Mark Warren

Lean, Startups, Innovation, Behavoral Design, TED talk fan, TWI. Discovering Solutions with People

[Lesia Dubenko 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱 @LesiaLVD]

A nice Finnish joke I found 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

Finnish general Adolf Ehrnrooth was visiting in England after the World War II.

British general asked him how many Russian troops were stationed in Finland.

"A few hundred thousand" answered Ehrnrooth.

"Where in Finland are they stationed?" The British general asked.

Ehrnrooth answered: "Two meters underground around the border."

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

having dinner at a hotel bar the other night struck up a conversation with a mid-level United Healthcare exec. he told me he puts over $300,000 a year on his company credit card just for entertaining clients. In case you’re wondering why you can’t afford health insurance

[𝙀𝙣𝙯𝙤✩ @Wydenzoo]

My lab partner stole my code for our final project. I told him: “Do not submit this without my name on it. We built it 50/50.”
He laughed, said “Chill, I’ll add you later,” and turned it in solo for the A.

Professor flagged it. Plagiarism + both our names on the repo history. Academic hearing + suspension warning: $0 but my degree delayed 1 semester.
His response? “You’re overreacting. I was gonna credit you.” Then he refused to email the professor to fix it.
Said I was “making drama” and “grades aren’t that serious.”

My advisor jumped in: “He’s stressed. Don’t ruin his future over one project.”
But it wasn’t drama.
I gave him a rule. He erased my name anyway.

So I exported Git commits + timestamps + Discord messages before the hearing.
No accusations. Just hit play on the screen share.

Turns out he’d done this to 2 other girls in his last lab. I was just the first with proof.
Committee gave me full credit + expunged the warning. He got probation + had to retake the class.

He lost his TA position + scholarship.
And somehow…
I’m the one department calls “difficult to work with.”
Apparently, in uni, “group work” means one person takes the grade.
But defending your own work with evidence?
That makes me the bad guy.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann G��ring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said:
“Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious.
But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.”
Gilbert objected:
“But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.”
To which Göring replied:
“That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
— Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946
Doesn’t it sound familiar?

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[Natasha @Natasha_Brynn1]

Four month ago, Alex Pretti was murdered by Donald Trump’s ICE.

RETWEET to honor Pretti’s life of service ❤️

[John Yancey @Me29061361]

Trump and his MAGAts are weak little bitches.

[Jon “Bowzer” Bauman @JonBowzerBauman]

When they’re out of power we have to listen to Republicans yammering about the national debt ad nauseum, including pretending Social Security is part of it when it’s not.

Donald Trump is now responsible for an astounding 27.7% of the national debt!

Stop electing these liars!

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

Turns out Trump only had a two year window to file a lawsuit over his tax return release. That window closed long before Trump made a deal with the DOJ. The people of the United States owe Trump nothing for a payout. Andrew Weissman says this 1.776 billion dollar slush fund is flat out theft and is not part of his official acts. Trump has no immunity for theft. He said anyone involved in putting together this theft is also open to prosecution.

[Covie @covie_93]

Shoutout to Volodymyr Zelenskyy for surviving actual assassination attempts and never demanding a ballroom once.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Morning everyone.

Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws?

You are subject to the law. Now he is not.

No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This German is spot-fucking-on. Just as the pedophile führer has MAGA, Hitler had a cult too.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Hi @DAGToddBlanche

How much will you be paying Hunter Biden for his life being upended by the "weaponization of the government?"

Asking for taxpayers.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

The only reason that Thomas Massie lost tonight is because Trump raped children, and Massie wanted to uncover it.

Take all the time you need with that.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98%

Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4%

Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5%

Just thought I should point that out.