Solus

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

Don't look back when you know you shouldn't.
Don't stress over things that don't matter.
Don't worry about thinks you can't control.

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

Success is like being pregnant. Everybody congratulates you, but nobody knows how many times you got fucked.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

guy who opposes Russia taking 20% of Ukraine because of international law but supports Israel taking 20% of Lebanon

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz In a few minutes I have already corrected your two claims and the rest are just as biased and incomplete. Instead of me teaching you basic facts every time, maybe you should for once use your brain and stop tweeting half baked narratives as truth.

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz The Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 episode exposed weak diplomacy. Pakistan first agreed to attend with Malaysia and Turkey, then backed out under pressure, upsetting Malaysia while still not gaining from Saudi Arabia. That’s not a strategy, that’s confusion (2)

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz Diplomacy wasn’t “strong,” it was inconsistent. China Pakistan Economic Corridor projects slowed early on due to reviews and policy uncertainty, creating friction with China. Relations with Saudi Arabia were strained in 2020, leading to early loan repayments. (1)

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz Your tweet shows how shallow your understanding of the economy is. Stop being a fanboy and read the numbers. 5–6% growth with the highest trade deficit in history, rising debt, and double digit inflation isn’t strength, it’s unsustainable.

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz Public debt rose roughly 70–80%, inflation went into double digits (10–13%+), and reserves depended on borrowing rather than real investment. This wasn’t stability, it was short term growth with long term imbalance.

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@faizannriaz Not accurate. The economy wasn’t sustainable. Growth of about 5–6% was driven by imports and consumption, not strong fundamentals, which pushed the highest trade deficit in Pakistan’s history to around $35–37 billion in FY2022.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel.  Enough is enough.

U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu government’s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.

[autist @litteralyme0]

me at 29 years old wondering what job will i do when i grow up

[RT @RT_com]

Russia moves to seize pets from abusive owners under a new bill backed by the government

Lovely furballs would be taken by court order and transferred to shelters under a new animal-response system

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Someone just submitted a ticket asking why their laptop is running slow.

I remote in. They have 3 Chrome windows open with 60+ tabs total.

I close all but 5 tabs. Computer runs fine now.

I write in the ticket: "Resolved - Optimized system memory allocation and cleared background processes."

They reply: "Wow, thank you! What was wrong?"

I reply: "Just some resource management issues. Should be good now."

I didn't lie. I just used technical language to describe "you had way too many tabs open."

If I say "close your tabs," they'll feel scolded. If I say "optimized memory allocation," they'll feel helped.

Same result, better optics.

Also, they'll probably open 60 tabs again next week and submit another ticket.

And I'll "optimize" it again.

This is called job security.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The world has never offered equal conditions to all people

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”

— Voltaire

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

@IESCO_Official no light in Tulsa road lalazar feeder maj Riaz.
Light turned off at 9 am .
There is no maintenance of this feeder in uploaded scheduled file in iesco .
it's the 3rd time in a month this has happened. What's the point of schedule if you are not following it ?

[Karen Resorcé @hr_unhinged]

Yesterday I noticed the office printer was working perfectly, which raised my suspicion immediately.

I checked the logs and saw someone had cleared a paper jam at 3:12 p.m.

No ticket, no Slack, no communication.

Just silent action.

I asked the office if anyone had fixed it.

Everyone looked confused except one employee, who stared at his laptop a little too hard.

I pulled him aside afterward.

He admitted he unjammed it because “it was right there” and “took five seconds.”

I told him unilateral problem-solving disrupts our culture of collaboration and that he needed to go through the right channels if he wanted to take on a new project outside of his job description.

He said he didn’t realize fixing things was a chain-of-command issue.

I told him everything is a chain-of-command issue.

I wrote down “rogue operational autonomy” and locked the printer tray.

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🇷🇺⚡- In 2001, Putin recalled a declassified 1954 Soviet document proposing that the USSR join NATO-reading it aloud to journalists while Bush laughed nervously.

The Western reply back then?
"There is no need to emphasize the utterly unrealistic nature of such a proposal."

Putin later said Russia itself would be ready "immediately" to join NATO.

U.S. Secretary of State then, Madeleine Albright responded:
"This is not up for discussion now."

So what's the point?
• Is NATO a military organization? Yes.
• Is Russia wanted inside it? No.
• Has NATO expanded to Rusia's borders anyway? Yes.
Why?

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The insane maneuverability of SU-35s

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

When Che Guevara was captured in his hiding place, after being betrayed by a shepherd, one of the soldiers asked him surprisingly: How can you betray a man who has spent his whole life defending you, you and your rights? The shepherd replied calmly: His fight against the enemy frightened my sheep!

Many years ago, in Egypt, the Grand Commander Mohamed Karim had led the resistance against Napoleon's total military campaign. When he was captured, the court sentenced him to death. But Napoleon called him and told him: I regret having to kill a man who bravely defended his country. I don't want history to remember me as a hero assassin. I will forgive you if you pay 10,000 gold coins for the losses suffered by my army. Mohamed Karim laughs and replies: I don't have that much money, but the merchants owe me more than 100,000 gold coins. Napoleon gave him a break. Karim went to the market, chained up and surrounded by soldiers guarding him, hoping that those he had sacrificed himself for would help him. But no merchants responded. On the contrary, they accused him of being the cause of the destruction of Alexandria and their crisis. He went back to Napoleon, morally broken. Napoleon then said to him: - I will not kill you because you fought against us, but because you sacrificed your life for a cowardly people, who prefer trade to freedom. Mohamed Rashid Rida summarized this way: "He who fights for an ignorant people is like one who immolates himself by fire to light the way for the blind."

[Solus @WIF_ATK]

The purpose of war is not to die for your country. The purpose of war is to ensure that the other guy dies for his country" - General George S. Patton