ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd

Avatar: Autostrada Centura Bucureşti. RTs, favs, links, tweets ≠ endorsements. All views welcome, but querulous time-wasters may be blocked.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@Weird_Canadian In some ways we *are* better, in some ways worse than the US, and we are certainly weaker. But mostly, we're Canadian and want to stay that way. We want to do our own thing in the northern half of this continent. We did that well for many decades & need to get back on track.
1/n

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@Misanfrog @JLevendia @martianwyrdlord is not wrong, except a small remnant.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@aziz0nomics The proportion of powerful, successful men who've had affairs is extremely high. It's certainly praiseworthy when men who have ample opportunity to cheat stay faithful, but I would treat it as a private, personal matter.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@LuckyMcGee That's not how Persia got conquered. Arab armies invading from the south defeated the Persians in military campaigns. Nothing to do with refugees.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@lymanstoneky @IvanaDGreco Getting a decent job while most of my friends were still in grad school raised my value on the dating market enormously. A girl widely regarded as the prettiest in the whole university started to flirt with me.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

have a good friend who is a progressive american hindu of south indian brahmin background. she is a vegetarian. she is moderately religious; she believes in god, etc. and accepts her hindu faith and practices her traditions

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Helge Ingstad walked out of his own law firm in 1926 to live on caribou with the hunters of the Canadian Arctic, proved at 60 that the Vikings beat Columbus to America, and died at 101.

He was 26, a successful attorney in a small Norwegian town, and bored to the bone. He sold the practice, sailed to Canada, and spent four years as a trapper in the Barren Lands east of Great Slave Lake, a good part of it travelling with a band the neighbouring peoples called the Caribou Eaters. They earned the name. The herd came through, they killed, and for months on end the menu was meat, fat, marrow and tongue, with nothing green in sight. He wrote that he had never been in better condition in his life.

He came home, wrote a bestseller about it, and was promptly made governor of a slice of East Greenland, then of Svalbard. He went to live among the Apache. He went to live with the inland Eskimo of Alaska, who also ate caribou and very little else, and stayed a winter.

Then, in his sixties, he took up a problem the professors had filed under legend. The sagas said Norsemen had reached a land west of Greenland around the year 1000. Ingstad read them as sailing directions, worked along the coast of Newfoundland by boat asking fishermen about old ruins, and in 1960 a man in a village called L'Anse aux Meadows walked him to some grassy bumps by a stream.

His wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, dug them. Eight Norse buildings, a forge, a bronze pin. Five hundred years before Columbus.

He was still writing at 100.

Every dietary guideline issued in his lifetime would have classed his four formative years as a slow suicide. He outlived the authors of most of them by a comfortable margin, and rewrote the history of a continent on the side.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@fxxfy Blackmailing or corrupting human agents.

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

How come, after 1,132 days, Hamas still apparently runs this hospital? Isn’t the hospital close to IDF lines (I actually thought it was inside the area the IDF controls)…why can’t the area here be cleared of Hamas, it was already cleared at least TWO times during the war, so why didn’t it remain cleared; and have the hospital run by a non-Hamas entity and let civilians use it so it isn’t used by Hamas

Make it make sense?

Why fight a war, conquer an area, clear it of terrorists, leave, return, leave, return and clear again and again, and then hand it back to Hamas?

Why not just give civilians in Gaza the chance to go to a hospital without Hamas there?

It has to be one of the most bizarre things that hospitals in Gaza were taken and cleared of Hamas and then HANDED BACK to Hamas? At great cost also, it cost a lot to clear them.

It would be like marching to Berlin in 1945 and then handing it back to the Nazis. Taking Raqqa and then giving it back to ISIS…

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@roadtooxiana @NiohBerg @grok It's not orthodox Shia (or Sunni) Islam, but it was a widespread folk belief and was practised in some prisons. Montazer (Iran's 2nd-highest-ranking Ayatollah) denounced it.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@lilchiva

[Ghost of Hellas @ghostofhellas]

Sappho. Artist: Charles (Auguste) Mengin. Date: 1877. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 230.7 × 151.1 cm. Collection: Manchester Art Gallery.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@JoelleAdler @ZvikaKlein You have a plan to deal with the West Palestinians, I suppose .

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

RIP Richard Posner - a staggeringly prolific and influential legal scholar.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

Pessimistic!

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Everything coming out of the US these days is steeped in decadence and collapse

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

.... https://t.co/l7mranBX5P

[Pamela Blevins @pblevins10]

British poets who died in WW1. Charles Hamilton Sorley (age 20), Wilfred Owen (25), Isaac Rosenberg, also an artist (27), Edward Thomas (39). Thomas and Robert Frost were close friends.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@blablafishcakes @lspear412 @MollyRomping @cmwrawcliffe @SteadDonne @ISBI3 @amandaLG15 @anyotherleader1 @rickygervais Courtesy of AI, here are some recent publications employing the concept.

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Edward Thomas, “In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) #ArmisticeDay

[Canada The Unknown Country @Canada_Unknown]

Remembrance Day ceremony at Toronto’s Old City Hall, 1937.

[ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd @CjgbVictoria]

@constans I'm thinking of an electrician friend of mine. Attended Psychedelia U, made decent money restoring old houses.

[Naithan Jones @NaithanJones]

On its surface this looks silly and easy to make fun of but what data center builders are not clocking is:

in the minds of people who live in these places data centers represent massive wealth creation for someone who doesn’t live there. While they don’t get to directly participate. It *feels* like extraction.

These are working class people, some at the margins, so pushing back *feels* like taking power back. These are people who have been promised the run and the moon by new Casino projects, jobs and property values from a new highway overpass projects, all of which did nothing and in some cases harmed their community. They’re jaded and have heard it all

If data centers actually want to get their projects built in communities like this, hate to say it, but they are going to financially incentivize the people there. Do things for them *before* any shovels. Communicate that these benefits will continue as the project succeeds. Give each house hold some financial or quality of life incentive to support it. Not theoretical, tangible and presently available

Just my 2 cents