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The Empire State Building was built in 410 days — from 1930 to 1931.
🗽 1,454 feet tall. Done in barely over a year.
Now look around… projects drag on for a decade, triple their budget, and still aren’t done.
What happened to us? Overregulation? Bureaucracy? A culture shift?
Shoutout to Obama’s presidential library — years in, still not finished, and way over budget.
America used to build. Now it debates.
Europe is even worse, shoutout to Berlin Airport.
Elon should receive a U.S. diplomatic passport.
Because SpaceX has become critical to America’s access to space, national security, satellite communications, and technological leadership. Neuralink and his other ventures are pushing the frontier of innovation.
Few private citizens play a larger role in advancing U.S. strategic interests globally.
Whether you agree with him politically or not, the reality is that he represents American innovation on the world stage and faces significant risks because of it.
A diplomatic passport would recognize that reality.
It wasn’t.
With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.
And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.
Habe ich das richtig verstanden, Friedrich Merz bezeichnet fast jeden Dritten Deutschen - ungestraft - als Nazi-Nachfolger, aber wer ihn „Lügenfritz“ nennt, gegen den ermittelt die Staatsanwaltschaft?
Can anyone point me to a time where a third place candidate (3 days AFTER an election) suddenly has a surge where they start winning 1st place in every new drop by winning 40% of the votes in the batch? Try not to name a third world country. This is getting absolutely absurd.
According to artificial intelligence, the statistical probability of Spencer Pratt getting 0 out of 24,000 votes in last nights late night Los Angeles ballot drop is “1 in trillions”
California Democrats are rigging the election
@bundeskanzler Sogut wie alle Kommentare bestätigen, dass Sie höchst unpopulär sind Fritzchen. Sie sind und bleiben ein Amateur, Merkel hatte diesbezüglich recht.
@MaagTanja_al Kannst einfach nach Deutschland auswandern und dort die bunte Vielfalt mitgestalten oder falls Sie französisch sprechen, gerne nach Paris - BOMBENstimmung dort.
In 1696, the British government decided to tax sunlight. Under the Window Tax, households were charged according to the number of windows in their homes. To avoid paying, many people simply bricked up or boarded over their windows, choosing to live in darkness rather than hand money to the state for daylight.
The tax was presented as a fair way of taxing wealth, since larger houses tended to have more windows. In practice, it proved crude and damaging. Tax inspectors were given the power to enter homes and count the windows, which was widely resented as an invasion of privacy.
The consequences were severe. Poorer families, in particular, bricked up windows to reduce their liability, leaving homes darker, damper and poorly ventilated. This contributed to higher rates of disease, including tuberculosis and rickets. Architects began designing houses with fewer windows to minimise the tax, resulting in buildings that were less healthy and less pleasant to live in.
Far from being an efficient revenue raiser, the Window Tax distorted behaviour, harmed public health and became increasingly unpopular over time. Yet it remained in place for 155 years until it was finally abolished in 1851. The Window Tax required invasive enforcement and created more resentment, hardship and economic distortion than revenue. It is a classic example of the unintended consequences of taxation.
Il n’y a qu’en France où la victoire d’un club de foot provoque des émeutes. Il n’y a qu’en France où chacun se sent obligé de s’enfermer chez soi un soir de victoire pour éviter d’être confronté à des violences.