Milei looks like a black swan right now, but Argentina has a way of turning the most unlikely people into Peronistas after a while. I like what he’s saying now, but don’t expect him or his schtick to last. We will see.

The long legged ballerinas in rhythmic gymnastics are the most beautiful women in competitive sports.

Their skill & co-ordination borders on the impossible.

If nothing else, the article points out the nexus of Fascism/Peronism and Socialism….(and that “populism” means anything one wishes it to advance one’s political agenda).

The woke argument is that it doesn’t change their gender, it merely confims their real gender and conforms to their real gender.

That’s what having an account gets you, thread depth. Otherwise it’s much like a newspaper’s single paragraph topic blurb.

Interesting and cool choreography. Brilliant precision.

I love watching this kind of thing – and baton twirling.

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2023/09/if-a-persons-genitals-do-not-determine-their-gender-how-does-removing-them-change-their-gender

So Musk shut access to combat that. Initially, the wall was complete: If you didn’t have an account, you couldn’t access anything. Shortly after that, ‘X’ re-branding was launched and then account holders could start linking specific posts outside of the ‘X’ platform, which is pretty much where it stands now. If you don’t have an account, you can see Twitter or ‘X’ users and some of their selected post, but not all, and no timelines. Very limited functionality if you are not an account holder.

I haven’t ever had a Twitter or ‘X’ account, there is some amusing and occasionally insightful content there, but it would be a huge time eater for me, and I object to Elon bending the User experience to his own particular criteria instead of keeping it wide open to all, which was his original declared intent. He’s now floating the idea of a monthly subscription for all Users, not just those wanting the prestige of ‘Blue’ credentials. I can understand that he’s facing the realities of advertising revenue shortfall (apparently a focused directed campaign by the Progressive Leftist Borg to intimidate the big corporate advertisers away, as they did with Fox and others). Good luck to him, I hope he ends up with a successful model and that users get a good experience – but I’m not interested.