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The Importance of Targeted Predator Control 10 years after predator control ended on a study site in the Uplands, this is what happened to wildlife populations: 📈 Fox: 78% increase 📈 Carrion Crow: 127% increase 📉 Black Grouse: local extinction 📉 Grey Partridge: local extinction 📉 Red Grouse: 71% decline 📉 Golden Plover: 81% decline 📉 Snipe: 76% decline 📉 Curlew: 24% decline 📉 Lapwing: 58% decline

@lexfridman Hope you weren't too sweaty for that hug. ;-) Stay true to yourself. The world is full of egocentric people, and haters. Hope you manage to ignore the noise.

This life is fucking amazing. I'm so grateful to be alive, with all of you on this miracle of a planet. Oh and I'm sorry if I fuck things up sometimes. I'm a flawed human. But I promise to do whatever I can to try to add some more understanding and love to this world. After the world leader convos I get attacked intensely by all sides, and many disparate online communities. It has led to some really low points for me mentally. But I don't matter. I'm listening. I'll do better. And I'll try to find the strength to do more of them, always with rigor and backbone, seeking to truly understand. And despite accusations, I do extremely high amounts of research, sometimes 100+ hours for a conversation. Ask many of my previous guests. But when I come to the table, I put all that aside, and make it all about the other person. I don't ever try to sound smart. I know the vastness of my ignorance. But I'm trying. Sometimes I do fuck up and sound like a douche, or do something incredibly cringe. And I hate myself right after. But I'd rather fail and embarrass myself a million times, than not do what my heart says is right. And besides world leaders, historians, CEOs, engineers, etc, this year I want to travel the world and talk to a lot more everyday people on and off the mic. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. Anyway this is written while on I'm on a 10 mile run, probably procrastinating, since to type I have to walk and not run 🤣 But I did just get stopped by a super smart and kind girl who works at a humanoid robotics company here. And she asked if she can give me a hug to thank me for being me. Sometimes the universe sends you a message that even a dumb dude like me can almost hear. I really needed that today. Thank you for the hug and the kindness 🙏 I'm just hoping she was real and I didn't just imagine that 🤣 Then again if I went full crazy might as well enjoy it! Back to the run. I love you all! ❤️

@IterIntellectus @nayibbukele @nayibbukele Presidente Bukele, we should be learning more about touristic places in your country.

starting to suspect this is staged, because if it’s real i have to accept i’ve been living in a horror movie this whole time are you telling me the world could be this beautiful? what the fuck you can just press the button and get a developed country

@ChristinaKretc1 @Kiefer_Wool I swear we have the exact same model at home in Germany.

@Kiefer_Wool In the antiques trade they're sometimes called Brown Ships [big, takes space]. I will never understand this. Quality is superb. Bought this genuine 1700s secretary desk from Goodwill for $60. Made almost 300 years ago, not a repro. Hand planed, dovetailed. Valued at 40K.

An example of how cheap great quality antique furniture is now. This George III mahogany secretaire bookcase originally sold in the 1980s for £29,000, this just sold on the 2nd of April for £400 at auction.

@JulianRoepcke In der Tat ist vieles schäbig. Es zeigt mMn aber auch, wie wund bei vielen die Seele ist nach all den Jahren des Runterschluckens, des Cancelns und des Affronts wider des gesunden Menschenverstandes durch Politik & Medien.

Sowas meine ich. Jedes einzelne Posting wird für persönliche Angriffe missbraucht, egal wie banal sie sind. Sein Gegenüber für dumm zu erklären, scheint Hauptzweck dieses Netzwerks geworden zu sein. Argumente sind dabei zweitrangig. Es ist einfach nur noch lächerlich …

Die Rettung eines abgeschossenen US-Piloten im Iran hat die USA etwa 300 Millionen $ an Ausrüstung gekostet. Beeindruckend und bewundernswert, was dem US-Militär das Leben seiner Soldaten wert ist.

@brokebuthedged @BillAckman @X You are a genius

Ackman’s 2000-word “asking for advice” post is a press release with a poll attached. He’s not confused. He’s: — Shaping the story before it leaks — Doxxing “Ronda” anonymously (but not really) — Signaling to plaintiff lawyers he won’t fold — Building sympathy ahead of his IPO The community advice bit is just the engagement hook.

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@cremieuxrecueil The law is worded as such that men below 45y need to submit for approval if leaving for longer than 3 months. That no punishment has been defined, of that approvals are granted (now) doesnt change the letters of the law.

This seemed so unusual, I had to look it up. Since service is voluntary, approvals to leave are presumed granted, and the punishment for violations hasn't yet been clearly defined. This might be a nothingburger.

Was, wenn alte weiße Männer gar nicht das Problem sind?

@potatoslav And the shops will remain closed on Easter Monday, in case you want to go shopping then. ;-)

living in Germany truly does feel like living in the year 1284 sometimes. its Good Friday so today all the shops are closed and dancing is illegal. tomorrow i must walk into town to purchase some milk and eggs to make my Easter bread, because the shops are once again all closed on Sunday (as they are every Sunday)

@dschmmn @runaway_vol True

@runaway_vol My EU coworkers recently had issues because they had to take sick days while already on PTO

european employees are struggling to find a good balance between vacation and sick leave

@KielerFinanzen Kenne das Gefühl. Würde es ähnlich beschreiben, als wenn man seinen Kamin mit 50 Eur Scheinen beheizen würde. Horror.

@en_cee_dee @BowesChay @Aishalifett Sorry, dont have the fuel to fly/sail there ;-) … (admitting your point is correct, btw)

@BowesChay @Aishalifett Maybe it's time Europe secured the straight of Hormuz?

European airports have urged airlines to prepare contingency plans for a potential complete lack of aviation fuel in the coming weeks. Thousands of flights have already been canceled across the continent amid the escalating crisis. Lufthansa is reportedly considering suspending operations of around 20 aircraft, partly linked to the ongoing war in Iran, which has disrupted flight routes and driven up costs. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, more than one in every twenty scheduled flights was canceled on Monday. Jet fuel prices have more than doubled in the past year. A year ago, the cost stood at $742 per tonne, it has now surged above $1,710 per tonne. Meanwhile, as Ive posted, The UK is expected to receive its final shipment of aviation fuel from the Middle East this week, with no further deliveries confirmed in the immediate pipeline. Aviation industry analyst Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) has warned that a serious jet fuel shortage could hit all major European airports within a week. He noted that airports are already informing airlines to prepare for scenarios where “no fuel is available.” London’s Heathrow Airport is expected to be among the hardest hit major hubs in Europe due to fuel supply constraints. The situation is worsened by the UK’s closure last year of an aviation fuel production plant in Scotland.

Jetzt wird es natürlich anstrengend mit dem Rechthaben wollen … Atomausstiegs Beschluss vollständig war wie geschrieben 2002, dann später Laufzeitverlängerung (=Immer noch Ausstieg, nur verzögert), dann 2011 Rücknahme der Verlängerung bzw beschleunigter Rund Down der Meiler. @grok : so korrekt? Bitte mit Details füllen.

Your tweet is accurate on the key points. Under the 2002 Atomausstiegsgesetz (Red-Green coalition), only Stade shut down in 2003 per the production quotas. Obrigheim followed in 2005 when its operator transferred the remaining quota to another plant for better economics—not a forced closure. The 2011 law (post-Fukushima, under CDU/CSU-FDP) then required the other 15 reactors to close by 2022 (last three in 2023). No new-build plans were active by 1998; opposition had halted them by the early 1990s.

Germany's largest open-pit mine sits on more than 1 billion tonnes of extractable lignite. But starting in 2030, Rhine water will flood the pit, creating a 360-metre-deep lake. It's not a coincidence that the state's environmental ministry where the mine is located (Nordrhein-Westfalen) is led by the Green party. The same political class that dynamited functioning nuclear cooling towers is now drowning a billion tonnes of domestic fuel under a recreational lake. Once the pit fills, the coal beneath becomes permanently inaccessible. No future government can reverse a 360-metre column of water. The decision to flood Hambach is the deliberate, irreversible destruction of a strategic reserve, executed by politicians who price energy security at zero.

@Bjoern_Peters @MDoennebrink Grüne waren nie gut in MINT Fächern…. Meine dazu sogar mal eine Studie gesehen zu haben. Da zählt Meinung mindestens genauso viel wie Arithmetik

@MDoennebrink Ich finde es außerordentlich witzig, wie Grüne mit Zahlen hantieren. Auf Investitionen verweisen, die ein Jahrhundert lang ein Vielfaches an Geld einspielen werden. Aber die gewaltigen EE-Subventionen ignorieren, die alle 20 Jahre fällig sind. Und Uran kommt nicht aus Russland.

„Die französischen Atomkraftwerke werden Frankreich bis 2040 etwa 450 Mrd. Euro kosten.“ (gemeint ist der französische Steuerzahler, der diese Technologie subventioniert)

@industrialpc @TheBrawlStreet @grok could you summarize the article i posted earlier and give an assessment as to when and by which coalition the rundown of nuclear energy has been initiated.

The Number of nuclear power plants shut down based on that law is ... *drumroll*: One A 2nd reactor was shut down to transfer its remaining energy production to another NPP, since the operator decided that would make more money. All other reactors where shut down based on a different law passed in 2011. All existing new construction plans had been cancelled by 1998, before the Red-Green coalition was in power. You essentially start the exist when you stop planning for replacements.

@industrialpc @TheBrawlStreet Not true. Legislation to close them down stems from the time of the turn of the century. (2022) Red- green coalition back then, check out the videos of minister Trittin. Or check out this link : bundestag.de/webarchiv/text…

Geez, don´t you like spreading missinformation. Flooding was the plan for the Hambach Pit since 1977, three years before there even was a Green Party. Which is also when it was legally required to restore closed open pit mines to a useable state. Flooding is the cheapest option to fullfil that legal mandate, hence that is what RWE chose to do. FIVE DECADES AGO.

@TobiasHocke Energie ist Leben. Fortschritt bedeutet Energiekonsum. Alles andere ist Wunschdenken und Utopie. Die Zukunft braucht mehr Energie, nicht weniger

Persönliches Gegenbeispiel: Ich habe gerade meine 60 kW Gasheizung durch zwei 20 kW Wärmepumpen ersetzt. Die liefern dieselbe Heizleistung für mein Gebäude - aber statt 60 kW Gas benötigen sie bei einem COP von 5–7 nur noch 1–2 kW Strom. Selbst im Februar kommt dieser Strom überwiegend von meiner PV-Anlage. Und genau hier liegt der Denkfehler in der Primärenergie-Argumentation: Raumwärme und Warmwasser machen rund ein Drittel des deutschen Endenergieverbrauchs aus. Das klingt nach einem riesigen Berg, der niemals durch Erneuerbare zu ersetzen wäre. Aber eine Wärmepumpe braucht dank Umweltwärme nur ein Fünftel bis ein Siebtel der Energie einer Gasheizung. Das heißt: Ein Großteil der „Primärenergie", die Herr Wetzel und Sie so bedrohlich ins Schaufenster stellen, sind schlicht Verbrennungsverluste, die bei Elektrifizierung ersatzlos wegfallen. Wer den EE-Anteil an der Primärenergie als Maßstab nimmt, vergleicht Äpfel mit Birnen. Primärenergie misst, wie viel Kohle, Gas und Öl wir verbrennen, inklusive der 60 % Abwärme, die beim Verbrennen ungenutzt in die Luft gehen. Je mehr wir elektrifizieren, desto kleiner wird der Primärenergiebedarf selbst - das UBA weist genau darauf hin. Die 3,4 % Solar und 4,6 % Wind am „Gesamtenergiebedarf" sind also keine Bankrotterklärung der Energiewende, sondern ein Artefakt einer Statistik, die für eine fossile Welt gemacht wurde. Die eigentliche Frage ist nicht „Wie ersetzen wir 2.900 TWh Primärenergie 1:1 durch EE?" – sondern: „Wie viel Endenergie brauchen wir noch, wenn Wärmepumpen, E-Autos und effiziente Prozesse die Umwandlungsverluste eliminieren?" Antwort: erheblich weniger. Und diesen schrumpfenden Bedarf können Erneuerbare sehr wohl decken.

@Okoliemeka_ Rob Stark is dead 😱

In one sentence prove that you've watched Game of Thrones:

@Bunny_ngl 24

Can someone please recommend a tv series that's actually addictive, the kind that makes people stay up all night and finish season one in a sitting???????

@Kilu71 @LudgerWess Der Wolf war MITTEN in HH. Was heisst hier ‚den Menschen aus dem Weg gehen‘??

@LudgerWess Das ein Wolf einem Menschen ins Gesicht springt ist schon recht aussergewöhnlich. Normalerweise gehen Wölfe Menschen aus dem Weg. Man müsste mal erfahren was die Frau gemacht hat das sowas passiert ist.

In Deutschland ist es üblich geworden, Fakten nicht nur zu ignorieren, sondern sie abzustreiten, sobald sie nicht ins Weltbild passen. Dann wird alles so lange zurechtgebogen, bis das Weltbild wieder stimmt. Neuestes Beispiel: