@aakashgupta Okay but why would they rate the iPad mini with a E, that sort of destroys the whole argument
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Ofanaf
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Apple gave itself the worst possible rating. On purpose. And the strategy is smarter than anyone's giving them credit for.
The EU started requiring energy labels on all phones and tablets in June 2025. A to G scale, just like your refrigerator. Covers energy efficiency, drop resistance, repairability, water resistance. Apple's iPhones qualified for an "A" on energy efficiency by their own testing. They voluntarily submitted a "B." Three iPad lines, the standard iPad, the Pro, and the Air, all got "G." The literal worst score on the chart. The iPad mini scraped an "E."
Apple then published a 44-page document explaining exactly why they downgraded themselves. The EU's testing protocols contain ambiguous language on surface materials for drop tests, interpretation of battery workload measurements, and standardization of efficiency calculations. Apple's argument: if a third-party lab interprets the rules differently and scores them lower than what Apple claimed, the PR damage is worse than just taking the hit upfront.
Read that again. Apple would rather display the worst energy rating in its own stores than risk someone else giving them a bad grade they didn't control. That tells you everything about how Apple thinks about brand. They don't optimize for the score. They optimize for narrative control. A self-assigned G is a protest. A third-party G is a verdict.
The 44-page document is the actual product here. Apple is betting that the technical community reads it, that journalists cover the controversy, and that the label system loses credibility before it gains consumer trust. They're speed-running the refrigerator-label playbook: comply loudly, complain publicly, let the regulator defend a system that rates a $1,299 iPad Pro the same as the cheapest Android tablet on the shelf.
The EU projected these labels would save consumers €20 billion by 2030. Apple just made sure every tech outlet is writing about how the ratings are unreliable instead.
tom 🎸@uncreativetom
love that the eu forced Apple to proudly display in store that their iPads are built shitty
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@aakashgupta Charlie has a long history of sensational interview. 10g of cocaine per day is practically the limit a human can survive. 100g is a 10x from here, that doesn't look very likely ... And that's above 3 weeks which is even less likely.
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A Mexican drug cartel looked at Charlie Sheen's cocaine orders and decided he had to be a dealer. He was just smoking it himself.
Nearly 4.5 pounds in three weeks. That's roughly 2,000 grams, about 97 grams a day. A heavy recreational user goes through 3 to 5 grams daily. Sheen was consuming at 20x that rate, outpacing the cartel's actual distribution clients whose entire job was reselling it.
The cartel did what no institution in Hollywood would. They ran a risk assessment on their most profitable customer and walked away. Their reasoning: anyone moving that volume is either a dealer creating competition or a spotlight creating law enforcement attention. The revenue wasn't worth the exposure.
CBS was paying Sheen $1.8 million per episode at the time. His agents were negotiating raises. Warner Bros kept writing checks. The entire entertainment industry watched a man consume cocaine at wholesale distribution volume and responded by making him the highest-paid actor in television history.
His own dealer eventually staged an intervention. Started replacing the cocaine with increasing amounts of baking soda until Sheen was smoking pure baking soda. A street-level drug dealer ran a more effective harm reduction program than every agent, manager, and studio executive in Los Angeles.
Sheen's peak net worth hit $150 million. He later sold his Two and a Half Men residuals, estimated at $100 million lifetime value, for $27 million. Current net worth: roughly $3 million.
The only entity in Charlie Sheen's orbit that accurately priced the risk of his behavior was a Mexican drug cartel. They were also the only ones who stopped enabling it.
dank@cptdankkk
Charlie Sheen reveals the cartel cut him off after he smoked over 4 pounds of cocaine in 3 weeks Charlie: "When the cartel says, 'Hey, your man is dealing. If we're supplying that kind of weight, your guy is a dealer and that's just the way it is'" "It looked like that to them, but he had to explain who their customer was and that it just wasn't something this guy would ever do" Graham: "And that was on the heels of smoking almost four and a half pounds of cocaine over three weeks" Charlie: "No, it wasn't snorting. It was smoking"
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@sushantkumar67 @WarMonitor3 Weak leadership along a struggling military against Iran. Odds are not great for Taiwan.
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@WarMonitor3 USA so desperate not to provoke China.
USA is the strongest military power on the planet Earth. 😂
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Reporter “Would the US defend Taiwan if it came to it.”
Trump “I don’t want to say I told the same to Xi.”
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@TGTM_Official What about both at the same time? I see a vulnerable leader of a declining nation who still pretends to be powerful. And I see China perfectly understanding this situation by flattering his ego to curry favors.
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No country embodies the law of the jungle in its diplomacy quite like China. It unhesitatingly humiliates the vulnerable leader of a declining nation, while bending over backwards to flatter and curry favor with the tough leader of a far more powerful one—Chinese people, regardless of their political ideology, only bow to the strong.
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@nano_tech_2020 @EndGameWW3 China has an incentive to not do... anything. The US got into that mess and it's only going to get worse. There is absolutely zero incentive for China to help the US - unless of course China gets a lot in return. And China might well get that ...
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@EndGameWW3 China is using their strategic oil reserves. They have an incentive to not have a protracted disruption in oil access. There is some leverage including trade that could nudge China to lobby Iran towards a better settlement.
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So let me get this straight, Trump is flying halfway around the world to beg an evil communist dictator to help him get out of this war with Iran...
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Putin: "Macron called me in 2022 and said that Ukraine couldn't sign documents in Istanbul 'with a gun to his head' and asked me to withdraw troops from Kyiv."
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@AdamKinzinger @PhillipsPOBrien Let's say it's a victory to admit defeat after a month or two rather than after 4 or 5 years, like Russia will have to end up doing.
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In no way would this be considered any version of a victory.
No restrictions on missiles, proxies, tolling the strait, and no relief for the people that Trump told he was coming to help.
And Iran gets full sanction relief…. Full. And tons of cash.
Not a single person will have the moral authority to criticize the JCPOA ever if they support Trump
GeoInsider@InsiderGeo
UPDATE | Al Jazeera has the full MOU terms now: Iran stops all enrichment for 12 years and hands over 440kg of 60% uranium to the US itself, per Trump. In exchange: sanctions go, frozen assets get released, naval blockade comes down. Tehran is supposed to send its response tonight, Rubio said this morning from Rome. Meanwhile the US hit Iranian tankers again today, second day running, and Trump is talking about "Project Freedom Plus" if nobody signs. Araghchi on X: "diplomacy is always the victim." Bottom line is the same it's been for weeks. The MOU would actually end the war, except for the uranium-to-the-US bit, which is the one thing Tehran keeps refusing.
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This year, Russia will not broadcast the May 9 Red Square parade live, the transmission will air with a deliberate delay.
Russia has also revoked the accreditation of foreign journalists who were expected to travel to Moscow for the parade.
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@caprioleio > Bitcoin is unequivocally the best inflation hedge
Bitcoin is notoriously performing badly when inflation is high and so are rates ... Maybe the Quantum rate is better
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Paul Tudor Jones was the first and biggest Bitcoin bull on Wall St. In before Saylor in 2020.
He's famous for his quote:
"Bitcoin is the fastest horse"
Here's what he just said in this week's podcast:
"Bitcoin is unequivocally the best inflation hedge that there is. The problem with it is… cyber warfare & quantum computing."
One of the best investors of our lifetime, a hugely influential and respected veteran and once mega Bitcoin bull, Paul spoke primarily to the threat of quantum computing when Bitcoin was raised.
Bitcoin cannot ignore the Quantum threat, and implementing post-quantum signatures should be our only priority.
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@aakashgupta Andes Virus IS a Hantavirus. That's literally on the first line of the wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes_vir…
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Something is off here.
Hantavirus doesn't spread between humans. It spreads through rat piss. There's exactly one exception, and the cruise that just had 3 deaths sailed straight out of it.
You catch it by inhaling aerosolized particles from rodent urine, feces, or saliva. Sin Nombre in the US. Seoul virus in Asia. Puumala in Europe. Forty-plus strains, one route of infection. You do not pass them to your spouse.
The exception is the Andes virus, found only in Chile and southern Argentina. Mortality runs 30-40%. A 2019 outbreak in Argentine Patagonia killed 9 people and forced a judge to order a 30-day lockdown on an entire town to stop the chain.
The MV Hondius left Ushuaia on April 1. Ushuaia sits at the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego, in the heart of Andes country.
The first death was a 70-year-old Dutch man. Symptoms hit April 6. He was dead by April 11. Five days from fever to respiratory failure on a ship in the South Atlantic.
His wife, who shared his cabin, collapsed at Johannesburg's airport on April 26 trying to fly home and died at the hospital. PCR confirmed hantavirus. Contact tracing is running on every passenger from her flight, routed through one of the busiest hubs on the African continent.
The husband almost certainly caught it ashore in Argentina before boarding. The wife, who never set foot in rodent country before joining him in their cabin, almost certainly caught it from him.
WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove: "human-to-human transmission can't be ruled out." 7 cases so far. 1-to-6-week incubation. 38% case fatality rate when it goes pulmonary.
This is the one hantavirus you don't want. On the one type of transport that breaks every containment assumption it has.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: WHO confirms there are now 7 hantavirus cases on the cruise ship.
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@Ilovecandies92 @Dmg_Cntrl Well, Macron is still doing fine, in comparison facebook.com/share/p/1GpQak…
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@Ofanaf1 @Dmg_Cntrl In the latest poll i saw Macron has -59 net popularity. I don't think De Gaulle had such low popularity.
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If you didn't know any better you would think that this much international aura farming means that Macron is a figure spoken in the same breath as De Gaulle.
Meanwhile back home his own party think he's fucking insane.
Tudor Alexis@tudoralexis1
Armenians singing "La Marseillaise" in the streets of Yerevan as Macron walks by is absolute top-tier energy. Based. 🇦🇲🇫🇷
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@shahar_aviram @ukraine_map @WarMonitor3 Their economy was always in shambles. Their military is so inexistant that it's blocking Hormuz and somehow the great US military can't do anything about it - except blocking itself Hormuz 😁 Seriously 🤦♂️
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@ukraine_map @WarMonitor3 This is not true.
Irans economy is in shambles. Their military forces are almost non existant. Their industrial capabilities have been set back at least 5 years.
It will take them many many years if ever to recover. Probably never
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@Chuksforreal @WarMonitor3 Which it is (poor people in the countryside are threatened to be cut from subsidies if they don't vote). And media all belong to Orban. And much more. There is no question whether the election is manipulated. The question is whether there is enough manipulation for Orban to win.
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@WarMonitor3 I don’t see Viktor Orban winning unless the election is manipulated.
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Tomorrow is the Hungarian election who will be the next Prime Minster?
Despite Orbans nearly 2 decade long reign polymarket see him at just a 29 percent chance.
What do you think?
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@EndGameWW3 white house be like stop this insider trading, it's too obvious. Do like us betting on oil, nobody sees it ..
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Update: Wall Street Journal: The White House warns its employees against betting in prediction markets amid the Iran war.
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@phildstewart @EndGameWW3 Bro started a war without a plan, boasted he defeated Iran 20 times, threatened to invade an EU country, and now asks the very same EU to fix the mess he began. Peak incompetence
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NATO'S RUTTE BRIEFED CAPITALS THAT TRUMP WANTS CONCRETE COMMITMENTS WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS FOR HELP SECURING STRAIT OF HORMUZ - DIPLOMATS TO REUTERS
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Bloomberg just dropped the Orbán tapes and it reads like a bad fanfic.
Hungary’s prime minister spent a phone call with Putin calling him a “lion,” casting himself as the helpful little “mouse,” offering Budapest as a venue to end the war on Russia’s terms, and closing with “I am at your service.”
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@scottmelker There is no foresight to get rid of the JCPOA to end up with a worse deal. You're just quoting a Trump apologetic
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@NickRicci5 @WarMonitor3 FYI the US is helping Russia at the moment with high oil prices. They also sell weapons to the EU at the highest price. The US didn't give 1 cent to Ukraine for the last 1.5 years. Trump can't do more for Russia except maybe selling them weapons. Maybe it will happen, who knows.
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@WarMonitor3 The U.S should leave NATO and let them fend for themselves, good luck with Ukraine!
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Marco Rubio has said the US will Re Evaluate its position in NATO after the war in Iran due to US airforce planes being rejected airspace and basing rights.
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@PolymarketIntel After all the threats and tariffs against Europe, it's not really unexpected, is it... What is rather unexpected is to see all other EU countries helping the US while they have their own war against RU
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Spain closes airspace to U.S. planes striking Iran, forcing Washington to scrap plans to deploy strategic bombers at Morón Air Base.
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