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another version of the everything map dropped

The Soviet Union had the second-longest economic boom ever observed, becoming the second-largest economy in the world by the late 1960s (up from a Third World basket case under Stalin). Culture is upstream of both politics and economics, good leadership can make bad systems work. Its what happens when an economy goes into failure mode that really distinguishes central planning and market economies.

The USA did a roaring trade with the USSR, starting in 1917. One man's human rights abuse is another man's business opportunity.

OPEC+ announces symbolic oil output rise during Strait of Hormuz closurehttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/opec-announces-symbolic-oil-output-rise-during-strait-of-hormuz-closure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

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https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/no-homes-no-hope-lives-dhakas-floating-population-1173166

This is the best way possible to (maybe?) end this epic thread!

Here is the story of the Saskatchewan SpaceX debris fall, written by me, published by Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

Many of you got to see this story unfold in real-time toots, but this is the whole thing, plus some extra science context. Extra special thank you to @NicoleCRust and @laurahelmuth for encouraging me to pitch the story to SciAm! I am so excited to publish in a magazine I read all the time as a kid.

https://rumble.com/v79dqbw-good-women.html

https://www.mgtow.tv/v/OFQ63V

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/01/dawn-schrader-moral-psychology-expert-dies-67

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