Andy Stvan

Vikendova debata 🌞 se tremi prateli u klasicke teple pinty Carlsbergu 🍺 v mistnim pubu vlastne jen potvrdila to, co si posledni dobu rika u nas v UK 🇬🇧 stale vice rozumnych lidi. Resili jsme, co se to s tou nasi milovanou Britanii vlastne deje a proc jde vsechno tak viditelne z kopce⛰️. Pro kontext je nutne dodat, ze nase sestava byla docela pestra. Jeden z pratel je polovicni Spanel🕺 po tatinkovi a velmi seriozne uvazuje o stehovani do zahranici. Druhy je muj lotyssky soused, ktery se do Anglie prizenil💍. No a treti je sice narozen a vychovan v Bristolu, ale miluje americky fotbal🏈, coz ho z britske spolecnosti v podstate diskvalifikuje. Nicmene vsichni tri moc dobre znaji a naprosto sdileji moje pojmenovani soucasnych britskych realii, ktere nazyvam #socialismussbritskoutvari. V teto debate nam slo ale hlavne o popsani konkretnich problemu, na ktere se me osobne lide casto ptaji v diskusich pod mymi clanky a prispevky. Shodli jsme se nakonec na sesti zasadnich bodech, ktere za timto systemovym upadkem stoji... Prvnim bodem jsme my sami, tedy upadek moralky a vykonnosti britske spolecnosti. Vsechno to totiz zacina u lidi. V poslednich letech je stale vice patrna laxnost, nezodpovednost and ztrata zdravych ambici ci zakladni pracovni moralky. Tradicni britske hodnoty, pracovitost a dravost vystridala davno zvlastni spolecenska letargie. To ma samozrejmě primy dopad na ekonomiku, protoze produktivita prace je v soucasnosti na uplnem dne a lide ztraci motivaci podavat vysoke vykony. Druhym faktorem je agresivni progresivismus. Dovolili jsme totiz, aby nase klicove instituce a verejny prostor ovladlo levicove smysleni, ktere casto popira i ten nejzakladnejsi selsky rozum. Vysledkem jsou naproste absurdity. Na jedne strane jsme svedky tlaceni tranzic u malych deti a neustaleho kadrovani spolecnosti, na strane druhe sledujeme ideologicke snahy o de facto rozkradani verejneho majetku pod zaminkou ruznych projektu na ochranu klimatu a ochlazeni planety. Mensiny jsou v tomto narativu systematicky uprednostnovany pred vetsinovou populaci. Tretim bodem je ztrata nadeje a masivni odchod schopnych lidi. Britove uz zkratka prestavaji verit v lepsi zitrky. Nejde pritom jen o milionare, kteri si s sebou odvezou svuj kapital a investice. Tento trend dnes zasahuje i pracovitou stredni tridu. Lide, kteri maji vzdelani, zkusenosti a chteji legalne vydelavat penize, proste bali kufry. Odchazeji do zemi, kde se pile stale jeste ceni a kde Vas stat netresta likvidacnimi danemi za to, ze jste uspesni. Ctvrtym problemem je hluboce zakorenena kultura narokovosti. Prebujely socialni system v Britanii dnes casto odmenuje pasivitu mnohem vice nez realnou snahu. Ve spolecnosti se rozmohl nebezpecny pocit, ze stat se proste musi o kazdeho postarat, coz spolehlive zabiji jakoukoli individualni iniciativu. Pracujici lide pak cely tento kolos tahnou na svych bedrech a plati obrovske dane, zatimco system generuje stale vice zavislych osob. Patym bodem je nekontrolovana migrace a neintegrovane komunity. Tento problem se netyka pouze medialne znamych nelegalnich prilivu lidi na clunech pres La Manche. Mnohem vetsim a dlouhodobejsim rizikem jsou mensiny, ktere v zemi ziji uz po generace. Papirove jsou sice povazovany za integrovane, ale ve skutecnosti si vytvorily vlastni paralelni svety s odlisnymi pravidly. Odmitaji prijmout tradicni britske hodnoty a pro celou zemi predstavuji vazne bezpecnostni i socialni riziko. Sestym a poslednim bodem je nefunkcni stat a absurdni byrokracie. Jsme svedky uplneho rozpadu zakladnich sluzeb, ktery doprovazi rigidita celeho aparatu. Urady a ministerstva jsou naprosto posedle procesy, smernicemi a tabulkami, zatimco realny svet jim unika mezi prsty. Veci, ktere driv fungovaly automaticky, spolehlive a bez zbytecnych reci, jsou dnes kvuli neschopnemu managementu, politicke korektnosti a prebujelemu urednictvu naprosto paralyzovane. Je tezke zustat v dnesni UK pozitivni ... je ale potreba to nevzdavat. 🧔‍♂️👋🚚🇬🇧🍻

A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology. Her name is Marily Oppezzo. She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out. She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas. The result was almost too clean to publish. 81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving. The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself. Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held. Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving. The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything. This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time. She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse. Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one. When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up. The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other. When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking. The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving. You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state. The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs. Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path. Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet. Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed. Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot. Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it. The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks. Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to. The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes. The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it. And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.

TIL that Škoda made a bicycle bell that can cut through ANC headphones. Most ANC systems use adaptive filtering (like LMS) at a very basic level, it models the incoming noise and generate an anti-phase signal to cancel it. Works best for steady and predictable sounds. Škoda's research found that around 750 - 780Hz ANC struggles a lot so they made their bell to target this particular frequency they added irregular, transient dual tones that are hard to model in real time this comes from a dual-resonator design : one tuned to ~750-780 Hz (ANC weak spot) using a cantilever tine, and another at higher frequencies (~2 KHz+) like a normal bell, so it’s not a single clean tone So instead of being louder, it’s just… harder to cancel. Pretty neat example of exploiting system limitations with pure analog design. skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world… #s_aid=lcjn3ale-l4dw-fwm4-7wyj-melns76mrjal_004_1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cdn.skoda-storyboard.com/2026/04/Skoda-…

So true☹️ 📹 vetoshkin.evgeniy

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🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See. The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday. According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old. The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport. Video: sab_thi

I mapped population change in Europe in the last 25 years...

Big news from Australia 🇦🇺 A new study tracked 15 companies that switched to a 4-day work week (100% pay, 80% hours, 100% output). Results? • 14 out of 15 companies decided to keep it permanently • Zero reported a drop in productivity • 6 companies actually saw productivity increase Less burnout, same (or better) output. The 4-day week is no longer just a dream, the data backs it up.

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv. I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information. All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality. Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity. There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus. Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us. One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

Slyšeli jste o Henry Nowakovi? 🤔 Polský student, kterého v minulém roce na ulici v anglickém Southamptonu ubodal Vicrum Digwa svým obřadním 21 cm dlouhým nožem. 😲 Když na místo dorazila policie, nasadila pouta umírajícímu silně krvácejícímu studentovi, protože Digwa policii řekl, že student křičel rasistická hesla... Vždy, když se tu zmíním o nedůvěryhodnosti mainstreamu, systematické manipulaci a vymývání mozků většinové populaci, někteří zastánci hlavního proudu po mě chtějí důkazy. Opravdu není v mých silách zpětně na požádání dohledávat takové důkazy. Zaměstnejte mě v nějaké faktcheckingové "neziskovce" a pak to budu rád dělat. 😉😁 Ale občas tyto důkazy zveřejňuji, když na nějaký křiklavý případ narazím. Toto je jeden z nich! Přikládám ve screenshotech mediální pokrytí tohoto případu dle nezávislého informačního zdroje! Pro srovnání dávám mediální pokrytí podobného případu George Floyda. 😯 Tam také policie nasadila pouta člověku, který později zemřel. O Floydovi jste určité slyšeli. Je pár rozdílů mezi těmito případy: 1) Floyd byl černoch. Nowak běloch. 2) Floyd byl několikrát trestaný násilník, v době zatčení pod vlivem drog. Není známo, že by Nowak měl trestnou minulost, v době incidentu byl údajně opilý. 3) Floyd ohrožoval ženu pistolí. Nowak možná slovně napadl muslima. Zbraň žadnou neměl. A ještě pro úplnost. Určitě mi sem někdo přispěcháte dát odkaz, že BBC o tom informovala a tím se budete snažit znevěrohodnit celé vyznění tohoto postu. 😩 Když pomineme, že jeden článek z jednoho mainstreamu je fakt málo, přečtěte si ten post BBC pozorně! 90 % textu je obhajoba vraha, že nikomu ublížit nechtěl, že se bál o svůj život, že ho opilý Nowak napadl a chtěl ho zabít jeho vlastním nožem. V sebeobraně ho odhodil a nešťastnou náhodou mu při tom způsobil několik bodných ran... 😲🤬 Znáte tu písničku od Jahelky, že? "Poškozeny vešel do baru a nešťastnou náhodou upadl na můj nůž. A to se 7x opakovalo." 🙄🫣 Až na konci článku se v jedné větě dozvíte, že Nowak se snažil utéci, přelézal plot, takže asi moc nikoho zlikvidovat nechtěl... Ano, toto je krásný příklad manipulace, jak můžete "objektivně" informovat o události. 😡 Nikdo vás nemůže napadnout, že něco zamlčujete, že lžete. Přesto v myslích čtenářů podprahově vykreslíte vraha jako obět a oběť tak trochu očerníte. Toto mainstream ovládá skvěle, a proto to stále spousta lidí není schopná vidět. Proto se občas o těchto lidech nehezky vyjadřuji, že jsou oběti mainstreamu. 😟 Nenechme upadnout památku polského studenta, který asi v naivní rozjařenosti řekl něco nehezkého druhému člověku na ulici a stálo ho to život. 😭

We didn’t have “HR” when building Palantir, for similar reasons - I avoided Ryan’s mistake. And when we needed some PeopleOps, we hired technical leaders. Going into the vast majority of companies and firing most of their HR and Marketing departments would tend to create value!

Henry Nowak was 18 years old. A first year accountancy and finance student at the University of Southampton, walking home from a night out with his football team on December 3rd, 2025. On Belmont Road he was met by a 23 year old named Vickrum Digwa, carrying a 21cm ceremonial blade across his chest. Digwa stabbed him four times. One wound went eight centimeters into his lung. Henry climbed over a fence trying to escape. There was already a blood trail on the street behind him. When police arrived, Digwa told them he had been racially abused. Henry told them he had been stabbed. He told them he could not breathe. The officer told Henry he was under arrest on suspicion of assault. Henry repeated that he had been stabbed. A voice on the body cam replied, "I don't think you have, mate." Henry drowned in his own blood on Belmont Road in handcuffs. By the time CPR began his lungs were already full. A doctor flew in by helicopter. There was nothing left to do. The knife was at the killer's mother's house. She had walked it home. Henry's phone, the one he had filmed the whole encounter on, was in Digwa's pocket. All of this came out in Southampton Crown Court last week. The bodycam was played to the jury. This is sworn testimony in a live murder trial. A teenager was killed by a man who then told the police the teenager was the racist. The police arrested the boy who was bleeding out instead of the man who had been carrying the blade. Whatever you believe about institutions, that is what happened on that street. Henry Nowak. Remember the name.

This is so unjust

If Bilbo asked ChatGPT

@elonmusk altruism is Evil

Moving to the USA could be the Most Expensive Mistake of your Life

Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.

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Trumpova dvoudenní návštěva Číny: kritické shrnutí očima našeho vtipného podcastu. 1⃣ Boeing: slíbeno 500 letadel, podepsáno 200. Akcie Boeingu -4 %. 2⃣ Čipy: žádný průlom. Nvidia -4,42 %. Export H200 do Číny stále čeká na pekingské schválení. 3⃣ Taiwan označil Trump jako „vyjednávací kartu". Balík zbraní za 14BUSD, schválený Kongresem už v lednu, dál visí ve vzduchu. Trump řekl, že "se uvidí." 4⃣ Trump dále: Taiwan nám ukradl čipový průmysl. Bránit ho? Vždyť leží 59 mil od Číny a my 9 500 mil. Navíc Čína je velká, ostrov maličký. Složité pomáhat. 5⃣ Xi na to reagoval: „Čínská Taipei je pro nás nejcitlivější otázka. Špatné zacházení může vést ke střetu a konfliktu." 6⃣ Ukrajina: nezmíněna vůbec. 7⃣ Írán a Hormuz: Trump tvrdí, že mu Si nabídl pomoc, plus slíbil neposílat techniku do Íránu. Čínské MZV to ale nepotvrdilo. A v oficiálním shrnutí zmínka zcela chybí... 8⃣ Humor: Peking obešel vlastní sankce změnou znaku ve jméně Marca Rubia, aby mohl přiletět. 9⃣ Putin přiletí do Pekingu už v úterý. Skutečná osa tak zůstává Moskva–Peking. 🔟Bilance: maximální obřadnost, minimální zisk pro USA, otřesená důvěra Taiwanu, posílená pozice strýčka Xi. 1⃣1⃣ Jak to celé shrnout? Stará čínská moudrost praví: přijede-li do města chytrý velvyslanec, vyžeň ho. Když přijede hloupý, zahrň ho dary a daruj mu úspěch. Tak v cizích zemích podpoříš neschopné a pohaníš schopné. 1⃣2⃣ PS: Já toho mnoho nevím. Chytří lidé čtou Pekingskou kachnu pana Kweenologa!

While the UN tries to avoid to point at the obvious culprit of the strike against their convoy in Kherson, Ukraine, Russians released FPV footage of that particular strike, making absolutely clear this wasn’t some kind of accident, but a deliberate terrorist strike, which civilians in Kherson have to endure on a daily base.

I can’t believe how you can still hear that’s it’s a V8. Too cool.