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@Inquisitio12 @VinceP29847 @BullTheoryio Nope only 3billion check books,

@SynapseNM @VinceP29847 @BullTheoryio Its alot more than that. Literally every town and county in the US is required to hand over tax revenues.

🚨Michael Burry just said Elon Musk and Nvidia's deal is built on fake numbers. Burry published a detailed breakdown calling the entire structure "Fugazi", his word for fake. He is alleging that billions of dollars in Nvidia chips are being hidden off balance sheets, and that American retirees are unknowingly funding the whole thing. Nvidia, the world's largest AI chip company sold $5.4 billion worth of its most advanced GPUs, the GB200, to a company called Valor. Valor is not a real operating business. It is a special purpose vehicle, a shell company created specifically to hold these chips and nothing else. Nvidia also invested $1.9 billion of its own money directly into Valor on top of the sale. Those 100,000+ chips are now physically inside xAI's data center. xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, the one that builds Grok. xAI is using every single one of those chips right now to run its AI models. But here is what Burry is flagging. Neither Nvidia nor xAI owns those chips on paper. Valor, the shell company holds legal title. That means $5.4 billion in GPU assets do not show up on Nvidia's balance sheet as inventory. They do not show up on xAI's balance sheet as assets. They are legally invisible to both companies. Nvidia gets to book the $5.4 billion as a completed sale and record it as revenue. xAI gets full use of the chips without owning them. And the risk disappears into a shell company in the middle. Now here is where American retirees enter the picture. Valor needed $3.5 billion in debt to fund this structure. Apollo provided it. Apollo is one of the largest asset managers on earth with $1.03 trillion under management and $834 billion specifically in private credit. Apollo raised the $3.5 billion, packaged it into debt securities, and sold those securities to Athene. Athene is Apollo's own insurance company. It sells fixed and indexed annuities, retirement savings products, to ordinary Americans. When a retiree buys an Athene annuity, they believe their money is sitting in safe, stable investments. That money is now inside a structure funding Elon Musk's AI data center. The numbers inside Athene are most alarming. Athene holds $74.2 billion in reserves. It has moved $217 billion in assets into a captive insurer based in Bermuda, meaning those assets sit outside normal US insurance regulation and oversight. Of the entire portfolio, 34.7%, equal to $103 billion, is classified as Level 3 assets. Level 3 is an accounting classification that means there is no observable market price for these assets. No outside party can independently verify what they are actually worth. The leverage sitting on top of those unpriced assets is 16 times. Burry's says: Every step of this structure is technically legal and publicly disclosed. But the entire thing was deliberately engineered across 8 to 12 steps to move credit risk off balance sheets and away from any market pricing. - Nvidia books the revenue. - Apollo collects the fees. - xAI gets the computing power. - And retirees sitting at the bottom of a 16x leveraged Bermuda insurance structure, holding $103 billion in assets with no market price carry the risk without knowing it exists.

@Inquisitio12 @VinceP29847 @BullTheoryio 3billion per year only available for purchasing US defence items... Get a brain

@VinceP29847 @BullTheoryio Going to Israel of course.

•Akın Gürlek’in tapuları •Okul saldırıları •İmara açılan ormanlık alanlar •Otoyolların özelleştirilmesi •Kanal İstanbul Daha niceleri Bunak Hain yüzünden konuşulmuyor bile

🚨Rams Park “Hell” başlığıyla Uefa tarafından Şampiyonlar Ligi’nde bu senenin en iyi atmosferi olarak kayıtlara geçti. Sesin kısıldığı anda tüm stad tek ses çocukluk aşkımsın giriyor…Şakasız dünyanın en iyi atmosferi. Tüyler diken diken

@exQUIZitely SSI's Stronghold was the forefather of the Majesty. It's fine but takes a long time to level up heroes to clear the map. It's fine wine but I like the early missions of Firefly Studios Stronghold

@SynapseNM Stronghold by SSI, is that the one you mean?

The Pope is angered by your attack! The combination of castle building, sieges, and 90s pixel style graphics is perfected in Castles II: Siege and Conquest. Published in 1992 by Interplay, it is set in medieval times after the death of King Charles IV. Players lead one of five dukes fighting for the throne. It had one of the earliest customizable castle-building systems, almost like a LEGO style, allowing you to use walls, turrets, and gates to design your very own stronghold. The game's ultimate goal was to gain enough power (land, army, and relations) to petition the Pope, who acts as kingmaker. It was by no means as pretty or refined as Dune II, which was published in the same year, but if you were a fan of RTS games with a medieval background, Castles II was a great option. I always thought this would be a perfect candidate for a modern remake, especially the castle design aspect. It would make a great sandbox game with endless possibilities for different castle sizes, layouts, army types and siege weapons.

@exQUIZitely Crt tv game multiplayer, divided screens 🙂

One for the ages - wouldn't you agree? A total classic that any car racing enthusiast would have played and loved: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (1991, Magnetic Fields). You race a Lotus sports car from a behind-the-car 3D perspective (similar to OutRun). The goal is checkpoint racing against the clock. It think it's fair to say that it's widely regarded as one of the best racers of its era. It had various stages, including: Forest, Night Driving, Motorway, Fog, Snow, and Desert, and all combined with different surfaces/weather effects. Each stage had new obstacles: oncoming traffic, tighter bends, hills, water jumps, rocks, varying road width, and weather that affected the car's handling. On the Amiga there weren't many better racing games - if any? A highlight was also the epic music and sound FX by legendary composer Barry Leitch.

@godsfavoriteant @EllaJeanrz Dude it's 5second solution 5th 6th grade math

b^2 + 9 = 90 B^2 + 9 - 90 = 90 - 90 b^2 - 81 = 0 <-- Difference of Squares a^2 - b^2 = (a - b)(a + b) = a^2 + ab - ab - b^2 = a^2 - b^2 (b - 9)(b + 9) = b^2 + 9b - 9b - 81 = b^2 - 81 (b - 9)(b + 9)/(b + 9) = 0/(b + 9) b - 9 = 0 b - 9 + 9 = 0 + 9 b = 9 (b - 9)(b + 9) = 0 (b - 9)(b + 9)/(b - 9) = 0/(b - 9) b + 9 = 0 b + 9 - 9 = 0 - 9 b = -9 (9)^2 + 9 = 81 + 9 = 90 ✅ (-9)^2 + 9 = 81 + 9 = 90 ✅

Solve it without using a calculator 😁 99.99% will fail 😎

@onderkayaistan1 Viyana'da akademisyenlerle yaptığım sohbetlerde ilginç bir doneye değindiler: Osmanli ile Hasburg hanedani birbirini yemekten müttefik olmayı çok geç akıl ettiler. Birbirlerini zayıflatıp beraber çöktüler... Güzel bir bakış açısı.

@SynapseNM Doğrudur 👍

Avrupa tarihi üzerine kalem oynatmış ve iki kitap çıkartmış birisi olarak diyebilirim ki şimdiye kadar okuduğum en nitelikli Avrupa tarihlerinden biri bu çalışma. 558 sayfalık hacimli bir çalışma. Ancak bitirdiğinizde Alman, Avusturya, Romanya, Çekya, Macaristan tarihi üzerine muazzam bilgiler ediniyorsunuz. Kesinlikle tavsiye ederim. Çeviri dili de çok güzel. Bu hususta Özkan Akpınar'ı ayrıca tebrik etmek gerekir. Yazanın da çevirenin de emeklerine sağlık.

@romerkukner Flying fortress, B-2 B-17 arası mühendisligini de tavsiye ederim.

Futbolsuzlukta İkinci Dünya Savaşının kaderini değiştiren uçak dokunuşlarına merak sardım. 1. Mustang'lerde kullanılan Allison motorları yerine Rolls-Royce Merlin ve RR lisanlı Packard'ların kullanılmaya başlanması. Çift supercharger ile yüksek irtifalardaki performans düşüklüğünün önüne geçiliyor, 2. Spitfire'larda yüksek tork nedeniyle oluşan uçuşu çok zorlaştıran sarsıntının ters yönde çalışan çift pervaneye geçilmesi. İlk başta dalga geçilen önerme ile Spitfire'lar bambaşka bir savaş uçağına dönüşüyor, 3. Çok ağır bir uçak olan Thunderbolt'larda ince pervanenin terk edilerek kürek tipine geçilmesi. Böylece yükseliş ve süratte adeta yeni bir uçak yaratılıyor, 4. Kullan-at yakıt depoları sayesinde uçakların menzili katlanıyor, Daha fazla örnek de olabilir ancak bilebildiğim dört küçük dokunuşla Müttefikler Luftwaffe'nin hava egemenliğine son veriyorlar. Yenilikler sayesinde bombardıman uçaklarının koruma eşliğinde Berlin'e ulaşmalarını sağlayıp, tüm Almanya'da gündüz bombardımanlarının etkisini katlıyor.

🚨 After 26 years: The Israeli flag and IDF Sayeret Golani are back on the fortress

Israel is the test case. Strip away its history, rewrite the story, manufacture a cause, and suddenly terrorism is “resistance” and self-defense is “aggression.” The same formula will be applied to Britain and to Western Europe. The same voices that delegitimize Israel’s right to defend itself will one day delegitimize your right to defend your own people. Erase the facts, invent a victimhood narrative, and brand the natives as oppressors. That is the script. Today it’s Israel. Tomorrow it’s you.

An English engineer wrote a calculus book in 1910 opening with the line "what one fool can do, another can," and proved that almost everything making math feel impossible was put there on purpose by people who wanted it to stay exclusive. His name was Silvanus P. Thompson. He was a physicist, an engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a professor at the City and Guilds Technical College in London. He had spent his entire career teaching calculus to working-class engineering students who needed the math to actually do their jobs, and he had watched generation after generation of bright kids walk out of math classrooms convinced they were stupid. He knew they were not stupid. He knew exactly what was wrong, and he was about to say it in print in a way that would get him quietly hated by every academic mathematician in Britain. In 1910 he published Calculus Made Easy. He published it anonymously at first, listing the author only as F.R.S., which stood for Fellow of the Royal Society. He did not want his name attached to it until he saw how the establishment was going to respond. Because the prologue of the book was not a polite introduction. It was an accusation. He wrote that calculus was not actually hard. He wrote that the people writing the standard textbooks were what he called "clever fools" who deliberately took the easiest parts of the subject and presented them in the most complicated way possible, because doing so made them look more impressive. He wrote that they "seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are" and instead "seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way." Then he opened the first chapter by telling readers something nobody had been willing to admit out loud. The reason calculus felt impossible was not because calculus was impossible. It was because the symbols had been chosen to feel impossible. The notation looked like ancient ritual on purpose. The Greek letters, the formal epsilon-delta definitions, the abstract limit proofs that opened every standard textbook, were not how Newton and Leibniz had originally thought about the subject. They were a 19th century renovation of the field done by professional mathematicians who wanted calculus to feel like a closed shop. Thompson refused to use any of it. He went back to the way Leibniz had thought about it 250 years earlier. The letter d in front of a variable, he told his readers, just meant "a little bit of." That was the whole secret. dx meant "a little bit of x." dy meant "a little bit of y." dy/dx meant "a little bit of y divided by a little bit of x," which is just how steep the curve is going at that exact moment. Integration was the opposite. It just meant adding up all the little bits. That is calculus. That is the entire subject. Everything else is technique, and the technique only works once you understand what you are doing. A 12-year-old can follow that explanation. A 12-year-old cannot follow the opening chapter of a typical university calculus textbook. The gap between those two facts is the entire reason most adults walk around believing they are bad at math. The book became one of the bestselling math books in history. Over a million copies. Still in print 115 years later. Still recommended by physicists, engineers, and self-taught learners as the only calculus book they actually finished. Martin Gardner revised it in 1998 and the foundation of the book did not need to change because Thompson had built it on Leibniz, not on the academic conventions that have come and gone since. The deeper point Thompson was making is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026. Difficulty is often a marketing strategy. It is not always a property of the subject. When a discipline is taught in a way that feels impossible, the difficulty is doing a job for someone. It is keeping the field small. It is protecting the salaries and the status of the people already inside it. It is filtering out the kinds of people who would otherwise show up and crowd the room. This happens in math. It happens in law. It happens in medicine. It happens in finance, in machine learning, in philosophy, in software. Every field has a layer of jargon and notation and ritual sitting on top of a core idea that is usually much simpler than the people inside the field want to admit. The jargon is not there to communicate. It is there to gatekeep. The way you recognize a real teacher is that they keep stripping the ritual off. The way you recognize someone protecting their priesthood is that they keep piling it on. Thompson finished his prologue with five words that are the entire spirit of his project. "What one fool can do, another can." He meant it as both a joke and a threat. If a working-class engineering student in 1910 with no Greek and no Latin and no university privileges could learn calculus from a 200-page paperback, then so could anyone the establishment had been excluding for the previous 200 years. Most subjects you have given up on were never as hard as the people teaching them needed you to believe. You were not stupid. The course was designed to make you feel that way. What one fool can do, another can.

@21_floored @ColWalkerActual Picture is from Ortakoy, we used to go and have baked potatoes when teenagers

@ColWalkerActual From North Carolina, you make me want to visit Istanbul

I thought people were exaggerating about Istanbul. They weren’t. 🇹🇷

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@maimianiz 🤣 Pamuklar içinde büyütmüşler seni. herhalde 2007 de yaşın tutmazdı

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WARNING ⚠️ SENSITIVE CONTENT IN THE VIDEO For three years we’ve been hearing the false accusations of ‘genocide’ when every expert with half a brain has stated it’s nowhere near a genocide. In fact it’s the opposite. But you know what is a genocide? What Hamas did on October 7. What jihadists are doing to Christians in Africa. And as this video shows, what Julani’s Syrian army did to the Alawites, Druze, Christians, Yazidis, and the Kurds. WARNING ⚠️ SENSITIVE CONTENT IN THE VIDEO This right here is a genocide. And just like the Gazans on October 7, and the jihadist terrorists in Africa, the Syrian forces celebrated it, took pleasure in it… they filmed it and cheered every murder they committed.

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İngiliz devlet arşivinden şu metinleri okuyalım. Altında açıklamasına devam. ▪️İtalyan konsolosu M. Miazzi, Yunanlıların altmış kadar kadın ve çocuğu katlettiği bir Türk köyünü ziyaret ettiğini bildirdi. Çoğu öldürülmeden önce tecavüze uğramıştı. Kadınların göğüsleri kesilmişti.