Dan Mance @dmance

@elonmusk Wait? What! You have optical cameras on each satellite?

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Thank you President Trump!

Je suis dans un train "climatisé" où il fait 26 degrés. Le wifi ne marche pas. Personne ne bronche. Et c'est ça qui me fascine le plus : pas la panne, mais l'acceptation collective. L'État socialiste a réussi un tour de force psychologique. Il nous a fait intérioriser qu'un service médiocre, payé une fortune, c'est normal. Que c'est même ça, le "service public". Le même service dans un marché libre coûterait une fraction du prix. Et si la clim tombait en panne, vous seriez remboursé dans l'heure, parce qu'un concurrent attend juste à côté que vous changiez de crémerie. Faites la liste de tout ce que l'État touche : L'école : effondrement du niveau, profs en burnout, classement PISA en chute libre. L'hôpital : des mois d'attente, des couloirs pleins de brancards, des soignants qui fuient. Le transport : retards, pannes, grèves, prix qui explosent. La justice : des années pour un jugement. La police : débordée, démoralisée. Budgets colossaux. Prélèvements records d'Europe. Résultat : tout est pourri. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'il manque deux choses que seul le marché fournit : le skin in the game et les prix. Le skin in the game d'abord. Un entrepreneur qui livre un service pourri fait faillite. Il perd SON argent, SA réputation, SES années de travail. Un bureaucrate qui gère mal un service public ne perd rien. Il sera promu, muté, ou au pire il attendra sa retraite. L'échec n'a aucune conséquence personnelle. Donc l'échec se répète, indéfiniment. Les prix ensuite. Hayek l'a montré : les prix de marché sont un système d'information. Chaque prix agrège des millions de décisions individuelles et signale où allouer les ressources. Quand l'État fixe les prix ou subventionne à perte, il détruit ce signal. Plus personne ne sait ce qui vaut quoi. On arrose au hasard, on gaspille, et on appelle ça de "l'investissement public". C'est pour ça que le bureaucrate est le pire locataire possible de vos impôts : il dépense l'argent des autres, pour les autres. Ni incitation à économiser, ni incitation à bien servir. Milton Friedman avait résumé ça en une phrase : c'est la pire des quatre façons de dépenser de l'argent. Le problème n'est pas tel ministre, tel gouvernement, telle réforme. Le problème est structurel. Un monopole sans concurrence, sans prix, sans skin in the game, produira TOUJOURS de la médiocrité. Peu importe qui le dirige. Peu importe le budget. Si vous avez compris ça, vous avez compris 90% de l'économie politique. Alors faites une chose simple : expliquez-le à vos proches. Au prochain train en retard, à la prochaine attente aux urgences, posez la question : "qui perd de l'argent quand ce service est mauvais ?" Réponse : personne. Voilà le problème. L'information finira par se propager. Et un jour, collectivement, on arrêtera de gober. Le problème, c'est l'État. Toujours.

ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH CLIP... Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA "They can have a weak economy that is underperforming and not doing well, and Carney can feel superior." "Or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy." "And Carney can do what a grownup should do, which is figure out." "...It's my job as a person who's supposed to protect Canadian jobs and Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy to not let my ego and my feelings dictate what's best for my own economy." Q "Do you think this will have implications for the USMCA?" Switzer "Yeah, of course it is..." "Look, was Ambassador Greer in Canada? Did he meet with Carney? No." "...The grownups are in the room talking because there's a grown up in the presidency in leadership there, and I would argue there's not a grown up in Canada in charge there." "You don't go out of your way to antagonize the leader of the country that you are absolutely existentially tied to." "It's just political malpractice." @markjcarney

Yep

Men only have 5 moods: 1. Constantly horny 2. how we gonna get rich 3. Random 2 am motivation 4. Intense loneliness 5. My family needs me

@ryangerritsen try's....sp: tries

@rosscoulthart @DrKeithLTaylor Unicode has only one 'Alien' emoji. You too can use the 'exact' same one that Hegseth used.

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@maniaUFO This looks like the orb from San Diego

Oh boy...about time.

Coming home from zoomies at the park

Well here you go...

@InterstellarUAP Jason jorjani gives the reason ...that the tech (once understood) also allows for time travel = changing future, and limitless energy = total destruction.

Make time to listen to Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech and Q-and-A at Davos. It is quietly but quite definitely anti-American. Thoroughly so, though cowardly in its avoidance of naming us or President Trump. The former banker got a standing ovation from the bankers annual pep rally. Of course he would. But as you listen, keep in mind some facts. First, Carney purports to speak for the “Middle Powers” —a variant of the non-aligned nations of the Cold War. Which is odd since Canada depends almost entirely on America for its national defense and for freedom of the seas that allows it to sell its oil. Second, Canada has 42 million people and a GDP of 2.4 trillion but doesn’t even spend 2% of that GDP on defense. (It promises to reach 2% by 2030. Right.) It is not a “Middle Power.” Carney says he stands with Greenland and Denmark (against whom he doesn’t say because in a uniquely cowardly approach to rhetoric he doesn’t name @POTUS or the U.S.), but when asked in the Q-and-A if there’s an “off ramp” on the subject, Carney is hopeful about the “discussions which have been catalyzed in an unusual way.” Carney talks about the need for Europe and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which doesn’t exist) to expand so as to counteract the “hegemons.” Yes, really he did. China and the U.S., just two hegemons. No differences at all. He doesn’t mention the $62 billion trade surplus Canada has with the U.S. In fact his speech is free of the reality of hard facts. (He does mention that Canada has submarines. It does. 4. The newest was commissioned in 2015. The other 3 were commissioned in 2003 (2) and 2000 (1).) Canada has a standing military of 68,000. Unlike Poland and Finland which are also frontline states with Russia, Canada doesn’t actually have any ability to repulse conventional incursions from Russia without the U.S. to quickly back it up. In short, it is a cowardly bit of theater by a banker for bankers, an anti-Trump speech by the fellow who just got back from warmly embracing Xi. (The genocide of the Uyghurs, the crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms, the ongoing threat to Taiwan, Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment —none of that distinguishes the “hegemons.”) The truth —the real, hard facts of the world— is that Canada is not a “middle power.” It’s a small power blessed to live under the security umbrella provided for the past 80 years by the U.S., and to earn its excellent standard of living because of the freedom of the seas guaranteed by the U.S. When you hear Carney declare Canada to be an “energy superpower,” ask yourself to which countries does it sell its oil and to which countries could its oil be sold should freedom of the seas be contested? Justin Trudeau was a clown. Mark Carney appears to be a vain banker from Tom Wolff’s Bonfire of the Vanities —a “master of the universe” in an imaginary world. Of course he got a standing ovation at Davos for his “Middle Power” chest thumping. What did Canada do to itself since the days of Harper and Mulroney? The link to the speech is in the replies. Listen to it all. I hope @POTUS does.

@EricLDaugh SUICIDAL EMPATHY in all of us command