it closes the eyes of its friends. Love wraps them up in sleeping bags and carries them away. Love never fails! But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For sometimes, the shelling is over, and friends close Love’s eyes, wrap it up in a sleeping bag, and carry it away. And then it passes to the living. Background and analysis: https://nanovic.nd.edu/features/the-first-letter-to-the-corinthians/

A couple of things that I recently saw that are related to the above: Panama "kicks out" Chinese backed port operator at Panama Canal. https://www.ft.com/content/a2a97a04-b8bd-4088-8f58-ac17adb9bf85 Panama on Monday published in its official gazette a Supreme Court ruling canceling key port contracts held by a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, known as Panama Ports Company (PPC). The publication finalizes the legal annulment of concessions for the Balboa and Cristobal terminals near the Panama Canal, which Panama Ports Company, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, had operated for nearly three decades. The ruling, issued in late January, came amid growing U.S.-China rivalry over global trade routes and marks a win for Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump has pushed to curb Chinese influence over the Panama Canal, which carries about 5% of global maritime trade. CK Hutchison said Panamanian authorities made "direct physical entrance" to the Balboa and Cristobal ports on Monday to remove PPC employees who were threatened with criminal prosecution if they defied orders. CK Hutchison said PPC staff were told not to make contact with the company. "CKH considers the ruling, the executive decree, the purported termination of PPC’s concession, and the takeover of the terminals to be unlawful," CK Hutchison said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. "The actions by the Panama State also raise serious risks to the operations, health and safety at the Balboa and Cristobal terminals." CK Hutchison said it was liaising with its legal counsel on pursuing national and international legal action against Panama and third parties. Second news: Similar to what has happened in Laos https://broadsheet.asia/2025/09/30/indonesias-china-backed-high-speed-rail-faces-financial-crisis/ Indonesia’s ambitious high-speed rail project, a cornerstone of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is teetering on the brink of financial collapse just over a year after its launch in October 2023. Connecting Jakarta to Bandung over a 140-kilometer stretch, the rail line was heralded as Southeast Asia’s first high-speed service, promising to transform transportation in the region. Yet, with ridership far below projections, costs spiraling out of control, and deficits mounting, the project has become a cautionary tale for infrastructure ventures across the region, raising questions about debt sustainability and the long-term viability of such partnerships.

@taiwan_girl said in The Indiana Bears?: Do the Chicago team give a reason for wanting to move, other than wanting more money? Because I doubt changing to a different stadium will make them a better team. Indiana’s income tax is half of Chicago/Illinois. For the players they recruit in free agency, that can make a huge difference. High tax areas/states have lost quality coaching candidates and free agents to states with lower tax rates. So in theory, yes, this could help them build a better team.

Yeah a friend of mine (lives in Philly) sold his Miami condo that he had owned for decades when suddenly the condo fees went sky high and there was talk of special assessments. He said holding onto it as an occasional vacation getaway was untenable.

I know I’m not a colonist. But as Canuck, I still apologize. That’s almost genetic. UBC is a fine university. Good nurses and doctors graduate from there. I’d rather do medicine there or see a doctor who graduated from there than Toronto. B.C. is expensive though. We’ve a saying, “B.C.” -> “Bring Cash” .

TNCR could learn so much from the USA men’s hockey team. Link to video

@Mik said in SCOTUS blocks Trump tariffs under IEEPA: Is the US effectively governable under the current restrictions? Can we function with the painfully slow deliberative process in a world that moves ever faster? Is the world really moving faster, though? With regards to scientific progress and technological innovations, probably. With regards to changing geopolitical risks caused by foreign powers, no worse than before. With regards to international trade? The “moving faster” seems self-inflicted.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260223-britain-s-former-us-ambassador-peter-mandelson-arrested-amid-epstein-revelations Former British ambassador to the ​US Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London police on suspicion of misconduct in public office, following revelations over his ties to convicted ​sex ‌offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, 72, was fired from ⁠the most prestigious posting in Britain's diplomatic service in September, when the depth ‌of his friendship with Epstein started to become clear. Police earlier ⁠this month began a criminal investigation into Mandelson after Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government passed on communications between the ​former ambassador and Epstein.

The plausible mechanism pathway. That would be awesome for us but it’s only for ultra-rare, which has no formal definition but probably would exclude us. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-launches-framework-accelerating-development-individualized-therapies-ultra-rare-diseases

Ha

Yep, those too.

I wonder if the easiest legislation to pass, should the AI job apocalypse come about, would be to make it more difficult for private companies to lay people off.

@AndyD said in Chopin on a Bosendorfer: Yes very. Also interesting she has her Bosie upright angled away from the wall to properly allow the sound out. Also note that her lamp isn't at a funny angle.

If I had to weigh in on the fact that ICE and Border Patrol are wearing masks, I’d say it’s an unfortunate but entirely understandable conceit to the moral panic cosplay of Minneapolis agitator types behind their keyboards. As for the overreaches of ICE and broad characterizations of them kidnapping citizens and non citizens alike, I’m impressed that a those stories appear to be concentrated in Minneapolis while places like TX with 10x the ICE activity don’t seem to be generating any kidnapping stories. I take it all with a grain of salt. But then I’m not tribally motivated to fan the moral panic flames.