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If your church is growing, roles are going to change. People will shift. Seats will move.
If you don’t understand this, growth will create tension instead of momentum.
🧵Here are 4 hard truths every leader needs to know:
If you don’t understand this, growth will create tension instead of momentum.
🧵Here are 4 hard truths every leader needs to know:
Think of your church like a bus.
At first it’s small. A few seats. A few people.
Then it grows. More people get on. More seats get added. Things get more complex.
And over time, people don’t stay in the same seat.
At first it’s small. A few seats. A few people.
Then it grows. More people get on. More seats get added. Things get more complex.
And over time, people don’t stay in the same seat.
That’s not a problem. That’s how it’s supposed to work.
So what determines who sits where?
Two things:
The mission of the church
The gifts of the people
So what determines who sits where?
Two things:
The mission of the church
The gifts of the people
P*rn is blocking your rizq. You pray. You work. You make du’a. But nothing moves. You ask Allah. But results don’t come.
Here’s why:
Here’s why:
You’re asking Allah for barakah… while feeding your eyes haram every night.
You want doors to open... but you keep disobeying the One who controls them.
That contradiction matters more than you think.
You want doors to open... but you keep disobeying the One who controls them.
That contradiction matters more than you think.
Rizq isn’t just about effort.
It’s about obedience.
You can hustle 10 hours a day… but if your nights are filled with p*rn,
don’t be surprised when your days feel heavy and stuck.
It’s about obedience.
You can hustle 10 hours a day… but if your nights are filled with p*rn,
don’t be surprised when your days feel heavy and stuck.
Here's a great roundup on what the Long COVID Community has learned from recent clinical trials, from the always insightful @CortJohnson Definitely worth a read! 🤔🧠
Cort draws several key points from these trials, including:
👉Short term antiviral treatments don't work. It's somewhat surprising after we've all heard the anecdotes of some patients improving on 5-10 days of Paxlovid. Unfortunately, trial results do not show a benefit here.
👉Treatments that prevent Long COVID don't necessarily work to treat it - as in the case of Metformin
👉Interestingly, the reverse is true. Treatments that don't prevent Long COVID at all - as in the case of the antidepressant fluvoxamine - actually have been shown to treat it.
👉Narrow treatments are less helpful than broadly acting ones. For example, Paxlovid has been proven to be less helpful in preventing Long COVID than metformin. Paxlovid ONLY targets SARS-CoV-2 replication, whereas metformin is a host-directed antiviral that affects multiple bodily systems.
There's a lot more great info here - highly recommend checking out the article!
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Cort draws several key points from these trials, including:
👉Short term antiviral treatments don't work. It's somewhat surprising after we've all heard the anecdotes of some patients improving on 5-10 days of Paxlovid. Unfortunately, trial results do not show a benefit here.
👉Treatments that prevent Long COVID don't necessarily work to treat it - as in the case of Metformin
👉Interestingly, the reverse is true. Treatments that don't prevent Long COVID at all - as in the case of the antidepressant fluvoxamine - actually have been shown to treat it.
👉Narrow treatments are less helpful than broadly acting ones. For example, Paxlovid has been proven to be less helpful in preventing Long COVID than metformin. Paxlovid ONLY targets SARS-CoV-2 replication, whereas metformin is a host-directed antiviral that affects multiple bodily systems.
There's a lot more great info here - highly recommend checking out the article!
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@CortJohnson Link: healthrising.org/blog/2026/04/2…
There’s a small muscle between your eyebrows that tightens whenever you think hard about something. The harder you focus, the harder it pulls. Sensors taped to your forehead can watch it move as it happens, like a tiny stress meter just above your nose.
But the deeper release works through different systems. Your brain has a background process that runs whenever you’re not actively focused on something. It’s the part that loops over yesterday’s awkward conversation and worries about what’s happening next week. Brain scans show it gets noisier when you ruminate. People who meditate can quiet it down on demand.
Then there’s another part of your brain, sitting behind your forehead, that handles your planning and your inner critic. It can be switched off. Scientists put jazz pianists in an MRI machine in 2008 and asked them to improvise. The judging part of their brain went dark. The same shutdown shows up in marathon runners, deep meditators, and pretty much anyone who’s ever felt “in the zone.” Flow states show up as the inner critic going quiet on a brain scan.
Your brain has a chemical brake too. It’s a molecule called GABA, and it handles roughly 40% of all the calm-down signals your nervous system sends. A 2010 study at the National Institutes of Health put ten healthy people in an MRI machine and threatened them with electric shock. Their brain’s GABA levels dropped by about 18%. The drain happens within minutes. By the time you feel overwhelmed, the chemical brake has already weakened.
Even your physical muscles need brain work to relax. A 2019 review pulled together brain-scan and magnetic-stimulation evidence showing the motor part of your brain fires up before a tense muscle lets go. Releasing tension takes its own kind of effort.
The fastest tested way to flip the calm switch comes from a Stanford study published in 2023. Researchers had more than a hundred people try four different breathing exercises for five minutes a day for a month. The winner: two short breaths in through the nose, one long breath out through the mouth. They called it the cyclic sigh. It beat box breathing, and it outperformed mindfulness meditation on anxiety reduction. The long exhale activates a nerve that runs from your brain to your heart and tells your body to stand down.
So the release is real. It runs on a chemical brake, the shutoff of the judging part, and one long breath out through your mouth. Calling it “unclenching” is closer to the truth than it sounds.
But the deeper release works through different systems. Your brain has a background process that runs whenever you’re not actively focused on something. It’s the part that loops over yesterday’s awkward conversation and worries about what’s happening next week. Brain scans show it gets noisier when you ruminate. People who meditate can quiet it down on demand.
Then there’s another part of your brain, sitting behind your forehead, that handles your planning and your inner critic. It can be switched off. Scientists put jazz pianists in an MRI machine in 2008 and asked them to improvise. The judging part of their brain went dark. The same shutdown shows up in marathon runners, deep meditators, and pretty much anyone who’s ever felt “in the zone.” Flow states show up as the inner critic going quiet on a brain scan.
Your brain has a chemical brake too. It’s a molecule called GABA, and it handles roughly 40% of all the calm-down signals your nervous system sends. A 2010 study at the National Institutes of Health put ten healthy people in an MRI machine and threatened them with electric shock. Their brain’s GABA levels dropped by about 18%. The drain happens within minutes. By the time you feel overwhelmed, the chemical brake has already weakened.
Even your physical muscles need brain work to relax. A 2019 review pulled together brain-scan and magnetic-stimulation evidence showing the motor part of your brain fires up before a tense muscle lets go. Releasing tension takes its own kind of effort.
The fastest tested way to flip the calm switch comes from a Stanford study published in 2023. Researchers had more than a hundred people try four different breathing exercises for five minutes a day for a month. The winner: two short breaths in through the nose, one long breath out through the mouth. They called it the cyclic sigh. It beat box breathing, and it outperformed mindfulness meditation on anxiety reduction. The long exhale activates a nerve that runs from your brain to your heart and tells your body to stand down.
So the release is real. It runs on a chemical brake, the shutoff of the judging part, and one long breath out through your mouth. Calling it “unclenching” is closer to the truth than it sounds.
Thank you for reading my article ❤️
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Hasler 2010 acute stress GABA study (American Journal of Psychiatry): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20634372/
Limb & Braun 2008 jazz improvisation fMRI study (PLoS One): journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Kato, Vogt, Kanosue 2019 muscle relaxation review (Frontiers in Physiology): frontiersin.org/journals/physi…
Balban et al. 2023 cyclic sighing study (Stanford Medicine summary): med.stanford.edu/news/insights/…
Default mode network and rumination research (Psychology Today overview): psychologytoday.com/us/basics/defa…
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Hasler 2010 acute stress GABA study (American Journal of Psychiatry): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20634372/
Limb & Braun 2008 jazz improvisation fMRI study (PLoS One): journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Kato, Vogt, Kanosue 2019 muscle relaxation review (Frontiers in Physiology): frontiersin.org/journals/physi…
Balban et al. 2023 cyclic sighing study (Stanford Medicine summary): med.stanford.edu/news/insights/…
Default mode network and rumination research (Psychology Today overview): psychologytoday.com/us/basics/defa…
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
Americans in the replies, yes I'm French, yes I escaped the 57% GDP socialist gulag with only my keyboard and a baguette.
If this thread saved you from one Bernie podcast, the tip jar is open.
Every dollar = one French bureaucrat short-circuiting.
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If this thread saved you from one Bernie podcast, the tip jar is open.
Every dollar = one French bureaucrat short-circuiting.
buymeacoffee.com/brivael
1/ Here’s one of the first real attempts at bounding the spend envelope for AI token use per worker.
And it changes how CIOs should think about labor entirely.
This should not be seen as tooling cost.
It’s the price of baseline productivity going forward.🧵👇
And it changes how CIOs should think about labor entirely.
This should not be seen as tooling cost.
It’s the price of baseline productivity going forward.🧵👇
2/ What the early data shows:
• AI-intensive workers: ~$2K–$5K/year already
• Enterprise dev estimates: ~$150–$250/month
• Notable deployments: Even higher
• Outliers: Orders of magnitude above average
This is not linear growth.
It’s power-law consumption. 📈
• AI-intensive workers: ~$2K–$5K/year already
• Enterprise dev estimates: ~$150–$250/month
• Notable deployments: Even higher
• Outliers: Orders of magnitude above average
This is not linear growth.
It’s power-law consumption. 📈
3/ Here’s the shift most orgs are missing:
We’re quickly moving from
→ Software per seat
→ Cost per cloud workload
to
→ Tokens per worker
That’s a new operating metric.
And most enterprises don’t track it yet.
But they will + must.⚠️
We’re quickly moving from
→ Software per seat
→ Cost per cloud workload
to
→ Tokens per worker
That’s a new operating metric.
And most enterprises don’t track it yet.
But they will + must.⚠️
Beslenme dünyasında "sağlığın temeli" olarak kabul edilen çiğ yeşillikler, büyük kaseler dolusu salatalar ve bitkisel beslenme anlayışı, insan metabolizmasını yavaşlatan, bağırsakları iltihaplandıran ve hormonal dengeyi bozan en büyük gizli tehlikelerden biridir.
Bitkilerin ++
Bitkilerin ++
doğadaki hayatta kalma stratejileri ve modern tarım zehirleri insan sağlığı için felakettir.
İnsanların midesinde, yapraklı yeşilliklerin ve çiğ sebzelerin ana yapı taşı olan "selülozu" (bitki lifini) parçalayacak enzimler yoktur. İnekler veya koyunlar gibi çok mideli ve ++
İnsanların midesinde, yapraklı yeşilliklerin ve çiğ sebzelerin ana yapı taşı olan "selülozu" (bitki lifini) parçalayacak enzimler yoktur. İnekler veya koyunlar gibi çok mideli ve ++
fermantasyon yapabilen bir sindirim sistemimiz (işkembe) bulunmadığı için, yediğiniz devasa bir marul, ıspanak veya lahana salatası midenizi geçerek doğrudan bağırsaklarınıza ulaşır.
Bir miktar çiğ yeşilliği (marul/salata) bir plastik poşete koyup insan vücut ısısına ++
Bir miktar çiğ yeşilliği (marul/salata) bir plastik poşete koyup insan vücut ısısına ++
THREAD🧵
The Great Nicobar Project
India's ₹1 lakh crore Great Nicobar Project is much more than an infrastructure build; it’s a fundamental shift in India’s maritime and geostrategy. Here’s why this island is becoming the most critical node in the Indo-Pacific.
@PMOIndia @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA
@indiannavy @IAF_MCC @IaSouthern @easterncomd @rajnathsingh @AN_Command @indiannavy
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The Great Nicobar Project
India's ₹1 lakh crore Great Nicobar Project is much more than an infrastructure build; it’s a fundamental shift in India’s maritime and geostrategy. Here’s why this island is becoming the most critical node in the Indo-Pacific.
@PMOIndia @DefenceMinIndia @SpokespersonMoD @adgpi @NorthernComd_IA
@indiannavy @IAF_MCC @IaSouthern @easterncomd @rajnathsingh @AN_Command @indiannavy
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Great Nicobar sits astride the Six Degree Channel, the western approach to the Malacca Strait. With 30-40% of global container traffic passing through this chokepoint, the island is gateway to the world’s busiest trade routes.
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For years, the "String of Pearls" theory has highlighted the perceived encirclement of India by external maritime bases. The Great Nicobar Project acts as a sovereign break in this chain, providing India with a natural geographic advantage to monitor regional traffic.
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🧵 Place Salt Near Your Bed For 7 Nights…
And watch what changes in your life. 🧂✨
(Ancient remedy + powerful energy hack)
👇 Thread:
And watch what changes in your life. 🧂✨
(Ancient remedy + powerful energy hack)
👇 Thread:
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Salt is not just for taste…
In Indian traditions, salt is considered a natural energy absorber.
It pulls out:
➡️ negativity
➡️ stress vibrations
➡️ evil eye energy
➡️ heavy emotions
Salt is not just for taste…
In Indian traditions, salt is considered a natural energy absorber.
It pulls out:
➡️ negativity
➡️ stress vibrations
➡️ evil eye energy
➡️ heavy emotions
2/
Now here’s the 7-night method:
✅ Take a glass bowl
✅ Fill it with rock salt / sea salt
✅ Keep it near your bed (side table or under bed corner)
And don’t touch it for 7 nights.
Now here’s the 7-night method:
✅ Take a glass bowl
✅ Fill it with rock salt / sea salt
✅ Keep it near your bed (side table or under bed corner)
And don’t touch it for 7 nights.
JUST IN: Federal prosecutors release new images and details of Cole Allen and his alleged attempt to assassinate president Trump. Here is a mirror selfie he took about 30 minutes before charging past the magnetometers. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2808…
NOTABLE: Prosecutors' memo drops any reference to a USSS officer being hit by a bullet. It now says an officer observed Allen fire in the direction of the staircase toward the WHCD. That officer then fired at Allen five times but did not hit him. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2808…
Notes Allen kept on his phone while he crossed the country by train, per prosecutors. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2808…
Here is translated text from Al Ta about the situation in Ukraine. He is a Russian propagandist, a soviet anti-Putinist who views reviving the full Soviet Union (including Poland) as the primary number one goal of this war. He's also pretty honest about the situation. Its long. (racial slurs and whatnot are removed btw)
Preservation of one’s own forces and resources (including manpower).
On paper, everything looks neat and classical: we strike the enemy at its foundations and core, while we ourselves conserve strength and wait for the right moment for a decisive blow. But in reality, everything is both simpler and more complicated at the same time.
If you think through the basic principles of a classical war of attrition, then at the initial stage, when the enemy’s potential is being destroyed, when strikes are delivered against its economy, communications, and supply routes for raw materials and weapons, the side that holds the initiative should remain on the defensive, abandoning unimportant territories and максимально protecting its soldiers. This attrition is carried out through the remote destruction of the enemy’s potential.
On paper, everything looks neat and classical: we strike the enemy at its foundations and core, while we ourselves conserve strength and wait for the right moment for a decisive blow. But in reality, everything is both simpler and more complicated at the same time.
If you think through the basic principles of a classical war of attrition, then at the initial stage, when the enemy’s potential is being destroyed, when strikes are delivered against its economy, communications, and supply routes for raw materials and weapons, the side that holds the initiative should remain on the defensive, abandoning unimportant territories and максимально protecting its soldiers. This attrition is carried out through the remote destruction of the enemy’s potential.
Strictly speaking, the correct strategy in such a war should include:
1. Readiness for total and continuous mobilization.
We remember that this kind of war is one of mobilizing all the strength of the people. Total mobilization is necessary to achieve a manpower advantage, which should allow final military actions to be carried out quickly once the enemy’s ability to resist is completely broken. In addition, prolonged combat, even in a well-organized defense, still leads to losses, which are unavoidable. Therefore, there is a constant need to replenish the front with personnel.
2. Readiness for total destruction and the deaths of the enemy’s civilian population (and your own, if the enemy is not weaker than you).
It is extremely difficult, more likely impossible, to “delicately” destroy a country’s economic foundation. Therefore, a country that begins such a war must be prepared to act decisively and harshly. This is the price of survival.
3. Defense as the foundation of the first phase of such a war.
Preserving soldiers’ lives is the key to a future victorious offensive. It is physically impossible to conserve personnel while conducting offensive operations. Many are familiar with the standard ratios required for an attacking force to outnumber a defending one. Even taking into account more advanced and destructive weapons, the need for such a ratio remains, it will never be 1:1. In essence, the main function of troops (infantry supported by tanks, artillery, and aviation) in such a war is to occupy territories where the enemy can no longer resist. Frontal or stubborn assaults are not characteristic of a war of attrition.
4. Seizing territory in the initial and main stages of such a war is not the primary objective.
Territory should be taken either after the course of the war has been turned and the enemy’s ability to resist has been broken, or through the imposition of postwar conditions.
5. Emphasis on firepower.
The enemy should be subjected to an overwhelming barrage of destructive force using every possible means. Everything available should be directed at the target. Naturally, this places emphasis on highly destructive weapons: artillery and aviation. The nature of the current war has also added UAVs (unmanned systems). We already see strike systems in the air and at sea, and soon ground systems will be added.
The goal is to inflict unacceptable losses on the enemy before you yourself suffer unacceptable losses. If you like, it resembles a boxing match: both sides exchange blows, but in the end the stronger one wins. At the same time, for every artillery shot fired at you, ten should be fired in return; for every drone launched, ten drones should respond. Only this way.
Yet, for example, by the results of March 2026, “so-called Ukraine” surpassed us in the number of drones launched at our territory.
Each of you can compare these principles with what is actually happening at the front. After all, “we haven’t even started yet,” if some leaders are to be believed.
1. Readiness for total and continuous mobilization.
We remember that this kind of war is one of mobilizing all the strength of the people. Total mobilization is necessary to achieve a manpower advantage, which should allow final military actions to be carried out quickly once the enemy’s ability to resist is completely broken. In addition, prolonged combat, even in a well-organized defense, still leads to losses, which are unavoidable. Therefore, there is a constant need to replenish the front with personnel.
2. Readiness for total destruction and the deaths of the enemy’s civilian population (and your own, if the enemy is not weaker than you).
It is extremely difficult, more likely impossible, to “delicately” destroy a country’s economic foundation. Therefore, a country that begins such a war must be prepared to act decisively and harshly. This is the price of survival.
3. Defense as the foundation of the first phase of such a war.
Preserving soldiers’ lives is the key to a future victorious offensive. It is physically impossible to conserve personnel while conducting offensive operations. Many are familiar with the standard ratios required for an attacking force to outnumber a defending one. Even taking into account more advanced and destructive weapons, the need for such a ratio remains, it will never be 1:1. In essence, the main function of troops (infantry supported by tanks, artillery, and aviation) in such a war is to occupy territories where the enemy can no longer resist. Frontal or stubborn assaults are not characteristic of a war of attrition.
4. Seizing territory in the initial and main stages of such a war is not the primary objective.
Territory should be taken either after the course of the war has been turned and the enemy’s ability to resist has been broken, or through the imposition of postwar conditions.
5. Emphasis on firepower.
The enemy should be subjected to an overwhelming barrage of destructive force using every possible means. Everything available should be directed at the target. Naturally, this places emphasis on highly destructive weapons: artillery and aviation. The nature of the current war has also added UAVs (unmanned systems). We already see strike systems in the air and at sea, and soon ground systems will be added.
The goal is to inflict unacceptable losses on the enemy before you yourself suffer unacceptable losses. If you like, it resembles a boxing match: both sides exchange blows, but in the end the stronger one wins. At the same time, for every artillery shot fired at you, ten should be fired in return; for every drone launched, ten drones should respond. Only this way.
Yet, for example, by the results of March 2026, “so-called Ukraine” surpassed us in the number of drones launched at our territory.
Each of you can compare these principles with what is actually happening at the front. After all, “we haven’t even started yet,” if some leaders are to be believed.
🚨 "Non era mai successo nella storia moderna della Russia."🇷🇺 Elvira Nabiullina, ha segnalato, una carenza di risorse umane senza precedenti, la fine delle riserve, affermando, che i risparmi dei russi, rappresentino l'unica fonte di finanziamento per l'economia. 1/13
"La situazione attuale è unica nel mercato del lavoro. Mai prima d'ora nella storia della Russia moderna abbiamo sperimentato una carenza di manodopera di questo tipo. Non abbiamo mai avuto niente di simile e questo sta avendo un impatto sull'intera situazione economica", ha dichiarato Elvira Nabiullina, Governatrice della Banca Centrale della Federazione Russa, secondo quanto riportato da Interfax.
Secondo le stime di FinExpertiza, il bacino di manodopera dell'economia, ovvero le persone occupate ma potenzialmente disponibili a lavorare, si attesta attualmente a 4,4 milioni di persone. iz.ru/2085422/milana…
NEW: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race.
In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months.
The policies are shocking.🧵
In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months.
The policies are shocking.🧵
Let's start with Multnomah County, OR, home of deep blue Portland, where deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023. The county's screening tool for housing services is designed to "prioritize … BIPOC households, LGBTQIA2S+, [and] people with disabilities."
The rubric, obtained via a public records request, wards 1 point for "interest in LGBTQ services," 2 points for "English as a second language," and another 2 points for "interest in culturally specific services," a catch-all term for Portland's race-based housing programs.
