joysmith retweeted
Builders are measured by tangible output: products engineered, services deployed, and infrastructure built. Their primary orientation is additive, focusing on execution, risk-taking, and visible results.
Commentators, by contrast, are measured by influence, reach, and narrative control. Their currency is attention, and their survival depends on keeping the audience engaged.
When criticism is rooted in verifiable facts and clear standards, it performs a necessary civic function, holding powerful figures accountable and keeping immense power in check. However, when scrutiny relies on vague threats of political retaliation or legal dramatization (such as hyperbolic predictions of prison time without citing specific statutory violations) it risks validating the view that its primary goal is tearing down builders for political leverage rather than upholding truth or the public interest.
Ultimately, when political commentary shifts from objective reporting to narrative framing, its value as an accountability mechanism diminishes as it transforms into a political instrument. It ceases to inform and becomes a weapon designed to shape election cycles, leaving public discourse defined more by what it opposes, or even seeks to destroy, than by what it genuinely contributes.
Joan of Arc must be turning in her grave seeing the streets of France today. This country might immediately need to call in the saints for backup. ❤️🔥
We don’t talk enough about the on-the-fly translation feature on this platform. It’s such a great, useful thing, making this melting pot of ideas and possibilities work even better. A little like having our own Babel Fish.✨
joysmith retweeted
The need for my defense in this particular case would perhaps be just as unjustified and bizarre as your attack.
Let the technological breakthroughs, the thousands of employees, and the millions of satisfied customers speak for themselves. Beyond that, time will tell. And here is one question for you to consider very carefully: what have you built?
Perhaps this is an overly generous gift (though it seems your own mother failed to teach you this) but please bear one small piece of advice in mind: a momentous occasion like this, celebrating a new discovery, a technological breakthrough, something as fantastic and, until recently, as unreal as a flying car, is hardly the right time to vent your grievances, frustrations, and lack of understanding at those who made it happen.
And just repeat after me: THE MACHINE IS FREAKING AWESOME ❣️Yes. it is!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Hybrid Warfare + Cognitive Warfare + Trade Wars… and we haven’t even touched on Space Warfare.
The battlefield is no longer confined to physical territory. It extends into our economies, information environments, minds, and critical infrastructure.
Prolonged instability can exhaust a society, erode trust, reshape social structures, and gradually alter the way people think, perceive reality, and respond to events. The most dangerous effects may not be immediately visible, or even recognized for what they are.
Different times. Different tools. Less visible, perhaps, but no less consequential.
Awareness, critical thinking, and resilience (at both individual and community levels) are no longer optional. They are essential to a society’s ability to withstand pressure without losing its cohesion, autonomy, or sense of reality.
Hybride Kriegsführung ist der Krieg mit allen möglichen Mitteln unterhalb der Schwelle der konventionellen und nuklearen Konfrontation. Diese zielt auf die Gesellschaft als Ganzes. Mit Oberst Markus Reisner, Franz-Stefan Gady, Franz Ruf und Susanne Schnabl. @ORFdasgespraech
I can’t believe the carriages of the Roadster timeline have already passed us by. Could we rewind a bit and slow down time?
The best way to serve the community is not only to meet today’s needs by providing resources, but to empower people with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive tomorrow.
joysmith retweeted
Actually, that’s not true. Unfortunately these were women… in the midst of the procedure known as abortion.
Here are a few figures 💔
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In roughly 15 years (2010-25), humanity has aborted more than 1 billion human beings according to the most widely cited global estimates from the WHO and Guttmacher Institute.
For comparison:
💥World War II (the deadliest conflict in human history) killed an estimated 70–85 million people.
💥World War I killed roughly 15–20 million.
💥The Soviet Communist regime under Stalin and its broader system is estimated to have caused 15–20 million excess deaths (executions, Gulag, engineered famine including the Holodomor, deportations). Broader estimates for all communist regimes in the 20th century often reach even around 100 million.
💥The current war in Ukraine (2022–2026) has so far resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths (military + civilian estimates typically range from roughly 400,000 to over 600,000 total killed, depending on the source; exact figures remain contested and incomplete).
In other words, the number of abortions in this short period exceeds the combined death toll of both world wars, the Soviet system’s worst excesses, and the ongoing Ukraine war.
MANY TIMES OVER.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a historic collapse in public support. According to the latest Odoxa barometer, conducted on September 23–24, only 18 percent of respondents view him positively, while 82 percent express a negative opinion, the lowest rating of his presidency. Other polls confirm the trend: Ipsos-BVA puts his positive rating at 16 percent, Ifop records just 17 percent satisfaction, and Elabe finds that only 20 percent of the French public trust him.
Macron’s political credibility is eroding. Who would have expected?
Pay attention to whom you associate with and whom you trust. Since the US president announced an energy truce, Russia has attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure 76 times, deploying a total of 2,700 drones, 66 missiles, and 1,700 aerial bombs.
The Russians are trying to cause a total blackout.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🫡
I must admit that yesterday's Roadster timeline was much cooler than today's French war one. What have you done, Emmanuel?
Why are you doing this to me?
Speaking about perfection...
It does not reside in a single element, however extraordinary it may be. It arises when different elements find their place in relation to one another, when their contrasts become complementary and their differences begin to speak the same language. For it is not enough to see the beauty in each individual element; but also in the pressure and energy flow between them, the way they complement each other. Perfection is not a quality we or things possess, but a harmony resulting from complementary forces.
Think of a symphony. One instrument can be magnificent, but it cannot create the richness of the entire orchestra.
Think of architecture. The finest stone cannot make a masterpiece without proportion, light, structure, and space.
Think of a diamond. Its brilliance depends not merely on the material, but on the way its facets meet the light.
And think of life. Intelligence, beauty, talent, or strength can each be extraordinary, but they rarely reach their peak in gentle light. Greatness often demands an embrace of the dark extreme: the fierce ambition, the obsession, and the shadow that gives brilliance its edge.
Perfection turns contrast into harmony. Light needs shadow, silence gives meaning to sound, and fragility lends depth to strength. The whole becomes extraordinary not despite its contrasts, but because of them.
Perhaps perfection is the rare art of consenting to paradox, allowing extreme opposites to meet, complement, and hold each other without forcing either to yield.
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Can we still speak of responsible global leadership when the pursuit of domestic electoral ambitions undermines the very foundations of international stability?
The real fun: the search for design references in automotive history. ❤️🔥
Simply beautiful!!! I love it!
In her October 15, 2026 interview with The Economist, Alice Weidel argued that Ukraine is too small to defeat Russia and that Germany should stop financing what she called an already lost war.
Her position aligns with her broader agenda of ending German support for Ukraine, easing tensions with Russia, and restoring Russian energy supplies. But declaring the war lost is a political judgment, not an established fact.
Ukraine may ultimately be forced into painful concessions, or it may continue resisting and change the military situation. Neither outcome is inevitable simply because Russia is larger.
Calling a war already lost risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy: if allies withdraw the very support that enables Ukraine to fight, they may help bring about the defeat they claim is unavoidable.
Ukraine has “already lost” the war against Russia, says @Alice_Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party, which is leading German opinion polls. She told @zannymb, that Germany should pull the plug on support for Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
Watch the full interview at 6pm London time (1pm in New York): bit.ly/4yrcX9s
Some feelings don’t change with the seasons. The mountains always have my heart. 😉
btw:
The 2026 Tesla Roadster is less a conventional sports car than a rolling laboratory for aerospace derived systems, revealed on October 15, 2026, at SpaceX’s McGregor Texas facility with demonstrations of inverted driving, mid-air flips, and a claimed 0-60 mph in 0.81 seconds.
Tesla has repositioned its second generation Roadster as “the last, best driver’s car” and a collaboration between the world’s best car company and the world’s best rocket company.
Production is slated for 2028. The car trades the 2017 concept’s extreme range and 2+2 seating for radical grip, acceleration, and (on the top variant) brief controlled flight.
