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In 1890, "Zionism" meant support for the movement to create a Jewish state. In 2026, "Zionism" means support for the continuing right of Israel to exist as a state embodying Jewish national self-determination. I'm as goyish as a man can be, and I'm a proud Zionist. w. PS — Note that this does NOT mean that I approve of everything the Israelis do. They have their faults like everyone else. PPS — If you would like to get an instant no-notification, no-regrets block on this thread, just start raving about "Zionazis", "hasbara", "genocide", or the like. Take it somewhere else, please.

As an overseas Chinese who has worked on China’s energy transition and energy security for more than two decades, I’m tired of German commentators selectively using China and mis-represent China to fit a green narrative. Yes, China is building vast amounts of wind and solar. But unlike the permanent subsidy model some Germans still defend, China ended national feed-in tariffs for new solar and wind projects from June 2025. After more than twenty years of government support, these technologies are expected to compete in the market. At the same time, China is adding more coal capacity than the rest of the world combined, and building more nuclear reactors than the rest of the world combined. My generation and older generation of Chinese still remembers food and energy insecurity. We do not take modern industrial prosperity for granted. China’s approach has always centered on securing energy and food supply in a changing climate — not on treating intermittent renewables as an ideological end in themselves. That pragmatic multi-source approach is the actual story about China, not the misleading version currently circulating in Berlin by wind and solar lobbyists.

2016 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat 6.2L supercharged V8 with 422,789 miles (680,413 km) on the clock. Original engine,supercharger,timing chain,rear differential and transmission. The water pump was replaced 3 times. Lifters were done 2 times. The radiator was replaced 2 times. Engine mounts got replaced once at around 260,000 miles (418,429 km). The throttle body and PCV valve were replaced at around 300,000 miles (482,803 km). The right side fuel pump was replaced once at around 300,000 miles (482,803 km). The left side fuel pump was replaced once at around 270,000 miles (434,523 km). Spark plugs were replaced for the 4th time. 84 oil changes every 5,000 miles (8,000 km). 30 sets of tires.

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Mon très cher @ThierryBreton, Vous venez de poster une vidéo pour expliquer à Elon Musk comment résoudre ses "technical difficulties". Vous y parlez de liberté d'expression "paramount" pour les Européens, d'ingérence à éviter, et de solutions européennes. C'est touchant. On a presque cru que vous étiez encore commissaire. Petit rappel, puisque vous semblez avoir la mémoire sélective. Chez France Télécom, vous avez déployé les plans Next et Act. Réduction d'effectifs, pression managériale, et une série de suicides qui a fait l'objet d'un rapport Technologia en 2010. Vous étiez parti avant le pic, mais les méthodes portaient votre signature. Résultat : un fleuron public transformé en cas d'école de management toxique. Chez Atos, de 2008 à 2019, vous avez fait grossir le groupe par acquisitions. Siemens IT, Bull, Syntel. Chiffre d'affaires multiplié, valorisations en hausse. Puis vos successeurs ont déprécié pour plusieurs milliards, pointé des acquisitions surpayées, des contrats mal calibrés et un ratage du cloud. Le groupe a fini au bord du démantèlement, avec des actifs stratégiques (supercalculateurs, cyber) repris ou vendus. Vous affirmez avoir laissé "zéro dette nette". Les comptes et les témoignages internes disent autre chose. Bertrand Meunier, votre successeur, a parlé d'une "sélectivité discutable". En Commission, vous avez poussé le DSA et écrit des lettres publiques à Musk avant ses interviews. Objectif affiché : protéger les Européens. Résultat concret : amendes, enquêtes, et une interdiction de visa américaine pour ce que Washington qualifie de censure extraterritoriale. Musk vous a appelé "tyrant of Europe". Vous avez répondu que l'UE n'annule pas d'élections. Techniquement exact. Politiquement, vous avez passé cinq ans à expliquer aux plateformes américaines comment modérer la parole accessible en Europe. Aujourd'hui, vous donnez des leçons d'ingénierie et de liberté d'expression à l'homme qui fait voler des fusées réutilisables, fabrique des millions de voitures électriques et déploie une constellation de satellites. Votre "solution" tient dans une vidéo filmée derrière un ordinateur portable, avec un micro qui grésille. L'écart de résultats est documenté. Il n'est pas une opinion. Vous pouvez continuer à poster. Personne ne vous en empêchera. Mais chaque leçon que vous adressez à Musk rappelle surtout ce que vous avez laissé derrière vous : des plans sociaux, des dépréciations et une régulation européenne qui a surtout réussi à se faire sanctionner de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Cordialement.

The newer generations are unemployable, so I shut down a business yesterday. I have many small businesses I got involved in, one is a Saltwater fish store. It sells fish, corals, aquariums etc. The most profitable part of one of these stores is outside Maintenance. Going to peoples houses, changing the fish tanks water, cleaning glass etc. This is a very simple job, you run a hose in from the truck, suck water out, pump water in (nothing manual), and use a magnetic razor blade to clean the glass. Take a water sample and leave. We had 4 trucks and 6 guys doing this... then 5, 4, 3... each person that quit put more work on the ones left. We tried to hire, it's a very low skill job. Most maintenance guys make $15-18 an hour. We went upto $35 an hour to try and get people. Beyond that we cannot be profitable. The job is easy, you have to have a license (actually hard as hell apparently), and pass a background check (youre in peoples homes, also hard as hell). Pass a drug test. At $35 an hour we got the following. Someone that caused almost 8k of damage when they started pumping in water, went out "for a smoke" and the tank overflowed. At least 5 hires that went through background tests, drug tests etc then didn't show for work the 1st day and never called us again. Someone that intentionally pulled the guard off the water pumping hose, and sucked someones fish into the pump. Someone that scratched the District Attourney of las vegas, Steve Wolfson's tank by deciding to not use the magnetic razor, and "do it by hand"... fo no fucking reason. (4k bill) A wrecked van Someone who stole our water tester (1500 dollar machine). I have no empathy, at least in Las Vegas, for people complaining about no work, no jobs blah blah blah. $6000 a month to put hoses in and out of a tank and look at pretty fish.

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Congratulations, Abdul El-Sayed. You won. You outsmarted millions. If voters in other states had been allowed to vote for you, many more would have fallen for your charm. Keep going and maybe one day it's the presidency. Like it or not, they will call you Senator. You beat them at their own game. Western democracy gave you representation, and you're using that power to shape your country (yes, your country) closer to your worldview. Who knows, maybe you'll even work to undo the Muslim Brotherhood designation. As an observant Muslim, why wouldn't you pursue what you believe in? And let's be honest: you read your voters far better than they read you. Your critics put the questions about your associations in front of them. Your voters, many of them Jewish, shrugged and backed you anyway. As we say in Arabic: القانون لا يحمي المغفلين. The law doesn't protect the gullible. The political current that cheered your victory has spent decades working patiently toward this, for the good of humanity as it sees it, and for the good of its children. I disagree. I grew up where Islam has ruled since the 7th century. Since the eighties, the Muslim Brotherhood has promised us الإسلام هو الحل, "Islam is the solution." We lived the result, and nothing could be further from the truth. That was our experience in the Muslim world, the same world your parents chose to leave. Maybe America will be different. Maybe here it will finally work, because the people who mistake your smug smile for a sweet one are so much easier to win over. They have no resilience. They take every smile at face value. And they have so little sense of who they are that some would trade it for anything that offers certainty. Congratulations. The hard work paid off. While your side spent decades organizing, the people who should have been paying attention were busy inventing new identities, new grievances, new reasons to be offended, new things to smoke, new gods. Then the Palestinian cause led them straight into bed with Islamism. And for Palestine, they'll march hypnotized to the end of the earth. @AbdulElSayed

Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…

Francesca Albanese: “Israel has always killed children... torture, even rape... raped by dogs trained in European countries. European people are profiting from selling dogs that will rape people.” Irish Sen. Chris Andrews: “Thank you for your ongoing advocacy. It's inspiring.”

Serving my country as AAG for Civil Rights has been the honor of a lifetime. We ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls’ sports, and so much more. I want to thank President Trump for giving me this opportunity. I look forward to what’s next!

Palestinian activist Aber Kawas has won her seat for NY State Senate. She’s said 9/11 was America’s fault due to “capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia,” is endorsed by NYC DSA and Zohran Mamdani, and has worn a Hamas headband.

Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more severe, and the associated costs are rising. Europe needs better protection against the financial fallout from climate change and a more flexible energy system, says President @Lagarde in her blog post ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

And now I’m here on Oxford Street, London on my way to this morning’s photoshoot and admiring the newly installed allahu akbarriers, just in time to keep Christmas shoppers safe from Muslims with mental health issues who want to drive into pedestrians and kill them.

We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history. If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did. It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does. Will these newly-elected commies lower prices? Of course not. Are they gonna get you free healthcare? No, your insurance is gonna get even worse, just like it did the last time they tried socialized medicine. They're not going to do anything they've sold you, but...like Saul Goodman said: if you're committed enough, you can make any story work. The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly. It is 100% true that everything's too damn expensive, and we all know that inflated prices are always sticky. Does anyone know that it's entirely the result of shutting down the global economy over the flu and (both naive republicans and democrats) printing infinity dollars for several years? Nope...because nobody has effectively told that story, and it's an unsexy story to tell. "Free stuff!" is a VERY easy story to tell, and when everyone's gotta take out a second mortgage just to pay their insurance premiums, "free healthcare" is an unbeatable story. It doesn't matter that "free healthcare" doesn't exist and socialized medicine is a terrible product...it's not the product, it's the brand. And "FREE!" is a great brand. You can't get mad at people for having the financial literacy of a 9 year old. I mean, you can, but they outnumber you a million to one, so it's not going to be productive. You need to figure out how to make an unsexy story sexy, or else the "free stuff!" crowd is going to eat your lunch every time. If you give people a choice between earning a six pack on a treadmill or taking Ozempic, they're gonna choose Ozempic...they don't care about the side effects. If you give people a choice between fiscal discipline or free stuff...guess what they'll pick? They don't care about the side effects. With projected growth of 5%, the economy right now is stronger than it's been in generations. Is that the story you hear? Nope. Is that the vibe you feel? Absolutely not, especially when every time you fill up your gas tank, it feels like a diesel enema. It's not the product, it's the brand. A great product can fall into oblivion with bad messaging...a single bad review from one effective storyteller can tank a restaurant. The "influencer economy" is lucrative for a reason; everybody inherently understands the importance of effective storytelling...except the right. Zohran Mamdani gets it...he has an army of influencers on staff. In a perfect metaphor of this transitional phase of old guard vs new wave political messaging, Zohran nuked the Vice President into oblivion with maybe the biggest ratio in the history of the internet. By simply posting the subway assistant meme, Mamdani got 2 MILLION likes, quoting a post from the VP that had only 10K likes. If you're reading that sentence thinking "this is fucking ridiculous, you're talking about social media likes as political analysis now?"...you are the problem. Yes, this stuff matters. Rizz matters. The President did a masterful job of this kind of retail politics in his historic 2024 campaign...you can be angry that this is what politics has been reduced to, but you can either adapt or die. "No the problem is, you didn't deliver enough for the American people!" Are you a moron? Since when does anybody care about that? What have democrats delivered for Californians in the last 20 years? Unmitigated wildfires, homeless drug zombies everywhere, roads that look like Fallujah in 2004...people don't care about results. They think they care about results. That want you to believe they care about results, just as Nike wants you to believe their shoes are better than New Balance...but at the end of the day, all people really care about is the swoosh. Adapt or die.