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Grace. Genade. Gnade. Grâce. милость

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan. In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have. So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently. An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident. The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010. The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

Wat is dat toch met de mannen? Hoogste aantal verkeersdoden in bijna 20 jaar, toename zit alleen bij mannen - nos.nl/l/2609683

@Vincentt1987 Heb je daar een volle minuut voor nodig?

En Japón, la pregunta de 100 puntos que un maestro de primaria le hizo a sus estudiantes diciendo "solo tienen 1 minuto"; "Encuentren el error lógico en la imagen."

@mkeulemans @voedingscentrum Typisch gevalletje voortschrijdend inzicht. Niet iets om je druk over te maken

Ooit was Schijf van Vijf aanbeveling om te zorgen dat je voldoende en gezond eet. 👍 Nu heeft @voedingscentrum het verpolitiekt tot moralistische oproep tot matiging: denk aan het klimaat, eet minder vlees! ☝️ trouw.nl/ts-bb24e1e8/

Bezinnend artikel n.a.v. een verklaring waarmee op Aswoensdag de net afgelopen Vastentijd begon delichtbron.nl/nieuws/spreken…

500.000 onterechte boetes, o.a. van mensen met een gehandicaptenkaart. Lang leve de zegeningen van AI Inzet scanauto bij foutparkeren leidt tot 500.000 onterechte boetes per jaar - nos.nl/l/2609680

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight." I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history. Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy. Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums. This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." That is Chapter 1. I wrote that about condominiums. Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have. He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy. I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion. I was describing how he inflated square footage. Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded. I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage. Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation. He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday. I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call. At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating." Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building. A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes. Three words: "Not worried about it." A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization. I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read. Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good." There is no chapter on theology either. Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience. He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone. In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular." Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped. I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book. He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed. "A whole civilization will die tonight." Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday. I called it truthful hyperbole. He is calling it foreign policy. I built the mythology. He added a military.

Sta je dan, als flat-earther. 🥳

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

@EricLDaugh Evil and disgusting? Could be the only way to stop the madman in the White House

🚨 BREAKING: Iran is now forming HUMAN CHAINS in front of a power plant in Kazerun in a bid to dissuade President Trump’s strikes come 8PM They even invited children to attend. This is evil and disgusting. Iran views their people as meat shields!

Een goede werkweek toegewenst! - of hoe het ook maar voor u heet. Foto: Bloesempark Amsterdamse Bos, tweede Paasdag

@hendrinadegraaf Volgende keer een knipoog er bij zetten voorkomt een boel boze reacties

Beste volgers In het kader van 'less is more' ben ik voorlopig even alleen op de Blauwe Lucht actief Het ga u goed, keep cool en tot later

@JeremyTate41 Interesting. Some of these books are banned in other places. So does this apply to the whole of the State of Texas? That kids this age really are reading Dante does not seem very likely to me

These are some of the books on the new Texas state reading list (grades 9–12) Yes, students will have to read these in their ENTIRETY.

@ballendraaister Sinds wanneer worden politici afgerekend op hun uiterlijk??

Waarom zijn al die D66 mannetjes zo mager en vooral zo onaantrekkelijk? Waar is de tijd van Hans van Mierlo gebleven? Knappe en verstandige Mannen ipv melkmuilen met kapsones. nos.nl/artikel/260312…

@AiG Why on earth would you do that? That's not what Scripture is about. It has a total different message.

When we start with the Bible, we can calculate that the world is about 6,000 years old.

@ThomasStockma20 Misschien in de war met de Communistische partij van de USSR?

@dsvHalsema Kan je ook allemaal van linkse partijen zeggen..

De veertien kenmerken van fascisme volgens Umberto Eco. Maar al te herkenbaar op dit moment

@VictorVlam Ik zag het. De publieke omroep betaalt dus stelselmatig te veel voor uitzendrechten van sportevenementen. Sport naar de commerciëlen en dan kan @NPO alle cultuur etc behouden

Het gebeurt niet vaak maar 1000% eens met #lubach. Sport weghalen bij de NPO is een hele logische bezuinigingen. Laat het maar aan commerciële zenders over.

@WhiteHouse Ze hebben niets beters te doen dan dit??

"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)..." - President Donald J. Trump