Viera @vierab

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in. Two years later, it was over. 🧵

Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book: 1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the second-handers. 2. Howard Roark is an architect who will only build what he actually believes in. He starves rather than compromise the design. The world resists him constantly. 3. Peter Keating is the opposite – talented enough, but builds his entire career on flattering clients, copying styles, and climbing socially. He succeeds, but remains hollow. 4. The villain, Ellsworth Toohey, is the system made conscious: he deliberately promotes mediocrity, knowing that a world of second-handers needs a critic to tell them what to think – and that gives him total power. 5. Roark’s crime, in the eyes of that world, isn’t failure – it’s that he doesn’t need their approval. That independence is experienced as an affront. 6. The novel’s argument: civilization’s actual source is the rare individual who originates rather than imitates. Everyone else — including people who despise him — lives downstream of what he creates. 7. The Fountainhead is Roark himself. Not a fountain – a fountainhead: the original source, where the water actually comes from. Before the river, before the tributaries, before anyone else draws from it. The title says: find that person, and you’ve found where everything real begins.

Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland

7 days ago

Atlas Shrugged made simple: 1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted. 2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more

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Hedonic Hunger Versus Real Hunger You can eat steak, eggs and vegetables until you're full and still want that cookie. Why? That's not physical hunger. The literature calls it hedonic hunger, an emotional type of hunger, and you can't beat it until you understand what generates it. I'm breaking down the two types of hunger at the free Type 2 Diabetes Summit. Register free #Type2Diabetes #InsulinResistance #MetabolicHealth #BloodSugar #DiabetesReversal #HedonicHunger #EmotionalEating #Cravings #AppetiteControl #Hunger #Nutrition #FastingMD #Mindset

If you think his resignation will make things better, you're wrong. Bad is over, worse is coming. I doubt Andy Burnham will be any better, which is why they must have a general election. Andy Burnham is more left oriented than Starmer. He wants to join to EU and more diversity for UK.

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Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

2 weeks ago

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer announces he's resigning Prime Minister "Every decision I have taken is about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign"

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autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

Elon Musk just created a windfall of $12 billion USD for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, thanks to their investment in SpaceX. That’s nearly $17,000,000,000 CDN. The communists who run the union will still complain about him.

Canada is in a recession right now. How many Canadians who are struggling to put bread on the table are happy to send $100 million to Palestinians?

The Globe and Mail @globeandmail

4 weeks ago

Canada pledges $100-million for Palestinians facing humanitarian crisis, increased violence theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

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Listening to @GadSaad break down Canadian taxes on Sean Hannity… aren’t you just excited to be Canadian?? From January 1st until the end of August, you work for free for the government. Only starting in September do you finally get to keep what you actually earned. Provincial tax capped at 25.75%. Federal tax at 33%. Already deep into the 50s before you even spend a dollar. Then add the double sales tax, carbon tax, gas tax, property tax, and school tax — and you’re left with roughly 30 cents on every dollar you make. This isn’t “contributing to society.” This is modern serfdom dressed up as compassion. The same government that wastes billions on ArrivScam, failed apps, and fax machine replacement programs now expects you to hand over eight months of your life every single year. And they still have the nerve to tell you there’s no money left for actual Canadians. Wake up. This didn’t happen by accident. #cdnpoli #TaxFreedomDay #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst

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There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

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HTML is the new markdown. I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.

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“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” — Milton Friedman

To be truly fluent in English, you must know your shits Part 2 Dogshit: Very poor quality Bullshit: Not true Horseshit: Nonsense Apeshit: Rambunctious Batshit: Insane Chickenshit: Cowardly Ratshit: Poor quality No shit: Obviously Holy shit: Unbelievable Hot shit: Very good Dipshit: Total dumbass Tuff shit: Take it or leave it Jack shit: Nothing The shit: Perfection Deep shit: Big trouble Shitfaced: Drunk Shitstorm: Chaos Piece of shit: Lousy person/thing Full of shit: Lying Shit-ton: Huge amount Shithead: Jerk Shithole: Terrible place Brick shithouse: Curvy/voluptuous No shit, Sherlock: Sarcastic obvious Don’t give a shit: Don’t care Shit happens: Oh well I shit you not: Truth Shit stirrer: Drama starter The shits: Diarrhea Good shit: Excellent Crock of shit: Nonsense Shit sandwich: Bad situation

Slaves used to work all day, every day with no pay. But they got free food, water, and shelter. Today, we work all day, nearly every day and we get paid. But the money we make we spend on food, water, and shelter. We’re still slaves, the only thing that has changed is the illusion of freedom.

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

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Omg this is one coolest stage performances I have seen. I don't understand the words but the singing is so beautiful. This is art. Rosalia 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

“Long live Nayib Bukele” President Bukele rid his Country from the tyrannical grip of the Cartels, Judicial Criminals and the Infiltration of George Soros and began working for his people. El Salvador is now one of the safest tourist destinations in the World as opposed to its former title of being one of the primary Murder Capitals. “That is the feeling of many tourists when they visit El Salvador…admiration, surprise, and the desire that the transformation President Bukele is building will also reach their countries. That is exactly what a Guatemalan expressed when he arrived at the Historic Center of San Salvador” This video is a short nighttime interview at the illuminated Cathedral Plaza. The interviewer asks the Guatemalan tourist where he’s from and what he thinks of El Salvador. He replies that it’s beautiful, “Qué bonito”, and proudly holds up a Guatemalan flag, and says he hopes the same positive change happens in Guatemala… “Primero Dios, que sea el cambio verdadero… ¡Que viva Nayib Bukele!” – “God willing, may the real change happen… Long live Nayib Bukele…”