Boars embody incredible strength, courage, virility, and ferocity, making them formidable creatures both revered and feared across cultures.
Throughout Bharat's known history, since Kaliyuga in 3101 BCE, Varah has been depicted saving Bhumi Devi, symbolizing the divine intervention and the cosmic duty of preserving the earth. Varah, the boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu, embodies the primal power and resilience necessary to uphold the world.
On the contrary, hunting boar was heroic in known Western history, celebrated in epic tales and royal pastimes, where the hunt tested bravery and skill. The boar was a symbol of both bounty and battle.
In modern times, "suar/swine" is used as an insult, reflecting a shift in perception. Let us begin with what is available on Boar, bridging ancient reverence and contemporary views.
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Boars, a species of wild pigs, are believed to have originated in the lush, biodiverse landscapes of Indonesia approximately 4.2 million years ago. Over millennia, these adaptable creatures migrated and thrived across various terrains, leading to their domestication in East and Central Asia around 10,000 years ago. This domestication marked a pivotal shift in human agricultural practices, influencing the development of early civilizations.
Note: The accompanying map serves solely for illustrative purposes and does not delineate modern political boundaries or country borders.
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The presence of wild boar in India is vividly captured through ancient rock art and petroglyphs, with depictions securely dating back to between 30,000 and 12,000 years ago.
1. Bhimbetka wild boar hunting scene: These prehistoric images, spanning 30,000 to 6,000 years before present, offer a glimpse into early human life and their hunting practices, illustrating the boar's significance in survival and culture.
2. Ratnagiri boar: Dating to 12,000 years before present, this depiction highlights the enduring relationship between humans and wild boars, showcasing their importance across millennia.
Her comment said my profession is highly paid. Her followers added it is the oldest profession. This is how some activists respond when a Lebanese-Syrian woman supports Israel publicly: no argument, only slander. I support Israel because I studied, lived, remembered, and chose truth over inherited hatred.
@susanabulhawa #israel #palestine
When a woman explains she supports Israel out of conviction, study, lived experience, and admiration for the Jewish people, the response is slander. The assumption is that no one could sincerely disagree, so she must be bought or corrupt.
I was born to Lebanese and Syrian Muslim parents. I arrived at my views through experience, loss, observation, and years of study. I spent my first 18 years in a region where the Palestinian cause was sacred while actual Middle Eastern people were disposable.
Lebanon endured civil war, occupation, militias, assassinations, collapse. Syria buried over 500,000 people and displaced millions. Yemen was devastated. Iraq shattered. Iran represses its own people while funding proxies.
Yet generations were told the central issue remained Israel. Our corruption could wait. Our freedoms could wait. Our dead could wait.
My mother was a child in Lebanon when her family home in Zahlé was shelled. They fled. Later a Palestinian fighter came with a “gift” for my grandmother: a bag filled with human ears.
My grandmother took off her sandals, beat him, and threw him and his “gift” down the stairs. That story taught me how brutality can be glorified when wrapped in the language of resistance.
If the DoJ still pretends to care about enforcing the law equally, Tony Fauci must be indicted for lying to Congress.
A thread, with receipts. 🧵
1 - MASKS: Feb 5, 2020. Private email to former HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell:
"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus… Masks are really for infected people."
Months later, the same Anthony Fauci was on TV recommending double-masking, demanding mask mandates, and insisting "the science had evolved."
The science hadn't evolved. He was just now trying to use masks to soften up the public for an eventual vaccine rollout.
In a deposition under oath about this & related topics, he said "I don't recall" 100+ times.
2 - GAIN OF FUNCTION: Sworn testimony, May 2021:
"The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
This was false.
The HHS Inspector General report (January 2025) confirmed NIH grants to EcoHealth Alliance funded research at WIV that met the federal definition of gain-of-function research of concern.
UNC virologist Ralph Baric confirmed in congressional deposition that the NIH-funded EcoHealth research in Wuhan resulted in a "gain of function phenotype."
Fauci hid behind a 2014 NIH carve-out that — by design — excluded what he was funding. (h/t to @RandPaul for continually holding his feet to the fire on this) x.com/tomselliott/st…
Disclaimer: I am a biology PhD, but not virology/epidemiology. Husbandman is a virology PhD. But I’m told I’m good at communicating science, so here’s my take.
#Hantavirus
Humans get hantavirus from rodents who carry it.
Some people went to Argentina birdwatching in a landfill, and were exposed to hantavirus because rodents like landfills.
Looks like one - if not two - people brought the virus onto their cruise boat.
So now we have an isolated boat with an index case: someone who is infected.
That’s not good for the index case. Hantavirus has a high fatality rate, and that’s scary.
Bir hocam şöyle söylemişti: “Sûreler bir insanın ihtiyaçlarına göre indirilen 114 ilahî müdahaledir” Yani insan hangi sıkıntıya düşmüşse, onun ilacı Kur’an’da vardır. Bu sözün ışığında, 114 sûrenin hangi hâlde, hangi ihtiyaçta okunması gerektiğini derledim. Umarım faydalı olur.
1. FÂTİHA SÛRESİ – ŞİFANIN, BAŞLANGICIN VE KORUMANIN SÛRESİ
Fâtiha, hem Kur’an’ın kapısı hem de müminin bütün hâllerinin anahtarıdır. Hastalık, sıkıntı, karar verme, yolunu kaybetme, ruh daralması ve kaygı anlarında okunan en güçlü metindir. Peygamberimiz Fâtiha’yı “şifa” olarak nitelemiş, sahabiler bir yılan sokması vakasında bile bunu okuyarak sonuç aldıklarını aktarmıştır. Bütün sıkıntıların temelinde yön kaybı olduğundan, Fâtiha insana yeniden yön verir; kalbi toparlar, zihin dağınıklığını giderir, duaya kapı açar. Rızık darlığında, ruh sıkıştığında, eve bereket istenildiğinde ve huzur arandığında okunur; çünkü hem şifa hem de hidayet talebinin özüdür.
2. BAKARA SÛRESİ – EVİ VE KALBİ KORUYAN SÛRE
Bakara Sûresi, şeytanın yaklaşamadığı ilahî bir kalkandır. Manevî saldırılar, vesvese, büyü, nazar, karanlık hâller ve ruhî darlık dönemlerinde okunur. Evde Bakara okunması, mekânın manevî atmosferini değiştirir ve bereket getirir. Aynı zamanda rızık genişliği ve dua kapılarının açılması için tavsiye edilir. Sıkıntılı dönemlerde Bakara, insanın etrafına nurdan bir duvar örer; bu yüzden aile huzuru bozulduğunda en çok okunan sûrelerden biridir.
When can a prisoner get a second (or third, or fourth) bite at the apple? Judge Oldham issues a published order explaining that the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 limits certificates of appealability to constitutional issues. This ain't one. Good order!
Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.
Not a guess. Not a theory.
A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.
Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.
Even when you're just using it as a monitor.
Here's how to turn it off for every brand:
First, what's actually happening.
Your TV has a hidden feature called ACR- Automatic Content Recognition.
Think of it like Shazam, but for your screen.
It takes tiny snapshots of whatever you're watching. Sends a fingerprint to the company's servers. They match it to figure out exactly what's on your screen.
Every show. Every channel. Every game. Second by second.
This isn't speculation.
Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid tested Samsung and LG TVs.
Published in the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
They captured all the network traffic leaving these TVs.
Samsung sent data to its ACR servers every minute.
LG sent data every 15 seconds.
Paper: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
Liberation? France
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The occupation of France in 1940 led to the establishment of Nazi repression structures on French territory. From 1941 and faced with the failure of traditional forms of repression and in particular the shooting of hostages, a regular flow of deportees
2/n from France was sent to the concentration camps of the Third Reich.
The total figure until 1945 of the population deported from repression from France is today estimated at 86,827 people.
This form of deportation mainly affects Jews. More than 75,000 Jews were transported in
3/n this way until August 1944, most of them awaited certain death in the gas chambers. They then join the common lot of the deportees, in the concentration camps promised to a slow elimination by the work. By 1945, only 3% will stiil be alive.
Ana akım medya ve diyetetik endüstrisi tarafından beyni geliştiren, kalbi koruyan ve iltihabı önleyen mucizevi bi "süper besin" olarak pazarlanan Omega-3 takviyeleri, insan metabolizmasına, bağışıklık sistemine ve hormonal dengesine en büyük zararı veren, doğadaki en toksik ve ++
Bir yağın içindeki çift bağ sayısı ne kadar fazlaysa, o yağ oksijenle karşılaştığında o kadar hızlı oksitlenir (paslanır ve bozulur). Bitkisel Omega-6 yağlarında (ayçiçek, mısır) 2 adet çift bağ varken, Omega-3 yağ asitlerinde 5 veya ++
6 adet çift bağ bulunur. Bu yapı, soğuk denizlerde yaşayan balıkların vücut sıvılarının donmamasını sağlar. Ancak bu yağları hap olarak yuttuğunuzda, 37 derecelik sıcak insan bedenine girip kana pompalanan oksijenle karşılaştıklarında inanılmaz bir hızla parçalanır ve ++
Eric Schwab, photographing the unspeakable
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As the Allies liberated German death camps, a Jewish photographer followed course in search for his mother
2/n One-time fashion photographer and having escaped as a prisoner from a train bound for Germany, later joining the Resistance, Eric Schwab was one of the first photographers to work for AFP after it was refounded in August 1944 in a liberated Paris.
3/n As a war correspondent, he follows the Allied troops as they advance, becoming a witness to the horrors discovered as the forces progressively liberate the German death camps.
A painful quest to find his mother drives him.
New York's voter ID system contains a hidden algorithm. I reverse-engineered it. The complete solution is in this thread. 🧵
The Spiral maps County Voter IDs (CIDs) to State Board of Elections IDs (SBOEIDs) using a deterministic, reversible structure — predictable and built for data retrieval. Reversing it yields a serial marker I call the Algorithm ID (AID).
STEP 1 — Establish the county range.
Take the maximum SBOEID, subtract the minimum, add 1. That is your total range. Everything else is derived from this number.
MINIMONI AU | some celebrity crush
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jimin has a namjoon fan account. only issue is that namjoon has a jimin fan account, too.
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#minimoni #minimoniau
🧵EXPOSED: The BIGGEST ATTEMPTED COUP in U.S. history.
@SenJudiciaryGOP is shedding light on Arctic Frost, the secretive operation that became the foundation for Jack Smith’s bogus elector case against President Trump.
Arctic Frost was a full-throttle partisan federal dragnet targeting Republican-linked individuals and groups.
Senator @ChuckGrassley is uncovering it. @SenEricSchmitt delivered outstanding opening remarks during a recent Judiciary Committee hearing.
As the Middle East crisis continues - major European economies are already experiencing visible pressure through energy costs, trade disruptions and economic uncertainty.
🧵 This thread breaks down country by country effects across Europe
🇬🇧United Kingdom
- 200,000 additional UK households could be pushed into the poverty line due to rising energy, fuel and food costs. Source: National Institute of Economic and Social Research
- Average working age British household projected to be £480 worse off this year.
🇩🇪Germany
- Germany budget is expected to lose 52 billion euros in tax revenue by 2030 due to war in Iran
- Germany's growth forecast has been devised downward due to rising oil and gas prices