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+++ Eil +++ Bayerns Wirtschaftsminister Hubert Aiwanger tot in Berlin aufgefunden kurz.zdf.de/F2I/

Tom Hiddleston says happiness is overrated and spending your life chasing it can actually make you unhappy "Happiness is overrated. Meaning is underrated. Happiness is like a sunrise or a sunset. Bear with me" "You're there. It's lovely. You're present with it. The sun's rising or the sun is setting. It's perfect. After 15 minutes, the moment is over and it's gone. Trying to sustain it is impossible because it's over" "And a life spent chasing the permanence of that feeling will make you unhappy because you can't hold on to it. The moment you try to hold on to it, it slips through your fingers and is lost" "Meaning is a structure that only you create in your own life, an architecture with your own particular spiritual fingerprint, whereby if you're going through a hard time, if you're going through challenge, struggle, obstacles, suffering or pain, only you know why you're going through it" "You might know, this is hard now. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my mom. I'm doing it for my future" "And then it makes enduring the hard times bearable because you know what it means" "And meaning - this is the take - meaning yields joy. Joy is deeper than happiness"

Es ist etwas fundamental kaputt gegangen in Deutschland, dass eine solche Kampagne, wie die gegen die Berliner Linke hier seit sechs Wochen möglich ist. Das ist maßlos.

here's the entirety of the seeming mental breakdown Haley Stevens just had on CNN. One of the most bizarre and incoherent political interviews I can recall. Note how she's completely unable to explain why she changed her mind from supporting Abdul El-Sayed last night to endorsing Mike Rogers today.

This explains a lot. Much of the left’s AI commentary comes from people - like Naomi Klein here - who have barely used the tools, then tell millions of readers it’s all hype.

Mehdi Hasan has TWO WORDS for all the Abdul HATERS: “CRY MORE!—I just wanted to get that off my chest because I’ve been F*CKED OFF with these people for so long!”

Absolutely brutal from a BYD spokesman on designing cars for European conditions.

There’s 100% a kind of mania you can get into with coding agents, where it feels like you’re getting a lot done and working all the time but nothing is really happening. I think it's often a form of avoidance of something else in life.

Wanneer mag een agent een taser gebruiken? at5.nl/artikelen/240759/wann…

Es gab Zeiten, da war BILD das Maß für moralischen Verfall im Journalismus. Nun veröffentlicht der SPIEGEL die interne Notiz einer Politikerin, die um ihre Familie fürchtet – trotz Sicherheitsbedenken, die die Autoren selbst einräumen. Der Verfall hat jetzt sechs Namen:

If everyone is done talking about der Spiegel’s completely unprofessional and unethical article about Elif Eralp, there was an election today for Vice President of the Berlin House of Representatives, and the AfD candidate received 40 votes, even though his group has only 29 members. Apparently, almost half of the CDU voted for the AfD

Good Morning from Germany, where one of Europe’s biggest landlords calls the country “uninvestable.” Heimstaden is withholding fresh capital over Berlin’s expropriation plans. It owns 20,000 apartments in the city worth ~€5bn and estimates a potential €1bn loss. Its hybrid bond has plunged from ~98 cents in August to 82.5. The irony: a policy meant to tackle the housing shortage risks driving away investment without building a single new home. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…