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Wow, JD Vance is publicly slamming Netanyahu and his cabinet for their opposition to the Iran deal

Elon Musk:”You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own. And what does it get spent on? A bunch of stuff you don’t even agree with. That’s why we need to reduce the size of government, spend less money and let the people keep a lot more of their hard-earned money.”

You've heard of data centers in space... What about gas stations in space? ⛽️ ⁨@DawnAerospace⁩ has raised US$25 million at a US$200m valuation to start a satellite refueling market, including deploying gas stations in orbit. "About 80% of satellites run out of fuel and are decommissioned for that reason, not because they broke." Co-founder & CEO @Stefan__Powell says refuel capability will dramatically improve constellation economics. "Imagine how much more useful a car is because you can refuel it, or conversely, how terrible your transportation would be if you could only fuel your car up once." "That's kind of the current paradigm of space." TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Inside Dawn Aerospace's capital raise 05:15 - Space investment hype 06:42 - Separating the company from space junk 08:56 - Satellite refueling plans 14:10 - Gas stations in orbit 16:14 - How to dock & refuel small sats 18:55 - National security need 21:22 - Improving constellation economics 27:05 - Outro Disclosure: My family participated in Dawn's capital raise via @IcehouseVenture :)

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The insane level of engineering behind ancient Roman aqueducts

This actually happened and still happens

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🚨NEW: Rupert Lowe’s Independent Rape Gang Inquiry estimates that at least 250,000 white British girls have been groomed, raped, and abused by perpetrators who are predominantly Pakistani Muslims

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You were told Britain was cut off from the world until the Romans came. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 This boat proves it wrong. 🛶🔎 In 1992, road workers in Dover cut into a riverbank and found her. 9 metres of oak, stitched with yew, waiting in the silt for 3,500 years. Around 1,500 BC, British boatbuilders on the Kent coast launched a vessel built to take the English Channel. Oak planks shaped with bronze tools. Sewn together with yew withies, the way our shoemakers still stitch leather. The seams sealed with moss and beeswax. She worked the crossing. British tin went south. Continental bronze came north. Bronze Age Britain was trading with Europe in its own boats, before anyone in Italy had built a city called Rome. Then she was lost in the silt of the Dour river-mouth, where the modern town of Dover now sits on top of her. In September 1992, workers digging the new A20 found her. The yew stitching still intact. The moss and wax still sealing the seams. Britain's oldest sewn-plank seagoing vessel. Launched from a British shore, year after year, before Stonehenge was finished. You were told the British were isolated until the Romans came. They were crossing the Channel in their own boats 1,500 years earlier. Never primitive. Never alone. We tell the parts of our history that get left out, free, for anyone who wants them. Want to learn more? Visit: Proudofus.co.uk/teach If you can afford to support our mission: proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

#モータースポーツの魅力を伝えたい 13Lトリプルターボディーゼルエンジンを2つ積んだトラックと (乾燥)重量トン切り400馬力グループBラリーカーがガチンコ直線勝負して、トラックが勝つ恐ろしい競技

The person who built this bridge deserves an Oscar award. 😂

How beautiful is this place… 😍🇺🇸 Two British lads, Josh & Jase, on their epic adventure Visiting America stumbled upon this hidden gem in the middle of an Arkansas forest — one of the most unique chapels in the country! It feels straight out of a Lord of the Rings scene, peaceful, majestic, and a stunning reminder of God’s incredible creation. What an amazing find while exploring our beautiful country! In the hustle of life, places like this stop you in your tracks and whisper, ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ Thank you for sharing this with us! ❤️

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Meet one of the most adorable birds in the world Shimaenaga found only in Hokkaido Japan 🇯🇵 The long -tailed tit is also known as the winter bird.because they are mostly seen during winter. Shimaenaga affectionately called the snow fairy is fluffy round and looks like a flying cotton ball. #japan    #naturelovers #shimaenaga #birds

He never contacted me. Never interrupted my life. Never tried to replace the man who raised me. Instead, he bought the house next door. And spent years quietly watching over me. The college scholarship I thought was random? Him. The anonymous donation that saved my business? Him. The stranger who paid my hospital bill after my accident? Also him. The fake plant wasn't a joke. It was a test. He wanted to know if I was reliable. If I kept my word even when something seemed pointless. Because hidden beneath the plant pot was one final envelope. A will. Everything he owned had been left to me. Along with a letter. The last line still makes me emotional. "I missed being your father." "But watching you become the man you are was the greatest privilege of my life." For five years, I thought I was being paid to water a fake plant. Turns out, I was earning the trust of a father I never knew I had.

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting

This was the first and only time the Queen appeared in such a "cinematic" scene. The Queen agreed to star alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond. When Bond arrived to greet her at Buckingham Palace, the Queen's famous corgi dogs also appeared in the scene. This moment quickly became one of the most talked-about Olympic opening ceremonies of all time. The Queen was 86 years old at the time, but she was still willing to participate in such a surprising and humorous performance. The director of the scene was Danny Boyle, an Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire.

Watch a spacecraft the size of a skyscraper flip itself upright and land softly in the ocean. First time in history.

In 1821 Britain put the pound back on gold at the old prewar parity of £3 17s 10½d per ounce, the rate Isaac Newton had set at the Royal Mint over a century earlier. The Bank of England had suspended convertibility in 1797 during the wars with France, printed freely, and watched prices climb. Then it did the hard thing. It contracted, restored the link, and let the pound mean something again. Now read your modern economics textbook and you will find a single word for what followed: deflation. Prices in Britain fell, gently and persistently, across most of the nineteenth century. The wholesale price index in 1900 sat below where it stood in 1820. By the catechism preached at every central bank today, this should have buried British industry in a tomb of falling wages and frozen investment. Instead you got the most explosive burst of productive energy in human history. The railways spread from a few colliery lines in the 1820s to over 6,000 miles of track by 1850. Cotton output multiplied. Iron, steel, shipping, the telegraph, the steam engine refined and refined again. Real wages rose precisely because prices fell while output soared, which is what happens when productivity outruns a stable money stock. Working men bought more bread, more cloth, more tea, with the same shillings. The horror. Falling prices did not strangle growth. Falling prices were growth: more goods chasing the same gold means each coin buys more. A sound currency rewarded the saver, punished the speculator, and forced every entrepreneur to compete on real efficiency rather than ride a wave of fresh credit. The Bank could not paper over bad decisions, because there was no paper to spare. Compare that pound to the one in your pocket, which has lost north of 99 percent of its 1971 value. They will tell you 2 percent annual erosion is "price stability." Newton would have hanged the man who proposed it.

Mark Cuban revealed the secrets that turned him from bartender to billionaire: 1. Do not follow your passion. Follow your effort. Where you actually put your time and energy is where your real talent lives. Passion is a feeling. Effort is evidence. The business you are willing to grind for is the business you should be building. 2. Read the manual. In any new industry or technology, most people are too lazy to learn the basics. The person who simply takes the time to understand how something works will always be ahead of the person who does not. That gap is your opportunity. 3. Sweat equity is the best equity. Raising money is not an achievement. It is a liability. The moment someone gives you money they own a piece of your destiny. Build with effort first and capital second. 4. Be profitable from day one. Cuban never had a losing month at Micro Solutions. Not one. Profit is not something you figure out later. It is the discipline you build from the very first transaction. Growth without profit is just a slow death. 5. Sales cures all. Every single problem in a business can be solved with more revenue. If you are struggling, you are not selling enough. Stop fixing internal problems and go get more customers. 6. Differentiation is everything. If you are describing your company using words like faster, better, or cheaper you have already lost. Those words mean nothing because your competitor is saying the exact same thing. Find the thing only you can do and make that the whole story. 7. Always ask is this the best possible way. Cuban does not just look at businesses and think about improvements. He looks at them and asks whether they can be completely dismantled and rebuilt from scratch. That question is what turned a desire to hear basketball games into a company he sold for billions. 8. Control your own destiny. The minute you become dependent on a partner, an investor, or a single customer for survival, you have handed your future to someone else. Every decision you make should protect your ability to operate independently. 9. Entrepreneurship is not about the idea. It is about doing the work everyone else refuses to do. Most people get excited about an idea, talk about it, and stop there. The ones who win are the ones who wake up the next day and actually do something about it. 10. Lie to yourself and you will fail. Cuban says entrepreneurs deceive themselves more than anyone. About whether their idea is truly different. About how hard their competition will fight back. About how much time they actually have. Brutal honesty with yourself is not optional. It is survival. 11. Time is worth more than money. Cuban turns down investments not because of the financials but because of the time they will cost him. Money can be made again. Time cannot be recovered. Every opportunity should be measured against what it costs you in hours not just dollars. 12. Success is waking up excited about the day. Not the net worth. Not the title. Not the house. Cuban defines success as opening your eyes in the morning and feeling genuinely excited about what is ahead. Everything else, the money, the fame, the Mavericks, is just a byproduct of that feeling.

This is why smart people rarely build businesses Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer. He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise. His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it. Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered." He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up. This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose. Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors. There is a process, obviously. Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir. Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy. And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent. So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass. Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite. Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.