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@hoshizorarock Fuck yeah.

アメリカ人よ🇺🇸 にんにくの暴力のラーメンだ🧀

Strange to hear a "car-guy" say that. Maybe it was like that in the beginning. I think so - kind of like the Prius... I am sure Jerry hated those and I would have been right there with him on his assessment back then. But things have changed. Many of the new electics are world-class, and more. Tesla, the top electric maker truly builds excellent cars and the tech is second to none. The batteries are expensive AF but they are coming down. FSD and all the other integrated features with all the updates... What's so bad about that? Is it so hard to believe that many, if not most people NOW buy electrics because they want them?

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is taking a jab at electric cars, calling them a “big, stupid virtue signal." “I’m not interested in electric cars at all," Seinfeld reportedly said in an interview. "Anybody else wants to do it, that’s fine. I think it’s a big, stupid virtue signal. ‘Look at me. I’m saving the planet, yeah.’ What about the lithium? It’s all BS."

@ClownWorld Nuke the site from orbit.

McDonald’s in Stockholm looking like nobody’s been taught to clean up after themselves

@elonmusk Indeed. That one is gonna have to launch from space, right?

Size does matter

@WallStreetApes What a shame. Portland is one of our most extreme examples of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Suicidal Empathy in action. An absolute surrender for no reason. None of this had to happen.

The fall of Portland, Oregon Here are major retailers that left Portland over declining conditions due to Democrat policies from 2022–2026 - Nike Community Factory Store (Operated since 1984, 40 years) Closed permanently because of 276 shoplifting reports in one year. They cited deteriorating public safety. Nike sent a letter to the mayor citing conditions - Walmart (Both Portland Locations)
580 employees laid off - Target (Three Stores)
Reason: Explicitly cited organized retail crime and shoplifting - REI
Reason: Highest break-in rate in two decades; over $800,000 spent on extra security in 2022 (including multiple incidents, one with a vehicle through the doors on Black Friday) - U.S. Bank (U.S. Bancorp Tower) Announced it would not renew its long-term lease
Building Sale: Sold in July 2025 for $45 million (down from $372 million in 2015 — ~88% value decline). - Wells Fargo
Announced plans to exit Portland - Starbucks
Closed at least 5–6 Portland locations in September 2025 alone. - Nordstrom Rack (Downtown)
 - CVS Pharmacy (SW Broadway) Reason: Employee cited shoplifting as a factor Malls Major Retail Centers also closed Pioneer Place Mall: Once had roughly 100 stores. It’s now down to 20. Described as a “dead mall.” • Lloyd Center Mall: Confirmed for full demolition. Now 90% vacant PacWest Center: Sold October 2025 for $55.7 million (down from $170 million in 2016. That’s a 67% drop) - Montgomery Park: Sold August 2024 for $33 million (down from $255 million in 2019, that’s a 87% drop)

@Tapauto79Thomas @PNWConservative @MayorofSeattle Down in Orgeon they have the Greater Idaho movement up and running. It could work well for East Oregon AND Idaho. But I can't help but wonder if Eastern OR and Eastern WA should just form a new state altogether.

@PNWConservative @MayorofSeattle

What I really love about @MayorofSeattle is that she cares about the poor. She will make sure grocery stores stay open by simply “not allowing” them to close. I’m liking this ruling with an iron fist style. Kind of reminds me of the utopia that was once the USSR.

@PNWConservative @MayorofSeattle Yeah, this grocery store thing. I am pretty sure her plan is unconstitutional and I don't believe that a city mayor has the authori-tah to do something like that if he or she wants to. What's strange is how many of her constituents seem to buy into it.

@harukaawake I am very pleased and surprised to find out how similar Americans and Japanese are.

🇯🇵 Something I'm noticing more and more on X. When we were young, we were told that the Western world looked down on us. But almost all of the anti-Japanese posts come here from developing countries. I have to say that being on X has made me much more pro-Western.

I am sure I never saw it because I stopped a while back when Rios got picked up by ICE in Picard. That was the death of it all for me. *BUT* for me THE worst one was always Threshold. I quit Voyager on the spot and didnt go back to watch the whole thing for many years. Ended up liking it a lot.

What's the worst episode of Star Trek?

@threetoesoffury @Todd_Spence Fuckin' A

@Todd_Spence I would watch the sh#t out of a full length version of this.

Someone put audio from CASINO over Looney Tunes and its perfect 🔥😂

Might be because he took a short childrens' story and blew it up into a 3-film hollywood epic with battle graphics that looked like a WOW game and added a bunch of weird story lines including a guy covered with birdshit and a nearly un-killable master-orc who wouldnt go away no matter what and made the laketown hero, the stoic leader, Bard into a sad sack dad who just wanted to gain the respect of his kids and other stuff too.

¿Por qué pensáis que las películas de El Hobbit no llegaron a tener la misma calidad que las de El Señor de los Anillos?

@babel_meister @archaicf0ssil

@archaicf0ssil Low quality? I think your looking at it through the modern lense. At the time it's quality was pretty high.

I don't know how to explain it but the low quality of DS9 adds a comforting nostalgic vibe to the show

Ridiculous to a lot of us? Yeah. A snow-job? Absolutely. However if his pitch keeps the ball rolling and SB remains profitable and growing, which they are... he is more earning his 30million annual compensation. Crazy, right? "Recent Q2 FY2026 results were strong: +6.2% global comparable store sales, revenue up 9%, and raised full-year guidance."

Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9 He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you’re paying for the “experience” of getting a Starbucks coffee “In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile.” He says Starbucks customers “want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging — well, this is a really affordable premium experience” How out of touch could a person possibly be…

@ToIkienverse All due respect... your handle suggests that you would feel that way and I largely agree, except in the case of the Dune saga. And we will simply need to agree to disagree, my friend. I am not about to enter that debate. We will never get anywhere.

Acaba de salir un articulo de la CBR diciendo que existen cuatro libros que son mejores que El Señor de los Anillos. Y han puesto en la lista como mejores los siguientes: — Canción de Hielo y Fuego. — Harry Potter. — La Rueda del Tiempo. — Dune. Ninguno de estos libros es objetivamente mejor que El Señor de los Anillos. Es más, ni siquiera se le acercan en lo que a grandeza se refiere ni han tenido la misma importancia en el mundo literario. Siento ser yo quien diga esto pero nadie le llega a las suelas de los zapatos a Tolkien. CBR, respétate.

@pirooooon3 I have a very expensive Miele dishwasher. Still, I usually wash all my dishes by hand. Its faster and just as good if not better. . I prefer it. I only use the dishwasher if I am in a hurry to do something else or I am overwhelmed with other things and I don't have time.

アメリカ人は食器洗浄機を使う 日本人は食器洗浄機を持っていない人が多い 日本人が使わない理由は、 洗い残しがありそうだから、 スポンジで綺麗に洗いたい 食器洗浄機は綺麗に洗えると思う？ ①洗える ②汚れが残りそう ③その他

@Bubblebathgirl When is Minnesota going to change their flag back?

Gov. Tim Walz wore a pin that resembles the Somali flag as he recited his state of the state speech of lies on Tuesday. He said Minnesota faced hardship because of ICE. He failed to mention the illegals he harbored or the fraud they committed, of course.

Do you believe the narrative that investment would flee an Independent Alberta?

@BuzzPatterson bag of hammers

I didn’t get a chance to vote. You’ve got to be shitting me. Webb Hubble’s and Hillary’s girl? 🤣🤣🤣

@fandompulse Yeah... Good luck with that. Enjoy your money pit.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, hired to direct the next Star Wars theatrical film starring Daisy Ridley, on her filmmaking philosophy: "I like to make men uncomfortable. I enjoy making men uncomfortable. Recognize that I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable." Is this the right philosophy for the director of the next Star Wars film?

@brivael Who is John Galt?

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.