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Growing up in revolutionary Iran,we were told:
1.Hollywood is a source of moral corruption witch destroys culture n families; 2.dont believe the news; 3.The Fed Gov is the "regime of arrogance"; 4.UN is useless n corrupt; 5.NGOs are poisonous.
Now I realize they were all true.
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Dawkins spent 50 yrs discovering what
@nntaleb
explained in 1.5 minutes: in religion FIRST comes rituals, then comes God.
Bizarre from Dawkins, who wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’ claiming religion was a deeply malevolent, dividing force in the world.
Now he’s calling himself a ‘cultural Christian’? Find it odd to use religion to extend your secular political points.
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ايده ايرانشهر چيز عجيب و دوري نيست. همين عكس است. سال ٧٦ در يك مدرسه ابتدايي دولتي منطقه ٤ تهران. دايره زرد يك پسر كليمي ايراني بود (دانيال)، سبز ارمني ايراني (آرمين)، آبي ايراني-عرب كويتي (عليرضا)، مابقي هم كرد و آذري و شمالي و الخ.
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It’s so funny to see “progressive” ppl being offended by Trump “disrespecting” the Queen; the very person who believes she is superior than the rest cuz of her blood.
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@GregAbbott_TX
The interests of citizens of Texas should always be above the interests of citizens of a foreign country. Why is this not an obvious thing in the US? Does AIPAC scare you this much?
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@nntaleb
Dr. Fauci said last night tht most infected individuals don’t infect other people including their housemates. But just a few superspreaders in each community are the ones that infect other people with ease. Ain’t that the definition of a fat tail phenomenon?
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For a second forget about the details of this fight: just know that
@nntaleb
is a free man and no one owns him, while
@Snowden
was once owned by the US gov and now owned by Russia. That’s all.
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The diaspora of any nation that lives in America tries too hard to preserve its motherland’s traditions, and the ppl who live in the motherland try too hard to be American.
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ربط اش به ما؟
«در جشن ۲۵۰۰ ساله ملکه شرکت نکرد. شاه خواست که ولیعهد چارلز (شاه کنونی) بیاید. پیغام آمد که ولیعهد در دوران سربازی ست و سرهنگ مافوق اجازه نمیدهد. شاه با شگفتی پرسید چطور ممکن است یک سرهنگ دوزاری به ولیعهد امر کند؟»
در مخیله شاه نمیگنجید که او ذیل قانون باید باشد.
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Just passed my dissertation defense. 🎓 Celebrating with drinks like it’s 14th century in Shiraz.
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Funny that Shah Ismail the first Iranian Safavi king wrote most of his poetry in Turkish, and Sultan Suleiman the great Ottoman king wrote most of his poetry in Farsi.
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Thank you
#Russia
for beating the shit out of Nazis. At the Tehran conference 1943, Iran became the main supplier of fuel for the Red Army. Nazis literally ran out of gas.
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@zoomit_ir
اين مطلب شما خزعبل محض است و ناشي از عدم اطلاع شما از مباني ساده آمار و احتمال است: مطلب شما بيان ميكند كه رابطه اي بين موفقيت و زود بيدار شدن هست؛ در حاليكه فراموش ميكنيد بسياري از افراد ناموفق هم زود از خواب بيدار ميشوند.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
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👇🏼ايشون درست ترين ايراني زنده در كشور است.
نظام آموزشی ما نیاز به اصلاح ندارد،به تخریب و بازسازی نیاز دارد
به هزار دلیل:
کرامت انسانی در آن وجود ندارد
براساس نیازهای کودک نیست
کودک شاد پرورش نمی دهد
دستوری و از بالا به پایین است
خلاق محور نیست
جذب معلم قاعده ندارد
شیوه تدریس استرس زا و اضطراب آور است
عدالت آموزشی نیست
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@SugarCoat414e
My own reason for not liking psychology is that its point of departure is human arrogance. To understand human mind and to fix it! Religion on the other hand starts from the point of human humility, it has via negativa.
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Romans full of fake news. ;)
Sasanians often do not get credit for their military victories because Romans refused to acknowledge them! Shapur boasts of killing Gordian,trampling Gordian on his relief in Bishapur. John of Antioch instead says that Gordian 'defeated the [Persians]..he was murdered by Philip.'
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If Taleb+Buffett+Munger say something is shit, that thing is shit, e.g., BTC. If they say something is good, feel free to disagree.
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If Trump achieves peace w/ NK, should all IR and PoliSci phds in DC who mocked him burn their degrees? I can chip in for feul.
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Learned in
#RWRI
: don’t try to get rich through the stock market. But through producing/serving thing.
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You know who has the absolute best weed in the whole world? This guy 👇🏼
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The moment u say “there’s no rush” usually things get done faster. Is this legit observation or random?
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@nntaleb
I don’t understand much of complexities of btc, but I have noticed that most of its supporters usually use an ideological argument. No one uses ideological arguments for real estate or other industries.
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Why the hell they made the like thing private? One of my daily favorite activities was to see what
@nntaleb
liked during the day and then see if I like it too or not!
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The Farsi piece of
@nntaleb
's A Clash of Two Systems.
I note that although this is a piece on Ukraine's current events, it is a great explanation on how the West works.
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@nntaleb
And that’s still not in desert. This is Yazd, in the heart of desert, close to the hottest point on earth. They also call these “peace-making streets” cuz u have to face ppl u don’t like.
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@nntaleb
@jordanbpeterson
They think vax is tyranny. They have NO clue how tyranny even looks like. Lived 20 yrs in Iran, I know how it looks like, vax mandate aint that. Also, best pistachio-saffron icecream in Isfahan.
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The city of Isfahan was built based on the Persian imagination of paradise. Chahar-bagh (4 gardens) street
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I’m supportive of Trump’s NK talks. But what’s the difference btwn Iran & NK? One doesn’t have a 24/7 toxic Saudi+AIPAC lobby in DC? Am I missing something?
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@jennifernvictor
So if one doesn’t like them (but can’t articulate why), it must be only due to sexism? wow. You can’t think of any other reasons? If anything, ppl who are good at articulating things are usually charlatans.
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poor ≠ peasant
75 yo Russian neighbor who escaped ussr: “we were very poor, but we had taste. First time in America when they gave me coffee in a paper cup I was offended, who drinks coffee in paper cup? it has to be in a proper cup, we were poor but we were not peasants.”
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Funny that this image hasn’t changed since 500BC. As Darius said “...when this canal had been dug as I had ordered, ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, as I had intended."
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@elainevdalen
And Hafez: “wine is halal, what makes it haram is to drink it without your beloved.” ;)
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@IranianPlateau
چیزی که این وحوش نمیفهمند اینه که «ایران» یعنی چتر، چتری که محافظ و در عین حال حلال تنش بین تمام اقوام و جمعیت های ایرانیست. «ایران» رو از میان برداری تمام اقوام دشمن همدیگر میشوند.
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If you own any of his books, burn them. If you happened to sin and actually read them, go have an orgy or join a Russian Orthodox monastery to cleanse your mind. Both options work.
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years
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Trump said he has marked Iranian cultural sites to destroy. In response Iran said we wish to do the same but unfortunately couldn’t find any significant cultural sites in America.
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Maternal grandmother. Graduation ceremony, University of Tehran, BA English Literature, 1954.
“Memoria De valens vivat tamque vestri”
#8MarchWomensDay
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One amazing thing Americans don’t know about their own society since they haven’t visited other places: there is so much trust btwn Americans.
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@nntaleb
Didn’t Alexander become almost like a Persian prince himself? I think Iranians always took invadors in and Persianized them: Moguls, Alexander, Turks, and if i may say the Abbasids.
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تمام کاربرانی که از قتل این روحانیون ابراز خوشحالی کردند بلاک کنید. اینها **دقیقا** همون کسانی اند که در زمستان ۵۷ و بهار ۵۸ از اعدام های انقلابی خوشحال می شدند.
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in our hospital 97 ICU beds all occupied by non-vxd, 97 out of 97. Assuming equal chance of hospitalization (p) for vaxd n non-vxd, the likelihood of this scenario happening is 0.5^97, so small I can't even write it. let's manipulate p to see what value might suite this scenario.
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Is anyone gonna say it? No? Ok: neo zionists are no different than ISIS. Quoting the Bible (Quran) as source of military action and ownership of land over international law with an international religious-based recruitment network. Doesn’t sound familiar?
I EDUCATE Finkelstein about Jewish rights in the ancestral city of
#Hebron
on the
@piersmorgan
#Uncensored
show
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@nntaleb
couldn’t believe my ears! while watching Braz-Mex game anchor said: bcz of low-score nature of football, underdogs have a chance to win, giving rise to extreme tail event scenario in which one score can change everything, eliminating giants like Braz, Germ, Spain, Argent
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@nntaleb
Believe me from a country crippled with sanctions: the new conditions will destroy things from within *slowly*. They won’t notice it right away. It’s like cancer.
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Kindly, eat shit.
(this is a 100% residential area of Tehran).
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@jannatkhah_ir
بخدا ما هم نفهمیدیم: شاه قبلی مادرش اذری بود. رهبر فعلی اذریه. نصف تهران اذری ان. دقیقا کجا فاشیسم هست؟
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If my mom ever finds out I served a guest in a paper plate she’ll simply kill me. “U think we’re peasants?” she’ll say!
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به هالیوود و کذا کاری ندارم اما بیسواد، ابله، سفیه، اون وسط نقشه همش بیابون و دشت و کوه و مزرعه ست… جمعیت شون از ساوه هم کمتره، این نقشه همیشه قرمزه. اغلب جمعیت توی شهرهای ساحلی شرق و غرب است.
این نقشه را خوب ببینید! این نقشه تا ساعاتی دیگر تکمیل خواهدشد. این آمریکاست نه آنچه هالیوود و اصلاح‌طلبان به شما نشان می‌دهند! براساس حوزه‌های رأی‌گیری #انتخابات مجلس نمایندگان آمریکا رنگ‌آمیزی شده: قرمز (جمهوری‌خواه) و آبی (دموکرات). کلی تحلیل و حرف در همین عکس نهفته است!
#کنگره
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When you label EVERYTHING and EVERYONE as antisemitic, you help the REAL antisemitic scums to hide better.
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Ppl are still stupid enough to follow Gad Saad? Unfollowed him 2 yrs ago. Today I hear him say “jew hatred is embedded in the DNA of middle east.” and ppl used to think he was smart?
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Best part of the nativity scene: the Persians (the 3 wise men, aka the Magi who came from the east). magi is plural of Latin magus, from Greek μάγος (magos) from old Persian maguŝ مجوس meaning Zoroastrian. Ironically till this day Wahhabis use this word to insult Shias/Iranians.
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@trishankkarthik
@nntaleb
Definitely. I know a patient in need of kidney, his wife who is HepC+ wants to give her kidney to her husband, but centers refuse taking their case cuz it’s risky and it lowers their rating, thus losing gov funding. Clinically it’s fine. Alternative is to die on the waitlist. :(
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Arranged marriages r underrated, I used to make fun of them but now I see they have lot of merit. Dating apps r nothing but the same, w/o the essential involvement of mothers n aunts n grandmothers.
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Anthony Bourdain “Negroni is the perfect drink. I hate the ingredients individually bt together oh its satanic. 1st sip is weird, 2nd sip hmm I see why ppl like it, 3rd sip u r hooked. 1 glass is perfect, 2 is optimal, 3rd is where did my pants go n who are u in my bed?”
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@GadSaad
As a minority citizen myself, such ethnicity quota seeking endeavors are insulting to me; I want ppl to want and value me for my intellect and activities, not my race.
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Why not assume that there will never be an effective vaccine against covid and plan based on that? eg no vaccines for malaria, hepC, hiv, dengue, etc.
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Let this sink in:
1- AIPAC has limited freedom of speech in US for first time via legislation.
2- AIPAC has undermined US sovereignty by making a foreign NGO define its laws (IHRA).
3- AIPAC has now classified the gospels of the New Testament as hate speech.
Why the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever conceived
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When a European lives and works in the US for few years and then goes back to EU, he/she won’t be the same person. The opposite doesn’t hold, an American in EU for few years then back to US, same person.
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I have officially reached the age that in the afternoons I must sit in the front porch and look and greet neighbors n ppl who pass by. An ancient practice.
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A simple test: don’t ever play loud Arabic music in ur car in Tehran. Ppl give u horrible dirty looks. But play Desi music and they won’t care at all.
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فرق ما و غرب فرق ژیان و تسلا ست. هر دو خراب میشن.هر دو بحران دارن. پیچیدگی خرابی و تعمیر تسلا میلیونها بار بیشتر از ژیانه. مهم داشتن ابزار برای تعمیر است. بچه شیعه کمونیست تسلای خراب رو میبینه و چون بیرون از دنیای جدید نفس میکشه فکر میکنه جنس این خراب شدگی مثل خراب شدن ژیانه.
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Iran does not consider Saudi/UAE a worthy enemy, we hardly even consider them a country. Iran only considers Rome a worthy opponent.
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بجز پدر و مادر، اگر در عمرمان خیلی خوش شانس باشیم میتوانیم با یک انسان بزرگ از نزدیک مصاحبت کنیم. این دو عایدی دارد: فهم نادانی و تشر خوردن از بیسوادی شخصی در هنگام اتصال به اقیانوس دانایی؛ unlearning چیزهایی که از قبل میدانستیم.
#سید_جواد_طباطبایی ❤️
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This is truly a beautiful America, and im not even into this shit!
May they be protected n prosperous under this Christian Anglo Constitution.
I love the ethnic diversity in American Muslim communities 💖
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Tensions btwn Iran & Turkey increasing over Iraq: it’s like 1823 all over again. No, it’s like 1623 all over again. No, it’s like 6th century all over again. No, it’s like 3rd century all over again. No, no, it’s like 50BC all over again.
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@trishankkarthik
Amen. I like that he praised AND criticized him when necessary. If someone ALWAYS 100% of time praises Trump he/she is simply a sucker for personality worship.
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Those who dont know Iran (MOST dont) equate Suleimani with the regime. WRONG. He’s beyond regime. He’s part of Iranian mythical identity like Rustsm, Esfandiar, Nadir shah, Sattar khan, etc.
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Here you have it, best joke of 2020.
Iran has to act like a normal country if it wants to be treated like one: Saudi foreign minister
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@nntaleb
As u mentioned in the last paper: his location is important cuz if u wanna destroy the West there aint a center to destroy, but if you bomb Putin's location, Russia is finished.
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RIP the greatest living Iranian philosopher, Dr. J. Tabatabaei who reignited the concept of Iranshahr, always used to quote Hegel “the historical process of freedom’s self-consciousness begins with Iran & development of Achaemenid state constitutes the beginning of world history”
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Happy birthday Amerika! I wish ppl of my homeland knew that you are NOT just Hollywood n crappy food, BUT the most brilliant constitution n legal system n hardworking god-fearing ppl in the world.
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What a great surprise for the end of
#Nowruz
, will tweet interesting parts n questions.
Chapeau
@DrMichaelBonner
!
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@nntaleb
Im wondering who was the last politician who told him/herself “I will act today for what they will say about me 100 or 1000 years later.”
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@Jordan__42
هر گه ای رو روش اسم هنر میذارن مخصوصا اگه دو تا فاکتور جنسی و لختی داشته باشه. مثل بولدوزر خراب کن داداش. مثل بولدوزر.
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The sad truth about ppl who are obsessed with “western” colonialism n “orientalism” shit is that they are terribly ignorant of their own history.
Someone was complaining abt "Western Colonialism" w /Xmas exported East... The idiot didn't get that Christmas season is the fusion of 2 Levantine exports:
+ Sol Invictus (Sun God festival)
+ Birth of Levantine fellow who started a new religion w/ Greco-Levantine book (Antioch).
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@nntaleb
Ok I be more specific, I can only compare with iran n italy where by default im always guilty and have to prove by my manners n looks that im not a “bad” person, while in amerika i never need to do so, they always assume the best in me at first until I do something bad.
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