Se um emigrante português regressa a Portugal, tem zero ajudas e ainda paga mais IRS. Mais vale atirar o passaporte ao mar e chegar de barco, assim parece um refugiado e tem casa, carro e subsídios. Absurdo!

A fortuna de Elon Musk é suficiente para comprar Portugal 3 vezes, com um PIB de cerca de 307 mil milhões de euros. Alguém que não considere isto perverso, injusto e extremamente perigoso, não está no seu perfeito juízo.

A Europa precisa de reflectir e agir no que respeita à IA. A decisão do governo americano quanto aos modelos mais recentes da Anthropic mostra bem que, neste momento, somos um sitting duck tecnológico. Por outro lado, e relacionadamente, é um assunto demasiado sério para q os governos nacionais deixem a liderança aos burocratas de Bruxelas, ainda q necessite da máxima cooperação

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Veiem per primera vegada la torre de Jesucrist il·luminada! L'espectacle de llum iniciat des de la base fins a la il·luminació de la creu ha culminat amb una composició de llums guiats per drons, que han dibuixat la figura Gaudí i la frase «primer l'amor, després la tècnica».

the Belgian Prime Minister today at the “One Europe, one market” event: "there are twice as many people working on compliance compared to innovation in Europe."

What fictional band from a movie or TV show do you desperately wish was a real-life touring band?

Milton Friedman's greatest regret. The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous. Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time. Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude. This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

Sociedade. Therians: o que são e como vivem as pessoas que se reconhecem como animais?

Kemi Badenoch: “I don’t want to hear” white lives matter. Keir Starmer: “There’s no such thing as two-tier policing”. Never have politicians been so out of touch with the people they’re paid to represent.