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Recent events lead me to believe that the macho, war-ready stance of Trump and Hegseth is propaganda intended to distract from the truth that they are destroying the U.S. military on behalf of Russia.

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My opinion is not related to NATO, which is a separate issue. Bases and equipment are being destroyed, and constitutionally well-trained and experienced leadership are being fired..... This is treason.

chiangraitimes.comUS Navy Warships Bring 5,100 Sailors to PhuketPHUKET - Thailand's resort island of Phuket is gearing up for a massive wave of visitors this October as two major United States Navy ships prepare to dock.

They're coming back to Thailand. www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-new...

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I shot street photography - Pune years ago. Pune a historic city w/ lovely people yet during the Ganesha festival the situation can turn ugly as the frenzy intensifies. After this photo a few men realized the situation & surrounded me for protection. These men were hostile. @ektashahmd.bsky.social

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He snores a lot? He looks as expected. Those aren't the Guns of Navarone rather the Guns of provolone. Since he is locked and loaded let's toss him over the border wall into Ciudad Juarez.

youtu.beChaos in Nan, Thailand today! Massive floods swept away Homes, Cars in Pua District!YouTube video by Nature's Fury

Disaster in Thailand. News focuses on Bangkok yet much of the country is under severe flooding and landslides. Help if you can. Some reputable charities: Red Cross Society TH, Royal Chaipattana Foundation,The Freedom Story, Save the Children TH, GlobalGiving, UNICEF TH, IRC youtu.be/EatPHQDmZcM?...

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There is a disaster unfolding in much of SE Asia. Much of the news is focusing on Bangkok which has been declared a state of disaster. The rest of Thailand is experiencing massive floods & landslides. Meanwhile developed nations continue to ignore climate change.

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Kudos to the Royal Thai Armed Forces who are fully mobilized to aid where possible. A systemic structural solution must be found rather than responding year after year.

Thailand should consider this given the civil engineering failures over the past few years, the annual flooding and pollution, and that the PM is a licensed civil engineer.

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Rabbi Dovid Feldman spoke on Mayor Mamdani‘s behalf yesterday

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Voting from abroad, especially if you are from California, is incredibly easy. Make sure you are registered in your county & the board of registrars will take care of you with timely updates. I voted last night and it took me 20 min as I needed to research a few ballot measures. #democratsabroad

Sound familiar? K. Hahn was a great educator who founded a number of schools including the Outward Bound School. In 1920 Hahn and Prince Max founded Schule Schloss Salem, a private boarding school in Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germany,

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3. Decline of Memory and Imagination due to the confused restlessness of modern life 4. Decline of Skill and Care due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; 5. Decline of Self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of stimulants and tranquillisers.

en.wikipedia.orgKurt Hahn - Wikipedia

6. Decline of Compassion due to the unseemly haste with which modern life is conducted or, as William Temple called it, "spiritual death". I was a student & teacher of Hahn's work in the Outward Bound School. Credit Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Ha....

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He believed that education could prevent this corruption, if students were given opportunities for personal leadership and to see the results of their own actions. Hahn summarised his beliefs about the younger generation at the time into six key points, describing them as the

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Six Declines of Modern Youth: 1. Decline of Fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; 2. Decline of Initiative and Enterprise due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis (i.e. "excessive indulgence in forms of amusement in which one is a passive spectator rather than an active participant")

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The Stormtroopers were originally sentenced to death, but when they were given amnesty and celebrated by the Nazis, Hahn spoke out against Hitler publicly.

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Hahn's educational philosophy was based on respect for adolescents, whom he believed to possess an innate decency and moral sense, but who were, he believed, corrupted by society as they aged.

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where Hahn served as headmaster until 1933 and Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Hahn was raised Jewish, and began his fierce criticism of the Nazi regime after the Potempa murder of 1932, when Stormtroopers attacked and killed a young communist in the presence of his mother.

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3 Sept

I am in Bangkok for 3 days. Two fit guys from the Carolinas were lost & asked for help. They were looking for the bus back to the USS Lincoln. I walked them there. They didn't talk much. I asked them are things as bad as I read. They responded, "much worse". Stoic guys instructed not to talk.

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28 Aug

aseannow.comPattaya readies for USS Abraham Lincoln crewPattaya expects USS Abraham Lincoln personnel in September, as officials plan security and estimate up to 15 million baht in local spending.

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thehimalayantimes.comAt least 162 dead, hundreds missing in flash floodA flash flood ripped through the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts on Wednesday morning, killing at least 162 people as of 6:00 am of Thursday and leaving hundreds missing, according to a Nepal Police spok...

27 Aug

Condolences to the people of Nepal and Tibet. Climate change is real. Best of luck and respect to the rescue teams. english.news.cn/20260827/56c... thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/at-lea...

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Float_All_Boats

@floatallboats.bsky.social

23 Aug

Definitely worth hearing - blunt feedback from those who know:

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No notes.😳 Sharing too keep. It is worth a listen. April, this year.

youtube.com“Get Him Out Of There Before He Kills Us All”: Sachs Trump Warning | WORLD NEWS | US NEWSYouTube video by The Financial Express

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22 Aug

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20 Aug

Compassion should never be selective. During a 2003 lecture at the University of Waterloo, Jewish-American scholar Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein offered a powerful reminder about compassion and the conflict. “If you truly had compassion in your heart, your tears would also be for the Palestinians.”

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4 Aug

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. 1/2

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4 Aug

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero 2/2

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦

@corrina.sheshed.rocks

3 Aug

If you’ve been wondering where Mitch McConnell disappeared to… Well Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man & the Lion head were sent to the Emerald City to investigate 😂 The Wizard of Was is political satire at its finest!! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #DefendersOfDemocracy

tomsguide.comRAM prices keep going up — what is RAMageddon, and why is it getting worse?Pretty much everything tech-wise is affected

28 July

Our soon to be AI overlords & their tech industry masters are driving up RAM + DRAM costs as tech companies compete for AI chips. The demand for chips are driving up costs due to scarcity & to secure profits. More "benefits" to come. www.tomsguide.com/computing/ra...

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religion.columbia.eduIn Memoriam: Robert A.F. Thurman (1941-2026) | Department of Religion

26 June

RIP Dr. Robert Thurman a tireless advocate and learned scholar. religion.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

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17 May

Julian Assange warned us: Digital archives let them erase history with one click. One day: "Page not found." The next: "it never happened." They control what you remember. Save physical books. Archive offline. Don't trust the cloud. This is how 1984 wins.

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29 Apr

Free on Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98

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27 Apr

Naxi Oarsman - Yunnan #streetphotography #travel_photograpby #china #yunnan

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26 Apr

The Parthasarathy Temple, Chennai, is one of the city's most spiritually and historically significant landmarks. Dedicated to Lord Vishnu, it is believed to have been built in the 8th century by the Pallava King Narasimhavarman I. #street_photography #chennai #hindu #streetphotograpby_india

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25 Apr

River Life - Central Vietnam This area produces some outstanding boutique fish sauce. No factories, no additives except a lot of small fish. Subtle and not overly salty. #street_scene #street_photography #analog_photography #provia #vietnam_life

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24 Apr

Wuhua Tower (Tower of Five Glories) located within Dali Ancient City. Built during the Tang dynasty era (856 AD) & was an important structure of the Nanzhao Kingdom’s capital. This photo was taken the day after COVID-19 was announced, hence no people. #streetphotography #street_photography_china

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Monk leaving a Prayer Wheel (Thardo Khorlo) Swayambhu #streetphotography #street_photohraphy #buddhist #swayambhu #kathmandu

I asked Claude what HL Mencken would have written about Trump. The output: Mencken would recognize in Trump the archetype he spent his career anatomizing: the confidence man as folk hero. 1/3

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His 1920 line would hang over everything: "As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

I asked Claude what HL Mencken would have written about Trump. The output: Mencken would recognize in Trump the archetype he spent his career anatomizing: the confidence man as folk hero. 1/3

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Mencken would reserve considerable venom for Trump's enemies too. He despised earnest liberals almost as much as he despised buffoons, and he would find the years of solemn cable news lamentation —

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the pundits, the norm-defenders, the proceduralists clutching their Madisons — almost as comic as Trump himself. He would say they deserved each other. That a political class so hollow and self-satisfied had no right to its outrage, having done so much to earn the whirlwind.

I asked Claude what HL Mencken would have written about Trump. The output: Mencken would recognize in Trump the archetype he spent his career anatomizing: the confidence man as folk hero. 1/3

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Mencken coined the term booboisie for a reason. He would see in the MAGA phenomenon the fullest flowering of what he had diagnosed in the 1920s: the revenge of the provincial mind against everything it cannot understand and therefore resents.

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He would be withering about the rallies — those great liturgies of grievance — and he would note with his characteristic dark amusement that the man on the stage believes in nothing except the adoration of the crowd, while the crowd believes in him with the fervor of the newly baptized.

I asked Claude what HL Mencken would have written about Trump. The output: Mencken would recognize in Trump the archetype he spent his career anatomizing: the confidence man as folk hero. 1/3

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He would not call him stupid. Mencken was too sharp for that. He would call him shrewd in the way that carnival barkers and tent revivalists are shrewd — which is to say, attuned to the hungers of an audience that has never been adequately fed by its betters. 3/...... There's more

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I asked Claude what HL Mencken would have written about Trump. The output: Mencken would recognize in Trump the archetype he spent his career anatomizing: the confidence man as folk hero. 1/3

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He would note, without surprise, that a civilization which mistakes volume for intelligence and repetition for argument would eventually produce a demagogue who had mastered both. He might call him "the Republic's id made flesh" — crude, relentless, magnificently indifferent to shame. 2/3

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22 Apr

Pensioner Yi People Weishsan semi-autonomous Yi and Hui People County Yunnan #streetphotography #street_photography #street_portrait #street_china Alt Text