“Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.” - Charles Darwin

Joined August 2021
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Men in Black is a quality trilogy that sort of never gets brought up when discussing some of the best trilogies in recent memory. The first film is clearly the best of the three & despite releasing in 1997, the original Men in Black has never been more relevant. I love this film.
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The Slanic salt mine in Romania is the closest thing to the Mines of Moria on Earth
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There are several people who have seen classified intel on Covid origins. The mystery for them is not "Did Covid come from a lab?" but "What processes led to Covid leaking from a lab?"
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I’m new on this app…but here’s the longest mashup I can do 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Just a bunch of dolphins being mesmerized by squirrels
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He really compressed 4 years of therapy into 60 seconds.
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Our physical world is just a dumbed-down slice of a much larger, computational reality.  @THIRDEYEDROPS
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🚨 Charles Hickson later claimed the beings who abducted him delivered a chilling warning: If humanity doesn’t change its course, the world will be destroyed. A message from 1973-or a warning for now?
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The Paradox of Time according to Aristotle.
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Joe Cocker performing "With a Little Help From My Friends" at Woodstock, in 1969.
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Prince with literally the greatest 'hold my beer' moment of all time. I'm out of words.
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This fall I heard a number of outrageous censorship cases coming out of Europe that had never previously crossed my desk. So I started doing a deeper dive into European censorship cases and I was pretty horrified by what I found. This is necessarily a long read, but believe me, it could have been a hell of a lot longer. The situation in Europe has reached its brim and they seem to be in utter denial about it. h/t @AdGo
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The late, great Dr. John Mack on the enigma of unexplained phenomena: “Maybe it would require some kind of shift from within ourselves, some stretching to meet something which to me is a powerful unexplained phenomenon.” What if that’s EXACTLY what we need right now a paradigm shift to embrace the unknown? 🌌👽
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🚨 In this segment from James Fox's documentary, Dr. Venturelli recounts his sighting of one of the Varginha creatures. This excerpt from director James Fox's latest film, an expanded version of his initial documentary on the Varginha case, "Moment of Contact" (2022), features Dr. Italo Venturelli. Dr. Venturelli, who served as the regional hospital director in 1996 and continued in that role until his retirement, has chosen to publicly disclose for the first time what he witnessed on that day, following a heart attack last year. Both Dr. Venturelli and director James Fox were visibly moved by the experience and his testimony, which is highly compelling. #Ufotwitter
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The Stones coaxing an early version of Sympathy for the Devil into shape, as Jean-Luc Godard captures proceedings on camera. A fascinating look into a song being built. Olympic Studios. 1968.
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1993, "Sweet Home Alabama" - The Leningrad Cowboys & The Red Army Choir, Russia.
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11 Nov 2025
COVID origins — The FIPV is not the lynchpin of case for the lab leak hypothesis, it is the cherry on top. The main arguments for the lab leak case rest on the location and timing of the SARS2 outbreak coinciding with WIV coauthoring the DEFUSE proposal and setting out to look for novel SARS-like CoVs that are 10-25% different in their spikes from SARS1. Then there is the presence of the FCS in SARS2 so uncharacteristic of SARS-like CoVs, especially in light of DEFUSE proposing to engineer novel FCSes in SARS-like CoVs. And then there is the AUTHOR of this idea — Ralph Baric himself — explaining WHY he proposed to do this in DEFUSE and citing FIPV as the inspiration behind his idea — set against the backdrop of three lethal strains of FIPV containing the very same PRRAR FCS as SARS2, which btw includes the leading proline, just like MERS, another favorite virus of WIV, Ralph Baric, Fang Li etc. So in my book it’s very plausible that whoever decided to take Baric‘s DEFUSE idea of engineering novel FCSes in SARS-like CoVs and run with it decided to also use the most frequent FCS in lethal FIPV strains as one of the candidates for (likely several) new FCSes to try engineering into SARS-like CoVs — as FIPV was an inspiration to try doing so in the first place.
10 Nov 2025
While I agree that ENaC FCS is a red herring (what relevance does a specific FCS motif in a subunit of some human Na channel have to coronaviruses??), I wouldn’t dismiss the FIPV connection — as Baric said, the observation that when FIPV’s FCSes mutate to become less cleavable this turns the virus from benign to lethal was *the* inspiration behind proposing to engineer novel FCSes in SARS-like CoVs in DEFUSE, and three known lethal strains of FIPV have the same PRRAR FCS as SARS2. And their nucleotides match save for the codon choice for the arginine doublet — AGA vs. CGG:
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29 Oct 2025
The problem is it turns out war and other evils cannot be surgically removed from the human condition, so instead you end up waging a war not on war but on the human condition, which becomes a war on humanity itself. You slide very quickly from peacemaking to autogenocide.
29 Oct 2025
Replying to @mmjukic
Systems and processes are foisted on humanity because "open and personalized human action" leads to wars. Several examples: Thirty Years', Napoleonics, WW1, WW2. In each of those we have basically said "ok, humans can't behave" and instituted some system that removes human act
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