My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.

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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 European victory plan: 1) Destroy gas supplies coming from Russia 2) Destroy relationship with Russia 3) Make yourself dependent on US gas supplies 4) Destroy relationship with USA 5) Give all your money to Ukraine 6) … 7) Victory
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Elon, how can there be a free, fair election that represents the will of the people if 6m Ukrainians are out of the country as refugees, 3.5m more are under illegal Russian occupation, martial law is in operation (prohibiting elections) and Putin’s bombing the crap out of them?
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You’re losing credibility with this. Either Zelensky holds an election to prove that he represents the will of the people or he is a dictator.
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A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced... Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing. It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller. They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor. Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not! Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible. It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world. And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft. This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe. It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.
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Microsoft's supporting paper, published in Nature, does not support the claim that they have created a topological qubit. nature.com/articles/s4158… Peer reviewers of the Nature paper expressed concern that the paper misleadingly implies that a topological qubit was demonstrated or otherwise achieved: static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1…
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Lets get back to this.
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This year in the United States interest expenditure will exceed $1 trillion. A TRILLION DOLLARS. When Ronald Reagan came to power in 1980 the entire national debt was $1 trillion.
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Terwijl de ECB nog net niet het weer voorspelt en de ECB-ers het vaker over klimaat dan inflatie hebben, doet de Fed vandaag dit. Officieel: trekt zich terug uit een vergroeningsvereniging van centrale banken. Ik noem het: de Fed kapt met onzinbezigheid. #ontgroenenmaardananders
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"the hardest thing I witnessed was rape. I never heard screams for help like I heard from that woman" Yuval survived the Nova festival massacre by smearing her dead husband's blood on herself and pretending to be dead
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"No. No. It's a no. It will always be a no. Biden will not pardon his son Hunter." Guess what? THEY LIED.
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“Het ideale subject van totalitair bewind is niet de overtuigde nazi of de overtuigde communist, maar mensen voor wie het onderscheid tussen feit en fictie en het onderscheid tussen waar en onwaar niet langer bestaan.” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Here is a reality check for the critics of Israel. In 2002, my friend Yoni Jesner, 19, was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber on a bus in the second intifada while he was studying in Tel Aviv. When Yoni died, his organs were donated to a young Palestinian girl, whose life was saved by Yoni's family. In 2008, when Yahya Sinwar, the future leader of Hamas, was in prison in Israel, he developed a brain tumor. An Israeli surgeon operated on his head and saved his life. Earlier this year I visited a special medical center in Israel called Save A Child's Heart, in which world leading surgery is being offered to children who are flown from third world countries with their mothers to the hospital in Israel for stays of up to a year or longer while their children receive this life-saving treatment. Every day in Israel, the ambulance service Magen David Adom, services every single denomination of person in medical need; whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian or other. Throughout Israel's existence, Palestinian children have been brought from the territories into Israel to receive life-saving treatment by Israeli doctors. If Israel wanted to intentionally target and genocide Palestinian children and do any of the things that perverted accusers are alleging Israel has done during this war, the Jewish state would not have extended its medical services for its 75 year existence to its Palestinian and Arab neighbors, and communities far beyond its borders. Even criminals like Sinwar are treated as any other human being. Learn some things. Process the things you're learning. And consider where your bias lies.
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The US government’s budget deficit hit its highest since the Covid pandemic years in 2024, propelled by increased debt interest costs and higher Social Security and defense spending — which more than offset a boost in tax revenues. trib.al/S2GaLYr
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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. —Daniel Kahneman
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Rottumerplaat ligt onder een verstikkende #Stikstof deken … Er wonen geen mensen. De dichtstbijzijnde boer zit op 30 km afstand. De dichtst bijzijnde weg trouwens ook. De natuur ligt er trouwens fantastisch bij … #JustSaying 🤗😎😱
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