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@Ulf_Poschardt Laborfleisch ist auch n Italien verboten, aber die Luce ist erlaubt …

Die Welt, der Autoliebhaber ist entsetzt. Das Geschrei ist riesengroß. Alle hassen den neuen elektrisch angetriebenen Ferrari. Ich war auch erst richtig schockiert. Dann sehr glücklich über meine alten Verbrenner. Dann aber hat mich interessiert, warum Ferrari sowas so macht.

@frank_thelen @Ferrari Crap.

@Ferrari hat mich nach Rom eingeladen: der neue Ferrari Luce wird vorgestellt. 🏎️ Ein mutiger Schritt: weg vom Verbrenner, hin zum Elektroauto. Besonderes Highlight: Das Design hat Ex-Apple-Chefdesigner Jony Ive gemacht. Das Feedback ist aktuell noch gemischt, was denkt ihr? Gefällt euch das neue Modell? Schreibt es in die Kommentare.

Höllenhitze und Dürre durch Windräder. Havard Studie belegt Erwärmung in der Nacht bis zu 0,7 Grad Celsius. Der 2. Effekt ist wie folgend und viel stärker. Dort, wo Windräder stehen regnet es stärker ab, wenn feuchte Luft ankommt (meist offshore oder Küste) und es bleibt heiße trockene Föhnluft übrig. Diese bildet gigantische, statische Hitzehochs, die mehr Sonne und kurzwellige Strahlung bringen und den zusätzlich den Boden austrocknen. Bitte teilen und kommentieren. Ich habe meine sämtlichen Threads dazu angehängt, Thread bitte öffnen, vielteilig. Danke für Ihr Interesse in der Angelegenheit! Link: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Israeli diplomat brags about turning European cities into criminal ghettos by flooding them with Black immigrants. They don’t even hide it anymore.

lol so china's basically monetizing trade imbalances through gold appreciation instead of printing into fx reserves -- creditors get paid in appreciating collateral that doesn't show up as a liability on pboc's balance sheet. cleanest deficit financing since oil-for-gold in the 70s

Welcome to the most asymmetric trade in modern financial history. The thread below lays out why. The opportunity exists because capital has chased the AI trade while ignoring the physical assets AI requires to run — assets that have quietly become the best-performing asset class of the decade. Since October 2020 when we first called for the commodity super cycle: QCI Total Return +217%, GSCI Total Return +205%, Gold +140%. NASDAQ trails at +130%. S&P 500 at +85%. The top three are all commodities. Yet oil cannot get out of its own way while copper and the broader atom complex prints fresh highs . That is the dislocation. That is the trade. Get long. Buckle in. Hang on for the ride. Forgive the longer posts in this thread — attempting to mimic my old 10-bullet commodity takes. On to it.

@s_m_marandi Don’t hesitate

If the Trump regime goes after Iran's power plants and bridges, the Islamic Republic will permanently destroy his proxies in the Persian Gulf and crush the Zionist regime's critical infrastructure immediately. A catastrophic global economic depression will be assured.

Ça fait la dixième fois que je débunke ce mythe et les gens continuent à répéter que la Chine est communiste économiquement. On va le faire proprement avec des chiffres. La Chine n'a pas une économie planifiée. La Chine a une économie de marché avec un Parti unique au-dessus. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Pas du tout. Quelques chiffres officiels, sources Banque mondiale, FMI, NBS chinois : Secteur privé en Chine aujourd'hui : - 60% du PIB - 70% de l'innovation technologique - 80% de l'emploi urbain - 90% des nouveaux emplois créés - 50% des recettes fiscales C'est la formule "60/70/80/90" enseignée à Harvard. Une économie où le privé fait 60% du PIB et 90% des nouveaux emplois n'est pas planifiée. Point. Maintenant la trajectoire historique, parce que c'est là que le mythe s'effondre vraiment. 1949-1976, période réellement communiste sous Mao. Résultat : Grand Bond en Avant qui fait 30 à 45 millions de morts par famine entre 1958 et 1962, Révolution culturelle qui détruit le tissu économique et intellectuel du pays, PIB par habitant en 1976 inférieur à celui de l'Inde. La Chine est l'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde après 27 ans de planification communiste pure. 1978, Deng Xiaoping arrive au pouvoir et fait une chose simple : il introduit le marché. Décollectivisation agricole dès 1979, autorisation des entreprises privées à partir de 1980 (première licence à Wenzhou), zones économiques spéciales, ouverture aux investissements étrangers, privatisation massive des entreprises d'État dans les années 90. En 1978, les entreprises d'État dominent l'économie. En 2013, leur part dans les exportations est tombée à 11%. Le PIB chinois est multiplié par 80 entre 1978 et 2024. C'est le plus grand miracle économique de l'histoire de l'humanité. Ce miracle n'est pas le résultat de la planification. C'est le résultat de l'abandon de la planification. C'est exactement le contraire de ce que tu prétends. Maintenant le comparatif que personne n'ose faire : France vs Chine sur la part de l'État dans le PIB. France : 57% de dépense publique sur PIB. Le record absolu de l'OCDE. Chine : 33% de dépense publique sur PIB. Relis bien. L'État français pèse PRESQUE DEUX FOIS PLUS dans son économie que l'État chinois. La France est plus interventionniste économiquement que la Chine communiste. Ce n'est pas une boutade, c'est la réalité statistique. Quand tu dis "la Chine a une économie planifiée qui fonctionne mieux que l'Occident", tu décris en réalité une économie deux fois moins planifiée que la France. Tu confonds le drapeau rouge sur le bâtiment du Parti avec la réalité économique du pays. Sur les véhicules électriques spécifiquement. BYD, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Geely, ce sont tous des entreprises privées ou à capitaux mixtes en concurrence féroce les unes contre les autres sur un marché ultra-compétitif. BYD est cotée à Hong Kong et Shenzhen, fondée par un entrepreneur privé, Wang Chuanfu. Ce n'est pas une fabrique d'État soviétique. La différence avec l'Europe n'est pas que la Chine planifie mieux. C'est qu'elle laisse la concurrence privée s'exprimer plus brutalement, avec moins de protections, moins de normes paralysantes, moins de subventions à la rente installée. Le marché chinois du VE compte plus de 100 constructeurs en concurrence darwinienne. La moitié va disparaître dans les cinq ans. C'est de la destruction créatrice schumpétérienne pure, pas du Gosplan. La Chine n'est pas un modèle de planification économique réussie. C'est un modèle de capitalisme autoritaire, ce qui est très différent. L'autoritarisme politique cohabite avec une économie largement privée et concurrentielle. Tu peux discuter le modèle politique. Mais l'attribuer à la planification économique, c'est se tromper de 180 degrés sur ce qui marche réellement là-bas. Le communisme économique a fait 30 millions de morts en Chine. Le marché a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en 40 ans. Ce sont les chiffres. Le reste, c'est de l'enfumage idéologique.

The hidden physics of everyday things you never questioned: 1. The refrigerator doesn't create cold. It moves heat from inside to outside. Cold is not a thing,it is the absence of heat being relocated. 2. Glass is not a solid. It is an amorphous liquid frozen mid-flow. Old windowpanes are thicker at the bottom because the glass has been slowly moving downward for centuries. 3. Fire is not a thing. It is a process,the visible release of energy as a substance rapidly oxidises. Flame has no mass, no defined boundary, no independent existence. 4. The shadow you cast is travelling at the speed of light. Shadows are not objects,they are the absence of photons, and absence propagates as fast as presence does. 5. When you stand on the ground you are not touching it. The electrons in your feet and the electrons in the floor repel each other. Physical contact as you experience it is electromagnetic resistance, not actual touch. 6. Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions. This is called the Mpemba effect and physicists still do not fully agree on why it happens. 7. Sound cannot travel in space. But if it could, the sun would be louder than anything the human ear could survive at any distance. 8. A piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times regardless of its size. The exponential thickness increase makes it physically impossible. 9. The atoms in your body are almost entirely empty space. If you removed all the empty space from every atom in every human on Earth, all of humanity would fit inside a sugar cube. 10. Honey never expires. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still chemically edible. 11. The static electricity built up by walking across a carpet is between 10,000 and 35,000 volts. The shock you feel is harmless only because the current is near zero. 12. Metals that are perfectly smooth will permanently bond on contact in a vacuum. There is no force holding them apart,welding requires no heat, only the absence of surface contamination. 13. The loudest sound ever recorded,the 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 4,800 kilometres away and circled the Earth four times as a pressure wave. 14. Light from the sun takes eight minutes to reach you. When you look at the sun you are looking eight minutes into the past. When you look at the nearest star beyond the sun, you are looking four years into the past. 15. Time moves measurably faster at the top of a tall building than at its base. Gravity literally slows time. Your head ages fractionally faster than your feet every single day.

“The problem with the Western model is that it ignores the fact that people are essentially tribal." - Lee Kuan Yew (Father of Singapore)

The EU is hidden communism. This is the same thing with a different label, allowing private ownership but regulating and taxing everything while exercising complete and utter control over what you say, where you live, and what you eat.

In 1942, the Japanese rounded up all Chinese men in Singapore. They were filtering out the healthy young ones to execute. Lee Kuan Yew was 18. A guard pointed at him and said: "Go to that lorry." He knew what that meant. The lorry went to the beaches. The beaches meant machine guns. He asked: "Can I collect my other things?" They said yes. He walked away, found his family's gardener, and hid in his quarters for two days. When they changed the screening inspectors, he tried again. This time, he got through. The ones sent to that lorry were taken to the beaches and shot. Somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 didn't survive. 60 years later, he sat down at Harvard to explain how he built Singapore from a tiny island into one of the wealthiest nations on Earth: On what the war did to him: "We lived in happy, placid colonial Singapore in the 1920s and 30s. The British Empire would have lasted another thousand years, so we thought." Then the Japanese came. In less than one and a half months, the British collapsed. "Three and a half years of hell. Butchery. Brutality. Many didn't survive. I was fortunate. I did." "But it changed us." "What right did they have to do this to us? Why did the British let us down so badly?" When the war ended, Lee went to Cambridge to study law. But he was watching with different eyes. "Can they govern me better than I can govern myself? Because they scooted when the Japanese came in. And why shouldn't I be running the place?" On learning languages to lead: Lee was the best speaker in English. But only 20% of Singapore spoke English. The masses spoke Hokkien, Mandarin, and Malay. "So every day at lunchtime, instead of having lunch, I would sit down with a Hokkien teacher and laboriously and painfully learn to convert my Mandarin into Hokkien." "Had I not mastered that, the battle would be lost by default." His first speech in Hokkien, the kids laughed at him. "I said, please don't laugh. Help me. I'm trying to get you to understanding." By 6 months, he could get his ideas across. By 2 years, he was fluent. "Believe it or not, at the end of two years I could speak better than most of them." "That came respect." It showed two things: how determined he was, and how sincere. Here was a man doing all these other things and still learning their language just to talk to them. On fighting the Communists: The Communists had been organizing since 1923. The year Lee was born. "Here we were in the 1950s trying to beat them. And they are professionals at organization." They had elimination squads. Guerrillas in the jungle. Killer squads in the towns. Lee stood up and said no. "They denied that they were Communists. 'We're just left-wing socialists.' So I did a series of 12 broadcasts to set the scene. And I made it in three languages." English. Malay. Mandarin. 20 minutes each. "When I finished each broadcast, the director of the station couldn't see me. Went into the room and found me lying on the floor trying to recover my breath." "But it was a fight for survival. Life or death." On where trust comes from: "It's difficult to establish trust in times of calm. You just say, 'Well, it's an argument, therefore I'm a better guy than you.'" "But when the chips are down and you can get eliminated in a very unpleasant way and you show that you're prepared for it and you'll fight for them, it makes a difference." "Without that trust, we could not have built Singapore." On IQ vs EQ: Harvard asked him: would you prefer high IQ or high EQ in a leader? "IQ, you can get beautiful paper done. Complex formulas worked out. Elegant solutions." "But when you've got to get a team to work and put that formula into practice, you're dealing with human beings." "If you're not good at EQ, you can't sense that A doesn't get on with B, and you put them in the same team. It's no good." He rated his own EQ as 7 or 8 out of 10. His IQ as "maybe 120." But he had colleagues who could sense a person instantly. "He shook hands with the man and said, 'I recoiled when I felt his palm. Evil man.' And he was. How does he know? I don't know." "So I learned whenever I had to do interviews to choose people, I would get people who are very good at seeing through a candidate." On corruption: Singapore in the 1950s was full of deals, bribes, and organized crime. "When we took over, we decided that this was the critical factor. If we did not make it so that every dollar put in at the top reaches the ground as one dollar, we're not going to succeed." "We came in and made a symbolic act. We dressed in white shirts, white trousers, and said we will be what we represent." He put the anti-corruption bureau under his personal portfolio. "I gave the director the authority to investigate everybody and everything. All ministers. Including myself." One of his own colleagues took half a million in bribes. When the investigation started, he asked to see Lee. "I said, if I see you then I'll be a witness in court. So best not see me. Better see your lawyer." The man committed suicide. Left a note saying: "As an oriental gentleman who believes in honor, I have to pay the supreme price." "It's a heavy price. But it reminds every minister that there are no exceptions." On consistency: Lee had three journalists analyze 40 years of his speeches. He asked them: what was the dominant theme? All three said the same thing: consistency. "What I said at the beginning, throughout all that period, the theme stayed loud and clear." "That made it simple. Because you know where you stand with me. And you know what I want to do." On delivering results: "We deliver the homes, the schools, the jobs, the hospitals." "Today, 98% of our people own their own homes. The smallest would be about $100,000 US. The biggest about $300,000." "Once you own that amount of assets, you are not in favor of risking it with a crazy government. Your assets will go down in value." "But that was planned." Why? Because Singapore is small. Everyone does national service. If you're going to fight, you better be fighting for something you own. "So we give everybody a stake." On changing culture slowly: Lee wanted Singapore to speak English. But he couldn't force it. "Had I passed a law and said you will all learn English, we would have had mayhem. Riots." Instead, he let parents watch who got the best jobs. The jobs were already there, from the multinationals and banks. They all used English. "They watched and saw who got the best jobs. And they switched." It took 16 years. "I did not want to have said 16 years. Because in those 16 years I lost 20,000 Chinese graduates who had poor jobs. I wanted to make it shorter. I couldn't. I would have run into flack." On whether leadership can be taught: Lee quoted Isaac Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Yiddish literature. Someone asked Singer: "Can you make a writer write great literature?" He paused. Then said: "If he has the writer in him, I will make him a good writer in a shorter time." Lee's version: "Can you make a leader of anybody? I don't think so." "He must have some of the ingredients. He must have that high energy level. He must have the ability to project himself, his ideas. He must have the desire, almost instinctively, to say 'let's do something better.' Of wanting to do something for his fellow men and not just for himself and his family." "You can't teach those things. He's either got it or he hasn't got it." "But if he's got that, then you can save him a lot of trouble." On sustaining yourself: Harvard asked how he managed despair over decades of leadership. "If your message is one of despair, then you should not be a leader. You must give people hope." "But there are moments when you feel very down. Either because you're physically down, or emotionally down, or because the world has turned adverse against you." "When you are in that condition, the first thing you do is get a good night's sleep. Then get a swim or chase a ball. Get the cobwebs out of your mind." "If you're not fit, you're going to make mistakes. Physically fit. You must stay physically and mentally fit." In his later years, he learned to meditate. "At the end of 20 minutes to half an hour, my pulse rate can go down from 100 to about 60. You can feel yourself subside. You still your mind. You empty your mind." "Then when you are rested, you resume quietly. You still got the same problems. Maybe you sleep on it. Come back. Look at it for a few days. Then decide." This 2 hour Harvard interview will teach you more about leadership than every business book you've read combined. Bookmark & give it 2 hours this weekend, no matter what.

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@MedvedevRussiaE @GeromanAT Do finally something or stop the empty threats

Russian Defense Ministry’s statement must be taken literally: the list of European facilities which make drones & other equipment is a list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces. When strikes become a reality depends on what comes next. Sleep well, European partners!

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@beit_Hmikdash Bastards.

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