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Has strong opinions on the Octonauts' team dynamics. I was detransitioning before it was cool.
Katılım Eylül 2025
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There is a type of quasiparticle, called a semi-Dirac fermion, that exists in a bizarre state where it has mass when moving in one direction but is massless when moving in a perpendicular direction.
First predicted 16 years ago, physicists finally observed this behaviour in 2024 within a crystal of zirconium silicon sulfide (ZrSiS).
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The historic wooden escalators in the Sint-Annatunnel (St. Anna Pedestrian Tunnel) in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Absolutely mind boggling..
"in their Excel spreadsheet, Reinhart and Rogoff had not selected the entire row when averaging growth figures: they omitted data from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark.
In other words, they had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation.
When that error was corrected, the “0.1% decline” data became a 2.2% average increase in economic growth."
And as the underlaying New York Review article notes, the erroneous "claim was widely cited by politicians and accepted as a factual justification for austerity, to the extent that Paul Krugman thought it “may have had more immediate influence on public debate than any previous paper in the history of economics.”"
Hongshen Zhu@HongshenZhu
Indeed a crazy story. “High debt share hampers GDP growth” is still somehow a received wisdom preached to developing countries including China, yet just a boomer fat finger error.
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@JonathonPSine @LizSimmie This spreadsheet error was discovered by the bassist from Light Sweet Crude
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@Tobillo_Roto @SamaHoole Not an expert, but I suspect it's more the constant availability.
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Since you’re the first carnivore account I’m following, I’d genuinely like to ask you a few questions. I’ve been carnivore for 17 weeks now, lost 10 kg already and I’m trying to understand the reasoning more deeply.
If we evolved clear physiological mechanisms to process sugar, insulin response, glycogen storage, glucose transporters, were those systems meant to be irrelevant?
If honey was genuinely ancestral and highly prized, was the problem its existence, or its rarity?
Were our ancestors harmed by occasional energy-dense carbohydrate exposure, or was the danger chronic overavailability?
If context determines metabolic outcome, shouldn’t the discussion focus on frequency, total load, and activity level rather than simply labeling something “not paleo”?
Is the issue the banana itself, or the sedentary, constantly-fed modern environment?
And if someone trains intensely, maintains good insulin sensitivity, and controls overall intake, why wouldn’t strategic carbohydrate use enhance performance rather than undermine it?
I’m not challenging the framework, I’m trying to understand where the line is drawn.
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Wild banana: 90% seeds, 10% bitter flesh, inedible without cooking, filled with hard black seeds the size of peppercorns
Modern banana: Seedless, sweet, soft, 23% sugar content, bred for 10,000 years to be edible
Paleo influencer: "Our ancestors thrived on bananas!"
Our ancestors: Would have spat out wild bananas and gone back to hunting bison
The banana you're eating is closer to a Snickers bar than anything that existed in nature.
You're not eating Paleolithic food. You're eating 10 millennia of selective breeding compressed into a yellow crescent.
Wild bananas still exist. Go try one. Report back on how "ancestral" they taste.
Spoiler: They taste like you're chewing a mouthful of bitter seeds.
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@SamaHoole @JamesOnekaka Oh! I actually have an answer to this one!
The artificial banana flavoring used for candy is apparently a pretty good match for what those bananas tasted like, according to contemporary sources who ate both.
quora.com/Is-the-story-o…
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@JamesOnekaka Makes me wonder what the OG commercial bananas tasted like.
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@ZeRealityFabric @SamaHoole It's also surprisingly high in iron. Which seems bizarre on the face of it, being 90% sugar water. But again, no match for animal sources.
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@SamaHoole Water melon is unique in the fact that is has choline as an amino acid, (last time I checked any fact sheet), making it the only plant worth consuming for brain growth.
However, choline gained in other sources outperform this source, greatly.
Ehhrm, 6+ eggs daily.
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Wild watermelon (circa 3000 BC): Small, hard, bitter, white flesh, mostly rind, consumed for water in African desert because there was literally nothing else
Modern watermelon: 92% water, 6% sugar, red flesh, massive, sweet, seedless varieties available
Your Paleolithic ancestors weren't eating watermelon as a healthy snack.
They were desperately hydrating in the Kalahari because all the water sources dried up.
It was emergency hydration that tasted terrible, not a fruit salad ingredient.
The ancient Egyptians had to breed them for 2,000 years before they became remotely pleasant to eat.
"But watermelon is natural!"
So is arsenic. Natural ≠ optimal.
Modern watermelon is as natural as a poodle. Technically derived from nature, heavily modified by humans, wouldn't survive without intervention.
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He was called the strangest man in physics.
Not the brightest. Not the fastest. The strangest.
But here's what they never told you about him.
His name was Paul Dirac. Born in Bristol, 1902.
His father had one rule: you could only speak to him in French. When young Paul couldn't find the words, he stopped speaking entirely.
That silence became a superpower.
At 25, he wrote a single equation that united quantum mechanics with Einstein's relativity. Two pillars of physics that nobody could connect.
A quiet boy from Bristol did it with a pen.
Then his equation predicted something impossible. A mirror particle. Matter that shouldn't exist.
Other scientists said he was wrong.
Dirac said nothing.
In 1932, they found it. Antimatter. Exactly where his equation said it would be.
They gave him the Nobel Prize. He nearly REFUSED it — he hated publicity so much.
They offered him a knighthood. He turned that down too. Didn't want to be called Sir.
He was given Newton's chair at Cambridge. Held it for 37 years. Barely spoke a word.
Today every MRI scanner uses his equation. Every particle accelerator is built on his work. Every smartphone chip traces back to his mathematics.
His memorial stone lies in Westminster Abbey. Right next to Newton.
The greatest British physicist since Newton. And most of Britain has never heard his name.
Until now. proudofus.co.uk/about
Be part of us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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The vegetables you eat today didn't exist 200 years ago.
Wild cabbage was a bitter, toxic weed that would make you violently ill. Modern broccoli, kale, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts: they're all recent human inventions, selectively bred to be less poisonous and more palatable.
We had to spend thousands of years beating the toxins out of these plants just to make them edible. Meanwhile, a wild aurochs 10,000 years ago was just as nutritious as grass-fed beef today.
Plants needed a complete genetic overhaul to stop poisoning us. Meat didn't even need fire. If that doesn't tell you which one we're adapted to eat, nothing will.
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What's especially crazy is that way back when @elonmusk excoriated this plan for being insanely overpriced and technologically unambitious. Somehow it's now worse on both fronts.
Wayne Dunlap@wdunlap
Don’t be like California! 17 YEARS AGO California voters approved $33 Billion for a network of high-speed trains in California to be completed connecting our large cities by 2020 (5 years ago)… after wasting $18 BILLION, TODAY NO TRACKS HAVE BEEN LAID! Now the estimate for a much downsized project is $128 Billion (an incredible $206 Million per mile) and still no path to completion - only a ‘promise’ to have something in a low traffic area in 7 more years. Ridership forecasts are dropping due to work at home, 100,000’s of people leaving the State (700,000 last year alone), and slower economic growth… Yet they are still wasting $Billions more on this FINANCIAL DISASTER! WHERE DID THE MONEY ACTUALLY GO?
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What's especially crazy is that way back when @elonmusk excoriated this plan for being insanely overpriced and technologically unambitious. Somehow it's now worse on both fronts.
Wayne Dunlap@wdunlap
Don’t be like California! 17 YEARS AGO California voters approved $33 Billion for a network of high-speed trains in California to be completed connecting our large cities by 2020 (5 years ago)… after wasting $18 BILLION, TODAY NO TRACKS HAVE BEEN LAID! Now the estimate for a much downsized project is $128 Billion (an incredible $206 Million per mile) and still no path to completion - only a ‘promise’ to have something in a low traffic area in 7 more years. Ridership forecasts are dropping due to work at home, 100,000’s of people leaving the State (700,000 last year alone), and slower economic growth… Yet they are still wasting $Billions more on this FINANCIAL DISASTER! WHERE DID THE MONEY ACTUALLY GO?
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Workers Pretended To Work Because NEWSOM PRETENDED TO BUILD A High-Speed Rail.
Contractors paid $170k a day for delays =$800 Million
For No Work. NO Tracks.
California’s high-speed rail is the biggest taxpayer-funded FRAUD in American history.
Gov Gavin Newsom is right at the center of it.
They sold voters a $33B dream train from LA to SF. Now? Over $135B wasted, 18+ years later, ZERO operational track, zero trains running.
Worse: a shady “non-execution of contract” clause pays contractors $170,000 👉PER DAY👈for delays — meaning taxpayers shelled out OVER $800 MILLION for contractors to do literally 👉👉NOTHING.
That’s not incompetence, it’s taxpayer theft by design.
Stay quiet. Smile and nod.
Money funneled to cronies while California roads crumble, homeless camps explode, drug addicts OD on streets, and hardworking Californians get crushed by high taxes.
.@CAgovernor Newsom approved these sweetheart deals. Where did the cash really go? WHO got rich while the rail project went nowhere?
No more blank checks for Democrat pet projects.l with “loopholes”—slyly crafted.
Lax oversight happens when big government in single party rule states runs wild. 🇺🇸
#HighSpeedRailScam #GavinNewsom #CaliforniaFraud #TaxpayerRipoff
American AF 🇺🇸@iAnonPatriot
Gavin Newsom says he’s getting started on California’s high-speed rail — the same project he said he was starting back in 2010.. More fraud incoming.
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Many cognitive changes are negotiations, not failures.
The brain adjusting how much it holds, how fast it moves, and how widely it scans.
When we stop interpreting these negotiations as loss, people often regain trust in their thinking - and trust is one of the strongest stabilisers cognition has.
#Cognition #HealthyAgeing
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Oh hey, my kids have that book!
Pepijn Leonard Demortier@PepijnDemortier
“White people have no culture” Yet the depth of civilization and sophistication encapsulated in this random 18th century British war ship surpasses, by immeasurable magnitudes, the aggregate historical achievements of certain entire continents.
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