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Reminder about Oregon's 2026 Republican Gubernatorial Election Rigging and Fraud!
We had many people bring this up under this post by @Oregon_GOP and they still ignored it!
We had many people bring this up under this post by @Oregon_GOP and they still ignored it!
@Oregon_GOP
@Oregon_GOP
Late LA votes also gain a major Socialist spike to where Raman now has a 3k lead over Pratt...
With apparently only 17% left to count, this race is way too close for comfort.
At the same time this petition is circulating to demand Karen Bass' immediate resignation regardless, make sure to sign it!
With apparently only 17% left to count, this race is way too close for comfort.
At the same time this petition is circulating to demand Karen Bass' immediate resignation regardless, make sure to sign it!
You do not need to reside in LA/California to sign this petition!
Make your voices heard.
c.org/s6JgcfqXPw
Make your voices heard.
c.org/s6JgcfqXPw
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Late LA votes also gain a major Socialist spike to where Raman now has a 3k lead over Pratt... With apparently only 17% left to count, this race is way too close for comfort. At the same time this petition is circulating to demand Karen Bass' immediate resignation regardless, make sure to sign it!
You do not need to reside in LA/California to sign this petition!
Make your voices heard.
c.org/s6JgcfqXPw
Make your voices heard.
c.org/s6JgcfqXPw
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I am staying with my prior prediction, Kiley is likely to end this race in 3rd with Pan taking first and Stansfield taking second. At the very least Pan will be in first and it will be close between Stansfield and Kiley.
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Late Sacramento Dem polls magically overtake Matsui in the last two days to edge back over Wooden comfortably for now.
This is only possible because they ran Nwobi in this district as well which should've only had one Republican candidate.
When you have two rural republican counties vs 1 major democratic one, you have to consolidate all your rural votes behind one candidate or it'll just be a double dem win every time!
This is only possible because they ran Nwobi in this district as well which should've only had one Republican candidate.
When you have two rural republican counties vs 1 major democratic one, you have to consolidate all your rural votes behind one candidate or it'll just be a double dem win every time!
Similar issue in District 14, however Huang is still potentially favored in overtaking Hernandez later due to the 6 candidate Dem split.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "This year the USA is celebrating its 250th year since the Declaration of Independence was signed and published.
But I want to point out another part of US history.
1)
But I want to point out another part of US history.
1)
This is also the 225th year since George Washington’s final address to the American people and Congress was read.
There were two important warnings in Washington’s written remarks upon ending his term in office that are relevant today—relevant for Americans and
2)
There were two important warnings in Washington’s written remarks upon ending his term in office that are relevant today—relevant for Americans and
2)
maybe relevant for peoples elsewhere as well.
Washington warned about two things:
He warned about what he called “entangling alliances.” He reasoned that alliances were not bad, but that as history changes circumstances,
3)
Washington warned about two things:
He warned about what he called “entangling alliances.” He reasoned that alliances were not bad, but that as history changes circumstances,
3)
When markets fall 10–20%, many SIP investors stop their SIPs.
It feels like the rational thing.
"The market is going down. Why put money in now?"
Here's what the data actually shows:
Scenario: ₹10,000/month SIP in Nifty 50 from January 2020.
It feels like the rational thing.
"The market is going down. Why put money in now?"
Here's what the data actually shows:
Scenario: ₹10,000/month SIP in Nifty 50 from January 2020.
Investor A: Continued SIP through the March 2020 crash (Nifty fell 38%).
Investor B: Paused SIP from March–September 2020. Resumed when "things stabilised."
By December 2021 (18 months later):
Investor A corpus: ~₹2.48 lakh
Investor B corpus: ~₹2.11 lakh
Investor B: Paused SIP from March–September 2020. Resumed when "things stabilised."
By December 2021 (18 months later):
Investor A corpus: ~₹2.48 lakh
Investor B corpus: ~₹2.11 lakh
Difference: ₹37,000 — on a 24-month investment period.
Why does this happen?
The best SIP returns come from units bought during the crash.
When you pause, you miss buying at the exact prices
that generate the highest returns when recovery happens.
Why does this happen?
The best SIP returns come from units bought during the crash.
When you pause, you miss buying at the exact prices
that generate the highest returns when recovery happens.
🧵Jacob-Moses: How the Qur’an Discovered and Fixed a Hidden Biblical Typology
Previously with @Kashmiri_Fire, we examined the idea that Q 28:22–29 reflects an unintentional conflation of Jacob’s and Moses’ marriage narratives as preserved in Genesis 29 and Exodus 2.
Previously with @Kashmiri_Fire, we examined the idea that Q 28:22–29 reflects an unintentional conflation of Jacob’s and Moses’ marriage narratives as preserved in Genesis 29 and Exodus 2.
In the previous thread, we argued that the Qur’an engages Biblical material deliberately rather than reproducing it uncritically. That only introduced the matter. Today, we examine how Q 28 reworks the Jacob story through Musa’s marriage narrative as Qur’anic sanitization.
Before comparing Q 28, Genesis, and Exodus, we need to distinguish between two types of biblical well scenes: the broad well motif, seen with Hagar, Isaac, and Joseph, and the narrower well betrothal scene, seen with Jacob in Genesis 29 and Moses in Exodus 2 and Q 28.
Technology Brothers: if you are *at all* worried about exposure to mendacious prosecutions by state or federal officials who might seek excuses to pressure you for political, economic, or technological reasons, you should never knowingly interact even platonically with any prosti
One might even wonder if the reason obviously overpriced escorts with obviously normie-scaring procilivities are being obviously astroturfed into SF during the AI boom is about getting leverage or vengeance on tech bros for disrupting “liberal democracy”…
You can maintain exorbitant generosity etiquette discretion etc & still spend the rest of your life behind bars, lose literally billions, get libeled with impunity by conspiratards as another “Epstein,” etc—or sell the future to the deep state for clemency
WATCHING ‘FIXATED ON THINGS BEING SLIGHTLY OFF’ EXPLORATION OF THE ZOOMER PSYCHE ‘BACKROOMS’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN
Had seen a lot of hype for Backrooms online that made me curious to see it. Asked Latina friend if she wanted to go too
Asked her, “have you heard of the backrooms before?”
She hadn’t
“Do you know what a ‘liminal space’ is?”
She didn’t know. Translated it for her. She still didn’t know
“Do you know what 4chan is?”
She didn’t know
“It’s a famous internet forum”
“I see”
“Well… this concept of the backrooms started when a 4chan user posted a picture of an empty furniture store in Wisconsin. Lots of people found it spooky and it spiralled from there and became a big meme”
“Ok”
“There was a teenage YouTuber called Kane Parsons who made lots of videos about it and as a ‘wot if we made a zoomer into a film director’ gimmick a film studio gave him $10 million to make a movie about it. He’s one of the first zoomers to direct a major film”
Her eyes were glazing over as I explained this
First half of movie is exposition. Drags a little. Plot is Chiwetel Ejiofor gave up his dream of being an architect for his nagging bitch wife and then she divorced him anyway so now he sells furniture nobody buys. He has therapy sessions where he speaks dialogue that sounds like it’s from a Mr. Beast video because Parsons is an autistic zoomer who doesn’t know how to write proper human emotion yet. One day he discovers the BACKROOMS (2026) in his basement. He goes to his therapist and says “oi there’s a liminal space in me basement” and she say “you are mentally ill”. In a fit of seethe he heads off on an expedition into the Backrooms where he gets chased by creatures that all look like 2022-era generative AI prompt outputs and enjoy leaning slightly out from behind a wall in the distance. Don’t know if early AI allusion was deliberate or not but the movie really pushes the ‘everything is slight off’ motif. Zoomers find things being ‘slightly off’ spooky
Actually, felt like a lot of the concepts were a bit ‘sort of thing that makes you go woahhh in your first year philosophy class’ ‘-with zoomer characteristics’ concepts. Don’t want to sound zoomerphobic I’m not a zoomerphobe but there is a lot of very zoomerish dialogue like “oi wot if you were describing a dog to a bloke who had never seen a dog before and then he had to draw that dog from your description wouldn’t he draw it ‘slightly off’ don’t ya reckon oi wot if there was a dog that was ‘slightly off’ spooky stuff mate”. Or, “fuckkk everytime I go in this room the furniture is arranged in a slightly different way than I remember”. In that way would say what makes this especially zoomer rather than millennial is a millennial fixation would be something like “dude, wot if the world wasn’t real and we were in the matrix” or “dude, wot if you could rate everyone you met on an app and your rating determined your socioeconomic status”. Zoomer fixation is more things being ‘slightly-off’, ‘mis-rismembered’, ‘uncanny valley’, ‘liminal spaces’ etc. Also there’s often a horror element
Ghost of Wittgenstein really looms large over this movie then. Don’t want to give impression I disliked BACKROOMS (2026). Last 45 minutes where they don’t have to do character exposition anymore and can get properly into the ‘oooh liminal spaces oooh’ concept is fun. The main reason I am being so catty about it is because I think I could make a better movie than Kane Parsons if I got given $10 million
“What was that place they kept going to? Was it a dream?”
“What?”
“The offices they were in”
“The Backrooms?”
“Yes”
“No it wasn’t a dream”
“Can you explain what it was?”
“It was a sort of… mirror or substrate dimension that reflects the real world, but it does it in a ‘slightly off’ way. Everything in the backrooms is a ‘slightly off’ version of real life”
“I thought it was a dream”
“How did you get that from what you saw onscreen?”
“I just assumed it was a dream”
She is a zillenial
Had seen a lot of hype for Backrooms online that made me curious to see it. Asked Latina friend if she wanted to go too
Asked her, “have you heard of the backrooms before?”
She hadn’t
“Do you know what a ‘liminal space’ is?”
She didn’t know. Translated it for her. She still didn’t know
“Do you know what 4chan is?”
She didn’t know
“It’s a famous internet forum”
“I see”
“Well… this concept of the backrooms started when a 4chan user posted a picture of an empty furniture store in Wisconsin. Lots of people found it spooky and it spiralled from there and became a big meme”
“Ok”
“There was a teenage YouTuber called Kane Parsons who made lots of videos about it and as a ‘wot if we made a zoomer into a film director’ gimmick a film studio gave him $10 million to make a movie about it. He’s one of the first zoomers to direct a major film”
Her eyes were glazing over as I explained this
First half of movie is exposition. Drags a little. Plot is Chiwetel Ejiofor gave up his dream of being an architect for his nagging bitch wife and then she divorced him anyway so now he sells furniture nobody buys. He has therapy sessions where he speaks dialogue that sounds like it’s from a Mr. Beast video because Parsons is an autistic zoomer who doesn’t know how to write proper human emotion yet. One day he discovers the BACKROOMS (2026) in his basement. He goes to his therapist and says “oi there’s a liminal space in me basement” and she say “you are mentally ill”. In a fit of seethe he heads off on an expedition into the Backrooms where he gets chased by creatures that all look like 2022-era generative AI prompt outputs and enjoy leaning slightly out from behind a wall in the distance. Don’t know if early AI allusion was deliberate or not but the movie really pushes the ‘everything is slight off’ motif. Zoomers find things being ‘slightly off’ spooky
Actually, felt like a lot of the concepts were a bit ‘sort of thing that makes you go woahhh in your first year philosophy class’ ‘-with zoomer characteristics’ concepts. Don’t want to sound zoomerphobic I’m not a zoomerphobe but there is a lot of very zoomerish dialogue like “oi wot if you were describing a dog to a bloke who had never seen a dog before and then he had to draw that dog from your description wouldn’t he draw it ‘slightly off’ don’t ya reckon oi wot if there was a dog that was ‘slightly off’ spooky stuff mate”. Or, “fuckkk everytime I go in this room the furniture is arranged in a slightly different way than I remember”. In that way would say what makes this especially zoomer rather than millennial is a millennial fixation would be something like “dude, wot if the world wasn’t real and we were in the matrix” or “dude, wot if you could rate everyone you met on an app and your rating determined your socioeconomic status”. Zoomer fixation is more things being ‘slightly-off’, ‘mis-rismembered’, ‘uncanny valley’, ‘liminal spaces’ etc. Also there’s often a horror element
Ghost of Wittgenstein really looms large over this movie then. Don’t want to give impression I disliked BACKROOMS (2026). Last 45 minutes where they don’t have to do character exposition anymore and can get properly into the ‘oooh liminal spaces oooh’ concept is fun. The main reason I am being so catty about it is because I think I could make a better movie than Kane Parsons if I got given $10 million
“What was that place they kept going to? Was it a dream?”
“What?”
“The offices they were in”
“The Backrooms?”
“Yes”
“No it wasn’t a dream”
“Can you explain what it was?”
“It was a sort of… mirror or substrate dimension that reflects the real world, but it does it in a ‘slightly off’ way. Everything in the backrooms is a ‘slightly off’ version of real life”
“I thought it was a dream”
“How did you get that from what you saw onscreen?”
“I just assumed it was a dream”
She is a zillenial
Has been noted how ‘liminal spaces’ have evolved aesthetically over time. The sterile and slightly off BACKROOMS (2026) are a very aesthetically zoomer ‘liminal space’. Movie also has lots of VHS camera shots. Use of flickering VHS aesthetics for added spookiness feels zoomer too
If you watch interviews with Kane Parsons he is a very classic stonefaced zoomer who maybe takes himself a little too seriously. Has lots of zoomer fixations like ‘lorebloat’, ‘AI slop’ and ‘emptiness and yearning for authenticity’ etc that ensure the film is authentically zoomer
The process salts you see today are stripped of the trace minerals you need.
For years, science has waged a war against salt, calling it the cause of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Low-salt diets are prescribed by doctors to millions of people a year—yet few are warned about what happens when the body doesn’t get enough salt.🧵
For years, science has waged a war against salt, calling it the cause of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Low-salt diets are prescribed by doctors to millions of people a year—yet few are warned about what happens when the body doesn’t get enough salt.🧵
For half a century, we’ve been told something so often it feels completely unnecessary to question it:
Salt raises blood pressure.
High blood pressure causes heart disease.
Therefore, salt is dangerous.
It’s simple. Linear. Clean.
But it might be one of the most oversimplified stories in modern medicine.
And if we’ve been led to believe something is unquestionable simply because we’ve heard it repeated so many times… well that’s a clear indication that we should probably start questioning it.
Salt raises blood pressure.
High blood pressure causes heart disease.
Therefore, salt is dangerous.
It’s simple. Linear. Clean.
But it might be one of the most oversimplified stories in modern medicine.
And if we’ve been led to believe something is unquestionable simply because we’ve heard it repeated so many times… well that’s a clear indication that we should probably start questioning it.
The war on salt didn’t begin with overwhelming data.
It began in 1977, when a Senate committee recommended sodium restriction despite evidence not clearly supporting it.
From that moment forward, a hypothesis hardened into doctrine. And doctrine rarely retreats quietly.
It began in 1977, when a Senate committee recommended sodium restriction despite evidence not clearly supporting it.
From that moment forward, a hypothesis hardened into doctrine. And doctrine rarely retreats quietly.
🧵For Fun, I asked AI to compare Mormonism with the Westminster Confession of Faith to explain 1/ Why Westminster Confession Presbyterians don’t consider Mormons Christians? Here’s what it said:
The answer is not that Mormons are insincere, immoral, or don’t talk about Jesus.
The answer is not that Mormons are insincere, immoral, or don’t talk about Jesus.
The issue is theology. Specifically, Mormonism rejects several doctrines that historic Christianity considers essential.
2/ First, the doctrine of God.
The Westminster Confession teaches that God is eternal, unchanging, and has always been God.
The Westminster Confession teaches that God is eternal, unchanging, and has always been God.
