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305 games. Nearly EIGHT years. 🤯
Liverpool went 305 consecutive Premier League matches without a single opponent receiving a second yellow card.
For context:
🔴 Liverpool: 305 games
🔵 Everton: 209 games
🔴 Man United: 184 games
According to Paul Tomkins’ deep dive data analysis, Liverpool is a complete statistical outlier in the Premier League when it comes to tackles being given as fouls and opponents getting away with bookings.
Is this just an unbelievable statistical anomaly, or do fans have a legitimate right to ask questions about refereeing consistency?
Are being victimised by referee's?
Will S retweeted
🚨 BREAKING:
Fox News is reporting that Trump and his family are currently on their way to Brazil after his party's devastating Midterm Election loss.
Brazillian President, Lula da Silva, has granted Trump's asylum request in exchange for Flavio Bolsonaro's repatriation.
Will S retweeted
🚨 2022 is the last time Liverpool won a penalty from a VAR decision… they've received 2 TOTAL since VAR was introduced in 2019.
Other teams, including Manchester City, have AT LEAST 12 VAR-rewarded penalties.
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When they say China is "rising," ask them one question.
Rising from what?
China had a civil service examination system while Europe was still in feudal darkness.
It had movable type, paper money, and navigational compasses centuries before the West.
It fed the largest population on earth through administrative systems of extraordinary complexity.
China did not rise.
China was interrupted.
By opium. By gunboats. By the specific violence of the 19th century, when Western powers arrived and called their looting a "civilizing mission."
What the West calls China’s rise is simply China’s return.
The anxiety in Western commentary is not about the future.
It is about what the return implies about who was actually barbaric during the interruption.
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When the West tells you Mao killed 40 millions Chinese, the West hopes you never remember that there was an active embargo on China, even on food.
Mainland China was subject to what Cuba endures still up to this day.
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ALT US embargo on China
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1995'te Çin'in büyük bir derdi vardı.
Koca ülkede metrosu olan şehir sayısı 3'tü. Ülkede sadece 70 km uzunluğunda metro vardı.
O sırada New York, Londra, Paris, Moskova ve Tokyo'nun her birinin metro ağı 300 km'yi geçiyordu.
Çin’in bazı bölgelerine yeni metrolar yapılıyordu ama parayı kredi olarak Almanya veriyordu.
Almanlar parayı vermek için bu paranın %80'i Alman ekipmanına harcanacak diye bir şart koşuyordu.
Tren Alman. Sistem Alman. Haliyle fiyatı da Almanlar belirliyordu.
Dolayısıyla metro yapımının maliyetleri çok yüksekti.
1 km metronun maliyeti 100 milyon dolara kadar çıktı.
Almanya’dan Çin’e, Siemens’in ilk treni gemiyle 2 ayda gelecekti ancak açılışa yetişmiyordu.
Rus kargo uçağı kiraladılar. Metro vagonunu Almanya’dan uçakla getirdiler.
Mart 1995'te İspanya Kralı Çin'e geldi. Yanında 100'den fazla iş insanı, masada ise Shenyang bölgesinde yapılacak metro için İspanyol trenleri vardı.
Shenyang yönetiminin bu metrolara parası yetmedi. İş Çin Başbakanı Li Peng'e kadar çıktı.
Aralık 1995'te Pekin yeni metro alımlarını dondurdu.
Gerekçe olarak çok pahalı, bütçeler kaldırmıyor denildi.
Aynı genelgede bir madde daha vardı.
Metro ekipmanı yerlileştirilecek denildi.
Tren fabrikaları baştan aşağı yenilendi. Sinyalden kapıya kadar parça parça yerli üretime geçildi.
Sonunda yerli oranı %90'a çıktı, metronun maliyeti yarıya indi.
2008'de 10 şehir, 835 km.
2012'de 17 şehir, 2.077 km.
2015'te 26 şehir, 3.618 km.
2019'da 40 şehir, 6.736 km.
2021'de 50 şehir, 9.207 km.
2022'de 10 bin km aşıldı.
2025'te 58 şehir, 13.068 km metro hattı olmuştu.
Sadece 2025 yılında 907 km yeni hat açıldı.
1995'te bütün ülke 70 km'ydi.
Bugün Şanghay tek başına 1.042 km.
Londra metrosu 402 km. New York 399 km. İstanbul metrosu 402,6 km uzunluğunda.
Shenzhen metrosu 2025'te 3,3 milyar yolcu taşıdı. Günde 9 milyon yolcu demek.
Ülke genelinde ise yılda 33,4 milyar yolcu, günde 91 milyon yolcu taşındı.
Türkiye'nin nüfusu bile 85 milyon kişi civarında
Basit bir hesap yapınca son 5 yılda 5.098 km yeni hat açıldı.
Bu, günde 2,8 km yeni metro yapılıyor demek.
Yani Çinliler İstanbul'un bütün raylı ağını 5 aydan kısa sürede bir kez daha döşüyorlar.
2016-2025 arasında sadece raylı sistemlere 780 milyar dolar yatırım yaptılar.
Amerika ise aynı 17 yılda kent içi raylı ağ uzunluğunu 2.442 km'den 3.219 km'ye çıkardı. 17 yılda sadece %32 arttırabildiler.
Çin'in metro ağı ise 16 kat arttı.
Zamanında Çin metro vagonunu Almanya'dan uçakla getiriyordu.
2012'de Ankara metrosunun 324 araçlık ihalesine Çinli CSR girdi. Karşısında İspanyol CAF ve Koreli Hyundai Rotem vardı. Alman Siemens teklif bile vermedi çünkü kazanamayacağını biliyordu.
İhaleyi Çinliler aldı.
Amerika Boston metrosuna bile Çinliler vagon satıyor.
Zamanında kredi vermek için %80'i Alman malı olacak diye şart koşulan adamlar da aynıydı, bugün dünyanın en uzun metro ağına sahip adamlar da aynı.
Will S retweeted
wrong.
China wants to do business with the Philippines, build for the Philippines, and help the Philippines rise together with the REST of Asia who is already working with and benefiting from cooperation with China.
The Philippines is a former US colony, a defacto colony today, and this entire conflict is over maritime claims that have ZERO bearing on the Philippines' current or future economic viability except the manner in which it will destroy both.
The maritime claims can be worked out bilaterally with China - just like the Philippines' claims against OTHER nations in the region we don't hear about because no one is trying to exploit them for starting a needless conflict.
You are just dismissing out of hand DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE the US is 100% behind this current conflict with China - not because you have more evidence saying otherwise - but because you already made up your mind and lack the character to admit you might be wrong and change your point of view.
Don't blame others for your ignorance or the destruction it will bring the Philippines.
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@grok Are there currently grassroots elections going on in China where one billion registered voters can elect roughly 2.4 million representatives?
Two of my daughter’s friends couldn’t make it to Weekend’s concert. She put the tickets up on XHS and within minutes she was swamped by hundreds of people. Eventually she sold it to two SZ girls at cost, met them outside and went in together.
And here’s another Clown ☝️🤡 if he’s really a ltgen then india’s military is literally a comedy club
#TheDunningKrugerEffect
Individuals while in important positions, however, lacking in-depth knowledge about China and the border question should avoid making immature and unnecessary statements in public.
Today India has created an extremely effective military capability to deter China from any misadventure towards India. We have a battle hardened, fully equipped and motivated military and NO Military in the world including that of the super powers can afford to confront it in a land battle.
Today the Government of India possesses every element of power to fight a successful war if its national security and integrity is threatened. Our adversaries know that very well. Today’s India has the capability, capacity, will, and the National Power to execute a successful offensive in the way it deems fit.
It would therefore be unwise to make irresponsible statements without knowing the National Aim, Military Strategy and Diplomatic concept which are all in effective sync.
We have established a strong military posture on our borders which is acting as a catalyst towards ensuring peace and tranquility. Such an operational strategy and ground tactics will eventually help in a favourable settlement of the border issue.
Every Force commander must understand that on our northern borders, we have a LAC which is ill defined and ambiguous. We have to manage our northern front without losing our territory till the border question is resolved to our advantage.
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India’s Maginot Line in the Clouds: Guns Over Schools, Concrete Over Factories
India is pouring billions into the Himalayas, building tunnels, bridges, and garrisons to station 200,000 troops against China. Delhi calls it “deterrence.” I call it a Maginot Line in the clouds—expensive, static, and strategically useless.
China isn’t planning to march tanks through the Himalayas to occupy Delhi. The frontier is inhospitable, logistics are brutal, and any war there would be limited skirmishes, not conquest. Yet India is locking itself into permanent high-altitude deployments, bleeding its treasury dry to maintain soldiers in oxygen-starved mountains.
Meanwhile, the real engines of national power—manufacturing and education—are starved. India graduates millions of engineers who end up driving Ubers or emigrating. Its factories remain stuck in low-value assembly, while Vietnam quietly eats India’s lunch by integrating into global supply chains. Instead of fixing schools, training workers, and building industries, Delhi is pouring concrete into tunnels that drones and missiles can destroy in minutes.
This is the classic “guns over butter” trap. Defence spending now consumes nearly 15% of central expenditure. Youth unemployment is sky-high, yet billions go to bunkers instead of classrooms. India boasts of 7–8% GDP growth, but where are the jobs? Where are the exports? The answer: missing, because the money is buried in Himalayan concrete.
China sees this and laughs. Beijing already has superior logistics in Tibet—railways, highways, and airfields. India’s catch-up projects are years behind, and in wartime they can be neutralized quickly. The border build-up doesn’t deter China; it just locks India into a defensive crouch.
And here’s the kicker: while India obsesses over land borders, it neglects the sea. The Indian Ocean is where China’s real leverage lies, through trade routes and maritime chokepoints. Yet India’s navy is hollow, with no credible carrier-based air power. Delhi is building bunkers in the mountains while leaving its coastline exposed.
For a developing country, this is madness. Manufacturing and education are what lift nations out of poverty. China invested in factories and schools; India invests in tunnels and troop shelters. One produces jobs and exports, the other produces fiscal deficits and frozen soldiers.
Diaspora politicians brag about India’s “brain drain” as a national asset. In reality, it’s a symptom of failure: local jobs don’t exist, so talent flees abroad. Remittances paper over the cracks, but they don’t build industries. India’s youth deserve factories, not bunkers; classrooms, not concrete.
The Himalayan build-up is Delhi’s vanity project, a monument to insecurity. It doesn’t change the balance of power with China. It doesn’t create jobs. It doesn’t educate children. It just drains resources from the very things India needs to become a real power.
India is building a fortress in the clouds while its foundations crumble. Guns over schools, concrete over factories—that’s not strategy, that’s folly.
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India has:
• R&D like Afghanistan
• Population like China
• Politicians like North Korea
• Corruption like Nigeria
• Infrastructure like Somalia
• Taxes like the United Kingdom
• Ego like the United States
You’ll get everything in India except one thing: MERITOCRACY.
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The reason that this tweet is so annoying to me is that OpenAI and Anthropic are playing a double game. On one hand, they tell us there is massive distillation by Chinese labs, that this proves they are far ahead, and that those labs should be restricted because it is simply not fair.
On the other hand, they refuse to show any evidence. They could. They could say: here are the benchmarks, here is how we detect it, here is our estimate of how much distillation happened. Then we could have a discussion based on facts.
Instead, they just say, " Trust us; it is very severe. And, based on that, trust us to block and restrict the competitors." That is not a fair argument.
And all of this is before we even get to the question of whether distillation is a problem at all. Companies have always copied and taken inspiration from each other. OpenAI and Anthropic built their models by distilling the entire internet. But that is a separate discussion.
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China does not need to build better AI than America. It needs to make American AI unprofitable.
The playbook is older than the technology. Flood the market with a cheaper version until the domestic industry collapses. China ran it with steel. Ran it with solar. Ran it with semiconductors.
Not a better product. A cheaper one. Good enough at a fraction of the price beats best in class at full cost.
AI is next.
Open-weight models. Lightweight. Inexpensive. Already inside a third of corporations. Not because they outperform. Because a CFO looked at the benchmark gap, looked at the price gap, and made the only decision capitalism allows.
The rational one.
China’s weapon is not Chinese technology. It is American capitalism.
The market has no loyalty. No patriotism. Only price sensitivity. Every procurement decision is a vote, and the vote always goes to the invoice.
American AI companies are valued on one assumption. That corporations will keep paying premium prices for premium intelligence. China’s strategy is to make that assumption false. Not by outbuilding. By undercutting.
Creating value and capturing value have never been the same thing. AI might be the first technology powerful enough to prove it at civilizational scale.
Roughly 40% of the S&P is tied to the AI bet. The majority of recent GDP growth has come from AI capital expenditure. America concentrated everything into a single sector and left that sector’s economics undefended.
The distance between AI boom and American recession is one quarter where enough CFOs make the same rational decision at the same time.
The technology race was the distraction. Who has the biggest model, who wins the benchmark, who reaches AGI first. None of that matters if the business model underneath it cannot survive being undercut.
A technological advantage that cannot sustain its own economics is not an advantage. It is a head start with no finish line.
America built the most advanced AI on Earth.
It has not yet built an economy that survives someone selling it cheaper.
And the country that figured that out is not trying to catch up.
It is trying to make catching up unnecessary.