sickamore
1yr ago
Ah yes the hundreds of US troops in eastern Syria occupation to get their oil….
The Kurds / SDF take all the oil revenues. Lol. The country that produces the most oil in the world does not need to steal Syria’s, and the Syrian oil production is inconsequential to the world oil prices markets.
sickamore
6mo ago
Today, whether its harvard business school or Cornell or Columbia, the biggest growth clubs are the small businese investment clubs.
everyone with MBAs, who dont wanna do big corps, seem to wanna buy a cashflowing mom and pop business. opportunities might have been arb’d away
sickamore
6mo ago
so you are saying if some jews go to yeshiva it doesn’t change rankings?
so to make eastern kentucky uni the best, it requires ALL the best jews and jewish faculty to go there?
sickamore
6mo ago
interesting idea re: time frame / right side of issues.
I felt freer to argue before 2017, but I was also much younger and people around me did not usually seem to have strong opinions
maybe one of the second-in-commands for Wagner was promised the top job if he (or maybe more than 1 person?) did what needed to be done
Edit: seems many of his second hands were in prisoned or otherwise out of the picture
sickamore
8mo ago
Thats fair, and im not saying im was ever at that level either of course. Tho i assume to a normie “accomplished pianist” means playing difficult pieces, not necessarily “next Lang Lang”
sickamore
8mo ago
Xi does not trust it, wsj article today or yesterday said rumors are he/his circle are suspicious of it, and think focusing in industrial capacity is better. Something about choices make ccp less important (i kind of doubt tho - the chinese consumer has so much choice!!)
Ironically the west / other countries’ consumption is what fuels chinas growth.
sickamore
10mo ago
But i dont blame a random chinese company screwing up on silicon valley just cuz ethos is similar?
Diving tourism isnt exactly a silicon valley focus
sickamore
1yr ago
Denmark was the first one I thought of, and to a lesser extent Norway and Finland (Sweden has too much immigration imo)
But yes between language, the normal stand-off-ness from Scandinavians, it does seem like you gotta have an "in" to make friends/have a community
sickamore
1yr ago
Hersh says in the article it’s supposed be during BALTOPS during a routine NATO exercise, so not covert.
Tweet thread already addresses this: https://twitter.com/joey_galvin/status/1623755578773209088
sickamore
6mo ago
I think the point is “Israel bombs hospital, 500 dead” and “hospital parking lot fire causes 30 wounded” differ both in scale, blame, and incendiariness
sickamore
6mo ago
A man attracted to other men cannot become a straight man, but he can become a straight woman. Do the people articulating this view not notice that this is at least a difficult pair of propositions to adhere to?
"A man, who is born attracted to men, should be allowed to date/see/marry/sex with men" and "a man who is* born in the wrong body and should be able to transition to a women" don't seem contradictory to me, thought I do admit that they do seem in conflict.
Isn't the explanation: "both are innate, and should be allowed"? They are both a quality/innateness you're "born with" and cannot change.
If you can change your mind on these things, then they aren't innate.
Thus why detransitioners (and people who "decide" not to be gay anymore?) are seen as such traitors?
I thought the IQ difference was more from the fact that the Jews that have 5 or 10 kids are not Ashkenazi, and are more likely to be sephardic and so on?
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