Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Read this as Zach Cregger at first and was trying to figure out what I'd missed in barbarians and weapons lol 121
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oakland unified School district itself then being absorbed into the Bay area unified school district 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The trump voter who voted for mamdani because he thought he was Italian is why we lose 050
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fable's slower adoption + increased interest in cheaper models has shown signs diminishing returns in frontier development. You can portray a strategic pivot in an altruistic light and discourage others from pushing the frontier 031
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This was my fear when I mouthed off to a driver in Texas while walking my dog 040
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Argentina's also the nearest location to it, and the main British purpose for it was a whaling hub and ship repair stop. There were also complaints about ships on the islands infringing on Argentine fishing territories 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There's also a broader issue of British imperialism against Argentina. They had tried around 1800 to take over the Buenos aires and through the 19th century there was the perception of unfair trade details and meddling in Argentine affairs 100
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The islands were congested but Argentina claimed them in the early 19th and there were some failed settlements attempts. The brits who also had tried claiming it and had some settlement attempts sent a fleet to take it over in the 1830s then sent pastoral settlers to lock it in 100
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In a proportional parliamentary system he woulda had a nice, if brief run, as a niche party that the government has to rely on for coalition reasons 030
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Also, the first country invaded in the war on terror—Afghanistan—is run by the taliban once more 0110
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a good piece. It gets at my confusion over people freaking out at bond yields hitting 2007 numbers. Inflation is above target and debt is twice as high: that seems within expectations and not some crisis. 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Doesn't seem like a bad outcome. If the party is cohesive, they can coordinate an outcome. If they aren't (like Republicans in past cycles) there will be a split and voters will sort the preference 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Real team of rivals situation except they're all psychopaths convinced they will be the next president 030
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Him winning with a bigger vote, nearly a majority is what really got me. Before I could say the countries institutions were broken and stupid. They still are, but it's also the voters. 060
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026HBO rome but we're setting it before the first triumvirate. Covers the plebian tribunes, the social war, and the dictatorship of sulla 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Similarly in malleability, parliament funkadelic influenced music in the 80s/90s with groups like the red hot chilli peppers and dr dre. Racial lines treat these separately but stylistically they are drawing from the same well 020
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Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026And an irritating round of "court rebukes trump" headlines to go with it 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026He was a popular read in the biden white house and they generally followed various of his principles However, a few concessions to the left had MattY saying that the biden white house was run by young staffers trying to please their social circles. 070
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The inclusion of uber-racist Calhoun at the end of the presidents list is a nice touch 030
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026i wish they had gotten other studios to make side games in the mean time. Like fallout new vegas basically: get a studio to use the existing engine and assets while the main studio does something new 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Even pre-2016 things were drifting away from atlanticism. Obama wasn't against it or anything, but he was shifting away from it. His primary alliance effort ttp had no euro involvement 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Haven't watched WWE in years, but man theyve embraced those logos to a garrish degree 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Yeah itd be a risk for them and none are indispensable enough where they can ignore the org. Leaves them going with the flow and that means the flow gets to push you 020
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026them not being trump-y has been nice, but unfortunately none of them speak out against this shit. Theyre under no obligations to, but having someone like rapinoe or lebron who speaks up against this stuff is how you can actually seperate the team from the admin 171
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026For comparison the multiple failed attempts eventually led Bolivar to seek Haitian help in exile and solidified an abolitionist stance 010
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026If the revolution fails then it seems like it reignites again during the French revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. I do wonder how the delays affect the course though. Haitian independence and the threat of slave revolts would probably scare the planter class 100
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Similarly, the post covid increases in immigration aren't a US exclusive event. Canada and European countries also saw large increases in immigration largely due to similarly improving economies 160
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Gonzales getting 43% against Hickenlooper is pretty impressive tbh. She basically had no major attention on her and not much fundraising 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As for Saudi and the others I would say the same as mamdani. States can have dominant traditions, but institutionalizing and creating legal hierarchies is bad 040
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The UKs protestant institutions were a huge problem for centuries and created a lot of oppression and social unrest, so yes it's bad. Reforms through the decades like catholic emancipation have remedied that largely. Still, going further like removing lords spiritual would be good 140
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026At this point Iran also has to put up for their proxies. Before being attacked themselves, they didn't do much when Lebanon and yemen were being bombed 130
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The problem is that he's willing to give away a lot right now, but how do you guarantee that the us/Israel doesn't just resume bombings later 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Nah, we needed all six seasons so that we could get this youtu.be/NLozf0flgyI?...youtu.beElroy Patashnik's Guide To Being The Perfect Wedding Guest | CommunityYouTube video by Community 3520
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Counterpoint: the natural born citizenship clause is stupid, but it will force zohran to pursue speakership of the house, and this will be what finally brings congressional supremacy 0281
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026perhaps he's conceding that large parts of russia are actually occupied ukraine 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Do you think these big sales could have an effect on the spaceX, anthropic, and open ai IPOs? Those were going to be mega sales as is, and now this is introducing even more supply in the same sector 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026From the FT, the other parties both in opposition and government want more violence 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Vince McMahon also wouldn't fire people himself and would delegate that to underlings. Like Trump, he also built an onscreen persona as a hardass who loved firing people. it's a weird dichotomy: publicly they present as blistering authoritarians. Privately they kiss ass and hide 050
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026In the long run you can write off the post Johnson PMs as incompetent transitionary PMs. You have to take time to explain the mess may and Johnson made 000
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I don't see how may isn't bottom of the list. She signed up for a bad situation, fumbled around the whole time and kept making her position worse. The others are incompetents sitting in the mess she created. Johnson's handling of COVID is the only thing I see worse 100
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This comes up in immigration discourse in the US. I like the "nation of immigrants" idea, but some take this to mean that we are the only place with significant immigration. The US immigration rate meanwhile is pretty standard compared to large European countries 040
Greg @gregawd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026There was a video on this from thinking basketball. Shai is great at changing direction which leads defenders into checking him with their hands when beat. Shai then sells the contact. Some players like ant, push through and don't sell the contact, but shais not flopping 110
