Ben Curthoys

@bencurthoys
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I met a traveler from an antique land, who said: The president of the United States has threatened. To destroy a Civilization, how does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk? Or is it a bigger downside risk?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/post/3miwgbkwla223
"Something that starts as fundamentally innovative ends up being pushed to ridiculous extremes. Belief turns to madness. Momentum is everywhere. Value loses touch with fundamentals, and everything becomes relative. Eventually the bubble bursts with dire financial consequences" - Mark Carney, Values.
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Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum

WASHINGTON—Threatening to continue issuing threats if the Islamic Republic did not quickly agree to his demands, President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday to accept his ultimatum or face the wrath of his next ultimatum. “Lay down your weapons now or I will have no choice but to ask you to lay down your weapons […]
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#theonion
https://theonion.com/trump-warns-iran-to-accept-his-ultimatum-or-face-wrath-of-next-ultimatum/

Just to expand on Mr. Bouie's point here a little: racism makes you stupid, but in war, racism makes you ESPECIALLY stupid.

Racism leads you to overestimate yourself and underestimate your adversary, both of which will leave you flat-footed when your adversary manages to exceed your meager expectations of them. You won't know how to respond, because you'll be too lost trying to figure out how they did it in the first place.

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam spent a lot of time mocking the Viet Cong as "peasants in black pajamas," which became embarrassing when the peasants in black pajamas started defeating them

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TPx76MfQXAI

racism makes you stupid

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@catsalad
Pirates never played accordions
🏴‍☠️🚫🪗

(Because they hadn’t been invented yet)

Accordions were invented during the 1800s Industrial Revolution at the same time as the telegraph, steam engine and the typewriter

100 years after the Golden Age of Piracy 1600s–1700s

So every pirate movie with an accordionist is a science fiction movie with a time-travel sub plot 🚀⌛️

Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.

And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.

🧵

Storm Dave is really just endless repeats of all the storms of the last few years.
In this age of progress and innovation, will anyone try for a new Easter world record? The big 10. I suspect it's all in the technique. Rather than one at a time, if assembled into a tall column then sat down on very quickly. Shock and awe.

Something to be said for putting the full quote on the cover.

US v UK edition.

#war #israel #gaza #iran