Melissa Chen on X - "I still can't believe Lagarde actually said these words out loud: "Europe is going to do a big SWOT analysis and decide what do we need to do to be strong by ourselves." Never has there been a clearer distillation of just how ill-suited the managerial class, with their MBA credentials and McKinsey-trained instincts, is in the face of zero-sum great power competition. Which is exactly what the Arctic play is by the way. Left to their own devices, China will simply takeover the realm while Europe runs spreadsheets to build consensus, manage risks through shared governance and develop frameworks for multilateral management, environmental safeguards and broad stakeholder alignment. These people have zero survival instinct"
Genevieve Gluck on X - "Christian Nègre, a former French Culture Ministry official is accused of drugging over 240 women with diuretics during fake job interviews, then forcing humiliating walks to observe their loss of bladder control, which he documented in an Excel spreadsheet detailing intimate details like underwear color. “He stands accused of drugging a total of 248 women. The women recounted how he would spike their coffee and tea with powerful diuretics and then take them on long walks to watch them squirm. The apparent aim was to chart their descent into humiliation.”"
Mel on X - "In France you can drug hundreds of women you set up on a fake interview and then document their “descent into humiliation” and you’ll remain totally free while police “investigate” your meticulously documented crimes for 2/3rds of a decade… but if you post on Facebook that the president is married to a dude you’ll be charged, tried, convicted and jailed within months."
Meme - "Video games explained 25% of the variance in the decline of casual sex for men. Basically video games are a big part of the picture of single, sexless men."
"of total lifetime sexual partners. South and Lei (2021) found that the decline in alcohol use explained 30% of the variance in lower rates of casual sex for young men. Further, playing video games explained an additional 25% of the variance in the decline of casual sex. Young adults who are more oriented to a short versus long term mating strategy are also more likely to binge drink (Vincke, 2017)."
Meme - Rainbow coloured hair woman with horn-rimmed glasses and nose ring: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?! WHEN WAS THIS COUNTRY EVER GREAT?!"
"5 minutes later...
Boomers don't understand how hard we have it. When they were my age, a single worker income could buy a house, support a family, put money in savings, afford education for their kids, had affordable healthcare..."
Meme - "Gaming rig. $2,000
Chat with Z
'Lmao not even close to being worth 2k. Good luck'
'I stabbed my uncle in the neck and tried to crack his skull with a hammer I'll do the same to you'"
Meme - "Incredible marketing"
"DAN DAVIS LAW. I Lose Hair. I WIN CASES."
Never Let Me Go: "I came here to lose hair and win cases and I'm all out of hair"
Adriana Chechik says she’s currently unable to have sex or orgasm in injury update | indy100 - "“Guys, don't be this guy. Don't be the guy that says like, ‘Oh, how big is too big? How big is too small?’ And don't be the guys that ask me porn questions [...] this is a PG platform and I'm not just sex and I'm tired of it. “Don't treat me like this, I'm an actual person.”... In an Instagram reel posted on 6 March, she suggested that “nobody really wants to stay in sex work”, saying: “When you work in sex work, the end goal is to build your name and build a brand that's bigger than you so you can get out of sex work because nobody really wants to stay in sex work. “You want to have sex, you want to be able to make enough income to get a retirement plan and to build a brand that will make you money long after you're not able to shoot. “ She also opened up about how she got into pornography, recounting that she was working as a stripper in a club in South Beach, Miami, when a man asked her if she wanted to do an adult video. “Considering I was naked all the time, It seemed very enticing,” she recalled. “So I said, ‘Why not?’ And I remember going to sets and doing my first video and thinking this is something I want to do, mostly because of the sexual experience, the fun I had doing it, and the voyeurism really piqued my interest, but ultimately, because of the healthy lifestyle, I could live as an entertainer.”"
This is rich, wanting her cake and to eat it as well
Christian Emergency Alliance on X - "Egypt: Silvana Atef, 17, is a minor Coptic Christian with a mental disability. She was reportedly abducted by a Muslim who now claims Silvana chose to convert to Islam and marry him. Silvana never knew the man before her kidnapping. Authorities are not returning Silvana to her family."
Dan Burmawi on X - "In Egypt, and in many other Islamic countries, if you are a Muslim, you can kidnap a non-muslim girl, force her to convert to Islam, marry her, and that is it. She will never be able to leave Islam or return to her family. She becomes a hostage forever. Thousands of Coptic girls have suffered this reality."
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "Listen to this unbelievable interview with Bill Blair from February 2022 discussing the Emergencies Act where he states the actions they took were compliant with the Charter & the people’s rights and freedoms would be respected. They weren’t. He then goes on to say the convoy was largely foreign funded & it was apparent the protesters in Ottawa were heavily armed. All lies!! Now this guy gets to ride off into the sunset without being held accountable. It’s infuriating."
Shane Wenzel on X - "Something has gone wrong in how this country is run, and 2025 drove it home. Parliament just wrapped up one of its least productive years at the exact moment Canadians needed leadership, urgency, and results. Instead, we got process, posture, and excuses. This piece lays out how decision-making in Canada has drifted away from democratic consent toward insulated, elite management. Policies are declared “necessary,” accountability is buried in regulation, and the people making the calls rarely feel the consequences. Across housing, healthcare, immigration, productivity, debt, and regulation, the pattern is obvious: more spending, worse outcomes, and endless self-congratulation. Decline is managed, not fixed. Temporary measures quietly become permanent. Critics are dismissed, not answered. Alberta’s growing desire to push back isn’t extremism. It’s pressure. Structural, predictable pressure. This isn’t accidental. It’s managed decline, and Canadians are right to be fed up."
TrendingPolitics.ca on X - "NEW: Liberal strategist @TheHerleBurly attacks Conservative MP @jamiljivani calling him "too unattractive physically to be successful in politics.""
Ben Mulroney on X - "I’m old enough to remember a Tory attack as that mocked Jean Chrétien’s facial paralysis. It was beyond the pale. This is that."
Sama Hoole on X - "If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations... And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations... And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations... Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out? The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed. Only your willingness to believe them has."
If you don't Trust the Science, you're an ignorant Denier who deserves to be mocked relentlessly
Brian Albrecht on X - "Populists across the spectrum, left and right, hate economists. I joked its some puzzle but I think there's a simple reason. It's not about liking capitalism or something. And the disagreement is almost always about how to reason about problems, not about values. Populists want solutions. Economists offer trade-offs. I'm not the first to point this out but its a huge distinction. A carbon tax doesn't solve climate change. It prices carbon so people make better decisions at the margin. To the populist, that sounds like accepting the problem. Same with manufacturing. A tariff doesn't create jobs. It shifts them, from the millions of workers in industries that buy steel to the 160,000 who make it. To the populist, "protect American workers" sounds like a solution. To the economist, the question is: which American workers? We can go down the list. Rent control intends to help renters. It produces housing shortages. The populist sees the economist opposing rent control and concludes: you don't care about poor people. As Sowell put it: "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." I think, not surprising, the economists are right. It's more than just two different approaches. Thinking in trade-offs forces you to trace each step: who actually bears the cost of a tariff, what happens to housing supply when you cap rents, how a carbon tax changes behavior at every margin. You can't skip ahead to the answer. You have to follow the chain. This is why economists spend careers doing exactly this and still argue about the answers. That's what it looks like when you take the problems seriously. The populist skips all of this based on some intuition pump. Think of the person on a group project who's so confident in the answer that they never bother learning the material. That's populist economic reasoning from inside the discipline. The confidence comes from not having looked at the trade-offs closely enough to see how hard they are. Stewart is the populist left. Oren Cass is the populist right, and he's more dangerous because he sounds like an economist, and plays one on TV, without putting in the work of thinking about trade-offs."
The Observer on X - "The "historic low" in European approval of the United States isn’t a metric of diplomatic failure. It is a quantification of panic. The "Davos Crowd"—the European managerial class—is realizing that the U.S. has ceased to function as their global enforcement arm. The ledger shows this isn't a loss of respect; it is the termination of a parasitic financial relationship. In 2018, the British House of Lords (HL Paper 250) admitted the quiet part out loud: a shifting world order meant they could no longer rely on a common U.S. approach. They knew the divorce was coming years before the headlines caught up. The killing blow was financial, not political. In 2022, the Federal Reserve fully implemented **SOFR**, officially replacing **LIBOR**. This move stripped the City of London of its historical power to price global debt. The "Eurodollar" system, which allowed European elites to manipulate U.S. monetary policy, was effectively dismantled. While leadership in Paris and Berlin expresses "disapproval," their own domestic populations are revolting. Massive electoral surges for populist movements across the continent prove that the people are aligning with the American model of sovereignty, even as their leaders cling to a dying order. For decades, the **"British System"** used the U.S. military to secure trade and the LIBOR system to subsidize European banking leverage. That era is over. By demanding NATO members pay their fair share and repatriating capital through targeted tariffs, the U.S. has initiated a "controlled demolition" of the European Union’s free ride on American wealth. Europe views the U.S. as an adversary because the U.S. has stopped acting as its colony. These approval ratings are just a lagging indicator of a completed divorce. The U.S. has decoupled its balance sheet from European liabilities. The credit line is revoked. The hostility you see is merely the natural reaction of the debtor."
Nancy Pearcey on X - "Historians of science note that modern science arose in one place and one time only: It arose out of medieval Europe, during a period when its intellectual life was thoroughly permeated with a Christian worldview. Other great cultures, like China and the India, developed a high level of technology and engineering to build bridges and make weapons and so on--in fact, their level of technology was even higher than in Europe at this time. But their knowledge of nature tended to consist of practical know-how and rules of thumb. As a simple fact of history, these other cultures did not develop the beginnings of what we know as experimental science--testable theories organized into coherent systems. Science in this sense has appeared only once in history. Here's just one historian: "It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else." So, what was it about Christianity that was inspired the rise of modern science? (Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 [1996])"
Meme - Soyjak: "JUsT cOnnEcTiNg tHe DoTs *Alligator with Star of David forced onto it*"
Meme - "Sometimes you have to admit it's time to retire. *old male doctor injecting contents of syringe into red-clad breast of woman while intending to inject arm of cringing kid in red*"
Meme - "Cyr Sofa/Couch $100"
"Will you take $20? I know it's very low but I have 7 kids and I'm very stressed out these days I really need and deserve a break ..."
"Sorry, no. $100 is the lowest I will go. It was $500 on IKEA website when I ordered it and it was sat in once."
"Dumb bitch of course you don't care about single moms all you post is your cars house purses money vacations you stuck up whore I hope you get pregnant and your pussy turns loose then no man will want you huh how do you like that stuck up bitch"
"I think I see why you're a single mom."
Meme - cowboy online @SensitiveManlet: "The Saxons called stuff they didn't like "gay" until the word for "gay" became synonymous with "bad""
Fr. John Naugle @FatherNaugle: "My favorite etymological fact"
"bad. Origin OLD ENGLISH. Middle English: perhaps from Old English 'hermaphrodite, womanish man'."
Blair Reese | Facebook - "My BD muslim and I hate him so much Sometimes I send him videos of our son eating bacon just to piss him off 😂😂😂😂"
Meme - Donny: "WHICH ONE AM I?!?! I'm literally about to shit myself in your insufferable coffee shop"
"SUN CHILD. MOON CHILD *toilets*"
Thread by @JTAlexander_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Since Vietnam, troops have almost uniformly been saying to anyone who would listen that bad politics and over-involved politicians have been holding back the United States military's ability to kill the enemy and break their stuff. '25-'26 has proven this incontrovertibly true. Four years ago, the U.S. fled Afghanistan with its tail between its legs, leaving millions in combat equipment for the Taliban to take over. In the past year, we've dominated Iran twice and extracted Maduro out of Venezuela as if we never missed a step. Weakness is a choice."
SchlongusPrimp on X - "Vietnam was lost by a feckless Congress, not the military."
J.T. Alexander on X - "By the press even further. Vietnam was actually starting to look good for us, but then Cronkite came on TV and said it couldn’t be won and that hammered defeatism into the public. “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.”"
J.T. Alexander on X - "Afghanistan turned into what it did because Bush was fixated on styling it as a liberation rather than a punitive expedition. We had UBL cornered at Tora Bora but gave the Afghans a key responsibility in the cordon to make it look like they helped. They let him escape."
J.T. Alexander on X - "During Obama’s Presidency, we non-hyperbolically spent more time in anti-rape trainings mandated by Congress than we did training for combat. It was absurd. Every administration other than Trump has had their own example of politicians just getting too involved."
Fesshole🧻 on X - "Daughter's boyfriend asked my permission to ask her to marry him. I agreed on the condition he's wait until May. I'm getting my new motorbike in April and if he did it before then, my wife would make me divert the money to the wedding fund. He agreed. Top lad."
Thread by @Gav_Griffiths on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Britain is one the most heavily surveilled countries in the world whilst simultaneously not able to identify thousands of vehicles illegally dumping waste next to one of the Oxfordshires busiest roads over a 5 year period. That heady mixture of bureaucratic overreach and bureaucratic incompetence. Interestingly if you overstayed your parking in central Bicester, same jurisdiction, by 2 minutes the state is astonishingly effective in identifying and then pursuing you for your crime"
Aurora restaurant owner warns of cellphone hacking scam - "About four months ago, A Skip the Dishes official called Tina’s Grill, a busy family-run business restaurant in Aurora known for its community involvement and charity support. Owner Azar Saberi handed the land line call off to her son, Sam Saberi, also an owner. The official told him Skip had to update his account with his new email. Saberi gave his email address and then on his cellphone clicked the link he was sent. He chatted with the official for a few more moments until he began getting a feeling something wasn’t right. Saberi asked the official to provide the name of Tina’s Grill’s Skip manager. “Jack Sparrow,” the official replied in what sounded like a thick Indian accent, referring to Capt. Jack Sparrow, a fictional character in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies. “I was like, ‘Excuse me?’ That’s when I knew something was up,” Saberi said. It wasn’t a Skip official on the phone. It was a hacker. Saberi’s “nightmare” had begun. When he woke up the next morning, the apps on his cellphone seemed somewhat different. Saberi would go on to realize the hacker had control of his phone and by extension his banking information and his very popular social media accounts, which detail donations to his charity work. The hacker stole a couple thousand dollars, although Saberi’s bank later reimbursed him. Saberi, who believes he was targeted due to large number of social media followers, deleted all his apps and banking information. He reset his phone, losing photos, including precious pictures of his sister’s and his best friend’s weddings, and phone numbers of friends and family. The hacker laid low for a while, but when Saberi eventually added back his banking app, he again took over control of Saberi’s phone. Saberi deleted everything and bought a new $2,500 Samsung phone. When that didn’t work, he bought a $2,500 iPhone. That didn’t work either. Saberi was left feeling “angry, frustrated, upset, depressed, you name it,” especially since he, like many cellphone users, “lives” on his phone... Saberi was so upset about the ongoing hacking that a couple of weeks ago he posted a message on the Aurora Community Connection Facebook page begging someone to help him. He’d already spoken to representatives from Rogers, Samsung and Apple and the hacker still had control of his phone. “I just want my life back,” he posted. Soon after, a young man named Noah came into Tina’s Grill, saying he is in IT and wanted to help because he knows how much Saberi does for the community. At first, Saberi was skeptical, worried Noah (he didn’t get his last name) could be a scammer. But Noah worked his magic, including installing security measures and installing a VPN, which, while not foolproof, makes it harder for hackers to find potential victims’ exact location and track their browsing. Now, every day, Saberi changes his passwords and sets his location to a different part of the world. He hasn’t had a problem with his phone so far. He doesn’t have a Facebook account anymore and only does “old school” banking at a physical branch."
Is there a reason why SIA does not hire caucasians or people of non-Asian background for Cabin Crew? : r/askSingapore - "Seems a bit odd that someone from S Korea and Japan is acceptable to pass off as a Singapore Girl when there are Caucasian Singaporeans, born and bred here. Here is an article from the Straits Times in 1988 about a Caucasian Singaporean being turned down for a position with SIA. So much for celebrating this country's multiculturalism. https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stoverseas19881217-1.2.5.12"
Singapore Airlines American Crew : r/cabincrewcareers - "Can US citizens apply? Just curious if there are any Americans currently working at Singapore Airlines"
" TL;DR for your question: No. I was a flight attendant with Singapore Airlines, and was a supervisor there. We only recruit cabin crew from:
Singapore
Malaysia
Korea
Japan
India
Taiwan
Thailand
Indonesia
China
You would be able to get in if you become a naturalised citizen of Singapore or Malaysia, however, I flew for more than 2 decades, and we almost always accept only those with Asian heritage. The only one that I had seen that looked Caucasian was about 15 years ago, born to an Asian dad (her dad was one of the former Inflight Managers with us) and a Scottish mom, and she speaks typically Singaporean. Her last name was obviously recognisable by the interviewers and so with her dad being one of us, it was obvious that she could get in. Hope this helps."
Things "real" Italians don't do XV: This time, its seasonal. : r/iamveryculinary - "“Italian” seasoning is just the name of a mix of herbs commonly used in the US. As a French person I use it in lieu of “herbes de Provence” which is a similar mix in France — but the American version has lavender in it, which is pretty foul. So “Italian” it is."
Self-driving robots becoming popular for food delivery service in Miami as residents share mixed feelings - "These robots operate on the sidewalks, can cross streets and typically travel 3 to 5 mph. They only deliver to places that are no more than 1.25 miles from the restaurant. Merchants like Rice Mediterranean say the robots have boosted their business substantially."
Threads - "I’ll never forget how I took PTO on a Friday, flew to Paris for the weekend and was back at work on Monday morning.I was so excited to tell my boss what I did that weekend….that was the beginning of the end for me there.It was then that I learned that you don’t have ANY acquaintances in your place of employment! You never ‘do’ anything on the weekend. Actually, you don’t have a life outside of work!Mind you, I am a travel creator 😂"
