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Welsh Arab married to a Canadian. IR/Security/IOs. PhD from UBC, Vancouver. Desperately hoping that this social media platform will allow more sane discourse than, y'know, the other one. Using this primarily to gather information, not expound.
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Palestinian Life Expectancy in Gaza cut from 75.5 to 40.6 Years by Israeli Total War: The Lancet

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Chat GPT: "I can't generate an image of Jeff Bezos as James Bond due to content policy restrictions". www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Well, I probably wouldn't go either if I knew I was going to be the least popular kid at the party.

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As I've said before, I'm not bothered by the idea of cutting government waste or decreasing the size of a government, but I *am* bothered about the staggeringly incompetent manner in which that objective is being pursued.

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An anthem for our times. youtu.be/yFE6qQ3ySXE?...

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The IRS should devote all remaining personnel to conducting extensively invasive audits into the highest income levels, and only get down to the middle and lower income earners if they feel they have time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The language around the DOGE is interesting. “DOGE” is beginning to sound like a pandemic-sized disease that terminally infects government institutions.

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Re: EU lacking capabilities to fill in the security vacuum left by a US withdrawal: This EU lack of capabilities has been *required* by the US (e.g. 2003 Berlin Plus Agreement) which states that the EU should not "waste resources" developing capabilities that the US can provide via NATO.

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An undocumented migrant is an "illegal immigrant" in the same way that a jay-walker is an illegal pedestrian. An *action* can be illegal. A person cannot.

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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

submitted 4 days ago • 664 comments

The first time I heard Donald Trump speak, and every time since, my initial observation is that, without a shadow of a doubt, he must be incredibly drunk. It has been the only plausible explanation, for, well, for him. I constantly have to remind myself that he doesn't drink at all.

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I'd half expect Dmitry Medvedev to pop up with a Ukrainian passport, run, and win mysteriously with 97.3% of the vote.

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So.... Next week Neuralink gets full government approval, and by Easter next year every US citizen will only be able to access healthcare or any banking services if one has one of these things embedded in the frontal cortex... connected to a Musk server farm... www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

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Uh-oh.

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It says something about America being the Land of Opportunity, when an illegal immigrant from Africa can rise to the the position where he can actually look down on the Presidency.

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Does anyone else get the impression that a few years ago, this chap sat down and, in a stereotypical, self-help seminar fashion, planned out his future, with "Buy Twitter" being step 2 of a 5-point plan to becoming Emperor of Planet Earth?

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Historian here. In general, you don't get major changes to the names of geographical features after elections. You get them after conquest by hostile powers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I suspect that Ukrainians feel similarly to Palestinians in the past, when the US has said that it will mediate a peace agreement between them and Israel. The local threat and the global power are "mediating" in private over metaphorical port and cigars. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I seem to recall, even before the election, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social trying so hard to be polite and professional, while seething with frustration at Arab American Trump supporters, whose optimism seemed to border on delusion on this, as well as other issues.

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I do not, in principle, object to the objective of reducing government waste. To be honest, I only object that it is being done with such staggering incompetence and ignorance that it will be so harmful for US national interests.

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To an oligarch all kyndenesse doth looke lyke waste

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Kissinger would roll over in his grave at the fact that the US has somehow managed to achieve the unachievable: getting all Arab states to completely unite on something.

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Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Oh, to be a fly on that wall. I wonder if the press release will be a dry, "They had a frank and free exchange of ideas on a wide range of topics, and we look forward to working together to help stabilise the region", or if we will hear what they actually talk about.

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