In der 6. Entlarvung des Tages sprechen wir über ein kontroverses Thema: die Wehrpflicht. Vatniks kritisieren die Ukraine dafür, dass sie Männer zum Kampf einzieht, während sie die Alternative, inkl. der Schrecken der Einberufung in die russische Armee, immer ignorieren.
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Wehrpflicht ist in vielen Ländern Realität, in friedlichen Demokratien wie auch in Diktaturen – es sei denn, man hat „Knochensporne“ so wie Trump. Viele argumentieren, sie sei eine Notwendigkeit zur Verteidigung gegen einfallende Armeen, insbesondere für kleine Länder.
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Andere sagen, dass sie gegen die individuellen Rechte verstößt oder dass eine Berufsarmee besser ist. Selenskyj stimmt dem zu: Er hat die Wehrpflicht abgeschafft. Doch dann kam es zur Invasion. Deshalb behalten viele Nationen, inkl. der USA, eine Form der Wehrpflicht bei.
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« T'écrire ! Comme hier soir avant de nous éloigner du Père Auto, pendant cette demi-heure poignante et silencieuse, je ne suis plus qu'impulsion, force unie à toi, l'amour n'est plus qu'un cri, la vie n'est plus que possession, et feu, et ton regard mi-clos prend la couleur et le lointain de l'océan…1/3
« Tu es l'être vers lequel je vais - et si tu es au bout de la route quel bonheur et quelle vie comblée, achevée - et si tu n'y es pas ? Ah ! que dire ?
… Mais ces lettres n'auraient pas de sens si elles n'étaient le récit, sur le vif, de mon histoire intérieure… » 2/3
« Le récit [d’une] histoire intérieure », c’est ce qui fait que ces lettres prennent une valeur universelle, parce que leur auteur sait communiquer des impressions et des sentiments éprouvés par d’autres, qui ne savent pas les dire.
C’est la définition de la littérature : « Ma vie est la vôtre, votre vie est la mienne, vous vivez ce que je vis; la destinée est une. Prenez donc ce miroir, et regardez-vous-y. On se plaint quelquefois des écrivains qui disent moi. Parlez-nous de nous, leur crie-t-on. Hélas ! quand je vous parle de moi, je vous parle de vous. Comment ne le sentez-vous pas? Ah ! insensé, qui crois que je ne suis pas toi ! »
Hugo, Les Contemplations, Préface. ⬇️ 3/3
I Depuis plusieurs semaines une campagne se développe dans les médias américains, britanniques ou français selon laquelle la Russie serait en train de s’effondrer économiquement après quatre ans de guerre. La réalité est bien différente. #Fil #Thread
II En avril la croissance du PIB a été de 1,7%. Cela survient après deux mois (janvier-février) de légère récession, puis une croissance de 2,4% en mars. Il se confirme que les mauvais résultats de janvier et février 2026 étaient dus à des conditions météos exceptionnelles
III La croissance est revenue à 1,7%. Mais, une hausse (en glissement) du PIB de 1,7% est en réalité au-dessus des prévisions faites que ce soit par l’IPE-ASR ou par le CEMI. Cela montre que les forces de croissance ont été plus puissantes que prévues notamment dans l’industrie
Her iPad battery dropped to 78% in 18 months even though she barely uses it.
For context: a healthy iPad of that age should be at 90%+.
A few hours a week. Some reading. The occasional Netflix episode. She'd been "careful" with the device since the day she bought it.
She took it to the Apple Store expecting them to find a defect.
The Genius Bar technician didn't seem surprised at all.
"I see this every week. iPads degrade faster than iPhones and Apple has never publicly explained why. There are 8 specific things that quietly destroy iPad batteries. Most of them feel like the right things to do."
He opened her settings and walked her through every one.
Here's what she learned. 🧵
The first thing she learned: iPads die from being left alone.
This was the part that hurt the most.
She had treated her iPad carefully. She didn't drain it to 1%. She didn't blast fast chargers through it. She used it twice a week, then left it on her nightstand.
That was the problem.
The technician explained:
"Lithium batteries hate being idle at high or low charge states. When you leave an iPad sitting at 100% for weeks, the battery chemistry slowly degrades. When you leave it at 0% for weeks, it degrades even faster. The 'safe' state is around 50%."
iPads sit unused more than any other Apple device. That's exactly why they degrade faster.
The fix:
1. If you're not using your iPad for a week or more, charge it to **50%** before putting it away 2. Don't store it at 100%. Don't store it at 0%. 3. Check on it every 4-6 weeks and top it up to 50% again
She had been storing her iPad fully charged "so it would be ready when she needed it."
That habit was killing the battery.
The second cause: She kept it plugged in 24/7 when she did use it.
Many iPad owners especially those who use the device on a kitchen counter, nightstand, or kids' room, leave it plugged in permanently.
The screen stays on at full brightness. The battery sits at 100% for hours. Heat accumulates.
This is the worst possible long-term state for any lithium battery and iPads experience it more than iPhones because they tend to live in fixed locations.
The fix:
Settings → Battery → Battery Health & Charging → Optimized Battery Charging → ON
If your iPad is one of the newer models that supports it: 80% Charge Limit → ON
Then change the habit:
1. Unplug the iPad when it reaches 80-90% 2. Don't leave it plugged in overnight if it's already full 3. Use it on battery for normal sessions, charge only when needed
The technician's framing: "The iPad is engineered to be portable. The moment you treat it like a permanently-mounted screen, you're treating the battery in a way the chemistry can't survive long-term."
Understanding Your Lipid Profile: What Really Matters?
Many people get a lipid profile done every year but are unsure how to interpret the results. This thread explains LDL, triglycerides, HDL and ApoB in simple language.
This is mainly meant for people who have NOT suffered a heart attack or stroke and are NOT already taking statins.
Share and re-post for wider reach and bookmark for future reference. Post your queries and comments below.
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How often should you check your lipid profile?
Most healthy adults should get a lipid profile at least once every 2-3 years.
More frequent testing may be needed if you have:
• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Obesity
• Smoking history
• Family history of premature heart disease
• Previously abnormal lipid levels
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What is LDL cholesterol?
🔸LDL-C (Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol) is often called "bad cholesterol."
🔸Excess LDL enters artery walls and contributes to plaque formation.
🔸Over time, these plaques can cause heart attacks and strokes.
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Our @Nature comment this week on the use of AI in maths and theoretical physics - and why the community should embrace it!
Authors @London_Inst & @GoogleDeepMind.
First draft 8 months ago but edited many times as the field steamed ahead!
Free-to-read link at the end of 🧵1/
We argue that theorists have nothing to fear and much to gain from AI. "The task now is to build these systems with care and ambition. If they can make the frontier more navigable — and more deeply interconnected — they will accelerate discovery, not replace discoverers." 2/
We split the research pipeline into four overlapping phases: setting the agenda, formalizing ideas, proposing conjectures and solving and verifying results. This is not perfect or definitive but it's a useful way to assess progress and future challenges. 3/
Perlstein sucks so no on Nixonland. The one and only decent book in that series is BEFORE THE STORM, and I mean merely *decent*. It only gets progressively worse from there
FFS , Perlstein wants us to believe that stagflation was fake news and 'really' about 'white cultural anxiety'🙄 *jerking off motion*
Just a bunch if PoMo garbage masquerading as history
The books are popular because they're very self-flattering to white Northeastern liberals and leftists. They tell them what they want to hear. That's all there is to it
🚨 Neal Kelley: The Architect of California’s Mail-In Ballot Empire
Let me give you the full picture on this guy, because most people have no idea who he is or how central he’s been to the transformation of American elections.
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🗳️ The Orange County, California Laboratory
Neal Kelley ran the Orange County Registrar of Voters for 17 years (2005–2022), overseeing the fifth-largest voting jurisdiction in the United States — 1.9 million registered voters. That’s not a small operation. That’s a testing ground big enough to pilot methods that can be exported nationwide.
What happened under his watch?
- Orange County flipped from red to blue in 2016 — the first time since 1936 that OC went Democratic in a presidential election. This was Reagan country. Nixon’s home turf. The spiritual heart of California conservatism.
- Congressional seats flipped in 2018 — the so-called “blue wave” that wiped out GOP representation in what had been safe districts for decades.
- Record-breaking turnout in 2020 — with Kelley bragging they’d surpassed 2008, 2012, and 2016 total ballots cast, all while running a system he’d deliberately shifted away from electronic voting machines and toward mail-in paper ballots.
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📬 The Paper Ballot Pivot — and Why It Matters
Kelley was the first Registrar in California to fully shift Orange County from electronic voting to a paper system. His stated justification sounds reasonable on its face: “paper ballots are much more auditable than electronic systems.”
But here’s what that framing conceals:
Paper ballots are also much harder to verify at scale. Electronic systems leave digital fingerprints — every vote, every change, every access log can be traced. A paper ballot system, especially one built around mass mail-in voting, creates a chain-of-custody nightmare. Once a ballot leaves the elections office, enters the postal system, lands in who-knows-whose mailbox, and comes back — what actual verification exists that the person who filled it out is the registered voter it was sent to?
Kelley positioned himself as the “security” guy — the one running audits, “not even required by law” — while simultaneously building the infrastructure that makes meaningful auditing functionally impossible.
🚨 BREAKING: The New Yorker has published the most heavily documented account yet of how Andrew and Tristan Tate built their operation. Reporter @HeidilBlake worked from sealed prosecutorial files. Her reporting has already reopened a UK police investigation that sat dead for over a decade. 🧵⬇️
Blake's hardest finding lands on Hertfordshire police. They bungled the original 2014–15 complaints. No proper recording of one victim's statement. A mishandled phone. Evidence left lying around the station. The case was crippled before it ever started.
And the consequence is live. After Blake approached officers this spring, the police watchdog opened a gross-misconduct inquiry. The next day Hertfordshire reopened the case. The women whose complaints were mishandled then are the same women now pursuing a civil claim in the High Court.
A thread of every official World Cup poster from 1930-2026
There are some real gems in here
1930 — Uruguay
Designed by an unknown artist. The inaugural World Cup poster featured a goalkeeper diving across a bold Art Deco composition and helped establish the visual language of the tournament.
1934 — Italy
Designed by Gino Boccasile. A striking Futurist-inspired composition created for the first World Cup held in Europe.
ChatGPT has quietly built a file on you. You've never seen most of what's in it.
Every message you send feeds it. It studies your patterns to map your personality and habits, things you never actually told it.
Here are 7 prompts to pull up everything it has on you, and wipe what you never agreed to:
1. Open the File
Start with the raw memory dump. Most people are surprised by how much ChatGPT remembers.
Paste to ChatGPT: "Show me everything you remember about me from our chats. Include any names, places, jobs, interests, habits, preferences, and other details you've saved or learned. Don't summarize it. Show the complete list of everything you know about me."
2. The Hidden Profile
The interesting part isn't what ChatGPT remembers. It's what it thinks it has figured out.
Paste to ChatGPT: "List everything you've inferred about me that I never directly told you. Include things you've guessed from my writing style, questions, interests, and behavior. For example, my likely age range, career level, income range, location, goals, or situation. For each inference, explain what clues led you to that conclusion and how confident you are."
Time to merge this older thread with several recent threads. Let's merge regions, cultures, politics & fertility. As developed in the thread below, the white RW in the interior South, Midwest and West, is one of the highest fertility groups in America, and the West in general. 1/
There is a "sweet spot" where if one blends our cultures, Christian religion, RW politics, and living in safe, uncrowded conditions where most women have children, and families with 3-4+ children are not uncommon.
That is quite different with secular RW coastal urbanites.
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That means that the interior RW, the South, Midwest & West is already in a win-win situation, where our culture has political control, sometimes with supermajorities, and also for cultural reasons, our women are choosing replacement or close to replacement fertility.
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