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@inkblue01 @CDCgov I think about them quite a bit... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@TeslaAUNZ Transferable?

FSD Supervised outright purchase is ending in ANZ To take advantage, order by 31 March & take delivery by 30 June T&Cs apply

@ZeMariaMacedo i'm surprised it's trading at 3x given it's operating mainly in a lawless jurisdiction

Spot the outlier ByteDance and Ant Group — two of the most profitable tech companies on earth — are trading at 3x revenue while every US peer on this list sits between 27x and 315x

@SandyofCthulhu Man… no wonder the Frenched rack are like $50/kg nowadays

American lamb almost all comes from New Zealand. I can't remember buying lamb which didn't say Product of New Zealand on it, and I buy lamb several times a year because my family loves it. I can imagine there are other sources of lamb, but at least in Texas & Utah, I don't see them.

@wangzhian8848 油膩中年男子今天起床又又又想到台灣了

如果在大陆搞民调，我估计支持武统台湾的比例，会超过95%。

@congqianman1994 其他國家我不知道 台灣人還用抖音的 不意外

统一后教育是一大难题哇。。。🤔

@deborahbrian @YouAreLobbyLud When it’s humid outside ice can just dehumidify and take in outside air… for ev it’d be an energy intensive exercise so they do it less that’s all… I drive an EV that’s how i know

@alliao @YouAreLobbyLud Sorry, that still doesn’t make sense. But I get it, you’re anti-EV. 🤷‍♀️

CO2 LEVELS IN CARS. Watch this video. One person with recirculate ON and the CO2 is 4,500ppm. Switch recirculate OFF and it falls to 600ppm within minutes. With four people in that car it would have been over 10,000ppm. This is a major road safety hazard and I am sure it's the cause of many accidents. Measure the CO2! @CO2RadicalAus Thanks to @Lost1nSpace for the link. youtu.be/hr9w-ZixAqc

@deborahbrian @YouAreLobbyLud Yeah since it costs a lot to condition the outside air so it recirculate a lot more as to avoid using up precious energy

@alliao @YouAreLobbyLud OK, but you weren’t talking about efficiency, you said it circulated the air more, and why would it? Whether the issue is cold or heat, it’s the same need for air circulation in an EV as any other vehicle.

@deborahbrian @YouAreLobbyLud Ice car have a lot of waste heat recycled from engine it can use to dehumidify that’s why hvac system design make or break EVs efficiency

@alliao @YouAreLobbyLud Why would the hvac work any harder in an EV?

@alphafox not being paid enough lol people will all hustle if it's worth it

GenZ is cooked: 🤦‍♂️

A very interesting new study found that a gut bacterium, Roseburia inulinivorans increases muscular strength without any exercise. Scientists did a study of human strength and its relation to gut bacteria and found a strong correlation between Roseburia inulinivorans and strength. They then transplanted the bacterium to mice with sterile guts and found a 30% strength increase without any form of exercise or training. The scientists think the bacterium may be responsible for metabolic changes and changes to muscle fibres that increase power output.

@DurrrMoth AI will do his job, if all else fails just chuck them a bone! --mgmt all over the road

crazy to think they laid off the guy who created the whole engine

🚨 BREAKING: In a MASSIVE jury verdict, Google and Meta have just been found LIABLE for getting children addicted to social media — a $3 million reward in damages has been ordered to one plaintiff "This is blood in the water." This could impact THOUSANDS of social media cases.

@BenDooley8 The suburban raptors are bit of a menace for sure though lol

Oh, do fuck off. Then keep fucking off. I hate going to town. We need 4wds. If anything, for some of what we need, the current double cabs aren't big enough. And, car parks have already gotten smaller. The length and width of a Holden Colorado is similar to a VE commodore. Fuel costs: Is there room for super-sized vehicles on NZ's urban roads? | RNZ News rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Brisbane propadee overlord calling the top and thinks he can buy his propadee back for half the price in two years time I don’t think that’s right - more likely he can buy his place back for 30% of current price

@allen27410505 拚老農退休金不好嗎

廈門的城市建設吊打台北 可怕的是，像廈門這樣的城市 大陸起碼有幾十個 台灣不要拼口水，要拼建設

The research behind this is wild. Your brain can’t flip from full alert to sleep like a light switch. It needs a runway. And reading builds it faster than almost anything else. A University of Sussex study found that just 6 minutes of reading cut stress by 68%, more than music (61%), tea (54%), walking (42%), or video games (21%). The effect is surprisingly physical. When you read, your nervous system shifts from fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest mode. Heart rate slows, breathing deepens, muscles release tension. The neuropsychologist who ran the study, Dr. David Lewis, described it as entering “an altered state of consciousness,” where focused imagination activates the part of your brain that tells your stress response to stand down. A 2021 randomized trial tested this directly. Researchers split nearly 1,000 people into two groups: read a book in bed for seven nights, or don’t. After one week, 42% of readers reported better sleep versus 28% of non-readers. Nothing else changed. Now compare that with what 86% of Americans actually do before bed: scroll their phones for an average of 38 minutes a night. A 2025 Norwegian study of 45,000 university students found that every additional hour of screen time in bed raised insomnia risk by 59% and cut sleep by 24 minutes. A separate American Cancer Society study of 122,000 adults found daily screen use before bed was tied to 50 fewer minutes of sleep per week. Screens hit you with two sleep-blockers at once. Blue light suppresses melatonin, the hormone that tells your body it’s time to sleep, by about 50% according to a Harvard study. But the bigger problem is the content itself. News, social media, work emails, all of it fires up your brain’s threat-detection mode and spikes your stress hormones right when they’re supposed to be at their lowest point of the day. A physical book sidesteps both problems entirely. The long game matters too. A Yale study tracked 3,635 adults over 12 years and found that people who read 3.5+ hours per week were 23% less likely to die during the study. That worked out to living roughly 2 years longer, regardless of gender, wealth, or education. Books beat newspapers and magazines. The researchers pointed to deep, sustained reading creating a kind of workout for the brain that protects it as it ages. So the 5-10 minutes he’s describing? The science says 6 minutes is the threshold where your body starts winding down. His brain is switching off its stress response and easing into a state where sleep becomes almost automatic.

@Mountain_Tui Huhhh???? It’s back?

Wait, so Chris Bishop is "fast-tracking" Lake Onslow Hydro project? The one they cancelled in Dec 2023, rubbishing it after Labour started the renewables project National threw away $20m to cancel this & now they're "fast-tracking" it? This is near comedy newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/min…

Mastic gum killed ALL 7 H. pylori strains tested — including antibiotic-RESISTANT ones. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (PMID: 9863010) Your stomach BURNS after every meal. Antacids help for 20 minutes then it’s BACK. Your doctor prescribed antibiotics. They failed. TWICE. And at some point you stopped enjoying food. You just eat what doesn’t hurt now. H. pylori. A bacteria living in 50% of humans. Burrowing into your stomach lining. Causing 80-90% of all ulcers. And antibiotic resistance is growing every YEAR. → Killed all 7 strains in vitro including resistant ones (PMID: 9863010) → 30-fold reduction in colonization in vivo (PMID: 17116667) → 30-38% eradication as standalone (PMID: 19879118) Triterpenic acids → penetrate H. pylori membrane → disrupt adhesion → bacteria can’t colonize → die off → stomach heals → good bacteria UNTOUCHED Week 2-3: Burning FADING Week 4-6: Eating comfortably Week 6-8: Bacterial load DROPPING My stomach burned for over a year. Antacids useless. Tested positive for H. pylori. Started mastic gum 1g daily. Week 3 the burning was noticeably less — not gone, but enough meals without pain to know something SHIFTED. Week 6 I ate without dreading the aftermath. Not a cure-all — but my stomach hasn’t been this calm in years. 1g daily. 500mg 2x. Empty stomach. Greek Chios. CHECK COMMENTS FOR MASTIC GUM! Antibiotics carpet bomb your ENTIRE gut. Mastic gum targets H. pylori SPECIFICALLY.

An "ultra-short" nap of just 6 minutes improved recall by ~18% in one study. All it takes is a few minutes to get a noticeable performance boost.