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Replying to @Sunny_Rae1
She’s like medicines version of a trad wife influencer This fascist countercurrent is so terrifying
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#bbclaurak 5. countercurrent to the madness of capitalism. PEACE: cooperation and solidarity among all peoples of our globe is our mantra. Thanks
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「Jae梟/Jae Lee × 劉梟」逆流(Countercurrent) by Meisekiha - 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon) archiveofourown.org/works/68… 來自 @ao3org

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BTW the only way to actually IMPROVE IN ANYTHING (I mean anything, art, music dancing wtvr) Is to CHALLENGE YOURSELF Comfort zones are secure, I know.. But REAL changes happen when you go COUNTERCURRENT! Embrace the unknown!! that's the spark of life after all
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Lyman C. Craig, who won a Basic Medical Research Lasker Award in 1963, was born #OTD. While at the @RockefellerInst, Craig developed principles of separation of chemical compounds by countercurrent distribution. This introduced a method which has made possible the isolation and identification of countless substances that occur in nature and that are synthesized in the laboratory for therapeutic purposes: ow.ly/mZSi50Z5het
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💧 Kidneys can concentrate urine up to ~1200 mOsm/kg: the loop of Henle and vasa recta build a steep medullary osmotic gradient by countercurrent multiplication plus urea recycling, letting humans conserve water and make hyperosmotic urine during dehydration.
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Yesterday's options flow (08 jun) markets: unclear mag7: bullish crypto: income biotech: unclear metals: hedging energy: unclear rates: hedging risk-off: unclear semis: unclear financials: unclear Markets Monday's opening tape was not a clean risk-on/risk-off vote: SPX/QQQ/IWM put demand was real, but SPY deep-ITM calls and single-name tech/crypto upside kept the read mixed. Defensive, not outright bearish. #SPX #QQQ Mag7 Mag7 flow leaned bullish into the close: big confirmed-opening MSFT 460C, GOOGL 415C and NVDA 180C activity dominated premium, while TSLA/AAPL/AMZN puts added a hedge layer rather than flipping the message. #Mag7 #Volatility Crypto Crypto-linked options leaned credit, not pure chase: massive MSTR Aug 125 call sales dominated, while COIN long calls kept a bullish countercurrent alive. ETHA put selling added income tone; deep ITM put clusters need audit. #Crypto #Volatility Biotech Biotech/healthcare ETF flow leaned call-heavy, but not cleanly bullish: XBI saw opening call-spread activity, while XLV and XBI also printed call selling. The better read is two-sided positioning around June macro catalysts. #Biotech #XLV Metals Metals options flow leaned defensive: GLD and miner puts dominated confirmed openings, while SLV call buying kept upside speculation alive. More hedge than panic, more mixed than clean. #Gold #Silver Energy Energy flow was loud but not clean: XOM saw long-dated 170 straddle risk, USO drew heavy July ITM put activity, and XLE attracted March 2027 upside. Message: demand for optionality, not a simple bullish/bearish tape. #Energy #Volatility Rates Rates ETF flow leaned defensive into the macro calendar: IEF/TLT puts dominated confirmed-opening premium, while HYG saw a large deep-ITM call print. Duration hedges first, credit-risk appetite second. #Rates #TLT Risk-off Defensive ETF flow was not classic panic hedging. Confirmed openings leaned into selective upside in XLU/XLV/XLP, but short-call/income prints kept the signal mixed. Rotation, not capitulation. #Volatility #ETFs Semis Semis showed big opening risk, but no clean verdict: MU long-dated puts, SMH protection, NVDA high-delta call flow, and SOXX upside calls all printed. Strong tape, messy message. #Semiconductors #Volatility Financials Financials flow was busy but messy: XLF downside puts, a two-sided KRE Aug package, and long-dated Citi upside/protection. Not a clean "buy banks" signal; more hedge, vol, and strike-sensitive gamma. #Financials #Volatility
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Replying to @CL207 @0xGeeGee
Peru current doesn’t influence nino development, a developing el nino will disrupt it as it warm water gets moved east and the countercurrent brings warm water down the SA coast.
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Chidambara .ML. retweeted
cool glassware: the west condenser's smaller water jacket increases water velocity and allows for easy countercurrent cooling to be set up for refluxing, countercurrent cooling maximizes heat exchange. condensers should always be set up countercurrent for most efficient cooling
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Certainly dysgenic, though there is a eugenic countercurrent under the surface. Low fertility is finally starting to hit all races, and smart White people are waking up. Those that do will get more religious and start to strategize for survival
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Let each follow their own volition but its clear there is no rehabilitation of the RSS core for moderation. We are on the path to a civilisational rupture of the Republican ideals as countercurrent to the RSS splinters.
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I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two— And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes, “Tired” Miles Johnston "Countercurrent"
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🚨🚨 Tahu Gak? Cooling System paling canggih itu ada ditubuh Pria. Namanya? "TESTIS" Kenapa? Spermatogenesis (pembentukan sperma) memerlukan suhu yang optimal sekitar 34–35°C, yaitu 2–3°C lebih rendah daripada suhu tubuh normal (37°C). Disini peran testis sangat vital menjaga suhu tetap optimal. Caranya? 1. Letak Anatomi Testis berada di luar rongga perut, di dalam skrotum (kantong zakar). Posisi ini sengaja "di luar" agar lebih dingin. 2. Otot Skrotum Otot dartos dan otot cremaster dapat mengkerut atau mengendur. Saat cuaca dingin: skrotum mengkerut, testis diangkat lebih dekat ke tubuh agar hangat. Saat cuaca panas: skrotum mengendur, testis menjauh dari tubuh agar lebih dingin. Canggih kan? 🤭 3. Sistem Pendingin Alami Pembuluh darah di sekitar testis (pampiniform plexus) berfungsi sebagai penukar panas (countercurrent heat exchanger). Darah yang hangat dari tubuh didinginkan sebelum mencapai testis. Sungguh, salah satu (dari sekian banyak) bukti tak terbantahkan keagungan Tuhan.
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Replying to @eleganciaga
countercurrent multiplier mechanism is so perfect but yk what's more perfect? the principal and intercalated cells in the DCT
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Miami is booming, with waves of wealthy people drawn to the metro area in recent years. Yet there is a countercurrent: Its population is shrinking. The result is a glittering urban center that is richer, smaller and built to cater to upscale living. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4wPkL50
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Replying to @eXtas1stv
“Dropping prices in 2026, an era when absolutely every subscription service is raising them, is a massive countercurrent move.” My guy, they had to remove COD in order to reduce the price, and yet the price is still higher than prior to COD being added.
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A QUIET COUNTERCURRENT By Mathias Iteji In Nigeria, a country of more than 240 million people, economic hardship has become a defining feature of daily life. Projections suggest that by 2026 some 141 million Nigerians, roughly 62% of the population will live below the poverty line. Amid persistent inflation, weak income growth and structural woes, another figure looms: as many as 35 million people may face acute food insecurity this year, particularly during the lean season. Yet against this grim backdrop runs a countercurrent of modest, everyday philanthropy. Far from the high-profile foundations of the wealthy, these are small, personal acts by ordinary citizens—market traders, professionals, soldiers and neighbours who choose to extend a hand. Such gestures rarely make headlines, but they deliver immediate relief where formal systems often falter and help preserve social fabric in a vast, diverse nation under strain. One emblematic case unfolded on the streets of Lagos. A soldier came across a distressed man muttering to himself, evidently overwhelmed. Instead of indifference or irritation, the soldier offered calm reassurance, bought him a chilled drink, paid for a haircut and helped him regain some stability. The man, now widely known as Ola Fearless (after the brand of the drink that featured in the viral video), became a symbol of how simple decency can alter a trajectory. The episode resonated precisely because it was unscripted and unpretentious. Variations of this theme recur across the country. Traders quietly subsidise struggling canteen operators. Professionals create opportunities for street vendors. Neighbours step in with financial support when families buckle under rising food prices. These are not grand philanthropic strategies but pragmatic responses to immediate need. Limits and strengths Such micro-philanthropy has clear limits. It cannot substitute for competent governance, sound economic policy or large-scale investment in infrastructure and human capital. Nigeria’s challenges are fragile institutions, insecurity in parts of the north, and the difficulty of translating oil wealth into broad-based prosperity—are structural. Small acts of kindness will not rewire them. Yet their value lies elsewhere. In a society where economic pressure can erode trust and fray community bonds, these gestures reaffirm a shared humanity. They bypass dysfunctional bureaucracies, providing swift, targeted help. They foster resilience from the ground up. In a country as heterogeneous as Nigeria, with its multitude of ethnicities, faiths and languages, everyday solidarity helps stitch together what hardship might otherwise pull apart. There is a wry irony here. Nigeria’s reputation abroad often emphasises its formidable entrepreneurs, its cultural exports and its demographic heft. Less noticed, perhaps, is the quiet resourcefulness of its citizens in coping with the gaps left by the state. Kindness, in this context, is not sentimental flourish; it is a practical form of nation-building. It sustains the social capital without which formal progress remains brittle. True advancement will ultimately be judged not merely by GDP figures, infrastructure projects or policy pronouncements, but by the capacity of citizens to look after one another when systems fall short. In hard times, the smallest acts can carry outsized meaning. Nigeria’s wave of everyday philanthropy suggests that, for all its troubles, a stubborn decency persists—and may yet prove one of the country’s quiet strengths. #Nigeria #EverydayPhilanthropy #KindnessInAction #ResilientNigeria
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Human brain runs on 20 watts. But a single H100 GPU burns 700 W. Frontier training runs use tens of thousands of them in parallel to approximate what one human brain does at the breakfast table. Fat stores 37 kJ per gram; lithium-ion stores 0.9 kJ per gram, a 40x gap that biology closed 600 million years before we shipped our first cell. ATP is a 0.3 eV universal energy currency moving power at a per-operation cost no silicon transistor has ever matched, and it's been running on every cell on Earth for 3.5 billion years. Every "modern" efficiency we celebrate has a biological precedent: countercurrent heat exchangers (fish gills), regenerative braking (tendon recoil), photovoltaics (photosystem II), neural networks themselves. AI's scaling wall isn't a fab problem. It's a biology problem we've been refusing to read because we wanted intelligence to be an information science, not a metabolism.
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