I always found "everyone stops looking when the answer matches their priors" the most parsimonious of all world models.
You’re the most worthless, boring nitwit, and I do mean worthless, boring nitwit. You’re such a lunatic and lowlife people are now asking Candace Owens why she’s friends with you. Foul-mouthed simpleton.
In case you want to / have to leave a region for whatever reason (e.g. war), Bitcoin by far is the best asset as you can take it with you. Real estate is by far the worst.
Total value of global real estate 330 Billion - Bitcoin 1,4 Billion. That will change a lot in the future.
The below doctor is a hero and we should all be grateful that such individuals exist. Genuine #whistleblowing always involves detailed evidenced concerns as in the below case.
Bath surgeon sacked after raising safety concerns - BBC News https://share.google/AUUsHXZ9XsixwJ1WQ
Iranian tankers back to loading at Kharg this morning despite yesterday’s US strikes on the island, which currently stages the vast majority of Iranian exports.
In der neuen Samstagsfolge von «NZZ Akzent» erzählt unser Nahost-Korrespondent vom seltsamen Alltag in der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut, wo Explosionen und sicherer Alltag nebeneinander existieren. https://www.nzz.ch/podcast/wie-unser-nahost-korrespondent-rewert-hoffer-in-libanon-den-krieg-erlebt-ld.1929006?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031469b20201344f7d09b36c6565
Wahlen verändern nichts in Deutschland. Egal wer gewählt wird, alles bleibt beim Alten. Das geht auf Dauer nicht gut. Doch das politische System wirkt hilflos. „Große“ Koalitionen sind das Ergebnis. Zeit, grundsätzlich neu zu denken. Von Alexander Grau. https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/zur-krise-der-demokratie-auf-den-weg-in-den-systeminfarkt
"Strafrecht und #Meinungsfreiheit: Hitler mit Hakenkreuz - wer hätte das gedacht?"
Kolumne von @KubickiWo auf @cicero_online.
https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/strafrecht-und-meinungsfreiheit-hitler-mit-hakenkreuz-wer-hatte-das-gedacht
Nächste Frage: Warum kostet der Öko-Diesel HVO100 aktuell viel mehr als vor zwei Wochen? Er müsste praktisch günstiger als „normaler“ Diesel sein.
Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."
The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.
The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.
And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.
Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.
Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.
If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.
The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.
It never was.
FALSE. In the US, vaccine injury compensation for routine vaccines comes from a dedicated tax on vaccines sold - not from manufacturers paying out of pocket via lawsuits.
This directly removes any negative feedback loop, normally present in a market based society.
FALSE. In the US, vaccine injury compensation for routine vaccines comes from a dedicated tax on vaccines sold - not from manufacturers paying out of pocket via lawsuits.
This directly removes any negative feedback loop, normally present in a market based society.
Unsere Grenzen werden geschützt!: vor illegaler Benzineinfuhr ...
I must say, the collective hysteria was as plain as my nose. I can't imagine how anyone didn't see it. This holds true no matter how bad COVID was or wasn't, and how safe or effective the jabs were or weren't.
It really was mass hysteria like the 1518 dancing villagers. People thought the vaccine was a miracle cure and that you could not spread the virus if you were jabbed. The whole vaccine passport rubbish was built on that false premise.
Immer beides: Dummheit & Manipulation.
Klar manipulativ ist die Zusammenfassung von “Kosten und Gewinn”; der Rest ist einfach jedes Fehlen des Verständnisses, was Flächen quantitativ darstellen können.
Manchmal vermisse ich die Zeit, als ich solche Artikel für Journalismus hielt…
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/kriegsgefahr-deutsche-krisenmanager-bereiten-sich-auf-den-ernstfall-vor-a-a03b9e92-63c6-4a76-8747-8924ddd24433?sara_ref=re-so-tw-sh via @derspiegel
R to @txsalth2o: Found this post on FB the following day… people are pissed.
Had an interesting conversation with a Dr today.
He remembers being emotional about getting his covid vaccine in 2021 - believing he would be protected.
Now, he looks back and recognises the societal hysteria that led him to that place.
I hope more do as time goes on.
Die unsichtbaren Proteste – Wie Bilder aus Iran die Welt erreichen https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/proteste-im-iran-2026-warum-es-kaum-bilder-des-massakers-gibt-ld.1928937?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031469b20201344f7d09b36c6564
Fake News - sagte 2020 das BGM zu massiven Einschränkungen des öffentlichen Lebens - der Rest ist Geschichte ...
In 2013, Dominic Grieve said that “political corruption” was rife in Britain’s Pakistani heritage community because its members came “from backgrounds where corruption is endemic… One of the things you have to make absolutely clear is that it’s not acceptable.” He was accused of racism at the time.
Previously, in 2009, he said: “the reluctance to challenge negative cultural imports into our country by some immigrants, including discriminatory practices against women and corrupt political and electoral practices, is one of the most troubling consequences of a culture that wishes to avoid offence and accusations of racism”.
Dominic Grieve is the chair of the Islamophobia working group that has created the new Islamophobia definition — now rebranded as ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ — which will do exactly what he warned about in 2009 and would surely prohibit statements such as his in 2009.
1. השם הוא חארג, לא חארג'. קצת ידע בסיסי לא יזיק, למרות שאולי מוגזם לצפות לזה ממישהו בלי תעודת בגרות.
2. התקיפה שם כוונה למטרות צבאיות, לא לתשתיות נפט.
3. עשית כבר מספיק נזק בינלאומי עם האמירות חסרות האחריות שלך. תעשה טובה ותסתום את הפה.
Hormone therapy use and duration with postoperative radiotherapy for recurrent prostate cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis
http://spkl.io/6018AIsQm
In adults receiving heart transplants after donor circulatory death, rapid recovery with extended ultraoxygenated preservation enabled safe use of hearts from older donors and with longer ischemic times, with high short-term survival and low complications.
https://ja.ma/4drtLpE
Fewer than one-third of older adults receiving osteoanabolic therapy for #Osteoporosis received timely antiresorptive consolidation, highlighting gaps in guideline implementation. https://ja.ma/46u9ZFZ
🧐Weil nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf:
"Pandemie: Kaum 1 Corona-Klage hatte vor Gericht Erfolg"
RKIProtokolle?: keine "abschließende wissenschaftl Bewertung o abgestimmte Position des RKI", so die Richter.
Polit. Aufarbeitung zwingend.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus69b3f3cefc05063917a4a2f0/pandemie-kaum-eine-corona-klage-hatte-vor-gericht-erfolg.html via @welt
Herrlich. Fakten sind rechts.
Und dann Antworten ausblenden.
Nicht mein #TeamWissenschaft by the way.
Wenn ein mit Zwangsbeitragsgeldern hochbezahlter Anstaltsfunktionär wie Himmler von freien Medien als dem "Feind" spricht, dann ist diese Anstalt - Himmlers ZDF - zum Feind der Freiheit geworden.
Very interesting podcast, much recommended. A few thoughts:
1) The symbolic lynching of Vinay Prasad is a vibrant testimony to the utter mediocrity of legacy media and media-savvy medical commentators. All critical faculties have evaporated since 2020 when the opportunity for self-righteous intellectuals to present themselves as ideological warriors defending "science" presented itself. They just couldn't resist, and thus pounced on a scientist who was a Bernie Sanders supporter and has been fighting against Big Pharma for years with rare integrity - in other words, who was one of them -, all the while presenting this dubious feat as a righteous fight against Trump.
2) The notions of left and right are now in fact completely warped. Instead of wondering why there are so many former liberals in the MAHA administration, starting with RFK Jr who was a Democrat all his life and has the track record for it with his environmental fights, the American intellectual left has decided to go all in on the politicization of science. If people are hired by the Trump administration, then these people's views must be the "wrong science" or "the opposite of science."
It of course never crosses their minds to ask why on earth *they* are supporting Big Pharma with so much gusto, i.e., private interests now openly colonizing the American state to make it essentially fund with taxpayer money their increasingly shady products - increasingly shady because they are openly and covertly influencing regulators, who then close their eyes on minor shortcomings of eyewateringly expensive medicine, such as killing patients. "If it costs 3 million dollars per patient, it must be good" seems to be the new mantra, and never mind if the patient dies, poisoned by the drug: we paid, so it's the proof "we tried to do our best for people because we care."
Prasad should be the left's hero for trying to curb that egregious corruption and distortion of common sense, and instead the left is dogmatic enough to vilify him. Self-righteousness reigns supreme.
3) Which leads me to my third point: be it with Prasad, with the Covid vaccine for infants, or with the glyphosate saga, the pharmaceutical industrial complex is clearly winning. I worry it's already too late to stop its expansion: when an industry owns the media, part of the medical corporation, and a sufficient number of Congresspeople, there already is no one left to curb that power.
The intellectual class could and should have been that last opposition, but they were corrupted with a different currency: hubris. It was enough to dangle in front of them the carrot of "caring for each other" and "being smarter than the idiots" (conveniently all Trump supporters) who "don't understand science", and they were all in. As a historian of Stalinism with a special emphasis on Stalinist intellectuals, I alas know this process all too well.
What I never imagined in a million years is that the history books I was writing would become real life again in my own lifetime. I naively thought the critical mind taught for generations of scholars in the twentieth century would bear fruit and blossom in a wiser, more mature society; instead, we can now bear witness to the fact that critical mind is *still* easily knocked down by ideology.
I'm not sure anything can be done anymore about the financial domination of Big Pharma and its taking over Western and international institutions. I like to periodically remind the genius of John le Carré, who correctly identified Big Pharma as the next big threat after his Cold War novels. And as The Constant Gardener shows, the industry will go to any extent to consolidate its power.
But I do know from history that Stalinist intellectuals do wake up at some point when they realize their lofty beliefs turned into disaster and the bright future they believed in failed to materialize. Years later, they opened their eyes, astonished and ashamed at what they had done. What is more to the point, they set out to repair their own mistakes, which is exactly what we need today.
That road will be long. However, I do have one small hope to accelerate the process, and that hope lies in the uncovering of Covid's origins. Covid has the peculiarity of having been at the crossroads of the pharmaceutical industrial complex (that the left now openly supports) and of the military industrial complex (that the left still opposes.) That Covid was a lab leak or not, the investigation of its origins has at least provided abundant evidence that seriously invested research was led on coronaviruses in the past decade in the lofty, all be it greedy, hope to produce a vaccine and drugs against them (pharma complex), or in the much less lofty, and at least as greedy, hope to produce a biological weapon (military complex.)
That much is a fact. If definitive proof of the lab leak surfaced to cap it all, it might be the last drop that would unleash the watershed that might finally start to awaken people. I'm calling again on people like @DrJBhattacharya to make it happen!
"Mehrjährige Haftstrafen: Prozess um Spendensammlungen für IS beendet"
@CHBeckRecht-Aktuell, @beckonlinede
#Islamismus
https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/olg-hamburg-8St125-haftstrafen-prozess-spendensammlung-terrormiliz-is
Yes but, but.....ethical considerations, rigoroulsy tested and "safe and effective" 🤣🤣
"This lack of long-term inert placebo trials is not an oversight but a deliberate e̵t̵h̵i̵c̵a̵l̵ choice in vaccine development."
https://x.com/i/grok/share/46fe2b852aa44829b253acd3480fb1f4
We know there was a huge increase in myocarditis & other heart related conditions after the covid shots. Even amongst our own friends we have seen a huge increase of numbers with various forms of heart damage & some who have dropped dead suddenly, including a 31 year old & too many others below the age of 40.
Norbert Himmler ist als Intendant des ZDF wiedergewählt worden. Vor dem Fernsehrat pries er seinen Sender als Garanten der Demokratie. Da sollte sich das ZDF mal neu aufstellen. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien-und-film/medienpolitik/norbert-himmler-will-die-demokratie-retten-110853626.html?utm_term=Autofeed&campID=SCL-EAu2500002683&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1773481787
Wegen des Kriegs gegen Iran verlegen die USA Raketenabwehrsysteme von Südkorea in den Nahen Osten. Washingtons Strategieanpassung stellt die Regierung in Seoul vor ein Dilemma. https://www.nzz.ch/international/amerikas-truppen-in-suedkorea-sollen-zusaetzliche-aufgaben-uebernehmen-etwa-im-nahen-osten-ld.1923285?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031469b20201344f7d09b36c6563