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mags et greta subisse de la mysoginoire y’a pas mieux à dire. ça fait des semaines qu’on le dit mais ce sont les méchantes quoi qu’il arrive dans la narrative et vous allez faire gagner soit une raciste soit une gaslighteuse / menteuse #secretstory https://t.co/5E8nRQUzc0 #mythes #racisme #manipulation

S'il va au bout de son nouveau contrat, James Harden atteindra la barre mythique des 20 saisons jouées en NBA. Il dépassera aussi la barre des 500 millions de dollars gagnés durant sa carrière NBA. Seulement 4 l'ont fait : LeBron, KD et Curry. https://t.co/NjsxWXQyOb #NBA #JamesHarden #Basketball

Die Nachfrage wächst, die Vorfreude auch: Die Sky Original #S04-Doku „Mythos Schalke – Ein Leben lang“ ist ab dem 27. August 2026 in über 100 Kinos in ganz Deutschland zu sehen. 🎞 Eine Woche vor dem Start sind bereits mehr als 14.000 Tickets für die Vorstellungen verkauft! 🤩 https://t.co/6XXOrLhSY1 #Schalke #Dokumentation #Film

A Game Science kiadott egy 15 perces gameplay videót az új Black Myth játékról. Korábban már cinematic trailert láttunk a Zhong Kui-ról, most viszont elég sok dolgot mutatnak, főleg a végén a montázsban. Ez egy early buildből került ki és 21:9-es, a végső játék nem ilyen lesz. Ha lehet amúgy nézzétek meg YouTube-on mert bitrate gyilkos. Sajnos még oda is csak fullhd-ban töltötték fel. https://t.co/nqK67BzKuh #BlackMyth #GameTrailer #Gameplay

Frank Beard est mort 😭😭😭 Et forcément, beaucoup vont ressortir les barbes, les lunettes noires, l'Eliminator rouge et les énormes tubes de ZZ Top. Mais Frank Beard, c'était justement l'autre visage du groupe. Le type qui s'appelait "Beard" dans le groupe le plus barbu de l'histoire du rock ... et qui était le seul des trois à ne pas vraiment en avoir une. Rien que ça, j'ai toujours trouvé que ça résumait assez bien le personnage. Pendant que Billy Gibbons et Dusty Hill occupaient l'image, Frank était derrière. À sa place. Pas besoin d'être devant pour être indispensable. Parce que sous les riffs de Billy et la basse de Dusty, il y avait ce truc qu'on remarque parfois seulement quand il disparaît : "le moteur". Ce groove texan sec, lourd, légèrement traînant, cette façon de donner l'impression que trois types jouaient tranquillement dans un rade poussiéreux alors qu'ils étaient capables de faire bouger un stade entier. Frank et Dusty jouaient déjà ensemble avant ZZ Top. Le blues texan n'était pas un costume qu'ils avaient enfilé pour vendre des disques : ils venaient réellement de là. Et derrière le personnage cool, il y avait aussi un homme qui avait connu les excès, la dépendance, puis qui avait réussi à se reconstruire et à revenir derrière sa batterie. C'est peut-être aussi pour ça que j'aimais tellement ZZ Top. Ils n'avaient jamais besoin de donner l'impression d'être immortels. Ils avaient simplement l'air de l'être. Dusty est parti en 2021. Aujourd'hui, c'est Frank. Et pour lui, je ne choisirai pas "Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man" ou "Gimme All Your Lovin". Je vais remettre "Jesus Just Left Chicago", en la laissant arriver juste après "Waitin' for the Bus", comme sur "Tres Hombres". Parce que cet enchaînement presque accidentel est devenu mythique chez les fans : deux morceaux différents qui finissent par donner l'impression de n'en former qu'un. Et parce que Frank Beard est lui-même crédité parmi les auteurs de "Jesus Just Left Chicago". Pour rendre hommage au type discret derrière la batterie, je trouvais ça beaucoup plus juste qu'un tube évident. Ceux qui savent, savent. RIP Frank Beard. Le Beard sans barbe. Le battement de ZZ Top 🥁❤️ #ZZTop #FrankBeard #RIP

Hab mal Gemini gefragt, was von der Empfehlung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung zu halten ist: Endlich sagt es mal jemand: 1,5 Eier pro Woche (inklusive des versteckten Eis im Sonntagskuchen) sind die absolute Obergrenze! Wenn du am Dienstag aus Versehen ein zweites Ei aufschlägst, solltest du vermutlich direkt dein Testaments-Update vorbereiten. 🤡🥚 Das DGE-Klima-Labor schlägt wieder zu: Das Fundament der "Wissenschaft": Vergiss Cholesterinspiegel, Aminosäurenprofil oder Nährstoffdichte. Die Zahl entspringt keinem physiologischen Bedarf, sondern einem mathematischen Klimamodell. Hauptsache, die Hühner pupsen statistisch gesehen weniger CO₂ ins Excel-Sheet. Das Cholesterin-Gespenst von 1980: Während die globale Ernährungsforschung seit gefühlten 20 Jahren weiß, dass Nahrungscholesterin bei 75 % der Menschen den Blutspiegel schlicht nicht interessiert, hält man in Deutschland eisern am Mythos fest. Nährstoff-Bombe? Egal! Cholin für die Leber, Lutein für die Augen, biologische Wertigkeit von 100, fette Proteindosis? Unwichtig. Hauptsache, du knupperst brav deine hochverarbeitete Hafer-Oblate, um das nationale Klima-Soll zu erfüllen. Wer sich also ab sofort wundert, warum er nach dem Fitnessstudio nicht mehr regeneriert: Du hast diesen Monat halt schon deine vier Eier aufgebraucht. Ab jetzt gibt's Protein nur noch auf Antrag beim Umweltbundesamt. Guten Appetit! 🍳✨ #Ernährung #Gesundheit #Nachhaltigkeit

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A comprehensive study has shown that it is not social status, but another crucial factor that influences the voting decision for the AfD, contradicting the common myth of those left behind by modernization. (translated)

Ein Thema entscheidend - Studie entlarvt Mythos vom abgehängten AfD-Wähler

🚨 KANG IN LEE 🇰🇷 RÉCUPÈRE LE MYTHIQUE NUMÉRO 7️⃣ DE L’ATLETICO MADRID… celui d’Antoine Griezmann 🇫🇷. 😁❤️🤍 https://t.co/IKOKRJA84C #AtleticoMadrid #KangInLee #Football

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The city of Bornova, in the province of Izmir in Turkey, claims to be the birthplace of Homer's Odyssey, based on local myths and archaeological discoveries, while provoking debates about cultural identity and the origins of the poet. (translated)

"Homère était des nôtres" : une ville turque revendique la naissance de "L'Odyssée"

Krótko o micie czerwonej kartki w piłce nożnej. Przestudiowałem kiedyś jak “zdobywaliśmy” je seryjnie. Tak, żeby przekierować negatywne emocje po przegranym meczu na mnie:) W analizę naukowej Premier League z sezonów 2011/12–2020/21, obejmującej mecze, w których tylko jedna drużyna kończyła w dziesiątkę, zespół grający 11 na 10: - wygrał około 57,1% meczów, - zremisował 23,3%, - przegrał 19,6%. Średnio drużyna grająca w przewadze zdobywała 1,946 punktu, a drużyna z czerwoną kartką tylko 0,822 punktu. ALE 🔥 Jeśli drużyna z kartką prowadziła prawdopodobieństwo wygranej drużyny grającej 11 na 10 to tylko 14.3%. Czyli: 1. przy remisie czerwona kartka daje mniej więcej przewagę wystarczającą, aby wygrać nieco ponad połowę takich spotkań; 2. gdy już prowadzisz i przeciwnik dostaje kartkę, wygrywasz ponad 9 na 10 takich meczów; 3. gdy przegrywasz, a prowadzący przeciwnik dostaje kartkę, nadal wygrywasz tylko około 1 na 7 przypadków - dotychczasowy wynik i pozostały czas są ważniejsze niż sama przewaga zawodnika. Artykuły warte przeczytania: Najbardziej przystępny jest „Seeing Red: Challenging Football’s ‘Red Card Myth’” - zawiera właśnie liczby dotyczące zwycięstw, remisów, wyniku w momencie kartki, czasu gry i siły drużyn w Premier League. Najbardziej solidny metodologicznie i dostępny bezpłatnie jest „Influence of Red and Yellow cards on team performance in elite soccer”, opublikowany w Annals of Operations Research. Dobrym uzupełnieniem jest „Effects of a red card on goal-scoring in World Cup football matches” w Empirical Economics. Najważniejszy wniosek brzmi więc: przy remisie drużyna grająca 11 na 10 wygrywa statystycznie około połowy spotkań, ale przy prowadzeniu przeciwnika sama czerwona kartka zwykle nie wystarcza do odwrócenia wyniku. Surowe 57% nie jest czystym efektem przyczynowym, ponieważ czerwone kartki nie pojawiają się losowo - częściej otrzymują je między innymi drużyny już przegrywające, a przeciętna kartka w analizie pięciu lig była pokazywana dopiero około 67. minuty. Sekcja komentarzy jest Wasza 🤓 #football #redcard #PremierLeague

GLOBAL CHAOS 1919–1939 The myth of the “peaceful interwar period” must end. The League of Nations tried to create order after World War I. But the world between Versailles and 1939 was anything but stable. Across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, wars, civil wars, https://t.co/t3G3O6nOy8 #InterwarPeriod #GlobalChaos #LeagueOfNations #EU #AS #AF #AM

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Cristiano Ronaldo declared that he will probably play his last football season at 41 years old in Saudi Arabia, while seeking to reach the mythical milestone of 1,000 goals before preparing for life after football. (translated)

Cristiano Ronaldo va « probablement » disputer sa dernière saison avant de prendre sa retraite
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2062 Τι ήταν ο μεντιλιμπαρ παππού? Ο μεντι ήταν μύθος αγόρι μου Μύθος ανάμεσα σε ανθρώπους Ήταν το δώρο παραμονές των γενεθλίων μας Ήταν εργατικός,δίκαιος και πρέσβευε όλα τα ιδανικά του θρύλου μας Δεν έφυγε και πότε άλλωστε αγόρι μου Είναι πάντα εκεί Στο πάνθεον #OlympiacosFC https://t.co/vkhkCZcSpp #Myth #Legend #Memories

🚨 HISTORIQUE ! LA FRANCHISE MYTHIQUE DES LOS ANGELES LAKERS VIENT D’ÊTRE VENDUE POUR LA SOMME HALLUCINANTE DE 12 MILLIARDS DE DOLLARS 😱 Il s’agit tout simplement de la vente la plus chère jamais réalisée pour une équipe sportive américaine. https://t.co/8DJUskdQ0p #Lakers #NBA #SportBusiness

A Crown Instead of the Barracks: An Idea From Outside the Box Could Egypt’s exiled opposition use constitutional monarchy to dismantle the legitimacy of the 1952 coup? By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands To understand what follows, a reader unfamiliar with Egypt needs one basic fact: since 1952, Egypt has never been governed by anyone who did not first wear a military uniform. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, and today Abdel Fattah el-Sisi four men, four eras, one common origin. All rose through the armed forces. All inherited a state built by a coup that year, when a group of officers calling themselves the "Free Officers" overthrew King Farouk I and, within a year, abolished the monarchy altogether and declared a republic. For seventy-three years, the underlying equation has not changed: the army rules, power passes from one officer to the next, and legitimacy is drawn from the barrel of a gun rather than the ballot box. Every conceivable form of opposition has been tried legal parties and banned ones, Islamist movements, liberal and leftist coalitions, the 2011 popular uprising, and the 2013 elections whose result was overturned by force within a year. All of them hit the same wall: a military institution that reproduces itself under different names, while the core of the system remains untouched. So what if the problem, all along, has not simply been who rules, but the constitutional framework that makes military rule possible in the first place? And what if the answer lies not in swapping one president for another, but in dismantling the underlying equation itself, through a framework Egyptian opposition movements have never seriously tried: a purely ceremonial constitutional monarchy, on the model of Belgium, the Netherlands, or Spain where the head of state becomes a symbol above the political fray, while the army is permanently expelled from politics and returned to its barracks. This is not a call to revive a particular family, nor nostalgia for a golden age that never quite existed. It is a proposal for a political and strategic tool that has not yet been used in the intellectual arsenal of Egypt’s opposition in exile a tool that deserves serious discussion, regardless of whether it is ever literally realised or simply serves to expand the boundaries of what is politically thinkable. I. Why 1952, Not 2013 or 2011, Is the Root The strategic error made by most Egyptian opposition movements from the Muslim Brotherhood to the April 6 Youth Movement to the various civil opposition parties has been treating each political crisis as an isolated case: Mubarak was corrupt and had to be toppled; Sisi staged a coup that must be condemned; the interim military council was a transitional phase to be endured. This piecemeal approach treats the symptoms while leaving the original illness untouched. That original illness is the very structure of legitimacy established by the coup of 23 July 1952. The Egyptian republican system, from Nasser to today, has never built its legitimacy on a genuine democratic social contract. Instead, it has rested on a fixed trinity: the rhetoric of "revolution against feudalism and colonialism," charismatic individual leadership, and military protection of the regime framed as the guarantor of stability. This trinity has repeated itself from Nasser to Sadat to Mubarak to Sisi, with only cosmetic variations. Each new president was never a break from the system he was its continuation. When the opposition says "let us return to the constitutional framework that preceded the coup," it is not criticising a particular policy. It is declaring that the legal foundation of everything that came after 1952 was illegitimate from the start. Here lies the rhetorical power of "returning to the pre-1952 order": it does not merely demand swapping one ruler for another. It withdraws historical legitimacy from the entire republican military system including today’s regime, which draws its own declared legitimacy from that same "1952 legacy." II. Why a "Ceremonial Crown," Not "the Return of a Ruling Family" Here is the most important distinction anyone advocating this idea seriously must grasp: the project does not rest on restoring any particular individual from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, nor on nostalgia for King Farouk or his ancestors. The real power of the idea lies in the constitutional form, not in the person who happens to sit on the throne. Three successful European democracies illustrate the model clearly. Belgium, where King Philippe is a purely constitutional symbol with no real executive power, while the state is run through an elected parliament and a complex coalition government reflecting the country’s linguistic and political diversity. The Netherlands, where King Willem-Alexander formally opens the parliamentary year and signs laws, but where actual decision-making rests with the prime minister and the elected parliament. And Spain, where the king represents symbolic continuity of the state above party politics, while the military and security services answer entirely to civilian authority a transition achieved after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, when King Juan Carlos I voluntarily relinquished the extensive executive powers he had inherited and backed free elections, most dramatically in February 1981, when he personally ordered the armed forces to remain loyal to the constitution during an attempted military coup, causing it to collapse within hours. The common thread across these three models is not "the presence of an ancient royal family." It is the principle of separating symbol from power. The monarch in these countries does not rule; he represents. He issues no political decisions; he provides the continuity and symbolic stability that allows party political competition to revolve beneath him, without every transfer of power becoming an existential crisis of legitimacy. This is precisely what Egypt’s military republican system lacks: a neutral mechanism for guaranteeing state continuity that does not depend on the person of the ruler or his security apparatus. When Egypt’s military-republican president is absent, it is always the army that fills the vacuum, because it is the only institution built to be the "guarantor of stability." Under a ceremonial monarchical model, by contrast, it is the king not the army who represents that symbolic guarantee, genuinely opening the door to removing the military institution from the political equation altogether. III. Egypt’s Standing Under the Monarchy: An Honest Reckoning, Not Blind Nostalgia For a Western reader with little prior knowledge of Egypt’s monarchical period (1922–1952), it helps to know this: Egypt was nominally independent under its own king from 1922, but Britain retained enormous informal control over the country’s foreign policy, military bases, and the Suez Canal throughout the period a reality that shaped everything that follows. Any honest invocation of "Egypt’s standing under the monarchy" must avoid the trap of mythologised nostalgia that many advocates of this idea fall into. Egypt in that era was no lost paradise, and any honest article must say so plainly. The Egyptian pound, for instance, often invoked as a symbol of "national currency strength" in that period, was not strong because of independent Egyptian monetary policy. It was pegged to the British pound sterling as part of Egypt’s complete colonial financial dependency until 1947, with Egypt exercising no independent oversight of its own currency whatsoever. The pound’s strength, in other words, was not a sovereign Egyptian achievement it was a reflection of British imperial power ruling Egypt from behind the throne. But this does not mean Egypt lacked a genuine regional standing worth studying. Cairo, in the 1930s and 1940s, was the undisputed cultural capital of the entire Arab world: the Egyptian film industry produced more than half of all Arabic-language cinema; its theatre scene, led by figures like Youssef Wahbi and Naguib al-Rihani, and its music, with Umm Kulthum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab, set the standard across the region; Cairo University was the first modern university in the Arab world; and the Egyptian press was the reference point for Arab public opinion from the Atlantic to the Gulf. Cairo was, quite simply, to the Arab world what Paris was to Francophone Europe: an unrivalled centre of cultural and intellectual gravity. This standing was not necessarily a product of monarchy itself, so much as a product of a relative space of political and press pluralism that allowed Egyptian civil society to flourish, despite all the flaws of the political system and the interference of both palace and occupier. The lesson here is not "bring back the king and the standing will return." It is: when even a limited margin of civic freedom exists, Egypt flourishes culturally and intellectually almost by its own nature. And that margin is precisely what has been entirely absent across the past seven decades of unchallenged military rule. IV. What Reform Would Actually Require Not Repeating the Old Mistakes Any serious advocacy of this model must include, even briefly, a clear vision for avoiding the flaws of the old monarchical system itself otherwise the proposal collapses into simply replacing one form of authoritarianism with another wearing a different crown. First, the armed forces would need to be placed fully under a civilian ministry of defence, with its budget subject to transparent parliamentary oversight the exact opposite of its current status as a state-within-a-state, and equally opposed to its role under the monarchy, when it often served as an instrument of British influence. Second, a judiciary fully independent of both palace and government alike, unlike the old model, which saw direct royal interference in political life as when King Fuad I dismissed the elected government of Prime Minister Saad Zaghloul’s successor, Mustafa al-Nahhas, in 1928, in one of the clearest "constitutional coups" in modern Egyptian history. Third, a parliament that genuinely represents the people rather than landowners and the aristocracy, as was the case before 1952, when membership in the Senate was effectively conditional on the ability to pay land taxes meaning political representation was, by law, restricted to the wealthy. Fourth, genuine economic sovereignty, with a truly independent national currency rather than one pegged to a foreign power’s currency, unlike the historical dependency of the Egyptian pound on sterling. These four principles are enough to clarify that the project on offer is not a literal "return to the past," but a borrowing of the constitutional form (symbolic monarchy) combined with an explicit rejection of its old substance (colonial dependency, palace interference, parliamentary feudalism). V. The Role of Egyptian Movements in Exile: Between Goal and Instrument This raises the most practical question of all: how might Egypt’s opposition abroad actually adopt this idea, and in what capacity? The honest answer is that the power of this proposal does not necessarily lie in its literal fulfilment, but in its dual strategic function. On one hand, it can be advanced as a genuine political goal adopted by broad coalitions of Egyptian movements coalitions that might include Islamists, liberals, leftists, and traditional monarchists, united around a single shared premise: rejecting the legitimacy of the 1952 order and everything that followed from it, even if they later disagree over the precise final shape of the state. On the other hand and this matters more in practice the idea can be deployed as a rhetorical instrument of pressure to widen a Egyptian political debate currently trapped between two false choices: "continued military rule" or "no alternative, chaos awaits." When the opposition puts forward a clearly defined third model a European-style constitutional monarchy it breaks this false binary and opens new intellectual space in Egyptian public discourse, even if the project is never realised in its literal form. This kind of "leverage idea" is common in the history of political movements worldwide: it is not necessarily proposed to be fulfilled immediately in full, but to redraw the boundaries of the politically possible, and to force the existing regime to defend its legitimacy rather than simply assume it. Conclusion: An Invitation to Debate, Not a Ready-Made Prescription This article does not claim that restoring a monarchical form would magically resolve Egypt’s chronic crisis of legitimacy, nor does it ignore the immense difficulties facing any transformative project under a military institution as economically and securitywise entrenched as Egypt’s is today. But it raises a question that deserves serious debate among Egypt’s opposition in exile, rather than automatic dismissal simply for being unfamiliar: Has the Egyptian opposition exhausted every available tool for dismantling the legitimacy of 1952, or has it remained trapped in the same old binary swapping one ruler for another while the framework that makes military rule possible remains untouched? The idea is on the table now, not as a finished solution, but as an overdue invitation to think outside the box.

Mythe n°5 : "La France manque d'eau : il faut réduire l'irrigation." Vraiment ? Comparons les chiffres européens. • La France est le 2ᵉ pays d'Europe par l'abondance de ses ressources hydriques (après la Norvège). Ce n'est pas une opinion – c'est la géographie. • Taux de mobilisation de l'eau en Europe : 🇫🇷 France : 20% 🇩🇪 Allemagne : 25% 🇪🇸 Espagne : 29% 🇮🇹 Italie : 32% L'Italie utilise 60% de plus que la France. Personne ne dit que l'Italie "vole l'eau". • L'eau que la France ne stocke pas en hiver part dans la mer. Ce n'est pas vertueux, c'est inefficace. • La solution : stocker en hiver, recycler, dessaler là où c'est pertinent. Pas restreindre. Gérer. #Eau #Agriculture #Irrigation • Et côté pratique, même constat. Part de la SAU irriguée en 2016 : Grèce 23,6%, Italie 20,2%, France 6,8%. Moyenne UE : 5,9%. Surfaces équipées : Espagne 3,6 M ha, Italie 4,1 M ha, France 2,8 M ha. (Eurostat) • Nos voisins irriguent 3 à 4 fois plus intensément que nous, sur des territoires plus secs et plus petits. Et ils prennent les marchés que nous abandonnons. ➡️ Et la comparaison la plus parlante, ce sont les ouvrages. En 25 ans : France 5 à 10 M de m³ de nouvelles réserves. Maroc : environ 2 Mds de m³. Espagne : environ 22 Mds d m³ de stockage. ➡️ Rapportée aux 500 Mds de m³ de pluie que reçoit la France chaque année, notre capacité de stockage agricole équivaut à quelques heures de précipitations. Ce ne sont pas nos ressources qui nous distinguent. Ce sont nos ouvrages. #Eau #Irrigation @AnnieGenevard @Agri_Gouv @Ecologie_Gouv @Irrigants_Fr #Eau #Agriculture #Irrigation

On August 12, 2026, a solar eclipse will allow scientists to study the Sun, a phenomenon that, in the past, caused great fear due to mythological beliefs that a cosmic dragon was devouring our star. (translated)

"Cela devait être une expérience particulièrement terrifiante. On croyait autrefois qu’un dragon cosmique dévorait le Soleil"

The willingness of Trump, RFK Jr., and Bhattacharya to resurrect the vaccine–autism myth is not merely ignorant; it is a cynical betrayal of evidence-based public health. Ignorance reigns. https://t.co/HMFwa3TKhp #VaccineMyth #PublicHealth #COVID19 #Therearenospecificcountryreferencesinthetweetprovided.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.