In 1971, Japan’s National Police Agency standardized pedestrian crossing signs. The original reference art was non-alien, but various manufacturers in prefectures around the country had to copy the original stencils to create their own. Over time, physical degradation in the stencils led to:
You all know about the American debate on the MoU debate. But I wrote about the Iranian debate.
Let me know what you think!
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Following the MoU, an assessment of the internal dynamics of the regime between the ultra-hardliners and the developmentists over the choices to be made in the coming negotiations with the US:
Important to note: Hamgami, the main liberal/center-left coalition in the Iranian opposition, has backed the MoU
“You hear a lot of vaugue things about 'Iranian people' and less actual reportage of what forces in the Iranian opposition are saying.” @arashtehran.bsky.social
hamgami.org?p=1700
TONIGHT - Americans cheer Trump's latest humiliation: having his name stripped from the Kennedy Center. Plus, Trump is set to mark his birthday (and America's) with a White House cage fight, and can Americans believe ANYTHING the White House says about Trump's health?
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Excellent and essential reading by @arashtehran.bsky.social
Iran Got a Great Deal That It Could Still Squander
For some forces in Iran, no agreement is a good agreement with the United States.
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“They are authoritarian and they’re thugs, to be clear. But they care about keeping their own economic interests, which means social peace as much as they can, and which means deals with the US,” @arashtehran.bsky.social acting, pragmatically, to survive.
I suspected there was a reason the Bosnian players weren't singing along to the anthem and it turns out it has no official lyrics because they can't come up with a set of lyrics the country's various ethnic groups agree upon