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Agronomy. Finance. 🔫

[Ramiro Sciandro @RamiroSciandro]

El gobierno dice que el consumo privado viene bien. Vos no lo sentís. ¿Quién tiene razón?

Vamos con una tablita descriptiva, y abajo unos comentarios.

[Kris Kay | 🎲 444 Capital @thekriskay]

if you have a $1 net worth,

you are closer to the 2nd richest person on earth, than he is to Elon.

read that again.

[La Derecha Diario @laderechadiario]

🚨🇦🇷🇻🇪 | "Los mensajes de apoyo de la gente son una caricia al alma": El gendarme argentino Nahuel Gallo, quien estuvo secuestrado durante 448 días por el régimen chavista, en entrevista exclusiva para La Derecha Diario.

- "Si tuvieses enfrente a Maduro, ¿qué le dirías?"
+ "Fue un títere de Cabello. Le pagaría con la misma moneda: dejarlo incomunicado. La incomunicación es lo peor que le podés hacer a un ser humano. No le pegaría, no lo torturaría, solo lo dejaría encerrado como me dejó él".

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

@Felii_N Abran otra serie

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

One of the most mind blowing 10 minutes of video Christianity has ever produced.

[Òscar Merino 🎙🏀 @OMerinoG]

Brutal

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

A Scandinavian economist once boasted to Milton Friedman:

“In Scandinavia, we have no poverty.”

Friedman replied:

“That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either.”

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[José Martiniano Duarte @jmartinianoduar]

Durante la Guerra de Malvinas, el 10 de junio de 1982, nos enfrentamos -tres hombres de mi sección y yo-, contra una patrulla del SAS, en un combate a todo o nada del que resultamos vencedores; produciéndole al enemigo una baja (Capitán John Hamilton) y un prisionero (Cabo 1ro Roy Fonseca).
Veinte años después tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con la viuda del Capitán Hamilton en Londres. El periodista inglés nos presento: "él es quien mató a su marido héroe"; la viuda de Hamilton, Victoria Carter, me miró, me sonrió, me tendió la mano y le dijo al periodista: "el no es un asesino, es un soldado que peleaba por su Patria".
Todos los días le doy gracias a Dios por la vida que he tenido, por los combate que he librado, por los hombres valientes que me han permitido que los condujera a vencer o morir: Eusebio Moreno, Francisco Altamirano y Roberto Ríos. Todos los días le agradezco a Dios haber combatido sin odio contra enemigos valientes que, más allá de todo, lucharon con honor y heroismo.

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

@Danielbricen Muy burdo.

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

@BumperCrop1 Muchos desaparecieron porque no les licuaban más las deudas.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Under President Trump, the State Department is defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship by ending illegal birth tourism schemes.

No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

@Handre We learned a valuable lesson in 🇦🇷.

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

@mauro_aimar @TraductorTeAma Déjalos expresarse. Te duele?

[Handre @Handre]

Rothbard didn't just publish another economics textbook in 1962. He torched the entire discipline and rebuilt it from first principles, using only logic and human action as his foundation.

You won't find a single graph, regression, or statistical model in Man, Economy and State's 987 pages. Rothbard rejected the mathematical positivism that had infected economics since the 1930s. Instead, he constructed economic theory the way Euclid built geometry: starting with self-evident axioms (humans act purposefully) and deriving all economic laws through pure logical deduction. No empirical testing required. When you understand that people choose between alternatives to remove uneasiness, you can deduce the entire structure of market prices, interest rates, and capital formation without collecting a single data point.

The book systematically demolishes every interventionist policy you can imagine. Rothbard proves that minimum wage laws create unemployment, rent controls cause housing shortages, and antitrust legislation protects inefficient competitors. Not through statistical studies that opponents can cherry-pick and debunk, but through ironclad logical demonstration. When government forces wages above their market level, employers hire fewer workers. This follows necessarily from the logic of human choice.

Most economists today remain trapped in the positivist methodology that treats human beings like particles in a physics experiment. They build elaborate mathematical models that predict nothing and understand less. Rothbard handed us a complete science of human action that explains every economic phenomenon from first principles.

The establishment ignored the book for good reason: you can't refute pure logic with statistics and computer models.

[Maikel @MEcharnier]

Fenómeno barrial

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Last week, Argentina’s President Milei announced a new legal category for non-human corporations – companies run by #AI agents or robots. Like traditional corporations, they would be granted legal personhood. This could generate enormous new wealth, but very worryingly, it would also hand AIs an all-purpose key that grants access to our financial, economic and political systems. Full op-ed in today's @FT: https://t.co/w6DzOwByiq

[Handre @Handre]

Western governments have engineered the greatest anti-natal program in human history, and most people are completely unaware of the causes or consequences.

Birth rates across Europe, East Asia, and North America have collapsed below replacement levels. Governments systematically destroyed the economic foundations that make family formation possible.

You cannot afford children when the state inflates away your purchasing power, taxes your income at confiscatory rates, then forces you to fund the retirements of previous generations through Social Security ponzi schemes. A middle-class American couple faces effective marginal tax rates exceeding 50% when you include federal income tax, state tax, payroll taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Meanwhile, monetary debasement ensures that housing costs consume 40% of median income versus 15% in 1970.

The regulatory state makes every aspect of child-rearing exponentially more expensive. Occupational licensing cartels inflate childcare costs. Zoning laws prevent affordable family housing. Department of Education mandates drive up school costs while destroying quality. FDA approval processes make basic medicines cost 10x their market price. Each regulation serves entrenched interests while pricing out young families.

Economic policy shapes demographics. When governments prioritize immediate consumption over capital formation, present voters over future families, and welfare recipients over productive workers, birth rate collapse becomes inevitable. The state subsidizes the childless while penalizing parents through the tax code and monetary policy.

Politicians promise family tax credits and paid leave programs to solve the crisis they created. They offer you breadcrumbs from your own stolen wealth while maintaining the very policies that make children unaffordable. The solution requires abolishing the systems that broke family formation, not expanding them.