Yes. Loan words exist. Including from Arab sources within the past few centuries.
Not clear why they are being credited with cotton and sugar. Ancient Egyptians and Indians had cotton and traded it to ancient Romans. The middle East being between Europe and East Asia means they were the middle part of larger trading networks. So Indian numerals and far East trade such as sugar cane went through them. But I don't give them credit for being in the way of Chinese and Indian traders. Adopting Indian numerals was a good call on their part.
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23d ago
She lost the popular vote to Trump. The stink of failure is too great this time. I predict an early flame out in the primary for her.
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23d ago
He was never a professor. He was a lecturer at University of Chicago. This may seem like splitting hairs, but there is a gulf between lecturers and professors.
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23d ago
Thanks for the excerpt. This is amazing. JD Vance is so wicked, so vile as to sink to an even lower and more debased level as to be reasonable, agreeable and pleasant.
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23d ago
No one wants to start tit for tat bombings of oil infrastructure. We're in the interesting situation of both bombing the hell out of them and letting them export more oil than usual. Seizing their oil infrastructure and holding it hostage could be valid in a way just blowing it up is not.
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24d ago
Back in the day I hung lots of things in apartments with "no holes" policies. I mean 50+ holes at least. With a putty knife and spackle they never caught me. Their universal choice of flat white walls does them in every time.
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24d ago
Yes, but we could just build more prisons. As an example, almost all prisoners are in state prison, California spends something like 6 or 7% of its budget on the state Department of Corrections. That implies a few percent of the state budget could be used to double the prison population. Unless there is some massive dis-economy of scale.
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24d ago
My prediction is Marco Rubio will eat Vance alive in a primary. I know he previously said he wouldn't run against Vance. That's not some enforceable oath or promise.
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29d ago
“confirmed bachelor” Lindsey Graham in Tel Aviv in the Epstein era
We know he likes bottoming for fit male escorts. One of them blabbed to the media about how in D.C. all the male escorts know him and call him "Lady G". That actually makes him immune to blackmail since there are already first hand published accounts of what his asshole looks like when getting prepped for anal. He likes hot guys and the Israelis can't hold that over him.
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29d ago
both in the firm prosecutable sort
Treason is defined by the Constitution and does not include criticism of the President or his policies. I know this is trivially dismissing the premise, but thems the facts.
In a less formal sense: I recall the mood during the invasion of Iraq. A lot of support and also plenty of bitter criticism. This is normal in the post-Vietnam era.
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29d ago
Then I think you are missing an important point. You can't easily swap out the entirety of Iranian oil output for an equivalent amount of other oil. The "other oil" will need to go up price high enough to drive out the bottom portion of the market. Now we get a live experiment in finding a new equilibrium price which won't be $40 billion. Who is willing to divert oil away from existing customers to China and what sort of price will they be charging? This will be neither quick nor cheap.
About what I expect from a lecturer. Not an academic or a researcher. Only responsibilities are to teach a class.
The lecturers I'm familiar with are rather wretched. They couldn't get into a research position as a professor and this is a bad second option. They are paid little and lack stable employment. Maybe Obama was a very well off lecturer with student assistants and a decent wage. Or he wisely married another lawyer who stayed working at a law firm.
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