🤣 Albanian PM Edi Rama on when Albania will join the EU:
“There are three things you can't predict: God, sex and the EU.”
Probably the most accurate description of EU enlargement ever.
Put a 100 marbles in a jar, 14 blue marbles to represent the population of the West, and 86 red marbles to represent everyone else.
If you draw a marble, blindly and at random, from the jar, you have a 14% chance of drawing a blue marble.
This how @justalexoki sees the moment of conception.
He thinks he is a random generic soul, fresh from the Well of Random Generic Souls, drawing a marble from the jar. 14% blue, 86% red.
But you don't draw the marble. You are the marble.
A blue marble only has a 14% chance of being selection in a random draw. But, in or out of the jar, a blue marble has a 100% chance of being blue.
This is the Seagull Test, which is an inversion of the Breakfast Test.
The Breakfast Test requires you to describe a hypothetical timeline where you skipped breakfast this morning, to prove you can imagine hypotheticals.
The Seagull Test requires you to reject the question "What if you were a seagull?" as a nonsense question, to prove that you understand the difference between valid and nonsense hypotheticals.
You can skip breakfast and still be you, but there is no version of you that can be a seagull, and no seagull that can, in any meaningful way, be you.
To pass the Seagull Test, you must reject the question and refuse to answer, or, better yet, reframe the question so that it asks for the intended information in a coherent way, i.e. "What does it feel like to be a seagull?"
Which is a very, very different question.
I can, with good observational data and some intelligent speculation, possibly understand the thoughts and feelings of a Pakistani brick layer.
But I cannot be one in any coherently possible universe, because I am, by definition, me.
A blue marble.
✍️ 'Study the first league goal that Arsenal scored last August, at Old Trafford. William Saliba was elbowing and obstructing Altay Bayindir, but still Riccardo Calafiori’s goal was allowed to stand, without any VAR review,' writes @oliverbrown_tel.
'The inconsistent officiating lies at the core of the controversy.'
Read the column ⬇️
https://t.co/e3B9Ui7cl9
You had Rooney, Ronaldo, and Tevez terrorizing defenses. You had Mané, Salah, and Firmino. You had KDB and Agüero. You had an unstoppable Vardy, all champions, all recognizable, iconic title winners. This Arsenal team are just plain cheats. Champions today, forgotten tomorrow.
But Gabriel gets to clatter and block the goalkeeper every set piece and game.
Bullshit. Rigged league. PGMOL title.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting league. Fucking bullshit.
Like in my life, I have never seen a more protected player than Gabriel.
He gets away with a game altering offense, EVERY FUCKING GAME.
AVOIDED A RED FOR THE MOST BLATANT HEADBUTT AGAINST CITY.
AVOIDED CONCEDING A STONEWALL, LAST MAN PENALTY.
FUCKING DISGRACEFUL. THE REFEREES SHOULD BE ASHAMED. THIS SPORT HAS NO MORE INTEGRITY.
The EES system is a perfect representation of how decision-makers are detached from ordinary, working people. They haven’t spent a single minute of their lives waiting in line, yet their silver-spoon decisions are a kick to the everyday working man.