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Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.
Not a guess. Not a theory.
A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.
Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.
Even when you're just using it as a monitor.
Here's how to turn it off for every brand:
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Donald Trump finds out that Viktor Orban has lost the election:
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ABSOLUTE CINEMA by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni🔥🔥
Trump 🇺🇸: "Give us your air bases to attack Iran"
Meloni 🇮🇹: "We won't give" 🔥
Trump 🇺🇸: “Pope like criminals”
Meloni 🇮🇹: “Enough! Your words on the pope are unacceptable.” 🔥🔥
It's pretty clear She is not going to tolerate any nonsense from Trump🔥
Women with METAL SPINE🔥🔥
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In the year 1942, a new fearsome weapon entered the battlefield, with armor so thick most Allied shells just bounced off.
88mm gun. 100mm of frontal armor. A weapon so dominant it made every Allied tank crew rethink how they fought.
Then, they found a way to tackle the beast.
🔸The Tiger I made its combat debut in September 1942 near Leningrad. German engineers had spent years designing a tank that could dominate any battlefield. They succeeded beyond anyone's expectations.
🔸The standard Allied tank at the time was the American M4 Sherman. Its 75mm gun could not penetrate the Tiger's frontal armor at any range whatsoever. To even scratch the side armor, a Sherman crew had to close to within 100 meters, close enough to see the German commander's face.
🔸The Tiger's 88mm gun was derived from a Flak 36 anti-aircraft cannon, whose extreme shell velocity made it devastatingly effective against ground targets. German engineers recognized this potential during the Spanish Civil War and developed a tank version. It became the most feared gun of the entire war.
🔸Allied tank crews were issued unofficial but very real advice: do not engage a Tiger from the front. Ever. The only chance of survival was to flank it, find its weaker side armor, and pray you got there before it spotted you.
🔸The psychological impact was as devastating as the weapon itself. Allied commanders reported soldiers refusing to advance when a Tiger was suspected in the area. A single Tiger could pin down an entire company just by existing.
🔸Germany's answer to Allied numerical superiority was technological superiority. One Tiger was expected to do the work of five Sherman tanks. On paper, the kill ratios proved them right, but in reality, it created a strategic problem Germany never solved.
🔸The Tiger weighed 57 tonnes. For comparison, the Sherman weighed around 30 tonnes. This meant the Tiger broke pontoon bridges, got stuck in soft ground, and could not be easily transported by rail without removing its wide battle tracks first.
🔸Maintenance was a nightmare. The Tiger required approximately 10 hours of maintenance for every hour of combat operation. Skilled mechanics were in short supply, spare parts were constantly delayed, and breakdowns were so common that more Tigers were lost to mechanical failure than to enemy fire.
🔸The Allies studied every captured Tiger obsessively. British engineers got their hands on an intact Tiger in North Africa in early 1943. They spent weeks tearing it apart, looking for weaknesses. What they found changed Allied tactics overnight.
🔸The top armor was only 25mm thick, the same as a tin can compared to its 102mm frontal plate. Allied tacticians built entire air attack strategies around this number. A Tiger that dominated every tank on the battlefield could be cracked open from above like an egg.
🔸The British responded by mounting the powerful 17-pounder gun on their tanks. The Sherman Firefly was born. Suddenly Allied tankers had a weapon that could penetrate Tiger armor at realistic combat distances. German crews learned to target Fireflies first.
🔸The Soviet Union took a different approach entirely. Rather than building a better tank, they built more tanks. The T-34 was faster, simpler, and could be produced in massive numbers. Soviet factories churned out thousands while German factories struggled to build hundreds.
🔸Allied air power became the Tiger's greatest enemy. The P-47 Thunderbolt ( on which I'm making a card next) and British Typhoon carried rockets and bombs that could crack a Tiger's thin top armor wide open. German tank commanders learned to fear clear skies more than enemy tanks.
🔸By 1944 the Tiger's dominance was fading. Better Allied guns, improved tactics, and overwhelming numbers were shifting the balance. The Tiger was still dangerous, but it was no longer unstoppable. Germany had built a masterpiece it couldn't afford to use at scale.
🔸Germany produced only 1,347 Tiger I tanks during the entire war. The Soviet Union produced over 57,000 T-34s. The United States built nearly 49,000 Shermans. The Tiger won almost every one-on-one engagement it fought. It just couldn't be everywhere at once.
🔸The Tiger's legacy influenced every major tank design that followed. The lesson it taught, that firepower and armor protection matter as much as speed and numbers, shaped how every army in the world thought about building tanks after 1945.
🔸In the end the Tiger didn't lose because it was outfought. It lost because Germany ran out of fuel, factories, and men to keep it running. A weapon is only as powerful as the industry behind it ( we can observe this lesson with the drones in Ukraine as wel). And by 1945, that nation was collapsing from every direction.
🔸The most fearsome tank of World War II was defeated not by a better tank, but by spreadsheets, factories, and logistics. The Allies out-produced, out-supplied, and out-lasted it. The Tiger was a masterpiece but the Allies built a machine for winning wars.
🔸The last Tigers fell silent in May 1945. A handful survive in museums today. I have never seen one in the flesh but I've heard that if you stand next one you immediately understand why men feared it.
As a final takeaway remember that 1,347 of them lost to 57,000 T-34s. That is the real lesson of the Tiger tank.
Quantity has a quality of its own.
Alright, that's a wrap. Thanks for sticking with me. Tomorrow I've got another fantastic story lined up for you.
Hope to see you there.
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Organizația Mondială a Sănătății OMS a dat publicității un anunț prin care observa cu îngrijorare creșterea numărului de cazuri de sindrom'Mă fute grija de viață altora' în România. În ciuda eforturilor depuse de Ministerul Sănătății se pare că lobotomizarea ar fi singura solutie
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Succulent spaghetti alla carbonara, with the recipe explained directly in Italian by nonna 🇮🇹🍝
Easy and gorgeous!
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Dezbatere!
Cu ce trebuie să fie umpluți cozonacii?
- cu nucă
- cu cremă de cacao
- cu amândouă
Comparație este asemănătoare cu mazăre sau fără în salata de Boeuf! 😂
Deci?
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This dog and trainer are truly outstanding. 🐾👏
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