vic

just lovin life way across the world again// ❤️💛

[vic @vicr97]

nearly 6.5 hours in line later made it to the front of the covid vaccine line and just my luck they had extra and were giving them out to anyone who wanted so here’s to a bright start to 2021!

[َ @gir1genius]

all argentina does is be on the floor and cry

[Pop Base @PopBase]

An elephant urinates on the floor during a Texas Republican convention.

(🎥: @lmcgaughy)

[♛✧. 𝓡𝓜. ✧♛ @sheldonlikesyou]

@femalepencil WhatsApp exists because SMS used to cost money internationally. Americans never felt that pain so they never needed the solution🥲

[BritannusRomae @BritannusRomae]

Because it's not really a proper regularly constructed word and as a result sounds awkward and stupid, not to mention that it was basically invented out of spite by Latin Americans annoyed that the United States' dominance gave them monopoly over the word "American".

[History Vareck @HistoryVareck]

There is only one country in both North America and South America that uses "America" in its name and that's the United States of America, ironically enough there are two countries that use "United States" in its name with the second being the United Mexican States aka Mexico

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

I know it sounds fake but this is what happens when you plant all male trees

[psvm john @psvm_john]

@I_am_Nickname22 funny part is there are more countries called the “United States” than ones called “America”

[cow @cowincrisis]

thank you @googlemaps

[Saf 🫯 watched BND SPOILERS @muzziemulti]

i’m sorry but europeans unironically using “yankee” thinking we find it like a slur is so funny

[rea @ReaBeee]

I really wish I was a woman of few words. Unfortunately, you will hear from me. 👍🏽

[Alex Taliadoros @AlexCTaliadoros]

Throwback to this classic from the Washington Post Editorial Board.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

[Natism @Natism]

Turns out Kristi didn’t really Noem

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

People are about to find out, for example, that the real engine of Dubai was not crypto course scammer and tacky brands for people with no personality — no, no — it’s oil and slave labour.

[Sky Marchini @rhcm123]

it is friday, march 13, 2020. global markets are in freefall. President Trump declares a national emergency over the covid pandemic.

it is friday, march 13, 2026.

[hunter @3gpmh]

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

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The Jones Act has 4 requirements:
Vessels must be U.S. built.
Vessels must be U.S. owned.
Vessels must be U.S. crewed.
Vessels must be U.S. flagged.

The crippling part of the Jones Act is that U.S.-built U.S. shipyards, for a variety of reasons, are incredibly inefficient. We don't have that many of them, and they cost about five times what a ship from South Korea would cost. As a person who actually believes in trade, I fully would love for South Korea to become our US shipyard. We just buy ships from them because they're good at making them. Coastal water transport in the U.S. could be 60% cheaper.

Because of the Jones Act, it's actually cheaper to ship goods from the U.S. to a foreign country and back to the U.S. than between two ports, which is completely bonkers insane! As a byproduct, we have killed all of the growth within the Mississippi, which should be the most powerful inland economic advantage in the world.

Maintaining the requirement of U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, and U.S.-flagged is perfectly fine and in line with my general national security concerns, but U.S.-built has destroyed our shipping industry. There's tens of billions of GDP lying on the table here, and a direct step in reducing our dependency on foreign suppliers.

It's also how you kickstart rebuilding an American shipyard industry. If you 10x the number of U.S. ships working in ports, you start building all of the maintenance businesses at U.S. ports, and the demand increases.

The U.S. bill requirement of the Jones Act is horrifically destructive to America and, in particular, horrifically destructive to middle America, and it should be destroyed.

[Max Crypto @MaxCrypto]

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