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Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
FT comments never miss.
I don’t think I’ve read such a rational analysis of the situation we’re in for a long time.
I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
May 5, 1945. Hitler has been dead for five days. The war in Europe is almost over.
In a castle in the Austrian Alps, American soldiers, German soldiers, and a group of elderly French prisoners grab rifles and get ready to fight the SS.
Together.
The castle was called Schloss Itter. The Nazis had turned it into a prison for very important people. Not ordinary prisoners. Trophies.
Inside were two former prime ministers of France, Paul Reynaud and Édouard Daladier. Two of France's top generals, Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin. A famous tennis champion, Jean Borotra. And the older sister of Charles de Gaulle.
As the Reich collapsed in early May, the SS guards panicked and ran. The prisoners suddenly found themselves in charge of a castle, with weapons left behind, and a serious problem.
Waffen-SS units were still roaming the area. Fanatics who would gladly kill them all.
They needed help. Fast.
One of the castle's prisoners, a Yugoslav handyman, slipped out on a bicycle to find the Americans. Separately, a German army officer named Major Josef Gangl also went looking for them.
Gangl was a Wehrmacht officer who had turned against the Nazis and was secretly working with the Austrian resistance. He wanted to protect the prisoners too.
He found an American tank commander named Captain Jack Lee.
Lee was 27, tough, cigar chewing, and willing to do something insane. With a single Sherman tank and a handful of American soldiers, he drove up into the mountains alongside Gangl and a few of his German troops.
They reached the castle on May 4.
The French prisoners were not exactly thrilled to see a tiny rescue force. They had expected an army. Instead they got a few Americans, a few Germans, and one tank.
The next morning, the SS attacked.
Somewhere between 100 and 150 Waffen-SS troops hit the castle with machine guns, mortars, and anti-tank weapons. The defenders fought back from the walls and windows. Americans and Germans side by side.
The French prisoners refused to hide. Some of them, including Reynaud, picked up weapons and joined in.
The Sherman tank was knocked out. The defenders were running out of ammunition. It looked like the castle would fall.
Then Jean Borotra, the tennis star, volunteered to make a run for it. He jumped the wall, slipped past the SS, and sprinted through the countryside to find American reinforcements.
He found them. And he insisted on coming back with them to finish the fight.
During the battle, Major Gangl saw Paul Reynaud exposed to gunfire and moved to pull him to safety. A sniper shot Gangl dead.
He had survived the whole war as a German soldier, only to die defending French prisoners from the SS in its final days.
That afternoon, the American relief force arrived and broke the attack. The SS were scattered and captured. The prisoners were saved.
Jack Lee received the Distinguished Service Cross. In Austria, Josef Gangl is remembered as a hero, and a street is named after him.
It is believed to be the only battle of the war where American and German soldiers fought together on the same side.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Have @constructionge3 videos on while working... always learn something. Sam Fertik of Carbon Custom Builders explains his building process (often ICF), pre construction process, etc.
Question Everything: How to Innovate Construction Materials and Methods youtu.be/kR5CFWrbuyg?si=1BIe… via @YouTube
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.
Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.
Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.
Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.
Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.
À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.
Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.
Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.
Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.
Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.
Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.
Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.
Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :
"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
This is an absolute masterclass from MIT on how to speak
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Apparently last week was Women in Construction Week, but I was too busy being a Woman in Construction, so I'm late to the party.
I started my career in the field, as a laborer. I worked my way up from there. Sometimes I still get pulled in!
If you know a little girl who's interested in construction, nurture and support her in that interest. She belongs out there - that's where her heart is❤️🛠️💪
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
This will always break my parent-heart wide open.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
To sin is a human affair, but to justify sins is a demonic affair.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Still Ill captures the zeitgeist of those Smiths early records.
I’ll also add:
Cemetery Gates and Bigmouth Strikes Again, which I still can see CG ending side 1, turning the album over, starting side 2 to that terrific opening.
Barbarism Begins at Home
I’ve always had a great fondness for Paint a Vulgar Picture
I also must point out that Shoplifters of the World is the theme for all of Mamdani’s voters in last week’s election. 😂
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Why not?
1. There’s a light.
2. Stop me
3. Cemetery gates.
4. Rubber ring.
5. I started something.
A lot depends on my mood. I was very angsty as a teenage goth. So the really depressing ones remind me too much of those days.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Today?
5: Still Ill
4: Last Night I Dreamt…
3: Reel Around The Fountain
2: What She Said
1: I Won’t Share You
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Thankyou for sharing! Really enjoyed the discussion!
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
The fetish for treating emotions as non-negotiable and unquestionable absolutes is a major source of dysfunction these days; that habit was deliberately encouraged by advertising and other media, and by corrupt psychology, though it doubtless has other sources as well.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
UKRAINE
For somebody who knows Theology, History, Finance and Supply Chains for the last 25 years, Ukraine can be easily explained, it's all about Putin's mind.
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Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
Because I get so many DMs about this, I decided to create a FAQ about this account:
FAQ
1. My name is Mario Lanza (@MarioJLanza) and I am the sole admin on this account. I'm a longtime Norm and SNL fan who loved all his old Weekend Update stuff. A few years ago I thought it would be fun to share one of his jokes per day here on Twitter, so I created this account. And even I was shocked how fast it took off. Within a year, this page had gone from 10 followers to more than 80k followers. It's amazing to me how much more popular Norm is now, compared to back when he was on SNL. Every day, the follower count for this page just continues to grow.
2. I post two times a day. Once in the morning, and once in the afternoon. Yeah, I know, that doesn't really match the name of the page - "The Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day." But the demand for this page was so huge that I eventually figured it would be best to do two jokes a day. So that's where we are now.
3. As of right now, I am only posting SNL Weekend Update jokes. I might expand one day to include stuff he did after SNL, but right now it's so much work keeping up with this page that I haven't had time to grab all the screencaps I'd want. So yes, as of now, this is all just old SNL Weekend Update jokes.
4. Yes, every one of these was a real Weekend Update joke. I haven't even changed the wording on any of them. These are all Norm's (and Jim Downey's) exact words, timing, pauses, and cadence.
5. Yes you can request any joke that you want. Just send me a DM with any requests you have and I'll try to post that one soon.
6. No, I never post video clips. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the main one is that personally I just think people in the world need to read more. And reading Norm's voice you get a much better sense of how well he used timing, wordplay, and pauses, it just activates an entirely different part of your brain. So no, I will never post video clips on this page. Besides, NBC has erased most of the Norm era from video these days, anyway. I grabbed most of these screencaps off the old Internet Archives episodes more than a decade ago.
7. No, I'm sorry. I can't just post OJ jokes every day. Norm's tenure on SNL was so much more than just that. I also can't just post the Ezra joke every day. But I'll sprinkle those big ones into the rotation, of course.
8. Even though I said I post two times a day, there is actually a special time in the year where I post three jokes a day. And that's my special month-long celebration of Norm in November called NORMVEMBER. For Normvember, I post three jokes per day, and they are 90 of his most famous jokes. I try to do all the really big popular ones. The goal, of course, is to get to people to forward these to everyone they know, and flood Twitter with Norm Macdonald jokes for a month.
9. Yes, I'm aware that not every Norm joke landed. And yes, I DO include a lot of the bombs here as well. I don't just include the bangers on this page. It's fun to remember that Norm bombed hard on at least fifteen percent (maybe even more) of his jokes on Weekend Update. That's what made him so fun. That's probably also a big reason why he was eventually fired. That "I don't give a shit" spirit that the audience was required to like every joke. That attitude was so quintessentially Norm. I hope that comes through on this page.
10. And finally, thank you for asking. Yes you CAN support this page if you enjoy what I've done with it. If you look up at the top of my profile, you can see I've turned on the "tips" option. That's an easy way to say you enjoy this page every day. Alternately, you can support me and my work at buymeacoffee.com/mariolanza or patreon.com/mariolanza
And there, now I never have to answer any of these in DMs anymore.
Enjoy the page! Long live Norm Macdonald! Keep spreading his voice!
-Mario
10/22/25
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
The earliest mention of one of my forebears is in Martyr's Mirror, a book first published in 1660.
Klei Jörg Weber, from near Zürich, Switzerland, was imprisoned for his Anabaptist (Mennonite) beliefs, and when he was released in 1640, his farm had been taken.
5 generations later, having tried to relocate several times to practice their religion in peace, Johann Anton Weber purchased a tract of land in frontier Pennsylvania, in 1717. Sailing from Amsterdam with a bunch of other Mennonite families who had bought neighboring parcels, the family arrived in 1718.
Johann Anton's oldest son Hans, having changed the family name to Weaver, began construction on a house made of local limestone, finishing it sometime in the 1720s. His grandchildren were the first Weavers born into religious freedom, and their living room became host to church services, hymn singing, prayers, family gatherings, and quiet evenings.
9 generations later, I sit in that very room, proud to bear my middle name (Weaver). I am sung to sleep every night by the voices - deep in these stones - of struggle, faith, hope, and steadfastness that brought us Home.
As I watch my nephew grow up here, I imagine the great cloud of witnesses - or founders, as Moses puts it - who watch over him, many generations later ❤️
In almost every successful family, there was one person, somewhere along the way, whose hard work and thrift let him accumulate capital to pass along to his children & their children.
In doing so, he changed the trajectory of the generations that followed.
I call this person the Founder.
Here is ours, Morris Kurtzman, sitting outside one of his handful of little grocery stores in NYC that changed our trajectory.
If you started with advantages, venerate your Founder.
If you didn't, you have an opportunity many of us never had: To *become* the Founder.
Eric Anderton: Construction Leadership Coach retweeted
The podcast: constructiongenius.com/how-c…
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Eric and I discussed long-term games in the construction industry
(link to the podcast in the tweet below)
