Rūdolfs Strazdiņš

vienīgā lieta, kas patīkamāka par bakalaura darba iesniegšanu, ir 412 vairs nevajadzīgu tab aizvēršana

It really takes a lot for me to say this, but the Graham tweet is genuinely a pretty offensive thing to say.

Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

holy shit. lmao www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Previously a CON seat 90 of 266 polls reporting Name (top 5) Votes % Bruce Fanjoy (LIB) 13,113 51.4 Pierre Poilievre (CON) i 11,505 45.1 Beth Prokaska (NDP) 407 1.6 Mark Watson (GRN) 151 0.6 Shawn MacEachern (CFP) 23 0.1

god if you give me this i will die laughing

Cool read, super relevant for us

You can get hard, concrete proof that parliamentary systems are superior because the Trump Crash and the Truss budget crisis were basically the same and one resulted in the head of state serving for less than four weeks and the other being irrevocably in charge for four entire years

Rīgas IKEA autostāvlaukums ir tieši tikpat liels kā divi kvartāli Rīgas centrā ar 40 ēkām! Interesanti, ka lielveikalos no stāvlaukuma cilvēki ir gatavi iet vairākus simtus metru pēc nepieciešamās preces, bet pilsētas centrā stāvvietai jābūt noteikti pie katra veikala durvīm.

🚲 Rīgā top ātrgaitas velo maģistrāle gar dzelzceļu – starp Brasu, Sarkandaugavu, Mīlgrāvi, kura ļaus pārvietoties starp apkaimēm ātri, nestāvot pie luksoforiem. 🚦❌
Pirmo veloceļu posmu būvniecība jau notiek dzelzceļa mobilitātes punktu ietvaros, pavasarī tiks uzsākta savienojošo posmu projektēšana.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

we're going to be calling it the Great Leap Forward and it's going to be tremendous. we're going to purge the intellectuals, who have been very nasty to me, and we're going to form the communes, and we're going to have all the manufacturing. all the manufacturing. production quotas,

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory

i feel like i'm going insane

🚌❤️🌚Rīgā vajadzētu atjaunot nakts transportu un tik milzīga pretestība jau trīs gadus tam nav pamatota.

Pagājušajā gadā divās nedēļās mēs, Progresīvie, savācām 1800+ parakstu par to. Iedzīvotāji prasa!

🌚Nakts transportam nākamā Rīgas domes sasaukumā būt!

Elon's involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race cost his candidate around 5% of the vote--even though he spent $25 million dollars on his behalf.

Elon's endorsee ran 5 points behind the other statewide Republican candidate. That's an unbelievably negative return on investment.

With educational polarization and Trump's lust for tariffs, I feel like we might end up with the first anti-fascist Business Plot

"we are abolishing refugee and asylum claims, and doing our best to abolish legal immigration, except for Afrikaner farmers alleging discrimination" is so impossibly on the nose that it's hard to believe it's real even once you've set your expectations to what you thought was as low as possible.

Honestly though, "no reason" is more compelling than the elaborate justifications his supporters are coming up with on the fly

Did you know that all the generators on the power grid are spinning in sync with each other? The grid has a heartbeat and each and every machine connected to it must follow the rhythm.

This includes the machines in your home! Your buzzing fridge compressor is beating in time with the same heart.

If the number of PDFs on your computer is not in the triple digits at absolute minimum…ngmi

NA pilsētplānošanas līmenis: PSRS 70-tie.

3 kidnapped teenagers made it back to Ukraine and they’re just so cool

There's no reason to beat around the bush on this: Trump's Ukraine plan is literally just to make Ukraine an American colony. He's trying to divide up the country with Russia like Germany did with Poland.

this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke

This BTW is my Exhibit A when I laugh at those who claim that Finland only managed to enact progressive policies because homogenous societies have higher trust, etc.

That gets the causality very much backwards. Trust between mutually distrusting societal groups was built by progressive policies.

❤️ Parīze balso par cilvēcīgu pilsētu.
❤️ 🌳Arī Rīga ir perfekta vieta gājēju ielām!
Mums pat ir tam piemērs - Tērbatas iela 2020.gada vasarā, kura patika daudziem.

@progresivie.lv

So, reading the article, I am also struck - in addition to the OPSEC catastrophe - by how shallow the strategic thinking here is.

Maybe that's just always the way it is, but all the concerns are domestic politics and messaging. No one asks, "will these strikes accomplish anything and if so, what?"

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Europe is about to make its biggest strategic mistake Control over Moscow’s blocked foreign reserves empowers the EU to shape how the Ukraine war ends

This is an absolutely crucial read.
"Returning the money to Russia would be a strategic disaster. Not only would it cement Moscow’s advantage over Kyiv, undermining everything Ukraine has done [...] But it would also show that even when Europe has power, it will not use it."