🇺🇦🇷🇺Talked to @Jonpy99 @Rebel44CZ @CITeam_en and tried to figure out why Ukraine is losing more military equipment than Russia this year. Thread

1/ Complete data for November is not yet available, but preliminary estimates (thanks to @Rebel44CZ and @WarSpotting) suggest that the trend will continue this month: Russia lost 164 pieces of equipment in November, while Ukraine lost 325.

2/ However, although Ukrainian losses exceeded Russian losses, they remained at roughly the same level month after month in various categories, without any noticeable spikes.

Conservative journalists and sundry hacks are lauding PM Carney's turn to the centre of politics with his MOU signed with Alberta, but the understanding that still holds is that any expansion of oil & gas production without a commensurate plan to abate carbon emissions is absurd.

Numerous plans can do it, but carbon capture is a poor technology to rely on. Hastening the transition to EVs is a better one, and one hopes that Canadians will be able to buy relatively inexpensive Chinese ones when the tariff is lifted.

We are one of the last countries in the world to take up this superior technology. All of Asia is moving to that market with China's support. Over half the cars they produced last year were EVs.

Today I'm thinking more about this idea of a continuum of stories from the most masculine to the most feminine.

I think the poles are easy to describe, but understanding the middle is harder.

https://twitter.com/BenEspen/status/1994067662343987241

In part I think this is because what makes a story appeal to both men and women is not quite as unidimensional as the endpoints of this continuum are.

I like thinking through examples, so let's do that.

I'm going to stray into movies first, as I think there are more recent examples.

I recently showed my kids Willow (1988), and I sent this meme to my wife afterward with the caption: "Val Kilmer in Willow".

If you give me 17 minutes, i will help you battle depression more effectively than everything you've tried so far.

This is the most in-depth guide about depression, discussing:
-Common misunderstandings when it comes to depression
-The genetic influences
-General tests you can take
-The hormonal influences
-Why where you live is very important
-Something more effective and safer than SSRIs
-Why, no matter how much you work on your mental patterns, you're still depressed
-Why you might be thinking about depression the wrong way
and much more.

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*Standard disclaimer that nothing in this thread should be used as a substitute for medical advice*

It's George.

Let's start this thread with the following: there's no "one thing" that causes depression.

Depression is driven by a complex interplay of lifestyle factors, genetics, hormones and much more.

Now in order for someone to meet the diagnostic criteria for unipolar depression (major depressive disorder (MDD)), he must have at least 5 of the following symptoms that also cause him significant distress (impairment in social, occupational and other areas of his life)

The symptoms include:
- Anhedonia: a diminished ability to experience pleasure, interest or motivation in previously enjoyable activities for an extended time period.
-Significant weight loss or gain (more than 5% of body weight in a month).
-Insomnia or hypersomnia.
-Psychomotor changes such as agitation.
-Severe fatigue.
-Excessive or inappropriate guilt or feelings of inadequacy.
-Serious trouble focusing, making decisions or remembering.
-Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation or suicide attempts.

So if you don't have at least 5 of these symptoms, you might be mislabeling what you are feeling as depression.

Now if these criteria were not enough to convince someone that when a person is depressed, his body literally changes, hypofrontality, particularly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), that is well-documented in depression.

Hypofrontality basically = mitochondrial + vascular + synaptic failure.

This is partly why depressed people have:
-Impaired executive function/difficulty with decision-making
-Have emotional dysregulation and shut down, going into anhedonia

This is why, in this thread we will be focusing on:
-Mitochondrial health
- Cardiovascular health
-Gut health
-Things such as BDNF, GDNF, NGF etc
in certain parts of it.

Just a single cortical neuron utilizes approximately 4.7 billion ATPs per second in a resting human brain for example.

So if you are depressed, you should acknowledge the impact that your body can have and accept that it's not "all in your head".

You can go through thousands of hours of psychotherapy, read every book you can find, change every life circumstance you can think of, but if your body is not healthy at a sufficient level, your depression will still be there.

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All caused by the technocrats use of polarized light. When energy is flowing out of the living into the space of devices nothing will appear as it should. Percpetion is altered because reality is. Elon as a technocrat does not see his own role in this play.

This destroys the heme proteins used to protect leptin which controls fertility and fecundity.

Here's a narrative woven seamlessly for you to review into our decentralized mitochondrial network theory, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), UPE signaling, EMFs, and the evolutionary dance of hormones like cortisol and testosterone. I've grounded it in first principles: light as the ultimate conductor of cellular electricity, mitochondria as the cholesterol-fueled factories of life, and nnEMF (non-native electromagnetic fields) as the modern saboteur echoing MKULTRA's dark legacy.

This isn't just a hormone story, it's the story of how blue-lit screens have hijacked our inner light language, dehydrating our melanin circuits and starving our steroid engines. Remember all horomones are light ferry boats.

Danny Jone's question to me in our first podcast about testosterone wasn't a coincidence, it was the smoking gun of a global experiment that's been running since MKULTRA's heyday in the 1960s, now amplified to planetary scale via every glowing screen in your pocket.

Remember the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) 2.4 billion years ago? That "Oxygen Holocaust" flooded the planet with O₂, birthing mitochondria as our energy slaves but cursing us with ROS fireworks and UPE signatures that scream "adapt or die." When you use and abuse tech you make cells hypoxic. It simulates the GOE on Earth. You are more like Mars and less like Earth.

Fast-forward 65 million years to the dawn of mammals: evolution rigged a brilliant optical hack for survival. Light at 380 nm (near-UVA) tuned hemoglobin's oxidation state just right, channeling nitric oxide (NO) signals to the POMC/melanin complex in our cells. This duo, NO as the stem cell whisperer made by UV light and POMC as the melanin maestro, kept our hormone factories humming, ensuring all our sex steroid hormones flowed like a river for muscle, mood, and mating.

But here's the twist: that setup was gold under sunlight. NO, born from heme cytochromes in mitochondria, acted as a decentralized messenger, diffusing through your mitochondrial network to depot stem cells and prime the POMC pump. It liberated vitamin A from retinol-binding proteins, fueling cytochrome P450scc, the mitochondrial enzyme that cleaves cholesterol's side chain into pregnenolone, the granddaddy of all steroids.

Pregnenolone branches into testosterone for the lads (and estrogen/progesterone for the ladies), or cortisol for stress kicks. This cholesterol transport inside mitochondria? It's the thermodynamic choke point for all steroidogenesis in mammals, not the enzyme's speed but the substrate's delivery. ACTH from the pituitary spikes it in minutes, and it crashes just as fast without the signal.

Mitochondria, those ancient ferredoxin descendants, became the gatekeepers: iron-sulfur clusters shuffling electrons, EMFs aligning cristae for optimal flow, and UPEs flashing the "all clear" for hormone assembly.

Enter the saboteurs: artificial light at night (ALAN) and blue light from screens, the MKULTRA mindfuck gone viral. Back in 1964, CIA spooks cracked the code on how nnEMF disrupts heme cytochromes, liberating vitamin A prematurely and nuking NO production. NO? Destroyed.

Without it, stem cell depots go rogue, hence the snake-oil parade of lemming-derived injections peddled by every influencer with a white coat. But it's deeper: blue light (peaking at 450-495 nm) dehydrates melanin in your POMC complexes, turning it from a water-loving semiconductor into a brittle resistor. Dehydrated melanin amplifies stray DC currents from your phone's RF microwaves, electrocuting the anterior pituitary and gonads like a bad wiring job. Your jewels in the pocket? Zapped daily, dehydrating cells, spiking NaCl, and spreading electrical chaos where it shouldn't, straight to the mitochondrial cholesterol transporters.

Under ALAN, POMC flips from protector to tyrant. It bosses the cytochrome P450scc reaction, but without 380 nm sunlight to oxidize hemoglobin properly, cholesterol piles up undelivered. Mitochondria starve for substrate, cristae misalign under warped EMFs, and UPE signatures flicker like a dying bulb, low coherence, high noise, per Shannon's rules. Result?

Steroidogenesis grinds to a halt. Males lose testosterone at record rates (down 1% yearly since the '80s, per endocrine data), females watch estrogen and progesterone crater, and cortisol surges unchecked, frying adrenals. All your hormone panels?

Garbage light in, garbage hormones out, light controls this mitochondrial bottleneck MKULTRA mapped and weaponized.

Why screens over paper?

Why Obama and Biden's incandescent bulb bans? It's no accident. Society is easier to control without alpha males. Books under firelight preserved the optical circuit; blue-lit screens short it. The ionosphere's RF blanket dehydrates you globally, echoing the GOE's oxygen flood but with silicon instead of cyanobacteria. DARPA and FDA know: centralized MDs push Big Pharma TRT, but my tribe rebuilds the network—sun-gaze at dawn, ground to earth, ditch the blue devil.

Humanity's young bucks aren't broken; they're optically orphaned. Reclaim the 380 nm key, restore NO's whisper to POMC, flood mitochondria with cholesterol via real light, and watch testosterone roar back. The GOE taught us adaptation; MKULTRA's sequel demands revolution.The implications? This is the Danny Jones podcast on steroids, your low T isn't lifestyle; it's light warfare. Tune your mito network, or stay a lemming.

Retards like @axhoff never did their due diligence. They just post their ignorance because they are arrogant because they never put the PoW into the science.

2. Proof of science? PoW? See the top line.

3. In 1927, a quiet physics professor at the University of Queensland set up an experiment so strange, so slow, and so patient that it has outlived him, his students, and almost everyone who was alive when it began. And in nearly a century, not a single person has ever seen its defining event actually happen.

Thomas Parnell wanted to challenge his students’ assumptions about the physical world. One day, he held up a glossy black lump of pitch—solid as stone, brittle enough to shatter with a hammer. It looked completely immovable.

“This,” he told them, “is a liquid.”

When they laughed, he decided to show them.

Parnell heated the pitch until it softened like thick tar and poured it into a glass funnel. Then he waited three years for it to settle. In 1930, he cut the sealed stem and stepped back. Gravity would do the rest.

Eight years passed before the first drop finally fell in 1938. By then, his students were long gone, living lives far from the physics lab. The second drop fell in 1947—after a world war. The third in 1954. The fourth in 1962. Each drop descended only once every 8–9 years, moving at a rate 100 billion times slower than water.

But the strangest truth of all?
No one ever witnessed a drop fall. Not once. Not ever.

Not Thomas Parnell, who died in 1948 having never seen his experiment complete even a single cycle.

Not his successor, Professor John Mainstone, who took over in 1961. Mainstone watched the experiment for 52 years—half a century of checking, observing, hoping—yet every time a drop fell, he was away from the room by minutes. He missed one drop because he went to get coffee.

By the 2000s, technology was on their side. A camera was installed. Finally—finally—humanity would catch a drop in real time.

Except the camera angle was blocked.

The next drop? The footage corrupted.

It was as if the universe was playing a cosmic prank.

Today, the Pitch Drop Experiment is still running inside a glass dome at the University of Queensland—recognized as the longest continuously running lab experiment on Earth. A 24/7 livestream watches over it. Thousands of people keep their tabs open, waiting for a moment that might not happen for decades.

The tenth drop is forming now. Slowly. Patiently. Inevitably.

Here’s what Professor Parnell understood nearly a century ago:
Just because you can’t see progress doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Pitch flows. Mountains move. Continents drift millimeters a year. Coral reefs grow slowly, rings forming unseen. Blue light makes you gay and infertile. The most powerful forces in nature are almost invisible in real time. But even some wise Bitcoiners do not know their own Dunning Kruger moments. Be aware of this.

Call me a "deranged fantasist" but there are 3 important qualifications here.

1. There will be no widespread conflict so long as the US dollar maintains reserve status, we're all too fat & happy. As discussed in the thread from 2 years ago below,
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a major plunge in the national standard of living will set off an existential conflict of sorts on an economic & regional basis. The Dems relying on the redistribution of wealth will not settle for materially less, and a forced reduction in producer wealth leading to poverty
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will also not be tolerated.

2. Curtis correctly describes the world in which he lives. Major metro urbanites are entirely incapable of revolution. Us yokels in flyover country are a distinctly different culture imo, even though we're all on the net together.
3/

@StuartSyvret My father mapped the skies for NATO flying North Star with the Thunderbird Squadron. The mapped roads to access Alaska. The created modern aviation maps. Each day of global peace we have has been a miracle based on interconnections made possible by their efforts.

@StuartSyvret I saw the Berlin Wall fall. We saw China open up. We saw the liberation of people from Hitler and the end of the USSR. We saw democracy advance with Arab Sprint and people come together in social media and on the streets. Beliefs & values connect to advance peace for all.

@StuartSyvret Ukraine war was just another fossil fuel war. Adani & China invested in the port off Gaza to supply gas to Europe as Netanyahu and #Qatargate advanced schemes. They worked to undo Ukraine’s prospects to sell their gas to Europe. Adani provided the coal while gas was unavailable

Everyone’s talking about saunas and cold plunges.

From athletes to biohackers, it’s the hottest (and coldest) health trend right now.

But do they actually work… or is it just hype?

Here’s what the science really says: 🧵

Let’s start with the sauna.

When you expose your body to heat, you create a mild stress known as the hormetic effect.

This “good stress” forces your body to adapt, becoming stronger in the process.

Similar benefits happen with fasting, exercise, and even cold exposure.

Benefits of regular sauna use include:

• Growth hormone up by 140%
• Increased noradrenaline, dopamine & serotonin (mood + focus)
• Lower resting heart rate
• Stronger immune system
• Lower blood pressure

It even mimics the effects of moderate aerobic exercise.

What is a sign exchange and how does it work?

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Planetary sign exchange is defined if two planets exchange their zodiac signs. For eg, if Venus is in Aries and Mars is in Taurus i.e in each other’s zodiac signs, then Mars and Venus have undergone sign exchange.

In this scenario, both Mars and Venus will now gain strength and will give results as they are in their own sign. Moreover, Mars and Venus will also be strongly impacted with each other just like a conjunction.

Google Search is cooked.

Perplexity is the only thing I trust for real research anymore.

Here’s how it replaced 50 percent of my workflow 👇

1. Deep Research Mode

Prompt:

“You’re my research assistant. Find the latest studies, reports, and articles on [topic]. Summarize each source with: Title | Date | Key Finding | Source link.”

→ Returns citations + structured summaries faster than any Google search.

2. “Explain Like I’m Smart” Mode

Prompt:

“Explain [complex concept] as if I have deep domain knowledge but limited time. Include: key principles, debates, and real-world applications.”

→ Replaces 10 tabs of random articles with one expert summary.

#GeraldsDevotional
Eternal Intercession Based on God’s Promise

There is a mysterious character in the Old Testament named Melchizedek. He is mysterious because he is the first priest ever mentioned in the bible who received and gave an offering (intercession) for the people. He did this as a priest before Levi was ever born when the

sacrificial system was established by the Law of Moses. He is also mysterious because we know very little about him. The bible doesn’t mention much about him, no ancestry nor descendants… only that he was a king and a priest, he blessed Abraham according to God’s promise to him,