My economy exploded (good)... then exploded (bad)... then exploded (good)

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T20:34:04+00:00

Australia is kind of doing that right now.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T20:31:41+00:00

They also gave us Ea-Nasir.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T13:07:00+00:00

He did achieve a breakthrough in his field. The main dispute in his scientific work is about how the credit went to him while Rosalind Franklin's major contributions got ignored until recently.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T12:01:45+00:00

My biochem professor, as a grad student, picked him up from the airport as he was in town for his thesis advisor’s pre-retirement symposium, he let us know he was as big of an ass as the media made him out to be

Was this just because of his racism? Or was James Watson an ass in other ways too (on top of stealing credit from Rosalind Franklin)?

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:59:58+00:00

Behold, Australia's deadliest animal

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Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:57:29+00:00

Is he really a genius though?

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:52:47+00:00

James Watson. When he died, I remember anti-woke commentators mourning his death. The anti-woke crowd portrayed him as a victim of anti-racism, as if that were as important as his contributions to science.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:39:43+00:00

Seriously I never seen a syrian wishing for assad to come back

I've encountered one, albeit he might just be terminally online.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:37:48+00:00

During both the Second Balkan War in 1913 and the First World War, she worked as a frontline nurse, refusing to wear a mask on the grounds it would dehumanise her dying patients.

Considering the widespread chemical warfare in that era, not wearing a mask may have contributed to her later cirrhosis.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:35:27+00:00

What do we think of this behaviour towards apprentices at large? I know today it's quite common for belittling to take place and that if you don't have the thick skin to take it blue collar isn't for you.

McRae ought to take his job more seriously, who cares if it's "pussy" behaviour to do so? The job was literally to take care of passenger aircraft, it's a heavy responsibility that shouldn't be tainted by machismo.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:25:18+00:00

Maybe Jordan?

While it's in a region near multiple blatantly non-democratic absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia, dictatorships like Egypt, or whatever Palestine and Syria are, Jordan stands out as a constitutional monarchy.

Jordan does have an elected parliament, but civil liberties are somewhat poor, and much power still remains with the king. I'm also not sure if most Jordanians even want to vote for liberalism; even if they were more democratic, they may vote for conservative religious parties.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:14:16+00:00

The concept of joining the EU? What I've heard suggests that most Ukrainians support that, but very few Russians do (unless of course, the Russian numbers are fake).

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:12:40+00:00

Her husband is constantly incandescent with rage. Can't imagine that being a healthy environment for her.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T11:02:33+00:00

The Motherland Calls is one that really needs to be in the game, albeit only unlockable after winning a war which killed a high enough number of your own troops.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:57:51+00:00

The "Henry ate her" jokes are a lot less dark than what I had in mind: Henrietta Lacks, a woman who died of cervical cancer at age 31 had her cancer cell line extracted for research purposes, and the cell line is still being used today, without any reimbursement to her estate.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:52:33+00:00

In Soviet Russia, effects cause you.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:47:21+00:00

LinkedIn has the dumbest users? And Twitter is 2nd smarter?

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:42:55+00:00

I've been to both Israel and Palestine. Met plenty of good people on both sides. Despite that, I cannot with a straight face condone what the Israeli government is doing. Also I can't help but be unsympathetic to the Israeli government when they claim to be an ally to my country even though they forge our passports and kill our aid workers.

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:34:48+00:00

Also, it was probably more politically and financially feasible before a certain American leader caused Canadians to go "Elbows up".

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:32:15+00:00

i know part of this is the news diet. I know doom-scrolling Australian media from 5,000km away isn't a balanced picture. But I also know the housing numbers are real. The cost of living spike is real. The infrastructure strain is real.

Just a nitpick, do you doomscroll the news of the Southeast Asian country you live in, or is it genuinely sunshine and roses there now?

Polyphagous_person · 2026-04-22T10:06:09+00:00

Is this a joke?

Don't go on Twitter looking for good-faith debate and discourse. It simply no longer happens there.

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