😂🤣😂🤣 Same.

Shame on western journalism for forcing us do the work they are too afraid to do.

Let me be your Flock camera, I can film all of the children....

🇩🇪 Alice Weidel sagt zu einem linken Politiker: „Wenn Sie eine Politik der offenen Grenzen unterstützen, nehmen Sie bitte die nächste große afghanische Familie bei sich zu Hause auf und sehen Sie selbst, wie das mit Ihrem LGBT-Lebensstil vereinbar ist.“

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Exercise is a celebration of what your body is capable of. Not a punishment for what you ate.

Equilibrium can only be achieved when working with nature.

Het is idd tijd dat we de mensen verantwoordelijk houden voor het traumatiseren van de bevolking, het planten van niet recycleerbaar en vervuilende alternatieve energiebronnen. Fondsen die we nodig hebben Thorium en andere stabiele tech uit te bouwen.

"some people are so poor that the only thing that they have is their money"... Credits Unknown

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

Go EV they say... safe the climate...

They attacked wool. We got polyester. Half a million tonnes of microplastic fibres enter the ocean from synthetic clothing annually. Microplastics are now in human blood, lung tissue, and placentas. Wool biodegrades in months. Polyester persists for centuries. They attacked leather. We got PVC. PVC production releases dioxins. The vegan leather peels within two years. Both require petroleum. Leather is a byproduct of food production. It lasts decades. It biodegrades. The ethical alternative requires an oil well. They attacked butter. We got margarine. Trans fat disease for a generation. Now on its third formulation. Butter contains vitamins A, D, E, and K2. Margarine contains seed oils and an ingredients list. The butter never changed. The butter never needed to. They attacked beef. We got plant-based burgers. Pea protein extracted with hexane. Seed oils. Nineteen other ingredients. A supply chain across multiple continents. Soy driving deforestation in Brazil at a scale that dwarfs British cattle farming. Beef on British marginal land grows on hills that cannot grow crops. Sequesters carbon. Fertilises without a factory. Complete protein. Every fat-soluble vitamin. No dead zone. In every case: the traditional animal product was nutritionally superior, environmentally lighter, and cheaper to produce. In every case: the ethical replacement was industrially complex, petrochemically dependent, and worse for the body using it. The ethics were the marketing.

I think the present government has destroyed the relationship between the public and the Garda Síochána for good, Having a late lunch in a resturant and four members of the guards walked in three males and a woman. Suddenly the place went quiet, they were seated, Other customers and staff looking at them. Their order was taken and shortly after the owner or manager went and asked them very politely to leave the premises as they were not welcome, that their presence was upsetting other customers and would they inform their colleagues they are not welcome either, As they walked out the door tail between their legs people clapped and cheered it was surreal.

Truth... And who does the US answer to?

Het zit er bovenarms op in de Israelische regering. De regering beschuldigt hem van de financiering van Hamas en voor de aanslag op 07.10.2023. Dat is niet nieuw. Nettanyahu heeft in het Parlement al eerder de volle laag gekregen. Er zijn de afgelopen jaren ook heel wat betogingen geweest tegen Bibi en de zijnen maar nu wordt het uitgezonden op nationale TV en overgenomen door andere zenders ( echter niet door de Vlaamse en Nederlandse pers ).

"Roep het van de daken! @Alice_Weidel: “We moeten de klimaatcrisis voor beëindigd verklaren. Het hele verhaal is, zoals de Amerikaanse president het zo treffend verwoordt, een hoax – een regelrechte zwendel om de industrie de nek om te draaien.”"

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