Ara Abrahamian

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@NaucerHakimi ناصر جان مواظب خودت باش. ما فقط یه عمو ناصر داریم.

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

#Ticketmaster sucks! They only provide email support which promises "12-24 hours updates" but I've been sitting on my urgent ticket for 6 days now. They don't even have chat support! Phone sends you to their faq page. It's ridiculous!

[John Robb @johnrobb]

Afghanistan

20 years of nation-building

2,312 US soldiers killed, 20k + wounded

$2.4 trillion spent -- $114,285 for every person in the country, at the time we arrived

Collapses immediately upon the start of withdrawal

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@nntaleb In its current shape, cryptos are a "techno-utopian communist" idea. They promise brotherhood of men, freedom, etc. Yet just like communism it's not workable in the real world. For some it'll take 70 years to realize that. Marxist ideals are Lindy, implementations not so much.

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@MaxAbrahms I don't speak German but I'm sure there's a word for in German, like maybe Folgetrollen or something?

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

I don’t think I’ll ever subscribe to any @espn service again! What a scam! I spent days thinking I’m doing something wrong!! Unbelievable!

[Nathan Nix @nathan_nix]

@espn what the hell is this multiview garbage? What am I paying for here with ESPN+? How is this useful to absolutely anyone? #EURO2020

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

Great idea. Will also do. Seven weeks of spirituality... and sanity!

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

As usual, I'll be deactivating my Twitter account for Lent, starting Wednesday (and returning intermittently on Sundays and feasts).

If you can't find my account, don't assume I've been banished --- though I could also, separately, have been banished.

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

This reminds me of the George Soros - Bank of England episode. “Market forces”. Fight them with their own tools and methods.

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

GameStop short-seller Melvin Capital lost 53% this month after the Reddit-fueled frenzy sent shares soaring https://t.co/MAuGzA4HcL

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

The warmongers are back....

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

Whoever is behind Q is a genius. Many books will be written about it in the coming years. https://t.co/p8d5Y8UGmM

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

How many people had telephone back then? Telephone was like rich man’s quarantine, no? Be grateful we have Twitter now!

[𝓡 @Extrachelle]

Quarantine, 1918 advertising.

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

Seems pretty reasonable to me

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

New blog post: Here is my proposal on how to fix Section 230. "Mend it, Don't End It." First Amendment case law suggests a promising path to peace for Twitter and Facebook. @jack and Zuck should embrace it.

https://t.co/dUH2c5qxNl

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@nntaleb QAnon guy. QAnon vandalized the Republican party. They can vandalize the Democratic party too. I personally know well-educated QAnon followers who vote Democrat and are anti-vaxers. QAnon = no trust in the system + social media https://t.co/oCWlSH47AY

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

Another part of my childhood gone. RIP. #Maradona #MaradonaRIP

Going to watch Emir Kusturica's excellent "Maradona" documentary one more time this weekend. He had many personal issues but he also had principles.

[𝓡 @Extrachelle]

The Hand of God is no longer among us. RIP

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@Extrachelle the best video clip which is a collage of Persian movies (also excellent lyrics): https://t.co/dQpBSsmQBf

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

@Extrachelle One of the best lyrics: https://t.co/8YSfLs41Nj

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

We’re a nation of romantics. We may win chess world championships but that’s an aberration.

[𝓡 @Extrachelle]

“When there were problems with the electricity in Armenia, the opera was heated with emergency generators for 24 hours, while it remained cold in Parliament.” - Charles Aznavour

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there is 2020 where decades happen” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ;-)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Happiness; we don’t know what it means, how to measure it, or how to reach it, but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Ara Abrahamian @ara_e]

I’d really like to know how much of it was thanks to mail in ballots, or other reasons.

[James Todaro, MD @JamesTodaroMD]

The 2020 US Presidential election far exceeded 2 standard deviations of historical voter turnout over the past ~100 years.

A statistically improbable outcome.

For comparison, both the 2012 and 2016 elections with Obama were well within a single standard deviation.