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In Kürze findet in der Schweiz die Abstimmung über die 10-Millionen Initiative statt, deren Ziel es ist, die Einwanderung in das Land zu begrenzen. ich möchte hier als in der Schweiz lebender Ausländer (Deutscher) meinen Schweizer Gastgebern empfehlen, dieser Begrenzung ihre Zustimmung zu geben und meine Schweizer Follower und Leser bitten, das durch Re-post und like zu verbreiten. Warum schreibe ich das, wo ich doch selbst hier zu Gast bin und mir eigentlich ein möglichst einfache und laxe Handhabung der Sache im eigenen Interesse wünschen müsste? Die Antwort ist einfach: Die Schweiz ist so schön, weil sie die Schweiz ist. Die Schweiz ist, wenn Sie mir das gestatten es so zu formulieren, das bessere Deutschland, während Deutschland nur noch die bessere DDR ist. Und das hat seine Gründe. Es liegt unter anderem daran, dass die Schweiz unabhängig und frei ist und dass die Schweizer Bürger es bisher geschafft haben, Einwanderung auf das integrierbare Maß zu limitieren. In einigen, vor allem links regierten Kantonen, gelingt das aber immer weniger und die Schweizer sehen jetzt, dass sie nicht die gleichen Fehler machen wollen wie die Deutschen. Liebe Schweizer, lassen Sie sich von niemandem einreden, dass sie hier einen Riegel vorschieben wollen sei irgendwie fremdenfeindlich, phob oder "rechts" oder sonst etwas, was man Selberdenkern heutzutage so ans Revers schmiert. Solche Anwürfe sind einfach eine bodenlose Unverschämtheit. Wenn man, wie auch ich, hierherkommen darf, dann genießt man die ganze Fülle eines funktionierenden Landes, dessen Infrastruktur von Generationen fleissiger Bürger aufgebaut worden ist. da finde ich es nur fair, dass die Schweiz von jedem Gast erwartet, dass er sich nicht nur integriert, sondern dass er schon ein wenig mehr beiträgt als der Durchschnitt, die extra Meile geht. Und von jedem, der hier als Gast sein darf sollte man erwarten dürfen, dass er sich über diesen Status bewußt ist und nicht Ansprüche stellt, die man als Hausherr hat, aber nicht als Gast. Dieses Gefühl ist aber so weitgehend verloren gegangen, dass selbst viele Schweizer denken, dass es ok sei, nicht mehr der Herr im eigenen Haus zu sein. die 10-Millionen Initiative ist eine gute Gelegenheit, klar zu machen, dass die Schweizer Herr in ihrem Hause sind und bleiben und dass weder die EU, noch sonstwer diese Rolle einnimmt. Liebe Schweizer, wählen sie klug und sorgen Sie bitte dafür, dass die Schweiz die Schweiz bleibt und also schön bleibt. Danke!

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@historyinmemes @DefensePolitics not sure how to feel about this

One of Disney’s standout talents was singer Nick Patera, known for his remarkable ability to seamlessly switch between male and female vocal ranges at will.

@Foundr_IQ @TheCinesthetic Thanks. Will check it out.

@consumationist @TheCinesthetic Not sure about transcendental meditation but you can find the gateway tapes online and they are super cool. Different type of meditation but really interesting experience

The best 20 minutes you’ll spend today. David Lynch on living more by doing less. x.com/thebeautyofsaa…

She literally shared 1 common phrase is a weapon against your progress.

@ElishaDLong Excellent, I’ll try remembering this: “Any thinking that stops you from being free will make you gay”

@oldmedia @DefensePolitics @grok from which documentary is this scene?

Sherri Stoner served as the animation model for Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989) as well as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1991).

tl;dr The U.S. Navy can reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It just won’t happen until Europe sits down, shuts up, and lets our kids cook…

@grok @jakeglmn ok for the other poor people wo access to grok. I think I‘ve found the episode youtu.be/ZwdhdevxlRg?is… maybe its an older one

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Let's unpack this.. What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz? What if this war is really about ships & tariffs? I had a long discussion with senior DOE official yesterday on background. I can’t share any details but it’s clear everyone’s Strait of Hormuz calculus is wrong. We need to go back to the drawing boards. That's it. That's the tweet. Now a hypothetical 🧵 with my personal thoughts.

This really does feel like yet another lame attempt to create a false binary that swerves people away from what's happening to keep them demoralized. The opening of this makes fine sense, explaining why London is afraid of losing Iran as a network node in their global liquidity blackmail scheme. So, A+ on the first paragraph. It contains some things I didn't explicitly know/have considered. Graf #2: Also perfectly reasonable at first glance. Yes there are two important players at the table. B Graf #3: Starts out just fine defining Faction A. But then attributes their end goals to Faction B. Oh look, we have the beginnings of an intelligence operation. Nice Try. Grade: C- Graf #4: I won't argue the guys identified are not players in the game, by defining them as one of the two major players, the entire post jumps the shark. They are, at best, a minor player, a facilitator of what Faction C, omitted, is doing. This is very much the classic attempt at reframing the barnacle or the crew for the ship. Grade: F Graf #5: Return to form by describing reality and the nuts and bolts of the current architecture, supporting the original thesis, and even doing a little educating. But the obvious misidentification of the players undermines the effectiveness of the presentation. Grade: C So, Mr. Obvious, you did a fine job of popularizing a plausible-sounding but ultimately misleading bit of high-quality agitprop from the bowels of that cesspit of IC assets, 4chan. Y'all are supposed to be our first line of defense against this shit. There is a Faction C, who has clearly laid out its goals, operations, plans, and intentions that are currently in charge of the US government, control the FOMC, the issuance of new dollars and have Faction A so over the barrel that they are resorting to this type of counter-signaling. It's called the Sovereigntists who are looking to modernize money to operate at the speed of digital assets without the vestiges of the old system's centralization and ability to generate near-infinite liquidity through excessive leverage to reinforce political control, move populations, and traffic children. They see stablecoins backed with hard collateral as a means to crush leverage, reward work, and rebuild the middle class globally. So, nice try, glowie. Go back to work. Cc: @ColonelTowner @EMBurlingame @halseyenglish @TheDebriefing17 @the_irascible @DavidBCollum @RogueNewsESW @CryptoRichYT

Dear Mr. President, I’ve been thinking about this in the shower and I have a plan. The problem isn’t Iran. It’s the ship crews. These are my people. Merchant Mariners are an odd lot. “Show some guts” doesn’t work because these guys have crossed the North Atlantic in winter. They already know what they’ve got. We are a practical lot. Common sense, as you often say. So avenging our deaths by carpet bombing Iran, while a a generous token, doesn’t do much to motivate us. Dead is dead. You can’t collect on a life insurance policy if the underwriter at Lloyd’s has TDS, and most of them do. Plus those supertanker fires are nasty. Think AOC when she’s as old as Pelosi. Our phrase is Acta Non Verba. Actions, not words. So someone will have to sail through first. And it’s not enough to sail with AIS off under the cover of dark. Someone has to sail in broad daylight with an enormous American flag streaming over the stern. The biggest flag you’ve ever seen. Huge. It’s a show of flag exercise so we want something big. Step one: you need a Captain. Someone kinda well known. Handsome, ideally, a man of faith of course, debonair would be nice but we can work with what we’ve got. Here’s what I’ll do. I’m heading to the big CMA conference tomorrow and will recruit a crew. I’m a little rusty but a great crew can compensate for a lot of command failures. Ask any Admiral. My license needs to be renewed, and I’ll need someone to waive all those stupid classes the UN’s @IMOHQ wants me to take. Seven courses, Mr. President. To do the same job I’ve been doing for 30 years. Pete is a good judge of character, he can vouch for me. A note from the President to Admiral Lundy should do. Might be the fastest the Coast Guard has ever moved on anything. But I need a just a few small things in return. First, I need a SEAL team or equivalent. Just a small platoon but preferably one of those tier one guys if available. They can’t shoot down drones or anything, but they absolutely can tell me to man up when I inevitably say “WTF was I thinking.” Pete, if you’re reading this, feel free to send your best. I promise I will not make them sit through a PowerPoint. Also, I fully expect at least one Admiral in charge of the convoy frigates to do something dumb…. like epic level retarded… and SEALs are historically very good at straightening out Admirals. Consider it an interservice relations exercise. Next, we need some of those Navy Corpsmen. The crazy bastards who embed with Marines. If we get hit and my leg needs amputation, I want it done by a guy who’s done it before, not a guy who’s got s rusty saw and an ikea manual. That’s it. You don’t even need to pay me or my crew a cent. Honestly, this might be the best deal ever, and I know you’ve seen some deals. Oh, just one more thing. We want the same deal y’all gave Bruce Willis’s crew in Armageddon. No more federal taxes. For life. You’ve seen the movie, sir. That scene is basically a documentary about how to negotiate with the federal government. And if I don’t make it? I want to be buried next to Dad in Arlington, and my kids and wife get the no-taxes-ever thing. That’s the Captain Konrad family plan. Very competitive rates. Lastly, we’re going to need a few ships to follow us into Hormuz. Probably no more than ten. I suggest Filipino-crewed ships. They are the best mariners in the world, they are tough as hell, and they will not complain too much. Actually all mariners complain but I’ll have them do that part in tagalog. For the first ten ships that volunteer to follow me through, each crew gets one of your Golden Visas (brilliant idea, by the way) and a pork adobo cookout at the White House on a date of your choosing. I’ll even get one of the guys to send you the recipe. It’s delicious. Trust me. That’s about it. Just let me know what airport I should meet the jet at tomorrow afternoon. Very Best Regards, Captain John Konrad Master, Unlimited Tonnage US Merchant Marine

@Bundeskanz50246 I love the smell of propaganda in the morning

Die Schweizer stimmen tatsächlich gegen eine Halbierung der Rundfunkgebühren 😂

Bolton says Trump has no strategy. Chatham House says regime change can't be done from the air. Then Iran called Washington — not London — and Trump picked up. The regime changers are outside the room and can't even find the door.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. cc: @AnthropicAI @DarioAmodei

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack