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Not entirely sure why I'm here.

[Journalist V @OnTheNewsBeat]

During Op. Sindoor -

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Much, much harder to be a quarterback than an armchair quarterback

[sandra djajic @TakoTreba]

Just read that Starbucks lost $30B after hiring a McKinsey consultant as CEO.
Guy spent his career advising founders how to build companies, but never built one himself.

17 months later, he’s gone.
They bring in the Taco Bell CEO…
and the market cap jumps $20B overnight.

Turns out running a company is harder than advising one.

[Defence Matrix @Defencematrix1]

Here is the case, let's say a modern AESA can detect an aircraft with 5m² RCS at a distance of 200km.
So, What is the range at which Su 30MKI will be detected with an approx 15m² RCS?
It will be approximately 263 km.
So, using RAM coating and materials and bringing the RCS to 5m² will reduce the detection range by 63km, but won't be a significant change? Since aircraft can still launch long-range missiles at those ranges, then what is the benefit?
The main difference will come when you will add jamming. Let's just say it's −10 dB
The Detection range for 15m² RCS with jamming in this case will become 148 km, and for 5m² RCS it will be approximately 112 Km, which creates a big difference in BVR Combat, with the modern long-range missiles, hence keeps it relevant.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

I don’t know who this Pakistani woman is, but quite a rare mix of poise, clarity, and courage.
It is not easy to speak about the Pakistan generals like this.

[Experience Abu Dhabi @VisitAbuDhabi]

Basketball meets Emirati artistry with @Mnawrah
The new Knicks court at Sheikha Fatima Park is here! Discover it for yourself and shoot some hoops in Abu Dhabi 🔥

[Alayna Treene @alaynatreene]

Full story on how it all happened: https://t.co/iG5bbrIhKW

[Richard @ricwe123]

This man was repeatedly slammed as a "Putin apologist," yet his analysis from a decade ago remains undeniably accurate...

(John Mearsheimer)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Making a simple hydrogen generator from old battery 🪫

[📹 makeitextreme98]
https://t.co/P3xiJdUkbH

[Cooper @Cooperstreaming]

If you'd like to see how absolutely nothing has changed in the conversation around Israel & Palestine despite decades of violence, here's Jon Stewart doing a bit that could literally air today without a single change.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Turkish photographer Ugur Gallenkus portrays two different worlds within a single image. Brilliant work

[V @JemappelleV]

@wholemars @BarackObama @elonmusk @SaveVidBot

[Kausshal | Teapreneur @Teapreneur]

DID THE BRITISHERS BEGIN TEA CULTIVATION IN INDIA?

With their lack of expertise & little understanding of Indian terrain, how did they accomplish such a feat?

Search for the man behind the genesis of Indian tea took me to a remote corner of Assam.

Here's the whole story:

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Just two humans having a perfectly natural conversation.

[Vishnu Som @VishnuNDTV]

1. Never be fooled by apologists for Chinese expansion in Arunachal who will deflect, obfuscate, allege motives and draw false equivalences to `manage perception.' This thread lists key quotes from experts with immense credibility, decades of experience.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Frameworks provide clarity in complex situations.

Here are 20 useful frameworks (on startups, investing, writing, & life):

[Frud Bezhan فرود بيژن @FrudBezhan]

Taliban saying all the right things (amnesty, women’s freedoms, free media)

They’re telling the world what it wants to hear.

Outside #Kabul, the situation is starkly different.

Taliban have reimposed its repressive laws, oppressing women and banning independent media.

[V @JemappelleV]

unbelievable scenes of human travesty

[Palki Sharma @palkisu]

Kabul airport. #Afghanistan
Five videos that show the fear and desperation of the Afghan people. 1/5