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Thanks to Pakistani Muslims, London has now become the “Rape Capital of the World.” 😱😑

Pour ceux qui continuent de "croire en la justice de mon pays", ce genre d'affaires est un rappel salutaire : la location dans ce pays est devenu une véritable roulette russe, et la "justice" aggrave largement la situation.

J’en connais qui ont eu droit à des autosaisines de la CNIL pour moins que ça. x.com/french_report7…

This is interesting. Italy, Germany, Spain, even France have birth rates well below replacement rates. A deeper look shows that it's mostly non-EU foreigners who still have children there. Why don’t natives have children anymore? Is it egoism, cost of living, or something else?

Le nouveau moteur de SpaceX (qui a volé samedi) fait quelque chose d'absolument génial et vous vous rendez pas compte à quel point 👇 Il se refroidit avec son propre carburant. Le méthane est stocké à environ -160°C. Avant d'être brûlé, il circule dans des micro-canaux gravés DANS les parois du moteur, qui traversent les pièces les plus chaudes. Il refroidit le métal, se réchauffe au passage, et arrive préchauffé dans la chambre de combustion. Le carburant fait le boulot du bouclier thermique. Ça s'appelle le refroidissement régénératif. Mais attendez, c'est là que ça devient dingue 👇 Dans la chambre de combustion, on est à ~3500°C et 330 bars de pression. C'est plus chaud que le point de fusion de quasiment tous les métaux utilisables en pratique pour une fusée. L'acier fond à 1500°C. Le cuivre à 1080°C. La paroi du moteur devrait fondre instantanément. Elle fond pas. Parce que le méthane cryogénique qui passe de l'autre côté à quelques millimètres extrait la chaleur assez vite pour maintenir le métal en dessous de son point de fusion. C'est un équilibre thermique permanent entre l'enfer et le cryogénique, séparés par quelques mm de métal. À chaque seconde de vol. Sur le Raptor 3, SpaceX a poussé ce principe encore plus loin : ils ont internalisé les circuits secondaires (igniteurs, purges, etc.) DANS les parois régénérativement refroidies. Plus rien ne dépasse. Plus besoin de bouclier thermique externe. Plus besoin de système anti-incendie au CO₂. Plus besoin de capteurs externes. Pour les devs, parce que ce principe se transpose directement: La plupart du temps, quand on a un problème on AJOUTE quelque chose. Un retry. Un circuit breaker. Un cache. Un monitoring. Une queue. Un service pour gérer le service qui gère le problème… C'est l'équivalent du bouclier thermique : tu mets une couche de protection AUTOUR du problème. L'ingénierie type Raptor 3, c'est l'inverse : tu repenses la primitive de base pour que le problème n'EXISTE plus. Et d'un coup, toutes les couches de protection que tu avais autour deviennent inutiles. Tu les supprimes. Le système devient plus simple ET plus performant. L'ingénierie la plus élégante, c'est rarement ce qu'on ajoute. C'est tout ce qu'on arrive à enlever 🚀

Follow the logic. Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’ However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

C'était un des plus grands traquenards médiatiques auxquels on pourrait penser, et il s'était complètement retourné contre son auteur. Pas étonnant qu'il ait été censuré si longtemps. A voir et à revoir. youtube.com/watch?v=QytPTW…

@JewelMansy @InterestingUni @nikitabier @Rainmaker1973 same, i am tired of these "aggregator" living off the work of others.

@InterestingUni @nikitabier @Rainmaker1973 Just followed so that I can get the originals ☺️

Well, the data is out. According to @nikitabier's chart, I'm the 2nd highest source of content reshared by @Rainmaker1973, with around 1,700 of my posts. For years people accused me of being his shadow account because of how often this happened. His reposts pulled millions of views while the originals on my page got almost nothing. Grateful to @ViralRushX speaking up, and to @nikitabier and the X team for finally putting attribution on the table. Looking forward to the changes that reward original creators. 🙏

@Rainmaker1973 After sourcing 2759 videos from @ViralRushX over the last 6 months, you're now circumventing attribution by simply cropping out his watermark? You cannot get more shameless than this. This is your last day in the creator program.

It is fine to bring the best videos on the internet to X. One of X's core values is cultural commentary. However, we cannot tolerate big accounts intentionally using their larger following to hijack impressions hours after another user posts something. Having said that, we will aim to reward original content creators and livestreamers more in the coming weeks.

That Hasan’s first thought when Ashley mentioned Providence was of a Michelin restaurant in L.A. and not Rhode Island tells me everything I need to know about his “socialism.”

Il y a un truc qu'on a perdu en France, et ce tweet de @FNarolles le documente parfaitement. 2013. Richard Bowles, responsable commercial d'Arianespace, parle de SpaceX devant un parterre de pros du spatial. Sa ligne officielle : « ils vendent du rêve, le mieux à faire c'est de les ignorer. » La même année, Grasshopper fait ses sauts verticaux. La preuve physique est filmée, disponible, indéniable. Bowles la regarde et choisit de dire : rêve. Ce n'est pas une erreur d'analyse industrielle. C'est un réflexe culturel. Dans un pays où la légitimité vient des institutions et pas de l'exécution, admettre qu'un outsider peut redéfinir le jeu, c'est admettre que ta position ne vaut rien face à la vélocité de quelqu'un qui ose. Donc tu décrètes que le réel de l'autre n'existe pas. Le ressentiment habillé en sagesse industrielle. Et c'est exactement ce qui se passe aujourd'hui à chaque fois que quelqu'un en France ose dire qu'il va gagner. Une boîte AI qui annonce des objectifs ambitieux ? « Ils survendent. » Un fondateur qui parle de dominer un marché ? « Mégalo. » Un mec qui pense en milliards et pas en subventions ? « Américanisé. » La France est devenue un marécage à crocodiles, dépressif sur le futur, allergique à l'ambition. Dès que quelqu'un émet le moindre espoir, le milieu pète un câble pour le ramener au niveau zéro. Pendant ce temps, regardez l'intensité qu'Elon met actuellement sur SpaceX. Le delta n'est pas technique. Il est mental. Il est culturel. Il est sur la permission qu'une société donne à ses gens d'oser viser grand sans qu'on les rabaisse. Si on ne se remet pas en question là-dessus, et vite, on ne sera plus que le Zimbabwe de l'Occident. Une civilisation qui regarde les autres construire en commentant leur arrogance.

🚨 This Old Hasan Cuba Clip Aged Like a Federal Exhibit Here is an old clip of Hasan explaining why he canceled a previous Cuba trip. “I did cancel the Cuba trip, yes, because I didn’t want to go to prison.” Now he’s reportedly under Treasury/OFAC scrutiny over Cuba sanctions, and if violations were proven, that fear would look a lot less hypothetical. Maybe Hasan should have listened to Hasan. And somehow, seconds later, he pivots into explaining the “context” for why the U.S. “deserved 9/11.”

Candace Owens is screwed‼️ One of the reasons why I’m so passionate about calling out Candace Owens and her fake theories is because I have experience dealing with similar situations on a smaller scale. For those of you all who might not know I was actually somewhat involved in the story pictured below. In August of 2022 a 16 year old girl by the name of Kiely Rodni went missing in California. The story quickly blew up online and drew the attention of some very questionable characters. One of those characters was a country rapper by the name of Ryan Upchurch who decided to promote his music to a new audience by pretending to be a true crime investigator. Ryan wasn’t smart enough to follow the details of the story so instead he decided to target several True Crime content creators by accusing them of killing Kiely Rodni. These were innocent people who didn’t even know each other. Their only crime was trying to raise awareness about a missing child. But Ryan exploited this situation and crafted crazy conspiracies that would even put Candace Owens to shame. He told millions of people that these True Crime content creators were all working together to kidnap and kill kids. Of course that was a lie and he had no evidence to back his claims so he would create “evidence” of his own. For example he said one YouTuber was definitely guilty of this because he had a purple light in the background of his videos. Even though his theories were outlandish they got clicks. And quickly people who didn’t even believe in the conspiracy themselves pretended to believe so they could cash in on the clicks as well. Before you know it almost the entire True Crime community on YouTube was cashing in on these fake conspiracies while participating in a Witch Hunt against the content creators that Ryan targeted. Most of these people knew the theories were fake. But the super chat money was rolling in. Ryan would even send people hundreds of dollars and give them free tickets to his shows for helping to spread the conspiracies. After seeing all of this happen I was one of the only people that stepped up against the fake conspiracies and harassment campaigns. Sure I could’ve joined in and banked tens of thousands of dollars but I actually have principles. So instead I put myself in the line of fire by defending the people who were being targeted and winded up losing money, subscribers, and was harassed for months on end because of it. The death threats were rolling in. The conspiracies were spreading. And all hell was breaking loose. You just had to be there to fully understand. But then boom 💥 Kiely Rodni’s body was found in her car submerged in a body of water nearby the area where Kiely was partying and drinking with her friends. It was determined that she was drinking and accidentally drove into the water and drowned. But of course Ryan and others weren’t ready to let go of their conspiracies. So Ryan then claimed that Kiely wasn’t even a real person. He said Kiely’s body was fake like a Hollywood prop and that her family staged the entire thing to raise GoFundMe money. He then claimed it was all a gigantic government conspiracy and that Kiely’s family was in on it. Ryan and others caused so much damage and pain for Kiely’s family and the innocent people they accused of killing her. But the story has a happy ending. A few days ago Ryan Upchurch was ordered to pay Kiely Rodni’s family $17.5 million dollars. Thats before punitive damages. THIS IS A HUGE DEAL. It sets a new precedent going forward. The courts are taking these kind of situations very seriously. And thats bad news for people like Candace Owens who have recently structured their entire business models around harassing and spreading fake information about people who are grieving over the death of their loved ones.

America was built to be a high-trust society.

@Cobra_FX_ @theShiftPR0JECT je sais pas si tu as vu le sous titre .. "...Ethique et Durable" ces mots sont la pour signifier que ce projet est mort né.

L'enjeu est colossal : la France est en lice pour la gigafactory d'IA européenne. Son atout : son électricité nucléaire décarbonée. C'est ça, le charbon allemand ou le gaz norvégien / US / Russe. Pourtant, @theShiftPR0JECT continue d'expliquer qu'il faut limiter les data centers sur notre sol... comme s'ils n'allaient pas se monter ailleurs dans ce cas...

Oh look it's a coastal elite, shitting on these people, saying they're dumb. He can't imagine his worldview is flawed and that Massie pissed off the base, no, it's those retards in Kentucky "falling for it." We will never escape 2015.

Senator Rick Scott calls for a full investigation of Hasan and Code Pink. Hasan had said “if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicade fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.” Senator Rick Scott says Hasan ignored the history of Cuba’s political prisoners who have been tortured and starved while he stayed at 5 star hotels. Really, if Hasan is out there calling for your life, I can see why the Senator is mad.

Hasan's own broadcasts do the prosecution's work for it. He placed himself at a named, military-owned hotel on both the Prohibited Accommodations List and the Restricted List, described handing cash to Cuban nationals while acknowledging the limits on doing so, and confirmed he understood the sanctions regime well enough to obtain a Treasury clearance before going. He then recited the prohibition on funding government and military entities, disputed only the policy behind it, and announced he would disregard the restrictions outright on any return trip. The license he would lean on collapses on his own footage, where the schedule centers on state officials, regime-solidarity messaging, and recreation rather than the independent civil-society contact §515.574 demands. On CNN, Hasan volunteered that the delegation obtained Treasury authorization and then stayed in a designated five-star hotel... "we had to get an OFAC clearance from the Treasury Department just to go" and "the American government has actually created these incredible restrictions that only allow American citizens to stay in four hotels on the island… these are five-star hotels… if I don't stay in one of those hotels, I could go to prison for 10 years and have to pay a $250,000 fine." He repeats the "they have to stay in what they've declared as five-star hotels" claim on stream. That legal description is inverted. There is no four-hotel whitelist. The relevant instrument is a prohibition list. And the hotel the delegation used has been named in the reporting as the Gran Hotel Bristol, where Piker and other participants were staying. That property is on the government's lists... It appears by name on the State Department's Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List as the Gran Hotel Bristol Kempinski, 485 Av. Bélgica, La Habana, the list of properties where the Cuban Assets Control Regulations generally prohibit persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction from lodging, paying for lodging, or making any reservation to lodge. It also sits on the Cuba Restricted List. The ownership chain is the reason... Kempinski signed a management contract with Grupo de Turismo Gaviota, Cuba's largest hotel operator, which is owned by GAESA, in turn controlled by the Cuban Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. So payment for lodging at the Bristol is a direct financial transaction flowing to the Cuban military, prohibited under 31 CFR 515.210 and 515.209. This is strict-liability on the civil side, and purpose is irrelevant. The Support-for-the-Cuban-People license he would invoke expressly does not cure it... §515.574(d) states the license does not authorize lodging at any CPA-List property. His own framing makes it worse, not better. He told over a million viewers he was required to stay there, a claim a Community Note corrected, noting U.S. law only prevents Americans from staying at venues owned by the Cuban government or its officials. He was publicly put on notice that his stated justification was wrong, contemporaneously with the trip. On his "IT’S DEVASTATING" stream he describes the delegation "peppering people with… just wads of cash for the most part… with hopes that there's a little bit of economic respite for each individual Cuban that we encounter." On the 'Collective Punishment Kneecap Call Out Donald Trump Over Cuba Crisis' stream he goes further and counsels his audience to do the same while showing awareness of the limit... "you should bring hard American cash to Cuba and give it to the people of Cuba… obviously, there's restrictions on how much cash you can bring, but… it is what it is." A documented series of financial transactions on the island, and an on-camera acknowledgment that he knew cash transfers are restricted. The "it is what it is" is a knowing disregard. Civil liability needs no intent, but DOJ referral requires willfulness. Hasan supplied unusually direct evidence of it. He knew the regime applied and sought authorization... "we had to get an OFAC clearance from the Treasury Department just to go." So this is a sophisticated actor with access to sanctions counsel, not someone unaware the rules exist. He demonstrated specific knowledge that the targets of his spending were government and military entities, and pressed ahead anyway. In the mini-doc, standing in the hospital compound... "a lot of the public administrations here… according to the American government, it's still technically… owned by the Cuban government and therefore the Cuban military. So when American sanctions are applied, they might try to justify it by saying, oh, you're funding a foreign adversary's military. But the reality is… it's funding that would be going to rebuilding these buildings." He recites the prohibition and then disputes the policy rather than the fact. He stated an intent to violate on a future trip... "when I do [come back], I'll probably not abide by the American restrictions." And the public record adds consciousness of illegality from before the trip... he had canceled a 2025 trip to the island fearing legal repercussions in the U.S. He understood the legal risk a year out and went anyway. Some wonder whether the conduct fits 31 CFR 515.574, which requires a full-time schedule of activities that promote the Cuban people's independence from Cuban authorities and that involve independent civil-society actors. His own footage points the other way on every prong. He spent his time with state actors, not independent civil society. By his own description he conducted interviews with a state hospital surgeon, state university scientists, and the director of international medical missions, and an hour-and-a-half sit-down with the Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cosío. He also met Jodie Evans of CodePink and the Progressive International delegation. These are government and government-aligned figures. The framing is solidarity with the authorities, not independence from them. The mini-doc closes on the regime's revolutionary slogan, "Patria o muerte, venceremos," and on praise for Cubans "who refuse to trade their sovereignty for a momentary relief." That is the opposite of the statutory purpose of §515.574. His schedule reads recreational in large part. Across the streams he describes drinking at La Bodeguita del Medio and "a local establishment," attending the Kneecap concert, "living la vida loca," planning to visit La Plaza de la Revolución and "everything," sampling cigars and Cuban coffee, and being photographed in what reporting valued as an outfit worth around $5,000 including Cartier glasses and rings. The full-time-qualifying-schedule requirement bars free time and recreation beyond what a full schedule allows, and the group-qualification bar in §515.574(b) means the delegation does not qualify just because some members might. He also had an organizing role rather than passive attendance... "as soon as this trip was being planned, I knew… I hit up Daniel, their manager [Kneecap]." That supports the coordination element and ties him to the convoy's assembly. He repeatedly foregrounds the non-medical hardware. On the "First Day" stream the charter was "full of good stuff, you know, medicine, food, and most importantly, solar panels," and in the mini-doc the convoy is delivering "over 40 tons of necessary supplies." The solar panels and generators are the weakest fit for the medical-humanitarian export carve-out and the most likely to be characterized as material support to state infrastructure. His own discussion that Cuba's solar supply is "more than 90%" Chinese and that China "doesn't abide by… American restrictions" frames the hardware in circumvention terms.