Thomas

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

True story: rats live on ships + rats shat everywhere = infection. This is a story that has been around as long as mankind has sailed the ocean. But blaming someone taking a sightseeing trip to a local dump, then that person infecting others on the ship - is nice propaganda spin for the cruise ship industry. Whoops public health and MSM - fell for it again!

The research behind this is wild. Your kitchen sponge has the same density of bacteria as human stool. German scientists found 54 billion bacterial cells per cubic centimeter inside used sponges in 2017. Yours is sitting right next to your sink. Sponges are the perfect home for bacteria. They are wet, warm, full of food bits, and never fully dry between washes. Across all 14 sponges, the team found 362 different types of bacteria. The most common species include strains that can make people sick. In 2011, the public health group NSF International swabbed 30 things in 22 American homes. The dirtiest object in the entire house was the kitchen sponge. It was dirtier than the toilet seat. 75% of the sponges tested positive for the kind of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli. Microwaving does not clean the sponge. The 2017 study found microwaved sponges had higher amounts of the smelliest, most harmful bacteria. Heat kills the weak strains. The strong ones survive and refill the sponge with no competition for space. A 2021 Norwegian study compared kitchen sponges to dish brushes. In brushes, Salmonella was wiped out within three days because the bristles dry out between uses. In sponges, bacteria climbed to about a billion cells per sponge. The lead researcher told CNN that one kitchen sponge can hold more bacteria than there are people on Earth. Three things actually work. Switch to a dish brush, because brushes dry fully between uses while sponges stay wet for hours. Replace your sponge every one to two weeks. Never leave it sitting wet in the sink. Norway and Denmark already do this by default, but most other countries don't. The detergent is fine. Your sponge is the problem.

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

Wenn abgewählte Parlamente noch schnell die Verfassung ändern, kommt nichts Gutes dabei raus. Das kennen wir vom Bundestag. Das mag vielleicht dem Buchstaben des Gesetzes entsprechen. Mit dem demokratischen Geist des Grundgesetzes hat das aber nichts zu tun.

"Wegen der Infektionsgefahr mit Corona findet die Beratung des Sozialen Dienstes für Hörgeschädigte derzeit nur telefonisch statt." Mai 2020 #RichtigErinnern

3. Use a rebounder for 3–5 minutes. You don’t need a workout. You need a state change. Gentle bouncing gives the nervous system rhythm, breath, circulation, and vestibular input. Depression collapses the body inward. Rhythm tells it: “I am moving again.”

2. Walk outdoors without devices. No music. No podcast. Just nature and you. Walking brings back horizon, rhythm, weather, light, and ground. Your mind opens because your body is no longer frozen in the same room with the same thoughts.

Want to radically change your life faster? Stop obsessing over motivation. Start redesigning your environment. Because humans rarely rise above their surroundings for long. Eventually, surroundings win. Zimbardo proved that with two abandoned cars in 1969.

The terrifying part? You are doing this to yourself every day without noticing. Every object in your room is sending instructions. Every person around you is reinforcing behaviors. Every digital feed is programming emotional patterns. Your environment is either upgrading you… or eroding you.

Zimbardo's abandoned cars revealed something uncomfortable about human nature: Most people are not inherently good or bad. They are heavily shaped by cues around them. Civilization is thinner than we think. A few signals can push humans toward beauty… or destruction.

Wie kann es sein, daß Zig Milliarden einfach verschwinden? Diese wurden doch nicht bar ausgezahlt. Es muss Übrrweisungsbelege geben.

@GGLuthe Radfahren in der Stadt ist kein Hobby, sondern eine Qual. Wer in der Stadt mit dem Rad fährt, reduziert Lärm und Gestank. Ein guter Teil des KfZ-Verkehrs in Ballungsräumen ist kein ökonomisch notwendiger Verkehr, sondern Hobby der Autler. Viele Autler fahren aus Bequemlichkeit

Diese Radspuren haben schlichtweg nichts in Ballungsräumen verloren. Wer meint, sein selbst gewähltes Hobby zu Lasten des ökonomisch notwendigen Verkehrs - dessen Belastung für alle alles verteuert - unbedingt im öffentlichen Raum ausüben zu wollen, für den gibt es Sportanlagen und Parks. Als Fortbewegungsmittel gehört das Rädchen - in Großstädten besonders gern mit Idioten besetzt, die alle Verkehrsregeln missachten - in Bereiche, in denen es den Wirtschaftsverkehr nicht stört. Es ist die Summe all dieser ideologisch bedingten Produktivitätsverluste, die die Grundlagen unserer Volkswirtschaft zersetzt. tagesspiegel.de/berlin/mehr-ve…

Die Vorsitzende der Corona-Enquete-Kommission… Weisde Bescheid…..

@Quotendeutsche Hitler war ein Mann, also sind alle Männer Hitler. So langsam glaube ich, Musk hat das ironisch gemeint.

Elon Musk trollt die Linken mit einer simplen Gleichung: Hitler war Sozialist - also sind alle Sozialisten Hitler. Ein Milliardär. Der Sozen mit Hitler gleichsetzt. Auf seiner eigenen Plattform. Die sie immer noch nutzen. Und er ist immer noch nicht enteignet. Sie können nichts dagegen tun. Viel schlimmer kann es für Linke nicht kommen. Außer vielleicht..wenn Musk das Ben Berndt Interview mit Höcke teilt und einem internationalen Publikum zugänglich macht. Ein Meer voller Tränen. Dann wäre der Tag komplett.

@Quotendeutsche Da hat Musk halt mal Schwachsinn gepostet. Hitler war Vegetarier, also sind alle Vegetarier Hitler.

In der Corona-Enquetekommission des Deutschen Bundestags wurde der damalige Vizepräsident des Robert-Koch-Instituts, Lars Schaade, heute gefragt, wie es Mitte März 2020 zur Risikohochstufung kam, obwohl hauseigene Daten keine Auffälligkeiten zeigten. Auch der ehemalige Kanzleramtschef Braun äußerte sich dazu. Fast schon bizarr wirkt das Verbot, in der Kommission Grafiken zu zeigen. Nicht einmal der aktuelle Leiter des RKI darf Daten präsentieren.

Ex SPD-Chefin Saskia Esken fordert Unternehmen zum Boykott von @benungeskriptet auf, damit der nicht mehr mit Oppositionellen reden kann. Unfassbar totalitär!

Keine Erinnerung, keine Aufzeichnungen, keine Unterlagen, keine Einsicht, keine Reue, keine Aufarbeitung. #Enquetekommission

Just 5 days after the EU launched its latest “press freedom” campaign, Berlin police were standing over journalists, checking the content of the @jungewelt newspaper today, to decide what the public is allowed to read. And they still call this “press freedom” in Europe.