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Het één na grootste slachtoffer van de afgelopen dagen is de middenklasse, die straks 35,5% belasting over het rendement op haar spaargeld en beleggingen moet betalen.
Het allergrootste slachtoffer? De zelfstandige, die nu plotsklaps 35,5% belasting over het pensioen mag ophoesten.
Maar laten we net doen alsof de belasting op arbeid omlaag gaat. Die gaat namelijk .. omhoog.
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🚨BREAKING: Texas executes father who decapitated his 3 children.
Not one man showed up in support of him.
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Everyone is all against alcohol and sugar now. But who was there when your life was falling apart?
It sure wasn’t fucking salad.
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Als ondernemer moet je zelf zorgen dat je straks kunt stoppen met werken. Dus zet je jarenlang geld opzij.
In Den Haag heet dat vermogen. En dan ben je kennelijk ineens een miljonair bij wie nog wat te halen valt.
Pensioen? Ammehoela. Ondernemers zijn verdacht en vogelvrij. #kabinetcrisis #belastingdebat
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SCHANDALIG:
beleg in je eigen land en je wordt keihard gesloopt.
Wie hier geen communisme in ziet is gewoon knettergek en moet zijn stemrecht inleveren.
Dit valt gewoon NIET te verdedigen.
Nee je bent achterlijk. 🤬
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🚨 AWESOME! SecWar Pete Hegseth just gave a MEDAL to the sentinel who reprimanded someone that laughed out loud near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day, in Hegseth's group
"We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist. Carry on Patriots." 🇺🇸
DEPT. OF WAR OFFICIAL: “As shown in the photos, Secretary Hegseth welcomed the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard, to the Pentagon where he proudly awarded Specialist Iglesias the Joint Service Commendation Medal for the execution of his duties at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on November 11, 2026."
He carried out his duties.
It doesn't matter if you're a regular visitor or with the SECRETARY OF WAR. Standards are standards and Pete knows it.
Ja, het alternatief dat tot nu toe gebruikt werd waren tenten op het gras en dixies voor toiletten.
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Deze grafiek is schokkend. De EU wordt armer dan de armste 20% Amerikanen.
De EU dient te kiezen voor groei en ambitie in plaats van herverdeling en zelf-sabotage.
This is eye-opening. The popular narrative claims most Europeans are doing fine, while only the top 10% in the US are. Guess what, in all European countries except tiny Luxembourg, median disposable income is much lower than the disposable income of the poorest 20% of Americans.
After decades of left-green self-sabotage, Europe has become really poor compared to the US. With the AI revolution, Europe decided not to participate in, this trend will only accelerate.
One cannot regulate and tax oneself into prosperity, it must be created, not redistributed. Will Europeans ever grasp that, or have they lost all ambition and accepted becoming an open-air museum with good cheese and wine for wealthy Americans and Asians?
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“Among gang leaders like General Barbecue there is a real concern about Bukele's no-nonsense approach to gang leaders like General Barbecue"
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Elon has nearly 160,000 direct employees throughout his companies and supports almost 870,000 jobs.
Over five years, based on conservative estimates, @elonmusk’s companies have injected $338 billion into the US economy.
@Tesla makes the first and second most American made cars.
@SpaceX made the first fully reusable rocket and the world’s largest satellite internet constellation.
As Axios says: his “companies are central to America's technological and military power.”
In the end, the only people the Democrats will hurt are the American people.
Elon Musk's empire braces for Democratic crackdown axios.com/2026/11/09/elon-mu…
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A congresswoman just told Elon Musk "See you soon."
So let's compare résumés. Because that's really what this is about.
Elon Musk moved to North America at 17. He built Zip2, then PayPal, then put almost everything he had into two companies every expert said would die: a rocket company and an electric car company. In 2008 both nearly did. He went all in anyway.
Today SpaceX lands orbital boosters and flies them again like airliners, something NASA, Russia, Europe and China considered impossible or uneconomical for 60 years. It launches most of the mass sent to orbit by all of humanity combined. It's the reason America stopped renting seats on Russian rockets to reach its own space station. Starlink brings internet to Ukrainian trenches, Amazon villages and disaster zones. Tesla forced every carmaker on Earth to go electric. Neuralink is letting paralyzed people control computers with their minds.
And to the "billionaires don't pay their fair share" crowd: in 2021 he paid over $11 billion in taxes. Widely reported as the largest individual tax bill in American history. One man. One year.
His stated goal is to make life multiplanetary so that consciousness doesn't die on a single rock. You can think that's crazy. He has delivered on enough "crazy" that betting against him has become a bad habit.
Now Yassamin Ansari.
Stanford, international relations. Intern for Nancy Pelosi. Climate advisor at the UN. Phoenix City Council. Won her congressional primary by 39 votes. A whole career spent inside institutions that run on other people's money. Never built a product. Never had a customer. Never faced a market.
The day after her party won Congress, what's her top priority for day one? Cheaper housing? Energy? Competing with China?
No. Pause advanced AI. Ban "superintelligence."
The bill she backs freezes any model trained above 10^25 operations until a brand-new cabinet-level Department of AI gets staffed and writes its rules. Violators face up to 20 years in prison.
Let that sink in. The industry that, by one Oxford Economics estimate, drives about a third of recent US growth, frozen by people who have never trained a model, while waiting for a federal agency that doesn't exist yet. Beijing couldn't have written it better.
And yes, Elon has warned about AI risk for a decade. That's exactly the point. His answer to risk was to build, compete and put better systems in the arena. Hers is a committee, a freeze and prison terms. One looks at a hard problem and builds. The other looks at a hard problem and asks for a permit to stop everyone else.
Then the cherry on top: her reply to the man who built the rockets is "See you soon." Coming from someone whose only real power is the ability to stop others from building.
This is the real fault line of our time. Not left vs right. Builders vs administrators of envy. A system that selects people who have never created anything and gives them authority over the people who create everything. A political class that turns resentment into legislation and calls it "safety."
I'm French. I've watched this movie. Europe wrote the world's most ambitious AI rulebook. Now count how many of the world's top AI models are European.
I genuinely hope humanity grows out of this model. A civilization where its most mediocre managers summon its most extraordinary builders with a "see you soon" is a civilization working against itself.
"Brave New World" is right. Except the dystopia isn't the machine. It's the committee.
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I actually feel bad for Elon, even though I deeply disagree with him on some things.
Imagine trying to build a car company in California in the mid-2000s, when American manufacturing is being completely offshored and almost all of Wall Street thinks you’re a joke and is rooting for your failure, while the entire oil and gas industry is using all their power and leverage to make you fail.
But against all odds, you actually pull it off. You build cars that make electric vehicles desirable to millions of people, create an enormous number of quality American jobs, and force the global car industry to play catch up and move away from oil and gas.
You would think California would be proud of you and the team. Instead you find yourself having to fight a completely corrupt and incompetent left government impeding all your efforts while you sleep at the factory night after night to avoid collapse. At some point, you would go to the right too.
And because of your politics, it becomes a justification for people to celebrate your companies failing in their personal ideological fight with you. Even threats against you become something people explain away and use mental gymnastics to justify.
Meanwhile, people like Scott Galloway and Bernie Sanders who have made absolutely nobody better off other than themselves get to lecture you about your value to society and even call for your murder without grounds from their vacation home while you're on 20 hour benders in your factories trying to get things built for all of society. If this were me I would lose my mind.
Criticize his opinions. I do sometimes, especially on Ukraine. But the pleasure people take in wanting to destroy everything he’s built is hideous and frankly suicidal for the masses, especially coming from people who insist they care about workers, the climate, and civilization as a whole.
As you try to make good things for society you are confronted with a world that worships people who care only about the perception of being good people, while they actually fight against your tangible efforts of making improvements for humanity.
I don't think almost anyone would have made it out of that and if they did, they would probably not come away feeling so warm towards the left either. So I am rooting for Elon to succeed, and for humanity.
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When this kind of violence is allowed by the police, it marks the end of a decent society
We are all tired of seeing @YoungBobRB be assaulted for his often fair political opinion.
@metpoliceuk can you start locking people up please, political violence should not be tolerated!
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This tweet has gotten 2 million views and is wrong.
Musk doesn't think space cooling is easier because space is cold. He thinks its easier because it's a strait forward engineering problem that scales well.
Cooling in space is indeed difficult, because vacuum is an insulator.
But it's also straightforward, you just need a radiator.
Since 99% of the heat you are radiating comes from power consumption produced by solar panels, the amount of radiator panels equals a percentage of solar panels. It's around 25%.
The International Space Station has ~2,500 m² of photovoltaic panels generating power, and ~645 m² dissipating the heat.
There is no scale problem like there is on earth -- you can just keep building bigger and bigger and bigger.
Scaling is what makes cooling harder on earth. The bigger the data center, the more difficult the cooling. This comes not just from the engineering challenges but also the political challenges from communities rejecting huge data centers, taxes, etc.
However, we haven't built anything larger than the ISS for radiators. We have a lot still to discover, such as micrometeorites puncturing fluid lines. I wouldn't bet on space data center, but Musk isn't making simple errors by thinking that space is "cold" instead of "insulated".
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
