John Hanson

Partial to the occasional craft beer, occasionally write some software, living in Auckland. Opinions my own.

[Rory Talks Football @Rory_Talks_Ball]

Here’s where Arsenal fans get confused:

Lots of people now saying Arsenal HAVE to win the title, HUGE bottlejob if we don’t.

Ok, fine, we’re favourites.

So we must have some world class players in our squad, some of the best in their position, right?

But if we say that, we’re delusional and overhyping our players.

Ok so we don’t have any of the best players, but we still HAVE to win the league, Arteta must be a world class manager then, right?

But no, he’s “never won anything” and “isn’t even top 10”, Arsenal fans overhype him.

So we don’t have the best players or the best manager, but not winning the league would be a HUGE bottlejob, how does that work?

“You have the best squad depth”.

Oh ok, so depth of squad is the most important factor in winning a title?

But last season, when we had no depth and insane injuries, that was just an excuse and not allowed to be considered a factor?

See how it gets confusing?

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

You guys are so fucking exhausting.

Angela Browder has been with Bethesda for 19 years. She’s helped manage projects like Skyrim and Oblivion.

Christiane Meister? 26 years. She shaped the look of every race from Morrowind to Skyrim.

Megan Sawyer? 21 years building the environments and cities you never shut up about.

Women have always been in this industry. They didn’t just “exist” — they helped define the Elder Scrolls. Lore isn’t just books and dialogue. It’s art, mood, and atmosphere — and they built it.

Get your heads out of your asses.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

It will never cease to amaze that Americans basically just got bored of having the best lives on the planet so they elected a lunatic to blow it up in the hopes of building some microwave factories for their children to find meaning in.

[☉rthonormalist🧭✡️ @orthonormalist]

DID I CRACK IT?

I think I figured out at least a chunk of the math.

It's trade deficit divided by their exports.

EU: exports 531.6, imports 333.4, deficit 198.2. 198.2/531.6 is 37, close to 39.

Israel: exports 22.2, imports 14.8, deficit 7.4. 7.4/22.2 is 33.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

this is…incredibly stupid

eu: $235.6bn surplus, $605.8bn exports, 235.6/605.8 = 39% claimed tariffs charged

indonesia: $17.9bn surplus, $28.1bn exports, 17.9/28.1 = 64% claimed tariffs charged

india: $45.7bn surplus, $87.4bn exports, 45.7/87.4 = 52% claimed tariffs charged

vietnam: $123.5bn surplus, $136.6 exports, 123.5/136.6 = 90% claimed tariffs charged

which explains why the “tariffs charged to the usa” column looked made up.

[lensky @e_lensky]

@JamesSurowiecki Indeed, rechecked the numbers. https://t.co/jbzA38ioh7

Correlation is 99.7%, and probably because i am using a different data source.
This is crazy! Also probably the weird sorting order can be explained by trade deficit.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

[Valentin for Ukraine #NAFO 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @NitnelavGS]

Have they completely lost their minds?

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

[rekdt @rekdt]

It's like watching 2 trains on the same track coming together

[Simon Cooke @SimonMagus]

@JDVance Random Countries that fought alongside the USA in Afghanistan...

[Jennifer Holdsworth @HoldsworthJen]

This deal was cut under the Biden Administration with the CHIPS Act

[Thag Simmons @d_h_sanders]

I honestly don’t know what strategy you’re supposed to use to beat a candidate who literally tells people he’s going to do something idiotic and people vote for him because they think he won’t actually do it.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This might literally be the first time in US history that an American president has criticized an ally for not surrendering to an invading army. Disgraceful.

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

When are we Europeans going to stop being scandalised about Donald Trump and start helping him to end this war?

Of course Ukraine didn’t start the war. You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.

Of course a country undergoing a violent invasion should not be staging elections. There was no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945.

Of course Zelenskyy’s ratings are not 4%. They are actually about the same as Trump’s.

Trump’s statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans into action.

In particular the US can see $300bn of frozen Russian assets - mainly in Belgium. That is cash that could and should be used to pay Ukraine and compensate the US for its support.

Why is Europe preventing the unfreezing of Putin’s cash?

The US believes Belgium, France and other countries are blocking. It’s absurd. We need to get serious and fast.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump implies that since Russia "fought for that land" in Ukraine "and lost alot of soldiers" doing it, that Russia should keep it.

I can't remember a darker day for the democratic world.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Why the fuck would you not use literally the only leverage you have

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

This is the letter I sent.

If Elon Musk is now a government employee, he is subject to conflicts of interest law.

Requirements he seems to be completely ignoring. The American people deserve answers and accountability.

Instead... more Trump purges.