{"id":15367,"date":"2025-03-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=15367"},"modified":"2025-03-01T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:50:21","slug":"3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=15367","title":{"rendered":"3.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The closer to the train station, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmspae.se\/write-ups\/kebabs-train-stations\/\">worse<\/a> the kebab&#8221; &#8211; A &#8220;Study&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, interestingly enough, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciachef.edu\/blog\/what-happened-to-the-n-in-restaurateur\/\">restaurateur<\/a> came before the restaurant, and there was never an n to drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/mertbulan.com\/2025\/02\/24\/we-dont-need-startups-we-need-digital-mittelstand\/\">cultural divergence<\/a> also explains why it\u2019s difficult to name successful German startups on par with Airbnb, Uber, or Stripe\u2014let alone tech giants like Google, Facebook, or Amazon. And there\u2019s little indication that this will change anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A French official said there was \u201cno definitive agreement\u201d on the nature of US back-up in Ukraine given the discussions were at a preliminary stage. But the official added: \u201cThere is no objection from President Trump to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/983becc0-4604-4f0a-82de-10746af8d51a\">Americans giving security guarantees<\/a>.\u201d\n<Br><Br>\nTrump, surprisingly, announced that President Vladimir Putin would accept the presence of European troops in Ukraine, although the Russian leader had not said so publicly. \u201cI\u2019ve specifically asked him that question, and he has no problem with it,\u201d said Trump. The Kremlin on Tuesday denied any such concession.\n\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, my last year in politics changed that. Learning just how far some will go to inflict atrocities on innocent Americans has shocked me awake. Other unexplainable events have also forced me to reconsider whether we are waging a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicoleshanahan\/status\/1894440623433802074?s=46\">war not merely with flesh and blood but with spiritual forces<\/a>.  Many people shy away from acknowledging the reality of spiritual warfare. But anyone who has seen addiction up close or lived through deep trauma and witnessed how evil takes hold in this world knows that the battle of good versus evil isn\u2019t just theoretical\u2014it\u2019s real and all around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of Trump\u2019s first Cabinet meeting today and the \u201ccontroversy\u201d over Elon Musk participating, in September 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KatiePavlich\/status\/1894747895062016463\">Jill Biden<\/a> attended Biden\u2019s Cabinet meeting, the first he held in a year, and ran it (for obvious reasons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed all these Western <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nntaleb\/status\/1894768198903365869?s=12\">movements<\/a> defending the weak &amp; the underdog are rooted in Christianity. BTW the same applies to Shiism. My <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/on-christianity-b7fecde866ec\">essay<\/a> &#8220;On Christianity&#8221;, foreword to Tom Holland&#8217;s book\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps Ray Dalio has different data, but Grok thinks US, Europe &amp; Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1894524543537999892?s=12\">manufacturing output<\/a> is significantly higher than China<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does this matter?<br \/>The New Testament is unique in all of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/datarepublican\/status\/1894737725154324707?s=12\">antiquity<\/a>\u2014it can be largely reconstructed entirely from quotations in contemporary writings. By comparison, the earliest surviving manuscript of The Iliad dates to the 10th century AD despite being written in 8th century BC, yet it is still considered the second most well-attested ancient text in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stuttgart-based investment vehicle has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/735bbedb-8165-4807-a1e7-55b59ae5f064\">bought stakes in long-distance coach company Flix<\/a>, which owns the Greyhound brand in the US, as well as drone maker Quantum Systems and Waabi, which develops software for self-driving trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When your invoice wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/sperand.io\/posts\/the-future-of-enterprise-software\/\">get paid<\/a> as much as you want it to be paid, when your sales opportunity is as motivated to close as your sales rep, when your data entities can find and utilize information regardless of organizational boundaries\u2014that\u2019s when enterprise software truly changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed by North Macedonian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.new-east-archive.org\/articles\/show\/12963\/concrete-ideas-skopje-central-post-office-modernist-brutalism-demolition-architecture-north-macedonia\">architect<\/a> Janko Konstantinov, who had previously worked with the legendary Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, the modernist building was relentlessly avant-garde and futuristic. The structure was built in two stages: the main building and tower, inspired by a nearby fortress across the city\u2019s Vardar river, was built in 1974, while its central circular element, described as a brutalist flower or insect, was completed in 1982. Inside, underneath the dome, the building featured Cubist murals by Macedonian artist Borko Lazeski, depicting the horrors of the earthquake and posterior rebirth of the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this time my dad had spent six years working on the XB-70 project. So this is the story of my dad\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/codex99.com\/photography\/the-xb70.html\">brush with the Cold War<\/a> and, as best as I can piece together, the story of my dad before he was my dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wang&#8217;s key insight? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/akapoor_av8r\/status\/1894795831670444184?s=12\">Stop trying to create perfect mathematical models<\/a>. Instead, design adaptive feedback loops using real-time sensor data to make continuous micro-adjustments. This shift to practical adaptation formed the cornerstone of DJI&#8217;s future technical advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW: Meet couple <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paulsperry_\/status\/1894918689134104851?s=12\">running<\/a> Indivisible&#8217;s anti-DOGE agitation op targeting GOP townhalls &amp; flooding Hill phonelines: Leah Greenberg+Ezra Levin who have $11.7m warchest thx to $7.26m from Soros. Greenberg&#8217;s parents worked for Obama. 501(c)4 Indivisible pays a &#8220;DEI director&#8221; $155,163.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Military Aviation Museum is making strides toward returning its <a href=\"https:\/\/vintageaviationnews.com\/warbirds-news\/military-aviation-museums-me-262-replica-poised-for-a-triumphant-return-to-the-skies.html\">Messerschmitt Me<\/a> 262 replica to the skies, with hopes of debuting the aircraft at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new test, developed by EDX Medical Group, based at Cambridge Science Park, uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/healthcare\/article\/ai-supertest-prostate-cancer-screening-x0fpllsn6\">artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse blood and urine samples<\/a>, looking for more than 100 biological markers. These markers, including specific genes and proteins, have been clinically validated as having a connection to prostate cancer in previous trials.  The test is the first to combine them into one tool. It aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of a man\u2019s overall risk of prostate cancer, discover whether the disease is present and assess what stage it has reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not that building a working commercial jet engine itself is so difficult. It\u2019s that a new engine project is always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.construction-physics.com\/p\/why-its-so-hard-to-build-a-jet-engine\">pushing the boundaries of technological possibility<\/a>, venturing into new domains \u2014 greater power, higher temperatures, higher pressures, new materials \u2014 where behaviors are less well understood. Building the understanding required to push jet engine capabilities forward takes time, effort, and expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X users can choose between two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/cs\/news\/politicalbiasonxbeforethe2025germanfederalelection\/\">content feeds,<\/a> called&nbsp;<em>For You<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Following<\/em>&nbsp;feeds. The default feed is the&nbsp;<em>For You<\/em>&nbsp;feed. Both feeds rank content algorithmically, but the&nbsp;<em>Following<\/em>&nbsp;feed contains posts exclusively of users followed by the feed owner, prioritizing recent content. By contrast, only 20% of posts shown in the&nbsp;<em>For You<\/em>&nbsp;feed are from the users they are following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Fico of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stillgray\/status\/1895833306392117322?s=12\">Slovakia<\/a> has released a powerful statement about the Trump-Zelensky meeting. Finally, a realist. Europe must take note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/space-tourism-is-idiotic-as-is-use-of.html?m=1\">wallow<\/a> in the idiocy, watch Lauren Sanchez do TikTok:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you know better than most, during the long Lend Lease discussion with FDR, it was excruciating for Churchill as Britain was losing the war but never once did the great man reduce it to barbs and gripes. 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