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@pedro___ @IndyCarOnFOX The main purpose of the fence is to simply hold the cables in position. The cables give some, just as the NASCAR safer barrier system gives, to slow the impact.

@ErwinDonald @IndyCarOnFOX Nigga.. the car is sticking 3ft ouside the fence. wft you're talking about?

A HUGE moment for Scott McLaughlin as he goes through the fence in Barber practice. He's okay.

@IndyCarOnFOX The track did its job. Gravel, then soft barriers, then armco then the fence, and what's important about the fence is the cables embedded in it.

@pedro___ @IndyCarOnFOX Ignorant comment. You should read up on how these fences are constructed. The track did its job. Gravel, then soft barriers, then armco then the fence, and what's important about the fence is the cables imbedded in it.

@IndyCarOnFOX Nice vinyl fence you got there, I'm sure you got a deal from your uncle's construction business. Maybe next time invest in a real circuit fence designed to stop race cars, no? Thanks.

@ryanjcohen313 @IndyCarOnFOX Charlotte's web caught another...

@IndyCarOnFOX guys i think you have bigger issues that is a massive spider

A scary crash for Will Power in Barber qualifying. He got out under his own power.

@maximal_frei That’s my impression, too, that Munich is starting to decay. Visited both Munich and Vienna last year and Vienna is far out shining Munich now.

Ich erinnere mich an den Sommer 2006 in München. Leopoldstraße. Schwarz-Rot-Goldene Fahnen, eine unglaubliche Energie und dieses tiefe Gefühl: Wir haben es geschafft. Deutschland war modern, wohlhabend und die Welt zu Gast bei Freunden. München war der strahlende Gipfel dieses Stolzes. Ich erinnere mich noch genau: Biergärten überfüllt bis tief in die Nacht, Fremde umarmten sich nach Toren, und plötzlich fühlte sich München wie der Mittelpunkt der Welt an. Kein Dogma, keine Verbote, nur pure Lebensfreude. Das war für mich der absolute Höhepunkt. Peak München. 20 Jahre später ist das Sommermärchen einem System-Albtraum gewichen. Gestern hat München einen neuen Oberbürgermeister gewählt. Das Ergebnis? Mehr Schulden, mehr Ideologie-Projekte wie Lastenfahrrad-Autobahnen mit dem neuen Chef der Stadt - Dominik Krause von den Grünen. Wer heute durch München läuft, sieht den schleichenden Verfall hinter der glänzenden Fassade. Die Stadt, die ich geliebt habe, ist zum Inventar des Systems geworden. Früher dachte ich, ich müsse bleiben und kämpfen. Ich dachte, mein Wohlstand sei an diesen Ort gebunden. Ein fataler Irrtum, den viele heute noch begehen. Sie sitzen im "Bauspar-Gefängnis" und hoffen, dass die nächste Wahl die Wende bringt. Spoiler: Sie wird es nicht. Mein Exit-Learning: Systeme reparieren sich nicht von innen, wenn die Basis (das Geld und die Freiheit) einmal korrumpiert ist. Ich habe München nicht verlassen, weil ich es hasse. Ich habe es verlassen, weil ich meine Autonomie mehr liebe als eine nostalgische Erinnerung an 2006. Heute ist meine "Heimat" dort, wo meine Werte geteilt werden und mein Kapital respektiert wird.

@ValaAfshar Has to do with the potential for productivity improvement for goods and services. Manufacturing becomes more productive over time. Good, not so much.

PRICE CHANGES 2000-2025: Massive price increases (100%-300% ↑) • hospital services (+275%) 🩻 • college tuition (+196%) 🎓 • child care 🛝 • medical care 🏥 • housing 🏡 • food and beverages 🥘🥤 Significant price decreases: • TV📺 • computer software💿 • toys🧸

@number_pizza111 And they have the best college mascot - the Delta State Fighting Okra!

If you drive around Mississippi you’ll find 3,000 square foot homes, towns where everyone owns a boat, middle-class families with RVs, high schools with football fields, and a very costly things average people own. They just can’t convert that prosperity to health and wellbeing.

@number_pizza111 Lots of great places in MS and lots of poor places. Oxford and Tupelo are great, for instance. The MS gulf coast is wonderful - Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Bay St. Louis. The food is wonderful, but not all of it is healthy. If you haven’t traveled throughout MS, you shouldn’t comment.

@Rainmaker1973 What happens when train passengers flush the toilets?

In Switzerland, they’re turning their train tracks into solar farms. [📹 Sam Bentley]

@eurofounder Assume this is satire.

My friend Wolfgang was turning 40 last weekend To celebrate, we took a tram to the city for lunch Few stops before Centrum, a ticket inspector gets on He checks my friend's ticket and frowns "Sir, you used the 51% student discount, but this is for students only" "That is correct. I'm in the 9th year of my PhD studies" Inspector nodded respectfully and handed the student ID back That's the thing Americans will never understand Wolfgang will soon enter the workforce with more knowledge than any American could ever dream of This is precisely why Europe will always be ahead of the US

@Vhgkasparov Or political party.

"Un hombre malo es capaz de quemar su propia nación hasta los cimientos para poder gobernar sobre sus cenizas." Sun Tzu

@acopo1024 @guypbenson Over half of US gunshot deaths are suicides. They do choose it. Gun control advocates lump together gun homicides and gun suicides because it makes the "gun deaths" number bigger.

@guypbenson Bit of an apples to oranges comparison here isn't it? You're framing Canadians dying from MAID as something that randomly happens to them. They choose it. Americans do not choose gunshot deaths. Just a weird two things to compare.

“A Canadian is nearly three times more likely to die by MAID than an American is to die by a gunshot…” tbecketadams.substack.com/p/where-does-s…

@bopanc China bought Kuka, Germany’s premier robotics firm, in 2016.

Probably lot of stolen German IP there. The German innovation genius - which has invented everything from the printing press to diesel engines to aspirin -has been stifled by regulation and bureaucracy. They were leaders in industrial robotics but sold out to China

@WSJ About 70% of those who go to Europe return in 2-3 years; they get some perspective on how good the US is.

Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries on.wsj.com/4aCs9rv

@number_pizza111 That’s why many companies come to the American South, like Alabama.

The thing about the Rust Belt is they don’t want manufacturing back. They just want to wallow in nostalgia and ressentiment. This sounds harsh, and it is, but their revealed preference is for complaining about their managed decline instead of accepting jobs that come their way.

@elonmusk Using an iPad to view X, when you start a video, you can’t get out of it. The arrow at the top left doesn’t work. Have to completely close out the app and start over. Help :-))

@Naturalphilosy Confusing average and median.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.” — George Carlin

@voteLabonte @lucyhargreaves4 You shouldn’t quote FRED statistics unless you understand what they mean.

@lucyhargreaves4 I bet we can get our unemployment rate down if we changed methodology as well. Alabama's participation rate is 57.7%. Canada's was 65.3% last year (statcan table 14-10-0327-02) So Canada is actually has a greater percentage of people actively in the economy and working.

Alabama's unemployment rate is 2.7%. Canada's is 6.5%. Alabama now manufactures nearly as many cars as Ontario. How did the one of the poorest states in the US start outcompeting us? The Globe went down there to find out. The short version: Alabama spent 30 years treating economic development like a serious strategy... landing investments, making it fast and easy to build, and clawing back incentives from companies that didn't deliver. Canada spent the same 30 years writing reports about competitiveness and then not acting on them. Eli Lilly just put a $6B pharma plant in Huntsville. That could have been Montreal. Alabama is no paradise. Life expectancy is 74 vs 82 in Canada, minimum wage is $7.25. But there's a line in the piece that stuck with me. In 2007, the Harper government commissioned a competitiveness report. The conclusion as to why it's difficult to take the actions needed to be more competitive: "Canadians do not perceive that there is an imminent crisis." The authors said you'd get the same answer today. I think they're probably mostly right. And as the Globe puts it: "If Canadians remain complacent, the rest of the world will eat our lunch." We're in a crisis, folks. An imminent one at that. Time to get seriously aggressive about the changes we need to make.

@voteLabonte @lucyhargreaves4 The unemployment rate and the labor force participation rate are two different things. If someone has not been actively looking for a job in the last month, they are not counted as “unemployed” because they are not part of the labor force.

@AndrewHammel1 Bow wow haus architecture.

I have always admired the resourcefulness of slum dwellers who build makeshift but sturdy homes out of random scraps of lumber, metal, and astroturf. Oops, my bad: This is an apartment house in Munich and a finalist for the 2026 German Architecture Museum Prize.