@WalstarW In Italy there was a Villa once owned by Michelangelo. It had a magnificent view and 4000 square meters of land. It even had the original deed, signed by Michelangelo himself. They were offering it for seven million.
So, Gibran, the same man who literally stated, “Had Lebanon not been my country, I would have chosen Lebanon to be my country”, was declared Syrian by the municipality of New York. In other news the Lebanese government has dedicated a park to the Mexican author, Ernest Hemingway
Skip the bland Japanese rice vinegar.
Take fresh ginger, slice it, and let it steep in aromatic vinegar with a pinch of salt for two weeks.
Then try this: a piece of that sharp, fragrant ginger right before your coffee.
Unexpected. Intense. Almost transcendent.
Never underestimate the power of art: the producers, directors, and editors of The Apprentice built the narrative that made Trump’s presidency possible, and the catastrophe unfolding now.
Global lockdown during COVID reduced world oil demand by just 10 million barrels a day. Current situation in Hormuz is stopping delivery of 20 million. So, if we reduce global activity to Corona-levels, we would still be missing 10 million oil barrels. That’s how bad this is.
of early industrialization, the West may now leapfrog China’s manufacturing stronghold, potentially rendering its trillions-dollar infrastructure obsolete.
1/2 Hypothesis: The convergence of AI-driven design and 3D printing represents the next Industrial Revolution, a strategic pivot by the West to neutralize China’s current industrial dominance. Just as China leapfrogged Western legacy systems by bypassing the costly iterations…
@SonOfAnchis3s What happens in class must remain in class. Every one of us was that kid at one time in their life. We were lucky enough to engage in these - necessary - blunders before the arrival of social media and its hunger for “content”.
In the Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump addressing the Swiss about WW2, said to them: “After the war, which we won, we won it big, without us, right now, you’d all be speaking German”. He said that to the Swiss… Yes. Yes.