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[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Sweden's crisis was caused by a precursor to 2008 - deregulated banks lending irresponsibly and blowing up a housing bubble, Handre, you absolute split pea brain.

[Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn]

Why Milei had some initial success taming inflation in Argentina is because he socio-engineered a recession and when people don’t have money to spend, prices come down. Even that’s failing now, as inflation has risen for the tenth consecutive month.
https://t.co/ZWItnW6H8L

[The Real LLO @LaikLaikoglu]

Yakın zamanda şu an 20-30'lu yaşlarda olanların emekli olamayacağını anlatan bir yazı yazmıştım sebepleriyle.

Almanya başbakanı çıkıp emekli maaşının maaş değil harçlık olacağı ve bunun sadece temel bir güvence olarak görülmesi gerektiğini söylüyor

10 yıldır Almanya'da yaşıyorum ve yaklaşık yarım milyon euro vergi ödemişim dolaylı vergiler hariç, emekli olmak istesem ve 70 yaşına kadar çalışsam bu miktar muhtemelen 2-3 milyon euroyu bulacaktır. Bu kadar parayı devlete ödedikten sonra dünyanın en "zengin" ülkelerinden birinin başındaki adam diyor ki emekli maaşını ancak harçlık olarak görmem gerekiyormuş ahahaha

Herkesin ciddiye alması gereken bir mevzu bu, anneniz babanız gibi çalışıp emekli olacağınızı ve hayatınızın kalanında hastaneye giderseniz ücretsiz bakılacağınızı maaşınızı alıp takılacağınızı düşünüyorsanız bir daha düşünmelisiniz.

[Max Jerneck @MaxJerneck]

Sweden had an economic depression in the 1990s because banks were deregulated and blew up a housing bubble, and the central bank then tried to maintain a fixed exchange rate by raising interest rates to 500%. It had nothing to do with the welfare state or whatever.

[Elpito meteo @MeteoElpito]

Encara queda molta neu dalt les muntanyes.

Un isard corria muntanya avall a tocar del pic de la Llosa (és a mig camí entre Vallter i el Costabona) aquest matí.

Foto: dbosch22

[Jordi Serracant Carré @JordiSerracant]

La taxa de fecunditat del Marroc ha caigut en picat i avui és de 2 fills per dona. La d'Equador o Colòmbia és molt semblant a la catalana.

No sé què té de progressista i decolonial importar jovent de països que en les properes dècades també entraran en un hivern demogràfic.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is the true legacy of DOGE - the utter decimation of medical research.

MAGA idiots will try to tell you this is just cutting DEI programs. Keep in mind DOGE was filled with such idiots they killed physics grants that mentioned 'polarization' (of light) because of "DEI".

[愛国心の足りないなまけ者 にきめっ！ @tacowasa2nd]

なんで西側の右翼ってどこの国でもアメリカに本国を売り渡しがるんだ?
しかもその口で愛国心がどうとかぬかすの?

お前ら愛国心がないってバカしてる左翼より遥かに愛国心無いじゃん。

[Alba Sidera @albasidera]

Meloni ha perdut el referèndum que imitava Orbán i tem perdre el govern l'any vinent. Els carrers s'han omplert de joves q canten himnes partisans amb esperança renovada. La sensació és q a la representant del trumpisme a Itàlia se li han vist massa les costures antidemocràtiques

[Amazon Piss Jugs @JeremyWard33]

Hundreds of billions of dollars later: The massively hyped productivity increases are just as fake as we all said they were

[Socialisme i Turismofòbia @DancsCatalans]

Això és demencial. Però no passa res.

Destruiran i condemnaran a la pobresa crònica generacions senceres indefinidament per tal de no molestar la classe rendista paràsita.

[genís roca @genisroca]

Han sortit de l'armari.
L'Estat té el monopoli de la violència però no el pot exercir sense tecnologia, i ara la tecnologia és privada.
Els privats es veuen tan forts que fins i tot ens ho expliquen.
L'Estat té la legitimitat. Ells tenen la capacitat.
Per cert, també a Europa

[Padu @PaduLeGoat]

Quelques années de libertarianisme sous Mileï et les Argentins, leaders mondiaux de production de boeuf, mangent des steaks de bois mdr

[愛国心の足りないなまけ者 にきめっ！ @tacowasa2nd]

何かポルトガル語で｢右翼ってのはアメリカに国を侵略して欲しいと頼むような精神病者の集まり｣って辛辣なリプあったが、日本の右翼じゃなくて世界中の右翼がそんな感じなんだな。

まあ彼ら右翼が愛してるのは国ではなく力だから、どこの国の右翼も最終的に自国よりアメリカに従っちゃうんだろうな。

[愛国心の足りないなまけ者 にきめっ！ @tacowasa2nd]

日本だけでなく世界中で右派ってのは、風紀委員とか真面目な女教師に反発して逆張りする中学2年生の悪ガキみたいなメンタルなんだな。

ポストが翻訳されるようになって色んな国の右翼を見かけたけど、びっくりするくらいみんな同じなんだよな。

[Sergi Santiago @_sergisantiago]

La tesi de @miquelpuigrapos:
- Catalunya té el triple d'immigrants que el País Basc o l'Aragó
- El motiu: creem llocs de treball poc qualificats i malpagats
- Com els seus sous són baixos però els serveis públics que reben són més cars, l'Estat està subvencionant els empresaris

Solucions:
- Pujar el SMI
- Reduir sectors estacionals com el turisme eliminant l'IVA reduït
- Exigir el català a les feines d'atenció al públic

@diariARA @estherveraARA @agustisala
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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir document 👇 wouldn't be a manifesto they proudly boast about, but a clear sign of the urgent need to purge its software from the public institutions it has infiltrated.

What are they saying, essentially?

They basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a "they" - the supposed enemies of Western civilization, whose cultures the document codes as inferior - and a "we" who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software (which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure).

Look at point 4 for instance. They write that "the limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software."

It all rests on a pretty massive assumption: that coexistence is impossible. Why would "free and democratic societies" (by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal-democracies) need to "prevail"? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems out there?

Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption: it's simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument.

But it's the entire ballgame: if civilizations and political systems can coexist - as they largely have, imperfectly but recognizably, throughout history - then the entire case they make in the document evaporates.

In fact one can argue that, studying history, the big problem was not that civilizations couldn't coexist: it was that, from time to time, one of them decided that others were inferior, threatening, or standing in the way of its rightful expansion - and acted accordingly.

So many catastrophes and so much human suffering in history trace back not to the fact of plural civilizations, but to one of them deciding it could no longer tolerate the others.

The problem, in other words, has almost always been exactly the worldview Palantir is now selling. Their manifesto isn't warning against the cause of some of the worst periods in history: it's arguing for reviving them!

Or take point 15: they explicitly call for the re-armament of Germany and Japan, and an end to "Japanese pacifism". Basically undoing one of the foundational settlements of the post-WW2 order.

I mean, think about the insanity of this for a second: a private company - unelected, answerable only to its shareholders - is casually proposing to overturn the security architecture of two continents. A settlement that took a world war, and tens of millions of dead to establish.

Why do they propose this? There is obviously a commercial motivation: a remilitarized Germany and Japan are massive new defense-software markets.

But the more troubling answer is that point 15 fits into the ideological project the rest of the manifesto lays out - a civilizational contest requires a consolidated Western bloc, and pacifist members are a liability in such a contest.

So taking a step back we now have what's the most influential defense-software company in the world, with its code deeply embedded in all the machinery of Western states - intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, welfare systems, border controls - openly outing itself as an ideological project.

They're effectively saying "our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours."

Because, worryingly, that's what they CAN do. Palantir software is all about basically telling states: "these are your threats, these are the people and groups to watch, these are the patterns that matter, these are the targets that warrant action."

For instance the DGSI - the French intelligence services - use Palantir (see: https://t.co/3YJk88k4QY): do you honestly think the software is warning them about, say, the NSA tapping the phones of French government officials? About the weaponization of US extraterritorial law against French companies? Did it warn them about the AUKUS ambush that cost France a sixty-billion-euro submarine contract? Obviously not.

And that's exactly what the manifesto is saying. They've positioned themselves as advocates of Western civilizational unity, so their software can't undermine it. The ideological position and the product roadmap have to align, or the whole project falls apart.

This makes their software not only deeply dangerous for the world as a whole but also, almost by definition, for any country using it. When it comes to your security as a state, it is primordial you base yourself on truth as opposed to ideology. The entire point of an intelligence agency is to tell its government what is true, not what your so-called "allies'" defense contractors would like you to see.

A state that outsources its threat assessment to a company with an explicit ideological agenda is not gathering intelligence, it is essentially subscribing to propaganda.

The conclusion couldn't be more obvious. Every government still running Palantir software in its intelligence, security, or public-service infrastructure needs to start ripping it out, now! Lest they want to be embarked on the delusional and deeply destructive clash-of-civilizations crusade Palantir has now openly committed itself to.

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

As we predicted, Milei has destroyed the Argentina economy. He is a fraudster and a crypto Ponzi scammer, and best friend of Elon Musk….