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PlanetOptimism retweeted
What do we learn from Mbappé’s story?
Free speech can never be tolerated under Communism.
When you go to the polls, choose freedom—not Communism!
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Wer mit Russland über die Abtretung ukrainischer Gebiete verhandeln will, macht sich mitschuldig am täglichen gezielten Massenmord an unschuldigen Ukrainern.
Cc @ArminLaschet
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Study: Del Prete et al., Endocrine 2012. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2244…
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В русском издании романа Джо Хилла King Sorrow («Царь Скорбь»), выпущенном «Эксмо» в переводе Дмитрия Старкова, обнаружили смысловые подмены в эпизодах о войне России против Украины.
В четырех сопоставленных фрагментах из текста исчезло упоминание Владимира Путина, фраза «Россия вторглась в Украину» превратилась в «началась война в Европе», а движение российских танков к Киеву осталось без указания направления. Удар по роддому в Мариуполе в переводе перенесли в Донецк.
Оригинал⬇️
In the days after the party, Gwen and Robin sat on the couch in her flat, parked in front of the TV, watching a line of tanks move toward Kyiv, staring at video of buildings with holes punched through them by missiles. On the ninth of March, something hit a maternity ward in Mariupol: a shattering blast, a gush of fire. A pregnant woman was killed; her baby was stillborn.
Перевод⬇️
Спустя несколько дней после празднества Гвен с Робином, устроившись в его квартирке на диване, перед телевизором, смотрели, как движется колонна танков, во все глаза разглядывали бреши, пробитые снарядами и ракетами в стенах домов. Девятого марта что-то этакое угодило в один из донецких роддомов. Оглушительный взрыв, столб пламени… При взрыве погибла одна из будущих матерей, а ее малыш родился на свет мертвым.
Еще одно изменение касается пропагандистских «фабрик троллей»: в оригинале их «выращивают русские, как картофель в сибирской вечной мерзлоте», тогда как в переводе троллей уже «разводят украинцы, будто свинок».
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“In a culture where narcissism reigns, and where even pre-eminent athletes feel compelled to advertise their greatness in glossy Instagram screeds, Harry Kane is striking a blow for humility and understatement.”
@oliverbrown_tel praises the England captain's poise following his Ballon d’Or triumph ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
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Kanaya AM et al. Understanding the high prevalence of diabetes in U.S. South Asians compared with four racial/ethnic groups: the MASALA and MESA studies. Diabetes Care 2014;37(6):1621-8. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2470…
ACC article on the 2026 guideline: acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology…
My videos on this:
7 Skin Signs of Insulin Resistance (Even If You're Slim!): youtube.com/watch?v=X9GnsVdh…
You CAN Reverse Type 2 Diabetes (What Actually Works): youtube.com/watch?v=A5Oi1W3K… – at Tennessee, USA
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This is horrific. Residents of occupied Oleshky who wish to escape to free Ukraine will not be allowed to cross the Dnipro River – which is less than 4 km away. They will be taken to occupied Crimea or to the Russian Federation, where they will be subjected to coercive measures.
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Особисто я очікую пропагандистських інтерв'ю російським та американським ЗМІ від жителів олешок яким життя не давала українська армія
Розпочалася важлива гуманітарна місія в Олешках.
У районі проведення місії оголошено двостороннє припинення вогню.
Уповноважений Верховної Ради з прав людини Дмитро Лубінець виїхав на місце – відповідатиме за координацію процесу. Ми з ним у постійній взаємодії.
Критично важливо, щоб ця місія з порятунку наших людей пройшла успішно та безпечно.
Щиро вдячний усім, хто залучений до проведення та забезпечення цієї операції.
Життя кожного українця безцінне.
Працюємо далі.
Слава Україні!
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Nie ma takiego produkowania baterii do rakiet Rosji. Fabryka Energia została trafiona przez dronopad jako uzasadniony cel wojskowy. Wszelkie straty to wina agresora, czyli Kremla.
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This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years.
No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.
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The largest famine in human history was a timetable of a government improving on nature, and every line of it was announced as progress.
1958, January: Mao issues eight rules for farming. Two of them come from the Soviet biologist Lysenko, who taught that plants of one species do not compete, so seedlings can be sown ten times closer. Nobody in the room has farmed.
1958, spring: The Four Pests campaign. Every sparrow in China is drummed out of the sky, close to two billion birds, and the insects that fed their chicks are left alone with the wheat.
1958, spring: Deep ploughing is ordered. A metre down, in places three. A thousand years of topsoil is buried under subsoil that will not grow a weed.
1958, summer: Close planting. Seedlings packed so tight the lower leaves rot in the dark, and the fields are ventilated with electric fans and lit at night with lamps.
1958, August: Half a billion peasants are moved into communes. The private plot, the family pig and the family goat are taken into common ownership, and the pigs start dying first.
1958, autumn: Backyard furnaces. Ninety million peasants are pulled off the fields at harvest to melt their pots and tools into worthless iron, and the forests come down to fire them.
1958, winter: With the real harvest rotting unpicked in the fields, the provinces report the biggest crop in history to Beijing, 375 million tonnes, nearly double the truth.
1959: The grain quota is set on the fiction. The state takes its share of a harvest that does not exist, and ships 4 million tonnes abroad to pay for machinery.
1959, summer: The locusts arrive, then the borers, on fields with no sparrows. The counties that lost the most birds lose the most grain.
1959, July: Marshal Peng Dehuai tells Mao the countryside is starving. He is purged, and every official in China learns what honesty costs.
1960: The pig herd has halved. The oxen are eaten. In Anhui and Sichuan whole villages have nobody left strong enough to bury the dead.
1960: Beijing quietly buys a quarter of a million sparrows from Moscow, in crates, in hard currency.
1962, January: Liu Shaoqi stands up in front of seven thousand officials and calls the disaster three parts nature and seven parts man.
1962: The private plots are handed back. The family pig returns. The famine ends within the year.
Three years of ploughing, planting, slaughtering and drumming against nature, and the dead run from fifteen million at the lowest count to forty-five million at the highest, in a country at peace, with a generation behind them never born.
Every animal on that timeline was removed as a cost. The sparrow, the pig, the goat, the ox. The grain was the plan, and the grain was never enough.
The famine ended on the day a family was allowed to keep a pig again.
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The King of ApoB just published data showing ApoB is not the whole story.
Allan Sniderman's team followed 293,872 UK Biobank adults for 10 years. High HDL-C was tied to lower heart disease risk even after ApoB was accounted for, and it softened the risk that came with high ApoB.
That fits what I see in clinic. High ApoB with low triglycerides and high HDL is a very different metabolic picture than high ApoB with insulin resistance. Nick and the TFP team are asking exactly the right question.
If ApoB were the whole ball game, HDL-C should have dropped out of that model. So why didn't it?
The Study and my videos below...
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This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
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SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses
The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see.
On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior)
Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable.
The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran.
SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon.
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