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Konsta Helenius taking it upon himself to not only protect the puck with one arm, pinpoint a wrist shot glove dot for the golden goal, then absolutely bulldoze two Swiss players is insane lol All at 20 years old following an impressive NHL playoff debut. Sabres have a PLAYER.
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Konsta Helenius taking it upon himself to not only protect the puck with one arm, pinpoint a wrist shot glove dot for the golden goal, then absolutely bulldoze two Swiss players is insane lol All at 20 years old following an impressive NHL playoff debut. Sabres have a PLAYER.

y - Conor Hurley

89,794 次观看 • 1 个月前

🟥 THE FORCED TRANSFER OF GAZA: A GLOBAL SYSTEM DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN RESCUE 🧵🧵 The world is watching a system unfold that pretends to be humanitarian but serves only one purpose: to empty Gaza of its people. Bombs didn’t finish the job. Starvation didn’t break the people. The destruction of hospitals, tents, food, and shelter didn’t force surrender. So the machinery has shifted to its final stage: forced migration disguised as rescue, executed through front organisations, unmarked flights, military airports, and “aid” networks. Below is the entire architecture every actor, every layer, every method exposed. 🟥 1. THE SOUTH AFRICA FLIGHTS: THE BLUEPRINT FINALLY EXPOSED 🔳 Two flights, two weeks, same system ▪️ On 14 November, 153 Palestinians arrived in Johannesburg with no israeli exit stamps, no belongings, and were trapped 12 hours on a plane before South Africa intervened. ▪️ On 28 October, 176 Palestinians arrived on the first charter, quietly, with the same pattern: no stamps, no belongings, no information. ▪️ President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as having been “flushed out of Gaza.” ▪️ South Africa’s leading humanitarian organisation, Gift of the Givers, confirmed israel deliberately erased exit stamps to intensify their suffering abroad, leaving them undocumented. Narrative: This is not coincidence. It is a pipeline, operating in stages, hidden behind humanitarian branding. 🟥 2. TRUMP SET THE FRAMEWORK FOR DEPOPULATION 🔳 He didn’t hide it. He marketed it. ▪️ Standing beside Netanyahu in 2025, Trump said the United States would “take over” and “own” Gaza. ▪️ He called Gaza “the Riviera of the Middle East.” ▪️ He said Palestinians would be moved to “a beautiful area a little bit away.” ▪️ When asked about return, he said they wouldn’t because they’d get “better housing” elsewhere. ▪️ The GREAT Trust brochure openly anticipated half a million Palestinians would never return once removed. Narrative: This was the sales pitch, not the footnote. Investors and governments heard it clearly. 🟥 3. ISRAEL BUILDS THE “VOLUNTARY EMIGRATION BUREAU” 🔳 The policy becomes machinery ▪️ In March 2025, israel formalised a government bureau designed to manage Palestinian “emigration” from Gaza. ▪️ Its role: identify candidates, secure foreign states, coordinate departures, manage logistics. ▪️ Israeli and Palestinian rights groups warned immediately: this is forced transfer a war crime and a crime against humanity. Narrative: The removal apparatus became bureaucratic. The flights simply execute what the bureau was built to do. 🟥 4. THE PUSH: STARVATION, HEALTH COLLAPSE, AND MANUFACTURED DESPERATION 🔳 Forced transfer begins long before the airport ▪️ UN experts: israel is using starvation as a weapon against civilians. ▪️ Healthcare collapsed: no oncology, no surgeries, no equipment. ▪️ More than a million people are homeless. ▪️ Children sleep in mud, cold, rain, and flooded tents. ▪️ Families freeze with no blankets, no warm clothes, nothing. 🔳 The Egyptian warehouse scandal ▪️ Footage shows hundreds of unopened tents stored inside Gaza. ▪️ Controlled by the Egyptian Committee and Egyptian Red Crescent, assisted by Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity. ▪️ Families are drenched in storms while tents remain locked away. Narrative: This is not inefficiency. It is engineered desperation, setting the stage for “voluntary departure.”
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🟥 THE FORCED TRANSFER OF GAZA: A GLOBAL SYSTEM DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN RESCUE 🧵🧵 The world is watching a system unfold that pretends to be humanitarian but serves only one purpose: to empty Gaza of its people. Bombs didn’t finish the job. Starvation didn’t break the people. The destruction of hospitals, tents, food, and shelter didn’t force surrender. So the machinery has shifted to its final stage: forced migration disguised as rescue, executed through front organisations, unmarked flights, military airports, and “aid” networks. Below is the entire architecture every actor, every layer, every method exposed. 🟥 1. THE SOUTH AFRICA FLIGHTS: THE BLUEPRINT FINALLY EXPOSED 🔳 Two flights, two weeks, same system ▪️ On 14 November, 153 Palestinians arrived in Johannesburg with no israeli exit stamps, no belongings, and were trapped 12 hours on a plane before South Africa intervened. ▪️ On 28 October, 176 Palestinians arrived on the first charter, quietly, with the same pattern: no stamps, no belongings, no information. ▪️ President Cyril Ramaphosa described them as having been “flushed out of Gaza.” ▪️ South Africa’s leading humanitarian organisation, Gift of the Givers, confirmed israel deliberately erased exit stamps to intensify their suffering abroad, leaving them undocumented. Narrative: This is not coincidence. It is a pipeline, operating in stages, hidden behind humanitarian branding. 🟥 2. TRUMP SET THE FRAMEWORK FOR DEPOPULATION 🔳 He didn’t hide it. He marketed it. ▪️ Standing beside Netanyahu in 2025, Trump said the United States would “take over” and “own” Gaza. ▪️ He called Gaza “the Riviera of the Middle East.” ▪️ He said Palestinians would be moved to “a beautiful area a little bit away.” ▪️ When asked about return, he said they wouldn’t because they’d get “better housing” elsewhere. ▪️ The GREAT Trust brochure openly anticipated half a million Palestinians would never return once removed. Narrative: This was the sales pitch, not the footnote. Investors and governments heard it clearly. 🟥 3. ISRAEL BUILDS THE “VOLUNTARY EMIGRATION BUREAU” 🔳 The policy becomes machinery ▪️ In March 2025, israel formalised a government bureau designed to manage Palestinian “emigration” from Gaza. ▪️ Its role: identify candidates, secure foreign states, coordinate departures, manage logistics. ▪️ Israeli and Palestinian rights groups warned immediately: this is forced transfer a war crime and a crime against humanity. Narrative: The removal apparatus became bureaucratic. The flights simply execute what the bureau was built to do. 🟥 4. THE PUSH: STARVATION, HEALTH COLLAPSE, AND MANUFACTURED DESPERATION 🔳 Forced transfer begins long before the airport ▪️ UN experts: israel is using starvation as a weapon against civilians. ▪️ Healthcare collapsed: no oncology, no surgeries, no equipment. ▪️ More than a million people are homeless. ▪️ Children sleep in mud, cold, rain, and flooded tents. ▪️ Families freeze with no blankets, no warm clothes, nothing. 🔳 The Egyptian warehouse scandal ▪️ Footage shows hundreds of unopened tents stored inside Gaza. ▪️ Controlled by the Egyptian Committee and Egyptian Red Crescent, assisted by Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity. ▪️ Families are drenched in storms while tents remain locked away. Narrative: This is not inefficiency. It is engineered desperation, setting the stage for “voluntary departure.”

shameen suleman

26,473 次观看 • 8 个月前

Run Gemma 4 26b MTP on 8 GB VRAM GPUs at 25+ tokens/second. Flags included! local llm space is moving at terminal velocity. only 3 days ago google released gemma 4 26b a4b qat quants. more efficient than before, ran on 8gb vram at 20 tok/sec. and now just a few hours ago, mainline llama.cpp merged a massive update and we just shattered our own record. decode throughput went 25-40% up on the same 8 GB VRAM setup! Before MTP: 20 tps -> After MTP: 28 tps! llama.cpp just officially merged PR #23398 ("add Gemma4 MTP"), bringing native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) support to Gemma 4 models. By running speculative drafting on the same 8GB VRAM RTX 4060 setup, my decode throughput on a 64k context instantly leaped to a blistering 25–27 tokens/sec thats 25-30% increase with the same hardware. Here is the architectural catch you need to know: Unlike the Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 series, which bake the MTP heads directly into the base GGUF, the Gemma 4 MTP head is not built in. You must download a separate, specialized MTP drafter GGUF (the assistant model) to act as the speculator. (I've dropped the download link in the replies). copy and try the exact flags: -m gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 6 --spec-draft-p-min 0.7 --spec-draft-model gemma-4-26b-A4B-it-assistant-Q4_0.gguf -c 64000 -v n-max 4 and p-min 0.7 is also worth checking out. benchmark on your setup and workflow. if you have a single 8 gb vram nvidia rtx 4060, 3060, 3070, 2080, 2070, grab the MTP drafter GGUF link in the comments and try it yourself. Check it out even if you have asmaller or a larger gpu, such as a single rtx 3090, 4090, 3060, 2060. MTP works for all gemma 4 sizes such as gemma 4 12b, gemma 4 31b etc. but remember to grab the correct mtp draft assistant models respectively. what are you benchmarking today
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Run Gemma 4 26b MTP on 8 GB VRAM GPUs at 25+ tokens/second. Flags included! local llm space is moving at terminal velocity. only 3 days ago google released gemma 4 26b a4b qat quants. more efficient than before, ran on 8gb vram at 20 tok/sec. and now just a few hours ago, mainline llama.cpp merged a massive update and we just shattered our own record. decode throughput went 25-40% up on the same 8 GB VRAM setup! Before MTP: 20 tps -> After MTP: 28 tps! llama.cpp just officially merged PR #23398 ("add Gemma4 MTP"), bringing native Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) support to Gemma 4 models. By running speculative drafting on the same 8GB VRAM RTX 4060 setup, my decode throughput on a 64k context instantly leaped to a blistering 25–27 tokens/sec thats 25-30% increase with the same hardware. Here is the architectural catch you need to know: Unlike the Qwen 3.5 and 3.6 series, which bake the MTP heads directly into the base GGUF, the Gemma 4 MTP head is not built in. You must download a separate, specialized MTP drafter GGUF (the assistant model) to act as the speculator. (I've dropped the download link in the replies). copy and try the exact flags: -m gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 6 --spec-draft-p-min 0.7 --spec-draft-model gemma-4-26b-A4B-it-assistant-Q4_0.gguf -c 64000 -v n-max 4 and p-min 0.7 is also worth checking out. benchmark on your setup and workflow. if you have a single 8 gb vram nvidia rtx 4060, 3060, 3070, 2080, 2070, grab the MTP drafter GGUF link in the comments and try it yourself. Check it out even if you have asmaller or a larger gpu, such as a single rtx 3090, 4090, 3060, 2060. MTP works for all gemma 4 sizes such as gemma 4 12b, gemma 4 31b etc. but remember to grab the correct mtp draft assistant models respectively. what are you benchmarking today

Alok

200,913 次观看 • 1 个月前

Kiya, my 8 year old mini poodle, has suffered seizures since she got a rabies vaccine at age 1 when she was spayed. The seizures are getting less frequent and way less severe but the worst one 4 years ago left her so disoriented she never walked for two days. 😥 She did get the parvo vaccine from the breeder before I got her at 8 weeks but parvo usually only affects puppies before their livers are mature and rarely affects a mature dog. Family members look after our pets if we are away so never any need for vaccines like kennel cough. The breeder had actually advised against the rabies vax as small breeds can have negative reactions to it. I so wish I had said no to it when the vet said she should get it at one year. Seriously how many Old Yellars are there getting rabies, anyway? So, our 3 year old mini poodle, Ginny has had zero vaccines and is the healthiest livewire, so full of energy and happiness. I do all my own grooming but live in rural Saskatchewan where groomers don't ask anyway. Video is a mild seizure she had January 2024 that was over in about 10 minutes, but she is always disoriented for hours after. Sad.
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Kiya, my 8 year old mini poodle, has suffered seizures since she got a rabies vaccine at age 1 when she was spayed. The seizures are getting less frequent and way less severe but the worst one 4 years ago left her so disoriented she never walked for two days. 😥 She did get the parvo vaccine from the breeder before I got her at 8 weeks but parvo usually only affects puppies before their livers are mature and rarely affects a mature dog. Family members look after our pets if we are away so never any need for vaccines like kennel cough. The breeder had actually advised against the rabies vax as small breeds can have negative reactions to it. I so wish I had said no to it when the vet said she should get it at one year. Seriously how many Old Yellars are there getting rabies, anyway? So, our 3 year old mini poodle, Ginny has had zero vaccines and is the healthiest livewire, so full of energy and happiness. I do all my own grooming but live in rural Saskatchewan where groomers don't ask anyway. Video is a mild seizure she had January 2024 that was over in about 10 minutes, but she is always disoriented for hours after. Sad.

LookingForward

42,354 次观看 • 9 个月前

🎊 THE GRAND SPECTACLE BEGINS! Ladies and Gentlemen. Fans and Judges. The stage is set. The stakes? Oh, they’re high. I present to you my latest grand spectacle— POPIT GAMES 🃏 YEP YEP POPIT GAMES 2025 | A TOURNAMENT | MORE THAN $500,000 PRIZE POOL | 10,000 WINNERS | FREE TO PLAY ➡️ REGISTER NOW on the official Popit Games website: ⚡️ $100,000 in pure, spend-it-how-you-want cash. Yep. ⚡️ 1,000 players get Node Cores worth $400,000 Yep. ⚡️ 10,000 winners claim their share of 850,000,000 Boosts, along with special prizes and more. Yep. ⚡️ Two categories. Two leaderboards = more chances to win. Yep. 🏆 INDIVIDUAL / TEAM INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – FLY ALONE 🥇 1st place – $27,000 🥈 2nd – $8,400 🥉 3rd – $5,400 🏅 4th – $3,600 🏅 5th & 6th – $2,100 each 🏅 7th & 8th – $1,500 each 🏅 9th – 12th – $1,200 each 🏅 13th – 16th – $900 each TEAM LEADERBOARD — STRENGTHEN THE BONDS 🥇 1st place – $18,000 🥈 2nd – $5,600 🥉 3rd – $3,600 🏅 4th – $2,400 🏅 5th & 6th – $1,400 each 🏅 7th & 8th – $1,000 each 🏅 9th – 12th – $800 each 🏅 13th – 16th – $600 each 🎁 SPECIAL REWARDS – $400,000 WORTH OF NODE CORES TO TOP 1000 PLAYERS Yep. Yep. 🎁 The top 1000 players get Cores as a prize. 🎁 On top of all this, every participant receives an exclusive POPIT GAMES POP Coin. Yep. 🎁 Players in positions 101-1000 receive Collectible POPIT Packs. 🔥 The TOP 10,000 players will automatically receive Boosts from a total pool of 850,000,000. Power matters. Instead of spending hours, days, weeks collecting the Boosts you need to up your mining power, being a Top 10k Popit Games player lets you get that shiny, shiny power. 🏆 1st – 14,400,000 Boosts 🥈 2nd – 10,472,000 Boosts 🥉 3rd – 2,618,000 Boosts … and the list keeps going! “But wait!” Popit wails “Is that not all?” “Not quite. I have a SECRET. A SURPRISE. The top 3 Tournament winners will get a SPECIAL ITEM.” “What is it?” “Wait and see…” 🃏WHAT WILL WE PLAY? You already know. The Popit Card Game! A tournament of this first-of-its-kind dynamic card game, where many players compete simultaneously. No waiting for your turn. Popit Game fully supports eGaming features. Some of you even hold the limited Pop Coin Edition. Mmm, lucky ones. But everyone in the tournament gets a standard Pop Coin Deck they can play with and keep. These are your cards. Strategy is your weapon. Build and maintain the highest possible block until the end of each stage. 🃏 EARLY ACCESS – ONE WEEK BEFORE Fair is fair. One week before the tournament, the doors open. A chance to test, learn, and sharpen your skills. Everyone starts on equal ground. 🃏 AND THAT’S NOT ALL… Popit Games will be covered LIVE in several languages by top YouTube and Twitch commentators. Expect the unexpected. A spectacle of surprises. I have my own tricks waiting… rabbits in hats, cards up sleeves. You will see. SO Here’s the deal 🎭 LET’S MAKE THIS THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE SHOW ACKI NACKI’S UNIVERSE HAS EVER SEEN 💥 Tension. Passion. Gold. Can you feel it? But in the end, it’s just... a game 🃏 *Popit claps his hands and vanishes into thin air, leaving behind only the lingering scent of opportunity* ♠️ ᴍᴀʏ ꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴇ ꜱᴍɪʟᴇ ᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏɴᴇꜱᴛ ♠️ #AckiNacki #PopitGames #Tournament
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🎊 THE GRAND SPECTACLE BEGINS! Ladies and Gentlemen. Fans and Judges. The stage is set. The stakes? Oh, they’re high. I present to you my latest grand spectacle— POPIT GAMES 🃏 YEP YEP POPIT GAMES 2025 | A TOURNAMENT | MORE THAN $500,000 PRIZE POOL | 10,000 WINNERS | FREE TO PLAY ➡️ REGISTER NOW on the official Popit Games website: ⚡️ $100,000 in pure, spend-it-how-you-want cash. Yep. ⚡️ 1,000 players get Node Cores worth $400,000 Yep. ⚡️ 10,000 winners claim their share of 850,000,000 Boosts, along with special prizes and more. Yep. ⚡️ Two categories. Two leaderboards = more chances to win. Yep. 🏆 INDIVIDUAL / TEAM INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – FLY ALONE 🥇 1st place – $27,000 🥈 2nd – $8,400 🥉 3rd – $5,400 🏅 4th – $3,600 🏅 5th & 6th – $2,100 each 🏅 7th & 8th – $1,500 each 🏅 9th – 12th – $1,200 each 🏅 13th – 16th – $900 each TEAM LEADERBOARD — STRENGTHEN THE BONDS 🥇 1st place – $18,000 🥈 2nd – $5,600 🥉 3rd – $3,600 🏅 4th – $2,400 🏅 5th & 6th – $1,400 each 🏅 7th & 8th – $1,000 each 🏅 9th – 12th – $800 each 🏅 13th – 16th – $600 each 🎁 SPECIAL REWARDS – $400,000 WORTH OF NODE CORES TO TOP 1000 PLAYERS Yep. Yep. 🎁 The top 1000 players get Cores as a prize. 🎁 On top of all this, every participant receives an exclusive POPIT GAMES POP Coin. Yep. 🎁 Players in positions 101-1000 receive Collectible POPIT Packs. 🔥 The TOP 10,000 players will automatically receive Boosts from a total pool of 850,000,000. Power matters. Instead of spending hours, days, weeks collecting the Boosts you need to up your mining power, being a Top 10k Popit Games player lets you get that shiny, shiny power. 🏆 1st – 14,400,000 Boosts 🥈 2nd – 10,472,000 Boosts 🥉 3rd – 2,618,000 Boosts … and the list keeps going! “But wait!” Popit wails “Is that not all?” “Not quite. I have a SECRET. A SURPRISE. The top 3 Tournament winners will get a SPECIAL ITEM.” “What is it?” “Wait and see…” 🃏WHAT WILL WE PLAY? You already know. The Popit Card Game! A tournament of this first-of-its-kind dynamic card game, where many players compete simultaneously. No waiting for your turn. Popit Game fully supports eGaming features. Some of you even hold the limited Pop Coin Edition. Mmm, lucky ones. But everyone in the tournament gets a standard Pop Coin Deck they can play with and keep. These are your cards. Strategy is your weapon. Build and maintain the highest possible block until the end of each stage. 🃏 EARLY ACCESS – ONE WEEK BEFORE Fair is fair. One week before the tournament, the doors open. A chance to test, learn, and sharpen your skills. Everyone starts on equal ground. 🃏 AND THAT’S NOT ALL… Popit Games will be covered LIVE in several languages by top YouTube and Twitch commentators. Expect the unexpected. A spectacle of surprises. I have my own tricks waiting… rabbits in hats, cards up sleeves. You will see. SO Here’s the deal 🎭 LET’S MAKE THIS THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE SHOW ACKI NACKI’S UNIVERSE HAS EVER SEEN 💥 Tension. Passion. Gold. Can you feel it? But in the end, it’s just... a game 🃏 *Popit claps his hands and vanishes into thin air, leaving behind only the lingering scent of opportunity* ♠️ ᴍᴀʏ ꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴇ ꜱᴍɪʟᴇ ᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏɴᴇꜱᴛ ♠️ #AckiNacki #PopitGames #Tournament

Acki Nacki

14,762 次观看 • 1 年前

It’s been said that 95% of adults over 30 will probably never sprint again. And I understand why. Most guys try it once after years of only lifting weights and then something snaps. They tweak a hamstring, flare up an old knee injury, or strain a calf. And decide, "My body just can’t do this anymore.” But that’s not true. Your body just lost the qualities required to sprint safely. Power Mobility Coordination Tissue tolerance. Tendon stiffness The solution isn’t avoiding sprinting. The solution is rebuilding your capacity in a gradual way. At 49, this is how I approach sprinting now: 1. Mobility before every session 2. Plyometrics before speed work 3. Short hill accelerations first 4. Low volume at first 5. Long rest periods 6. Lift weights consistently 7. Progress slowly The goal isn’t exhaustion. It's to reclaim your athleticism. Because sprinting isn’t just an exercise. It’s one of the most powerful signals of youth, power and resilience your body can express. If you feel like your athletic days are behind you, they aren’t. You just need a better plan. DM me “SPRINT” if you’re a successful man over 40 who wants expert help rebuilding without getting hurt.
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It’s been said that 95% of adults over 30 will probably never sprint again. And I understand why. Most guys try it once after years of only lifting weights and then something snaps. They tweak a hamstring, flare up an old knee injury, or strain a calf. And decide, "My body just can’t do this anymore.” But that’s not true. Your body just lost the qualities required to sprint safely. Power Mobility Coordination Tissue tolerance. Tendon stiffness The solution isn’t avoiding sprinting. The solution is rebuilding your capacity in a gradual way. At 49, this is how I approach sprinting now: 1. Mobility before every session 2. Plyometrics before speed work 3. Short hill accelerations first 4. Low volume at first 5. Long rest periods 6. Lift weights consistently 7. Progress slowly The goal isn’t exhaustion. It's to reclaim your athleticism. Because sprinting isn’t just an exercise. It’s one of the most powerful signals of youth, power and resilience your body can express. If you feel like your athletic days are behind you, they aren’t. You just need a better plan. DM me “SPRINT” if you’re a successful man over 40 who wants expert help rebuilding without getting hurt.

Ted Ryce

85,714 次观看 • 2 个月前

Brandon Gill represents Texas’s 26th district, he’s only 30 years old, and a young dad, married to his college sweetheart, sharp conservative voice. His his fans love that he’s this fresh, articulate, all-American guy who doesn’t come from politics. He’s a former Turning Point USA activist who jumped straight into Congress and immediately started going after what he sees as elite overreach, big government, and cultural decay. People see him as proof that young conservatives don’t have to be cynical or washed out, they can still be married, have kids, and fight for traditional values while staying relevant. The “young father in Congress” image lands really well with the base. He’s one of the few Gen Z/Millennial Republicans getting serious attention right now. He’s 32, born on an Air Force base in New Mexico, and grew up on a cattle ranch in West Texas. His dad was a fighter pilot who flew combat missions in the Gulf War, and his grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher, so service and faith run deep in his family. At Dartmouth he graduated cum laude with degrees in economics and history, led the conservative student paper, and grew the Christian Union into one of the biggest groups on a pretty hostile campus. After college he worked as an investment banker in New York, then started his own conservative news outlet, the DC Enquirer, before running for Congress. At 30 he got elected as the youngest Republican in the House. He’s in the Freedom Caucus, serves on Judiciary and Oversight, and pushes hard on border security, cutting government waste, and protecting life. Lives in Flower Mound with Danielle and their two little ones. Classic Texas conservative story, ranch kid to Congress.
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Brandon Gill represents Texas’s 26th district, he’s only 30 years old, and a young dad, married to his college sweetheart, sharp conservative voice. His his fans love that he’s this fresh, articulate, all-American guy who doesn’t come from politics. He’s a former Turning Point USA activist who jumped straight into Congress and immediately started going after what he sees as elite overreach, big government, and cultural decay. People see him as proof that young conservatives don’t have to be cynical or washed out, they can still be married, have kids, and fight for traditional values while staying relevant. The “young father in Congress” image lands really well with the base. He’s one of the few Gen Z/Millennial Republicans getting serious attention right now. He’s 32, born on an Air Force base in New Mexico, and grew up on a cattle ranch in West Texas. His dad was a fighter pilot who flew combat missions in the Gulf War, and his grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher, so service and faith run deep in his family. At Dartmouth he graduated cum laude with degrees in economics and history, led the conservative student paper, and grew the Christian Union into one of the biggest groups on a pretty hostile campus. After college he worked as an investment banker in New York, then started his own conservative news outlet, the DC Enquirer, before running for Congress. At 30 he got elected as the youngest Republican in the House. He’s in the Freedom Caucus, serves on Judiciary and Oversight, and pushes hard on border security, cutting government waste, and protecting life. Lives in Flower Mound with Danielle and their two little ones. Classic Texas conservative story, ranch kid to Congress.

Patricia 🇺🇸

498,793 次观看 • 1 个月前

The Zimbabwean Senate has voted in favour of the controversial Constitution Amendment Bill (No. 3) by 75 votes to 4, with one abstention. The opposition CCC, which has 27 senators in the 80-member chamber, voted alongside ZANUPF. The bill seeks to extend the presidential term from five years to seven years, provide for the future election of a president by Parliament rather than through a direct popular vote, and make a number of other far reaching constitutional changes. The vote means that the bill now awaits the signature of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa before becoming law. Its passage marks one of the most significant constitutional changes in Zimbabwe’s recent history and is likely to remain the subject of intense political, legal and constitutional debate. The bill also seeks to allow Mnangagwa to influence the selection of his successor and potentially block his deputy, General Constantino Chiwenga, from succeeding him. If and when Mnangagwa signs it into law and there is no significant resistance from within ZANUPF, the military or broader society, it will signal a major setback to Chiwenga’s presidential ambitions, short of an intervention that changes the political landscape. More importantly, it will represent a further consolidation of ZANUPF’s hold on power and diminish the prospects of Zimbabwe having a president from outside the ruling party in the foreseeable future. The self evident story is how Mnangagwa has been assisted by influential business interests, including wealthy individuals aligned with ZANUPF, who may have more to lose from a Chiwenga presidency than from the continuation of the current political order. The only developments that could realistically halt this process would be a military intervention and a sustained national uprising. At present, however, all of these possibilities appear distant from political reality.
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The Zimbabwean Senate has voted in favour of the controversial Constitution Amendment Bill (No. 3) by 75 votes to 4, with one abstention. The opposition CCC, which has 27 senators in the 80-member chamber, voted alongside ZANUPF. The bill seeks to extend the presidential term from five years to seven years, provide for the future election of a president by Parliament rather than through a direct popular vote, and make a number of other far reaching constitutional changes. The vote means that the bill now awaits the signature of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa before becoming law. Its passage marks one of the most significant constitutional changes in Zimbabwe’s recent history and is likely to remain the subject of intense political, legal and constitutional debate. The bill also seeks to allow Mnangagwa to influence the selection of his successor and potentially block his deputy, General Constantino Chiwenga, from succeeding him. If and when Mnangagwa signs it into law and there is no significant resistance from within ZANUPF, the military or broader society, it will signal a major setback to Chiwenga’s presidential ambitions, short of an intervention that changes the political landscape. More importantly, it will represent a further consolidation of ZANUPF’s hold on power and diminish the prospects of Zimbabwe having a president from outside the ruling party in the foreseeable future. The self evident story is how Mnangagwa has been assisted by influential business interests, including wealthy individuals aligned with ZANUPF, who may have more to lose from a Chiwenga presidency than from the continuation of the current political order. The only developments that could realistically halt this process would be a military intervention and a sustained national uprising. At present, however, all of these possibilities appear distant from political reality.

Hopewell Chin’ono

98,654 次观看 • 21 天前

I Combined ChatGPT 5.5 Image-2 + Claude Fable 5… And Built This FULL Game in JUST 8 Hours 😱 The World Has Officially Changed Forever Guys… I still can’t believe what I just pulled off. I took ChatGPT 5.5’s new Image-2 to generate every single visual characters, environments, UI, particles, everything and paired it with Claude Fable 5 for the entire codebase. The result? A complete, polished, fully playable game… finished in only 8 hours. No massive team. No months of crunch. No expensive asset packs. Image-2 created mind-blowing art assets on demand. Fable 5 turned those images into real, working code mechanics, physics, AI, animations, menus everything. This hybrid combo is straight-up sorcery. The world has truly changed. We are no longer waiting years for games to be made. One person + these two god-tier AIs just built something that used to require entire studios and huge budgets… in less than a single workday. This is the next level of human civilization. This is what creation looks like from now on. But here’s the crazy part: This free access ends June 22, 2026. After that, you’ll have to pay/subscribe to keep using it. If you’ve been waiting to see what the future of game dev actually looks like… THIS IS IT. Go try it right now before the paywall hits. Don’t sleep on this. Seriously. Drop in the comments: What game should I build next with this insane Image-2 + Fable 5 hybrid? Like if your mind is blown too 🔥 And tag a friend who NEEDS to see this before it’s gone. The future isn’t coming… It’s already here. And it’s free for one more day only. #Fable5 #ChatGPT55 #Image2 #AIHybrid #GameDevRevolution
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I Combined ChatGPT 5.5 Image-2 + Claude Fable 5… And Built This FULL Game in JUST 8 Hours 😱 The World Has Officially Changed Forever Guys… I still can’t believe what I just pulled off. I took ChatGPT 5.5’s new Image-2 to generate every single visual characters, environments, UI, particles, everything and paired it with Claude Fable 5 for the entire codebase. The result? A complete, polished, fully playable game… finished in only 8 hours. No massive team. No months of crunch. No expensive asset packs. Image-2 created mind-blowing art assets on demand. Fable 5 turned those images into real, working code mechanics, physics, AI, animations, menus everything. This hybrid combo is straight-up sorcery. The world has truly changed. We are no longer waiting years for games to be made. One person + these two god-tier AIs just built something that used to require entire studios and huge budgets… in less than a single workday. This is the next level of human civilization. This is what creation looks like from now on. But here’s the crazy part: This free access ends June 22, 2026. After that, you’ll have to pay/subscribe to keep using it. If you’ve been waiting to see what the future of game dev actually looks like… THIS IS IT. Go try it right now before the paywall hits. Don’t sleep on this. Seriously. Drop in the comments: What game should I build next with this insane Image-2 + Fable 5 hybrid? Like if your mind is blown too 🔥 And tag a friend who NEEDS to see this before it’s gone. The future isn’t coming… It’s already here. And it’s free for one more day only. #Fable5 #ChatGPT55 #Image2 #AIHybrid #GameDevRevolution

0AIVerse

26,641 次观看 • 1 个月前

Well. My team is out. Belgium sent us home 4 to 1, and I have made my peace by eating a waffle out of pure spite. So now I watch the rest for the love of the game. And I have picked a horse. Well. Actually, I picked a longboat. I am riding with Norway. Five and a half million Vikings against the entire world, led by that six foot four Norse god Erling Håland, who already threw Brazil off a cliff on Sunday. Do not act like you are not watching too. Now, some perspective, because people forget how hard this thing is to win. In 96 years, only eight nations have ever lifted the World Cup. Brazil, 5. Germany, 4. Italy, 4. Argentina, 3. Uruguay, 2. France, 2. England, 1. Spain, 1. That is the entire list. And here is the joke nobody says out loud. Every single one is from Europe or South America. Every winner, every finalist, 96 years running, two continents. The Dutch, the Hungarians, the Swedes, the Czechs, all European bridesmaids. Nobody else has ever even reached the final. So let us be honest about what this actually is. The World Cup is a European and South American Cup, and the rest of the planet gets a lovely invitation to come lose in the group stage. And before anyone cries, we would do the exact same thing. Give us a World Championship of American Football and it plays out identically, just with the flag flipped. Sure, Belgium shows up. Curaçao shows up. Everybody gets a jersey and a nice hotel. And they all go home in a barrel. Even Canada, right next door, cannot hang, because they are off playing their mutant cousin version with three downs and a field the size of an airport. Bless them. It is almost football. That is what a home sport looks like. The World Cup is just soccer’s version of it. And two of the names on that trophy belong to countries that do not even exist anymore. West Germany won three titles before the wall came down. Czechoslovakia reached two finals before it split in half and vanished off the map. Whole nations came, competed, and disappeared, and the trophy outlived them. So here is where we are, and the bracket does not care about your feelings. Argentina still has to get past Egypt today. Switzerland draws Colombia today. Then France gets Morocco, Spain gets Belgium, and my Norway gets England. You have to pick one. Everybody does. And it says everything about you. Some of you will pick the favorite. The safe money. The chalk. And some of you will ride the long shot, the little country nobody believes in. So which are you. The one who confidently picked the Soviet Union to win gold in 1980, right up until a bunch of American college kids walked onto the ice and ruined your whole afternoon? Or the one who always, always bets on the miracle? I know my answer. Five million Vikings and a thunder god. Skål. Let’s ride.
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Well. My team is out. Belgium sent us home 4 to 1, and I have made my peace by eating a waffle out of pure spite. So now I watch the rest for the love of the game. And I have picked a horse. Well. Actually, I picked a longboat. I am riding with Norway. Five and a half million Vikings against the entire world, led by that six foot four Norse god Erling Håland, who already threw Brazil off a cliff on Sunday. Do not act like you are not watching too. Now, some perspective, because people forget how hard this thing is to win. In 96 years, only eight nations have ever lifted the World Cup. Brazil, 5. Germany, 4. Italy, 4. Argentina, 3. Uruguay, 2. France, 2. England, 1. Spain, 1. That is the entire list. And here is the joke nobody says out loud. Every single one is from Europe or South America. Every winner, every finalist, 96 years running, two continents. The Dutch, the Hungarians, the Swedes, the Czechs, all European bridesmaids. Nobody else has ever even reached the final. So let us be honest about what this actually is. The World Cup is a European and South American Cup, and the rest of the planet gets a lovely invitation to come lose in the group stage. And before anyone cries, we would do the exact same thing. Give us a World Championship of American Football and it plays out identically, just with the flag flipped. Sure, Belgium shows up. Curaçao shows up. Everybody gets a jersey and a nice hotel. And they all go home in a barrel. Even Canada, right next door, cannot hang, because they are off playing their mutant cousin version with three downs and a field the size of an airport. Bless them. It is almost football. That is what a home sport looks like. The World Cup is just soccer’s version of it. And two of the names on that trophy belong to countries that do not even exist anymore. West Germany won three titles before the wall came down. Czechoslovakia reached two finals before it split in half and vanished off the map. Whole nations came, competed, and disappeared, and the trophy outlived them. So here is where we are, and the bracket does not care about your feelings. Argentina still has to get past Egypt today. Switzerland draws Colombia today. Then France gets Morocco, Spain gets Belgium, and my Norway gets England. You have to pick one. Everybody does. And it says everything about you. Some of you will pick the favorite. The safe money. The chalk. And some of you will ride the long shot, the little country nobody believes in. So which are you. The one who confidently picked the Soviet Union to win gold in 1980, right up until a bunch of American college kids walked onto the ice and ruined your whole afternoon? Or the one who always, always bets on the miracle? I know my answer. Five million Vikings and a thunder god. Skål. Let’s ride.

Selene Mariposa

153,900 次观看 • 9 天前

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1. Talks between U.S and Ukrainian officials about how to end the war began in Saudi Arabia. Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said, "No one wants peace more than Ukrainians.” 2. Hours before the talks began Ukraine unleashed a massive drone strike on Russia, killing at least 3 people. Russia said it shot down 337 Ukrainian drones overnight, marking the biggest drone assault in 3 years. The Moscow region saw 91 drones destroyed. 3. Trump accused Canada of imposing 250-390% tariffs on American farm products while Ontario just added a 25% surcharge on electricity. He promised reciprocal measures starting April 2, challenging Canadian imports directly: "We don't need your Cars, we don't need your Lumber, we don't need your Energy." 4. Greenland is voting for a new parliament today while Trump pushes for influence over the Arctic island. The territory, home to 56,000 people, is rich in rare earth minerals and sits in a key military location in the North Atlantic. 5. More than 2,000 correctional officers have been fired after refusing to return to work following a 22-day illegal strike across New York state prisons. Despite a new deal between the state and the guards' union, not enough officers returned to meet the 85% staffing requirement, forcing Gov. Kathy Hochul to keep National Guard troops in place while launching an urgent recruitment campaign. 6. South Korean opposition lawmakers launched a hunger strike, demanding that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol be thrown back in jail over his attempt to impose martial law. 7. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his brutal war on drugs. 8. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed to have seized the Jaffar Express in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, taking over 100 hostages, including Pakistani military personnel, police, and intelligence officers. They warned that any military intervention will result in mass executions. 9. The UK Labour Party is projected to lose 94.5% of its seats in Scotland, collapsing from 37 seats to just 2, according to a new poll. 10. A craving for marshmallows and chocolate turned into a 420-acre disaster in Suffolk County. Officials say a backyard fire meant for s’mores got out of control, with embers catching the wind and setting off 4 separate fires. It took dozens of fire departments, forest rangers, and even the National Guard to contain the flames.
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🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1. Talks between U.S and Ukrainian officials about how to end the war began in Saudi Arabia. Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said, "No one wants peace more than Ukrainians.” 2. Hours before the talks began Ukraine unleashed a massive drone strike on Russia, killing at least 3 people. Russia said it shot down 337 Ukrainian drones overnight, marking the biggest drone assault in 3 years. The Moscow region saw 91 drones destroyed. 3. Trump accused Canada of imposing 250-390% tariffs on American farm products while Ontario just added a 25% surcharge on electricity. He promised reciprocal measures starting April 2, challenging Canadian imports directly: "We don't need your Cars, we don't need your Lumber, we don't need your Energy." 4. Greenland is voting for a new parliament today while Trump pushes for influence over the Arctic island. The territory, home to 56,000 people, is rich in rare earth minerals and sits in a key military location in the North Atlantic. 5. More than 2,000 correctional officers have been fired after refusing to return to work following a 22-day illegal strike across New York state prisons. Despite a new deal between the state and the guards' union, not enough officers returned to meet the 85% staffing requirement, forcing Gov. Kathy Hochul to keep National Guard troops in place while launching an urgent recruitment campaign. 6. South Korean opposition lawmakers launched a hunger strike, demanding that impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol be thrown back in jail over his attempt to impose martial law. 7. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his brutal war on drugs. 8. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed to have seized the Jaffar Express in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, taking over 100 hostages, including Pakistani military personnel, police, and intelligence officers. They warned that any military intervention will result in mass executions. 9. The UK Labour Party is projected to lose 94.5% of its seats in Scotland, collapsing from 37 seats to just 2, according to a new poll. 10. A craving for marshmallows and chocolate turned into a 420-acre disaster in Suffolk County. Officials say a backyard fire meant for s’mores got out of control, with embers catching the wind and setting off 4 separate fires. It took dozens of fire departments, forest rangers, and even the National Guard to contain the flames.

Mario Nawfal

133,398 次观看 • 1 年前

I'm sorry but it's such a braindead, pointless, utterly inane take that for some reason people like to parrot. This guy said Drogba wouldn't SURVIVE in the premier league today (insane). He takes the idea that "standards improve with time" (valid) and applies it like a sledgehammer, without an ounce of thought. Messi struggled far more in the 2010 world cup (still in his athletic prime), than he did in 2022 (washed). So did football actually get worse? Or are performances and stats influenced by dozens of contextual factors that these simplistic era arguments completely ignore? Maybe it's not as simple as 'he's more modern therefore better' At what point does football 'get away' from the upper echelon players? Maldini played across 3 decades at a high level. Drogba thrived in the exact same era that Messi and Ronaldo did. I can be intentionally obtuse and point out that Salah thrived in the modern PL, while he struggled for Chelsea barely a year after Drogba lifted the UCL. How does this dude square these things? if the past was so much worse, then surely every top player today should've destroyed it when they were actually coming through right? Or at least in their 20s? Danny frickin Welbeck is still bossing it, but I suppose Rooney would struggle? I have never seen any indication that a top player can't translate at least 90% of their value from one era to the next. The only thing that stops them is athletic decline. I cant believe I have to explain this - but even if it's granted that standards today are better, that doesn't necessarily mean a goal today is more valuable. Those are two separate things lmao. There have been simply more goals from ~2010 onwards, and especially the last few years. For a plethora of reasons (more refined build-up, tactical advances, rule changes, more expensive squads/superteams, greater disparity between top teams and the rest etc). The mid 2000s averaged about 2.6 goals in the PL (around that if i remember right). The last few years it's been over 3(!!). If anything goals are EASIER to come by for the top forwards today (we can quibble with semantics, and it wont be true in ALL cases, but generally this is true). When watching old games - yes u see some practices, or some spaces that wouldn't exist today. At the same time, I often see shocking defending, or certain spaces open up today that wouldn't have existed in the past, so let's not oversell how good defending is now, it's not a case of 'every single thing is definitely way better now' either. Evolution is not always linear. Regardless, doesnt it naturally follow that higher standards, owed to better data/training etc would allow those past players to also scale up? Isn't that just a super obvious conclusion to come to? So what is the point of constantly saying "things are way better" or "this ex player wouldnt survive" other than to smugly and ignorantly disparage past talent? What other point is being made? I've attached a clip of Arteta (who seems to be Alex's lord and saviour pbuh going by his YT thumbnails) saying that he would be a better player today with all these modern advancements.
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I'm sorry but it's such a braindead, pointless, utterly inane take that for some reason people like to parrot. This guy said Drogba wouldn't SURVIVE in the premier league today (insane). He takes the idea that "standards improve with time" (valid) and applies it like a sledgehammer, without an ounce of thought. Messi struggled far more in the 2010 world cup (still in his athletic prime), than he did in 2022 (washed). So did football actually get worse? Or are performances and stats influenced by dozens of contextual factors that these simplistic era arguments completely ignore? Maybe it's not as simple as 'he's more modern therefore better' At what point does football 'get away' from the upper echelon players? Maldini played across 3 decades at a high level. Drogba thrived in the exact same era that Messi and Ronaldo did. I can be intentionally obtuse and point out that Salah thrived in the modern PL, while he struggled for Chelsea barely a year after Drogba lifted the UCL. How does this dude square these things? if the past was so much worse, then surely every top player today should've destroyed it when they were actually coming through right? Or at least in their 20s? Danny frickin Welbeck is still bossing it, but I suppose Rooney would struggle? I have never seen any indication that a top player can't translate at least 90% of their value from one era to the next. The only thing that stops them is athletic decline. I cant believe I have to explain this - but even if it's granted that standards today are better, that doesn't necessarily mean a goal today is more valuable. Those are two separate things lmao. There have been simply more goals from ~2010 onwards, and especially the last few years. For a plethora of reasons (more refined build-up, tactical advances, rule changes, more expensive squads/superteams, greater disparity between top teams and the rest etc). The mid 2000s averaged about 2.6 goals in the PL (around that if i remember right). The last few years it's been over 3(!!). If anything goals are EASIER to come by for the top forwards today (we can quibble with semantics, and it wont be true in ALL cases, but generally this is true). When watching old games - yes u see some practices, or some spaces that wouldn't exist today. At the same time, I often see shocking defending, or certain spaces open up today that wouldn't have existed in the past, so let's not oversell how good defending is now, it's not a case of 'every single thing is definitely way better now' either. Evolution is not always linear. Regardless, doesnt it naturally follow that higher standards, owed to better data/training etc would allow those past players to also scale up? Isn't that just a super obvious conclusion to come to? So what is the point of constantly saying "things are way better" or "this ex player wouldnt survive" other than to smugly and ignorantly disparage past talent? What other point is being made? I've attached a clip of Arteta (who seems to be Alex's lord and saviour pbuh going by his YT thumbnails) saying that he would be a better player today with all these modern advancements.

TH14 Comps

350,400 次观看 • 7 个月前

Winston Churchill once said that "we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us." There is a building in Rome that may be the most literal example of what he meant... It's called the Vittoriano, or the Altar of the Fatherland, and it stands at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, which has been a centre of Roman civic and religious life for more than two and a half thousand years. Italy had been a unified country for only twenty-four years when construction began. Before 1861, the peninsula had been a patchwork of kingdoms, duchies, papal lands and foreign provinces. The new nation was, in the words of the Italian statesman Massimo d'Azeglio, a state without a people: "We have made Italy. All that remains is to make Italians." The country existed on paper but it did not yet exist in the imagination of its citizens. In 1880, the government held a competition for a national monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the unified country. Five years later, the young architect Giuseppe Sacconi won with a design that proposed nothing less than a new sacred centre for the nation. It was inaugurated on 4 June 1911, on the fiftieth anniversary of Italian unification. It is 135 metres wide and 81 metres tall at the wings of the bronze quadrigas crowning its roof. Every surface is faced in brilliant white Botticino marble. Two enormous chariots of Victory ride along the skyline. In 1921, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed at the base of the monument, with an eternal flame for the unidentified Italian dead of the First World War. Italian presidents regularly lay wreaths there during major state ceremonies. Locals colloquially call it the "Wedding Cake" or the "Typewriter", and architectural critics dismiss its scale and its unapologetic neoclassicism. The mockery has become part of how Italians know it. But underneath the jokes is a monument built for one of the most consequential moments in modern European history... Italy spent centuries divided between foreign powers and rival kingdoms. The Vittoriano commemorates the long struggle by which it became one nation. It is, in the end, the altar of the country itself. If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the wonders of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.
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Winston Churchill once said that "we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us." There is a building in Rome that may be the most literal example of what he meant... It's called the Vittoriano, or the Altar of the Fatherland, and it stands at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, which has been a centre of Roman civic and religious life for more than two and a half thousand years. Italy had been a unified country for only twenty-four years when construction began. Before 1861, the peninsula had been a patchwork of kingdoms, duchies, papal lands and foreign provinces. The new nation was, in the words of the Italian statesman Massimo d'Azeglio, a state without a people: "We have made Italy. All that remains is to make Italians." The country existed on paper but it did not yet exist in the imagination of its citizens. In 1880, the government held a competition for a national monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the unified country. Five years later, the young architect Giuseppe Sacconi won with a design that proposed nothing less than a new sacred centre for the nation. It was inaugurated on 4 June 1911, on the fiftieth anniversary of Italian unification. It is 135 metres wide and 81 metres tall at the wings of the bronze quadrigas crowning its roof. Every surface is faced in brilliant white Botticino marble. Two enormous chariots of Victory ride along the skyline. In 1921, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed at the base of the monument, with an eternal flame for the unidentified Italian dead of the First World War. Italian presidents regularly lay wreaths there during major state ceremonies. Locals colloquially call it the "Wedding Cake" or the "Typewriter", and architectural critics dismiss its scale and its unapologetic neoclassicism. The mockery has become part of how Italians know it. But underneath the jokes is a monument built for one of the most consequential moments in modern European history... Italy spent centuries divided between foreign powers and rival kingdoms. The Vittoriano commemorates the long struggle by which it became one nation. It is, in the end, the altar of the country itself. If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the wonders of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

40,330 次观看 • 1 个月前

The Supremacy of Russia: & the End of an Illusion for NATO In the year 2025, history has delivered its verdict with brutal clarity: the Russian Federation, a single country of 144 million people, has faced the combined might of thirty-two NATO nations (the richest, most heavily armed alliance ever assembled) and broken it without ever putting its own economy on a full war footing. This is not propaganda; it is the cold arithmetic of reality. For almost 4 years the collective West threw everything at Russia: 28 thousand sanctions, a $500 billion dollars, $300 billion in frozen assets, entire industrial chains re-tooled to feed the Ukrainian front, satellite networks, mercenary legions, and the most sophisticated weapons on earth. The result? Russia’s GDP grew in 2024 and again in 2025. Its gold and foreign-currency reserves are higher now than before the war. Its army is larger, better equipped, and battle-hardened. Its factories turn out hypersonic missiles, glide bombs, and drones faster than the entire NATO arsenal can manufacture. They have shipped all across Poland only to become rust at the feet of the warriors from Siberia. Meanwhile the proxy (Ukraine) has lost half its pre-war population, most of its industry, and virtually 40% of its 1991 territory east of the Dnieper. This is not a draw. This is annihilation dressed up as “strategic stalemate” by people who can no longer afford their own electricity bills. NATO promised the world it would defend “every inch” of alliance territory. Instead it watched its weapons burn in Kharkov fields while its leaders argued about whether to send helmets or howitzers. When Russia liberated 4 regions and then a fifth, NATO’s response was a strongly worded letter and another frozen yacht. The message was unmistakable: Article 5 is a postcard when the bear actually shows up. The European Union, that soft empire of rules & spreadsheets, is now openly fracturing. Hungary and Slovakia buy Russian gas and laugh at Brussels. Germany’s industry is de-industrialising in real time. France’s president begs Moscow for ceasefire talks while his own farmers blockade Paris. The Baltic states scream loudest, but their economies shrink fastest. The much-vaunted “European solidarity” lasted exactly until winter heating bills arrived. By Christmas 2025 the conversation in Western capitals is no longer about victory; it is about survival. Defense budgets that were supposed to reach 2% of GDP are now eating 4-5% & still cannot produce enough 155 mm shells. Recruitment centres are empty. Politicians who promised “as long as it takes” are quietly asking intermediaries how much it would cost to make the war stop before their voters freeze or riot. Russia did not need to fire a single shot on NATO soil. It simply refused to lose, refused to blink, and refused to run out of missiles, or money. That was enough. The myth of Western invincibility (carefully cultivated since 1991) has been shattered on the black soil of Donbass. NATO will not formally dissolve tomorrow; bureaucracies die slowly. But its credibility is already dead. The EU’s dream of becoming a geopolitical power is buried alongside 1.8 million Ukraine military dead and thousands of Armour and Leopard tanks. A new European security order is being written in Moscow, whether the old powers like it or not. Russia stood alone against thirty-two and won. Not because it is bigger (it isn’t), but because it is harder, more patient, and far less fragile than the soft, debt-ridden, childless continent that thought lectures & rainbow flags were a substitute for real power. The bear never left the forest. It just waited for the circus to collapse under its own contradictions. Hurraaaa! Hurraaaa! Hurraaaa! “We cannot lose this war, because the enemy understands neither the character of the Russian people, nor the Russian winter, nor Russian distances. He thinks he has broken us, but we have only just begun to fight in earnest.”
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The Supremacy of Russia: & the End of an Illusion for NATO In the year 2025, history has delivered its verdict with brutal clarity: the Russian Federation, a single country of 144 million people, has faced the combined might of thirty-two NATO nations (the richest, most heavily armed alliance ever assembled) and broken it without ever putting its own economy on a full war footing. This is not propaganda; it is the cold arithmetic of reality. For almost 4 years the collective West threw everything at Russia: 28 thousand sanctions, a $500 billion dollars, $300 billion in frozen assets, entire industrial chains re-tooled to feed the Ukrainian front, satellite networks, mercenary legions, and the most sophisticated weapons on earth. The result? Russia’s GDP grew in 2024 and again in 2025. Its gold and foreign-currency reserves are higher now than before the war. Its army is larger, better equipped, and battle-hardened. Its factories turn out hypersonic missiles, glide bombs, and drones faster than the entire NATO arsenal can manufacture. They have shipped all across Poland only to become rust at the feet of the warriors from Siberia. Meanwhile the proxy (Ukraine) has lost half its pre-war population, most of its industry, and virtually 40% of its 1991 territory east of the Dnieper. This is not a draw. This is annihilation dressed up as “strategic stalemate” by people who can no longer afford their own electricity bills. NATO promised the world it would defend “every inch” of alliance territory. Instead it watched its weapons burn in Kharkov fields while its leaders argued about whether to send helmets or howitzers. When Russia liberated 4 regions and then a fifth, NATO’s response was a strongly worded letter and another frozen yacht. The message was unmistakable: Article 5 is a postcard when the bear actually shows up. The European Union, that soft empire of rules & spreadsheets, is now openly fracturing. Hungary and Slovakia buy Russian gas and laugh at Brussels. Germany’s industry is de-industrialising in real time. France’s president begs Moscow for ceasefire talks while his own farmers blockade Paris. The Baltic states scream loudest, but their economies shrink fastest. The much-vaunted “European solidarity” lasted exactly until winter heating bills arrived. By Christmas 2025 the conversation in Western capitals is no longer about victory; it is about survival. Defense budgets that were supposed to reach 2% of GDP are now eating 4-5% & still cannot produce enough 155 mm shells. Recruitment centres are empty. Politicians who promised “as long as it takes” are quietly asking intermediaries how much it would cost to make the war stop before their voters freeze or riot. Russia did not need to fire a single shot on NATO soil. It simply refused to lose, refused to blink, and refused to run out of missiles, or money. That was enough. The myth of Western invincibility (carefully cultivated since 1991) has been shattered on the black soil of Donbass. NATO will not formally dissolve tomorrow; bureaucracies die slowly. But its credibility is already dead. The EU’s dream of becoming a geopolitical power is buried alongside 1.8 million Ukraine military dead and thousands of Armour and Leopard tanks. A new European security order is being written in Moscow, whether the old powers like it or not. Russia stood alone against thirty-two and won. Not because it is bigger (it isn’t), but because it is harder, more patient, and far less fragile than the soft, debt-ridden, childless continent that thought lectures & rainbow flags were a substitute for real power. The bear never left the forest. It just waited for the circus to collapse under its own contradictions. Hurraaaa! Hurraaaa! Hurraaaa! “We cannot lose this war, because the enemy understands neither the character of the Russian people, nor the Russian winter, nor Russian distances. He thinks he has broken us, but we have only just begun to fight in earnest.”

𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇮🇪

24,778 次观看 • 7 个月前

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump is expected to attend the APEC summit in South Korea next month, and a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping is on the table. Nothing’s locked in yet, but if it happens, expect fireworks - or awkward photo ops. 2.⁠ Russia launched its biggest attack yet on Ukraine overnight - 800+ missiles and drones rained down, overwhelming air defenses and hitting the heart of Kyiv. A key government building was struck for the first time, along with residential towers. 2 people, including a baby, were killed. 16 more injured. 3.⁠ Multiple fires were burning at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, after Ukrainian drones struck the facility. The attack was the latest in a series of Ukrainian operations targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. 4.⁠ Japan’s PM, Shigeru Ishiba, said he is stepping down, citing a controversial tariff deal with the U.S, July’s election disaster, and the need to “avoid a decisive split” in Japan’s ruling party. 5.⁠ Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Chicago, chanting against Trump, ICE, and the threat of National Guard troops being deployed. The rally, under the “Workers over Billionaires” banner, slammed Trump’s immigration crackdown as racist, even though his plan is focused on arresting criminals. 6.⁠ Voting begins today on 4 no-confidence motions filed by Romania’s main opposition party, AUR, accusing the government of using its 70%+ majority to ram through laws without debate. 7.⁠ Stephen Miller said the DOJ was “in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, DC, with the doctoring of crime stats. Even though DC had the worst crime in America, it dramatically understated how bad it was.” 8.⁠ After the U.S detained over 300 South Koreans in an ICE raid at a Hyundai–LG battery plant site in Georgia, they are now being repatriated on a chartered flight arranged by Seoul. Most of them were reportedly flown in legally to help build the plant - part of a high-profile clean energy project backed by both governments. 9.⁠ Fire crews are battling a 500+ acre wildfire in California. The Pyrite Fire is only 10% contained as nearly 300 fire personnel desperately struggle to tackle the flames. 10.⁠ After 3 months and 1 in 292 million odds, 2 lucky players just hit the 2nd-largest jackpot in Powerball history. Each winner now gets to choose between $895M over 29 years or a $410.3M lump sum (before taxes, of course).
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🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump is expected to attend the APEC summit in South Korea next month, and a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping is on the table. Nothing’s locked in yet, but if it happens, expect fireworks - or awkward photo ops. 2.⁠ Russia launched its biggest attack yet on Ukraine overnight - 800+ missiles and drones rained down, overwhelming air defenses and hitting the heart of Kyiv. A key government building was struck for the first time, along with residential towers. 2 people, including a baby, were killed. 16 more injured. 3.⁠ Multiple fires were burning at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, after Ukrainian drones struck the facility. The attack was the latest in a series of Ukrainian operations targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. 4.⁠ Japan’s PM, Shigeru Ishiba, said he is stepping down, citing a controversial tariff deal with the U.S, July’s election disaster, and the need to “avoid a decisive split” in Japan’s ruling party. 5.⁠ Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Chicago, chanting against Trump, ICE, and the threat of National Guard troops being deployed. The rally, under the “Workers over Billionaires” banner, slammed Trump’s immigration crackdown as racist, even though his plan is focused on arresting criminals. 6.⁠ Voting begins today on 4 no-confidence motions filed by Romania’s main opposition party, AUR, accusing the government of using its 70%+ majority to ram through laws without debate. 7.⁠ Stephen Miller said the DOJ was “in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, DC, with the doctoring of crime stats. Even though DC had the worst crime in America, it dramatically understated how bad it was.” 8.⁠ After the U.S detained over 300 South Koreans in an ICE raid at a Hyundai–LG battery plant site in Georgia, they are now being repatriated on a chartered flight arranged by Seoul. Most of them were reportedly flown in legally to help build the plant - part of a high-profile clean energy project backed by both governments. 9.⁠ Fire crews are battling a 500+ acre wildfire in California. The Pyrite Fire is only 10% contained as nearly 300 fire personnel desperately struggle to tackle the flames. 10.⁠ After 3 months and 1 in 292 million odds, 2 lucky players just hit the 2nd-largest jackpot in Powerball history. Each winner now gets to choose between $895M over 29 years or a $410.3M lump sum (before taxes, of course).

Mario Nawfal

72,941 次观看 • 10 个月前

We found a flaw in Polymarket that can’t be patched. Then we built the most powerful bot of the World Cup around it. Here’s the flaw: their orderbook will always be slower than the pitch. When a goal, red card, or penalty hits, pro feeds (Sportradar, Opta, ScoutingFeed) register it in 200-500ms. Polymarket takes 2 to 8 seconds to reprice. For those few seconds the book is quoting a score that no longer exists. No amount of engineering closes that gap the event happens in the physical world before any oracle can confirm it on-chain. The engine detects the event, recalculates fair value, and fires via Jito bundles before the book catches up. In at the old price, out at the new. The match outcome is irrelevant we don’t bet on who wins. We capture the lag every event creates. We’ve been building Polymarket bots since 2025. This is the most powerful machine we’ve shipped yet. Two months ago we posted the architecture for this. It hit 1M views one of our most popular posts ever on X. That told us everything: this was the engine to build. First 7 days, - Starting balance: $5,000 - 22 matches scanned, 19 captured - Total profit: +$1,946.86 - ROI: +38.94% in 7 days Why it prints harder than anything we’ve built: the World Cup is the deepest liquidity event prediction markets have ever seen. Tens of millions in volume per match. Dozens of probability-shifting events per game. And an orderbook that physically can’t keep pace with the pitch. How to plug in: 1.Sign up at PolyArbiter (link in bio) 2.Generate PolyArbiter RPC URL 3.Paste it into Jupiter Predict (Polymarket but native on Solana) 4.Set your parameters, activate the World Cup module It’s free to use. We take a share of the profit the engine makes for you. You never deposit anything with us everything runs from your wallet. One honest note: the $1,946 above is our engine at our size and settings. Your numbers depend on your capital, your parameters, and how many matches you’re live for. We’re not promising you’ll match it we’re showing you the machine works, and handing you the same one. These numbers are from the engine running solo. Closed test, just us, before any public access wanted to confirm the whole loop held up end to end before handing it to anyone. That changes the second this goes public. Edge per capture is going to compress. When an event fires the mispriced liquidity is thin and gone in a few seconds more wallets hitting the same window, less left for each. Nothing we can do about it, that’s just how latency arb works. So if the edge thins out past the point where it’s still worth running, we cap access. Hard ceiling on how many engines can hit the same liquidity before it’s gone. Not gonna promise the machine stays this sharp in a few days it might not. But right now it’s live and free. Enjoy 🪄
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We found a flaw in Polymarket that can’t be patched. Then we built the most powerful bot of the World Cup around it. Here’s the flaw: their orderbook will always be slower than the pitch. When a goal, red card, or penalty hits, pro feeds (Sportradar, Opta, ScoutingFeed) register it in 200-500ms. Polymarket takes 2 to 8 seconds to reprice. For those few seconds the book is quoting a score that no longer exists. No amount of engineering closes that gap the event happens in the physical world before any oracle can confirm it on-chain. The engine detects the event, recalculates fair value, and fires via Jito bundles before the book catches up. In at the old price, out at the new. The match outcome is irrelevant we don’t bet on who wins. We capture the lag every event creates. We’ve been building Polymarket bots since 2025. This is the most powerful machine we’ve shipped yet. Two months ago we posted the architecture for this. It hit 1M views one of our most popular posts ever on X. That told us everything: this was the engine to build. First 7 days, - Starting balance: $5,000 - 22 matches scanned, 19 captured - Total profit: +$1,946.86 - ROI: +38.94% in 7 days Why it prints harder than anything we’ve built: the World Cup is the deepest liquidity event prediction markets have ever seen. Tens of millions in volume per match. Dozens of probability-shifting events per game. And an orderbook that physically can’t keep pace with the pitch. How to plug in: 1.Sign up at PolyArbiter (link in bio) 2.Generate PolyArbiter RPC URL 3.Paste it into Jupiter Predict (Polymarket but native on Solana) 4.Set your parameters, activate the World Cup module It’s free to use. We take a share of the profit the engine makes for you. You never deposit anything with us everything runs from your wallet. One honest note: the $1,946 above is our engine at our size and settings. Your numbers depend on your capital, your parameters, and how many matches you’re live for. We’re not promising you’ll match it we’re showing you the machine works, and handing you the same one. These numbers are from the engine running solo. Closed test, just us, before any public access wanted to confirm the whole loop held up end to end before handing it to anyone. That changes the second this goes public. Edge per capture is going to compress. When an event fires the mispriced liquidity is thin and gone in a few seconds more wallets hitting the same window, less left for each. Nothing we can do about it, that’s just how latency arb works. So if the edge thins out past the point where it’s still worth running, we cap access. Hard ceiling on how many engines can hit the same liquidity before it’s gone. Not gonna promise the machine stays this sharp in a few days it might not. But right now it’s live and free. Enjoy 🪄

PolyArbiter

100,534 次观看 • 28 天前

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested and placed under suicide watch in a Special Housing Unit at Utah County Jail, after he allegedly told his father he’d rather die than turn himself in. 2.⁠ Charlie’s widow, Erika, released an emotional statement promising to never let his legacy die: “I'll make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen. Rest in the arms of our Lord, as He blankets you with the words I know your heart always strived to hear.” 3.⁠ Trump said they would investigate Soros’ links with organized protests throughout the U.S: “We’re going to look into Soros because it’s a racketeering case; this is more than protests, it’s real agitation and riots.” 4.⁠ Calls are growing for Trump to restore the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people, and call it the Charlie Kirk Act. 5.⁠ Trump will become the first U.S president in history to receive a second UK state visit next week - full royal honors, red carpet, and Windsor Castle treatment. He’ll dine with King Charles, tour St George’s Chapel, watch F-35 flyovers, and meet PM Keir Starmer at Chequers. 6.⁠ Tommy Robinson's march hit the streets. The “Unite the Kingdom” free speech rally is officially on, marching through central London with police barricades, counter-protests, and every camera in the country watching. 7.⁠ Trump announced that Memphis would be the next city the National Guard would be deployed to in his crackdown on U.S crime. 8.⁠ Bill Maher pushed back on left-wing rhetoric claiming Trump was Hitler: “First of all, assholes, he's not Hitler. An insult to everybody in the Holocaust to begin with. Second, calling somebody Hitler makes it a lot easier to justify things like assassination.” 9.⁠ Office Depot fired an employee in Portage, Michigan, who refused to print a poster for a Charlie Kirk vigil, calling it “political propaganda.” The company condemned the behavior as “completely unacceptable and insensitive.” 10.⁠ G7 finance ministers met yesterday and discussed slapping new sanctions and tariffs on countries they accuse of “enabling” Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to Canada’s finance ministry.
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🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested and placed under suicide watch in a Special Housing Unit at Utah County Jail, after he allegedly told his father he’d rather die than turn himself in. 2.⁠ Charlie’s widow, Erika, released an emotional statement promising to never let his legacy die: “I'll make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen. Rest in the arms of our Lord, as He blankets you with the words I know your heart always strived to hear.” 3.⁠ Trump said they would investigate Soros’ links with organized protests throughout the U.S: “We’re going to look into Soros because it’s a racketeering case; this is more than protests, it’s real agitation and riots.” 4.⁠ Calls are growing for Trump to restore the Smith-Mundt Act, which held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people, and call it the Charlie Kirk Act. 5.⁠ Trump will become the first U.S president in history to receive a second UK state visit next week - full royal honors, red carpet, and Windsor Castle treatment. He’ll dine with King Charles, tour St George’s Chapel, watch F-35 flyovers, and meet PM Keir Starmer at Chequers. 6.⁠ Tommy Robinson's march hit the streets. The “Unite the Kingdom” free speech rally is officially on, marching through central London with police barricades, counter-protests, and every camera in the country watching. 7.⁠ Trump announced that Memphis would be the next city the National Guard would be deployed to in his crackdown on U.S crime. 8.⁠ Bill Maher pushed back on left-wing rhetoric claiming Trump was Hitler: “First of all, assholes, he's not Hitler. An insult to everybody in the Holocaust to begin with. Second, calling somebody Hitler makes it a lot easier to justify things like assassination.” 9.⁠ Office Depot fired an employee in Portage, Michigan, who refused to print a poster for a Charlie Kirk vigil, calling it “political propaganda.” The company condemned the behavior as “completely unacceptable and insensitive.” 10.⁠ G7 finance ministers met yesterday and discussed slapping new sanctions and tariffs on countries they accuse of “enabling” Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to Canada’s finance ministry.

Mario Nawfal

158,199 次观看 • 10 个月前

AUKUS, Mistakes and Opportunities In 2016, Japan offered Australia state-of-the-art, diesel-electric, ultra-quiet submarines with the option of local production at the Henderson shipyard. The Australian government rejected the proposal, claiming its goal was always nuclear-powered submarines. Instead, Australia decided to spend roughly A$4-5 billion extending the life of its ageing Collins-class fleet until the 2040s . enough money to have bought seven-eight Japanese Taigei-class submarines outright. If that’s really what the government wanted, the Americans and British certainly sent them the bill for AUKUS. Australia is footing almost the entire cost: A$368 billion over three decades. - The United States receives US$3 billion from Australia to expand its industrial base, build more Virginia-class submarines, and then sells 3–5 second-hand boats back to Canberra. - The United Kingdom receives around £2.4 billion from Australia for design and infrastructure work, shares some development costs, and ends up using the exact same SSN-AUKUS design for its own future fleet at essentially no extra cost. I’m genuinely intrigued by how they managed to sell the Australians on this deal. I’d love to meet and congratulate the American and British negotiators – true sales geniuses. Nuclear submarines must have been a childhood dream of that Australian government; there’s no other explanation. But the problems don’t end there. Just as the Americans have cancelled over 300 programmes and thrown away more than US$200 billion in the last 20 years, the British have serious and very recent issues with their own naval projects. It feels like a structural disease in the Western defence industry. - The Astute programme is more than a decade late, costs have tripled, only 5 of the planned 7 boats have been delivered, and engineering problems keep cropping up. - The Dreadnought class (replacement for the Vanguard ballistic-missile submarines) has ballooned by billions and is now delayed well beyond 2030 because of failures integrating propulsion systems and Trident missiles. - And the crown jewels – the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales aircraft carriers – are operational but chronically short of compatible F-35s and cost a staggering £10 billion in overruns. - The Type 45 destroyers suffered catastrophic electrical failures that left them inoperable for years, and the Type 26 frigate programme has been repeatedly cut back, reflecting completely misplaced priorities. And a programme that is supposed to deliver eight submarines to Australia sometime around 2050–2060 is extremely unlikely to proceed as planned, not only because of budgets and operational complications, but because underwater drones are evolving fast and China is leading that race. The Americans and British have a long naval history, but they are also visionaries who understand perfectly well that the future lies in decentralisation: swarms of UUVs, lithium or solid battery submarines, or even small nuclear-powered ones using micro-reactors. These platforms cost 10–20 % of today’s conventional SSNs to maintain, are lighter, and leave far more internal volume for weapons – meaning smaller, cheaper, and more heavily armed submarines. And what does Australia get left with? Far more than just a submarine partnership with Japan – an entire security ecosystem. By 2026-2028, Japan plans to have the HVPG hypersonic glide vehicles fully operational with ranges up to 2,000 km. Their upgraded Type 12 missiles will reach 1,000–1,500 km and can be launched from ships, aircraft, and land batteries. This is enough to cover and protect the entire Australian coastline for thousands of kilometers. And finally, a 3,000 km-range hypersonic missile is being integrated into the Taigei-class and its successor. That arsenal is far beyond anything currently fielded by any Western nation and only Russia and China have comparable systems.
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AUKUS, Mistakes and Opportunities In 2016, Japan offered Australia state-of-the-art, diesel-electric, ultra-quiet submarines with the option of local production at the Henderson shipyard. The Australian government rejected the proposal, claiming its goal was always nuclear-powered submarines. Instead, Australia decided to spend roughly A$4-5 billion extending the life of its ageing Collins-class fleet until the 2040s . enough money to have bought seven-eight Japanese Taigei-class submarines outright. If that’s really what the government wanted, the Americans and British certainly sent them the bill for AUKUS. Australia is footing almost the entire cost: A$368 billion over three decades. - The United States receives US$3 billion from Australia to expand its industrial base, build more Virginia-class submarines, and then sells 3–5 second-hand boats back to Canberra. - The United Kingdom receives around £2.4 billion from Australia for design and infrastructure work, shares some development costs, and ends up using the exact same SSN-AUKUS design for its own future fleet at essentially no extra cost. I’m genuinely intrigued by how they managed to sell the Australians on this deal. I’d love to meet and congratulate the American and British negotiators – true sales geniuses. Nuclear submarines must have been a childhood dream of that Australian government; there’s no other explanation. But the problems don’t end there. Just as the Americans have cancelled over 300 programmes and thrown away more than US$200 billion in the last 20 years, the British have serious and very recent issues with their own naval projects. It feels like a structural disease in the Western defence industry. - The Astute programme is more than a decade late, costs have tripled, only 5 of the planned 7 boats have been delivered, and engineering problems keep cropping up. - The Dreadnought class (replacement for the Vanguard ballistic-missile submarines) has ballooned by billions and is now delayed well beyond 2030 because of failures integrating propulsion systems and Trident missiles. - And the crown jewels – the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales aircraft carriers – are operational but chronically short of compatible F-35s and cost a staggering £10 billion in overruns. - The Type 45 destroyers suffered catastrophic electrical failures that left them inoperable for years, and the Type 26 frigate programme has been repeatedly cut back, reflecting completely misplaced priorities. And a programme that is supposed to deliver eight submarines to Australia sometime around 2050–2060 is extremely unlikely to proceed as planned, not only because of budgets and operational complications, but because underwater drones are evolving fast and China is leading that race. The Americans and British have a long naval history, but they are also visionaries who understand perfectly well that the future lies in decentralisation: swarms of UUVs, lithium or solid battery submarines, or even small nuclear-powered ones using micro-reactors. These platforms cost 10–20 % of today’s conventional SSNs to maintain, are lighter, and leave far more internal volume for weapons – meaning smaller, cheaper, and more heavily armed submarines. And what does Australia get left with? Far more than just a submarine partnership with Japan – an entire security ecosystem. By 2026-2028, Japan plans to have the HVPG hypersonic glide vehicles fully operational with ranges up to 2,000 km. Their upgraded Type 12 missiles will reach 1,000–1,500 km and can be launched from ships, aircraft, and land batteries. This is enough to cover and protect the entire Australian coastline for thousands of kilometers. And finally, a 3,000 km-range hypersonic missile is being integrated into the Taigei-class and its successor. That arsenal is far beyond anything currently fielded by any Western nation and only Russia and China have comparable systems.

Patricia Marins

86,068 次观看 • 7 个月前