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criticizing the rich can be lucrative

Today is Earth Day. The loudest climate crusaders fly private, roll in motorcades, and own multiple homes, then blame you for using a plastic straw. Enjoy this clip of Elizabeth Warren stepping off a private jet.

@newstart_2024 Some day Europeans will realize that we all live in the same planet and does not make sense to cut emissions at home and increase them in the other side of the planet.

“We’re not saving the planet — we’re just exporting our emissions to China and India.” Konstantin Kisin cut straight through the net zero illusion on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO. Britain proudly cuts its share of global CO₂ from 2% to 1.9%, while actually increasing total emissions by offshoring production to countries with dirtier energy, then shipping the goods back on heavy fuel tankers. At the same time, many people are poorer today than 20 years ago, even if they haven’t fully felt it in their wallets yet. Kisin predicts the big public shift away from net zero won’t come from better science or arguments — it will come when ordinary people can no longer afford their current lives. That’s when reality finally breaks through. It’s a sobering reminder that economic pain often forces the honest conversation we’ve been avoiding. When do you think people will finally start connecting these dots?

he was onto something

⚡️The real answer is that the system is parasitic. It feeds on homelessness. It does not solve homelessness. Too many jobs, contracts, reputations, budgets, and political identities now depend on the problem remaining large, visible, and morally exploitable. The money does not move toward resolution. The money moves toward administration. That is why the numbers are obscene. A city can spend the equivalent of a full household income per homeless person and still leave the streets full of human ruin. That is a regime problem. The homeless person is valuable as a managed unit. Not as a restored human being. A restored human being exits the system. A managed human being justifies another grant, another contract, another department, another nonprofit gala, another election speech, another moral performance by people who never have to live near the consequences. The direct cash part is too naive. A lot of these people are not just broke . They are psychotic, addicted, shattered, predatory, incapacitated, or some mix of all five. A pile of cash does not rebuild a broken nervous system or stop a fentanyl spiral. Street disorder needs force, treatment, sorting, removal, and structure. Real housing for the salvageable. Institutions for the unsalvageable. Punishment for the predatory. Order for everyone else. That is the part the system refuses to do. Because the actual operating religion is not restoration. It is managed decay. Keep the money flowing. Keep the guilt flowing. Keep the bureaucracy growing. Keep the streets bad enough to demand funding. Keep them bad enough to prove compassion is needed. Never bad enough to force a real moral reckoning about what many of these cases actually are. So the clean truth is this. The system does not exist to end homelessness. The system exists to process homelessness. And processed suffering is one of the most profitable products a decaying city can produce.

@Nick_Delehanty When "net zero" describes your leader's IQ and GDP when you thought it was an energy policy. :P

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science... The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ

@spectatorindex Question: Did Iran deliberately fire two ~2,000 km missiles toward Diego Garcia (4,000 km target), fully expecting mid-flight failure or US interception — just to generate global headlines saying 'Iran attempted 4,000 km strike' and fake longer-range capability? #Missiles #Iran

BREAKING: Iran fired two ballistic missiles at US-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, according to Wall Street Journal report.

@marcjoffe Everybody knows what has to be done to develop a country but few have the balls to do it

35 years after throwing off the yoke of Communism, Poland becomes the world's 20th largest economy. The warmth of capitalism is lifting an entire nation out of poverty. apnews.com/article/poland…

@realMaalouf @DickusMaximus01 Comunista are instructed to never study history.

In Australia, Muslims and communists march together, waving the Communist and Islamic Republic flags. Do these idiots know that the first thing the Islamic regime did after taking over Iran was kill all the communists who helped them get into power?!

@clarkmoody @LynAldenContact Changing the clocks twice a year is a clear example of our politicians’ inability to make simple reforms. It made sense when electricity was expensive and light bulbs used a lot of power. Today, with LEDs and different consumption patterns, it just serves to prove my point.

Normal people: Can we stop changing our clocks twice a year? Government: Best I can do is war.

@davidasinclair If the are endotoxins in supplements,imagine in junk food

We’ve detected endotoxin in the raw materials used in supplements, raising the possibility that people are unwittingly swallowing endotoxin every day

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The Netherlands, again. State Secretary that would become “responsible” for the unrealised gains tax reportedly lied about her CV and just stepped down. Only finished middle school. How is this real?

Dutch Govt: "We have a massive budget crisis." Citizens: "Okay, stop spending billions on asylum hotels." Dutch Govt: "No." Citizens: "Then cut foreign aid?" Dutch Govt: "No. We’re going to tax your capital gains 36%... even if you haven't sold them."

@_The_Prophet__ Imagine being a Jew in 1933 Germany …

⚡️I’d be gone already. When a state starts pricing loyalty as liability, you don’t negotiate. You don’t delay. You exit. This is a blueprint for engineered capital flight. And the slowest movers are the ones who pay the exit fee.

@Mangan150 @KobeissiLetter And probably includes 29 million destined to studies that prove that temperature in earth is increasing due to CO2

@KobeissiLetter Since it's the government, even that paltry 30 million will get wasted.

BREAKING: France’s President Macron says the country has invested more than €30 million in AI through “France 2030.” Nvidia alone makes $360 million in revenue per day.

@al_antdp You pay millions to a lot of PhD just to close their eyes in simple evidence like this

Very much like Portugal, only even more dependent on population growth Since 2019, Spain's GDP grew by 10.6%. - Growth is not due to each person producing more (down, -1.7%, as working pop. grew by 12,5%, but GDP by 10.6%) But from: - Employment (+4.5%), - Activity (+0.3)%, and - Demographics (+7.3%) Iberia’s recent Economic performance is a mith. As always, the Commission didn’t notice