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@bundeskanzler @ZelenskyyUa Der Merz, der Merz,
was der sagt klingt wie ein Scherz,
Sollte sich umtaufen in April, April,
der macht auch was er will.

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@janvoss Wir haben in DE Urlaub gemacht. Oft nur Baustellen, war echt chillig so oft 80-100 fahren.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

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@drostophila @GustavsonElena Ich wasche auch mit 30Grad. Diese Probleme habe ich noch nie gehabt. Die machen dann irgendwas falsch

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@Rainmaker1973 We have so much weird stuff in 🇦🇹
Love that

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@BillerIlyas Der Designer findet die ganzen Posts auf allen Plattformen und lacht sich scheckig

[Abhimanyu Vaishnav @TheAbhimanyuX]

Inventor of this game should go in Jail 🤣🤣
What do you thought ?? 🤔🤔

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@Noah_twix @grok 1st for this reasons: You have access to the window without the need to crawl over your bed, the light over the bed looks pretty weird, I love that, the sun can’t shine on your screens and disturb you, you can see from bed who is entering the room

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@_3emeOeil Das ist so traurig. Es wäre schön sie könnten einfach auf einer Weide stehen und nicht im Stall mit vr…

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@DeepakRPSingh @RadioGenoa In Austria there are no Kangaroos 🦘 🇦🇹

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she believed was the very first sign of known civilization. The student expected her to talk about a hatchet, perhaps fishhooks, the bow and arrow...

Possibly a building structure, clay pots or grinding stones and knives.

But no.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had been broken and then healed.

Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, your timely death is assured.

"You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal."

A broken thighbone that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

"Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts." Mead said.

We are at our very best when we truly help and serve others.

Be civilized. Be kind. Be helpful

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@XiohBlanco @harveyspistols Das Problem haben wir in Österreich auch, und dann wird behauptet wir hätten Demokratie.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

never forget the legend who did this at the height of lockdown era

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@UndFair @Starlink Schade, dass keiner Antwortet, wär mit ein Grund es haben zu wollen

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

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@valormental Als ich bemerkt habe, dass ich fast alle Bücher in meinen Regalen gelesen habe, verspürte ich den inneren Drang neue Bücher zu kaufen. Und wenn ich 10 Jahre brauche um sie zu lesen. Wenn sie da sind, hat man die Entscheidung sie in die Hand zu nehmen oder zu ignorieren.

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@Oscarrjavier95 Ich würd erst mal alle ausprobieren und dann wählen, wenn das erlaubt wäre. Naja, alle bis auf den Karton 😇

[Belfort @boersenbelfort]

Wieso wird es eigentlich nicht zur Pflicht, dass Parkplätze vor Lebensmittelgeschäften mit Solar überdacht werden müssen? In anderen Ländern ist das gang und gäbe und bringt nur Vorteile mit sich:

- Deutlich besser, als die Landschaft mit Solarparks zu vermiesen
- Deutlicher Beitrag zur „Energiewende“
- Schatten = im Sommer kühlere Autos
- Günstigere Preise für E-Auto-Ladesäulen

Keine Ahnung, wieso Deutschland das nicht auf die Reihe bekommt.

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@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Thank you. 💖

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning

[Gemma Ayodele @wandr_bkwise]

@SJ_Murray Those books survived 500 years. Feeding them into a shredder for AI training data is just vandalism.