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@TheBritishIntel Grok says it’s not true

English families wanting to fly the St George’s flag on St George’s Day are now facing fines of up to £2,500. Councils are warning homeowners they must follow strict local planning rules before displaying their own national flag. You can fly pretty much any other flag you like - but show England’s flag on England’s day and they’ll hit you with a massive penalty. This country has gone completely mad.

@TallbarFIN And who are they? Since I live there and I don’t know of any

Why are so many southeastern European countries, which have won their freedom from Soviet oppression, so eager to return to being russian vassals? Is their memory so short? Can't they see what russia is? As a Finn, I simply can't understand.

@UNGeneva @antonioguterres Islam is not a race!

"The ancient poison of racism is alive and kicking in every region of the world. It lives on in the legacies of colonialism, enslavement & oppression, which drive so many of the problems we face today. The antidote is unity and action." - @antonioguterres #FightRacism

@elonmusk @BrianRoemmele Except, China will do it first. They have robots in mass production that you can actually buy, unlike America.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@realMaalouf It’s been done before. The Ottoman (Muslim) Empire occupied Christian Bulgaria fo 500 years. They eventually got pushed back. After 500 years we have absorbed none of the muslim religion, culture, language or customs There is only one mosque in every major city

Historian Bill Federer: "By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they’ll just flat out vote in Sharia law. People forget Egypt was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It's not anymore. Constantinople was the largest Christian city in the world, and the largest Christian church in the world for hundreds of years was the Hagia Sophia. And it was turned into a mosque. They want to do the same thing with the Vatican." Pay attention to what he’s saying!

@EbertusN @realMaalouf Scared. No. Dislike - yes.

Why are you so scared? Not needed. Muslims are only one of the many different groups of believers. And they won’t get such a majority that they take over a country. Like the USA was scared for the Italian Catholics in the 1930’s but USA is still not Catholic yet… it takes a few generations (seven) to assimilate in a country.

@GamewithDave Tomb rider

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@ReyFernando30 @JayinKyiv May have. Yes

@kkirchev @JayinKyiv She is in Monaco, but her relatives in Russia may have received threats.

After weeks of criticizing the Russian government for allowing the country to spiral into collapse, it seems Russia's most popular blogger (13 million followers, living in Monaco) got a visit from the FSB. Now saying everything's great because Peskov heard her and Putin will fix everything.

@LibertyCappy Barbarian You missed barbarians.

Which one are you?

@UAPWixy Until it lands, it’s just a soap bubble

🚨A translucent Sphere is filmed just hovering over Tokyo, Japan🇯🇵. Worldwide!!

@TimurNegru I don’t believe you. Where is the listing?

I thought that nothing could surprise me when it comes to Italian properties but I gotta say this one did. A manor house built in 1700, 14 bedrooms across 4 floors, 1,100m² (11,840 sq ft) of living space. The main hall has vaulted ceilings that you mostly see in churches, a grand staircase, fireplaces, original tiles and parquet, and an attic floor. Also included: a park and two additional outbuildings on the same 1-hectare (2.47 acres) grounds. It needs renovation and the asking price is €500k ($589k). Interesting location too: Alseno (Emilia-Romagna), ~40 minutes from Parma and ~1.5 hrs from Milan on the A1. For those who don't know, Parma is where prosciutto and parmigiano reggiano come from (not a bad neighbour to have). What would you do with three buildings and a park in the Italian countryside?

@KonstantinKisin Exactly! In Bulgaria here - the economy is growing twice as fast despite that we have negative migration numbers.

The Great British Delusion As regular readers will know, for several years now, I have been trying to persuade anyone who will listen that if you want to address the widely-shared concern about the pace and scale of mass immigration - Britain’s most salient political issue - it might be helpful to understand what’s causing the problem in the first place. The conventional explanation of mass immigration among critical commentators is that “woke ideologues” in the civil service and the political halls of power believe that bringing more people into Britain is an unquestionable moral good. On the fringes of the Right, some even murmur of various theories of the “Great Replacement” which range in emphasis from elites bringing in compliant and desperate foreign workers to avoid providing good working conditions and fair wages to native workers, all the way through to Jews conspiring to replace white people with third-world immigration. Whatever the exact flavour this perspective comes in, the idea is that mass immigration is happening for primarily ideological reasons. Likewise, advocates of mass immigration believe that anti-immigration sentiment is also motivated by ideology (hating immigrants/being racist etc) rather than reality. What has been clear to me for some time, however, is that both of these claims are only partially true. Yes, some, as New Labour advisor Andrew Neather explained, wanted to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity”. Yes, many in Britain as a whole and in Westminster in particular think that immigration is an axiomatic moral good. The problem is, however, that this does not explain why a series of Conservative governments, elected on increasingly vociferous promises to bring immigration down to the “tens of thousands”, continued to ramp it up. Facing the threat of Farage, who tore chunks out of the Tory vote year after year, they instead proceeded to set new immigration records, culminating in 2023 when net annual immigration exceeded 900,000. It’s also true that some people don’t like immigrants. But the idea that this motivates a significant portion of the opposition to mass immigration in a country like Britain is absurd. According to that infamous far-right, anti-immigrant rag The Guardian, British people are statistically some of the most welcoming towards immigrants in the world. Put simply, both sides are misunderstanding what’s happening, often on purpose. My view is that much of the concern about immigration comes from two practical realities. First, mass immigration on this scale is necessarily displacing. I’ve only lived in Britain for 30 years, and no one can tell me that the country and especially its major cities have not been completely transformed in that time. Many of the people who live in London today are either unconcerned by or actively in favour of these changes. But that’s partly because most of the people who were concerned have left. Now multiply across every city in the country and many of their suburbs. You don’t have to dislike people to not want the area where generations of your family were born, lived and died to become alien to you within the space of two decades. In that same timespan, the British people have been getting poorer. As I keep saying over and over, Britain’s GDP per capita is lower today than it was in 2007, before the Great Financial Crisis. Ironically, this is also why parties of every stripe have brought in millions of people into the country: we don’t evaluate economic performance on GDP per capita. Instead, we measure GDP itself and itself alone. That is the equivalent of measuring how prosperous your household is without accounting for the number of people living in it. A household income of £100,000 per year is high (by British standards, at least - more on this later) but what matters a lot more than that is how many people are in your household. A single person living on £100,000 is in a very different position to a family of 5 who are effectively getting £20,000 a year each. The explanation for why Labour and the Tories let immigration run rampant was best summed up by legendary investor Charlie Munger when he said “show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome”. If all you care about is the headline figure, why not hand a bedroom to your in-laws to top up your “prosperity” with their pension? When described like this, it sounds, frankly, insane, yet that is precisely what our politicians are incentivised to do. They are judged on the country’s total GDP. The easiest way to increase it when you’re busy strangling your economy with Net Zero, high taxes and endless regulations? Bring in more bodies. This really isn’t complicated to understand so why do so many people in Britain, who clearly feel the economic pain, nonetheless refuse to see it? To see that mass immigration is an attempt by badly incentivised politicians to deceive them about what’s actually happening? Instead, they cling to their support for mass immigration and the seductive (but false) idea that they are struggling because “the rich aren’t paying their fair share”. A report this week, however, has opened my eyes to another reason - one I had never considered...

@jawwwn_ Yeah. America, yeah. Like China don’t have AI, because they live in caves still, right Yeeehaw!

Peter Thiel: The US has a lot of problems but we're not declining as fast as the rest of the world. "Demographically people in the US are not having enough children—but we are beating China. China will disappear before the US disappears." "We have too much debt. We have not enough growth in the US economy—but the technological future is being built in the US with computers, internet, and AI." "Maybe it's not enough. Maybe these things are dangerous. But the US is beating not just Russia and Iran—but countries like France. France is not even on AI." "It seems that the US is winning against the whole world." Via @gekkan_bunshun

@elonmusk So how come Europe and Japan have 10x less crime then. Especially - homicides, and mass murders

Interesting

The big picture

@angloid0 @bitcloud 1% every year

London has gone from 98% White British to 36% White British in a 60 year time period. This is the biggest demographic shift Britain if not the world has ever seen.

@RealTrentEdison @The_Banned_Vids Also about 45%(?) of Americans and Australians are ethnically English who speak perfect English. Let that sink in.

@The_Banned_Vids About 45% of Ukrainian population are ethnic Russians who speak perfect Russian (not Ukrainian) like this dude.. Let that sink in.

Ukrainian soldier talks about the irony of life during war

@crispus_attucs @The_Banned_Vids Americans speak perfect English too.

@The_Banned_Vids funny how he speaks perfect russian

@SamaHoole Do you own a dairy farm?

Between 1850 and 1980, the Dutch, the Danes, the Swedes, the Norwegians, and the Finns all grew taller by approximately 15 centimetres on average. Six inches. In five generations. This is an enormous amount. It is one of the fastest biological transformations ever recorded in a human population. It happened without genetic change. It happened because the food changed. What changed was dairy. In 1850, Nordic peasants ate what Nordic peasants had eaten for centuries. Rye bread. Porridge. Salt fish. Small amounts of meat. Butter when they could afford it. The diet was adequate for survival and inadequate for growth. The average Danish man in 1850 was 5 foot 5. Then the dairy revolution happened. The Danish cooperative dairy movement, starting in the 1880s, transformed dairy from a luxury into a commodity available to every household. The Swedish and Norwegian equivalents followed within a decade. The Finnish slightly later. Butter, cheese, full-fat milk, and cream became the daily baseline rather than the feast-day treat. The children ate the dairy. The children grew. By 1960 the average Danish man was 5 foot 11. By 1980 he was 6 foot. The transformation had happened in five generations, on the same land, with the same genetics, and the only variable was the milk. Now look at what has been happening in the last fifteen years. Danish height has peaked. Swedish height has peaked. The growth has stopped. In some demographics within these populations, height is beginning to decline. The children are drinking less milk. The children, measured at 18, are shorter than their fathers by a small but measurable margin. The bones are honest. The bones track the food. If Danish children keep drinking oat milk instead of whole dairy for another twenty years, the average Danish height in 2045 will be measurably lower than it was in 2000. This will not be in the campaign literature. It will be in the military conscription records. As it always has been.