Dass das TV-Bild bei Fußballspielen aus den USA (wie aktuell oder damals bei der WM 94) völlig anders aussieht als bei uns, ist keine Einbildung. Es ist das Ergebnis aus alter Technik, US-Sehgewohnheiten und Stadionarchitektur. Ein kleiner Thread dazu: 👇

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

La spesa pubblica in conto capitale in Italia impiega storicamente il doppio del tempo rispetto alla media europea per tradursi in opere realizzate.

Today I briefed the @UN Security Council #UNSC on the situation at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the UAE 🇦🇪 following Sunday’s drone strike. While radiation levels remain normal and offsite power has been restored, the situation is of grave concern. As I told the Council, attacks against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes are unacceptable and carry undeniable risks for people and the environment. I also reiterated my call for all parties to respect the 7 indispensable pillars for ensuring nuclear safety and security. Over the past days, I have been in contact with leaders across the Gulf region. The @IAEAorg will continue doing everything within its mandate to help ensure nuclear safety and security and support efforts towards a diplomatic path forward. I will travel to the Gulf soon to continue this important work. My full remarks: iaea.org/newscenter/statemen…

Il bene di tutti non esiste: si elegge a maggioranza qualcuno che decide nell'interesse di quelli che rappresenta. A latere sta dicendo che i referendum non sono un processo democratico? Mattarella lo sa?

Visti facili ai cittadini russi, arrestato l’ex ambasciatore in Uzbekistan: “Mi servivano soldi” - la Repubblica repubblica.it

Se i cittadini non vanno a vedere i film impegnati/artistici occrre investire nella scuola, non nella produzione di film che nessuno vedrà

Incredibile come in Italia si parli di finanziare questo o quello (e.g. il cinema) senza nessun riferimento allo stato dei conti pubblici, senza alcun concetto di priorità (istruzione, sanità, ricerca) né considerazione per i risultati fin qui ottenuti

L'indice Gini cinese è ben più alto di quello italiano.

Il fascino delle materie Stem: l'esperienza degli studenti del Digital lab di Ericsson roma.corriere.it/notizie/cro…

Nobody could figure out why the abandoned Hendricks apple orchard suddenly bloomed in April 2019. The trees hadn't produced fruit in eleven years. County agriculture office sent two inspectors. They found sixty thousand honeybees working the property - a massive colony that had escaped from Tomás Vega's apiary three miles south. Tomás had reported the swarm missing in March. He expected them dead. Instead they'd colonized the hollow barn on the Hendricks lot and cross-pollinated every surviving tree. That October, the orchard produced twenty-two tons of Cortland apples. The Hendricks family offered Tomás a permanent lease. He moved his entire operation there the following spring.

No one does street name trolling quite like Prague

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❗️The Italian Iveco LMV Combat Armored Vehicle with additional armor saved Ukrainian soldiers from a direct hit by a Russian FPV drone.

RT @NonaMikhelidze: Amo quando, pur di prendersi chissà quale soddisfazione, i propagandisti russi finiscono per sputtanare i loro alleati.…

📢 Il tuo futuro in UniCredit può iniziare oggi. Cerchiamo giovani profili pronti a portare energia, curiosità e voglia di crescere in una banca che lavora ogni giorno accanto a persone, imprese e comunità.

The New York Times reported on April 10, citing US officials, that Iran has been unable to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz because it cannot locate all of the naval mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them. The IRGC used small boats to plant mines haphazardly during the early weeks of the war. Many locations were never recorded. Some mines have drifted from their original positions. Iran does not have a complete map of what it put in its own water. When Foreign Minister Araghchi said on April 8 that safe passage through Hormuz would be possible “with due consideration of technical limitations,” US officials now confirm he was not being diplomatic. He was being literal. The technical limitation is that Iran mined its own strait and lost track of where the mines are. Iran published a chart on April 9 through Tasnim and ISNA showing a large circle marked “danger zone” covering the standard shipping lanes, with two alternative IRGC-controlled routes around Larak Island. This is the chart of a country directing traffic around its own weapons because it cannot guarantee the weapons will not detonate under the traffic it is trying to collect tolls from. The toll system, the IRGC coordination, the escort protocol, the VHF passcode, all the infrastructure built to monetize the chokepoint exists because Iran cannot simply reopen the chokepoint. The tollbooth is not leverage. The tollbooth is a workaround for a self-inflicted minefield. Richard Meade, editor-in-chief of Lloyd’s List, described the situation during an April 10 webinar: “As of this morning, the Strait of Hormuz remains both open and closed, depending on your position, both geographically and geopolitically. It is, if you like, Schrödinger’s Strait.” Traffic on April 10 stood at 7 to 18 ships per day, with only 2 to 4 tankers, against a pre-war baseline of roughly 140 daily. Over 1,000 vessels are queued outside the strait, including 187 tankers carrying an estimated 172 million barrels of stalled crude. The backlog alone would take weeks to clear even if every mine vanished overnight. And the capacity to clear mines does not exist on either side. The US Navy decommissioned its last dedicated Avenger-class minesweepers before the war. It now relies on Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures modules that have never been tested at this scale. The Royal Navy withdrew its last mine countermeasures vessel, HMS Middleton, from the Gulf in early 2026 and transported it home on a heavy-lift ship because it could not make the voyage under its own power. The West dismantled its mine-clearing capability months before the war that required it. Trump demanded “complete, immediate, and safe opening” of the strait as the ceasefire condition. Vance is flying to Islamabad to negotiate terms that require a physical outcome neither side can deliver. Iran cannot find the mines. The US cannot sweep them. The UK sent its last minesweeper home on a cargo ship. And the ceasefire that was supposed to reopen 20 percent of the world’s oil supply is hostage to weapons that are drifting silently through a strait that nobody fully controls. The most honest phrase in the entire ceasefire was “technical limitations.” It just took the New York Times to decode what it meant. The mines are still there. The talks start tomorrow. And 20 percent of the world’s oil is waiting on a map that does not exist. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…