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NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Here the column in full

Now let’s get into the detail:ft.com/content/24117a…

Some people have responded to that chart with "That can’t be right", or "We can’t be worse than America".

I’m afraid the chart is right. 15 years ago the UK’s record on homelessness *was* not too dissimilar to other developed countries, but things have rapidly deteriorated.

It's not that these Tories are awful.

(They are. They are staggeringly incompetent, dishonest and corrupt. Many of them have knowingly led the country toward poverty and isolation for their own short term gain, and therefore can reasonably be described as traitors.)

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It's that Tory ideas and values have been shown, these last 14 years, to be bogus.

These Conservatives may be awful, but ConservatISM has been exposed as bankrupt.

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Economically, their small state approach has stifled growth. Austerity held the economy back, reducing income to the Exchequer and forcing continued cuts in a doom loop.

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Carl Jung once said:

"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."

Here are 11 things I learned from him:

1. “Where your fear is, there is your task”

This is why the work-life balance & self-care movements help people become losers.

Discomfort is where the opportunity is

Find what you fear & look it in the eyes

...otherwise you become mediocre and the rewards are terrible.

How to apply it:

• Figure out what you fear
• Set challenges to face the fear

As you face more fears, your confidence increases

The 12 most creative billboard ads I've collected:

1. Timex

2. Air Asia

Principle: The Hidden Swear Word

Make the customer swear without swearing.

"Phuket, I'll go."

3. X (Previously Twitter)

Principle: Hero's Journey

Twitter ran old tweets of people's dreams as ads -- next to the person achieving their dream.

They should bring back this campaign @elonmusk

The Darth guide to different models of tankies. 🧵

The “Basic” tankie. Russia has never invaded anyone ever. Russia become the world’s biggest country by peacefully defending itself in other people’s countries.

The “Russia was provoked tankie”. NATO caused this war. It did this by being seen as a better option to Russia’s neighbors than Russia is and then by actually being a better option to Russia’s neighbors than Russia is.

YouTube has 117,000,000 channels.

But 99% waste their time on the bad ones.

I have found 10 channels that will teach you more than any university degree (for free):

✋🏿1. Alex Becker

🟢This channel focuses on helping you grow personally and develop effective business strategies.

🟢Advice for personal growth
🟢Tips for business strategy

🟢 youtube.com/@AlexBeckersCh…

✋🏿2. Veritasium

🟢Diving into science, education, and technology, this channel challenges viewers to think critically about the world around them.

🟢Focuses on science and education
🟢Thought-provoking content

🟢 youtube.com/@veritasium

Hackers can steal your data in 15 seconds.

These are some hacker tools you should be aware of that seem harmless but can do real damage.

[Bookmark for later 10/10]

1. Flipper Zero

Flipper Zero may look like a toy, but it has great testing capabilities with infrared, RFID, and NFC. Control devices, clone cards, capture RF signals and much more.

OMG Cables

OMG cables look like normal chargers, but they hide a small computer. Once connected, it acts like a keyboard, executing commands.

It can steal passwords, move files, install malware, and much more

Every ICT trader has heard "Time and Price"

But few traders know the secret to using this correctly

Often gate-kept, rarely explained well - here's a full guide on Time and Price

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Let me be clear:

The concepts you learn here won't make you a millionaire overnight

They need to be paired with a trading plan

I'm building a free course here on twitter, bookmark this tweet and follow me so you don't lose it as I'll be going private soon

Let's get started

Time and price...the classic phrase

People will gate keep this in order to sell you a course (most of which have no idea what they're saying)

When in reality, what matters is far simpler than you may think.

Time and price = analysis on the markets using time

How can you do this?

Super Exclusive Thread:

Exposing 'Project Syndicate"

1. Yesterday The Guardian has published a propaganda article against home minister Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi.

2. The Guardian is part of the Soros and Bill Gates funded 'Project Syndicate'

3. This project is a group of 506 media outlets in 156 countries.
The most important thing is that Soros and Bill Gates funds it.
Yes, same Soros who wants regime change in India.

Before Twitter locked down its API, I started an analysis to figure out (empirically) "the 'greatest' tweets ever from intellectuals."

Here's an abbreviated version based on the analysis I was able to do:

[24 'greatest' tweets from intellectuals megathread] 🧵

1) 🥇 Award for the best "adorable personification of an animal" goes to @juliagalef

2) 🥇 Award for the best "self-improvement insight" goes to @jeanqasaur

An extremely long thread on visiting Paris by me: someone interested in cycle infrastructure and making public spaces better.

The last decade’s change is so positive and has been huge: what have they done and how have they done it?

Things they’ve done:
1. Reallocated space to people. Classic Paris boulevard now: generous two way cycle lane, one way lane for private cars, one way lane for buses & taxis.

2. Really greened it up: urban forests! SUDS! New trees! Beautiful pedestrianisation.

It sounds like a boring topic, but concrete is one of the most revolutionary inventions in history.

For example, concrete now weighs more than everything else humans have ever made combined.

So here's the story of how it has changed the world, for better and for worse...

What is concrete?

Put simply, it's cement (the magic ingredient) mixed with aggregates, like gravel and sand, plus water — the cement acts as a binder which reacts and sticks the aggregate together.

Your pour it into a mould and what was a liquid soon becomes hard as rock.

And it has been around for thousands of years.

The Egyptians, Mycenaeans, and Nabataeans all used some form of concrete.

But it was the Romans who were the first real masters of concrete — the things they built with it, like the Aqua Alexandrina, are astonishing even now.

I know that some people that know me from a professional setting – I am a senior cyber security advisor with about ten years of experience fighting Russian espionage – may find the language of my trench-style disinformation fighting a bit much.

For posterity I want to say: 1/14

We are living in dangerous times. Russia is like a scorpion and is just being Russia as it has been for 500 years. But our leaders have ignored that and completely failed us and are still failing us and are slow-walking us towards WWIII. And I will not sit quietly and watch. 2/14

Russia is dangerous and MUST be stopped. In both Ukraine and Georgia. Most urgently in Ukraine but imagine if we had helped Ukraine to decisively repel Russia in 2014? How much bloodshed and heartache and rape and torture and murder could we have spared the Ukrainian people? 3/14

GEHT ES MIT DER DEUTSCHEN WIRTSCHAFT WIRKLICH BERGAB?

Populisten erreichen ihre Ziele indem sie den Leuten Angst machen & die Zukunft in den schwärzesten Farben malen. Blackouts & wirtschaftlicher Zusammenbruch...

Wie ist die Lage wirklich?

Mai-Upgrade, Fakten & Zahlen

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Und nein, mit der d. Wirtschaft geht es seit dem 1. Quartal 24 nicht mehr bergab, sondern -langsam- wieder bergauf.

Das BIP lag nach -0,4% im 4. Quartal 2023 nun bei +0,2%. Damit befindet sich Deutschland auch nicht mehr in einer Rezession (per...

spiegel.de/wirtschaft/deu…

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..Definition 2 aufeinanderfolgende Quartale mit negativen Wachstum)

Treiber der positiven Entwicklung waren im 1. Quartal 24 die Baubranche und der Export. Der Ifo-Geschäftsklimaindex, für den regelmäßig etwa 9000 Unternehmen befragt werden, stieg im April 24 schon den...

En la década de 1950 un hombre tuvo una idea que revolucionaría para siempre el transporte, el comercio internacional y el mundo: Malcom McLean, el inventor del contenedor marítimo. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

McLean nacía en Estados Unidos en 1913. Comenzó a trabajar en una gasolinera hasta que ahorró lo suficiente para comprar en 1934 un viejo camión de segunda mano, con el que comenzó a realizar servicios de transporte.

Poco a poco el negocio fue creciendo hasta que en 1955 se convirtió en la segunda mayor compañía del sector en EEUU, con una flota de más de 1.700 camiones, 32 delegaciones y cotizada en Wall Street.

I ordered a triple cheeseburger with everything removed. Stay tuned to see what happens

Hopefully they don’t mess up my order (usually they do)

Update: Dan is coming through

9 biggest scandals in history:

1. Watergate: Tapes revealed that President Nixon and his top advisors were involved in covering up a break-in at a Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, becoming the first President to step down. Several of his top advisors — including the White House lawyer, Chief of Staff and Attorney General — did prison time.

The Committee to Re-elect the President was using mechanisms of government to attack domestic opponents in the press and the political world, even breaking into the psychiatrist’s office of the Pentagon Papers leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, to see what kind of dirt they could use to smear him.

2. Bill Clinton – Monica Lewinsky Scandal: In 1988, news broke of President Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton initially denied the allegations, famously stating, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." However, evidence, including Lewinsky's blue dress with Clinton's DNA, led to his admission of an inappropriate relationship. This scandal resulted in Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, although he was acquitted by the Senate and completed his term in office.

3. Prince Charles & Princess Diana's divorce: The scandal was highly publicized, marked by revelations of infidelity and personal struggles within their marriage. The media frenzy peaked with Diana's candid interview in 1995, where she famously stated, "There were three of us in this marriage," referring to Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles.

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▪️क्यों होते हैं कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता?

▪️उनकी पूजा का महत्व क्या हैं?

▪️कुलदेवी/कुलदेवता की पूजा कैसे की जाती हैं?

▪️कब की जाती है कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता की पूजा?

▪️अगर आपको अपनी कुलदेवी/कुलदेवता के बारे में कुछ नहीं पता हो तो आप क्या करे ?

🧵 1/7 - अंत तक पढ़े

🔹क्यों होते हैं कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता

प्रत्येक परिवार या वंश का एक विशिष्ट दैवीय संबंध होता है जो पीढ़ियों के माध्यम से आगे बढ़ता है। किसी भी कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता को वंश के संरक्षक के रूप में देखा जाता है, जो उस कुल के सभी सदस्यों की रक्षा करते हैं। (2/7)

🔹 कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता की पूजा का महत्व क्या हैं ?

- कुलदेवी या कुलदेवता की पूजा करने से परिवार पर आशीर्वाद बना रहता हैं तथा समृद्धि आती है।

- उनकी पूजा परिवार तथा परिवार की परंपराओं को बनाए रखने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाती है।

- उनकी पूजा करने से परिवार के सदस्यों के बीच एकता और सामंजस्य बढ़ता है।

- यदि नवविवाहित दंपत्ति को कुलदेवता के दर्शन कराये जाये तो उनके रिश्ते में हमेशा सामंजस्य बना रहता है। (3/7)

Zuerst kommen tausende Raketen. Dann 3.000 Männer mit Gewehren. Sie gehen von Haus zu Haus, erschießen Männer, Frauen, Kinder. Sie foltern und vergewaltigen. Sie zwingen Familienangehörige, zuzuschauen, wie sie ihre Lieben ermorden.
Mit den Handys ihrer Opfer machen sie (1/5)

Videos & schicken sie an die Familien.
Hunderte ihrer Opfer entführen sie. Ihre Körper werden werden - tot oder lebendig - (halb-)nackt durch die Straßen geschleift. Die Bevölkerung jubelt den Verbrechern zu. Die Menschen bespucken die Opfer.
Die jungen Frauen, die sie (2/5)

entführt haben, dienen als Sexsklavinnen. Sie werden unter den Familien weitergereicht.
Dann kommt der Gegenangriff. Anstatt in der Wüste zu kämpfen, verschanzen sich die Mörder in Wohnhäusern, Schulen und Krankenhäusern. Sie bunkern Hilfslieferungen und Waffen. Sie selbst (3/5)

1/ Here is a thread on why recent record sales by the Chinese of US Treasuries might be one of the first signs of a major fiscal crisis in the US. There is a lot of confusion about how this would work so let's go through it step by step.

2/ What matters here is not overall US government debt but rather the balance of payments. If a country runs a trade deficit this must be offset by financial inflows on the financial account to maintain equilibrium.

3/ The United States runs a consistent, large trade deficit. As predicted - because it is a necessity - this trade deficit must be matched with financial inflows. Let's look at what those inflows are.