Mr. T

@toruokada69.bsky.social

Berlin/Friedrichshain - London/Shoreditch - Athens/Exarcheia Staying the same while moving

Αλλοι τιμούν τον εκλιπόντα και άλλοι τιμούν το φακό... Και όταν το δεύτερο κερδίζει, η αυταρέσκεια κάνει μονόλογο.

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NEW: Microsoft paid a 2.44% federal income tax rate last year on $101 billion of U.S. profits. The federal corporate tax rate is 21%. They should have paid $21 billion. But nope. They paid $2.46 billion. Trump's 2017 and 2025 tax cuts made it legal. Here's how 👇

ITEP: Microsoft reports a 2.44% federal tax rate on a record $101 billion in profits

Katherina Reiche: "Je günstiger unsere Gasimporteure Gas einkaufen können, desto niedriger sind auch die Kosten der Stromerzeugung." Der Weg in die Klimahölle führt über Menschen, die dir erzählen, dass billiges Gas die Lösung sei.

Energie: Katherina Reiche rechnet erst in den 2030er-Jahren mit deutlich niedrigerem Strompreis

Die Wirtschaftsministerin verteidigt in einem Interview das neue Heizungsgesetz. Es gehe darum, Kosten zu senken. Bis Verbraucher davon etwas merken, soll es aber noch dauern.

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A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

European wildfire costs this year have already surpassed €3bn - Almost half a million hectares have burnt in the first two months of the fire season at an economic cost of €3.1bn to the five worst-hit Eurozone countries alone, incl #Portugal #Greece and #Romania www.ft.com/content/ef7f... via @FT

European wildfire costs this year have already surpassed €3bn

Economic toll in worst-hit countries exceeds official estimate of costs to bloc in average year, according to FT analysis

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“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System

The Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.