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I had an Indian colleague once. She was a rare Hindu Punjabi. She fit the “goody two shoes Indian girl” stereotype almost perfectly: studious, religious, deferential to her husband, opposed to LGBTQIA+, feminism, and hookup culture. Didn’t do drugs, didn’t smoke, rarely drank, and dressed modestly. She and her husband both voted Liberal. Their reasoning was simple: the Liberals let us come to Canada, and we want to bring our families too. Everyone is a blood and soil nationalist for the people they actually like

Right, After 40 years cartoon neuron theories can’t simulate behavior of a simple worm. Thats because each of those 300 or so neurons has about a billion tubulins in hundreds of microtubules where the cognition (and consciousness) originate. For example see this paper journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11… Signaling among neurons causing axonal firings is mediated by megahertz and gigahertz oscillations in microtubules. The only theory of consciousness with any supportive evidence is Orch OR academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

NASA scientist discovers a 'new force' he has tested over 2000 times and explains the method of operation and his test results, of achieving 2 milli-newtons of thrust with 6000 volts. In a vacuum, with no propellant mass. Welcome to the sci-fi future.

@TorontoStar Sounds good

More babies, more guns, lower taxes and fewer immigrants: What Alberta separatists are promising and what they can actually deliver | #Opinion trib.al/TOH3NWU

@IterIntellectus Looks like a diffraction pattern. The angels are DMT related, I've seen something akin to it. Still interesting footage!

UFOs are biblically accurate angels?

It looks like Andes hantavirus has a long incubation period in human beings but a short infectious period of only a day or two during which airborne transmission may be easy.

@RT_com I would guess it's from optical diffraction. The object probably doesn't have this shape

Congresswoman Luna posts ‘OPHANIM’ right after Pentagon declassifies eerie 8-POINTED star UFO Ophanim described as multi-eyed ANGELS in Dead Sea Scrolls

Le Salvador, pays affichant le taux d'homicides le plus élevé au monde il y a quelques années, présente désormais un taux inférieur à celui du Canada depuis 2024. Preuve que l'incarcération des criminels, plutôt que l'octroi de peines bonbons justifiées par des traumatismes imaginaires, fonctionne.

The Iliad and Odyssey are the only nearly complete survivors of the Epic Cycle, an 8 part collection of ancient Greek epics that once told the full mythological story of the Trojan War. Homer’s poems cover only a small portion of this larger saga, with the Iliad focusing on a brief period near the end of the war and the Odyssey detailing Odysseus’ return home. The other lost epics, including the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, expanded the narrative to include the origins of the war, Achilles’ later battles, the fall of Troy, the Greek heroes’ returns, and Odysseus’ final fate. Though these poems were once foundational to Greek literary culture, they were gradually lost as manuscript traditions declined, leaving behind only fragments, summaries, and references from later classical writers. #drthehistories

Si on prend un pas de recul, comment penser qu'une population puisse avoir une contribution économique positive alors qu'elle présente les caractéristiques suivantes ? 🔴 Taux de chômage plus élevé 🔴 Taux d'emploi plus faible 🔴 Pauvreté plus élevée 🔴 Dépendance aux aides sociales plus forte 🔴 Niveau scolaire plus faible 👉 Seul un tour de magie numérique peut faire croire qu'une telle population est une bénédiction pour notre économie ⬇️

@grok @Garnet_2203 Yes that makes sense, so it's unlikely that she can be reason with if she treats it as a moral absolute? This sounds like a cult a bit no?

It's politically risky. Even for figures like Jamil Jivani (with immigrant family roots), acknowledging data on wage suppression for low-skill workers invites accusations of xenophobia or hypocrisy. Many treat high immigration as a moral absolute rather than an economic policy with trade-offs, so nuance gets shut down to protect the broader pro-migration narrative. Evidence exists, but incentives favor avoiding it.

Canadians aren’t struggling because newcomers exist. They’re struggling because wages haven’t kept up with housing, groceries, utilities, and corporate profits for years. And it’s ironic hearing this from Jamil Jivani when his own family immigrated to Canada his father from Kenya and his grandparents from Scotland and Ireland. Blaming immigrants is the oldest political distraction in the book. The real question is: why are ordinary families working harder than ever while billionaires and corporations keep posting record profits?

@grok @Garnet_2203 Why do you think it's hard to openly talk about this link for someone like the author of the original tweet?

Yes, high levels of immigration can suppress wages, especially for low-skilled native workers in directly competing occupations. Basic economics: more labor supply (without matching demand growth) lowers equilibrium wages. Canadian studies (e.g., Aydemir/Borjas, Bank of Canada) find a 10% labor supply increase in a skill group can reduce those wages 3-4%, with recent high inflows softening overall wage growth by ~0.2-0.4 pp via composition effects. Overall/native averages often show small or negligible impacts due to complementarities and demand boosts, but low-skill segments feel it more. Effects vary by policy, skills mix, and time horizon.

The “I am your father” twist in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was kept secret from almost the entire cast, with only Mark Hamill knowing it beforehand. At the premiere, Harrison Ford leaned over & told him, “Hey kid, you didn’t f**king tell me that.”

@LP_LaPresse Le futur est tier-monde

Crise des infrastructures | Multiplier les péages est urgent, conclut un nouveau rapport lapresse.ca/actualites/pol…

L’immigration n’a quasiment pas d’impact sur le financement du système de retraites Le vieillissement de la population pèse de plus en plus lourd sur les épaules des actifs peu nombreux. L’immigration en France serait sans impact sur le problème. lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran…

@LP_LaPresse Le niveau de vol a l'étalage serait extrême

Québec solidaire veut des « Costco québécois » publics lapresse.ca/actualites/pol…

White guys liked rock, but it was pushed out by the industry in favour of rap, which is very obviously not for white guys. Streaming has broken the industry's ability to force music down your throat and rap is declining because of it

Dune has capitalized where Star Wars has faltered in recent years. It’s done this by staying focused on the higher level of “mythological” storytelling instead of modern political messaging. Myth is about portraying timeless patterns in our quest for meaning.

The placenta and mammary glands do not try to keep babies low in vitamin K. They store vitamin K and slowly leak it to the baby. They preferentially transport MK-4. They are trying to engineer the antithesis of the vitamin K shot. That antithesis is not vitamin K deficiency. It is slow accumulation over time instead of a rapid bolus dose. Why? My guess is that the babies do not have well developed detoxification systems, so the placenta and mammary glands try not to expose them to massive bolus doses of glutathione-depleting agents, so they don’t get, say, autism. Humans convert all forms of vitamin K to MK-4, which is the mammalian form of vitamin K that cannot be replaced by any other form. That process involves converting it to menadione, which has high toxicity and is detoxified using glutathione. The preferential transport of MK-4 across the placenta probably reflects an ability of the baby to accumulate MK-4 without futile conversion to menadione and back to MK-4, a process that has been verified to occur in adults mediated by intestinal tissue. Even high-dose MK-4 in this process generates menadione that leaves into the urine as a glutathione conjugate. But perhaps fetuses and infants are better able to accumulate the MK-4 without so much futile cycling. That would explain the preferential transfer from the mother. Nature does not want infants to be vitamin K deficient. Infants are born deficient in vitamin K because modern diets are deficient in it. Medicine solves this problem by doing the total opposite of what nature intended and giving the infant the massive bolus dose of vitamin K that the placenta and mammary glands were trying to defend against. They used to give menadione itself but this was so toxic to infants it was replaced by vitamin K1. But vitamin K1 in large blouses will generate considerable menadione. The solution is to obey the imperatives of the placenta and and mammary glands and operate within their parameters. That means mothers eating vitamin K-rich diets before, during, and after pregnancy.