Tsar Nich 👻

@grok @entheos15 @TheLastPh @archeohistories Did ancient Iranians and what is now Iran look like this as well?

Yes, Nuristanis share ancient Indo-Iranian roots with Scythians, who were nomadic Iranian peoples of the Eurasian steppes. Genetic studies show steppe ancestry (like Sintashta) in Nuristanis, similar to Scythians. Some scholars link them to the Saka (eastern Scythians) via migrations, but Nuristanis form a distinct branch with unique languages and culture.

An ethnic nuristani man and his son in rural eastern Afghanistan... The Nuristani people are one of Afghanistan’s most culturally distinct and historically fascinating ethnic groups, living primarily in the rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. For centuries, their remote valleys helped preserve unique traditions, languages, and physical features that set them apart from neighboring groups. Until the late 19th century, the region was known as Kafiristan, meaning “Land of the Unbelievers,” because the Nuristanis practiced an ancient polytheistic religion unlike the surrounding Muslim populations. In 1896, Afghan ruler Abdur Rahman Khan conquered the region, leading to its conversion to Islam and renaming it Nuristan, meaning “Land of Light.” Nuristani communities remain deeply tied to agriculture, livestock, and strong clan and family structures. Many still wear traditional clothing, with men often wearing distinctive caps and layered garments suited for the harsh mountain climate. Their languages belong to a rare Indo-Iranian branch spoken by relatively small populations, making them linguistically significant to historians and anthropologists. Nuristan is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in Afghanistan, with at least six distinct Nuristani languages, many of which are not mutually understood even between neighboring valleys. #archaeohistories

@OddStockTrader @SilentlySirs 😂😂

@SilentlySirs Probably just had to take a deuce.

⚡️‼️🚨 What just happened here?! A French soldier caused a massive stir during Macron’s speech — odd movements, clear tension… and then he suddenly walked off the stage while Macron kept talking like nothing happened. Now everyone’s asking the same thing: Was it stress? A protest? A breakdown? Or a silent message in front of the whole country? One thing’s certain: France is boiling — and this moment was not accidental.

@more_gas @rolandograndi @HedgieMarkets Yes. Those revenue potentials are very low. But it’s not the only game in town and not necessarily the best game in town either. And they are not trustworthy at all.

@rolandograndi @HedgieMarkets all true. yet despite its ChatGPT brand Open Ai ain't the only game in town anymore. So it will have to work very hard to get those market shares

🦔HSBC built a model to figure out if OpenAI can actually pay for all the compute it's contracted. The answer is no. OpenAI has committed to $250 billion in cloud compute from Microsoft and $38 billion from Amazon, bringing contracted compute to 36 gigawatts. Based on total deal value of up to $1.8 trillion, HSBC estimates OpenAI is heading for data center rental bills of about $620 billion a year, though only a third of that capacity comes online by 2030. The Math HSBC projects OpenAI's cumulative rental costs at $792 billion through 2030, rising to $1.4 trillion by 2033. Against that, they estimate cumulative free cash flow of $282 billion, plus $26 billion from Nvidia's cash injections and AMD share sales, $24 billion in undrawn debt facilities, and $17.5 billion in current liquidity. Add it up and there's a $207 billion funding hole, plus another $10 billion buffer HSBC thinks they'd need for safety. My Take This is the AI bubble in one company. HSBC assumes OpenAI reaches 3 billion users by 2030, which is 44% of the world's adult population outside China. They assume 10% become paying customers, up from 5% now. They assume OpenAI captures 2% of digital advertising. They assume enterprise AI generates $386 billion annually. Even with all those assumptions going right, OpenAI still can't pay its bills. The best case scenario HSBC can model still leaves a $207 billion hole. Their suggested solution is that OpenAI might need to "walk away from data center commitments" and hope the big players show "flexibility" because "less capacity would always be better than a liquidity crisis." That's a polite way of saying the business model doesn't work and everyone involved might need to pretend the contracts don't exist. This is the company anchoring a $500 billion Stargate project and driving hundreds of billions in infrastructure spending across the industry. Hedgie🤗

@ocshree @DefiyantlyFree Thank you

@TsarNichII @DefiyantlyFree Tustin/Peters Canyon

@realpeteyb123 Wow! Which hospital?

Hepatitis shots for newborns make no sense. None. Stay alert. When my triplets were in the NICU fighting for their lives, the staff kept pushing it. I said no. They came back when the kids were doing better. I said no again. They tried to corner my wife when I wasn’t there. She said no. They tried to intimidate me with hospital staff and fear tactics. I told them get lost. They even claimed it was the law. I told them stop lying. We caught nurses in the middle of the night trying to take my babies out of the room to administer it without consent. This was in Southern California. This actually happened.

@basedc1 @RVL1389 @cremieuxrecueil This has to be it.

@RVL1389 @cremieuxrecueil My guess is that it was a lag between the onset of the great recession and change in the birthrates. The Xennials were not quite in their prime child bearing years yet, but when they entered them they had suffered grievous economic harm from 4 years of deep recession.

It's probably happened by now. Africa has as many births as everywhere else.

@GriggyGro @Biaheza_ Yeah 😭

@Biaheza_ "Finally the market will crash and I will able to afford a home" I say for the 400th time over the last 10 years

ermmm guys

@BowTiedBroke 3 X daughters here too

As the father of three daughters, this one hits harder than anything I’ve seen before.

@ronrule Now do 1984

In 1980 the avg salary was $12k/yr, the avg home price was $76k, you needed 20% down, & the avg interest rate was 14%. This means you had to save up > an entire year’s salary for a downpayment, and the payments were still 70% of their income. Gen Z thinks that was easier.🙄

It was something very simple all the while. | Alzheimer’s is fundamentally a | disease of deficiency. A very low cost, low dose supplementation of Lithium orotate prevents and reverse the impact of the disease. One can wait the decades to become “standard of care” or one can learn today. When you learn, you find all diseases are either deficiencies or toxicities.

@breakonthru234 And it probably helps keep them in good shape to use them now and then.

@breakonthru234 So good!

@bigdogburner97 @gregmushen That’s crazy. I remember ordering a Xeon server from Dell in 2001 or 2002 for $10,000. Believe it was a dual core. That’s probably $100,000 now if you truly adjusted for inflation lol.

To give you an idea of how expensive cloud has gotten, I picked up a server off FB marketplace today for $500. 128Gb of RAM and a 1Tb SSD. It will cost about $6/month in electricity to run it. An equivalent server in AWS would cost $950/mo. so I'll have payback in two weeks. I'm going to buy a GPU for $600, and the cost of that in AWS would be about $350/mo. I think if someone created a distributed garage hosting network it would kill it.

@letterheading @arjunbhuptani I don’t think the USPS can be dissolved. Digital replacements don’t work for a lot of 1st class letters and most marketing mail. Email is a hot mess and nobody can agree on how to fix it.

@arjunbhuptani Any tips for a mail man about to get canned by Trump? I like tech enough.

It is likely that we only have ~3 years remaining where 95% of human labor is actually valuable (i.e. earns you money) Most people haven't realized this yet. It is also likely that this will be the end of our current iteration of labor-based capitalism.

@ocshree @DefiyantlyFree Yikes! What city?

@DefiyantlyFree We saw the same thing happen in Orange County in 2017. The fires came right up to our house and AAA cancelled our fire insurance. The reservoir sits empty and the brush has grown back.

@Points2ponder2 @breakonthru234 I think it’s all a matter of probabilities. Patriots happen to be the people that are most likely to have children. If you fight the system and lose then you go to prison and can’t provide for your family.

@breakonthru234 I'll Keep saying it People are fat complacent and soft They've got a lot to lose. Ukraine is a long distance away in both milage and culture...hard to relate to...harder to empathize Once they see government physically remove their elected choice, it may waken them...or not

@petithapa Couldn’t be that we can’t afford groceries 🤦🏻‍♂️

@petithapa If you figure it out please let me know. Sometimes my daughter gets really frustrated when my wife is busy doing chores and she is with me. Big meltdowns.

@breakonthru234 It doesn’t feel real

@breakonthru234 And he killed Biggie