Tomsky

Happy Mother's Day

Nazism and communism are the two sides of the same SOCIALIST coin.

I may have been a bit too optimistic with my prediction that the EU would ban or regulate VPNs within five years. It looks like they’ll do it within a year. It terrifies me how many relatively sane people who believe in the EU justify this totalitarian, dystopian practice and explain its necessity. Something that was considered a totalitarian practice in China or Russia 10 years ago is now seen as a political necessity in the EU as part of the fight against hybrid threats, Russia, child pornography, etc. Hello! Based on what it plans and does, the EU is actually showing signs of a dystopian society! I am currently in developed Japan, and there are no state-enforced cash limits here, no Age Control, no MiCA, DAC-8, or other dystopian EU regulations. Online anonymity is the norm here. EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-…

This thing might be peak Europe. They are standardized and there is a pallet to pallet exchange system happening. You get one delivery and you give them some random other pallets back and you can trade them. And when you are done with them, you turn them into hipster furniture.

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

@vonderleyen Fuck off Granny!

It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!

I forgot how biased Wikipedia is

@Polymarket Great, so we can finaly have our military bases back 🇩🇪

JUST IN: Trump reveals the U.S. troops being pulled from Germany may be relocated to Poland.

Amelia sends her congratulations to @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain_, as well as fond wishes to @Keir_Starmer to retire at last and stop buggering up the country.

HTML is the new markdown. I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.

@buildwithsid No dark mode for nightly shopping from bed. 🤨 As if they don't want to make money

amazon has like 100k employees, why can't one of them improve the main website wtf it still gives stone age vibes 💀

Figure taught two robots to make a bed together - fully autonomous Honestly, they’re better at it than most humans

🇬🇷 As a Greek woman, I cannot stay silent… I owe this to my Ancestors ! ❌️ BOYCOTT Nolan’s "The Odyssey" that has completely altered Homer’s epic ❌ Helen of Troy , the most beautiful woman in the world , was described by Homer with golden blonde hair, dazzling white skin and divine European beauty that launched a thousand ships. She was a Greek woman, not Sub-Saharan African. This is not representation. This is erasure of Greek and European history and identity. Imagine the global outrage if they made: "Wagadu: The White Panthers"... Double standards and pure disrespect! ❌️ BOYCOTT Nolan’s Odyssey ❌ #BoycottNolansOdyssey #HelenOfTroy #HomersOdyssey #GreekMythology #HistoricalAccuracy #CulturalErasure

"Intellectuals are naturally seduced by the idea of a planned society, because they think they will be in charge of it." --Philosopher Roger Scruton

So, how many Greeks are acting in Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey? Oh, I forgot. Cultural appropriation only works one way, doesn’t it.

Holy smokes! Star Wars in German definitely hits different...

@AOC The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny. JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.

After more than two years of Milei, the international press still does not understand what is happening in Argentina. The narrative abroad is "shock therapy, social pain, fragile coalition." That frame misses the actual mechanism. Argentina did not have a budget problem. It had a printing problem. From 2003 to 2023 the central bank financed deficit after deficit until the peso lost 99 percent of its value against the dollar. Annual inflation hit 211 percent in 2023. Half the country was poor. That was the floor. What changed is not vibes. It is arithmetic. The fiscal deficit was eliminated for the first time in 16 years. Monthly inflation fell from 25 percent to low single digits. The central bank stopped printing to fund the Treasury. Country risk dropped from over 2,500 basis points to a fraction of that. Argentine sovereign debt, which used to trade like a default option, began behaving like normal emerging market paper. Critics say poverty rose. It did, briefly, because removing price controls and subsidies revealed the real prices of energy, transport and food that the state had been hiding with debt. Once measured honestly, poverty has been falling fast. Real wages are recovering. Mortgages in pesos are reappearing, something that had not been possible in a generation. This matters beyond Argentina. It is the clearest live experiment in whether a developed-style economy can be rebuilt by pulling the state out of places it never belonged. Spain, Italy and France should be paying attention. A country does not get poor because it lacks resources. It gets poor because its political class learned to live off printing money and calling it social policy. Argentina spent 80 years proving that. It is now spending two years proving the opposite.

Kitchen display at the 'Museum of Living Under Communism' in Brasov, Romania.