RT @boris_beissner: Der deutsche Wirtschaftsabstieg kam nicht plötzlich. Er war früh sichtbar, gut dokumentiert — und politisch ignoriert.…

This is one of the best essays I’ve ever read, thought-provoking and well-written. Its worth reading in its entirety

Today is Europe Day. So here is a thread about Europe’s most underrated achievement: Not that it became perfect. But that it turned centuries of war, borders and rival empires into one of the most functional civilizational networks on Earth. A lot of Europe’s miracles became boring. 🧵

On billionaires, please read this by Cory Doctorow, summarizing Thomas Piketty's 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺.

The poll WSJ loves says Brits would be "Mississippi if they were a US state." Mississippi has the lowest life expectancy in America (71.9 years). The UK is 81. So yes, by GDP/capita, Britain is Mississippi. By every measure that matters to a human being, it's not close.

justmovetoeurope[.com], five days in. 8,500 visitors. 26,800 page views. 10 cities live. 67% of traffic is mobile. People are sharing city pages in chats and DMs, passing them around like recommendations. That's the use case I was building for. Most visited cities: Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Munich, Paris. Barcelona, Lisbon, and Warsaw went live Sunday night and are already climbing. 14% of visitors are from the US. didn't do anything to target them. The most clicked guide on every single city page: "Your First 30 Days." People want to know what happens when they actually land. Someone typed /hamburg, /madrid, and /brussels into the URL bar. Those pages don't exist yet -> Noted. The site also got posted to Hacker News. First comment: "Europe is THE place to avoid. Full of regulations, fearful investors, conservative mindset." Familiar take. Some of it is fair. But I'd love to know how many people repeating it have actually tried. The founders I talk to building from Berlin, Amsterdam, or Stockholm aren't waiting for regulations to change. They're shipping anyway.

The text ruins it. Sauron's Tower with an Eat Pray Love sign hanging on it. No building can have both these vibes at once and the attempt is ridiculous.

A cartoon by Tom Toro.

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

This might not be the case. We should act as if it was to avoid it becoming the case.

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Fazit: Wer sachliche Debatten fordert, konkrete sicherheitspolitische Kritik aber ausweicht & abwertet, untergräbt genau die Lernfähigkeit, die für unsere nationale Sicherheit & strategische Kultur nötig ist. Analyse ist kein Angriff, sondern Voraussetzung dafür, Fehler nicht zu wiederholen. Mein Angebot zu einer öffentlichen, sachlichen Debatte steht weiterhin @ArminLaschet & @ischinger

RT @gemuellert: Mich nervt die EU ganz professionell quasi jeden Tag. Und trotzdem werde ich sie mit Zähnen und Klauen verteidigen gegen di…

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Man wird noch viel von ihm hören…

Um was ich die Contrarian Meinungsunternehmer etwas beneide, ist, dass sie am Ende immer gewinnen, egal ob bei Corona, Vakzine, Russland, Aufrüstung, Meinungsfreiheit, Klima, etc. Sie betreiben keine saubere analytische Arbeit, sondern warten ab, bis sich ein

RT @rumeliobserver: Facts and Lies. @EvaVlaar. In Germany (pop 85 million) the nr. of murder victims in 2024 was: 285. 🇩🇪 2 - 8 - 5 NO…

Finally!