One can see that Pope Leo was expressing his personal political views and that President Trump's actions are, in fact, in keeping with the just war doctrine. To stop a death cult with a desire for world domination from having nuclear weapons...
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knowing they would use them is not only a moral good, but a moral responsibility.

Catholic Just War doctrine explicitly affirms a state's right to self-defense—including against grave, ongoing threats—and
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it doesn't require waiting until an enemy has fully executed its attack before responding. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2308) states that...
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1/ Russia's regional governments and state-owned institutions are planning to spend billions of rubles to circumvent the Internet restrictions imposed by Russia's federal government, a situation which Russian commentators have criticised as ridiculous and wasteful. ⬇️

2/ The SHOT Telegram channel reports that numerous Russian cities and regions are advertising contracts for the provision of VPN services. Thousands of similar tenders have also been posted by state institutions and state-owned companies, according to LIFE.

3/ The customers include "local ministries, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Health, investigative departments of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, city and district administrations, educational institutions, meteorological services,…

Some of the Best TCS Nashik memes 😂 - A Thread 🧵

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In 1962, a math professor published a book that proved you could beat the casino. Las Vegas panicked. They changed the rules of blackjack overnight.

The casinos banned him. They drugged his drinks. They tampered with his car on a mountain road.

So he turned to a bigger casino. Wall Street.

He launched the first quant hedge fund in history. He discovered the Black-Scholes options pricing formula before Black and Scholes. But never published it. He used it to make money instead.

His fund never had a single losing year. He also exposed Bernie Madoff's fraud. 17 years before anyone listened.

His name is Edward Thorp. Worth $800 million. He is 93 years old.

I turned his methodology into 12 prompts.

Here are all 12:

1. The Edge Detection Framework

Thorp's #1 rule: never place a bet unless you have a verified, mathematical edge.

In blackjack, he tracked every card dealt to find the exact moment the odds shifted in his favor. He applied the same principle to Wall Street.

"Assume you may have an edge only when you can make a rational affirmative case that withstands your attempts to tear it down."

Most people trade on hope. Thorp traded on proof.

PROMPT:

"I'm facing a decision where money, time, or reputation is at stake. Here is my situation: [describe]. Using Edward Thorp's Edge Detection framework, analyze my position:

1. Do I actually have a verified edge here, or am I confusing hope with evidence? What specific, testable proof exists that the odds favor me?
2. What would Thorp call the 'house advantage' working against me in this situation, and how large is it?
3. If I tried to destroy my own case for having an edge, what is the strongest argument against me?
4. Where is the equivalent of 'counting cards' here. What information is available to me that most people in my position are ignoring?
5. Give me one specific action I can take this week to test whether my edge is real before I commit significant resources."

2. The Kelly Criterion for Life Decisions

Thorp popularized the Kelly Criterion. A formula that tells you exactly how much to bet based on the size of your edge.

Bet too much, you risk ruin. Bet too little, you waste your advantage.

"Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors."

This applies to every major life decision. Not just money.

PROMPT:

"I need to decide how much to commit to an opportunity. Here is my situation: [describe your decision, what you stand to gain, and what you could lose]. Apply Edward Thorp's Kelly Criterion thinking to my decision:

1. What is my estimated 'edge' in this situation. What probability do I realistically have of winning versus losing?
2. Based on that edge, am I over-betting (risking ruin) or under-betting (wasting my advantage)? Be specific.
3. Thorp used 'half-Kelly' in practice because real-world odds are never perfectly known. What is the conservative version of this commitment that still captures most of the upside?
4. What is the absolute worst-case scenario, and can I survive it financially and psychologically? Thorp's rule: if the answer is no, reduce immediately.
5. Give me the exact amount of resources (money, time, energy) I should commit this week, and the trigger point where I should increase or decrease my bet."

You own {yourname}.sol.

You have a website at {yourname}.sol.site.

You can also have an email at user@{yourname}.sol.site.

Here's how ↓

First, pick your email setup. Two options:

→ Email host (Proton, Zoho, Google Workspace): full inbox, your name on it.
→ Email forwarder (ImprovMX, ForwardEmail): redirects to your existing inbox, usually free.

You'll need the MX records from your host or forwarder.

Once you've picked one, head to your domain page on .

Hit "Configure .sol.site", scroll to "MX Records", and click "+" to paste in the values your provider gives you.

That's literally it for step one. sns.id

1/ The deepest attention problem in conservative circles is de-location. We've let news make the place we actually inhabit feel irrelevant. Neil Postman diagnosed this in 1985. The cause goes back further.

2/ Postman traces it to the telegraph. The moment news could travel faster than a horse, information became untethered from place. "The annihilation of space," one paper called it in 1844. We've been living in that annihilation ever since.

3/ Thoreau, for all his issues, saw it coming: "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate." It took 170 years to learn that lesson, and we still haven't.

Did you know?

Right after the Jallianwalabagh massacre, General Dyer, who orchestrated the massacre of hundreds of Indians in Punjab was honoured in Golden Temple itself.

THREAD

On 13 April 1919, General Dyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar.

Hundreds were killed. Many more injured. It became one of the darkest days in India’s colonial history.

But right after the massacre, while the entire country was revolting, General Dyer was honoured with a Siropa at the Golden Temple infront of a large gathering.

EXCLUSIVE: I have uncovered evidence suggesting that Labour Together, the think tank of Morgan McSweeney fame, is now being led by a former IDF soldier.

This information does not appear on his Wikipedia page or in ANY recent articles.

I cannot believe Labour have hidden this:🧵

In November 2010, a single paragraph in the Jewish Chronicle described Jonathan Kestenbaum as “an ex-IDF soldier [and] holder of the Israel army’s ‘outstanding soldier award’”.

The claim has never been repeated since.

Kestenbaum now sits on the board of Labour Together.

Jonathan Kestenbaum is also noted as “a former mazkir of Bnei Akiva”.

On the website of their UK branch, Bnei Akiva define their ideology as “a religious Zionist worldview, actively seeking to be involved in the development of Medinat Yisrael.”

Kestenbaum is now a Labour peer.

We all work mightily to look competent on paper…
…but we still can struggle with basic life skills.

Like apologizing without making it worse.

Or remembering a name 60 seconds after hearing it.

We obsess over credentials. We neglect competence.

Here's the list of “how tos” I wish someone gave me earlier. 🧵👇

1. Apologize properly

Feel it. Own it. Repair it.

"I'm sorry I missed the deadline. That's 100% on me. How can I make it right?"

And never say "I'm sorry, but..."

That's not an apology. That's a defense.

2. Say no

Research shows we wildly overestimate the backlash from declining requests.

The formula: Be clear. Be brief. Be warm.

"Thanks for thinking of me. I can't do this one."

Boundaries aren't hostility. They're clarity.

Peter Magyar just toppled Orban after 16 years in power.

He spent 20 years inside the very system he just brought down. Here is who he is. 1/

He grew up in a conservative family with deep roots in Hungarian politics.

His grandfather Pal Eross was a well-known TV personality and lawyer. His godfather Ferenc Madl served as President of Hungary from 2000 to 2005. 2/

In 2004 he graduated from the law faculty of Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest. After Fidesz took power in 2010 he was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 3/

“Iron must fight. People must live”

Ground robotic systems went from an outsider idea to the backbone of Ukrainian army logistics. Viktor Pavlov, founder of the UGV School, writes for UP on how it happened and what still blocks Ukraine from winning the robot war. 1/

In 2022 Pavlov was in reconnaissance when his unit carried a wounded soldier 800 meters through a tree line under fire — left flank under enemy control, right flank the same. No way out.

“If we had a ground drone, we would have just put the guy on it and driven him out.” . 2/

The first UGV his unit tested: a 12 kg tracked drone ordered with private funds, arrived late 2022. They rebuilt the comms themselves, mounted cameras, printed parts on a 3D printer.

First combat test — Bakhmut direction in January 2023. 3/

So the threats of Russian false flag ops and the like to prevent #Orbàn’s fall never materialised. They never were plausible, but also Moscow was quite sanguine about the risk. A short thread based on… 1/

…an interesting commentary in Rossiiskaya Gazeta by Fyodor Lukyanov, one of the Russian foreign policy commentariat's main explainers/unofficial Kremlin mouthpieces 2/
rg.ru/2026/04/13/fed…

His main angle is that this is a victory for Hungarian self-interest rather than any liberal, Europhile tide, so that Moscow still has much to play for. 3/