Alexander Botev

@synopsi In California, many expenditures are approved by referendums. It is difficult to revoke them.

The crash of revenue would be stunning. And considering the graft and ineptitude in this state, it would break in single year. Instead of focusing on taxes, let’s focus on expenditures. When that’s fixed, then we can talk about lowering taxes.

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

“Ruszkik haza!” on the Budapest metro. What a moment.

@MagellanQuest The central Europe blue is area of Holy Roman Empire minus land occupied by communists.

Protestantism may have mattered. But Europe’s wealth was not built by theology alone. What really shaped the continent’s core was a dense corridor of cities, ports, rivers, industry, finance and state capacity: the Blue Banana. Religion was one layer. Urban density was the machine

@MarioPastva Sa hovorilo, ze Usain Bolt ma svaly len kvoli fotkam. Tak toto je mozno podobne. 😊

Superťažká váha kedysi/dnes.

@RealPostFolder Africa based 😄

110 years are over. Sadly. It is like parents obstructing a vaccine for children. MAGA = undertakers of the US world-wide dominance.

@Microinteracti1 110 years are over. Sadly. It is like parents obstructing a vaccine for children. MAGA = undertakers of the US world-wide dominance.

For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation. It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025. Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.”   And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist. Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered. In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius. Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people. And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like. It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@simongerman600 Call a burger with fries French and you have it red.

I’ve never seen a map that makes more sense.

@MichaelAArouet @BartaArcheolog try GDP in PPP

This chart makes me laugh every time I see it. The UK, France and Italy are poorer than the poorest US state, Mississippi. Canada and Germany are poorer than the second-poorest US state. The gap will widen. And don’t come with “free healthcare.” You pay for it with absurd taxes

@LudekStanek Ake si postavis, take mas. (nikdy som sa do Prahy nesiel opit, aj ked sa to obcas podarilo)

Se mi libi jak tady obcas nekdo sdili ty vizualizace cyklostezek v nejakym zapadnim meste s dojemnejma komentarema “proc to v Praze nemuze vypadat jako v XY”. Vite proc? Protoze dokud bude Praha zkurvenej Disneyland pro opilce je parkovani fakt ten mensi problem.

@KamilZm Chce to jedneho brigadnika aby za den spravil tabulku stare linky, nove linky a programatora, ktory nastavi 301 presmerovanie.

To se zase Asseco (nebo vnitro?) předvedlo. Konečně přesunuli e-sbírku na gov_cz a myslíte, že tam dali přesměrování? Prd. Takže všechny odkazy, co jsme mezitím použili v dokumentech, zadávačkách apod. přestaly fugovat 🤬 Chápu, že když se dělá nový web, tak přesměrování často není kvůli jiné struktuře možné. Ale doprkýnka ne když jen přesunuji web na novou doménu. Navíc je to proti pravidlům, které byly pro přechod na gov_cz schváleny.

@VaclavManena Ludia veria, ze Babis je realny a ze obrazok je fake.

Nový generátor v Gemini je pecka! Takhle to vážně v Praze kolem roku 1974 vypadalo. Nechám otevřené komentáře pro všechny, abyste mohli psát objevené chyby. Já nenašel ani jednu. 😀

@jietienming Chyba “E” ako Brno 😊

A jak vy hodnotíte jednotlivé východoevropské země, co jste navštívili?

@y_ury_ @RadovanDurana Ten co sa spojil s StBakom, vybavili v statnej banke uver v ekvivalente dnesnych 100 mil. eur. Ku cti mu sluzi, ze to vratil.

@RadovanDurana To ten co vyrába Horalky? Milióny si zaslúži!

Problémom slovenskej kultúry je, že slovo zisk vždy brnkne na strunu závisti, namiesto prajnosti a radosti z úspechu iného, ktorý obohacuje celú ekonomiku (aj štátnu kasu). Tento postoj bohužiaľ brzdí rast prosperity v krajine. úryvok je z textu známeho slovenského denníka.

@ProfBZZZ 100 pages a week was for me in the executive education, where the master took 2,5 years 😄

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

@thenews_fr Gauche 💶😍

@elormkdaniel People think that if they write the current year, their problem should be somehow solved.

Most transparent phone cases are made from a plastic called Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU). Manufacturers use TPU because it’s flexible, shock-absorbing, cheap to produce, and good at protecting phones from drops. It’s a very practical material. But TPU has a weakness: it naturally oxidizes over time. When the case is exposed to UV light, heat, oxygen, and oils from your hands, chemical reactions slowly happen in the polymer chains. These reactions change the way the material absorbs and reflects light, which is what causes the yellow or brown tint you eventually see. Even if you kept the case perfectly clean, it would still slowly yellow because the process happens inside the material itself. Manufacturers do try to slow this down. Many cases include UV stabilizers and anti-oxidation additives, but these only delay the reaction; they don’t stop it completely. Another material that stays clear longer is Polycarbonate, which is used in harder transparent cases. Polycarbonate resists yellowing better, but it has its own trade-offs: it’s more rigid, cracks easier under impact, and doesn’t absorb shocks as well as TPU. So companies usually combine materials: a polycarbonate back for clarity and TPU edges for drop protection. Ironically, the part that usually turns yellow first is the TPU bumper around the edges. In other words, it’s not that engineers “can’t” make anti-yellow transparent cases. They can but those materials would either be more expensive, more brittle, or worse at protecting your phone.

@kvasinka preto ludstvo vymyslelo noreply@

Najhoršie na emailoch je, že aj keď na ne odpíšete, tak niektorí ľudia vám zasa odpíšu naspäť :-( #openspacecoelho

@ZlamalovaLenka @differentdoktor Kopa firiem za 200rokov zanikla. Ako to bude fungovat? Spenazime nahrobne kamene?

Europoslanec Luděk Niedermayer chce, aby Evropa platila daň z historických emisí. Tyranie viny za průmyslovou revoluci. e15.cz/nazory-a-analy…