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dos feel like he was born to have a radiant life. he has time for anything, as in ‘anything’. that is why it is not surprising when suplado na migo came into his life, he suddenly craved for its attention.

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- angst (?), fluff, crack
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Alrite, the amount of people legit un-fucking their myopia/AMD/astigmatism with morning/evening sun gazing

is just STAGGERING at this point.

So Im doing a collection THREAD 🧵...

Improved myopia and astigmatism 50% after 6 weeks of watching sunrises

From -4.75/4.25 to -4.25/-4.00 in 7 months of watching sunrises

I have worked on microplastic pollution for over 20 years and am not usually shocked by what I find. The millions of microplastic particles we recently  encountered while swimming on a family holiday in Europe underscore the urgent need for action. Such images will become normality for us all if nations fail to take the decisive steps needed to end plastic pollution during current UN negotiations in Geneva. Via Richard Thompson Prof Marine Biology

We have failed so many years ago! Not a Single Solar powered plastic to fuel ⛽️device on a fishing ship or informal settlement to make cash 🤑 out of waste and the sun. From now on only helpless and perplexed people.

Schema how plastic to fuel Pyrolyse is working, I know it is naïve to think someone will give some Money in empowering people - we even can not stop Gaza and other human and animal-fish-tree slaughter.

plastic to fuel it is more or less a destiller - here one for Gin

Thread with excerpts from "Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History" by Vali Nasr

Khamanei & the top leadership of Iran saw the widespread protests in September 2022 as evidence not of religious disillusionment or economic discontent, but as the products of USA plots aimed at destabilizing Iran at home to undermine Iranian successes abroad.

Many who have studied Iran see it as a sad or lonely country

https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1728293110315417881

1) Short thread on an interesting point many might miss in this ongoing debate about what "anti-semitism" is and what it means. Does it apply to people criticising Israel's prima facie war crimes/genocide in Gaza, to people who oppose Zionism generally, our only bad Jew haters?

2) The point is that for a substantial proportion of the Jewish diaspora - Jews outside of Israel and not Israeli citizens, nor identifying with Israel - Zionism is seen as putting them at risk, thus antisemitic. Israel committing war crimes, say, increases the risk of a Bondi.

3) And doubtless actual hatred of Jews outside Israel, most in no way complicit or approving of in any acts done allegedly by Israel - many not even in favour of there being an Israel at all - have spiked since Israel launched it's campaign of annihalation in response to Oct 7.

Viruses and Joint and Tendon Pain
You had a cold two weeks ago. Nothing serious. But now your knee hurts more than it has in months. Your achilles is flaring. Your easy run felt like a half-marathon. You didn't do anything wrong. Here's what's actually happening...

I've been an orthopedic surgeon for nearly 30 years. One of the most consistent patterns I see: patients come in with a flare of their knee, shoulder, or tendon pain — no new injury, no change in activity — and when I ask if they've had a recent illness, the answer is often yes.

In October 2021, I got a virus. Bounced back quickly, or so I thought. Then my resting heart rate shot up, I was short of breath on stairs, and running was out of the question. These legs that have carried me over mountains couldn't jog a mile. I was in the grips of a post-viral syndrome for months.

Cuando estás deprimido, esperar a tener ganas es la peor estrategia posible.

Porque no van a llegar.

La depresión no es tristeza puntual. Es un estado en el que el sistema de motivación se apaga. No apetece nada. Todo cuesta el doble.

Levantarse, ducharse, contestar un mensaje, salir a la calle. Cosas que antes eran automáticas de repente requieren un esfuerzo que no tienes.

Y entonces esperas a encontrarte mejor para hacer cosas.

Pero no te encuentras mejor. Porque no hacer cosas mantiene el apagón.

El aislamiento alimenta el aislamiento. La inactividad alimenta la inactividad. Y así el círculo se cierra.

La salida es contraintuitiva y por eso cuesta tanto aceptarla.

Hay que hacer cosas precisamente cuando menos apetece hacerlas.

No cosas grandes.

8 Bed Rules That Make Her Addicted To You🔥

Most men f*ck for 5 minutes and get ghosted.

Rule 1: Never Rush.

Rule 1: Never Rush.

Tease her for 30+ minutes.

Lips, fingers, breath...everywhere except where she wants it most.

Make her drip and shake before you even undress.

Rule 2 is where her brain short-circuits…

Rule 2: Predator Eyes Only.

Hold eye contact the entire time.

No smile. No blinking. Just raw hunger.

It hacks her nervous system and makes her wetter than any touch.

11 The most attractive Men's Fragrances:

1) Creed Aventus

2) Tom Ford Noir

3) Sauvage Dior

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

(2/11) In the fall of 2023, OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, acting at the behest of fellow board members and with other concerned colleagues, compiled some 70 pages of memos about Altman and his second-in-command, Greg Brockman—Slack messages and H.R. documents, some photographed on a cellphone to avoid detection on company devices. One memo begins with a list: "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . ." The first item is "Lying."

Separately, Dario Amodei—who left to co-found Anthropic—kept years of private notes on Altman and Brockman. More than 200 pages of related documents, never before publicly disclosed, have circulated in Silicon Valley. In one document, Amodei writes that Altman's “words were almost certainly bullshit.”

(3/11) The colleagues who facilitated his ouster accuse him of a degree of deception that is untenable for any executive and dangerous for a leader of such a transformative technology. Mira Murati, who had given Sutskever material for his memos, said: “We need institutions worthy of the power they wield…The board sought feedback, and I shared what I was seeing. Everything I shared was accurate, and I stand behind all of it."

Opinions vary on the extent to which we should consider these traits benign or malign. Altman attributes the criticism to a tendency, especially early in his career, “to be too much of a conflict avoider."

I've texted over 300 women in the last 4 years.

Slept with more than I expected.

Got ghosted more than I'd like to admit.

Here are 10 things I learned that nobody talks about... 👇

1. Politeness kills the vibe.

If you text like you're writing a corporate email, she's going to treat you like a coworker.

The nicer you are, the less she actually wants to see you.

You have to risk offending her slightly to be interesting.

2. Fast replies make you look unemployed.

When you text back in three seconds every single time, it ruins the rhythm.

She assumes you’re just staring at your screen waiting for her.

Put the phone down and go live your actual life.

On Friday, I presented a risk assessment briefing re the Iran war to my team on an internal call. We thought it was worth sharing the notes (which were AI-transcribed & summarized), so here goes. Posting without much editing to save time.

Note for context: I was born & raised in the Gulf, and lived the first 37 years of my life in the UAE. I still have friends & family in the UAE & the rest of the Gulf who I love dearly and worry about daily.

Anyway, on to it.

Overall assessment of the war
- Conflict is on an escalation/attrition path with no realistic short‑term off‑ramp.
- Iran sees the situation as existential and therefore cannot de‑escalate without serious guarantees; it still has not used the full spectrum of its capabilities (e.g. regular army/shadow navy, maximum Houthi disruption, sustained strikes on Gulf civilian targets).
- Israel will not stop on its own; the US political/military leadership is structurally and personally incapable of absorbing the “L” and stepping back.
- Likely timeline: this war phase runs at least to end of the year, potentially longer, with conditions changing non‑linearly (step‑changes/phase shifts) rather than gradually.

Die Streitkräfte der Ukraine haben Sviatohirsk, Jarova, Sosnove und Oleksandrivka wieder vollständig unter Kontrolle gebracht
Diese Informationen werden von den Streitkräften selbst bestätigt,

Insbesondere durch die Veröffentlichung des 3. Armeekorps über die Operation zur Säuberung in diesem Abschnitt.Darüber hinaus veröffentlichte der Russe Aufnahmen von Beschuss der Positionen der AFU in diesen Ortschaften, was
die Anwesenheit Selbiger bestätigt

🚨Last night, India switched on a reactor.

Here are 9 numbers nobody is talking about:

→ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived this plan
→ 22 years: Time to actually build it
→ ₹7,700 crore: Final cost (started at ₹3,492 crore)
→ 500 MW: Power it will generate
→ 2nd: India's global rank only Russia had this before
→ 25%: India's share of world's thorium reserves
→ 400 years: How long those reserves can power India
→ 200+: Indian companies that built it. Zero foreign designs.
→ 3: Countries that tried and quit - USA, Germany, UK

🧵 A thread that will blow your mind:

1/

In 1954, a young scientist named Homi Bhabha stood before India's parliament.

He made a bold promise:

"Within 10–15 years, nuclear energy will be cheaper than any other source."

India had no uranium. No reactors. No money.

He had only a dream and a 3-stage plan.

That plan started executing last night. 🔥

2/

Bhabha's problem was brutal:

India has almost ZERO uranium.
But it has the world's LARGEST thorium reserves.

Thorium can't be used directly as fuel.

So he designed a 3-stage relay race - where each stage creates the fuel for the next.

Genius. Pure genius.

Here's how it works 👇

Starting a consumer brand in India is the new “get rich quick” scheme, right?

This is what the news suggests:

> 3 yr old Reginald Men was acquired at ₹195 crore valuation

> 4 year old Beardo netted its founders ₹200 crore

> 6 year old Dot & Key was a ₹300 crore payday

But, the data suggests a reality which is far more grim

The news covers the 2% of outliers who get acquired for life changing money. What about the rest 98%?

I used TRACXN to map the journey of 800 independent brands started 2016 - here’s what I found ⤵️

1️⃣ 88.3% of brands founded in 2016 are dead.

Honesty, if you’ve been part of the startup ecosystem before Shark Tank & Instagram - this shouldn’t surprise you.

What is my definition of “dead”?

(a) Legal entity has shut down or is in liquidation

(b) OR, FY23 to FY25 is < ₹10 crore with no material growth

(c) OR, no financials filed for FY23 to FY25 (dormant)

With this 88.3% base rate - let us now look at the Lifestyle category:

2️⃣ 7.1% of brands founded in 2016 are now “lifestyle” businesses

Approximately 56 brands filed < ₹10 crore of Revenue of Operations in FY25 with no explosive growth trajectory

Most of these brands (~44) are bootstrapped & look like fantastic businesses to operate in a family context e.g.

(a) Early Foods (₹9 crore for FY25) - premium organic food brand for expecting mothers, infants and children

(b) Gramiyum (₹7 crore for FY25) - cold-pressed oils and natural food products

(c) Bombucha (₹4 crore for FY25) - fermented foods and beverages

Btw, these are fantastic promoter outcomes - at 10% PAT (incl. of fully loaded promoter salary) - you can walk home with a good ₹1.5 crore in cashflow per annum

Next up is the Messy Middle:

THREAD🧵

India's Nuclear energy achievement

The 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam has attained criticality. India just achieved something monumental in global nuclear energy.

→ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived the plan
→ 22 years: Time to build it
→ 100% indigenous
→ ₹7,700 crore total cost

A thread on why this matters.

@NpcilOfficial @mnreindia @DAEIndia
1/7

In the 1950s, Dr. Homi Bhabha recognized a geographical reality: India holds barely 1-2% of global uranium, but roughly 25% of the world's thorium reserves.

To ensure energy independence, he designed a highly ambitious, three-stage nuclear programme.

2/7

The 3 Stages:

1️⃣ Use limited uranium in standard reactors to generate power & extract plutonium.

2️⃣ Use that plutonium in "Fast Breeder" reactors to create more fuel and convert our Thorium into usable Uranium-233.

3️⃣ Run future reactors entirely on Thorium.

3/7

The GST was designed with a brilliant built-in trick. Every buyer has a financial reason to demand a proper invoice from their seller, because that invoice is how they claim tax credit. So buyers police sellers automatically, and the system enforces itself. Except it doesn't, not really. 🧵👇

According to a recent paper by economists Arbind Modi and Ajay Shah, a series of design choices around credits and refunds have quietly broken the compliance chain the GST depends on. What was meant to tax consumption has drifted into taxing production instead.

Before 2017, India's indirect tax system was a patchwork of excise duties, service tax, and state-level VATs. By the time a shirt reached you, its price hid taxes paid at every step of the supply chain, by mills, weavers, tailors, and retailers, and you bore all of it.

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones:

1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack.
2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

https://twitter.com/Optimist_Gaza/status/2041471631919403337

3. A famine can be declared where people are not dying of starvation.
4. A territory becomes the sovereign title of one party — even when that party never exercised sovereignty over it in the past — when a second party conquers it from a third party which attacked it.

5. An armistice line explicitly set by all parties in an armistice agreement as not constituting an international border becomes one when the armistice is violated and war relaunched. But only to the advantage of the agressing and losing party.
6. An unimplemented non-binding...

Why Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran’s Power Grid Is So Dangerous
This isn’t coercion.
It’s escalation—with predictable failure.

I spent years working with the U.S. Air Force on strategic bombing theory.

We studied how to destroy electric grids.
Not just tactically—but systematically.

What follows is the part never published—
but determines whether it works or fails.

There are two ways to hit a power system:

• Transformers → outages for weeks
• Generating hulls → outages for 6+ months
Trump’s language—“never to be used again”—signals the second.

That’s not pressure -- That’s societal collapse