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I got a few optical drives in the mail today. Let's get them tested. Time for a quick 🧵 
Okay, here we go. First up is a Toshiba XM-5302B. This is a 4X IDE drive! I loaded a Microsoft Money '99 CD into the drive, and this drive works GREAT!!
Next up, we have this Mitsumi CRMC-FX4831T 48X drive. Once again, we load up the MS Money disk, and pass!!
I guess I should explain why Ukraine doesn't want to go back to the USSR on example.
After the 1917 Revolution, the USSR went through a "naming revolution." Parents ditched traditional saints' names for "revolutionary" abbreviations to show off their loyalty to the Soviet cause👇
After the 1917 Revolution, the USSR went through a "naming revolution." Parents ditched traditional saints' names for "revolutionary" abbreviations to show off their loyalty to the Soviet cause👇
Vilor -V.I. Lenin, Organizer of the Revolution.
Marenlenst -Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
Pofistal -Pobeditel fashizma Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin, Victor over Fascism).
Roblen -Rodilsya byt' lenintsem (Born to be a Leninist)
Marenlenst -Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
Pofistal -Pobeditel fashizma Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin, Victor over Fascism).
Roblen -Rodilsya byt' lenintsem (Born to be a Leninist)
Kukutsapol -Kukuruza — tsaritsa poley (Corn is the Queen of the Fields). A favorite during Khrushchev’s "corn campaign."
Oyushminalda -O.Yu. Shmidt na l'dine (O.Y. Schmidt on the ice floe). Named after an explorer stranded in the Arctic.
Oyushminalda -O.Yu. Shmidt na l'dine (O.Y. Schmidt on the ice floe). Named after an explorer stranded in the Arctic.
Happy Valentine’s Day to those celebrating
#TalesfromtheHeart #NalaDamayanti
#curseanddestiny #SoulTalks 🦢🪷
Distance tests. Fate humiliates. Time disguises.
But true love recognises its own - even in exile.
#TalesfromtheHeart #NalaDamayanti
#curseanddestiny #SoulTalks 🦢🪷
Distance tests. Fate humiliates. Time disguises.
But true love recognises its own - even in exile.
There once lived a King Nala, who ruled over the Kingdom of Nishadha. He was the commander of a vast army and extended his kingdom from coast to coast. His expertise in controlling horses and riding chariots faster than lightning amused the immortals.
From his courtiers, Nala had heard tales of Damayanti- the princess of ancient Vidarbha Kingdom & daughter of King Bhima. He knew about the beauty and the other good qualities of Damayanti and had seen many kings and princes desperate to marry her. He too was eager to meet her.
I just moved 30% of my portfolio to CASH.
Not because I'm scared.
Because cash is about to become the highest-performing "asset" of the next 3 years.
This will sound insane until you understand deflation. 🧵
Not because I'm scared.
Because cash is about to become the highest-performing "asset" of the next 3 years.
This will sound insane until you understand deflation. 🧵
Everyone thinks cash is trash:
"Inflation is eating your purchasing power!"
"Cash is for suckers!"
"You need inflation hedges!"
This narrative works in an inflationary environment.
We're not in one. We're entering deflation.
"Inflation is eating your purchasing power!"
"Cash is for suckers!"
"You need inflation hedges!"
This narrative works in an inflationary environment.
We're not in one. We're entering deflation.
In deflation, cash is KING:
Your dollars BUY MORE as prices fall
Real purchasing power INCREASES
While everyone else's "hedges" collapse
It's the ultimate contrarian trade.
Your dollars BUY MORE as prices fall
Real purchasing power INCREASES
While everyone else's "hedges" collapse
It's the ultimate contrarian trade.
Due to the curves-neoteny tension, when you emphasize youthfulness you tend to de-emphasize curves and vice versa. If Jeff and Ghizzy's pals wanted to emphasize youthfulness in fashionable beauty standards, a deemphasis of curves would follow.
Evidence from data.
1/ Six months ago, the newly built Russian Navy tugboat Kapitan Ushakov capsized at its moorings during its final outfitting, when it was 97% complete. It's still there today, resting on its side, leading to some hard questions for the Northern Fleet. ⬇️
2/ The only thing that seems to have changed after six months is that the boat is now encased in ice at the Baltic Shipyard pier in St. Petersburg. It's an "endless disgrace", 'Military Informant' complains. But how and why has it not been raised?
3/ The shipyard's owner, Yaroslavl Shipyard (YaSZ), says that because the vessel "is being built under a state defence contract ... there is no permission to disclose this information or comment on it."
Americans are being ripped off by low taxes. Wait - LOW taxes? Yes, low taxes.
Healthcare costs are skyrocketing to a significant extent because the US is insisting on a weird private insurance model instead of just taxing.
Building energy code is forcing huge costs on new...
Healthcare costs are skyrocketing to a significant extent because the US is insisting on a weird private insurance model instead of just taxing.
Building energy code is forcing huge costs on new...
homes that are very inefficient with respect to their stated goals. If reducing carbon is the goal, it would be cheaper and more cost effective just to build cleaner power plants instead of overregulating construction.
The results of the above are wasteful and clear for all to see. Thus, they erode trust in government. The irony is that this distrust makes Americans want to insist even harder on not solving these problem through taxation.
In other words, psychological lock-in, to a bad system.
In other words, psychological lock-in, to a bad system.
1. Today Sec. Kristi Noem made the extraordinary (but vaguely delivered) claim that as head of DHS, she has authorities over elections, including to make sure that “the right people are voting and electing the right leaders to lead this country.” That is false.
2. In support of her claimed authority over elections, Noem cited DHS’s mission “to defend the homeland” and “maintain critical infrastructure.” Our elections are indeed critical to our homeland and our national infrastructure. But that does not put Kristi Noem in charge of them.
3. Contrary to what Noem said, there is no law that “delegates” power over elections to DHS. None. There are laws that give DHS duties with respect to America’s “critical infrastructure,” but they do not put DHS in charge of that infrastructure, and especially not elections.
Well, well, well. LOOK at that.
Christmas has come early!
Far left Socialist "Carolina Federation" offshoot, "New Hanover For All," has released their candidate endorsements.
Carolina Federation is operationally tethered to Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO), and acts as a "state-based initiative aligned with its strategic goals."
"Last week, our members came together at the culmination of a rigorous endorsement process.
We are excited for a primary ballot that features values aligned candidates who will fight for our students and our families and are committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations."
Pay attention to that last sentence.
This is a thread.
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Christmas has come early!
Far left Socialist "Carolina Federation" offshoot, "New Hanover For All," has released their candidate endorsements.
Carolina Federation is operationally tethered to Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO), and acts as a "state-based initiative aligned with its strategic goals."
"Last week, our members came together at the culmination of a rigorous endorsement process.
We are excited for a primary ballot that features values aligned candidates who will fight for our students and our families and are committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations."
Pay attention to that last sentence.
This is a thread.
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New Hanover For All >> Carolina Federation >> Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO).
And what are their goals?
📍"Strategic Alignment"
• Liberation Road’s 2022-2025 strategy explicitly highlights the need to "build state-based independent political organization and power" in the U.S. South to combat what they term the "New Confederacy."
The Carolina Federation serves this purpose in North Carolina.
📍"Leadership and Collaboration"
• Key figures associated with Liberation Road, such as Whitney Maxey
📍"Network Integration"
• The Carolina Federation works alongside other organizations often associated with similar leftist, progressive, or socialist, and social justice coalitions within North Carolina.
New Hanover For All >> Carolina Federation >> Liberation Road (formerly known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FRSO).
And what are their goals?
📍"Strategic Alignment"
• Liberation Road’s 2022-2025 strategy explicitly highlights the need to "build state-based independent political organization and power" in the U.S. South to combat what they term the "New Confederacy."
The Carolina Federation serves this purpose in North Carolina.
📍"Leadership and Collaboration"
• Key figures associated with Liberation Road, such as Whitney Maxey
📍"Network Integration"
• The Carolina Federation works alongside other organizations often associated with similar leftist, progressive, or socialist, and social justice coalitions within North Carolina.
3/🧵
Let's break down what "committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations" ACTUALLY means.
Translated, it means, "These candidates have pledged to align with far left Socialist-aligned organizations, at the local (county) and state level, to govern in such a way that their decisions will prioritize alignment with the Socialist agenda."
That's problematic for a multitude of reasons. Those organizations do not represent the values of all ~184,533 registered voters in New Hanover County.
The current breakdown of registered voters by party affiliation is as follows:
•Unaffiliated: 79,435
•Republican: 54,871
•Democratic: 48,744
Liberation Road has "historically focused on building "21st-century socialism" through deep engagement in labor, racial justice, and electoral work in the South."
Let's break down what "committed to working to co-govern alongside our community organizations" ACTUALLY means.
Translated, it means, "These candidates have pledged to align with far left Socialist-aligned organizations, at the local (county) and state level, to govern in such a way that their decisions will prioritize alignment with the Socialist agenda."
That's problematic for a multitude of reasons. Those organizations do not represent the values of all ~184,533 registered voters in New Hanover County.
The current breakdown of registered voters by party affiliation is as follows:
•Unaffiliated: 79,435
•Republican: 54,871
•Democratic: 48,744
Liberation Road has "historically focused on building "21st-century socialism" through deep engagement in labor, racial justice, and electoral work in the South."
Kasparov: Trump handed Putin a carte blanche to win the war.
Russia-US talks weren’t peace talks. They were a Trump–Putin deal.
Trump sent his son-in-law. Putin sent his wallet.
It was about selling part of Ukraine.
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Russia-US talks weren’t peace talks. They were a Trump–Putin deal.
Trump sent his son-in-law. Putin sent his wallet.
It was about selling part of Ukraine.
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Kasparov: Putin’s system can’t exist without war. It’s a drug. And the dose must increase.
There are zero signals from Russian propaganda or Putin himself that this will end soon.
Even a ceasefire creates a problem: what does he do with a million men shaped by this war?
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There are zero signals from Russian propaganda or Putin himself that this will end soon.
Even a ceasefire creates a problem: what does he do with a million men shaped by this war?
2X
Source: t.me/uniannet/185665
Allow me to introduce you to a newly created stillborn child of Mahmoud Abbas - the new Palestinian constitution. Its preliminary draft was published on February 10, 2026 and it has multiple issues that will make it, well, essentially, useless and lacking any authority
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I have read it through, so you don’t have to
The preamble
Right in the first line the text states that it is based on the pure pan-Arab ideology. This constitution (I would argue, correctly) identifies ethnicity as Arab and nationality - as Palestinian. So, technically, everyone living in this region is Palestinian, whether Jewish, Arab, Druze, Circassian, like everyone living in Britain are British (whether they are ethnically English, Indian, Polish, Pakistani, Scottish and etc.). However for the last couple of decades the Palestinian Authority, anti-Israeli activists and “journalists” from the media like Al Jazeera tried to equate Palestinian not to a national identity, but to an ethnic identity, while this constitution returns back to the original notion of Palestinians being just Arabs who live in the historic Palestine
Secondly, they put in the constitution the notion of “ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank” while also tying it to the “right of return” - that every Palestinian in every generation is entitled to return to what was once historic Palestine (that usually means they are including Israel and current Palestinian Authority territories, but somehow excluding Jordan territories)
Thirdly, the preamble states it is the “cradle of heavenly religions” (while not naming yet the religions, but it will, later in the constitution), and also separately referring to the Messenger of God (here the authors imply Muhammad, of course) and it being a cradle of civilization
The cherry on top - it puts the capital in Jerusalem, a territory currently controlled by another state for almost 60 years, and which territory was never intended to be under control of either Arabs or Jews back when UN partition plan was established. I remind you this is the constitution of a future state whose establishing organizations along with neighboring Arab states waged several wars against another state (Israel) and lost all of them, yet they put out this as if they have triumphed in the war they have started and not ended up with this vague and unlikely to be ever implemented claim to Jerusalem. It would be like Japan after WWII claiming Korea is still the territory of Japan, or Koenigsberg is still the territory of German Prussia, for example
Let’s move on to some other articles
The preamble
Right in the first line the text states that it is based on the pure pan-Arab ideology. This constitution (I would argue, correctly) identifies ethnicity as Arab and nationality - as Palestinian. So, technically, everyone living in this region is Palestinian, whether Jewish, Arab, Druze, Circassian, like everyone living in Britain are British (whether they are ethnically English, Indian, Polish, Pakistani, Scottish and etc.). However for the last couple of decades the Palestinian Authority, anti-Israeli activists and “journalists” from the media like Al Jazeera tried to equate Palestinian not to a national identity, but to an ethnic identity, while this constitution returns back to the original notion of Palestinians being just Arabs who live in the historic Palestine
Secondly, they put in the constitution the notion of “ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank” while also tying it to the “right of return” - that every Palestinian in every generation is entitled to return to what was once historic Palestine (that usually means they are including Israel and current Palestinian Authority territories, but somehow excluding Jordan territories)
Thirdly, the preamble states it is the “cradle of heavenly religions” (while not naming yet the religions, but it will, later in the constitution), and also separately referring to the Messenger of God (here the authors imply Muhammad, of course) and it being a cradle of civilization
The cherry on top - it puts the capital in Jerusalem, a territory currently controlled by another state for almost 60 years, and which territory was never intended to be under control of either Arabs or Jews back when UN partition plan was established. I remind you this is the constitution of a future state whose establishing organizations along with neighboring Arab states waged several wars against another state (Israel) and lost all of them, yet they put out this as if they have triumphed in the war they have started and not ended up with this vague and unlikely to be ever implemented claim to Jerusalem. It would be like Japan after WWII claiming Korea is still the territory of Japan, or Koenigsberg is still the territory of German Prussia, for example
Let’s move on to some other articles
Article 1 - again pan-Arab ideology - Palestinians are Arab and part of Arab people (this is ideology of Nasserism 101) - all Arabs are the same and doesn’t matter where they live, in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine or Egypt - they are not different from one another and should be all unified eventually in one state
Article 3 - back to the capital part. Again, reiterated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the state and all religions and their sanctities are protected there… but this time the authors list those religions - Islam and Christianity. Yep, only those two religions apparently have sanctities in Jerusalem, meaning all the rest can be razed to the ground as they do not have protected “historical, political, cultural or spiritual” status. Good luck with trying to negotiate anything even with left wing peaceniks if they ever take control of the government, when the explicitly claim anything that is related to Jews is neither protected nor even mentioned
Article 4 - Islam is the governing religion and the state will be essentially religious as Sharia law will be the law of the land. Christianity is acknowledged, but that’s about it - the followers of it will be “respected” (whatever it means). That thing called Judaism is non-existent again
Article 3 - back to the capital part. Again, reiterated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the state and all religions and their sanctities are protected there… but this time the authors list those religions - Islam and Christianity. Yep, only those two religions apparently have sanctities in Jerusalem, meaning all the rest can be razed to the ground as they do not have protected “historical, political, cultural or spiritual” status. Good luck with trying to negotiate anything even with left wing peaceniks if they ever take control of the government, when the explicitly claim anything that is related to Jews is neither protected nor even mentioned
Article 4 - Islam is the governing religion and the state will be essentially religious as Sharia law will be the law of the land. Christianity is acknowledged, but that’s about it - the followers of it will be “respected” (whatever it means). That thing called Judaism is non-existent again
It's all coming together...
On Tuesday, James Karbach, the Director of Legislative Policy at the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender spoke AGAINST HB26-1082 to put criminals convicted of child sex trafficking in jail for life...
What was one of his arguments? If someone solicits sex from someone they thought was 18 years old and they turn out to be a minor, the "john" get life in prison... he thinks that's a bad idea...
And then two days later, House Democrats introduce a bill to decriminalize prostitution...
What timing...
On Tuesday, James Karbach, the Director of Legislative Policy at the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender spoke AGAINST HB26-1082 to put criminals convicted of child sex trafficking in jail for life...
What was one of his arguments? If someone solicits sex from someone they thought was 18 years old and they turn out to be a minor, the "john" get life in prison... he thinks that's a bad idea...
And then two days later, House Democrats introduce a bill to decriminalize prostitution...
What timing...
Of note, here are the organizations whose lobbyists registered opposition to HB26-1082, the bill that would put child sex trafficking criminals in jail for life:
The ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
League of Women Voters Colorado
New Era Colorado
The ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
League of Women Voters Colorado
New Era Colorado
And here are the organizations whose lobbyists registered opposition to SB26-015, the weaker anti-child rape bill that will only slightly increase penalties:
ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Colorado Freedom Fund
ACLU of Colorado
Colorado Criminal Defense Bar
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Colorado Freedom Fund
