Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺

Thoughts and expressions are of my nonprofessional self.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@Microinteracti1 It should be imperative for European nations to define a transnational nuclear deterrence apparatus, by which any nuclear attack will automatically and with shortest possible CoC trigger a full scale retaliation.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs explains exactly why he thinks Microsoft makes "third rate products"

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste"

"I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. They don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their products"

"Proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books. That's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products"

"I'm saddened not by Microsoft's success. I have no problem with their success, they've earned it for the most part"

"I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products"

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

Good analysis

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

image source:eia

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

The side of Dubai all the influencers and expats somehow fail to show - the whole infrastructure is built by modern slaves from Africa, India, Bangladesh...

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

Never let the standards of the American food industry into your country.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🇺🇸 v 🇪🇺 food

Listen to what this American says about what a US trade deal really means for our food and health.

While talking about “reset” with Europe… Starmer’s government is opening the door to US 🇺🇸 standards.

That’s how they’re trying to make Brexit work.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

When these people are running a global superpower, it’s no longer a superpower. Its a shitshow, and the consequences will be felt for decades.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"

Trump: "Right"

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

In Praise of Being Told What We Can’t Eat

I used to find European regulations mildly embarrassing. The endless directives, the committees, the solemn deliberations about cucumber curvature. It seemed like a continent-wide exercise in missing the point.

Then I looked at what was actually in my food.

More than 10,000 chemicals are permitted in the American food supply.

Nearly 99 percent introduced since 2000 were approved not by the FDA, but by the food industry itself. 

Companies writing their own permission slips, essentially. The GRAS loophole, created in 1958, allows manufacturers to self-certify that their ingredients are safe. The EU has no equivalent.

The results are specific. BHT, used to extend shelf life in cereals and crackers, is banned in Europe over endocrine disruption concerns – which is why you will never find Wheat Thins here. 

Bovine growth hormone, linked to elevated cancer markers, is injected into American dairy cows and banned across the EU. Standard American milk contains it unless the label says otherwise.

Potassium bromate, a probable human carcinogen, is still used in American bread. 

This is not accident. Three of America’s biggest lobbying firms work for the food industry. Pepsi alone spends nine million dollars a year on lobbying. Incentives, working exactly as designed.

Europe chose the precautionary principle. Prove it is safe before it goes in. America chose the reverse. Things are safe until enough people are harmed to prove otherwise.

Throw in the right to repair, universal charging cables, and food labels a human being can actually parse – and what emerges is not bureaucratic overreach. It is a regulatory culture that decided to represent the person eating the food rather than the company selling it.

Critics can call that excessive. I call it civilization.

Stay connected,
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[Acyn @Acyn]

Sec. Kennedy: Mercury is absolutely—it’s the most powerful neurotoxin we know of in the universe.

Rep. Harder: So why are you working for an administration that is doubling the amount of mercury pollution in our air and water?

Sec. Kennedy: I am running HHS and I’m ending the chronic disease epidemic. I’m not going to comment on that because I don’t know anything about it.

Rep. Harder: Well, that’s very convenient for you, and it shows a significant degree of cowardice. It’s not just mercury. President Trump in July 2025 granted 50 chemical plants—

Sec. Kennedy: Why don’t you ask me something that I’m in charge of instead of other things?

Rep. Harder: Are you not in charge of Health and Human Services?

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad.

Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average.

They ranked dead last out of 65 countries.

Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

Mer av dette. Politiske motstandere som vedkjenner respekt for hverandre og det demokratiske apparatet. Ja det er feilbarlig mangelfullt. Men det har bragt oss en sivilisasjon vi ellers bare kunne drømt om

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him

Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇

"Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@BohuslavskaKate @missfellacatz A most welcome vist. United for Ukranian freedom

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

Blokkade av olje som er bestilt av Kina vil ikke kunne gå upåaktet. Det kan ikke forstås på noen annen måte lenger:
Siste trekk fra Trump er ment for å vekke dragen. Men skjønner de hvilke krefter og intelligens de ypper med?🐉💥

[Global Scope @SpotGlobals]

🇨🇳 President Xi Jinping:

The Chinese people have never bullied, oppressed, or enslaved the people of other countries, not in the past, nor in the present, and will never do so in the future.

In contrast, the Chinese people will not allow any foreign forces to oppress, enslave, or suppress them.

Anyone who tries will collide with a wall of steel built from the blood and flesh of 1.4 billion Chinese people, and will suffer defeat and destruction.”

[Knights Templar International @KnightsTempOrg]

🚨BREAKING The Knights Templar Order and its ruling Council demand that this offensive and blasphemous image be removed forthwith !
We supported President Trump in 2016 and 2024 (NY Times attributed our support in 2016 to be part of his victory)
However we are deeply offended by this and have no other choice but to condemn it wholeheartedly and ask for a public apology to the Christian brethren who have been deeply upset by this depiction.
We respectfully remend President Trump of the Bible Scripture found in Galatians 6:7 "God will not be mocked"

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@AdaLluch There are other ways of preserving conservative European values and uphold strict immigration policies without corruption and deconstructing democratic institutions.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@RadioGenoa What makes him a great leader do you think? Curious

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

Fairly obvious how the world alliances have turned when the White House and Kremlin are rooting for the same guy in Hungarian elections. And the runner up opposition isn’t even left wing.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@PM_ViktorOrban Yes. A safe ride into the Kremlin sphere of influence. And if the majority of Hungary wants that, then maybe it’s for the best. Good luck 🍀👍

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@coachbrucepearl Nope.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@KSkogholt Mye propagandaretorikk fra begge sider, men at Europe ønsker seg en krig med Russland er vel rimelig koko uansett hvordan man ser på det. Men at vi bør bidra til forsvar av Ukrainas suverenitet er noe annet. Det kan diskuteres politisk.

[Janic🇺🇦 👊 🇪🇺 @ManicJanic]

@vebjornselbekk Jeg er nok på måte enig i det politiske utgangspunktet, men har stor respekt for tydeligheten i å distingvere hva som er et rettmessig politisk standpunkt og hva som er fanatisk destruktiv galskap.