@Rothmus Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
Max Verstappen believes Formula 1 is becoming unnecessarily complicated. 🏎️
“All these things are not the spirit of racing.”
“You should be able to go out on track, have a brake pedal and an accelerator pedal, and that alone should determine the lap time.”
For Max, racing should come down to the driver, not managing endless systems.
(via. @Racingnews365) #F1
Tennessee announced that Neyland Stadium hit 130.3 decibels on this play against Alabama, setting the highest scientifically verified noise record in college football history
BREAKING: JP Morgan adds Bitcoin to their Long-Term Capital Markets Assumptions paper and predict it will be the best-performing asset of the next decade.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight at you, then they add you to their Long-Term Capital Markets Assumptions paper and predict you'll be the best-performing asset of the next decade.
Lo que hizo Max Verstappen hoy en Portimão es una auténtica locura.
Yo sé que muchos estamos acostumbrados a verlo hacer remontadas increíbles en la Fórmula 1, pero es que este hombre se sube a un GT3 y sigue demostrando por qué es uno de esos pilotos que simplemente nacieron para correr.
Después de que penalizaran a Chris Lulham con un drive-through, el equipo quedó en una situación bastante complicada. Max recibió el auto en la P25 y, en apenas 20 minutos de conducción, consiguió llevarlo hasta la P9, terminando finalmente P5 en la categoría PRO.
¿Podemos dimensionar lo que significa remontar 16 posiciones en tan poquito tiempo? Porque yo todavía estoy intentando procesarlo.
Y ojo, que no quiero quitarles ningún mérito a Chris ni a Ben, porque esto es un trabajo de equipo, pero es que lo de Max cuando se pone detrás de un volante es algo que me sigue sorprendiendo, incluso después de tantos años siguiéndolo.
Lo que más me gusta es verlo disfrutar de las carreras fuera de la F1. No importa si está luchando por un campeonato mundial, compitiendo en un simulador o conduciendo un GT3 en Portimão; sigue teniendo esas mismas ganas de competir, adelantar y darlo absolutamente todo.
Y pensar que hay personas que todavía creen que Max solamente sabe conducir un Fórmula 1 JAJAJA 🫠
No sé ustedes, pero a mí me encanta esta versión de Max, la que simplemente ama el automovilismo y aprovecha cualquier oportunidad para ponerse un casco y salir a correr.
De P25 a P9 en 20 minutos. Una auténtica cabra, un animal competitivo y, sobre todo, un enamorado de las carreras.
Qué privilegio poder disfrutar de un piloto así. 🥹❤️
Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
How inflation works:
In 2023, you weighed 200 lbs.
In 2024, you gained 20 lbs (+10%)
In 2025, you gained 20 lbs (+9.1%)
In 2026, you gained 20 lbs (+8.3%)
Government: "You're healthy! Weight gain is down!"