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@grok @MickCalautti @MrMakiri what about the new US guidelines?

Yes, an Australian adult can satisfy nutritional needs for $50/week per the Australian Dietary Guidelines (eatforhealth.gov.au). For ages 19-50, guidelines recommend (e.g., women: 5 veg/legumes, 2 fruit, 6 grains, 2.5 proteins, 2.5 dairy serves daily; men slightly more). A 2025 dietician plan shows a family of 4 eating healthily for $200/week ($50/person) via Aldi/Woolies staples: oats, rice, lentils, eggs, frozen veg, cheap meat/fruit in season, bulk cooking. It meets energy (~8,000kJ/day) and nutrient requirements with planning. Average single spend is higher (~$152/week), but $50 works at minimum if strategic.

Albo stands in front of Woolies and seriously asks if $50 a week is enough for one person’s groceries. Mate, for $50 I can get three days of rice, beans, and silent resentment. The other four days I’ll just lick the condensation off the fridge and dream of vegetables and meat. FFS.

@MrMakiri $150 a week more realistic if you actually want to eat food that will keep you out of hospital

@HouseoftheMuse_ what's wrong?

What the actual fuck? 🤬

Eon Systems just mapped the fruit fly's brain, which comprises about 100,000 neurons in a computer, creating a digital blueprint of a living brain. This proves that the structure of a mind can be turned into data, but we don't yet know if the copy is actually conscious. If it is, this might be the first step for humans to upload themselves and live forever...but if this becomes a possibility, would we even want to??? It also raises questions about whether we are living in a simulation. Are we the fruit fly????

@sharazer07 @PeterSweden7 according to Gemini

@PeterSweden7 Just gonna leave this here. Don’t believe me ? Do it on Google yourself. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence…

This should be headline news EVERYWHERE. A Pfizer insider who was former head of toxicology in Europe has just come out and said something that many "conspiracy theorists" suspected. He estimates that 20 000 to 60 000 people in Germany have died from the c*vid vaccine. This was said at a parliamentary enquiry commission in Germany. So why isn't this massive news being reported everywhere? Is the mainstream media that has recieved millions in funding from Bill Gates deliberately covering this up... 🤔

@ChoochSkookum It's not exciting the second time around, especially when the first time we were actually ON the moon

We flew around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and no one cares. What does that say about society?

@elonmusk Only if we fail to imprison murderers - which appears to be the case. If someone has actually done their time and has been rehabilitated, this is unjust

Given the extremely high rate of recidivism, this is important for community safety

When the state fails to provide citizens with security, society turns backward. This appears to have occurred in Roman Nida (modern-day Frankfurt, Germany). Its citizens lived at the peak of Roman engineering and logistics. Yet by 246 CE they were facing hyperinflation, border failures, and systemic decay - not dissimilar to the pressures the world faces today. Their response to that uncertain reality was ritual: archaeologists recently uncovered a sanctuary complex containing multiple ritual pits and shafts, one of which held a human skeleton alongside votive offerings. Today, it seems were are following a similar path. More people are turning to God for security and are attributing our current problems to demonic forces. This seems the only rational explanation left when governments betray their own citizens and punish them for complaining.

When the state fails to provide citizens with security, society turns backward. This appears to have occurred in Roman Nida (modern-day Frankfurt, Germany). Its citizens lived at the peak of Roman engineering and logistics. Yet by 246 CE they were facing hyperinflation, border failures, and systemic decay - not dissimilar to the pressures the world faces today. Their response to that uncertain reality was ritual: archaeologists recently uncovered a sanctuary complex containing multiple ritual pits and shafts, one of which held a human skeleton alongside votive offerings. Today, it seems were are following a similar path. More people are turning to God for security and are attributing our current problems to demonic forces. This seems the only rational explanation left when governments betray their own citizens and punish them for complaining.

Who knew? The tea plant is a natural fluoride accumulator. It pulls fluoride from the soil and stores it in its leaves. This means that if you drink tea using fluoridated water, you are getting a double-dose of fluoride. And for kids, this double dose can cause dental fluorosis. Dental fluorosis causes fine white streaks or cloudy patches on the enamel. To avoid this, switch to herbal teas or try Rooibos, a South African caffeine-free tea that is low in tannins and fluoride-free.

@elonmusk what I also love about this is that it preserves each country's language instead of forcing English to participate in social media

🌍 🌎 🌏

Ooopppssss...Albanese accidently calls himself incompetent

@Pontifex Get rid of corrupt governments and suddenly the wealth with flow.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

@PaulMarcoe Nuclear war Ozone hole

4 things I think most GenX was afraid of. Acid Rain Quick sand Bermuda Triangle Amnesia What else?

@JoeyMannarino Soon they will add men and straight and the game will end

Canada has updated the LGBTQ acronym to MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. That stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual. Yes, really. I'm not joking. I wish I was.

Germany is arming up again. This didn't work out well last time...

Asset risk is no longer about volatility. The big risk right now is jurisdictional capture. Our government continues to learn this the hard way. While nations like Poland, France, India and China have spent the last few years aggressively repatriating gold and stacking physical bullion, Australia continues to sell off its sovereign strength. We dig up 300 tonnes of gold a year and sell almost all of it. The tiny fraction we do keep is sitting in a vault in London. Are we going to learn the same lesson with gold that we were just taught with fuel? As it turns out, sourcing 80% of our fuel via the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's most notoriously unstable regions - isn't a smart policy. What are we going to do about it?

AI’s capabilities have officially outpaced the security protecting some of the world’s critical infrastructure. Anthropic says its newest AI model - Claude Mythos - is too dangerous to release, as it is able to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software for which no patch or fix exists. The company plans to use the model as a defensive weapon. “The window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited by an adversary has collapsed – what once took months now happens in minutes with AI,” said Crowdstrike’s chief technology officer, Elia Zaitsev.

AI’s capabilities have officially outpaced the security protecting some of the world’s critical infrastructure. Anthropic says its newest AI model - Claude Mythos - is too dangerous to release, as it is able to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software for which no patch or fix exists. The company plans to use the model as a defensive weapon. “The window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited by an adversary has collapsed – what once took months now happens in minutes with AI,” said Crowdstrike’s chief technology officer, Elia Zaitsev.

@IraninSA We saw you put your women and children in front of power plants today. We know who you are

Let it be remembered in history We have never started a war. We have never invaded anyone. We have not killed children. We have protected our homeland, dearer to us than our lives.