glkj

[Atlántico Dulce. @AtlanticoDulce]

En Suiza, las familias de dinero antiguo enseñan a sus hijos un ritual extraño con dinero en efectivo.

Los psicólogos dicen que rompe la mentalidad de pobreza en tres meses:

[James Kim @King_James_Kim]

결혼 해보세요.
무슨 말인지 이해하실꺼에요.

[hifriend @hifriends7640]

“대자연의 입장에서 본다면 모든 사람들은 풀과 꽃이나 나무와 비슷한 존재거든요.

꽃이 꽃을 피운다고 옆에 있는 풀이 그 꽃을 시기하거나 질투하거나 끌어내리려고 하지 않고,

자라나고자 하는 나무가 꽃을 피우는 꽃을 보고 질투하지 않거든요.”

사주나 관상을 크게 믿는 편은 아니지만,
박성준 역술가님을 참 좋아한다.

사람마다 피어나는 시기도 다르고,
자라는 속도도 다르고,
저마다 어울리는 자리도 다르다는 말.

누군가 먼저 꽃을 피웠다고 해서
내가 뒤처진 것도 아니고,
남의 꽃을 꺾는다고 내 꽃이 더 아름다워지는 것도 아니다.

비교하고 질투하느라 마음을 소모하기보다
각자의 자리에서 자기 계절을 살아가면 되는 것.

구구절절 맞는 말이다.

[glkj @LebeninFFT]

독일에서 집을 사는 것은 지금은 무리가 아닌가 생각한다.

제로 금리였을때가 아마 집을 살 수 있는 기회였음.

앞으로 미국이 금리를 올리기 시작하면 유럽도 그 추세를 이어갈 것이고 지금보다 집을 사는게 더욱 어려워질거라 생각한다.

독일은 임대로 이사 안가고 끝까지 버티는게 유리

[sparbuchfeinde @sparbuchfeinde]

Junge Familie hat Eigenkapital angespart und möchte sich in NRW den Traum vom Eigenheim erfüllen.

Kaufpreis Haus: 700.000 Euro
Eigenkapitalforderung der Bank: 175.000 Euro
Kredit: 525.000 Euro
Zins: 4,3%
Tilgung: 1,5%
Grunderwerbsteuer: 45.500 Euro
Monatliche Rate: 2.537,50 Euro

Selbst wenn du es irgendwie schaffst die 175.000 Euro über Erbschaften oder extreme Sparsamkeit zusammen zu bekommen, musst du anschließend knapp 3.000 Euro monatlich für Wohnen stemmen.

Und dann kommt noch der Staat und möchte 45.500 Euro Steuer von dir. Allein für diese Summe muss ein normales Ehepaar ein komplettes Jahr arbeiten gehen.

Und jeden verdienten Cent aufs Sparkonto packen.

Absurd.

[IRU @the_IRU]

2.9 million truck driver roles sit unfilled globally.

In Europe alone, 65% of operators rank the shortage as their single most pressing concern.

This isn't a passing cycle. It's a structural challenge.

Read what the data shows in IRU's Global Driver Shortage Report 2025 ⤵

[glkj @LebeninFFT]

유럽에서 내가 생각하는 가장 매력적인 국가 2개 중 1개라 생각

[Francesco Sassi @Frank_Stones]

Norway is officially breaking with Brussels' energy policies.

Norwegian Energy Minister Terje Aasland has declared that Oslo will pursue Barents Sea oil & gas exploration—regardless of any EU Arctic moratoriums.

Here is why the EU–Norway energy alliance is fracturing 🧵🇳🇴🇪🇺👇

[Análise Geopolítica @AnaliseGeopol]

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 A Rússia estaria preparando uma grande mobilização militar com cerca de 500 mil soldados e milhares de blindados para abrir uma nova linha de frente contra a Ucrânia, além de realizar pressão militar contra países da OTAN para testar a unidade da aliança.

Segundo o Wall Street Journal, esse foi o tema das reuniões que o diretor da CIA, John Ratcliffe, teve em Moscou na manhã de 25 de agosto de 2026, avisando as autoridades russas que os EUA possuem dados de inteligência que comprovam a suposta mobilização militar para uma ofensiva russa de larga escala, dando um ultimato a Putin.

Toda a movimentação ocorre logo após um grande exercício da OTAN que cercou o exclave russo de Kaliningrado em 18 de agosto de 2026, gerando preocupação em Moscou. Há relatos locais de que preparações militares para mobilização, evacuação de civis, preparação de centros logísticos e treinamentos estão sendo realizados pelos russos em Kaliningrado, indicando uma possível preparação para um conflito iminente.

Quando a alegação do WSJ sobre a Rússia lançar uma operação para testar a integridade da OTAN pode indicar que há planos russos para uma ofensiva contra os Estados bálticos, Estônia, Letônia e Lituânia, que fazem fronteira com a Rússia e dependem totalmente da proteção da OTAN, já que suas forças armadas são inexpressivas.

[마젤란 @miwoo2505]

중국은 미국국채를 15년째 팔고있음.

그 돈으로 중국은 금을 사모으고 있음.

미국이 이제와서 금을 산다는건
중국에게 패배하는거랑 마찬가지임.

결국, 미국은 금을 대신할 전략자산을
만들어야 한다는거임.
bitcoin:native

[Nina Wysocka @realninawysocka]

Prices in the UK are just completely made up at this point

How the fk is it over £2 for a bottle of water?

How are trains charging £150 for a return ticket to London?

How is a taxi £20 for a 16 mins drive?

How is a weekend away in the UK somehow costing more than leaving the country?

Why does my car insurance keep going up every year when I’m driving the same car?

How have £600-a-month rentals gone over £1k in just a few years?

Honestly, we’re just getting robbed at this point 😭

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

12.9% of credit card balances in the US are 90+ days delinquent, near the highest since 2011, per Bloomberg.

[glkj @LebeninFFT]

불황의 신호가 계속 여기저기서 잡힌다

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Apple, $AAPL, App Store sales dropped for the first time in a decade

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

A US Air Force C-17 landed at Vnukovo airport on Tuesday morning and was gone by the afternoon. To get it there, Washington asked Ukraine to stop striking Moscow and St Petersburg for three days, because it does not believe in the strength of Putin's air defences.

Kyiv agreed. The pause ran from 24th to 26th August. American officials have since confirmed that CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in Moscow that day.

The aircraft left Joint Base Andrews, stopped in Riga on 23rd August, and reached Vnukovo around ten in the morning local time. A US diplomatic motorcade was spotted. Neither government has said what the meetings were about. Peskov said he had no information about the plane or any meetings at all.

Ukraine was told a senior American delegation was coming. It was not initially told Ratcliffe was part of it, and expects a debrief afterwards.

The last unannounced trip to Moscow by a CIA director was November 2021, when William Burns met Putin to warn him against invading Ukraine. The invasion started three months later.

One claim doing the rounds tonight does not stand up yet. Two senior Iranian sources are said to describe a Russian briefing in which Ratcliffe pressed Moscow to lean on Tehran over Hormuz, threatened sanctions on Russian banks and shipping, and was refused. That is third hand, anonymous, sourced from the adversary, and it happens to say exactly what Tehran would want said. Nothing firmer has surfaced.

The verified part is quite stranger anyway. Peace talks are stalled in the war's fifth year. Ukrainian drones have been reaching the Russian capital. And for seventy two hours, at American request, they held off.

Three days of quiet over Moscow, bought from the country Russia is invading, so one American plane could land and leave!!

[Visioner @visionergeo]

‼️‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 CIA Director John Ratcliffe may have arrived in Moscow with a direct warning for Vladimir Putin: the United States knows about Russia’s potential plans and advises the Kremlin not to implement them.

According to a former U.S. Deputy Director of National Intelligence, this could be one of the main reasons behind Ratcliffe’s visit. The Wall Street Journal suggests that the talks may also have covered the war in Ukraine, a ceasefire involving Iran, and the Kremlin’s continued support for Tehran. Meanwhile, Russia’s military preparations are also drawing attention: mobilization exercises were held in the Kaliningrad region in July, while U.S. intelligence says similar exercises are taking place across Russia.

Ratcliffe’s unusual visit, combined with Russia’s ongoing military preparations, makes the timing particularly significant. If Washington is indeed warning Moscow against implementing plans already known to U.S. intelligence, the coming weeks could reveal exactly what prompted such a high-level and unusual mission to the Russian capital.

See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

[펭귄 @babybluecream]

나이 들수록 깨닫는 게 하나 있어요.

운이란 결국 노출(exposure)의 문제라는 거예요.

같은 의자에 앉아서, 같은 루틴 반복하고, 같은 사람들하고만 이야기하면
새로운 일은 절대 안 생겨요.

세상을 직접 건드려야 이긴다는 거죠.

•낯선 사람과 이야기하기

•새로운 커피숍 가보기

•소셜 미디어에 포스팅 해보기

•사이드 허슬 시작하기

세상은 움직이는 사람에게 보상을 줍니다.

기회는 가만히 앉아서 찾는 게 아니라,

부딪히면서 마주치는 거예요.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My uncle saved $650,000 for retirement.

Skipped every vacation for 30 years to do it.

Same truck the entire time. Packed his own lunch every single day. Never once ate out unless it was someone’s birthday.

Died with the full $650,000 still sitting there. Never got to touch a dollar of it.

His three kids split it evenly.

Gone in under two years.

New cars. A kitchen remodel. A trip to Cancun nobody needed.

He gave up three decades of small joys to leave behind something that disappeared faster than the sacrifice that built it.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Scott Bessent looks to be intentionally crashing the $.
I studied currency collapses and found that there were 7 indicators that preceded every major currency collapse in modern history.
I then measured the US dollar against those 7.
And as of right now, based on what Scott Bessent did last week, we have hit all 7 indicators.
No country in modern history has met all 7 and avoided a currency collapse. None.
And this doesn't look to be happening to us, it looks to be being done to us, by the people who swore an oath to prevent it. And they are getting rich while they do it.

Full article is up on Substack now (link in bio and it's free). I also give the things I am eyeing to hedge it and what we can do to fight it.

[Gundolf Siebeke @GSiebeke]

Drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt?
Immer wieder wird gerne hervorgehoben von Politik und Medien, Deutschland habe das drittgrößte Bruttoinlandsprodukt der Welt. Dies soll die Bevölkerung beruhigen, behaupten uns gehe es doch sehr gut.

Tatsächlich ist Deutschland in den letzten Jahren abgestiegen! Wir liegen beim BIP pro Peron weit hinter den USA, die das Problem der zu starken Konjunktur haben.
Wir liegen auch weit hinter Dänemark, Niederlande, hinter Österreich und Belgien!

Beim Wohlstand ist Deutschland inzwischen Schlusslicht in der EU!
Die Billionen (!!) Euro für die gescheiterte Grüne Energiewende und die Masseneinwanderung lässt nun die Menschen In Deutschland zu Millionen verarmen.

Und wird nun das richtige und notwendige entschieden?
Definitiv nicht!
Deutschland wird nun extrem hoch verschuldet. Diese Schulden sollten neues Wachstum bis zu 2 % bringen. Nun 0,3% Wachstum sind ein Warnzeichen eklatanter struktureller Schwäche und fehlender Innovationskraft. Die nun stark steigende Staatsquote bringt zusätzliche Ineffizienz.

Fazit
Die Wirtschaft in Deutschland wird weiter abgehängt. Die Entscheidungen dieser Koalition werden den Niedergang allenfalls verzögern. Den Menschen wird Netto immer weniger bleiben.

Die Bevölkerungsstruktur Deutschlands hat sich bereits extrem verändert und wird sich in den kommenden zehn Jahren noch krasser ändern. Der Anteil der muslimischen Bevölkerung wird sich bis 2035 verdoppeln, nach meiner Hochrechnung auf über 25%! Handelt Politik nicht, bringen die nächsten Jahre das Ende der westlichen Zivilisation in Deutschland und in Europa. Denn es würden zunehmend viele Leistungsträger auswandern.

Die USA haben mehrfach gewarnt. Mich überrascht, dass die USA und unsere EU Partner Polen, Tschechien, Slowakei, Ungarn, Rumänien, die muslimische Zuwanderung nicht zulassen, Deutschland nicht massiv unter Druck setzen, seine Islamisierung zu beenden. Denn wenn Deutschland muslimisch beherrscht ist, haben andere EU-Staaten keine Chance sich ihrer Islamisierung dauerhaft zu entziehen. Der Islam lässt nie locker.

Geschichte wiederholt sich doch: Kulturen kommen und gehen. Noch kann Deutschland seine Zivilisation bewahren. Allerdings ist der Wille dazu kaum zu erkennen.

[Lukas Fuhrmann @kryptoedgeyt]

Putin hat heute ohne Zustimmung der Russen ein Gesetz durchgewunken, das Bankkonten im Ausland ab Januar 2027 verbietet. Jeder einzelne Russe wird ab nun kein Konto mehr im Ausland eröffnen können. Bestehende Konten werden auf Druck gekündigt. Keine Zustimmung des Volkes oder Parlaments notwendig.

Oh wait. Das war nicht Putin. Sondern die EU & das neue Gesetz CRD VI

[𝔾𝔸𝔹𝕆 @GABRIELxCR]

España 🇪🇸:
Mid-senior frontend developer en scaleup millonaria multinacional:

- 2300 € NETOS al mes.

Suiza 🇨🇭:
Unskilled labor, trabajador sin idioma, papeles, etc en Popeyes:

- 2400 € NETOS CADA DOS SEMANAS

Y aún hay gente que dirá que irse de España no renta por que todo está más caro.

Prefiero freír pollo y ahorrar mil pavos al mes que hacerme el guay por que tengo un trabajo en el top 10 de España.

[Astro Greek @astro_greek]

Errol Musk speaks about his relationship with his son in a calm, reflective tone.

He looks back across decades of tension, distance and complicated history without trying to rewrite the past into something softer.

The conversation stays close to the difficult parts. It does not turn into a full defense or a full attack.

These exchanges are hard to watch but necessary. They show the family context that shaped Elon and refuse the simple good-versus-bad story most people prefer.

(From The Elon Musk Show | BBC)