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Aaand, I'm going to bed!
Hay gente que se ríe cómo si fuera una sirena de barco. 😂
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In 1919 a New York physician got so fed up with watching his patients get worse that he went to a museum to ask the dead for advice. His name was Blake Donaldson. He had a practice full of people who were overweight, ill, and getting steadily worse no matter what the medicine of the day threw at them, and he had run clean out of ideas. So he walked into the American Museum of Natural History, found the anthropologists, and asked them the question no respectable doctor was supposed to ask. What did healthy humans actually eat before all of this? They showed him the skulls. Ancient ones. Pre-agricultural ones. And the teeth stopped him in his tracks. No decay. No crowding. No abscesses. Rows of clean, strong, untroubled teeth belonging to people who had never met a dentist, a toothbrush, or a sack of flour. The anthropologists told him about the Plains hunters who lived on buffalo, and about pemmican, the dense brick of dried meat and rendered fat that carried men through a North American winter on next to nothing else. Donaldson went back to his surgery and did something that would get a modern doctor hauled in front of a committee. He put his patients on meat. Fat meat, specifically. Roughly six ounces of lean with two ounces of visible fat, three times a day, from beef or lamb. Coffee. Water. That was the prescription. He stripped out what he called the worst offenders, the flour and the sugar and the sweet milk, and he watched what happened. What happened was they got better. The weight came off without hunger, because he insisted they eat enough and eat often. The blood pressure settled. The gallstones, the migraines, the aching joints, the sour stomachs, the whole catalogue of modern complaints he had been failing to shift for years began, quietly, to resolve. He kept going. By the end he had run something like seventeen thousand patients through this regime over roughly forty years, which is a working lifetime of evidence rather than a passing fad. He wrote it down in a book called Strong Medicine in 1961. The establishment's response was swift and familiar. One prominent figure pronounced the book hardly scientific. Another filed Donaldson under food faddism and implied he had simply forgotten whatever he once knew about nutrition. A man with forty years of patient outcomes was waved off by people armed with a theory and a grievance, and the profession moved smoothly on to the low-fat advice that has served us so brilliantly ever since. He was not a guru and never pretended to be one. He thought he was just copying what those museum skulls had been quietly demonstrating for ten thousand years, which is about the most honest thing a doctor has ever said about diet. The book is still in print. The skulls are still in the case. And the advice that buried him is still printed on the side of the cereal box.
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Psychological Warfare on you.
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Task specific AI= Good. 'AGI'= Reason for concern. People using AGI like it actually has intelligence=

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The year is 1949. The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain. The year is 1956. Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over. The year is 1966. A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots. The year is 1979. Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005. The year is 1985. Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning. The year is 1992. There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with. So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now. Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one. It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.
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Ayn Rand’s warning was not about some distant dystopia. It was about the moment a country starts punishing production and rewarding political access. Look at Liberal Canada. If you want to build, drill, mine, farm, hire, invest, or expand, you need permission from people who produce nothing but paperwork. If you play the subsidy game, hire the right lobbyist, repeat the right slogans, and flatter the right ministers, money magically appears. Work gets taxed. Risk gets regulated. Failure gets funded. Competence gets buried under process. Graft gets renamed “partnership.” Waste gets called “investment.” Favours get dressed up as policy. This is how countries decline. Not all at once. Slowly, stupidly, and with press releases. Canada does not need more managers of decline. It needs a government that respects the people who actually produce the wealth in the first place.
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Almost nobody knows the entire fear of cholesterol began with a rabbit. >be a Russian pathologist, 1913 >wonder what furs up human arteries >test it on rabbits, naturally >feed them mountains of purified cholesterol dissolved in oil >the rabbits, who have never met the stuff in their lives, fur up >publish immediately >announce to the world that dietary cholesterol causes heart disease >decline to mention that a rabbit is a herbivore >or that grass contains no cholesterol >or that the animal has no machinery for handling it >you have poisoned a vegetarian and billed it as a breakthrough A herbivore, fed an animal product it was never built to eat, in doses nothing in nature could meet. That is the foundation stone of the cholesterol scare. Humans are not rabbits. We have eaten cholesterol since there were humans. The whole edifice rests on one bewildered bunny.
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The message of a protest is "we don't like this". The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it". People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world. They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are. If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence. And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table. Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that. Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power. (Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.) When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can. And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc. This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight". They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict. This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table. A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care. A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.
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BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since. He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE. What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried. Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight. When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse. This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long. In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them. @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010. A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015. France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew. John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years. Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything. BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected. John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record. This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation. If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments. I will add media coverage links in the comments section. Sources: @AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association) @BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan) gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive) @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air. @heraldtweets @WSJ @FlightGlobal @TheCanaryUK @the_ecologist
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2,400 years ago Aristotle warned us about multiculturalism
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The Truth about Salt.
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Majority of people can't mentally process the full truth, most can't even process this and this is just a tiny part of the full truth about what is going on in this place...
🇨🇳 A very good reason why you should avoid most restaurants in China. Some people might say this is on purpose. Likely, it's just an everyday, common mistake they make in China.
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Are women actually worse than men?
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Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil. This one quote sounded familiar.
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❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch. Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200 on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't. Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control. To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running. Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default. Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.
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An 80-year-old Japanese-American woman with advanced Alzheimer’s—bedbound, incontinent, and speaking only in single syllables for years—just shattered our understanding of neurodegeneration. After a single supervised 5-gram dose of psilocybin mushrooms (Enigma strain), she woke up after 19 hours and did the impossible: Regained full speech (forming complete, coherent sentences) Recovered lost memories (recalling long-forgotten life events) Regained mobility & continence (dressing herself and staying dry) Restored eye contact and humor A follow-up 3-gram dose one month later boosted her verbal fluency and agility even further. These gains lasted for weeks. 🧠 This Is Not A Cure. It’s Something More Profound. The case report, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience (May 27, 2026), proves that functions we assumed were irreversibly destroyed by dementia are actually still there—they are simply trapped behind broken neural gates. Psilocybin bypassed the damage. How? Through explosive, rapid neuroplasticity: The 5-HT2A Switch: Psilocybin floods 5-HT2A serotonin receptors, triggering a massive spike in BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). Neural Rewiring: BDNF acts like fertilizer for the brain, driving dendritic spine growth, synaptogenesis, and the repair of broken networks. Circuit Restoration: It downregulates chronic neuroinflammation and re-establishes critical communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. 🛑 The Tragedy of Our Delay: Johns Hopkins is already studying psilocybin for depression in early-stage cognitive decline. But for late-stage, severe patients? It is an absolute shame that we aren't taking these trials more seriously. Modern medicine has exactly zero treatments that restore lost function in advanced dementia. This single case demands immediate action. We don't have time to wait for a 10-year bureaucratic pipeline while millions of minds fade into the fog. ⚡ The Directive for Compassionate Use: President Trump’s executive order accelerating psychedelic research gives us the exact legal framework we need. We must bypass the standard red tape and establish compassionate use protocols immediately for advanced patients. For millions of families watching their loved ones slip away, this case report is a thunderbolt of hope. The brain still holds secrets, and science moves fast when we get out of its way. What if a single guided experience could give you back one last conversation with the person you love? 🔄 Share this if you want real hope for dementia. Access and research must accelerate NOW. #Psilocybin #Alzheimers #Neuroplasticity #BDNF #MedicalBreakthrough #CompassionateUse #Dementia
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22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer. He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property. Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊
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𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮 - Four different brands. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Research by scientists at Arizona State University (commissioned by Friends of the Earth) detected engineered nanomaterials in popular U.S. infant formulas. The more sharp, or edgy the nanomaterial is, the more toxic it becomes. In this case a very spikey needle like particle can wreak havoc on any biology it comes in contact with DIRECTLY, through physically puncturing, ripping and cutting. Beware, everything has been infected - Ria No More Silence - ✍️
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American Farmer has a message about GMO crops “GMO means it has been genetically modified — what that really means is they modify the genes of it so that when we spray glyphosate, AKA Roundup on it, it doesn't kill it. So you can modify it so we're able to spray a herbicide across the field that will kill the weeds but not kill that particular crop, kill anything but that crop” “A lot of people think it's made, uh, genetically altered for yield. It's not. It's genetically altered to be resistant to worms. I was gonna say bugs, really it's worms — there is something in the genes of it what will kill that worm. So the worm won't go out there and destroy cotton fields or destroy corn fields. The worm will actually die when it takes its first bite of the corn or cotton” You need to know how dangerous this is Here are documented facts about pesticides and herbicides: Worldwide, pesticides cause about 3 million cases of acute poisoning and 200,000 deaths annually, mostly in developing countries. Chronic pesticide exposure is linked to increased risks of various cancers, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, brain, breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers. Prenatal pesticide exposure has been associated with a significantly higher risk of childhood leukemia Certain pesticides act as endocrine disruptors, leading to reproductive harm including infertility, birth defects, stillbirths, and developmental abnormalities in wildlife and humans Pesticides are a major driver of biodiversity loss, causing sharp declines in insect, bird, and pollinator populations Glyphosate exposure has been associated with a 30–41% increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in some meta-analyses Organophosphate pesticides can cause acute nervous system effects similar to nerve gas, including convulsions, respiratory failure and death Over 90% of pollen samples from bee hives in agricultural areas and over 90% of tested streams are contaminated with multiple pesticides Pesticide exposure is linked to neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, up to 250% increased risk in some studies and Alzheimer’s Pesticides contribute to widespread water, soil and food contamination, leading to chronic health effects like neurotoxicity, kidney/liver damage, and immune system disruption There has to be a better way
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