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[Max @maxroisland]

Det er på tide å diskutere hvilke insentiver Norges Skiforbund jobber etter. Har skrevet mer om dette i @vgsporten - https://t.co/yfpyE4lngC

[Max @maxroisland]

Sett titusenvis av Skotter i Boston i en ukes tid nå. Drikker barene tomme, skaper utelukkende god stemning, elsket av alle, tatt over Fenway park. Perfekt balanse mellom å vise egen kultur og lene seg inn i den lokale. Får håpe bønda klarer det samme…

[Max @maxroisland]

@Smoothedan @blakern111 @JarleKneppShow Skjønner ikke hvordan dere skal klare å holde dette nivået oppe lenge ass, verdensklasse så langt!

[Max @maxroisland]

Bare å sette huset på grønn jakke til Hovland nå

[John Hart @JohnHartWJBF]

If you were hoping for an "8 Mile" reference during the Tuesday press conferences at #TheMasters, Viktor Hovland has you covered...

[Max @maxroisland]

God oppsummering. Man er ikke mester som default til man taper, man blir mester gjennom å vinne hele veien. Om ingen av dem vinner, bør de dele sølvet, da de kun har spilt seg frem til minst sølv. Dette svarer vel ut hvorvidt sjakk kan kalles sport/idrett.

[leifwelhaven @leifwelhaven]

Magnus Carlsen har gått altfor langt. Å gjøre gull til tull ødelegger konseptet konkurranse.
https://t.co/UhhNRsr0kC

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Whoops

[Max @maxroisland]

@AlexanderOsdal Nettopp, det at så mange støtter en så liten by viser jo hvor stor opplevelse det er for Bodø. Det er jo hele poenget. Og det viser hvor imponerende både oppmøte og det å komme dit er.

[Max @maxroisland]

Bodø har 42k innbyggere. Det er det samme som at United skal ha 88k bortefans i Bodø. Galskap.

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

6,714 Bodø Glimt fans. Biggest ever away following at Old Trafford for a European town with MUFC. And this was before they scored twice

[Max @maxroisland]

@PepsiGro Og fra internasjonale aviser som allerede er bak X.

[Max @maxroisland]

Norges omdømme som en velfungerende, sosialdemokratisk økonomi kommer til oppleve en kraftig forandring i de neste ukene. "Ikke bli som Norge" blir skrekkhistorien.

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:

1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…

I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.

[Max @maxroisland]

@MagneBjella @Smoothedan SSB sier de vil være i "redaksjonelle medier". Med andre ord der informasjonen filtreres, mens folket vil ha ren informasjon rett fra kilden, som de i økende grad får på X. Dette vil nok organisasjoner forstå - jo før jo bedre.

[Max @maxroisland]

Når norsk media har tatt fullstendig feil i det amerikanske valget, og SSB, Politiet med flere går vekk fra X, svarer folket.

[Doge Norway @DogecoinNorway]

X is now number 2 on the news app ranking in Norway, having climbed up from number 4.
Let's rally and boost it to number 1 by the end of the weekend! Come on, let's help do this, folks! 🔥🚀

[Max @maxroisland]

@Shpongus @EirikReime Det er forskjell på å observere mediene og å lese dem som gospel. Meningsmålingene var feil i 16, 20 og nå i 24. Vis meg norske aviser som forutså alle vippestater til Trump, flest stemmer og rent bord i huset og senatet. Istedet fremstilles 51% av USA som fascister. Merkelig.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Max @maxroisland]

NRK klager på for mye kommersiell eksponering i et showløp som gjør hekkeløp og stavsprang mer populært, og du lurer på hvorfor det mangler penger i Norsk breddeidrett?
https://t.co/od50ihPv8B

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

Seeing a wealth tax being discussed a lot in the US now.

Here's a cautionary tale of how the Wealth Tax in Norway has made it a real life Atlas Shrugged story

Many countries in Europe have taxed unrealized gains, but later removed it because all of its harmfull side effects. Norway is one of the few countries that still has a wealth tax, and it has been a total disaster.

Since the left wing government increased the wealth tax to ~1,1% and dividend rates to 37,8% two years ago ~80 of the top 400 tax payers have left the country. Representing ~40% of the wealth of those top 400. And it's *not* because of high marginal taxes in general, it's basically only because of taxes on unrealized gains.

Earlier stage entrepreneurs are now also preemptively moving or considering moving even *before* they start companies. I left Norway after we had raised a Series B and I was about to got a wealth tax bill many times my net salary, with no other options for dividend or liquidity on my startup shares.

Outside of oil the Norwegian economy is now stagnating with no productivity growth.

Norway is now very close to Ayn Rand's dystopian Atlas Shrugged society. Anyone that wants to innovate or start a company should obviously do it outside of Norway because you get an impossible tax bill on your lottery ticket startup "wealth".

Politicians and left wingers do not engage in intellectually honest debate when one points how this tax is impossible in practice but simply comes with hand-wavy general "inequality is bad" and "the rich should pay their taxes" arguments.

America is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and also admirable productivity growth over the last few decades. I hope the Politicians don't shoot everybody's wellbeing in the foot by introducing taxes on unrealized gains. Look to Norway if you want evidence on how bad of an idea this is.

[Max @maxroisland]

Problemet for alpinistene har vært at de ikke har hatt en 100% frittstående stjerne å sammenligne med når de argumenterer for potensialet de har i å signere egne avtaler i stedet for at forbundet gjør det. Det kan de få med Lucas i Brasil, og da kan fort korthuset falle.

[Max @maxroisland]

@Smoothedan Klart det er tøft å pensjonere gode svømmere!

[Max @maxroisland]

Alle nordmenn bør se denne talen.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo.

[Max @maxroisland]

Skiforbundet - og andre særforbund - står imot intern motstand, ekstern motstand og omdømmefall. Generalsekretær sier veien til løsning ikke er gjennom jusen, men det sier han nok fordi det er *eneste* vei forbi totalitær styreform i idretten.

[Camilla Gjersem @CamillaGjersem]

Lørdag publiserte VG kronikken min om markedsrettigheter i idretten. Mange idrettsutøvere forstår nok ikke hvilke juridiske risikoer de påtar seg når de signerer landslagskontrakter. Jeg har lest kontrakter der utøver skal holde forbund (+ forbundets sponsorer) skadesløs🤯

[Max @maxroisland]

TikTok får bygge Norges største datasenter, mer enn 7 ganger større enn det største i dag. Listen over problemer med dette er så lang at den får såvidt plass i datasenteret.

https://t.co/HYVW4baMSl