Bam Adebayo surpassing Kobe’s precious 81-point record is pure poetry. As they used to say back in the 90s: I love this game!
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Bam Adebayo surpassing Kobe’s precious 81-point record is pure poetry. As they used to say back in the 90s: I love this game!
File under "not impossible"...
I genuinely believe he will launch a nuke before this is done, it’s the logical culmination of the entire admin’s “we win by being more violent and evil than the other guy, and if that’s not working, escalate both” ethos
De forma alguma!
O fato de comentaristas políticos continuarem na batida do “militares estão incomodados” já é por si o sintoma da doença.
Eis um sinal inequívoco de que a democracia brasileira continua doente.
O maior divulgador de conhecimento econômico do Brasil chama-se Gil do Vigor. Uma verdadeira joia.
Plus, human beings are capable of getting used to just about anything…
And yet many (if not most) will fail to see it, because people are terrible at counterfactual reasoning.
* in charge of the most powerful military in history.
Trump is at heart a Latin American-style populist*, so here’s how this could go: having created scarcity with stupid policies, he will now accuse malevolent Democrat gas station owners of price gouging, announce a freeze on gas prices, and ask his supporters to report violations. Always works!
Trump is a global, violent Brexit.
Like everything else with Trump, the short-term impact will be significantly less than the most catastrophic possibility predicted, which will lead to everybody ignoring all of the long-term effects.
Indistinguishable from state-controlled Russian media on Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham 🤝 Medvedev
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Few things are as demonstrative of the fact that the US now has the foreign policy of a personalistic autocracy as the uncanny Putinism of the war in Iran.
How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Thing is, no one knows this is happening, yet if they had one this game, they would have immediately become national heroes.
Come think of it, a hinge moment in modern US history was Nixon resigning before being impeached and convicted by his own party. The seal wasn’t broken, then Ford pardoned him, and here we are.
Presidential systems are clearly a terrible idea anywhere, but say what you will about Latin America, at least there we know that you can remove a president.
Excellent question. Among those, cricket is by far the one with most people caring about it, though basically all of them are in the Indian subcontinent. Winter Olympics is by far the least diverse.
It’s interesting, NFL is a niche thing in Brazil — a small but nontrivial group of people like and follow it — but baseball is a total zero. The only baseball thing people know is Yankees hats, and even then most are not aware of what the Yankees are. People just associate it with New York City.
Me too, ever since I learned (today) that Brazil is actually involved in this…
This is pretty funny, because to a first approximation the number of people in Brazil who even know this is happening is zero.
Brazilian women marrying MLB players seems to be the chief source of Brazilian baseball talent.
If we examine the origins the the war on Iran, we get an inkling of a closed domain of international oligarchs, exploiting the state’s power and patriotic sentiment, while creating a world order in which the American state is much weaker. An oligarchical corridor.
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🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
"It is the ‘reasons why’ that best define an ideology."
This is very good and thought-provoking #longread by @polphilpod.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com
I don't agree with all but the core arguments are sound and important. Well worth your time, if you are interested in political ideologies.
For those who still think that it's somehow a good thing, this is what happens in a world where the US is no longer constrained by hypocrisy. Vice is no longer paying tribute to virtue, and is going wild out there instead.
Boy, I wish they let me buy a BYD in this country…
Wemby, though…