Agrilax

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The England football team lost for the same reason the country is losing: the people in charge fear taking a risk and try to hold on to what they have instead of being ambitious about the future.

This attitude permeates everything and it needs to change.

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@DanNeidle He's making a very strange argument that he doesn't understand at all - he thinks the whole inequality problem is because of "billionaires".

I'd argue it's mainly due to monetary debasement and somewhat bad/over regulation, which all drive inequality and billionaire wealth.

[FormuMix | Automovilismo @FormuMix]

No había podido ver está jugada en la cual Egipto reclamaba penal desde este ángulo.

Acá se nota clarísimo que es el jugador egipcio el que choca el pie del jugador Argentino, probablemente con la intención de dejarse caer al perder la pelota.

NO HAY FALTA!

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@Doug13479533 @CrewsMat10 Is it Argentina's fault the big teams that were meant to be in that bracket can't win their groups?

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@PolitlcsUK @spectator Big loophole here. This is the party that says anyone can identify as anything and anyone can menstruate.

Everyone is now trans for the extra holidays.

[#1Miscreant @Chappytoa]

A lot of men are like this because they were ugly as kids and grew up as social outcasts. Even after self improvement they’re too socially maladjusted to talk to girls because of their school days. This doesn’t mean the man is abusive. Abusive men get girlfriends rather easily.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Burnham’s economic architect Miatta Fahnbulleh recommends, among other things:
•A wealth tax and yet another windfall tax on oil and gas.
•Mass nationalisation e.g. of land, transport, and energy.
•Extending national insurance to investment income.
•A cap on interest rates and charges on every form of consumer credit.
•Hiking capital gains tax to income tax levels.
��Hiking divided tax to income tax levels.
•Abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance.
•Huge expansion of the benefits system including a “minimum income guarantee” paid to everyone apart from the rich.
•Nationalisation of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds.
•Block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalisation of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans.“
•Forced sale of existing businesses to employees.
•A tripling of the stamp duty surcharge to 9% for multiple homeowners and an increase to 6% for non-residents.

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@obrien_jonathan Enzo is much better than 4 years ago, one of the best midfielders in the world.
Paz is next gen ballon d'or candidate
Alvarez is better

[Posts Of Kittens🐾 @postsofkittens]

Caption please? 🥺😁

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@ahitposter The ultimate cuck chair

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

We are going to deflate the cost of the following things on a like-for-like basis over the next seven years by roughly 90%:

Healthcare
Education
Housing
Transportation
Sex

If we still have socialism at the end of this something has gone horribly wrong.

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@CutMyTaxUK Why go through all this faff, why not just say "you are only allowed a 2% maximum profit margin regardless of your business".

It's kind of what they are doing anyway, just through different means requiring more people/bureaucracy.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqu�� :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[Lara Spirit @lara_spirit]

EXC: The Cabinet Office and role of cabinet secretary would be scrapped by a Reform government

Danny Kruger sets out major new plans for Whitehall overhaul, including a new Office of the Prime Minister and department tasked with firing civil servants

https://t.co/vPp2yaPNb9

[Agrilax @Agrilax91]

@CleansedTweets Look much better now tbh.

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

Every electron in the universe might be the same electron.

In 1940, John Wheeler called Richard Feynman and suggested that the reason every electron has exactly the same mass and charge, to a precision we cannot even measure a deviation from, is that there is only one of them.

A single electron, weaving forwards and backwards through time, threading through every moment of cosmic history, appearing as matter when it moves one way and as its antiparticle when it moves the other.

The idea was never proven, but it was never quite killed either. The math allows it.

An electron going backwards in time is mathematically identical to a positron going forwards, and the equations do not care which description you pick.

If Wheeler was right, then the particle in your retina reading this sentence is the same particle burning in the heart of a star ten billion light years away.

You are not made of many things. You are made of one thing, seen from many angles at once.

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

biotech will do more for humanity in the next 18 months than the last 50 years

here is what the next 12-18 months carry:

1. aging becomes reversible - Life Biosciences reports results from the first ever human epigenetic reprogramming trial by end of 2026. if it works the entire category reprices overnight

2. your genome becomes your medical record-consumer grade sequencing is already at $1,100. by 2027 it is a standard intake form

3. personalized gene therapies become real - baby KJ proved a custom CRISPR therapy can be built for one person in 6 months. his doctors are now building the FDA pathway to do it for everyone

4. peptides go fully mainstream - 14 of 19 banned compounds are coming back to legal compounding. the grey market becomes a regulated industry with actual quality standards

5. psychedelics become first line treatment - Compass Pathways is weeks from the first ever FDA approval of a psychedelic drug. depression and PTSD treatment just changed permanently

6. AI designs drugs that work better than anything a human team has ever produced- Isomorphic Labs is pushing AI-designed molecules into human trials right now. results expected this year

7. BCIs move from medical to performance - Merge Labs, Neuralink, Synchron all pointed at the same target. the first healthy person gets an implant for cognitive enhancement and the waitlist forms immediately after

bio/acc

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

My totally outrageous and not at all serious 10 point plan to save Britain.

1) The entire Labour government does the honourable thing and resigns on the basis that remaining in office merely guarantees it will preside over the eventual loss of economic control.

2) Officially acknowledges that, without IMF backing and access to dollar liquidity, Britain’s current economic model is structurally unsustainable — particularly for a country whose comparative advantage is supposedly financial credibility.

3) Establishes a government of national unity in which day-to-day economic management is handed to industry-backed technocrats and entrepreneurs under a four-year “rebuild or bust” mandate.

4) Pegs sterling to the dollar in order to restore monetary credibility and halt the slow transformation of Britain into an upper-middle-income crisis economy. [Alternatively removes all barriers to USD stablecoins and allows explicit dollarisation that way.]

5) Slashes corporate taxes, accelerates planning reform, and dismantles layers of administrative and regulatory drag in an emergency bid to revive productivity and private investment.

6) Restricts full NHS eligibility to citizens and settled residents, with everyone else moved onto a contributory or fee-based system outside emergency treatment.

7) Realigns British industrial, defence and trade policy explicitly around American strategic priorities in exchange for preferential access to US capital, markets and dollar funding.

8) Offers Washington broad regulatory and geopolitical alignment — including on technology, energy and security policy — in return for expedited customs access and a de facto economic stabilisation umbrella.

9) Reopens the North Sea at full scale, removes remaining extraction constraints, and adopts the official position that “drill, baby, drill” is now a matter of national solvency.

10) Cancels the Diego Garcia deal immediately on the grounds that no country negotiating for IMF support should be voluntarily reducing its strategic collateral.

The other option is all of the above but joins the eurosystem or China instead.