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@pravchak 😄😄

Under this leader’s reign: 1: His close industrialist friend rose to be richest thru cronyism 2: He brought in electoral system changes to ensure all corporate funding only for his party & controlled the Election body 3. He helped his crony to take over the country’s leading media firm 4: Doubled capital expenditure share of spending to give contracts to favoured few 5: Packed the Courts with his judges 6: Invested in a huge social media troll army 7: Trump endorsed his election campaign & he did a rally for Trump 8: Triggered social divisions & ‘divided & conquered’ 9: Ruled by instilling fear across all sections of society He, Viktor Orban of Hungary, just lost power after 16 years of such rule (any parallel with other leaders is neither coincidental nor unintentional)

@Gill_Gross @BenRothenberg In all honesty, he’s too fresh after such a gruelling run. So I think it’s the drug’s doing his work. I instinctively felt it after his Zverev victory. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤨

For Sinner to even play anything close to his best tennis this week, was incredible. Yes, the final was choppy both sides. But to go from winning the Sunshine Double... one week to prepare for clay assuming no rest. Beast of a task to then win Monte Carlo. What a machine he is.

Omg this is one coolest stage performances I have seen. I don't understand the words but the singing is so beautiful. This is art. Rosalia 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

THE INFRARED DEFICIT Winter kills more people than summer. That's been true for decades. Researchers blamed vitamin D deficiency for a while, but the pattern persisted even when controlling for that variable. Something else about sunlight was protective, and nobody could pin it down. The answer sits in plain sight. Most photons from the sun exist in the infrared spectrum. You can't see them. You feel them as heat, but they're not heat itself. They're electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light, ranging from 760 nanometers out past 1200. This light penetrates everything. The atmosphere barely stops it. Your clothes barely stop it. Takes 10 to 13 layers of fabric to fully block infrared photons. They pass through your skin and come out the other side, though weaker because your tissues absorb much of it along the way. The sun's photosphere selectively allows infrared through more easily than other wavelengths. Our atmosphere has transparency windows at specific infrared frequencies because nitrogen and oxygen bonds absorb other wavelengths. The light that makes it through happens to be exactly what penetrates tissue and reaches mitochondria. That's not coincidence. That's design, whether you want to call it evolution or something else. Mitochondria sit at the center of nearly every chronic disease. Diabetes. Obesity. Heart failure. Dementia. Cancer. All of them show mitochondrial dysfunction. The central theory of aging says energy output from mitochondria drops 60 to 70 percent after age 40. Your cellular batteries run down. Food breaks down into acetyl-CoA regardless of whether you ate fat, protein, or carbohydrates. That two-carbon molecule enters the mitochondrial matrix and goes through the Krebs cycle to extract high-energy electrons. Those electrons exist as NADH and FADH2, which feed into the electron transport chain. Picture the Colorado River dropping from high elevation down to sea level. We built dams at various points. Niagara Falls works the same way. Lake Erie sits 200 feet above Lake Ontario. Water falls through turbines and generates electricity. Mitochondria do something similar. High-energy electrons drop down an energy gradient. Instead of turning turbines, they pump protons out into a reservoir around the mitochondria. Those protons eventually flow back in through ATP synthase, creating ATP. That's cellular energy. The electron transfer isn't smooth. When an electron moves from one protein to another, it leaves behind a positive charge and creates a negative charge where it lands. Water molecules surrounding these proteins have to reorganize themselves to buffer those charges. That reorganization creates resistance. Rudolf Marcus won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992 for describing this barrier. He's 102 years old now, still alive in Pasadena. His equations showed that electron transfer faces reorganization energy. The protein changes shape. The water molecules flip orientation. That takes energy and slows the whole process down. Infrared light reduces that barrier. Multiple wavelengths of infrared introduce low-energy vibrations that make water molecules restructure more easily. The electrons slide down the transport chain faster instead of having to push through resistance. Protons pump out more efficiently. ATP production increases. Glenn Jeffrey tested this in humans. He gave subjects glucose and measured their blood sugar spike. Those exposed to long-wavelength infrared light showed a 20 percent reduction in glucose spike compared to controls. They also exhaled more carbon dioxide, which indicates increased mitochondrial metabolism. The light made their mitochondria work better. Brazilian researchers ran randomized controlled trials on COVID patients. Fifteen minutes of infrared light per day at 2.9 milliwatts per square centimeter. That's a fraction of what you get from sunlight, which delivers about 100 milliwatts per square centimeter at Earth's surface. The intervention group left the hospital four days earlier than controls. Twelve days versus eight days. The intervention group started sicker than the control group. Tamiflu got FDA approval because it reduced flu symptoms by 24 hours. We're talking about a four-day reduction in hospitalization from 15 minutes of weak infrared light. Another Brazilian study looked at ICU patients. Same protocol. Same results. Thirty percent reduction in length of stay. Patients came out stronger with less need for physical therapy. This isn't a small effect. This isn't marginal. The dose is tiny and the results are dramatic. You don't need much exposure. Fifteen to twenty minutes triggers the effect. More exposure doesn't help much beyond that. Jeffrey tested this across species including bees, insects, and humans. Same pattern every time. It's like flipping a switch. The light doesn't need to be strong. The randomized trials used 2.9 milliwatts per square centimeter. That's weak. Much weaker than sunlight. But it works because the threshold is low. We've created environments that block this wavelength entirely. Windows block infrared to reduce cooling costs. LED bulbs replaced incandescent bulbs to save energy. Incandescent bulbs produce infrared as a byproduct of their inefficiency. LEDs don't. Bob Fosbury calls this the scurvy of the 21st century. British sailors three hundred years ago preserved food in ways that stripped out vitamin C. They developed scurvy on long voyages. The solution was simple. Drink lime juice. Your gums stop bleeding. Your shipmates stop dying. We've done the same thing with light. We optimized for energy efficiency and created an infrared deficit. The wavelength that mitochondria need most is the wavelength we removed from our environment. Infrared penetrates clothing. You can get exposure fully dressed. Even in winter. Even in Toronto. Even when it's below freezing. Watch snow on a sunny winter day. It melts. The temperature might be below freezing, but the snow still drips. That's infrared light penetrating the atmosphere and heating the snow surface. The moment the sun sets, even if air temperature hasn't changed, the melting stops immediately. No more drips. The light that melts snow in Toronto winter is the same light that charges your mitochondria. Studies show broad-spectrum infrared works better than monochromatic laser light. Jeffrey compared the two using color vision tests. The eye's retina has the highest concentration of mitochondria in the body. Monochromatic light improved color differentiation by about 15 percent in some cone types. Incandescent light improved all cone types by over 20 percent. Infrared saunas deliver monochromatic wavelengths. They show benefits in studies. But they might not beat just spending time outside in natural sunlight, which delivers broad-spectrum infrared. The mechanism makes sense now. Multiple wavelengths reduce reorganization energy across different electron transfer points in the chain. One wavelength helps one transfer. Multiple wavelengths help multiple transfers. The whole chain runs smoother. We spent years looking at vitamin D because that's what we could measure easily. We missed the bigger effect happening at the mitochondrial level in every cell. The sun isn't just making vitamin D in your skin. It's charging every battery in your body. The medical establishment approved drugs that reduce symptoms by hours. We're seeing interventions that reduce hospitalizations by days using nothing but light at doses weaker than natural sunlight. The implications are straightforward. Modern environments removed a fundamental input to cellular metabolism. We replaced incandescent bulbs with LEDs to save electricity. We installed low-E windows to reduce cooling costs. We moved indoors and stayed there. Every optimization for energy efficiency created a deficit in biological energy production. Subscribers will find detailed practical protocols for infrared exposure in Part 2 below, including specific implementation strategies, timing recommendations, and alternative approaches for those unable to access natural sunlight regularly.

Listen to an experienced professional diplomat. Thanks ma’am for speaking out. We learn n absorb your knowledge and wisdom 💫🙏

There is a certain genre of writing that substitutes accusation for argument. It begins by assigning motive, then arranges facts,real, distorted, or imagined, to fit that conclusion. The recent commentary on my views on India-Pakistan relations follows that familiar script. Let me state the essentials clearly. To argue that India must combine deterrence with engagement is NOT to diminish the reality of terrorism, nor to excuse it. It is to recognise how serious nations manage adversaries. India has, across governments and decades, done precisely this, responding firmly to terror while retaining channels of communication where necessary to prevent escalation and miscalculation. This is not sentimentality. It is statecraft. The suggestion that engagement grants “impunity” rests on a false binary, that one must either talk or act. In practice, states do both. To collapse that complexity into a moral accusation may make for forceful prose, but it does not make for sound policy. The caricature of a women’s caucus is equally misplaced. It is not proposed as a substitute for national policy, nor as a solution to entrenched conflict. It is a modest Track II initiative, one of many possible avenues, to widen dialogue, reduce hostility, and explore areas where cooperation may still be possible. Such efforts do not require approval from those who see every form of engagement as capitulation. Invoking the suffering of victims of terrorism to argue against any form of dialogue is particularly troubling. Their loss demands seriousness, not rhetorical deployment. Accountability is not strengthened by narrowing the space for thought. The claim that an idea is discredited because it is welcomed by a Pakistani voice is also a curious standard. If the merit of an argument is to be judged by who agrees with it, then independent judgment itself is surrendered. Ideas must stand or fall on their own logic. Beyond the rhetoric lies a more fundamental question: what is India’s end game with Pakistan? If it is to reduce Pakistan to rubble, that is fantasy dressed up as toughness. It is not going to happen, and any attempt to move in that direction would risk catastrophe for the entire region, not least for India. Nuclear geography is a stern schoolmaster. It does not indulge chest-thumping. The real end game has to be containment, deterrence, internal strengthening, and selective engagement. In plain words: India’s objective should be to make Pakistan’s use of terror too costly to sustain, while preventing the relationship from sliding into permanent uncontrolled escalation. That means four things. First, raise the cost of terrorism. Through intelligence, border management, diplomatic isolation where warranted, calibrated military response when necessary, and relentless exposure of the infrastructure of proxy violence. No illusions there. Second, deny Pakistan veto power over India’s future. We should not let our growth, our diplomacy, our regional ambitions, or our internal confidence be held hostage by a single hostile neighbour. The greatest strategic answer to Pakistan is a stronger, more cohesive, more prosperous India. Third, manage the conflict, not romanticise it. There will be no grand reconciliation in the near term. But neither can every interaction be reduced to rage. Ceasefire mechanisms, back channels, water safeguards, crisis hotlines, and limited functional engagement are not signs of softness. They are instruments of control. Fourth, keep open the possibility of a different future without betting on it. That is where dialogue belongs. Not as wishful thinking, not as “aman ki asha” balloon releases, but as disciplined statecraft. You talk not because you trust, but because you must understand, signal, warn, probe, and occasionally de-escalate. So the end game is not rubble. It is a Pakistan that is deterred, constrained, denied easy success, and unable to derail India’s future. Fury is a mood. It is not a policy.

@umyaznemo That’s the idiot You elected 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

No, this isn't a sitcom. This is real life!

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@LangmanVince What a sport! 😍😍

He nailed every one perfectly! 🤣

What a dream to sing a baby elephant to sleep...❤️

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

Ukrainian fighters carried out a unique operation near Kostiantynivka. A robot was returning to base after successfully delivering ammunition, food, and medical supplies to soldiers of the 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade. On the way back, it encountered troops from another brigade who were trying to evacuate a wounded soldier. Through the built-in speakers, the operator of the Sirko ground robotic system addressed them: "Glory to Ukraine, warriors! Do you need help?" The robot took the wounded soldier on board. Over the next 20 minutes, Sirko raced at full speed, evading Russian drones.

@CardiffGarcia Maybe 1 more. And use both simultaneously. They last longer and aren’t unused, which is when the glue dries n sole comes off the body.

When you find a pair of running shoes that are super comfortable and also fit your style perfectly, order ten pair immediately and stick the extras in a closet because they absolutely will be discontinued soon.

@Joseph_Fasano_ 👋

I need to find my people again in this place—and a reason to stay and keep doing what I do. If you love poetry, resist fascism & hatred, believe in education, and just generally value tenderness and empathy and love, can you say hi? I need to get this algorithm straightened out.

We have been told that Gaza’s borders are closed indefinitely. If they stay closed, @wckitchen will run out of food this week. We are cooking 1M hot meals every day. We need food deliveries every single day to feed hungry families who are not part of this war. All the NGOs in Gaza need more food, medicine, medical equipment, fuel, tents, personal care every day. We cannot wait...let the humanitarian trucks go through today! #ChefsForGaza

One of man’s duties on Earth….to look after God’s creations. That Land Cruiser did an amazing job. Toyota should add "can help pull an elephant from a sink hole" in their adds.😂 The elephant is so exhausted. So happy you could get him out. ❤️

Now this is what I call ‘wholesome content’ 🥰

As the world watches a once respected nation stand beside a war criminal - Sharing how the non-violence icon & civil rights legend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remembered that same nation's first PM after his death. Read. 🙏🏾 "... It would be hard to overstate Nehru’s and India’s contributions in this period. It was a time fraught with the constant threat of a devastating finality for mankind. There was no moment in this period free from the peril of atomic war. In these years Nehru was a towering world force skilfully inserting the peace will of India between the raging antagonisms of the Great Powers of East and West. The world needed a mediator and an ‘honest broker’ lest, in its sudden acquisition of overwhelming destructive force, one side or the other might plunge the world into mankind’s last war. Nehru had the prestige, the wisdom, and the daring to play the role. The markedly relaxed tensions of today are Nehru’s legacy to us, and at the same time they are our monument to him. It should not be forgotten that the treaty to end nuclear testing accomplished in 1963 was first proposed by Nehru. Let us also remember that the world dissolution of colonialism now speedily unfolding, had its essential origins in India’s massive victory. And let it also be remembered that Nehru guided into being the ‘Asian-African Bloc’ as a united voice for the billions who were groping toward a modern world. He was the architect of the policy of non-alignment or neutralism which was calculated to give independent expression to the emerging nations while enabling them to play a constructive role in world affairs.... In all of these struggles of mankind to rise to a true state of civilization, the towering figure of Nehru sits unseen but felt at all council tables. He is missed by the world, and because he is so wanted, he is a living force in the tremulous world of today." extract from - The Legacy of Nehru : A memorial tribute, 1965. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Compare to that with today. No matter what profit you aim as a nation it is a time of shame. Your leadership brought this low today. Shame!💔

Tom and Jerry has gotten old .....like us. Enjoy the AI version Rcvd from WA

@kela9123 😁

Crazy how the Big 3 toiled for 25 years, one going bald, the other forcing himself to eat grass, and here comes an actual charlie with talent, clutch, and a dumbass smile dialled up to 3000 and all the world already secretly knows he's the greatest tennis player that's ever been.