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Child can recover from COVID.
Their routine tests can look normal.
Yet more sensitive testing may still detect abnormalities in the lungs, immune system, quality of life, and possibly even the heart.
A new review from Taiwan's DISCOVER cohort helps explain why🧵
Their routine tests can look normal.
Yet more sensitive testing may still detect abnormalities in the lungs, immune system, quality of life, and possibly even the heart.
A new review from Taiwan's DISCOVER cohort helps explain why🧵
This is not a single study.
It is a summary of findings from the DISCOVER program, the largest Taiwanese research project focused on pediatric Long COVID (PASC), covering more than 500 children and adolescents after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
It is a summary of findings from the DISCOVER program, the largest Taiwanese research project focused on pediatric Long COVID (PASC), covering more than 500 children and adolescents after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
An important detail.
Taiwan largely avoided the Alpha and Delta waves.
Most children in this cohort were infected during Omicron surge.
That makes this one of the clearest looks at pediatric post Omicron Long COVID.
Taiwan largely avoided the Alpha and Delta waves.
Most children in this cohort were infected during Omicron surge.
That makes this one of the clearest looks at pediatric post Omicron Long COVID.
Recently visited Banaras. Hotels operating Godowalia chowk in narrow lanes having same conditions/prone to fire hazards / no double exit/ fire tenders can’t reach them. Surely may not have proper sanction/ fire NOC. Available in all booking platforms. Not fit to be Homestay
But operating disguise of hotel. All online platforms showing them without verification of display details. Are they not responsible/accountable for customers. After recent fire accident at Malviyanager , claimed several lives. All must be tried under murder. Door to door survey
Of eligal Guesthouses/ Hotels/ Restaurants operating at Banaras/ Delhi/ Gurgaon ( Mainly Nathupur, Siroheel / Sukhrali/ DLf/ Sushantlok/ palamvihar/ old dlf sector14). All such establishments to furnish all NOC within 10 days. Not only that many high rise condominium by builders
Here are just some of the games appearing in the PC Gaming Show on Sunday... A thread 🧵
Serious Sam: Shatterverse
About Fishing
There are three funds that every investor should have:
1/ An Emergency Fund
2/ A Sinking Fund
3/ A Run Away Fund
Here's what they are and how to create them👇
1/ An Emergency Fund
2/ A Sinking Fund
3/ A Run Away Fund
Here's what they are and how to create them👇
1/ An Emergency fund.
What is it?
This is a set amount of money that covers your daily expenses for a certain period of time.
It should cover your daily *normal* expenses for a period of 3-6 months.
What is it?
This is a set amount of money that covers your daily expenses for a certain period of time.
It should cover your daily *normal* expenses for a period of 3-6 months.
However, if you have only one source of income or you have other people who depend on your income, it's wise to have a fund that can cover you for 9-12 months.
In the wilderness, having more water is better than having less water.
In the wilderness, having more water is better than having less water.
Introducing Ideogram 4.0: the best open image model in the world.
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Download the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and run it on your hardware. Live on every Ideogram plan and the API today.
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Download the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and run it on your hardware. Live on every Ideogram plan and the API today.
Ideogram 4.0 is the #1 open-weight text-to-image model in the world on @DesignArena's third-party leaderboard. We're ahead of every foundation model except closed models from OpenAI and Google.
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Ideogram 4.0 pushes the frontier of design with:
- Dense, accurate text rendering
- Native 2K resolution
- Native background transparency
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Editable text, movable layers, and full image editing are coming soon.
- Dense, accurate text rendering
- Native 2K resolution
- Native background transparency
- Precise layout control
Editable text, movable layers, and full image editing are coming soon.
This article has me nodding in full agreement. But there is a deeper problem with Indian and Pakistani immigration this only begins to touch on.
Strap in and let me explain in this long 🧵
When I worked on an oil rig in India, my most trusted bosun was a Sikh named Balbir Singh.
I can’t fully explain how critical he was to the operation. An operation that won us a world record and launched the Ambani family into the stratosphere of wealth.
It was an incredibly difficult assignment. We brought a vintage drillship into southeast India and drilled through monsoons, shipboard fires, and the 2004 Asian tsunami.
When we arrived, most of the crew were good ol’ boys from Mississippi and Louisiana. But the Indian government had set an aggressive schedule to replace us with Indians.
We had more problems than I can recount here. The most pressing involved three things: the caste system, honesty, and safety.
I was chief mate, the first officer, so the crew was my responsibility.
The caste system wasn’t a big deal for me, but it was for my southern crew. Most of these guys grew up in the segregated South. We had a small handful of racists, but the vast majority were fiercely anti-racist. Many had come up in a divided South and had zero tolerance for segregation.
My Indian officers were from the higher priest and warrior castes.
Here is what you have to understand about India: labor is extremely cheap. It is not unusual to hire five men to dig a hole with one shovel, supervised by a sixth man of higher class.
That might work on land. It does not work on an oil rig with a limited number of cots.
In American culture, officers are expected to get their hands dirty and pitch in.
So we would assign an officer to a job on deck, and 15 minutes later he had a gaggle of crew working for him. Crew who had abandoned jobs of their own to do it.
Safety was another problem. Life is cheap, so the crew often prioritized the task over their own survival. You would send a man on deck and he would walk out barefoot, straight under a suspended load.
Last was honesty. The answer to almost everything was yes.
“Did you check to make sure the safety pin is in place?”
“Yes sir.”
It often wasn’t.
We had crew from every Hindu caste and every region of the subcontinent. We also had a token number from other faiths: Christian, Sikh, Muslim, and Jain.
Balbir came in at the lowest level, ordinary seaman, with no experience. He quickly became my right-hand man and the go-to guy for any critical operation on the rig.
Let me say that again. He had zero knowledge or experience when he started. /1
Strap in and let me explain in this long 🧵
When I worked on an oil rig in India, my most trusted bosun was a Sikh named Balbir Singh.
I can’t fully explain how critical he was to the operation. An operation that won us a world record and launched the Ambani family into the stratosphere of wealth.
It was an incredibly difficult assignment. We brought a vintage drillship into southeast India and drilled through monsoons, shipboard fires, and the 2004 Asian tsunami.
When we arrived, most of the crew were good ol’ boys from Mississippi and Louisiana. But the Indian government had set an aggressive schedule to replace us with Indians.
We had more problems than I can recount here. The most pressing involved three things: the caste system, honesty, and safety.
I was chief mate, the first officer, so the crew was my responsibility.
The caste system wasn’t a big deal for me, but it was for my southern crew. Most of these guys grew up in the segregated South. We had a small handful of racists, but the vast majority were fiercely anti-racist. Many had come up in a divided South and had zero tolerance for segregation.
My Indian officers were from the higher priest and warrior castes.
Here is what you have to understand about India: labor is extremely cheap. It is not unusual to hire five men to dig a hole with one shovel, supervised by a sixth man of higher class.
That might work on land. It does not work on an oil rig with a limited number of cots.
In American culture, officers are expected to get their hands dirty and pitch in.
So we would assign an officer to a job on deck, and 15 minutes later he had a gaggle of crew working for him. Crew who had abandoned jobs of their own to do it.
Safety was another problem. Life is cheap, so the crew often prioritized the task over their own survival. You would send a man on deck and he would walk out barefoot, straight under a suspended load.
Last was honesty. The answer to almost everything was yes.
“Did you check to make sure the safety pin is in place?”
“Yes sir.”
It often wasn’t.
We had crew from every Hindu caste and every region of the subcontinent. We also had a token number from other faiths: Christian, Sikh, Muslim, and Jain.
Balbir came in at the lowest level, ordinary seaman, with no experience. He quickly became my right-hand man and the go-to guy for any critical operation on the rig.
Let me say that again. He had zero knowledge or experience when he started. /1
Part of it was an eagerness to learn. The Brahmin officers I worked with could devour operating manuals like nobody’s business. The warrior-caste officers struggled with the concepts but did better learning on deck. Balbir did neither.
He didn’t tear through books or spend hours observing. He was the student every professor wants: the one who wastes no time but is always aware, always present, always taking notes. Instead of constantly calling me on the radio, he wrote his questions down and brought them to me after work, the things he was still struggling with.
He wasn’t perfect. Like every Indian I worked with, he wasn’t fully open. He would lie, less than anyone else, and when you pressed him two or three times he would fess up. It is difficult to express how important total transparency is on a complex drilling operation.
But a few traits set him apart.
First, unwavering bravery. When we had a fire or an emergency, almost everyone froze, waiting for orders. The better Americans would start laying out hoses and prepping gear for an entry. Balbir would show up with detailed information and a plan of attack.
How? Once, on his way to emergency stations, he went straight into the fire. Another time a crane operator had a heart attack. While I was still pulling the harness and gear and working out how to get the man down, Balbir was already in the cab, unbuckling the operator’s seatbelt to carry him out himself.
Balbir was deeply respectful of other religions and of the caste system. He refused to budge on his core principles.
At one point riots broke out between Muslims and Hindus. It got so bad the U.S. Embassy called and told us to prepare to evacuate, warning of a risk that Pakistan might launch a nuclear weapon. We had a Muslim radio operator who started getting harassed. The vast majority of the crew were kind to him, but a few bad actors sent death threats.
I assigned the biggest good ol’ boy on the ship to stand guard at the radio station. He was not tactful about it. That caused an incident. There was resentment that we were protecting the man, and the American was taunting and daring both sides. Things got hot fast.
Balbir told us to give him the job. He was not a big man. Maybe 5 feet 2 inches and 120 pounds.
He stood in that doorway like an iron giant. He made it clear with every ounce of his body language that anyone who crossed the threshold would be in a world of pain. I tried to step in to talk to the radio officer. Balbir stopped me. He said he had sworn to protect the man from everyone, including me.
That is when the Hindus pulled me aside, told me about the kirpan that all Sikhs are required to carry, and advised me not to test Balbir’s resolve.
But Balbir’s best trait was this: nobody on that rig stood up to me or the captain. Nobody. And we made mistakes too. Once I was walking around for hours doing dangerous work, exhausted, and I set my hardhat down and lost track of it. I didn’t even notice. The moment Balbir saw me bareheaded, he walked over and handed me his own. The guy would not take no for an answer.
Whenever we tried to take a shortcut, Balbir would pop up like someone had rubbed the bottle and out came the genie.
Sometimes there are no good options and you have to break a rule or two. Balbir would stop me, make me explain why there was no alternative, then shrug and help.
He saved me from massive cultural missteps too. We had a sewage tank that needed cleaning. There is a caste for that work. They were getting exhausted, so I pulled them out and tried to send other crew in. No go. So I called for Balbir to sort it out. He refused.
Frustrated, I started pulling on the coveralls to go in myself. He stood at the porthole and refused to budge. It was the only time I ever saw him yell at me. He yelled at the crew too. Cleared the room.
Once everyone was gone, he barricaded the entrance and started suiting up beside me. We entered the tank together.
/2
He didn’t tear through books or spend hours observing. He was the student every professor wants: the one who wastes no time but is always aware, always present, always taking notes. Instead of constantly calling me on the radio, he wrote his questions down and brought them to me after work, the things he was still struggling with.
He wasn’t perfect. Like every Indian I worked with, he wasn’t fully open. He would lie, less than anyone else, and when you pressed him two or three times he would fess up. It is difficult to express how important total transparency is on a complex drilling operation.
But a few traits set him apart.
First, unwavering bravery. When we had a fire or an emergency, almost everyone froze, waiting for orders. The better Americans would start laying out hoses and prepping gear for an entry. Balbir would show up with detailed information and a plan of attack.
How? Once, on his way to emergency stations, he went straight into the fire. Another time a crane operator had a heart attack. While I was still pulling the harness and gear and working out how to get the man down, Balbir was already in the cab, unbuckling the operator’s seatbelt to carry him out himself.
Balbir was deeply respectful of other religions and of the caste system. He refused to budge on his core principles.
At one point riots broke out between Muslims and Hindus. It got so bad the U.S. Embassy called and told us to prepare to evacuate, warning of a risk that Pakistan might launch a nuclear weapon. We had a Muslim radio operator who started getting harassed. The vast majority of the crew were kind to him, but a few bad actors sent death threats.
I assigned the biggest good ol’ boy on the ship to stand guard at the radio station. He was not tactful about it. That caused an incident. There was resentment that we were protecting the man, and the American was taunting and daring both sides. Things got hot fast.
Balbir told us to give him the job. He was not a big man. Maybe 5 feet 2 inches and 120 pounds.
He stood in that doorway like an iron giant. He made it clear with every ounce of his body language that anyone who crossed the threshold would be in a world of pain. I tried to step in to talk to the radio officer. Balbir stopped me. He said he had sworn to protect the man from everyone, including me.
That is when the Hindus pulled me aside, told me about the kirpan that all Sikhs are required to carry, and advised me not to test Balbir’s resolve.
But Balbir’s best trait was this: nobody on that rig stood up to me or the captain. Nobody. And we made mistakes too. Once I was walking around for hours doing dangerous work, exhausted, and I set my hardhat down and lost track of it. I didn’t even notice. The moment Balbir saw me bareheaded, he walked over and handed me his own. The guy would not take no for an answer.
Whenever we tried to take a shortcut, Balbir would pop up like someone had rubbed the bottle and out came the genie.
Sometimes there are no good options and you have to break a rule or two. Balbir would stop me, make me explain why there was no alternative, then shrug and help.
He saved me from massive cultural missteps too. We had a sewage tank that needed cleaning. There is a caste for that work. They were getting exhausted, so I pulled them out and tried to send other crew in. No go. So I called for Balbir to sort it out. He refused.
Frustrated, I started pulling on the coveralls to go in myself. He stood at the porthole and refused to budge. It was the only time I ever saw him yell at me. He yelled at the crew too. Cleared the room.
Once everyone was gone, he barricaded the entrance and started suiting up beside me. We entered the tank together.
/2
It was explained to me later that the entire crew would have lost all respect for me if I had touched sewage, and the company would have had no choice but to fire me.
He kept that secret. He was very good at keeping secrets.
He was always well groomed and professional.
His other outstanding quality is captured in the essay every U.S. Marine reads, “A Message to Garcia.” I won’t spoil it. Go read it. It explains how to get an impossible job done without creating new problems.
But you had to be careful, because Balbir was always listening. Once my captain mentioned that he had visited a dozen silk-rug shops and couldn’t find the colors and size his wife wanted. At the next crew change, Balbir arrived at the heliport with a giant package. Inside was a silk rug, exactly as the captain had described it. He had found it somewhere in Kashmir, negotiated it on credit, and carried it by train across the length of the country to southeast India himself.
Incredible.
But there is a moral to this story.
To understand the men I worked with, I started reading their scriptures. I reread the Bible, then worked through the major Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Buddhist texts. The Sikh faith fascinated me, so I dug into its history.
I grew up poor in the Bronx. My family moved into an abandoned house in a very wealthy neighborhood when I was in grade school. There was a school production of “Little Orphan Annie,” and I was fascinated by Daddy Warbucks’s fearless bodyguard, Punjab.
Did you know Sikhs were regarded as the finest bodyguards in the world for centuries? For exactly the reasons Balbir Singh was such an extraordinary bosun.
That changed in 1984, when a militant separatist movement, the Khalistanis, occupied the holiest site in the faith, the Golden Temple. Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian military to clear it in Operation Blue Star. Months later she was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards. After that, the image of the Sikh as the world’s most trusted bodyguard collapsed.
I can’t go deeper without enraging all sides.
The moral is this. In my reading, in my work with Balbir, in many other dealings with Sikhs, they earned an enormous amount of my honor and respect.
To me it is inconceivable that a government would strip a Sikh of his kirpan.
But understand this too. Sikhs are a minority in India that has survived by sticking together, even when militant factions seized their own temple. Having lived among the caste system, among Muslims and Christians, they are acutely aware of race and social dynamics. They have a long history of bringing peace to chaos, and of thriving inside racially charged systems.
And they are not honest about it. /3
He kept that secret. He was very good at keeping secrets.
He was always well groomed and professional.
His other outstanding quality is captured in the essay every U.S. Marine reads, “A Message to Garcia.” I won’t spoil it. Go read it. It explains how to get an impossible job done without creating new problems.
But you had to be careful, because Balbir was always listening. Once my captain mentioned that he had visited a dozen silk-rug shops and couldn’t find the colors and size his wife wanted. At the next crew change, Balbir arrived at the heliport with a giant package. Inside was a silk rug, exactly as the captain had described it. He had found it somewhere in Kashmir, negotiated it on credit, and carried it by train across the length of the country to southeast India himself.
Incredible.
But there is a moral to this story.
To understand the men I worked with, I started reading their scriptures. I reread the Bible, then worked through the major Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Buddhist texts. The Sikh faith fascinated me, so I dug into its history.
I grew up poor in the Bronx. My family moved into an abandoned house in a very wealthy neighborhood when I was in grade school. There was a school production of “Little Orphan Annie,” and I was fascinated by Daddy Warbucks’s fearless bodyguard, Punjab.
Did you know Sikhs were regarded as the finest bodyguards in the world for centuries? For exactly the reasons Balbir Singh was such an extraordinary bosun.
That changed in 1984, when a militant separatist movement, the Khalistanis, occupied the holiest site in the faith, the Golden Temple. Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian military to clear it in Operation Blue Star. Months later she was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards. After that, the image of the Sikh as the world’s most trusted bodyguard collapsed.
I can’t go deeper without enraging all sides.
The moral is this. In my reading, in my work with Balbir, in many other dealings with Sikhs, they earned an enormous amount of my honor and respect.
To me it is inconceivable that a government would strip a Sikh of his kirpan.
But understand this too. Sikhs are a minority in India that has survived by sticking together, even when militant factions seized their own temple. Having lived among the caste system, among Muslims and Christians, they are acutely aware of race and social dynamics. They have a long history of bringing peace to chaos, and of thriving inside racially charged systems.
And they are not honest about it. /3
Ayurveda never accepted painful periods as normal And these foods make them go away like magic..
Check below to see what Ayurveda recommends..
Thread 🪡
Check below to see what Ayurveda recommends..
Thread 🪡
FOOD 1
Pomegranate
Ayurveda's oldest blood builder.
Improves blood flow to the uterus and reduces the inflammation that causes cramping.
Pomegranate
Ayurveda's oldest blood builder.
Improves blood flow to the uterus and reduces the inflammation that causes cramping.
FOOD 2
Sesame Seeds
Low magnesium = painful cramps.
One tablespoon daily is enough to feel the difference.
Sesame Seeds
Low magnesium = painful cramps.
One tablespoon daily is enough to feel the difference.
Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.
It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.
Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:
It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.
Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes:
ACR is Automatic Content Recognition, and it captures snapshots of everything on your screen. Live TV, streaming, even a console or laptop plugged into HDMI. It fingerprints what you watch and sends it to the maker, tied to your IP.
Samsung:
Settings > General & Privacy > Terms & Privacy > Viewing Information Services > OFF
While you are there, turn off Internet-Based Advertising too.
Settings > General & Privacy > Terms & Privacy > Viewing Information Services > OFF
While you are there, turn off Internet-Based Advertising too.
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The Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells
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dailysignal.com/2026/04/26/spl…
The Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells
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dailysignal.com/2026/04/26/spl…
Reminder: the SPLC raises money by claiming it exists to "dismantle white supremacy," but DOJ says the SPLC was actually propping up the hate it told donors it aimed to destroy. SPLC paid "field sources," whom SPLC says were merely informants.
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Yet the field sources used the SPLC's $ to:
1⃣Attend extremist rallies
2⃣Host rallies
3⃣Grow existing chapters
4⃣Create new chapters
5⃣Recruit individuals
6⃣Donate to extremist leaders
7⃣Purchase cross-burning material
8⃣Create racist paraphernalia
9⃣Pay living expenses
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1⃣Attend extremist rallies
2⃣Host rallies
3⃣Grow existing chapters
4⃣Create new chapters
5⃣Recruit individuals
6⃣Donate to extremist leaders
7⃣Purchase cross-burning material
8⃣Create racist paraphernalia
9⃣Pay living expenses
🧵3/20
Niacin causes a reaction so intense that people think they’re having an allergic attack the first time it happens.
Your skin turns red. You feel like you’re on fire. It can last 30 minutes.
This “niacin flush” is your body doing something most people have never heard of: 🧵
Your skin turns red. You feel like you’re on fire. It can last 30 minutes.
This “niacin flush” is your body doing something most people have never heard of: 🧵
Niacin (B3) does something wild that no other B vitamin does:
It releases prostaglandins—signaling molecules that force your blood vessels to dilate.
This isn’t a side effect. This is niacin’s mechanism of action.
Your capillaries expand, blood rushes to your skin, and you turn lobster red.
It releases prostaglandins—signaling molecules that force your blood vessels to dilate.
This isn’t a side effect. This is niacin’s mechanism of action.
Your capillaries expand, blood rushes to your skin, and you turn lobster red.
But here’s what people don’t understand:
The flush isn’t the point. It’s just visible evidence of what’s happening throughout your entire cardiovascular system.
While your skin is red and hot, niacin is forcing every blood vessel in your body to relax and widen.
The flush isn’t the point. It’s just visible evidence of what’s happening throughout your entire cardiovascular system.
While your skin is red and hot, niacin is forcing every blood vessel in your body to relax and widen.
The claim that Vol III “destroyed” Vol I is not a critique of Marx. It is a confession that the critic has not understood the object of Marx’s theory. Marx never said individual market prices equal individual labour-values. He explicitly denied that. Here we go again… 🧵
Already in Vol I, Ch. 5, Marx notes that average prices and values do not directly coincide. That is not a late concession. It is built into the theory from the start. Vol III does not abandon Vol I; it develops what Vol I already presupposes.
The manuscripts are really important. The material later published as Vol III was drafted largely in 1864–65, before Vol I appeared in 1867. Marx was not first asserting one theory, then later discovering its contradiction. He was working through one integrated theory.
FINANCIAL THREAD 🧵CRIMES FROM BANKS AND THE JUSTICE COMING! (Opinion piece with Receipts)
1. GUILTY Verdict on Market Manipulator and Short Seller, Andrew Left. Dude is facing gazillion (exaggerated) years in the clink!
ANYWHOOOO....makes me wonder...if Hedgies are a lil scared right now. 😱😜
Years ago, Meme stocks were getting hit hard by short and naked short sellers! APEs were trying to expose these crimes! So while we all waited for anything to happen, an AMC APE sent bananas to Citadel CEO - Ken Griffin!😂😅😂
(Thread with receipts)
1. GUILTY Verdict on Market Manipulator and Short Seller, Andrew Left. Dude is facing gazillion (exaggerated) years in the clink!
ANYWHOOOO....makes me wonder...if Hedgies are a lil scared right now. 😱😜
Years ago, Meme stocks were getting hit hard by short and naked short sellers! APEs were trying to expose these crimes! So while we all waited for anything to happen, an AMC APE sent bananas to Citadel CEO - Ken Griffin!😂😅😂
(Thread with receipts)
2. Melissa Lee talks Financial Treason!
3. Market Manipulation! Here's Ken Griffin, in his own words, talking about driving the price of the company to where he thinks it should be valued!
