Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made
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The Private Sector Advisory Council is proposing a P1 billion annual fund to send 100 high-performing Filipino students to leading foreign universities, on the condition that they return home to work in the local economy.
The Brain Gain initiative is part of recommendations from the council’s Digital Infrastructure Sector Group to expand internet access, protect critical infrastructure, develop the Philippine space industry and strengthen the local talent pool.
Read more: manilastandard.net/business/…
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This is wild, even by President Trump’s standards.
Ok, I didn’t expect a story time on Saturday, but here we go. What I’m about to write is TRUE. It is insane, stupid, and very dumb, but it is true. Earlier today Donald J Trump, the p[resident of the United States, posted that he had offered the job of Press Secretary to Dana White. Well, it was the wrong Dana White… 🧵
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6 minutes and 21 seconds of me breaking down the tsunami as it unfolded on The Nerd Show with the fantastic @CHueyBurns and @SalvantoCBS.
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This photo from Election Night in Boone, North Carolina, is a modern Norman Rockwell painting
📸 Credit: Noah Williford, @TheAppalachian
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Must watch: Meet Chuck Hubbard, who is set to defeat Virginia Foxx in a safe Trump +18 district in North Carolina.
Just a normal guy, he decided to run for office to stand up for his LGBTQ daughter and defend her rights in Trump’s America.
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Everyone always talks about how crazy hyper-partisanship is now but on a pure rhetorical basis it’s actually very mild compared with the way that old school southern democrats like Ann Richards or James Carville talk. The way Richards talks about “Republicans” with open, colorful contempt and actually made total sense in the environment she grew up in. Texas (and most southern states) were like 100% Democrat run for 100 years. I had a greatest generation relative who went to her grave THIS YEAR having never voted for a single Republican in her entire life despite being a white southerner who casually used the n-word as a synonym for “black person,” until like, idk, the early 2010s?
Here's your crash course in Ann Richards🕊 (1933-2006)
It's a long one but every second is worth the watch.
She was brassy, ballsy and a Democrat's Democrat and if you close out all the noise and ask yourself which candidate to evokes that same fire and tenacity it is @JasmineForUS.
#TXsen
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The National Museum of American History has an exhibit right now on Filipino American history. It includes the suits that Filipino immigrants bought using the money they earned as agricultural laborers. Photos from Mina Roces's article "These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors': Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s-1930s"
Jesus Christ
Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.
The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.
✍️ Philip Patrick
Article | spectator.com/article/the-da…
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UA SC Case sidelines. Amici curiae Ben Diokno (78), Butch Abad (71) and Joey Salceda (65) are having lunch together. Winnie Monsod (85) comes in and says “Hello Babies!”
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A major beef between two Hungarians is truly a colossal force to reckon with: György Soros and Viktor Orbán moved mountains and involved most of the world in their civilizational struggle, only for the winner to come out with a cozy couch photograph to try to mentally destroy the losing party.
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The leaders of post-Mao China greatly admired Singapore,we can speak "Singaporean fever"
It’s quite funny to see people pitting Lee against China as if he embodied anti-authoritarianism, when the CCP has long viewed Singapore as proof that it’s possible to modernize, enrich the country, and govern firmly without copying Western liberal democracy.
Reddit libtards have no cool leaders so they have to shill some guy who figured out tiny states with 5 people can get money by being offshore banking hubs. Sorry, we like REAL leaders like Stalin who turned 200 million peasants spanning 2 continents into rivaling the US in 3 decades. Gtfo with this shit
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Taking off from what Randy David pointed out years ago, the focus on antidynasty means all the oxygen was taken out of the room as far as campaign finance reform and reforming the party list system are concerned.
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Which Asian countries are the most exposed to rising oil prices?
Oil prices rising from $70 to $85 reduces Singapore's real GDP growth by -1.5 percentage points, the largest hit in the region.
Taiwan follows closely at -1.2 percentage points.
Hong Kong, Korea, and India would see a reduction of -0.5 to -0.7 percentage points each.
The Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia face a hit of -0.3 to -0.5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, China is the least exposed at -0.1 percentage points, as its oil imports are better diversified than those of its neighbors.
With oil now at ~$100, far above the $85 modeled here, the real GDP impact across Asia is significantly larger.
Most major Asian economies are highly exposed to oil price swings.
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harvard can't figure out why ice cream eaters are healthier. it's because ice cream is the only food nobody eats out of obligation or guilt. the food diary is an accidental personality test and "eats ice cream on purpose, reports it honestly" is just measuring internal locus of control
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List of capable global militaries:
1 - America
*giant gulf*
2 - Israel
*Another giant gulf*
3 - me and my retarded buddies drunk in the woods with old surplus rifles
*You guessed it, another giant gulf*
4 - France?
5 - everyone else
900 - Russia
