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May 5
1/ 🧵 "SEX BIASES IN PATTERNS OF PARENTAL INVESTMENT"- My latest publication in Human Nature, w labmate @CostelloWilliam & supervisor @ProfDavidBuss
Mother-father investment differences aren’t just “mothers do more.” They vary by domain, as do biases toward daughters vs sons...Image
2/ (Open Access link)


Do parents treat daughters & sons differently?
Do mothers & fathers parent differently?

Previous research has produced mixed results.

I proposed two evolutionary hypotheses to address these questions & resolve the mixed findings...link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Selection should favour:
H1 parental biases that cultivate abilities in offspring relevant to their sex-specific adaptive challenges.
H2 parents investing more in domains aligned with their own sex-specific evolutionary specialisations and life-history experiences.Image
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Jun 9
1/🧵

While the battle for #Kostyantynivka is in full swing, it's interesting to look more in-depth at the situation in 🇺🇦 Ukrainian-controlled Donbas and to understand what will come after this crucial battle, focusing on the next city in line for 🇷🇺 Russia: Druzhkivka.

🗺️Map: playframap.github.ioImage
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After almost 9 months of battle for the city (and especially its flanks), Russian forces were finally able to exploit a Ukrainian weak spot in the southwestern part of the city, near Illinivka and Berestok, and with heavy losses, gained the possibility of consistent infiltrations into the now contested key southwestern high-rise district of the city.

On the eastern flank, instead, Russia is putting the accent on spreading between the dense residential buildings, and their infiltrators reach as deep as the Staryi Piter citadel and the KMZ plant in the center.

Meanwhile, the Russians, since early 2026, have been able to establish a solid kill zone for Ukrainian logistics attempting to enter or exit Kostyantynivka.
At the moment, solid planning and careful execution are required to even get to position, just like an assault or infiltration operation.

From the ground, the feeling is that this battle will end in late summer or autumn.

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Because of this, the Russians are likely already eyeing Druzhkivka as their next target.

Just like Kostyantynivka, it's one of the 4 biggest cities of Ukrainian-controlled Donbas that also constitute a formidable urban defense belt.
Druzhkivka has just a bit fewer inhabitants than Kostyantynivka but is half its size: 33 km².
This city, too, sits on the Kryvyi Torets River valley but is divided into 3 parts because of the Kazenyi Torets River.
It also has a sizable high-rise and industrial area.

Let's look at some defensive strong and weak spots.

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Jun 15
Your family was not given to you. It was assigned. Based on debts from a previous birth.

Karma does not forget. It cannot. It waited multiple lifetimes to reach you. And it is not done yet.

All you need to know about KARMA AND REBIRTH - 1/N 🧵
Whatever I am writing here is based a bit on the work of Shri K. N. Rao, combined with my own research and observations over the years.

In daily life the word karma gets used so loosely that it has lost almost all its actual meaning.

In the original framework, karma is not about punishment. Karma is a recording system that operates with complete mathematical precision.

Let me explain with the example of Mahabharata - which says Karmas recognize their doer just as a calf recognizes its mother even in a herd of thousands.

Not sometimes. Not usually. Always. Birth after birth, life after life, the record follows without a single missed entry.

What people call good luck is an old positive account arriving at its settlement date. What people call undeserved suffering is an old negative account doing the same.

Karma divides into three categories, let me explain it properly & clearly -

The first is Sanchita karma, the total accumulated balance of every action across all previous lives combined. The pile is so vast that no single lifetime can exhaust it.

Now the second one is called Prarabdha - Before each birth, a specific portion of that pile is selected and assigned for the current lifetime. That portion is called Prarabdha.

It carries both a positive side and a negative side, and both must be lived through.

And the last and The third type is Kriyaman, the karma being freshly made right now in the present life.

These three operate simultaneously at every moment. The Sanchita pile keeps accumulating from the Kriyaman.

The Prarabdha is being exhausted through experience. And what is freshly created in the Kriyaman goes back into the Sanchita pile for future births.

The only category where genuine free will operates is Kriyaman. The other two are already determined before birth begins.
What I personally found after examining hundreds of charts is that the Prarabdha is visible in the chart at birth if one knows where to look.

The condition of the lagna lord, the state of the Moon, the placement of Saturn, and crucially the Atmakaraka planet, the planet with the highest degree in the chart, all carry the fingerprint of what the soul is specifically here to exhaust in this lifetime.

The Atmakaraka in a particular house is not random. It tells which area of life carries the heaviest karmic debt from previous incarnations.

When the Atmakaraka is severely afflicted, that area of life will demand complete surrender before it yields anything.

No remedy changes this. The most a remedy does is shift the timing slightly. The account itself does not move.Prarabdha cannot be averted.

The scriptures say this without softening it at any point. The text says directly: prarabdha has to be suffered, both its positive side and its negative side. Without exhausting it completely, the bondage of karmas does not clear even in thousands of births.

And by this understanding of karma you can understand the Remedies in astrology - mantras, gemstones, rituals, at best delay certain results or relocate them to the next birth. None of them cancel the account.

here you can learn something from the Rakadiya Hanuman Baba, one of the great yogis of India, had a deep wound on his thigh and refused every kind of treatment that was brought to him. All he said was: let me suffer my prarabdha.

That is what genuine understanding of karma looks like when it becomes lived acceptance. Most people never reach this understanding. Most people spend enormous energy fighting prarabdha with remedies while the prarabdha simply waits.
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Jun 15
Your resting heart rate at 40 is a window into your health at 60.

But most people don't pay attention to it or know how to track it.

Here's what it tells you and how to lower it:
Resting heart rate (RHR) is how many times your heart beats per minute at complete rest.

A lower RHR means your heart is more efficient. It moves more blood per beat, less effort per contraction, less cumulative strain over decades.
A healthy RHR sits between 60 and 80 bpm.

Athletes often live in the 40 to 60 range.

Studies show every 10 bpm increase in RHR is linked to a 10 to 20% higher risk of death from any cause.
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Jun 15
Victory. No more taxpayer-backed home loans for illegal aliens.

This is one of those things you can't believe was actually happening.

American citizens are struggling to buy homes while mass migration drives up prices and strains the housing supply. 🧵
Mass migration is driving up home prices: HUD report shows foreign-born residents fueled over half of owner-occupied housing growth in CA & NY, spiking costs for American buyers.

This move by @SecretaryTurner ends American taxpayers paying for housing for illegals. Image
Illegal aliens were never eligible, but the Biden administration bent the rules.

Secretary Turner is fixing it with audits and DHS checks. Americans who play by the rules, stay prioritized. Image
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Jun 15
Un hombre estaba a punto de gastar 1.200€ en un portátil nuevo porque su ordenador con apenas 3 años tardaba una eternidad en abrir programas y se congelaba constantemente.

Desinstaló aplicaciones. Liberó espacio. Reinició Windows una y otra vez.

La lentitud siempre volvía.

Fue a una tienda de informática para comprar un reemplazo.

El técnico que estaba detrás del mostrador lo detuvo:

"Antes de gastar más de mil euros, déjame enseñarte algo."

Cogió el portátil y negó con la cabeza.

"Hay 21 funciones ocultas consumiendo recursos ahora mismo. Microsoft las activa por defecto. Nadie te dice que existen. Vamos a solucionarlo."

Esto es lo que le enseñó durante los siguientes 10 minutos:
1. Aplicaciones de inicio automático

Qué hacen:

Cada vez que enciendes Windows, decenas de programas se ejecutan automáticamente en segundo plano.

Spotify.

Discord.

Teams.

Adobe.

Steam.

OneDrive.

Y muchos más.

*Por qué destruyen el rendimiento:*

Compiten entre sí por CPU, memoria RAM y acceso al disco duro desde el mismo segundo en que arrancas el ordenador.

Muchos usuarios tienen 15-20 programas cargándose sin saberlo.

*Cómo desactivarlo:*

Ctrl + Shift + Esc → Inicio → Deshabilitar todo lo innecesario.

El técnico sonrió:

"Acabas de recuperar varios minutos cada día."
2. Indexación excesiva de Windows Search

Qué hace:

Windows escanea constantemente archivos, carpetas y documentos para acelerar las búsquedas.

*Por qué destruye el rendimiento:*

En equipos con SSD lentos o discos duros tradicionales, la indexación genera miles de accesos constantes al almacenamiento.

Especialmente cuando el PC está inactivo.

*Cómo reducirla:*

Configuración → Privacidad y seguridad → Búsqueda de Windows → Clásica.
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Jun 15
🧵1/9 CNews 1ère chaîne de Russie en France
Son combat : dénoncer tous ceux qui enfreignent l'exemplarité de la civilisation ultra-réactionnaire de la 🇫🇷🇷🇺 : les voleurs, violeurs, harceleurs, pédophiles, casseurs, traitres à la Nation ...
Ok, petit tour d'horizon chez #CNews 😁 Image
2/9 Commençons par le grand manitou Bolloré :
poursuivi pour des faits présumés de corruption, Vincent Bolloré sera jugé en correctionnel en décembre 202§ à Paris
Gloups, comme les " ukronazis tous corrompus" ... 😉 Image
3/9 Jean-Marc Morandini condamné pour corruption de mineurs et harcèlement sexuel ...
Mais, c'est pas pareil, "car il est de la maison", CNews Image
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Jun 16
New today: Peter Thiel's secret society of illuminati had a website so insecure it exposed his entire membership list. And it's... interesting. His Palatantir folks, sure. Leonard Leo. The president of Stanford. Ezra Klein. And some D politicians who really shouldn't be there. 1/
Going to post the membership list in chunks. It's tech-fascists and fake-centrist pundits and Silicon Valley business guys and health wackos like Peter Attia and Trump toadies like Scott Bessent and a few arts folks and then.. Cory Booker? 2/ Image
Dan Driscoll, our SecArmy, is JD Vance's friend from Yale tasked with giving your tax dollars to Peter Thiel's friends with defense startups. Pundit Sam Harris, no surprise. Rob Hur was the Special Counsel who wrote a hit-piece biased report on Joe Biden. 3/ Image
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Jun 16
It took me 8 years of overthinking, burnout, and self-judgment to realize what I’m about to tell you in 2 minutes.

This is how neurodivergent minds - the anxious, the hyper-focused, the “too intense” ones - were never broken:
You were never distracted. You were just paying attention to everything. The way light hit the wall. The sound someone’s voice made when it cracked. The silence between their words. Your brain runs like an 8K camera with surround sound - overwhelming, yes, but also what makes you a world-class observer. You don’t miss details because your nervous system is the detail.
You don’t think linearly. You think cinematically. Flashbacks, parallel plots, emotional B-roll - your mind cuts, pans, and overlays constantly. It’s not chaos, it’s editing. You’re not “too much.” You’re just trying to direct a story that runs 12 frames faster than the rest of the world can see.
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Jun 16
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🚨 “STOPPED COLD”: FBI Uncovers 23-Person Drone-and-Sniper Plot to Massacre Crowd at Trump’s White House UFC Event — 5 in Custody

Explosive Drones, Snipers, a White House Gate Assault — The 23-Person Terror Plot the FBI Crushed in 6 Days

This is genuinely one of the most chilling and operationally sophisticated domestic terror plots we’ve seen in years. Let’s break it down.
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🚁 The Plot: Multi-Phase, Coordinated, and Chillingly Ambitious

The plan wasn’t some lone-wolf pipe dream — this was a networked operation involving up to 23 individuals across multiple states, communicating over encrypted Signal chats, with a phased attack designed to maximize body count.

Phase 1: Drone Strike & Herding

Explosive-laden drones were to strike buildings near the White House South Lawn — not necessarily the event itself. The goal was to trigger mass panic and force the ~4,300 attendees (including 1,200 active-duty service members) to flee in a predictable direction.

Phase 2: The Kill Zone

That fleeing crowd would be funneled directly into the line of fire of a pre-staged sniper team. This is the part that separates amateurs from people who’ve studied tactical operations — using the initial chaos to create a shooting gallery.

Phase 3: Ground Assault

A “second wave” would then storm the White House gate — presumably to engage whatever security remained and finish off survivors.
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🔍 The Investigation: 6 Days from Intel to Takedown

View the image below.

GPS for the win! The iPhone of the first arrestee unlocked the whole network — 23 Signal users discussing pre-operational activity. Twelve FBI field offices were mobilized. That’s not a routine investigation; that’s an all-hands counterterrorism sprint.Image
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Jun 16
Elon Musk:

That super-duper-fantastically wealthy rich elite guy who keeps

[checks card]

showing up all the OTHER super-duper-fantastically wealthy elite rich folks by REINVESTING his wealth into companies that actually MAKE LIFE FAR BETTER FOR THE HUMAN RACE.

Which suprisingly enough [and confounding to zero-sum morons] leads to him becoming even MORE FANTASTICALLY WEALTHY when the human race responds by embracing and purchasing his various companies products and services.

The other billionaires buy large mansions and fleets of cars and wretched excessive hedonistic lifestyles [think Jeffrey Epstein or Reed Hoffman, for instance] then hire publicists to seed news media of the couple million dollars a year they give away to charity so they can drape the mantle 'great humanitarian' around their shoulders.

Musk is an actual humanitarian, and the reason all these other fantastically wealthy fake humanitarians don't like him all that much is because he's showing everyone in a quite concrete fashion what a real fantastically wealthy humanitarian would do, how they would live, and how they would invest their wealth as they continued to build it.

Musk has seen an opportunity with internet access [Starlink], social media/free speech [X ], electric FSD vehicles [Tesla], space travel/exploration/solar energy/AI advancement [SpaceX], and invested heavily and tirelessly in the creation of companies that could develop products and capabilities once thought to be impossible.

Absolutely NOTHING prevented ANY of these other billionaires from walking this same path that Musk walked for the past 30 years. Except poverty of imagination, lack of vision, or self-centeredness.

Currently we don't even have the full picture yet of exactly the scope of the public service of what Musk and his DOGE team did in those crucial early months of this new Trump administration last year, but hopefully we will one day.

Hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars that used to be regularly stolen and laundered to hundreds of thousands of NGOs around the world are no longer making that journey, and we have Musk and his team to thank for that. And I suspect he was involved in setting up blockchain capabilities and other things we'll be finding out about in the coming months.

He's the world's first trillionaire because he is serving not just his country, but all of mankind.

I'm glad it was him and not that fat prick Hoffman.

PS: I'm glad 90% of the zero-sum dumbass whining about Elon becoming a trillionaire is taking place on a communications platform that he owns. :)Image
.@threadreaderapp /unroll please, and thank you!
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Jun 16
The top 7 ways to land $999 AI Audit clients (even if you have no money, experience, or audience)

...and how you can implement them this week.

1. 15-minute Mini AI Audits
You already know business owners. Friends, family, former coworkers, people from your gym or church.

Text them this:

"Hey, I've been learning how to help businesses save time with AI. Would you be open to a 20-minute call where I look at your workflow and tell you what could be automated? No charge, I'm just building my portfolio."

You prescribe one off the shelf AI tool to fix a pain point.

Upsell the full $999 Audit that gives them 3-7 prescriptions.
2. Partner with agencies/consultants

Other service providers already have the clients you want.

Marketing agencies, business coaches, accountants, web developers. They work with business owners every day. Many of them are getting asked about AI and have no idea what to say.

Reach out with this:

"Hey, I specialize in AI automation for small businesses. If any of your clients ever ask about AI, I'd love to be your go-to referral. Happy to give you a cut of any deals that come through."

Now you have a sales team without hiring anyone.
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Jun 16
Enquanto o Brasil discute Copa do Mundo e Selic alta, uma ameaça silenciosa cresce nas fronteiras: o Tren de Aragua.

Facção venezuelana que já abastece Comando Vermelho com armas.

Thread rápida pra entender o que está acontecendo. Siga o fio. Image
O que é o Tren de Aragua? Esta facção surgiu nas prisões da Venezuela como uma gangue local e virou organização transnacional. Hoje controla territórios na Venezuela, Colômbia, Peru, Chile e... Brasil (principalmente Norte e Sudeste). Image
Atuação no Brasil: PF e intel ligam eles ao fornecimento de fuzis e granadas pro CV. Recentemente, investigações mostram parcerias com PCC em algumas regiões. Eles trazem mão de obra ‘importada’ pra roubo de cargas, extorsão e tráfico.
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