Alexander Kaspar

Liebe Kanzlei von @HateAid, von 12 Seiten Schriftsatz 3 darauf verwenden, mich beim Gericht persönlich schlecht zu machen? Ist das professionell? Sowas machen sonst nur die betrogen Ehefrauen im Scheidungsverfahren. Fehlen Euch am Ende Sachargumente?

파리 샤넬 매장 직원분이 스카프를 카멜리아(동백꽃)처럼 묶고 계셨는데 바로 이거예요. 우아한 파리지앵 분위기가 정말 멋졌답니다. 이렇게 하면 간단하게 카멜리아 매듭을 재현할 수 있어요 ↓

Die Regelung im Wehrpflichtgesetz (3 WPflG) galt bislang nur im Spannungs- und Verteidigungsfall. Jetzt möchte der Staat durchgehend um Genehmigung ersucht werden, wenn sein Kanonenfutter eine Reise plant. Aus verfassungsrechtlichen Gründen ist die Änderung nicht hinnehmbar.

Mystified by your guest in the antiques trade. Dealer here. Covid did not spark a trend for large dining tables. Quite the reverse. People decluttered. Many antique dealers can no longer afford bricks and mortar premises, and have moved out of furniture dealing, into trading in “smalls” and jewellery. Portable items easily posted, traded from a spare room online. Georgian and Victorian furniture sells for a fraction of its worth. Philistines are in the ascendant, buying machine-made rubbish. Younger generations for all their eco-friendly beliefs, actually want to change the colour/theme of their decor as often as their cheap overseas made dodgy labour T-shirts, binning their furniture, and opting for new colours every few years. They won’t wash up by hand so don’t use antique glass, crystal, delicate or gold-edged crockery, bone-handled cutlery. Every single week I have customers in the shop or emailing me, wanting to sell items to me, rather than buy, saying “the children don’t want it” about their own or their parents’ possessions and antique or decorative collections. It’s a full blown crisis, which started years ago. Craftsmanship is no longer valued. They buy Ikea because it’s cheap and guilt-free at replacing it, and Oka for status (!), happy to buy lower quality overseas items. Teach generations of kids to despise British history and, surprise, they may not want reminders of it in their homes, so the antiques print trade is slumping too. Those of us who keep going fight on, in a mad world of fewer customers but higher overheads; rent, rising rates and utilities, VAT, unable to justify/afford employing others. The very top end of our trade, supplying the very highest quality pieces to the very wealthy, is insulated to a degree, though many have moved from London to out of town cheaper premises and collectives. @TimesRadio

Wenn eine Ministerin gewählt ist, hat sie die Legitimation des Parlaments, ihre Politik durchzusetzen. Ihre Beamten haben zu gehorchen. Die linken Kader unter der Beamtenschaft haben sich aber die Abschaffung der Demokratie auf die Fahnen geschrieben. Wie das geht, kann man im Wirtschaftsministerium beobachten. Reiche will den Wahn mit sogenannter erneuerbarer Energie beenden. Das ist legitim. Es ist ein politisches Anliegen. So haben Wähler gewählt, so hat der Bundestag sie gewählt. Nur ist das Ministerium voller linker Beamter, die auf neue Mehrheiten und damit neue Politik keine Lust haben. Und anders als der kreuzbrave konservative Beamte versteht sich der linke Beamte nicht als Staatsdiener, sondern als verlängerter Arm der eigenen Parteipolitik. Reiches Beamte arbeiten seit Anbeginn gegen die Ministerin. Nur: Die Ministerin ist politisch legitimiert, die Beamten sind es nicht. Jetzt greift Reiche zu einem Notmittel und engagiert externe Berater, die den Job erledigen, den sie erwartet und den die hochbezahlten und pensionsberechtigten Beamten verweigern. Daraus folgt: Ein politischer Wechsel von links nach rechts ist in Deutschland dank jahrzehntelanger Kaderpolitik von SPD und Grünen im gesamten öffentlichen Dienst nicht mehr möglich. Es spielt keine Rolle, wen die Wähler wählen. Der linke Apparat versteht es bestenfalls als vorübergehende Unterbrechung weiterer Linkspolitik. Damit ist die Demokratie suspendiert. Also sollte es kein Berufsbeamtentum mehr geben. Die Ministerin sollte unfähige und/oder unwillige Beamte feuern dürfen. Nicht unter Vorwänden, sondern ganz offen, offiziell begründet mit Unfähigkeit oder Unwilligkeit. Eine Massenentlassung linker Beamtenkader wäre vermutlich das beste Demokratieprogramm, das man sich vorstellen kann.

The diamond engagement ring was invented by an ad agency in 1947. Before that, only 1 in 10 American brides got one. The company behind it, De Beers, was worth $9.2 billion three years ago. Today that number is $2.3 billion, and its owner is trying to find a buyer. In 1940, diamonds were a luxury for the rich. Nobody proposed with one unless they had serious money. De Beers had a warehouse full of diamonds and no customers, so they hired NW Ayer, an ad firm out of Philadelphia. A copywriter named Frances Gerety came up with four words: “A Diamond is Forever.” NW Ayer paid Hollywood studios to write diamond proposals into movie scripts. They planted stories in gossip columns about which rock some actress just got. They invented the “two months’ salary” rule, the idea that a man should spend two months of income on a ring. None of that existed before. It was all marketing. By the 1990s, 8 out of 10 American brides wore diamond engagement rings. Then De Beers did it again in Japan, going from 5% to 60% in 14 years. Advertising Age called it the greatest advertising slogan of the 20th century. They were right. The whole business ran on one trick: make diamonds seem rare. De Beers controlled most of the world’s supply but only released a small amount each year. That artificial shortage kept prices sky-high. And the “forever” in the slogan had a second job: if nobody resells their diamond, supply stays tight and prices stay up. Lab-grown diamonds blew that apart. You can now grow a diamond in a lab that is the same thing, atom for atom, as one pulled out of the ground. Costs 80–85% less. In 2019, only 6% of engagement rings in America had a lab-grown stone. By 2025, that number was 61%. That’s from The Knot’s annual survey of 10,000+ newlywed couples. People are buying bigger rings (1.9 carats on average, compared to 1.6 for mined) and keeping the savings. De Beers saw this coming. In 2018, they launched their own lab-grown jewelry brand called Lightbox, priced at $800 per carat. The idea was to make lab-grown look like cheap costume jewelry so people would still pay a premium for “real” diamonds. Prices tanked 90% anyway. By 2025, American grocery stores were selling lab-grown diamond rings for $200. De Beers shut Lightbox down last May. Since 2023, De Beers has lost nearly $7 billion in value. It lost over $500 million in 2025 alone and has about $2 billion in diamonds sitting in storage that nobody is buying. Its parent company, Anglo American, is now in what they’re calling “advanced discussions” to sell off the whole thing. A 137-year-old company, dumped. The greatest ad campaign ever made convinced a planet that a common carbon crystal was worth two months of your salary. The product that’s killing it just proved you can grow the same crystal in a factory for pocket change.

Ich wars auch nich🕵️‍♀️

Silber ist unsinkbar, egal in welchem Zustand.

Sehr süß, aber die G Klasse ist auch cool.

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just ended the Cabinet meeting with a VERY bad warning for useless American "allies" "I've done a great favor for the world. The world has not been, it has not been reciprocal because when I told NATO where we give billions and billions of dollars, trillions over the years, I said, do you mind coming up and giving us a little hand with the Straits, send up some, they didn't want to get involved!" "And I believe that's going to cost them dearly. Thank you very much everybody." Trump never forgets.

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

In the 1990s, I had the honor of meeting Mr. Onitsuka, the Adi Dassler of Asia, for an interview. Afterwards, he gave me a pair of shoes. A remarkable personality.

Now you know…cus I just learned too! 😊

To some European or NATO leaders: No one said, Go to battle against Iran. But come, defend your bread, your water, your medicine. Fight your own fight and do not expect the hand of another, neither the Americans nor any, to do it for you. You are timid. Liars. Pharisees of diplomacy, preaching virtue while sowing death through inaction. Yes, Iran is dangerous with its missiles and drones. But when the nations marched against Libya to strike down Qaddafi, no fear of danger stopped them. Yet Libya did not close the Strait of Hormuz, did not choke 13% of EU gas, 4% of its oil, and did not hold humanitarian aid ransom. Compare the deeds! One dictator killed far fewer than the regime in Iran, which has spilled the blood of millions, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Americans, French, Germans, all nations under heaven. And you, O Europe, you want all the fruit but fear the thorns. You tremble at terminology, yet your deeds cry louder: timidity. You would let the region burn beneath the Iranian scourge, yet wag a finger and preach restraint. Grow up, leftist leaders. This is not revenge on Trump for his Ukraine stance. For once, act like leaders, not teenagers with hormones. Act like shepherds of your people, not goats led by whims. The UAE said it: we can stand, alongside the nations, to guard the Strait of Hormuz. Iran hurled its darts and fires upon us. We stopped Iran where it tried to stop us. Call us the Sparta of the Middle East, for we guard the gates while you hide behind scrolls and speeches. Remember: the flow of trade and the lifeblood of nations is a trust for all, not a responsibility for the idle. The river of commerce flows only when the hands of the brave keep the way clear, not when the timid pray from afar.

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto.

I'm Italian. I just got back from Rome. Over dinner, old friends and I started arguing about the same thing we always argue about: which cities in Italy are genuinely incredible but nobody ever talks about? We went back and forth for hours. By the end of the night, we had a list. 7 hidden cities that most people, including most Italians, will never think to visit, let alone move to. No crowds. No tourist markup. Insane quality of life. Thread 🧵

@anibu611 Extrem peinliche Vorstellung.

Die Russen und Chinesen sind körperlich behindert, die Deutschen geistig, denn ansonsten würde man nicht ein gemeinsames Foto boykottieren. Erbärmlich wie sie sich instrumentalisieren lassen.

True

That's me in my natural habitat🤩🧠🫀🫁