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Jul 20
1/ The destruction by Ukrainian drones of two of Wildberries' massive warehouses near Moscow is a huge disaster for the Russian economy, which will inflict far more damage than the headline $1.2 billion loss of stock. Here's why. ⬇️
2/ While Wildberries itself can absorb the loss of two of its biggest warehouses – it will not need to compensate sellers as it has very recently disclaimed responsibility for losses caused by enemy action – the impact of the strikes on the wider economy will be significant.
3/ Wildberries is frequently called the 'Russian Amazon', but it has a far more dominant role in the Russian economy than Amazon does in Western economies. Since it was founded in 2004, it's become one of the most structurally important companies in the Russian economy.
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Jul 20
Von MDR:
Verbreitet werden offenbar ▶️ Falschmeldungen über Kandidaten von
👉CDU,
👉Grünen,
👉SPD und
👉Linken, vor allem über X. Die AfD ist nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen nicht Ziel der Kampagne.
Mehr:
👇👇👇
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Weitere KI-AfD-Propaganda:
Geschäfte der AfD:
‼️Die Propaganda-KI der AfD
Eine Firma des AfD-Bundesvorstands hat ein KI-Tool gebaut, das auf Knopfdruck
▶️ FERTIGE HETZE ausspuckt:
👉Posts,
👉Parolen und
👉Grafiken im Parteidesign.

MEHR
correctiv.org/aktuelles/gesc…
Studien zeigen:
▶️ TikTok und X
pushen
Content der AfD:
Unterschiedliche Studien belegen:
▶️ Twitter und TikTok bevorzugen Content der AfD gegenüber den Inhalten anderer Parteien.

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Jul 20
Ho parlato molto di reattori veloci in questi giorni: newcleo, ciclo chiuso, il combustibile esausto come "miniera". Ma cos'è tecnicamente un reattore veloce, e perché cambia le regole?
Scendo nel dettaglio, con i dati. Un po' tecnico, ma è qui che si capisce tutto. 👇
Tutto nasce dallo spettro neutronico. In un reattore ad acqua i neutroni vengono termalizzati: l'acqua fa da moderatore e li rallenta fino a energie di frazioni di eV, dove l'uranio-235 fissiona bene.
Un reattore veloce "elimina" il moderatore e i neutroni sono a energie del MeV.
Ecco la differenza in un'immagine. Il reattore ad acqua vive nel picco termico a 0,025 eV. Il reattore veloce vive tutto nella regione ad alta energia, intorno a 1 MeV. Image
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Jul 20
Wem wurde das noch beigebracht?

Knicks (Geste) – Wikipedia

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Das hat sich hartnäckig lange gehalten in den Köpfen der allgemeinen Bevölkerung

Anredeformen: Als das "Fräulein" abgeschafft wurde share.google/Id2zjWpMGybCD0…
Und weil Bräuche und Gewohnheiten oftmals ritualisiert werden, waren die Bestrebungen groß, Lufthygiene und Maskentragen nicht währen zu lassen.

Die Angst der Politiker und Neoliberalen war riesig,
dauerhaft für die neu etablierten Standards aufko zu müssen und gerade zu stehen.
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Jul 20
SitRep - 19/07/26 - Zelensky spoke to commanders

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Prior to future changes, Zelensky spoke with high-ranking generals and other military officials. Likely tomorrow, a decision is made.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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Jul 20
'#StudioStudies':

#Earthsflat #satirecom about #students of a hyperactive, "#druggie" #muzak #studio??
@threadreaderapp unroll
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Jul 20
20 juillet 1993
Conférence de presse conjointe de François Mitterrand et Helmut Kohl à Bad Schachen (lac de Constance), sur les relations franco-allemandes et la construction européenne 1/6.

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FM : « L'Europe vient de traverser des périodes difficiles pour elle en raison de la crise, de la dépression économique et de tous les événements qui se produisent en dehors de la Communauté. » 2/6 Image
HK: « Nous nous comportons comme des amis, ouvertement, avec confiance, et puis tout d'un coup il y a quand même un différend sur un sujet ou sur un autre [la Yougoslavie, le GATT, les taux], c'est normal entre amis. C'est une France libre, c'est une Allemagne libre !…3/6 Image
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Jul 20
@SteMorandi1990 @Menanni1 @cozzmat @Pinperepette @michele_apicell Caro Stefano, ottimissimo articolo che mette le cose a posto: il tema delle preferenze, come in generale quello delle leggi elettorali, non è e non può essere ideologico. Si può discutere se un sistema funziona o non funziona nel conseguire gli obbiettivi cui deve tendere ... 1/
@SteMorandi1990 @Menanni1 @cozzmat @Pinperepette @michele_apicell .. qualsiasi meccanismo elettorale in democrazia: espressione della volontà popolare, rappresentanza (degli elettori, dei territori e delle categorie), qualità degli eletti, governabilità e se in un dato momento il necessario compromesso ... 2/
@SteMorandi1990 @Menanni1 @cozzmat @Pinperepette @michele_apicell ... tra queste diverse e tendenzialmente inconciliabili esigenze sia più o meno adeguato. Ad esempio, in UK i collegi uninominali, che hanno funzionato abbastanza bene per secoli, ormai palesemente non garantiscono più né rappresentatività né governabilità. 3/
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Jul 20
1/ A viral post claims Brian Hooker, PhD, established that the only Amish people with autism were children vaccinated before being adopted—and that there are “zero” cases among unvaccinated Amish-born children.

He established no such thing.

The clip being recirculated in July 2026 comes from a July 15, 2025 Senate hearing. Hooker’s written testimony identifies him as the chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense.

A Senate microphone does not turn an unsupported assertion into epidemiology.

Sources: Official Senate hearing⁠,

hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/…

Hooker’s written testimony⁠.

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2/ The story is largely recycled from journalist Dan Olmsted’s 2005 “Amish anomaly” columns.

Olmsted went to Lancaster County, asked local contacts whether they knew autistic Amish people, and emphasized an adopted child who had previously been vaccinated.

That might generate a hypothesis. It cannot estimate prevalence or establish causation.

There was no representative sampling frame, comprehensive case-finding system, standardized diagnostic assessment, matched comparison group or verified individual exposure history.

“I did not find them by asking around” does not mean “they do not exist.”

Sources: Archived Olmsted series⁠, 1796web.com/pdfs/Amish_ano… history and assessment of the claim⁠. fullfact.org/health/amish-a…Image
3/ When researchers actually screened an Amish population, they found autism.

From 2008–2009, clinicians went door-to-door in large Amish communities in Ohio and Indiana and screened 1,899 children ages 3–21.

Twenty-five screened positive. Fourteen completed comprehensive assessment, and seven were confirmed as having ASD using the ADI and/or ADOS plus clinical judgment.

The preliminary observed prevalence was approximately 1 in 271.

That estimate has important limitations—but it is very clearly not zero.

Source: 2010 International Meeting for Autism Research abstract⁠. imfar.confex.com/imfar/2010/web…Image
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Jul 20
🚨🇷🇴 ANALYSIS: There is a common misconception - caused by a barrage of coordinated misinformation - that Andrew Tate beat his Romanian case, and that there is something 'suspicious' about his recent arrest.

Not one charge was dismissed on the evidence. A pretrial court found that his indictment was poorly drafted and sent it back to prosecutors to revise it. He told the world that it was a victory.

Here is what actually happened, in order. Bookmark for reference 🧵⬇️Image
December 2024. The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled on the DIICOT indictment covering organised criminal group, continuous human trafficking and continuous r*pe. It excluded a body of evidence and returned the file to prosecutors. The ruling was final.
What that ruling decided: whether the indictment and parts of the investigation were legally sound. What it did not decide: whether anything alleged in it happened.

No court has ever examined that. There was no trial. There was no acquittal. There was no finding of innocence.
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Jul 20
Geteilt von Folgschwärmer:
▶️ Mehrfach selbst an Infoständen erlebt:
▶️ BKA-Statistik zu rechtsextremen Straftaten "glaube ich nicht".
Ich erwidere
👉 "Statistiken beruhen auf Fakten. Fakten sind Fakten". "Glaube ich nicht".

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Dazu passt das Zitat von Hannah Ahrendt
▶‼️"Ein Volk, das nichts mehr glauben kann, kann sich zu nichts mehr entschließen.
▶️ Ihm wird nicht nur die Fähigkeit geraubt zu handeln, sondern auch die Fähigkeit zu denken und zu urteilen.
‼️Mit so einem Volk kann man machen, was man will."

Die AfD-Indoktrination wirkt...

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Jul 20
saw #Elf on #shroom, said "G'day!"(??)
"#rEeLlY?"
use ai??
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Jul 20
CLAUDE CAN FIX YOUR ENTIRE FINANCIAL SITUATION IN JUST ONE WEEKEND.

Here are 10 prompts to help you build wealth from scratch:
1. diversified income plan

prompt:

step into the role of my personal finance planner. i want to grow several income channels so i’m not relying on just one paycheck.

review what i earn from today: [list]
cash i can put to work: [amount]
hours i can dedicate each week: [hours]

propose **7 realistic income channels** tailored to my constraints and strengths, drawing from options like employment compensation, investing, micro-businesses, dividend strategies, rental cash flow, digital assets/products, affiliate partnerships, and fee-based services.

for each channel, provide:

ease of starting (low/medium/high)

upfront money needed

how soon it can start paying

overall risk

growth potential

best sequence to launch (what comes first, second, etc.)

after that, map out a **month-by-month 12-month action plan** plus a checklist i can follow to make my finances sturdier and less fragile.
2. debt payoff command center

prompt:

step into the role of a debt payoff strategist.

here’s what i owe: [list each debt with balance, apr, and minimum payment]
extra cash i can add each month: [amount]

run a side-by-side comparison of these approaches:

snowball: knock out the smallest balance first to build momentum
avalanche: target the highest apr first to cut interest fastest
hybrid: mix quick wins with smart interest savings

for each approach, provide:

the exact payoff sequence
the monthly payment plan (minimums + how the extra amount gets assigned)
projected total interest cost
estimated date i’m completely debt-free
key benefits
key drawbacks
your best recommendation based on my numbers and priorities

end with a simple month-by-month checklist i can follow and a clean debt tracker table i can update as i go.
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Jul 20
[Facilities for retired HC judges]

CJI: There is lack of uniformity in facilities for retired judges. Some states are giving all that is needed. But some states do nothing at all

Justice Bagchi: Security of one police officer for five years is reasonable for a high court judge..because they deal with sensitive issues also.

CJI: See the clause Rs 15,000 for secretarial services, security, travel etc

Adv: Yes the multiplier is low. But we are giving 50,000 also

CJI to SG Mehta: The govt should constitute a committee.. the issue is some basic amenities to be provided for HC judges. There is a need for uniformity. Centre can prescribe some norms as centre also releases some funds. If centre does not constitute then we have toImage
CJI: It appears that the Union of India is also a rightful stakeholder, especially when we expect that a part of the differential burden ought to be shared by the Union and the States in a defined manner.
There can indeed be no doubt that these facilities must be ensured on a uniform basis, as there is no reason whatsoever for such amenities to vary from State to State.
Keeping this perspective in mind, we have impressed upon the Union of India to constitute a committee to lay down uniform guidelines and also the manner and mechanism for financial assistance.
Such a committee shall be constituted within two weeks. Thereafter, the committee shall submit its recommendations to the Union of India and also place the same before this Court within three months from the date of its constitution.
List this matter after three months.
Sr Adv Amit Sharma: On the last occasion, Your Lordships had directed all the High Courts to file affidavits indicating whether they were facing any difficulty pursuant to the directions passed by this Hon'ble Court. All the High Courts have filed their compliance affidavits.
I would only request that the learned Amicus prepare a compilation of those affidavits and place it before this Hon'ble Court, so that if any further directions are required, the Court may consider passing them
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Jul 20
HDFC Bank fell nearly 5% today.

Profit was UP 5%. Provisions DOWN 79%. Advances grew 15.4%.

So why did the largest private bank in India lose thousands of crores in market cap on a Monday morning?

The answer is a lesson in reading bank results. Thread.
Start with the headline: net profit ₹19,060 crore, up 5% YoY.

Sounds fine.

But ask the first question every bank quarter deserves: where did the profit come from? Lending? Or accounting?
Provisions fell from ₹14,442 crore to ₹3,060 crore. A 79% drop.

That alone explains most of the profit growth.

The core lending engine? NII grew just 6.7%. Slowest among the big 4 private banks this quarter.
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Jul 20
Good morning!

Trying to figure out what’s burning where around Moscow – there are fires in three different places already.
Podolsk - 36 km from Moscow
Oil terminal
Three strikes have been reported in Podolsk: one hit an oil depot, and two hit Wildberries warehouses. Image
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Jul 20
On 10 July 2026, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) walked into Home Minister Amit Shah’s office and asked him to withdraw the very bill this piece is about. Cardinal Anthony Poola and Archbishop Anil Couto handed the Home Minister a memorandum arguing the FCRA amendments would cripple charitable institutions built over decades.

However, Shah’s reported reply is worth sitting with before I make my own argument, because he made it for me. He told the delegation the amendments “should not be viewed as being directed against the Christian community,” and that donations to Christian organisations amount to only a fraction of what the law actually regulates.

I didn’t say that line. The Home Minister of our nation did, in a private meeting. It is the same claim I’m about to spend several thousand words defending.

By A Shaw

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“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

The remark, widely attributed to Henry Kissinger, stayed with me long after I first encountered it. I had been reading about the making of the United States: how Native American societies were ethnically cleansed, displaced, converted and, ultimately, swallowed one treaty at a time, into an expanding republic that regarded its own civilisation as both inevitable and benevolent.

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THIS PATTERN IS older than the modern nation-state that America is today. It flows from a deep theopolitical current (refers to the fusion of religious belief and political authority, where governance or social order is viewed as carrying out God’s mandate; e.g., territorial expansionism for divine purpose—a concept historically associated with both Christianity and Islam in different ways).
Long before the concept of jihad took shape in the Islamic world, Christendom had already developed a militarised tradition of expansion. The Crusades, launched in the 11th century, with conversion and militarisation of Rome, were not merely defensive wars but campaigns of territorial conquest and conversion blessed by the Church.

From the conversion of pagan Europe under Rome and Charlemagne’s brutal Saxon campaigns, where baptism or death was often the choice, to the Reconquista in Spain and the forced conversions in the New World, Christianity repeatedly demonstrated its capacity to function as both spiritual mission and imperial instrument. Churches and missionary orders frequently served as the soft edge of hard power, the theological justification and administrative infrastructure for colonialism.

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Jul 20
Everything you’ve been told about cortisol is probably wrong.

Social media blames cortisol for:
Belly fat,Weight gain,Fatigue
Poor sleep, Anxiety,Sugar cravings
The science is far more nuanced.
Let’s separate facts from fiction.👇
1) Myth #1: Cortisol is a bad hormone.
Myth #1: Cortisol is a bad hormone.
Truth:
Without cortisol, you cannot survive.
Cortisol helps:
• Maintain blood pressure
• Regulate blood sugar
• Control inflammation
• Support immunity
• Help you wake up each morning

The goal isn’t low cortisol.
The goal is healthy cortisol.
Myth #2: High cortisol all day is normal.

Healthy cortisol follows a rhythm.

⬆️ Highest in the morning (helps you wake up)

⬇️ Gradually declines throughout the day

⬇️ Lowest at night (helps you sleep)

It’s the loss of this rhythm, not cortisol itself, that’s often the problem.
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Jul 20
🧵🇷🇺 Russia built an elite drone unit to hunt Ukrainian logistics. Today, Ukraine is forcing those exact same crews to sit on folding chairs and babysit civilian cargo ships.

The empire has a new problem. It has to guard everything it cannot afford to lose. 1/🧵
Ukraine has reportedly hit so many vessels that Russia is redeploying up to 200 crews from its advanced Rubikon drone center.

These are specialists meant to be hunting infantry and mining roads. Now they are squinting at the sky over a floating crane. 2/
A drone crew cannot be in two places at once. This is one of the hardest laws of war to repeal.

A tanker now becomes a small fortress. A tugboat becomes a consumer of scarce attention. One elite crew on the water is one less crew on the front line. 3/
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Jul 20
"Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM"

The why isn't Andy Burnham being honest about the climate and ecological emergency, and the serious challenges it poses to the UK?

"as he prepares to introduce measures to ease the cost of living and allow more North Sea fossil fuel drilling."
theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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After all this report is by the UK Intelligence Services and is on the UK Govt website.

"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks."

Look at the dates given, this is not some far off future threat.

"The resilience of human systems to ecosystem degradation is moderately uncertain and the wider geopolitical context out to 2030 and 2050 is highly uncertain."
gov.uk/government/pub…
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Then there is potential AMOC collapse, driven by climate change, which would make agriculture in Northern Europe, including the UK, all but impossible. Along with other major climate impacts.

3/5gov.uk/government/pub…
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Jul 20
Gedanken zur Tageslosung für Montag, den 20.07.2026

Losungswort
Die Worte des HERRN sind lauter wie Silber, im Tiegel geschmolzen, geläutert siebenmal.
Psalm 12,7

Lehrtext
Jesus spricht: Ich bin dazu geboren und in die Welt gekommen, dass ich die Wahrheit bezeuge. Wer aus der
Wahrheit ist, der hört meine Stimme.
Johannes 18,37

Die Losungen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine

Aus der Wahrheit sein

Im heutigen Lehrtext sagt Jesus Christus: „Wer aus der Wahrheit ist, der hört meine Stimme.“ Dieser Ausspruch Jesu ist meiner Meinung nach ein Schlüssel für
Losungswort und Lehrtext. Im Vorfeld des Losungswortes beklagte David, dass nur noch wenige Gott ernst nehmen. So sagte er: „Einer redet mit dem andern Lug und Trug, sie heucheln und reden aus zwiespältigem Herzen.“(1) Etliche meinten anscheinend,
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