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If everyone is so concerned about Russia, why dont these three countries just unite to contain it???

"Linear algebra for engineers" classes should be banned. Force engineering students through the same stuff the math majors are taking

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

The Coalition Provisional Authority is one of those things I occasionally remember existed and I feel like I am having a stroke. "Ah, yes. Time to place my large adult son Chadwick in charge of the Iraqi stock market. He got a Gentleman's C in intro to econ. He's got this."

a hospital, by the accounting numbers it publishes, may barely keep the lights on, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t huge rents washing through the institution through contracts and salaries, things tallied as costs rather than margins, but amounting to some provider’s surplus. 4/

I think we need to establish what the name is for a Tankie whose obsession is defending the good name of Genghis Khan rather than the Russians. "Horsie" really doesn't sound right.

Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

Rep. Pat Fallon: "What concerns me is the IRGC seems to be absolutely committed to watching their country disintegrate, and not caring at all so long as they get to rule over the ashes"

The Odyssey ending up glorifying Odysseus is a side effect of a huge problem with the Western canon (& most canons probably?) - much of it is written to memorialize & entertain the warrior aristocracy & their virtues.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

All Chinese claims on Taiwan date to the 1662 invasion by renegade warlord and pirate Koxinga, a partisan of the so-called "Southern Ming" false dynasty rather than the legitimate Qing. The island should therefore be returned to its rightful rulers, the Dutch, who liberated it from the Papists.

I think it's very counter-intuitive, but I think a lot of men see the space of "attractive men" as much smaller than the space of "attractive women", and I'd maybe even argue it's smaller than what women see the "attractive-women" space as. iow, they believe it is easy to be ugly and unwanted.

Anyone have more irredentist land claims they want to defend?

lets talk about something truly controversial- whats the best basic breakfast egg version- fried scrambled poached or omelette

NEW: How can D.C. natives tell if someone is a transplant? In this week's "Ask a D.C. Native" column, Malachi Byrd shares a few of the tells: