Corey

Atreides. Atreides. Atreides

[Corey @DaKittenz]

If you compare the academic outcomes of pre-pandemic in-person learning to mid-pandemic virtual learning and attribute the gap to VIRTUAL rather than THE PANDEMIC, you are engaging in a fundamental correlation vs causation error that ignores 60 years of peer-reviewed research.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.

China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.

The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”

It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”

That tells you everything.

In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.

China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.

Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.

And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

This is the GOP operative who NYT used as their primary Platner source without being able to corroborate her claims.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.

[22 U.S.C. § 2304 @RefrmDemocracy]

Graham Platner should have instead said "Not nuking these fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that's only because the cloud would hurt Israelis" and then the media class would deem him acceptable.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The % of Dems who have a positive view of Israel is at 13%—less than the % of Dems who support full abortion bans & prayer in schools. Here I ask why US media keeps insisting support for Israel is “dividing democrats” when—in reality—it’s a fringe position https://t.co/61BRqAQQwo

[iza @izamamaa]

Wasn’t her husband assassinated in broad daylight here in the U.S. while Trump was president?

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

“Platner will survive this — not because voters are thrilled he was sexting other women, but because they already assume half of Congress is doing the same, or worse.

“And it’s not as if I’m some Platner booster. He’s always struck me as an impulsive dumbass (not unlike me I suppose, except I would never run for Congress). But I'll take a dumbass over Susan Collins, a three-decade incumbent who has rubber-stamped every war she's ever met and just about every major Washington disaster since I was in elementary school.

“Consider how she answered Platner's remark that she'd voted to send him to Iraq. She said ‘that was Platner’s decision to serve. He was not drafted.’

“That's the kind of casual cruelty that falls out of these decorum-humpers the moment an election forces them to face an actual human being. And here's the thing about everyman dumbasses like Platner: they don't talk like that. That line is pure thirty-year operator — the reflex of someone who's spent a career treating war as a line item and the people fighting them as a footnote. These people hold you in contempt and are indecent straight through. They just know which side of the plate the salad fork goes on.“

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The genocide lobby in a nutshell:

1) No Jews, no news!
2) Only Jewish lives matter!
3) Nothing justifies Oct. 7 but Oct. 7 justifies everything!
4) 1 dead jewish baby = 1000X more important than 1000 dead non-Jewish babies.

To be a Zionist, you have to focus your attention on Jewish suffering while also believe people focus too much on Jews.

Summary: Zionism kills brain cells.

[𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐢. @luvblessingz]

They will literally ban this in the United States because some dental corporation cries to the government that it will lose money.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Israel blew up Gaza's airport in 2001 and then bulldozed the remains.

[hello world @whiteTony99]

西方对中国最愤怒是中国把他们躺赚了几十年的暴利生意，一个个砸成了普通人都买得起的日用品。
这种愤怒已经刻进了很多西方人的骨子里，他们不是不理解，而是不愿意理解，不愿意接受自己再也不能躺着剥削全世界的事实。
二十年前，中国修地铁要用盾构机，全部从德国进口。一台盾构机德国卖3.5亿人民币，一分钱都不能少。买的时候还要签霸王条款，机器坏了只能找德国工程师来修。
德国工程师来中国一天的工资是3000欧元，换算成人民币当时是3万多。他们坐飞机必须坐头等舱，住必须是五星级酒店的总统套房。
维修的时候中国人不能在旁边看，必须全部离场，修完了直接开账单，换一个小小的密封圈就要10万人民币。
有时候机器出个小故障，要等德国工程师三个月才能来，整个工地几百人就只能闲着干等，每天损失几百万。
没有人觉得这有什么不对。全世界都默认，高科技就应该卖这么贵，德国人掌握了技术，他们就有资格赚这个钱。甚至放言给中国图纸也造不出盾构机。
但到2008年，中国第一台拥有自主知识产权的盾构机下线。当时德国人根本不在乎，他们觉得中国人造出来的肯定是垃圾，用不了几天就会坏。
结果中国盾构机不仅能用，而且价格直接开到了5000万一台。后来随着技术不断成熟，产量不断提高，现在一台国产盾构机只要2000多万人民币，价格只有原来德国的十七分之一。

德国盾构机的垄断神话一夜之间破灭了。原来全世界只有德国、日本、美国少数几个国家能造盾构机，他们联合起来维持高价，想卖多少钱就卖多少钱。
现在中国加入了，他们的价格体系彻底崩溃了。现在德国盾构机想卖出去，价格也只能降到和中国差不多的水平，再也不能躺着赚暴利了。
而这样的事在各个领域都不断的上演，套用足球解说的一句话，留给西方垄断的时间不多了。

[Ali Alkhatib @_alialkhatib]

vaguely recall seeing some university spending significantly more on union-busting, policing, etc... than it would have cost to meet the demands of organizing graduate workers because the issue is never the money; it's the power. they'll happily take this deal; AI won't organize.

[Nicholas M. Kimani @SankarasLawyer]

Incase people don’t connect the dots, he’s talking about helping Angola fight Apartheid South Africa.

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Bryce Mitchell reacts to Sean Strickland being banned from the UFC White House event:

"I'm not surprised at all. We ought to be able to criticize our own nation, let alone a foreign nation.

[Israel] is the only nation you're not allowed to criticize. Something's gonna change, because evil empires don't last forever."

(via @mmamania)

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

The same logic applies to their claims that the Chinese real estate market is "crashing". What's crashing are the profits of real estate developers.

Difficult to imagine anything BETTER for the average Chinese person than decreasing house prices. But that's very bad news for those who build and sell the houses. So from their perspective, which the western media parrots, it is indeed a "crash", and extremely bad news.

This is how the US economy works, where house prices MUST keep increasing to increase bourgeois profits. If housing becomes affordable, only the people will benefit. Everyone who matters (the bourgeoisie) will incur heavy losses.

In such economies, a house is treated as a commodity, an asset, to be traded and re-traded repeatedly. China disagrees, believing in the radical idea that houses are for living.