laddering in

Fun fact: The trailer releases for Dune 1 & 2 both happened at the bottom of bear markets. Bitcoin went on to have bull runs that led to new all time highs and lasted for years each time. The trailer for Dune 3 released today. Run it back turbo.

You can judge the tree by their fruits.

Do your best Cody, stop empowering people that do not deserve it. Learning.

When I share data, I do not hide my numbers. We all learn from my mistakes and wins. When we are all trying to learn, misinformation is the problem. But you don’t understand. It is when we stoped witnessing your lies that we prospered - be happy for us.

For almost two years, the world has seen Gaza only through the news. But very few have actually gone inside. I chose to go — to see it with my own eyes and to meet the people living there. What I witnessed is not the story being told on your screens. The suffering is real, but Hamas is the one responsible. They hold their own people hostage, steal the aid meant for them, use families as shields, and spread lies to the world. I met women who were brave enough to tell the TRUTH and children who are deserving of a different future. We cannot forget the remaining 48 hostages still held captive. And lastly, we cannot forget that Hamas has the power to end this all right now.

My heart goes out to this amazing young woman. Started when she wouldn’t stand for a teacher making a rape joke. I’m proud of you, Ain. Thank you.

Watching dope people do things will be a drug I’ll never put down

Ah the truth.

This so-called “Islamic golden era" wasn’t the fruit of Islam, it was the desperate gasp of brilliance from conquered civilizations trying to breathe under an increasingly suffocating ideology. The Islamic conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries were brutal military campaigns. When the Rashidun and Umayyads tore through Persia, the Levant, and North Africa, they didn’t show up with scientific journals and telescopes. The Persians had astronomical knowledge and bureaucratic sophistication. The Byzantines preserved the philosophical canon of Greece. Syriac Christians were translating Aristotle and Galen into Aramaic long before Islam came on the scene. Indian scholars had already nailed the concepts of zero and the decimal system, Muslims just relayed it westward. The Jews, scattered and marginalized, played a key role in preserving and advancing scholarship. Yes, the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, was a hub of intellectual activity under the Abbasids. But the people who made it great were mostly non-Muslims. Hunayn ibn Ishaq was a Christian. The Sabians from Harran were Pagan star-gazers. Jewish astronomers like Masha’allah ibn Athari was essential to the operation. Even the famed Banu Musa brothers likely had Zoroastrian roots. This wasn’t a mosque of innovation, it was a sanctuary of borrowed brains protected (for a brief time) from religious interference. When Muslim thinkers did emerge, they were hunted. Ibn Sina, who revolutionized medicine and philosophy, was branded a heretic for his ideas. Al-Razi mocked religious dogma and flat-out called the Qur’an a collection of fables. Al-Ghazali. His book The Incoherence of the Philosophers argued that cause and effect was an illusion, that the universe was entirely subject to Allah’s whim. His theology crushed the Mutazilites, rationalist Muslims who briefly tried to inject logic into faith, and paved the way for centuries of intellectual stagnation. After Ghazali, the tide turned. The Islamic world stopped moving forward. Madrasas replaced inquiry with indoctrination. Book production fell off a cliff. Scientific output flatlined. Meanwhile, Europe picked up the very texts and pushed them further, far further. Copernicus, Fibonacci, Galileo, they built what Muslim thinkers never could under the yoke of religious orthodoxy. The “Islamic Golden Age” wasn’t Islamic. It was a fleeting spark, ignited by the knowledge of conquered peoples, dimmed by the rise of clerical power, and finally extinguished by Islamic fundamentalism. Islam didn’t launch it, it hijacked it, and then it buried it. The only reason this myth lives on is because it’s convenient, for those desperate to find light in a long history of darkness.

People on the ground knows the truth.

This is one of the greatest posts ever

I am sure Malaysia will receive him with open arms.

If I tweeted like Kanye I’d be in jail in Malaysia

Islamic finance is a scam.

I don't wish to alarm you about China's imperialist ambitions re this visit, but Malaysia's next Prime Minister is almost certainly going to be PM XI.

Been saying this for a while now - UITM candidates are unhirable.