@Jose3981493211 @sentdefender Iran should not be the enemy of USA but neither should it be an enemy of Israel.
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@sentdefender Why is Iran considered an enemy of the USA? What have they done? Or are they an enemy of Israel?
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced via a post on TruthSocial that, “All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘Shootin' Starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.”
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@RichardHanania Yes in the short term. Big question long term given huge gap on culture issues and even economic issues between Hispanics and activist Democrats (not all - there are some like Cuellar in Texas that map well).
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Stephen Miller said immigrants will lead to permanent Democratic majorities.
It’ll be Stephen Miller who is responsible.
VoteHub@VoteHub
Heavily Hispanic areas on Milwaukee's south side are shifting sharply toward Democrats, with a 56-point swing in one Lincoln Village precinct. Taylor is getting 91% compared to Harris's 64%. Milwaukee County overall is running 11 points more Democratic vs. 2024.
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@elibrooks0 Probably unconstitutional- constitution does not state that only citizens are counted and it was very much intentional - New York had a ton of fresh off the boat immigrants and South the slaves (famous 3/5th) - both non-citizens.
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🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller, a senior Trump Advisor, is trying to exclude illegal aliens from the U.S. census, which removes House seats from Blue states like California, New York etc.
Do you support excluding illegals from the U.S. census?
1. Hell Yes
2. No
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@MichaelAArouet Relatively low corruption- clearing the low bar set in the region just ask any Pole what they think of the political class (at the same time no one got Oligarch-level rich off corruption like they did in other countries).
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Eye-opening chart. While Poland has enjoyed an economic boom, Ukraine is poorer today than it was in 1990.
Free markets, entrepreneurialism, EU and NATO membership, and low corruption fueled Poland’s economic miracle. Let’s hope Ukraine follows a similar path after the war.
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@HarryStebbings Three issues to be solved (1) Risk capital that doesn’t like risk or has unrealistic risk/reward expectations, (2) shallow public markets that fail to value growth over near term cash flows undermining IPO potential, (3) population that dislikes individual founders making €€.
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DeepMind stayed in London because it is better for talent than Silicon Valley.
"I saw London and the UK as having incredible talent from top universities like Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and UCL.
There is a deep heritage of scientific breakthroughs and world-class thinkers.
There was less competition for that talent, which made it a huge structural advantage for building DeepMind." @demishassabis
What is the single biggest advantage of building in Europe for you @torsten @antonosika @MaxJunestrand @matiii @ChrisParsonson @cjpedregal @matthewclifford @torstenreil @alanchanguk
Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings
This sounds harsh but it is true, very few of the guests we have on 20VC will be remembered in history for truly progressing humanity. Our guest today will be thought of alongside Turing, Newton, Einstein and I feel immensely privileged and fortunate to have had the chance to sit down with @demishassabis. For anyone who feels their dream is out of reach, just keep going. The 18 year old kid starting 20VC from a bedroom with no money, 11 years ago, would not believe that I get to press publish on this. Chase your dreams. You never know what room you will end up in! (Links below)
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@WalshFreedom That might be true at national level but Congress is elected locally and most democrats are not NY/CA style (think Cooper in NC) and most GOP reps are not Ted Cruz (and even he mellowed out these days). Problem is that in both parties fringes set the tone and middle stays quiet.
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My new political party just doesn’t understand that from the perspective of most regular, everyday Americans, their choice every 2yrs is between a party of liars/assholes/authoritarians and a party of intolerant leftists/weaklings/elite snobs. And faced with this choice, more often than not, these regular folk choose the assholes over the snobs. Dems don’t want to hear this, but it’s the truth. And the only way to break this pattern & actually win, is for Dems to change. Bcuz the GOP won’t.
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@Cavemanomics @PatGarofalo @MNUpNorthLakeG1 More dependency does not mean more Democrat voters as Trump proved over and over. Same with immigrants who ironically tend to be more conservative on social issues that general populace. If that’s the strategy it won’t last.
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@PatGarofalo @MNUpNorthLakeG1 It’s not. They know it. They need more people pushed into poverty from increasing taxes so they can create more programs to “help” them. More government dependency means more Democrat voters.
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Sincere request from those on the left side of the political spectrum in Minnesota:
Please explain how this is sustainable.
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@Dovydas44444 All of that should be recalibrated on a % of GDP or per capita basis. Hard to compare say Luxembourg (300k pop) and Germany (82m pop). I think per person for example country like NL contributes much more than DE.
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🇪🇺 What are the biggest inconsistencies that defy logic in the EU budget distribution:
A) 🇩🇪Germany paying almost a half among all the net contributors;
B) 🇪🇸Spain: net beneficiary, while 🇮🇹Italy - contributor;
C) 🇧🇪Belgium: net beneficiary, while 🇫🇷France - contributor;
D) 🇵🇱Poland being by far the biggest net beneficiary;
E) 🇱🇺Luxembourg being a net beneficiary;
F) Other?
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@WallStreetApes I wished they learned from highway contracting in PL. All contracts are fixed price, if contractor asks for more money the contract is retendered and failed contractor is excluded even if eventual cost is higher. So contractors have to be disciplined - no upside in lowballing
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While everyone is talking about Gavin Newsom’s ‘California high-speed rail project’ thanks to 60 Minutes reporting, remember
Over $800 million American taxpayer dollars were spent to NOT WORK on the California High Speed Rail
“There's a clause in High Speed Rail called non-execution of contract where contractors are owed $170,000 a day if there are any delays whatsoever. We've been able to find out that over $800 million has been paid out on that clause, which means they paid $800 million for ZERO WORK to be done.”
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@lxeagle17 Should be comparing pre 2024 polls or even better pre2020 polls to today’s poll’s. Polls underestimated Trump on average (ofc some got it right). It’s conceivable that since he is more disliked they may underestimate him again as ppl don’t want to admit supporting T
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There are 3 major demographic groups that have seen the largest and most pronounced swing away from Donald Trump, when comparing 2024 margins to current approval.
I'll give you two: Hispanic voters and young voters.
What is the third?
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@KobeissiLetter A lot of federal employment is “off the books” these days with various contractors doing jobs that used to be done directly by federal workers so comparisons with 60’s or 70’s don’t work as well.
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The federal government’s workforce is shrinking at a historic pace:
The federal government shed -18,000 jobs in March, down to 2.66 million, the lowest since 1966.
This marks the 14th consecutive monthly decline.
Since the beginning of 2025, the federal government has cut -352,000 jobs, reducing its workforce by nearly -12%.
As a % of total employment, federal jobs are down to 1.67%, the lowest on record.
By comparison, in the 1960s, this percentage averaged 4.2%.
The federal workforce has never been this small.
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@MichaelAArouet Disagree - at least the areas around 1hr of major cities will likely grow. City population declined in Poland in last 20 years - it’s all due to ppl moving to exburbs that are still classified as countryside. Schools are good, shopping easy at ring roads = good for families.
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This one made me laugh. A parking space in Warsaw costs roughly the same as a house a couple of hours from Warsaw.
With its demographic crisis, Poland will follow Italy and Spain, where property outside large cities is often just a liability people try to sell for 1€.
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Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology.
Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics.
It was fun hosting @elonmusk at Intel this past weekend!
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@60Minutes @elonmusk The question for any government project is always whether it delivers net value (in excess of taxes) to taxpayers and society as a whole or just to specific groups - workers, unions, contractors. Unfortunately it is generally the latter (and not only in US - eg UK’s HS2).
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“I think that the California high-speed rail nightmare is the probably quintessential example of government waste and mismanagement,” says Rep. Vince Fong, a Republican whose district sits in California’s Central Valley, through which the project is supposed to run. cbsn.ws/41kxw9k
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@MariaDavidson @elonmusk Chunk of this is interest on all the Covid related spending.
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US population grew 6% in the last decade.
Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted.
Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Wow
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@Igor69028028 Nie jestem fanem używania PPP bo są to fikcyjne przeliczenia i każdemu wychodzi inna liczba. Widać to na tym przykładzie - Statista policzyła poziom PPP dużo wyższy niż to co Eurostat pokazuje gdzie Polska jest mniej więcej równa Portugalii ale za Włochami czy Czechami.
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To są bzdury, że Polacy są bogatsi od Włochów czy Portugalczyków, wystarczy pojechać do obu tych krajów i z powrotem wrócić do Polski. Na pewno są w PL bardzo bogaci ludzie, nie przeczę, ale to nie jest tak, że przeciętny Polak żyje jak przeciętny Włoch.
Adam Czarnecki@czardam
Pod względem siły nabywczej wyprzedziliśmy już Włochy, zaraz przegonimy Hiszpanię i zaczynamy gonić Francję! 🇵🇱📈 Indeks siły nabywczej (Purchasing Power Index) bierze pod uwagę nie tylko zarobki, ale też koszty życia. Ponieważ w Polsce jest po prostu taniej niż w Italii, przeciętny Polak jest w stanie kupić więcej dóbr i usług niż przeciętny Włoch. Jednocześnie jesteśmy liderami dawnego "bloku wschodniego" – z indeksem 94,2 wyprzedzamy m.in.: 🇨🇿 Czechy (91,4) 🇱🇹 Litwę (86,0) 🇪🇪 Estonię (81,8) Nasza siła nabywcza jest również ponad 60% większa niż w 🇷🇺 Rosji (57,7). Z tego można i trzeba być dumnym - w ciągu ostatnich dekad Polska dokonała gigantycznego skoku gospodarczego, a od 2015 roku rozwijamy się najszybciej w Europie, zostawiając takie kraje jak Rosja daleko w tyle. Jednocześnie to jest właśnie ten czas, byśmy docisnęli, wrzucili piąty bieg i dogonili najbogatsze kraje Europy. TERAZ ALBO NIGDY
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@DJSnM @_robyn_smith Maybe for the parts in San Jose/LA but not where they are actually building it - Central Valley unless they are grossly overpaying which is a choice since eminent domain gives them right to buy out at market value.
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Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: NASA announces $20 billion plan to build permanent moon base
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@CliffordAsness @carlquintanilla Actually he might have a point. US only allowed exports of oil in 2015. One could imagine that it could be reinstated or exports curbed which given supply/demand would drive down domestic oil prices (although there is a mismatch of refining capacity to type of oil is produces)
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No matter how often you explain basic economics the idiocy will always return.
Bill Mitchell@mitchellvii
Only 2% of the oil used in U.S. domestic gas supplies comes through the Strait of Hormuz. Are we being gouged at the pump?
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