李仙龍

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

"Let us therefore have that salutary fear of the future that makes one watchful and combative, and not that sort of soft and idle terror that wears hearts down and enervates them."

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

Jesus Christ

[The Spectator @spectator]

Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.

The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.

✍️ Philip Patrick

Article | https://t.co/VW4LPGbx95

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

UA SC Case sidelines. Amici curiae Ben Diokno (78), Butch Abad (71) and Joey Salceda (65) are having lunch together. Winnie Monsod (85) comes in and says “Hello Babies!”

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

Washington DC, 2023

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night, realizing how far you’ve come. Top 3 peak moments ever.

[scar @imfat]

Can a 29-year-old start all over again?

[Csaba Tóth 🇸🇴 @tothcsabatibor]

A major beef between two Hungarians is truly a colossal force to reckon with: György Soros and Viktor Orbán moved mountains and involved most of the world in their civilizational struggle, only for the winner to come out with a cozy couch photograph to try to mentally destroy the losing party.

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Thinking about that time in 1998 when former Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami assumed that most Americans have read Alexis de Tocqueville. This is the polite Persian shade we love to see lmao

[류승일 @Yussoonn_]

The leaders of post-Mao China greatly admired Singapore,we can speak "Singaporean fever"

It’s quite funny to see people pitting Lee against China as if he embodied anti-authoritarianism, when the CCP has long viewed Singapore as proof that it’s possible to modernize, enrich the country, and govern firmly without copying Western liberal democracy.

[Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3]

Taking off from what Randy David pointed out years ago, the focus on antidynasty means all the oxygen was taken out of the room as far as campaign finance reform and reforming the party list system are concerned.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Which Asian countries are the most exposed to rising oil prices?

Oil prices rising from $70 to $85 reduces Singapore's real GDP growth by -1.5 percentage points, the largest hit in the region.

Taiwan follows closely at -1.2 percentage points.

Hong Kong, Korea, and India would see a reduction of -0.5 to -0.7 percentage points each.

The Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia face a hit of -0.3 to -0.5 percentage points.

Meanwhile, China is the least exposed at -0.1 percentage points, as its oil imports are better diversified than those of its neighbors.

With oil now at ~$100, far above the $85 modeled here, the real GDP impact across Asia is significantly larger.

Most major Asian economies are highly exposed to oil price swings.

[Brian 🔰 @brianwut]

harvard can't figure out why ice cream eaters are healthier. it's because ice cream is the only food nobody eats out of obligation or guilt. the food diary is an accidental personality test and "eats ice cream on purpose, reports it honestly" is just measuring internal locus of control

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Holy sh*t.

Stop what you’re doing. Give yourself 3
minutes. Listen to this.

Marco Rubio 2015.

He called it.

He called it word for word, like a play-by-play.

[Mr Le’Meme @MrLeMemeLeGreat]

@DissidentSoaps List of capable global militaries:

1 - America
*giant gulf*
2 - Israel
*Another giant gulf*
3 - me and my retarded buddies drunk in the woods with old surplus rifles
*You guessed it, another giant gulf*
4 - France?
5 - everyone else
900 - Russia

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

Prime Minister Cynthia Villar

[TTT Live Online @tttliveonline]

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says this country does not take a drop of oil from Venezuela and the current arrangement with the US is already seeing massive rewards for the betterment of Trinidad and Tobago.

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

@CleveArguelles Cleve, I think the difference between these previous frontrunners and SD is the intensity of her following. I can’t help but think there’s a certain “baked-in”ness to her numbers, that this is already the hard residual of Digong’s base net of Sara’s pluses and minuses

[Tim Hormigos @bnstim]

The Philippines has a long and winding history with elections.

Now, for the first time, the very first direct national election in the Philippines has been mapped in detail never seen before 🗺️

In collaboration with @Isayaaaah, let's make history come alive tomorrow. Abangan!

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Tu certainly deserves the prize, especially because the new malaria medication is so valuable.

Further she did something Western academics are loathe to do, taking a look at ancient sources (300s AD!) as epistemic equals. I wish our academics were less arrogant and took approaches like this.

[李仙龍 @MayorDy30]

Senator Dillon, whom I admire greatly on other issues, might want to sit this one out, especially after having been the most effective legislative oppositor to relaxation of absolute bank secrecy

[Bilyonaryo News Channel @bncdotph]

IF YOU CANNOT EVEN FREEZE THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CROOKS, HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE?

Former Senate President Franklin Drilon, author of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, challenged the AMLC to disclose to the public the number of suspicious and frozen accounts, as well as the value of funds covered.

Full #AtTheForefront interview with Atty. Karen Jimeno: https://t.co/WqMZPYR5IM

[Mikita 👨‍💻 @mikitaposts]

Hamas is trying to win this war by fighting like the Taliban while have neither mountains nor the caves to retreat to. They can only hide amongst civilians in the most densely populated region in the planet who they are seemingly willing to sacrifice until it’s all destroyed.

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

If you’re an American Catholic, you should be making America more Catholic 🇺🇸🇻🇦🫡