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@RichardDawkins Happy Birthday Richard

March 26 is #ScienceAppreciationDay. But for science you probably wouldn’t have reached your latest birthday. Talking of birthdays, March 26 is my 85th. Science saves lives. It’s also humanity’s best shot at universal understanding: one of the things that makes life worth saving.

To sell statins, we're told cholesterol damages arteries—in reality, it repairs arterial injury. Statins hence don't prevent death and give 20% of users muscle, liver or nerve damage. Here I show what doctors never tell you about statins and heart disease midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ch…

@GadSaad Aah.... the toe of the camel cannot be unseen 🐪

Look at my wife!

@k9_reaper Klipfight!!!

So.. Cape Towns looking fun

Step 1: you are a human. Stop groveling and waiting. Step 2: Tell your brain to stop thinking like an employee. You are a negotiator. An owner. An investor. A citizen. A protestor. A voter. A thinker. You’re not employee of the month. Step 3: Stop worshipping billionaires in tech. I like them and follow them closely. They are very interesting. But they are not our god king thinking class. It’s fucking enough. They are our business people in tech. No more, no less. Step 3: Get flexible. Learn AI and Coase. You want to protest and collectively liscence @AnthropicAI, @xai, @OpenAI , @GeminiApp. Accept no UBI. It’s human dignity poison. Step 4: don’t stand in the way. You can’t stop this train. But…Your wage income can go down **IF** your liscencing income SKYROCKETS. That’s Coase. Step 5: Profit.

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

@SizweLo The following is unlawful in Vietnam: 1) Moving to any place not approved by government. 2) Being "out of work" - if so, you are shipped of to work on farms producing food. Paid nearly nothing, living in huts on the farm. 3) Doing any work not approved by government.

South Africa🇿🇦 GDP: $400 billion Population: 60 million Poverty rate: 68% Vietnam🇻🇳 GDP: $470 billion Population: 100 million Poverty rate: 1% Same GDP ballpark, but South Africa has one of the world’s highest poverty and unemployment rates, with an economy dominated by hyper-capitalist finance, resource extraction and constant threats of capital flight. On the other hand, Vietnam’s economy is built on labour-intensive manufacturing that employs large portions of the population. Vietnam also has more equitable income distribution, better social services, and a socialist economic structure which opened the markets while keeping strategic state control, which created much broader income opportunities than South Africa’s investor colony model.

Read this, click these screenshots, and understand this in the context of Spain's new censorship attack on X.

@AMAZlNGNATURE Dassie.... aka Rock Hyrax .... aka Rock Rabbit

What animal is this?

Hey @CyrilRamaphosa and @GovernmentZA, THE @POTUS was right about everything, wasn't he? This is YOUR creation.

@hazelwood_dave I see the same moves in football (soccer?) Worthy of an Oscar.

The amazing part is that they posted it themselves, as if they're proud of this display. Heaven help us...

@visegrad24 This sounds like a South African song!

Soldiers of the Russian Army prepare their next assault against Ukrainian positions.

@JohnLeePettim13 Yes

🚨🇺🇸🇸🇴 MINNESOTA FRAUD EXPOSED: 100 MILLION+ VIEWS BUT THE MEDIA IS STILL PLAYING DEAD Nick Shirley dropped a 42-minute nuclear bomb on Minnesota’s massive welfare fraud scandal, and clearly the internet noticed. The full video has already racked up 30M+ views in 24 hours on X alone. Add in the clips? Well over 100 million views and counting. This is one of the biggest viral investigative stories of the year, possibly ever on X. The exposé details jaw-dropping corruption, alleged fraud networks, abuse of taxpayer money, and zero accountability from state officials. And yet… - New York Times? Not a word. - Washington Post? Nowhere. - CNN? Total blackout. Let that sink in: the entire legacy media apparatus is ignoring a story the public clearly cares about more than anything else right now. It seems more like coordinated silence to protect a narrative, because if a 100M-view bombshell doesn’t deserve coverage… What does? Source: @CollinRugg, @nickshirleyy

@Recon1_ZA @GvanOnselen @POTUS I see a ratio coming ....

@GvanOnselen I believe @POTUS played this video in the White House, Gareth or is selective amnesia kicking in. When it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, go ahead and call it a chicken...

Afriforum systematically helped Trump to paint SA to billions of people, as being defined by 52 farm murders a year (which he misrepresented as genocide, never once corrected by AfriForum) I mean you get how that is disinformation and selfishness on a global scale, right?

To reach net zero by 2050, we would need to mine 4.5 million tons of copper, 940 million tons of nickel, 9 billion tons of graphite, and 4 million tons of germanium. At today's mining rates, that would take over 1,000 years. Net zero is never going to happen.

This is Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe, wearing a green Hamas symbology headband. This is the face of Australia’s political class.

There is no “climate crisis.”

Europe is leading the way into the AI Age Pleased to announce this brand new, state-of-the-art, 330 square meter data center in the heart of Gelsenkiärken, Germany The facility will process 20 gigabytes of AI data per day Construction will begin in May 2037, pending regulatory approval and a full environmental impact study Once this place opens for business in December 2041, Europe will officially become the AI Superpower!

@konstructivizm ** eight thousand kilometers**

The Eye of the Crater On the Red Planet, there’s a place that seems to stare straight back at us—an immense hollow in Utopia Planitia, the largest impact basin in the entire Solar System. Spanning 3,300 km, it’s twice the north-south length of Earth’s Sahara Desert. This enormous scar is just one of many left by ancient asteroid strikes. Long ago, Mars was shaped by water, volcanoes, and relentless cosmic impacts. Today, it’s a cold, dry desert where the past is etched into the landscape. In this CaSSIS image, we see a crater about **eight kilometres** across—its smooth, icy-eyed appearance hinting at secrets frozen beneath the surface. Scientists believe the pattern of ejected material reveals the presence of subsurface water ice. When the asteroid slammed into this region, the ice melted instantly, and a mix of liquid water and pulverized rock blasted outward. Zoom in, and the details tell their own story: — dark streaks lining the crater walls—evidence of long-ago landslides; — delicate ripples on the floor—traces of winds that have sculpted Mars for ages. Mars may be barren now, but its wounds still whisper of a dynamic, watery world that once was. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS