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@NSTRIKE1231 At 16-18 knots LH7 Tripoli will take between 7 and 10 days before it is there. It only got moving on day 11 of "Epic Fury"

❗️🇮🇱🇺🇸🎯🇮🇷 Israeli media, citing intelligence sources, report that the United States is preparing a military operation to secure the Strait of Hormuz, with large-scale force mobilization already underway. 🟦 The campaign is expected to last around two weeks, aiming to restore maritime traffic and end Iran’s blockade. ▪️ Israeli officials believe that Israel may support the operation, likely through intelligence sharing and operational coordination, as Washington explores options to reopen the strategic waterway amid escalating attacks on shipping and energy infrastructure. 🚨 Israel’s security cabinet was reportedly briefed overnight that the war is likely to continue for several more weeks, with ministers informed about the extension of military timelines and the need to prepare for prolonged operations across multiple fronts. See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231

@EdwardFarrelly @BetterCallMedhi watch this youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwc…

@BetterCallMedhi Name one significant patent that has emerged from China. Apart from Deepmind's o1/03 I don't see any significant tech innovation from China since printing press 6th century. Its key strength is 24 hour tech hubs that can prototype on the fly. We need that.

China just dropped its 15th five year and I genuinely think this is the most important document of 2026 & almost nobody in the West is talking about it what gets me isn’t any single number…it’s the systemic vision, in one document they’re planning GDP growth, highvalue patents, digital economy at 12.5% of GDP, non-fossil energy at 25%, CO2 reduction, surface water quality at 85%, life expectancy at 80, forest coverage rate, grain production capacity…ALL of it in the same table with hard targets & binding indicators through 2030 in the West we treat economy, ecology, education, healthcare & energy security as separate ministries fighting over budgets, China treats them as organs of the same body, every line feeds the others, urbanization fuels productivity, R&D fuels patents, patents fuel the the digital economy, non-fossil energy fuels strategic independence….every variable is designed to accelerate all the others & that reflect china’s deeply HOLISTIC worldview look at line 5, high-value patent going from 16 to over 22 per 10,000 people by 2030, quietest line in the whole table and probably the most important, a high value patent is the intellectual property of a technology that will structure a market for 20y MINIMUM China is literally planning who owns the technological future, the licenses & dependencies other countriees will rack up on Chinese tech, this IS the economic and industrial colonization of the 21st century I keep talking about in my threads but with patents instead of cannons while america bombs & europe debates, China plans, builds & executes and the scariest part is that based on their own audits the previous plans hit ove 90% of their targets Western leaders rotate every 4 /5 years and make promises they’ll never have to keep, CCP plays on a 50 y horizon…this table isn’t a campaign platform, it’s a national spec sheet & that changes everything about how you read each number in it

@HustleBitch_ new signature move?

🚨 SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT. WATCH HIM CLOSELY. During his sit-down interview with Jake Paul, people noticed something strange. Out of nowhere, President Trump suddenly shifts his suit awkwardly and abruptly. Then later in the interview, the way he starts speaking sounds very unusual for him. Some say it’s nothing. Others are very concerned. Be honest… what do YOU think is really going on here?

@StefanFSchubert @vpostrel clauded this for comparison. Sources? who knows, stylematch not that bad for single sentence prompt and first result

US TV adoption was extraordinarily quick, outpacing technologies that seem more crucial, like electricity and refrigerators. By @vpostrel. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-tv-l…

@MKuefner 1up "Geopolitical Six - Seven"

Geopolitical Six - Seven 6 out of G7 leaders have "different view" on Trump‘s decision to partially suspend oil sanctions on Russia. Merz recites THAT G7 call with Trump after sanctions decision caught other 6 by "surprise". 🇩🇪 Chancellor Merz, 🇳🇴 PM Søre and 🇨🇦 PM Carney in 🇳🇴 try to project unity and resolve as Trump undermines their efforts to put more pressure on Russia. At NATO maneuver "Cold Response".

@john__gerrard I am still glad that I ran into this 2019 during the public display in Hamburg on the Rathaus Platz. The very large Screen gave the work the space it deserves. It stayed with me ever since. Thank you. hamburgmaschine.de/en/art/john-ge…

Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017

@darkosubotica All keys react to your fingers movement equally and predictable? beyond that: z e r o gain Was the same with pre vibe coding

So what’s the best keyboard for vibe coding?

@Gossip_Goblin Takes a talented artist to get something like this out of the tools out there. Very impressive.

Waiting for Bogart

@Jason_from_nyc @OurWorldInData to spin further in that yarn: you'd prefer sudden off @ 59 or 30 years later months of agony succumbing to cancer? those 30 years could be good, or could be spent online ...

@OurWorldInData In other words, we live longer so that we can die a more horrible death. Instead of sudden heart attacks (down 90% since 1970) our bodies will be slowly ravaged by cancer (crude cancer up by 20%). Hmmm.

The number of cancer deaths worldwide has more than doubled since the 1980s. Does that mean we're losing the fight against cancer? Not necessarily, because it depends on how you measure it. On this chart, you can see three ways to look at the same data. The red line shows the total number of cancer deaths. It has increased by about 120%, but this measure doesn't account for the fact that the world's population has also grown enormously over this period. Another approach is to look at the death rate: the number of cancer deaths divided by the total population. That's the brown line, called the crude cancer death rate. It has increased too, but much less — around 20%. But there's still a problem: the world's population has been getting older. Cancer is mostly a disease of old age, so even per capita, we'd expect more cancer deaths simply because there are more older people than before. That's where the method of “age standardization” comes in. It's a way of asking: what would the cancer death rate look like if the age structure of the population hadn't changed? The blue line shows this age-standardized rate: it's fallen by about 25%. At any given age, people are now less likely to die of cancer than they were in the 1980s. The same underlying data gives us three different pictures. The absolute number of deaths is up; the crude rate is up slightly; the age-standardized rate is down. None of these are inaccurate, but they answer different questions. Age standardization is one of the most important statistical methods for making sense of health data. Without it, population aging can hide progress or mask problems.

@VisualCap 2 * Helmut ≠ Thatcher || Reagan

Ranked: What People Value Most in the U.S., UK, and Germany 💬 visualcapitalist.com/ranked-what-pe…

@grok @IceSolst

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Can someone confirm, China has: - a single time zone - no daylight savings - sunrise at 6am or 10am, no one gives a shit Much to learn from China

@internetarchiva "Elastic Image" use @ EFilm in Hollywood

How am I going to explain to my kids that Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video was made in 1991 and not with the use of AI?

@beyoncegarden @grok 1) who is the artist 2) what is the percentage of replies here which mention that person?

there’s actually an extremely deep message here😭

@SamoBurja in tech it has: this is where most machines that build machines were built. There is a second place on earth now as well.

Greater Switzerland has never been tried.

@RokoMijic "After 1970, there was essentially nothing left to discover." Which is why have had the same tech for 56 years now. Maybe ask ASML about physics

Many people don't understand just how brutal diminishing returns in theoretical physics were. Physics barely existed before 1820. After 1970, there was essentially nothing left to discover. In 1819 there were probably less than 100 full-time paid physicists in the whole world. By 2026 there are probably about a million physicists across academia and industry, and that number was already huge in the 1970s when physics sort of "ended" with QCD and electroweak unification. A small, brave band of gentlemen-scholars and amateurs worked out the most important parts of physical law in the 1800s. People doing it as a hobby! Today, vast armies of professionals equipped with supercomputers toil away in the quantum gravity dungeon, unable to make progress. Diminishing returns are brutal.

@grok @dievskiy @MaxMynter Schwarzfahren ≠ Diebstahl

US index crimes (for the cities cited): the softest is larceny-theft—any theft of property, like shoplifting a snack, pickpocketing, or bike theft (no minimum value). Munich PKS total offenses: broader, covering all German Penal Code crimes reported to police, including softer ones like verbal insults (§185), minor property damage/graffiti (§303), fare evasion (§265a), or light bodily harm—things excluded from US index stats. Hence the comparison caveat: Munich counts more low-level stuff yet stays safer overall on serious crime.

Munich things is saving your outside table with two phones and the keys of the car you just parked curbside

@grok @dievskiy @MaxMynter what is the "softest" crime that makes into the Munich vs US statistics you cited?

Munich (1.6M pop): 5,871 total offenses/100k (2024 PKS). Similar US cities (FBI UCR 2024 total crime rate/100k, index crimes): San Diego (1.39M): 2,092 Phoenix (1.66M): 3,139 Dallas (1.32M): 4,021 San Antonio (1.51M): 5,229 Philadelphia (1.55M): 5,504 (Note: Slight differences in what gets counted; Munich's broader stats still show it safer than most peers globally.)

@grok @dievskiy @MaxMynter compare that with 5 US cities of similar size

Munich is Germany's safest major city for the 49th straight year (2024 PKS data). Crime rate: 5,871 offenses per 100k residents (-1.1% from 2023). Total recorded crimes ~100k (down 1.2%, excl. migration violations). Vs others: Berlin 13,596; Hamburg/Frankfurt/Cologne >11k each. Overall trend down, thanks to drops in drugs/theft—explains why folks casually leave phones/keys out. Latest 2025 full stats drop soon.

@dieworkwear it could be a genre for a YT channel: backdrop takedowns

is there a reason why successful, presumably wealthy streamers always stream from rooms with ugly interior decor? is it branding? always looks like the back supply room for some baseball card shop.