Maintainnin @maintainnin

🧵 A closer look at the paper this guy is quoting from

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57 years ago

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This demanding of land is lame. Either go to war or shut up.

Mikita 👨‍💻 @mikitaposts

a week ago

There is irony in Morocco demanding Ceuta and Melilla “return” back to Morocco when tens of thousands of migrants climb over the walls precisely because it’s NOT part of Morocco

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@RichardHanania People who bring up the UK having a lower GDP per capita than Mississippi do so because a higher GDP is generally correlated with more prosperity and better quality of life, but if that's not actually the case as the chart shows, then it renders the whole point moot.

That's literally double the market rate, they'd just deny you as a foreclosure risk at that point. In all likelihood that payment includes escrow withholdings (insurance & property taxes) which is separate from the loan repayment. For further context, when my dad refinanced with Guidance Residential back in early 2020, the mortgage rate was 4% or about 0.4% higher than the lowest rates for a traditional mortgage.

What is it with Latin Americans and their inclination towards socialism?

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt

3 weeks ago

"If your mom and pop shop can't compete with the wealthiest municipal government stealing 30% of your own revenue + tax $$ from 8.5 million people to undercut your prices, you shouldn't be in business" Socialists are truly the dumbest people on earth.

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Rent control is just thinly veiled communism. Idk how it's not been ruled unconstitutional already. It's a blatant violation of property rights and is tantamount to theft. Most of its support is propelled by economic illiteracy and pent up malice toward property owners. It's a general attack on free markets and the pursuit of profit, all to accommodate the unjustified entitlement renters have toward other people's assets.

Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban

a month ago

There's a case slowly working its way through federal courts in NYC that has the potential to become a national case. The plaintiffs are challenging the constitutionality of NY's rent control and stabilization laws. And they managed to land a judge appointed by Trump...

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All sorts of weird discourse around how little girls dress at a school where the student body is overwhelmingly Somali. The base assumption is always that the hijab must be forced/compulsory when the simpler explanation is that it's just a case of social conformity. Humans are social creatures who instinctively want to conform to the dress codes and norms of their surrounding community and environment. When a girl sees her mother, aunts, and classmates wearing the hijab she will naturally feel an inclination or desire towards wearing it as well which is normal. Being surrounded in an environment where the hijab is ubiquitous is actually the most organic way to socialize religious observance rather than starting to wear it abruptly at 15 years old. This normalization is probably why Somalis are disproportionately observant when it comes to the hijab compared to other Muslim communities in the West.

winnie (save 🇸🇩, free 🇵🇸) @winnie4prez

4 weeks ago

i hate to offend my favourite people (somalis) but you guys have GOT to stop putting your 3-year olds in a headscaf/hijab, for God's sake

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The Somali region of Kenya will benefit in that new pipelines and storage depots would be built along the Northeastern corridor so that refined fuel can be transported to Ethiopia and South Sudan. Lamu is also the closest port to Garissa which is the largest Somali city in Kenya. It's also not a zero sum game for Somalia either. The Increased local refining capacity in Kenya would lower fuel and energy prices across the region purely due to reduced transportation costs, particularly for Somalia which currently relies on refined diesel as the primary source of energy for its electricity grid. We need to get rid of this poverty scarcity mindset where one country benefitting means another has to lose. Some things are a win-win.

Great news for the Somali regions of Kenya and Somaliweyn in general.

Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans

a month ago

Dangote confirms Lamu as site for planned East African Oil Refinery

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Lowkey one of the dumbest decisions I've seen a country make. Imagine defiantly buying a Russian missile defense system while you had F-35s undergoing pre-delivery testing. Now you have a single missile battery you can't use, undelivered fighter jets, billions in lost revenue for your local defense contractors, and nearly 10 years later you're still begging to be re-entered into the program. At the very least, they should have waited until they received a few F-35s before buying the missile system.

The Associated Press @AP

a month ago

President Trump said the U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkey that were issued after Ankara purchased a Russian missile defense system that led to the country being kicked out of the F-35 fighter jet program. apnews.com/article/nato-d…

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@davidthehoundd @ayaanlebackup17 @heinox64428 Both are impoverished pre-industrial societies. Any comparison beyond that is just another "homeless person calling another homeless person broke."

@davidthehoundd @ayaanlebackup17 @heinox64428 Nigeria has a lower life expectancy than Somalia.

I just stole this niggas username 😭 come get it back in blood

Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr

a month ago

Do you like the new name?

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"highly advanced metallurgy compared to native Africans in the region." Objectively the opposite is true. Niger-Congo people independently entered the Iron Age, with widespread archeologically confirmed iron smelting sites in West/Central Africa by 900 BC. By the time basic iron smelting became common in Yemen, there were already sites in East Africa where Bantu people were locally producing high-carbon steel. By any technological measure the metallurgy of local Bantus would have been more advanced than anything that could be introduced by South Arabians.

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Khopesh_Wielder𐤀 @Khopesh_Wielder

a month ago

According to many scholarly sources, the ancient stone structures in Zimbabwe were built by Semitic seafarers, very likely to be the Sabaeans. It also says the Lemba people are paternally descend from South Arabians of Saba/"Sheba" proven by their Semitic male lineages and

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Every time.....

Red Sea Scandinavian 🇪🇷 @35137i

a month ago

The Horn of Africa Skin Tone Pyramid. Eritreans are the lightest skinned East Africans, while Somalis and Amharas are in the middle, and Oromos and Kikuyus are the darkest

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Sawakin is a Sudanese port on the Red Sea, built on a 20 km² island, connected to the mainland by a causeway since the 19th century.

Nota T @NotaT240400

2 months ago

Tombstone carved from basalt with an Arabic inscription from Eritrea, Dahlak Kebir, in the name of Sheikh Makki b. Jami b. Salim al-Sawakini. Died 607 AH (1210 CE). Made by 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Harami. al-Sawakini: he originated in Sawakin, Sudan. British Museum

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That wasn't always the status quo though. The Aksumite kingdom was by far the most militarily powerful and economically sophisticated state in the Horn. It's evident when you consider all the elite structures, monumental inscriptions, coins, and military conquests. Probably the closest thing to Rome the region saw. It was only after its dissolution and the shift of the governance base southwards with the ascendance of the Solomonics that such destitution and general backwardness was seen. Can't even consider them the same civilization really.

Abyssinian consumption of raw meat was a pre-existing culinary tradition, particularly among South Ethiosemites, and had nothing to do with medieval warfare. Otherwise the practice would have been strictly limited to soldiers during their campaigns. There's even a 15th century report by Al-Maqrizi claiming that Dawit I consumed raw meat, although the account is likely embellished: "The Abyssinians eat their meat raw. Indeed, someone who witnessed the Ḥaṭī Dāwūd b. Sayf Arʿad told me that he saw him eating the raw stomach/paunch of a cow, with the remnants of its dung/undigested contents running down his chin. He also saw a man eating a hen while it clucked." The same practice is also mentioned by the Portuguese traveler Francisco Álvares, who visited Abyssinia in the early 16th century: "Besides this their food is raw meat, and they make a sauce for it with cow-dung" "After all the dainties there came a raw breast of beef, and we did not taste it : the Ras of Angote ate some of it, like a person eating cake or other dainties for dessert."

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Blue Paradise 🇸🇴 @Blueparadise252

2 months ago

The Abyssinians did not eat camel meat, nor had they developed a preservation method for cooked meat, which forced them to eat their meat raw, as they did not want to alert their enemies with camp fires.

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@GarMadobe The entire coast was Muslim and they were effectively under a maritime trade embargo. Guess they had to get creative lmfao.

The engraving is modern. Additionally, the final period (III) of Bardaale industry at Gogoshiis Qabe, characterized by the introduction of domesticates, dates from c. 1350 BCE and associated with the arrival of Savanna Pastoral Neolithic types into southwestern interriverine Somalia from Kenya.

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HA📚 @hornaristocrat

2 months ago

A rock engraving at Buur Heybe appears to depict a dagger with the same distinctive hilt shape still commonly seen on contemporary Somali daggers and short swords. If the dating of this rock art is correct, this handle design may be nearly 5000 years old.

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