Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Notably, we seem to have avoided those price highs by drawing down basically every kind of inventory to eye-wateringly low levels. Those inventories will need to be rebuilt and until they are, the ability to weather an additional shock is very minimal. 1142369
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/05/2026-1 stability. 1744232
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 25/05/2026And that is not a funeral memory for a specific soldier, but a triumph pillar for a campaign showing the distinctive features of it. It'd be like if there was a monument to Ceasars campaigns in Gaul which has Legionairres fighting both ways a la Alesia 010
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLuke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Dude really wants to be excommunicated 1972
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/08/2024Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1 621656645
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvandesande.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Ik zie heel veel videos van Gidi. Met in het bijschrift verontwaardiging, inderdaad. Maar we moeten ons realiseren dat verontwaardiging onderdeel is van zijn strategie, want die maken wel dat we zijn beelden en woorden telkens weer delen. 1173
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Check out what i got 2221
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Wait US colleges regularly have multiple campuses in different cities? That would always count as a new university where I live. No wonder attendee numbers are often so high if they can be spread across a state 100
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMarieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...nos.nlBrandstichting bij noodopvang Loosdrecht, betogers houden brandweer tegenAgenten die het vuur probeerde te blussen werden bekogeld. De ME is ingezet om de orde te herstellen. 813278
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialCold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 13/05/2026From the 1950s - 1970s the #coldwar #Swedish #Army was going to tow its troops into position behind a tractor! One soldier on the trailer indicates to the soldiers on bicycles which turn would be made and a long rope with a grip for each to hold on to... 0133
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 13/05/2026IMO a lot of countries are currently governed by a kind of desperate "no please not alt right" coalition. Sure, a couple countries have a "right and alt right" coalition where part of the coalition would like Trumpism at home, but most don't 000
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I'd like some more small scale stuff. "What if the rail bridge at Wesel had survived WWII" is an idea I've been playing with in my mind. Thinking of what kind of things would be needed to get the Boxtel-Wesel railway to the modern day & what side effects that would have in the area 020
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialWhittmann @whittmann.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Some cookie banners feel like they're doing malicious compliance. If a user has already opted out, trying to funnel them back into accepting cookies through confusing UX is not an accident. 2173
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 02/05/2026But it works quite badly when you learned a thousand quantitative methods and you need a qualitative one here. Generally ime it works okay so long as you stay in STEM but translates much less well to humanities, with economics maybe inbetween? 2/2 010
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I studied data science and some classes were heavy on the "you learn methods here and then learn domain specific things to work with at a job". And that works well when the domain specific thing is "we make water so a temperature reading of 200 degrees is wrong" 1/? 100
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It does seem like a lot of the business analysts are refusing to recognize that the logic of war is rather different than the logic of markets and this is, in fact, a war - however indirectly waged at the moment. 'How long will the war last' - well the mean war duration is more than a year. 10817134
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 02/05/2026maybe they'll insist on regime change in the US... 020
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I'm looking at €2,26/L (~$10/Gallon) and enjoying the fact that I take a train to work 010
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Dutch policy started as "look guys, nothing concerning is going on, continue life as normal", but as prices started rising and Belgium made a price ceiling, they decided to just let the price (including significant taxes) rise. Colleagues with cars are unhappy but I think it's better in the long run 000
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day 885544971
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Obviously a made up number but exciting implications for WTI and Brent front-month if true! 42079
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Displacement of oil from one place to another just changes where the oil is being priced high though, right? Or am I understanding this wrong? 020
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/04/2026i think pretty much constantly about the scene in seven samurai where the villagers are eating millet because they need to save the beautiful delicious white rice for the samurai they want to hire. then i eat white rice and i feel like a king and i also feel a very great and deep sadness 621221
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this 514145773
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 07/04/2026Can’t believe I’m expected to generate 0.00001% of a culture point today while all this bullshit is going on 0122
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 08/04/2026a fun law fact is that the crime of "assault" is not actually hitting, but threatening to hit. "battery" is hitting. that's why you hear "assault and battery" together so often. the threat is the crime because it's the threat, not the hitting, that breaks another's will. much to ponder. 1254
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialSpookMind: The Cortex of Fear @itsphetz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026after months of torturing me with awful genAI cointracker ads, reddit has rewarded my patience with The Good Stuff 1422
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I will write authentic Chinese fortune cookies using the 三世書 system. 'In your previous life you were a corrupt official in Henan. You will die aged 45 of the flux, and in your next life you will be a charcoal gatherer in Shaanxi.' 419921
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 08/04/2026i fully support treating the cops like a distressed asset in need of PE restructuring. 412010
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A thing that bothers me as a rhetoric scholar who studies propaganda, the public sphere, & democracy is the way that propaganda eliminates or frustrates the public’s ability to do sense-making. It’s hard to know what to think when no one else does either & there aren’t common facts. 711828
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I go to an event with a bunch of friends in the summer each year and it's the best. Quite some people take their partner by now but luckily there are yet more people. 020
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Block US military activity from all EU ground man, and close US bases while we are at it. no taking off, no intelligence sharing, no refilling, no transit stops for arms to Israel and US bases overseas we will allow you to off-load your casualties for humanitarian reasons and that is it 318047
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Dutch weather services are hosting a contest to submit storm names! Netherlands, Ireland and the UK share a storm name system together :) north sea pals gotta stick together 03010
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The fact it is still possible to get them at all here is dissapointing 010
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialMaaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Open the borders! Everyone is welcome in The Hague! 5779
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialGareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Never interrupt your mistakes when you’re making enemies. 25313
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.idahostatesman.comBoise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said. 6097062711
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialJane @janehop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I wonder if history will have anything to say about the fact that Congress decided to stay out on vacation while the US president threatened to start WWIII. And, of course, our vp is out campaigning for an autocrat in another country. No fiction book would ever try to make up such idiocy 23710
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. 15455112217
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I wish I could figure out how to “Don’t worry, the president is simply an impulsive sociopath with zero credibility“ became a reason for why it’s okay Trump is still in office and not a reason to remove him. 317327
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/04/2026And if you are one of these boys, are you really going to choose to take this job over another one? 000
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/03/2026If I remember correctly, most EVE players actually live in hisec, and in sovnull most players simply dock up if enemies show up, and if the enemy brings actual force they call for the ~~nukes~~ supercap umbrella. When I played my fun was trying to avoid the enemies in wh and null, not fighting 000
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Or going the EVE gank route and getting one friend to loot all the corpses then alpha-striking your enemy to death before getting killed by the police 000
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I think this is BS, because tournaments require at least some higher nobles to be invested, but the Targs could just... personally burn down the keep or people doing the biggest violence that year among the high nobles, and I believe in a decade all high nobility would learn to not do that anymore 020
superstrijder15.bsky.social @superstrijder15.bsky.social · 25/02/2026There is also a "double food production for a year" spell. It requires a 5th level druid, but a country with lots of druids could conceivably have said druids make a circle through the realm and bless every hamlet. This may be how elf forests maintain the numbers to defend against non-forest realms 110
Reposted by @superstrijder15.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 01/02/2026one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel 101177191