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@pa1ar @itsolelehmann I love both 893 and Long March Canteen. But clearly, Long March Canteen is not the same level as 893 in terms of quality and (interior) ambiance.

@itsolelehmann for a similar Chinese experience, you may try Long March next

apparently this is a gem of a Japanese restaurant in Berlin I’m gonna try it today looks like a rough spot from the outside lmao thread to unfold live 1/n

@NoahEpstein_ Gemini

gemini 3 just made every $15k ai consultant look like a clown google silent-dropped autonomous agents to 650 million users yesterday what consultants charge $15K and 6 weeks to "implement" now takes 4 minutes on a phone here's what actually changed: the model: → plans multi-step workflows autonomously → executes start to finish with zero hand-holding → optimized for non-experts (no CS degree needed) → already live on mobile canvas feature while "AI agencies" are charging $8k-20k for strategy decks, google just deployed real automation to more people than chatgpt's entire user base the intelligence gap is getting stupid: that consultant billing $200/hr to "set up AI workflows" → the app does it autonomously now that agency charging $15k for "custom AI implementation" → built in 4 minutes on gemini 3 mobile that bootcamp selling "learn AI automation" for $2k → obsolete before the course launched some startup just replaced their $18k/month AI consulting retainer with a free app same output. 4 minute setup. zero technical knowledge required. most businesses still think AI automation needs: - 6 month roadmaps - technical teams - consulting firms - $50k+ budgets reality: it needs a phone and 4 minutes your competition doesn't know this exists yet but they will comment "GEMINI" and i'll send you the breakdown of how to use this before everyone figures it out

An die junge Menschen die unter 30 sind und die nun vermehrt die Linke = SED wählen, die Jung Kommunisten und Jung Marxisten. Thema heute: Wohnungen und Mieten im real existierendem Sozialismus Wenn ihr glaubt, dass der von der Linken propagierte „ Demokratische Sozialismus“ sozial ist und eure Probleme der Gegenwart, wie zum Beispiel die hohen Mieten löst, nun da muss ich Euch als Zeitzeuge der DDR enttäuschen. Schaut Euch doch einfach das Programm der Linken einmal genauer an. Wo soll der Unterschied zwischen Sozialismus wie er in der DDR existiert hat und dem „neuen“ Sozialismus der Linken liegen? Ich sehe keinen! Wie gehabt möchte man Reichtum enteignen, eine sozialistische Vergesellschaftung, sprich Gleichschaltung erreichen, Unternehmen verstaatlichen, die Soziale Marktwirtschaft wird abgelehnt und zur Überwindung des Kapitalismus wird aufgerufen. Der übliche sozialistische Schwachsinn also, den wir aus DDR Zeiten bestens kennen. Was bitte soll daran Neu und vor allem Demokratisch sein? Lasst Euch doch nicht verarschen. Und um nun mal ein konkretes Beispiel zu benennen. Im Sozialismus gab es keinen freien Wohnungsmarkt, keine Anzeigen, einfach nichts. Wenn du eine Wohnung haben wolltest, dann musstest du dich im Amt für Wohnungswesen - Gebäudewirtschaft dafür „bewerben“. Als junger Mensch der noch bei den Eltern wohnte, konntest du dir den Gang dorthin gleich sparen. KEINEN ANSPRUCH! Bevorzugt auf die Wartelisten kamen junge Ehepaare mit Kindern. Da dies bekannt war, heirateten viele junge Menschen bereits mit 19 Jahren und dann kam mit 20 auch schon des erste Kind, kurz darauf das zweite Kind. Und dann bekam man eine Wohnung? Weit gefehlt, denn man war dann zwar auf der Warteliste beim Amt, aber eben ganz unten. Und so haben Hunderttausende junge Familien in der DDR weiterhin zusammen mit ihren Eltern gewohnt. Oft Jahre lang, natürlich sehr beengt und teilweise unter unglaublichen Bedingungen. Und wenn dann der lange ersehnte Brief vom Amt kam, war die Enttäuschung oft sehr groß, denn in der Regel bekam man eine sogenannte Altbauwohnung zugewiesen. Bruchbuden, wie auf dem Foto abgebildet, mit Kohlenheizung, keinem warmen Wasser, Elektroleitungen aus vor Kriegszeiten und dem Plumpsklo eine Etage tiefer, draußen im Treppenhaus. Wahlweise gab es fließend Wasser von den Wänden, oder von der Decke und in den Wänden soviel Salpeter, dass keine Tapete der Welt daran hielt. Die Wohnung hatte man dann zu nehmen, etwas anderes gab es nicht. Oder man verzichtete und landete auf der Warteliste wieder ganz unten. Und in diesen Bruchbuden lebte die absolute Mehrheit der DDR Bürger. Eine schöne, helle Platten Neubauwohnung? Pustekuchen, dass war nur ein feuchter Traum. Die gab es in der Regel, wenn es sie vor Ort denn überhaupt gab, nur für verdiente Genossen oder die „Schlitzohren“ mit Beziehungen, auch Vitamin B genannt. Und ja, diese Altbauwohnungen waren spottbillig und kosteten nur ein paar Mark im Monat. Billig, da die Preise gedeckelt waren. Da war sie, Eure Mietpreisbremse. Mit den unglaublich niedrigen Mieten konnte aber nichts renoviert, ja nicht mal instand gehalten werden und so nahm der Verfall der Bruchbuden immer weiter zu. Wenn ihr das unbedingt wieder haben wollt, na dann wählt halt die Linke. Aber heult hinterher nicht herum, von wegen und „Das haben wir aber alles nicht gewusst und so auch nicht gewollt“. So sieht die Realität im Sozialismus aus. Macht Euch da nichts vor. Die Linke wird nichts zum Guten für Euch wenden. Gar nichts. 🤔

Seit fast zehn Jahren keine Produktivitätsgewinne, seit drei Jahren Rezession, voll durchdrückender demographischer Wandel, gleichzeitig erodiert unser Wohlstandsmodell (billige Energie importieren, um Investitionsgüter, chemische Erzeugnisse und Fahrzeuge zu exportieren) und wir müssen aufgrund des Machtstrebens von Wladimir Putin und dem Abfall der USA als verlässlicher Partner Europas zudem massiv in unsere Sicherheit investieren. Und (linke) Leute glauben wirklich, sie könnten einen fürstlichen Wohlfahrtsstaat, der längst nichts mehr mit dem Sozialstaat der Erhard'schen Sozialen Marktwirtschaft zu tun hat, voll durchfinanzieren und das idealerweise noch bei offenen Grenzen und ungesteuerter Migration. Leute, kommt bitte endlich in der Realität an. Und nein, Reichensteuern würden das strukturelle Defizit dieser Republik höchstens zu zehn Prozent lindern. Es muss alles neu gedacht und neu gemacht werden. Die. Fetten. Jahre. Sind. Vorbei. Jetzt. Heißt. Es. Anpacken. Für. Die. Zukunft. Und als Wirtschaftsgeschichtler weiß ich, dass wir das können. Wir brauchen nur Mut und unseren Verstand. Es gelang uns schon so oft. Es wird auch dann wieder gelingen.

@BlackLabelAdvsr @aginnt @typesfast All the US has to do is reduce the ridiculous tariffs.

@aginnt @typesfast All China has to do is make that call.

.@typesfast is right. The Trump Admin clearly wants an off ramp, the goal is not the end of free trade, and with right Girardian scapegoat,the tariff rate should be zero.

MODIFI just raised $15M led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund! This will fuel expansion in high-growth markets like China & India. tinyurl.com/mvya7wrd

This (for German speaking audience)

So, this happened on the Thames ... 😂 Sound on!

@antifatwa was not taking off… came from south west at very low altitude… Very strange.

Can anyone tell me who or what is either landing or taking off from Berlin being escorted by two fighter jets?

Yeah, right 😅

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime. Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students. TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association. May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote. I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel . That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby. Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for. It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of. Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is. That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population). In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa . Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank. On the same wards, in the same operating theatres. In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid. Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home. It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief. Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke? University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak. I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens. Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on? The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and that is to protect them from one-sided argument. They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it? Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence. It's up to you to find out more. Yours sincerely, Denis MacEoin

Global containerized ocean freight prices are surging to levels not seen since the pandemic supply chain crunch. Some key trade lane rates are up 140% since mid-December and increasing by the week. What’s happening, why, and what it means for businesses needing products moved? 🧵

"gehen wir inne kneipe?" "kneipe!?zum gesocks?wenn überhaupt gehen wir in eine feine kneipothek,wie es sich geziemt!"

Spot on, @PhilippKreibohm !

@StopAntisemites Such a disgrace to humanity and my Alma Mater. @UofIllinois , how can you let this hate happen on the campus?

Urbana, Illinois - a woman in a hijab is seen holding up a Nazi like sign wanting to rid the world of Jews. Recognize her? DM us.

Great summary by @fintechjunkie of what should be obvious (but founders and VCs forgot about)

Come and discover this incredible panel on May 30th for the #PFF23 Leaders summit with @AlbertoDalmasso, @HarisKaronis, @alex_prot, @nholzner To see the full agenda follow this link : parisfintechforum.com/lagenda @salispay @VivaWallet @getqonto @MODIFI_TradeFin

@hoyer_kat Would you recommend the English or the German version of the book (not even sure whether there is a German version yet). As a German speaker I wonder how well original statements translate into English.

Delighted to see @Telegraph's 5🌟 review of BEYOND THE WALL 🧱 🇩🇪 in the flesh today 😁 "She’s a historian of immense ability whose early promise has been more than fulfilled...Exhaustively researched, cleverly constructed and beautifully written,' says @sauldavid66

@M_Hundhausen Liegt meines Wissens daran, dass in Holland Baugenehmigungen für neue Häuser nur erteilt werden, wenn Wärmepumpen eingebaut werden. ME pragmatische Lösung und viel besser als Sanierungszwang für bereits bestehende Häuser.

Kann es sein, dass 2022 in Deutschland halb so viel Wärmepumpen je Einwohner installiert wurden wie in den Niederlanden? liegt sicher daran, dass es in Holland nicht so kalt ist. Oh wait….