Rosales
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Rosales
@deaandelentips
Technical analysis / DSI geregistreerd Effectenhandelaar
Katılım Eylül 2021
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Cutting a lemon releases the same chemical that cleaning sprays put into the air. A 2008 office experiment found that peeling oranges produced 50 times more tiny pollution particles than spraying a citrus cleaner. This trick runs on the same chemistry.
When you cut a lemon, an oil called limonene drifts off the peel into the air. Orange peel oil is 90 percent limonene; lemon peel is similar. Your room also has a small amount of ozone, the same gas you smell after a thunderstorm, constantly leaking in from outside. When limonene meets ozone they react, and the products include tiny particles that lodge deep in your lungs, plus small amounts of hydrogen peroxide and formaldehyde. The UK’s cleaning products industry body agrees: you get more exposure peeling an orange than spraying a citrus cleaner.
Now the salt. Salt does absorb water from the air, but only when the room is very damp. Table salt barely does anything until humidity climbs past 75 percent, which is unusually muggy indoors. Hardware-store damp packets like Damp Rid don’t use table salt. They use calcium chloride, a different kind of salt that pulls in roughly its own weight in water. A teaspoon of table salt on a lemon does effectively nothing.
The trick does cover up smells, that part is real chemistry. The lemon’s oils grab onto smelly molecules from cooking, smoke, and bathrooms, and partly cancel them out. An air freshener does the same.
The hack itself goes back centuries. It draws on the Feng Shui salt cure, a Chinese tradition of placing salt in a corner of the home to soak up bad luck. Citrus appears in the same tradition as a symbol of cleansing. The “this will change your life” line is folk ritual with a chemistry story bolted on that doesn’t hold up.
If you actually want cleaner air at home, the answers are boring. A HEPA filter, the kind in air purifiers and vacuums, traps 99.97 percent of particles too small for the eye to see. A Taiwan study found a portable HEPA cleaner cut a home’s indoor air pollution roughly in half. The black charcoal in some filters absorbs smelly gases. Cracking a window for a few minutes does both, for free.
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Hannah was kidnapped by savages, gang-raped, stabbed & brutally murdered. Her skull was smashed with rocks.
When the details of the murder were read out in court, the perpetrators burst into laughter.
The grief-stricken mother walked into the ocean & never returned😔
We cannot coexist with low IQ primitive savages.
Similar horrific stories all across the West now.

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A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'
In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.
James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.
In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.
Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.
Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.
The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.
dinosaur@dinosaurs1969
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Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people.
Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade.
The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds.
Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2.
Tennis almost triples jogging.
A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%.
The question is why racket sports destroy everything else.
Three mechanisms stack on top of each other.
First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system.
Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline.
Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%.
Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community.
Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.
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In Duitsland moeten ze écht bang zijn voor Reiner Fuellmich.
Anders stoppen ze een kritische advocaat niet ruim 2,5 jaar onschuldig in de cel, zonder definitief vonnis, terwijl hij gewoon de waarheid over machtsmisbruik durfde te onderzoeken.
Een man die vragen stelt, mag blijkbaar niet vrij zijn. Dat zegt alles over de angst van het systeem.
#FreeReinerFuellmich
FreeReinerFuellmich 🌍🌎🌏@FreeFuellmich
Third birthday! This German judicial scandal is intolerable! An upright man is spending his 3rd birthday unjustly and without a legally valid verdict in a German prison. #ReinerFuellmich will turn 68 on May 5th, born 1958. On his birthday, he will spend it alone in an 8 sqm cell.
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WARREN BUFFETT JUST EXPLAINED WHY HE'S SITTING ON $300 BILLION IN CASH
In a recent interview, Buffett was asked about the market selloff.
His answer was devastating in its simplicity:
"This is nothing."
Markets are down 5-7% and everyone's panicking. Buffett has watched Berkshire drop 50% THREE times.
He doesn't get excited about a 5-6% dip. In his own words: "We aren't in it to make 5 or 6 percent."
These prices aren't even close to cheap.
And the numbers back him up:
Buffett's own favorite indicator - total market cap to GDP - is at 208%.
He once called anything above 120% "playing with fire."
We're nearly DOUBLE that threshold.
At current levels, his model projects roughly 0.4% annual returns over the next 8 years.
Zero point four percent.
You can get 5% in a savings account.
Meanwhile, Moody's AI-driven recession model just hit 49% probability. Every time it's crossed 50% in 80 years of backtesting, a recession followed within 12 months.
And that reading was BEFORE the Iran war shut down the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil above $120.
The IEA calls this the worst energy crisis in history. Worse than 1973. Worse than 1979. We've lost 12 million barrels per day - more than both 1970s oil crises COMBINED.
The S&P is down 7% year to date. The Nasdaq is off 10%. Q1 was the worst quarterly performance in 4 years.
US GDP growth just got revised down from 1.4% to 0.7%. The economy LOST 92,000 jobs last month when economists expected a GAIN of 59,000.
And inflation is creeping higher while the economy slows.
This is the early stage of stagflation.
Buffett sees it. That's why he's been a NET SELLER of stocks for 9 straight quarters. That's why Berkshire is sitting on its largest cash pile in history.
The greatest investor alive is telling you - not with words, but with actions - that this market is overpriced and he'd rather earn 5% in T-bills than own stocks at these valuations.
When has Buffett been this cautious?
Late 1999. Right before the dot-com crash wiped out 49%.
Late 2007. Right before the financial crisis wiped out 57%.
Both times he was mocked for "missing the rally."
Both times he was right.
Now look at what's happening around us:
Oil at $120 with the Strait of Hormuz still closed. Gas above $4 for the first time since 2022. The IEA warns April will be WORSE than March.
This is comparable to the 1970s stagflation era.
And the market is still priced for perfection.
Buffett didn't get rich by buying expensive stocks during geopolitical crises. He got rich by being patient, sitting in cash, and buying when everyone else was panicking.
We're not at the panic stage yet.
We're at the stage right before it.
The smart money isn't buying this dip.
The smart money IS the dip.
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This isn’t new and the headline overstates it.
The phenomenon is called delayed choice quantum eraser, first proposed by John Wheeler in 1978 and experimentally confirmed in 1999.
A measurement made after a photon has already traveled its path can retroactively determine which path it took.
Your decision now changes what the particle did then.
Not the future. The past.
The experiment has been replicated dozens of times.
It’s real. We just have no idea what it means. #itsexplained
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'BREAKS MY HEART': California Gov. Gavin Newsom bashes Elon Musk, calling him "one of the great disappointments" in the modern era.
The Democrat, who called the billionaire innovator "the Edison of our time," also claimed in a new interview that the Tesla leader has "put the brakes on his own innovation" and is allowing China to overtake the U.S. in the electric vehicle space.

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@VVD @MalikAzmani @grok, waarom stemde deze lullenbijter dan niet mee als hij het zo'n goed plan vindt?
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Met strenger Europees terugkeerbeleid zorgen we ervoor dat uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers sneller terugkeren. Wie niet meewerkt aan procedures, kan worden vastgezet om terugkeer mogelijk te maken.
Europarlementariër @MalikAzmani bij AD over zijn plannen.
ad.nl/buitenland/eur…
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Ray Dalio punched his boss in the face and got fired from Wall Street
He went broke from unemployment. Had to borrow money from his dad to feed his family.
Working out of his apartment he built one of the world's largest hedge funds and launched the McNugget
Timeline:
• Bought his first stock at 12 with caddy money.
• Graduated Harvard Business School in 1973
• Punched his boss at Shearson and got fired
• Founded Bridgewater Associates from his two-bedroom apartment in 1975
• Helped in the production of the first McNugget
• Went broke in 1982 after a bad macro call on national TV
• Wrote down every mistake he made trading then turned them into algorithms
• Built Bridgewater into one of the largest hedge funds, peaked at $162B AUM
• Published the famous book "Principles"
• Net worth: $20B @RayDalio
Here's what Bridgewater is buying now:
$SPY — First ETF tracking the 500 largest U.S. companies. Up 182%
$IVV — Lower-cost alternative to SPY. Up 61%
$NVDA — Nvidia, the GPU maker powering every major AI data center on Earth. Up 82%
$CRM — Salesforce, the enterprise software giant now embedding AI into everything. Up +68%
$LRCX — Lam Research, the company that builds the machines that etch every advanced chip. Up 172%

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16 years ago Obama set off the largest spike in healthcare prices in American history.
The “Affordable” Care Act became one of the most expensive laws ever passed, needing constant increases in taxpayer subsidies in order to artificially keep prices down.
Obama’s legacy is a scam.
Follow: @WallStreetMav

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Convicted fraudsters Trump has pardoned this year:
Jason Galanis — ~$200M+
Joseph Schwartz — ~$38M
Lawrence Duran — ~$205M (Medicare fraud billed; ~$87M paid)
Carlos Watson — ~$60M investor fraud
Trevor Milton — ~$20M+ investor losses
Todd Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Julie Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Devon Archer — ~$60M tribal bond scheme
George Santos — ~$44K–$1M+ (multiple fraud schemes)
Michele Fiore — ~$70K charity fraud
Brian Kelsey — ~$90K campaign finance fraud
Scott Jenkins — ~$75K bribery/fraud scheme
Paul Walczak — ~$10M+ tax fraud
Adriana Camberos — ~$1M+ counterfeit/fraud
The White House@WhiteHouse
President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order creating the Task Force to ELIMINATE Fraud. Chaired by @VP Vance, this task force will crack down on fraud, close loopholes, and make sure benefits go ONLY to eligible Americans. Promises Made. Promises Kept. 🇺🇸
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China is the largest producer and consumer of plastics in the world, producing about 80 million tons of plastic products per year - over 55% of petrochemical output is used for plastic production.
Another analysis found around 15% of China’s total oil consumption goes to the chemical industry, again largely for plastics and related materials.
Unless they stop making plastic stuff - they will still be using a lot of petrochemicals.
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This is a way, WAY bigger deal than you think.
World of Statistics@stats_feed
🇨🇳 Official data reports that 12% of China's vehicles are now EVs, with fuel sales plunging 5.7% in 2025
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@EricTrump The Math is sickening:
Fed Pays Banks: 3.75%
Banks Pay You: 0.01%
The Spread: 3.74% > On $100B in deposits, that’s $3.7 Billion stolen from everyday Americans every year just to fund Manhattan skyscrapers. Stablecoins are the only way out of this trap.
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Let me make this very clear: Big Banks (think JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) are lobbying overtime to block Americans from getting higher yields on their savings—while trying to block any rewards or perks from being given to customers.
These banks, and others, pay rock-bottom rates on standard savings (often 0.01%–0.05% APY), even as the Fed pays them 4% or more. This massive spread fuels record profits, with almost none passed back to their customers / everyday depositors.
Today, the banks are desperately targeting crypto/stablecoins, where platforms plan to offer 4–5%+ yields or rewards. The ABA and other lobbyists are spending millions trying to ban or restrict those yields via bills like the Clarity Act, crying “fairness” and using words like "stability"—when it's really about protecting their low-rate monopoly and preventing deposit flight. This is anti-retail, anti-consumer, and straight-up anti-American.
Next time you see a big bank dropping billions on a shiny new Midtown Manhattan HQ, you know exactly where that money comes from: the non-existent interest rate they “pay” you!
Fortunately, the big banks are losing this fight as customers wake up to the games…
@worldlibertyfi
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@michaeljburry @grok explain in detail what he means like I am a 16 yo
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@michaeljburry @grok so openai will be a direct competitor of pltr?
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This sounds more than familiar.
$PLTR somehow kept its name out of this story.
OpenAI describes Frontier as a “semantic layer for the enterprise”—a unified platform that lets AI agents navigate business software, execute workflows, and make decisions across an organization’s entire technology stack, such CRM systems, HR platforms, and internal ticketing tools. Early enterprise customers include Intuit, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber. Meanwhile OpenAI says its own “forward deployed engineers” will work alongside the teams from the consultancies in client engagements.
Under these new partnerships, which OpenAI has deemed Frontier Alliances, each consulting firm is investing in dedicated practice groups and building teams certified on OpenAI technology.
The consultants will help heir clients redesign workflows; integrate AI agents with software tools and systems; help clients with change management; and provide industry-specific expertise OpenAI doesn’t have, Frontier, which OpenAI debuted earlier this month, is a system that allows businesses and organizations to build, deploy, supervise, and govern AI agents
.fortune.com/2026/02/23/ope…
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The last sentence means: Even with killer fundamentals—like Tencent's revenue exploding 4.5-5x in 10 years, matching Netflix/Broadcom—the stocks tanked or flatlined (Tencent ~0% return, Hang Seng 15% below 2007 highs).
Why? VIE structure. You don't own the real Chinese ops. You own shares in a Cayman Islands shell company with zero operations, linked only by fragile contracts that Beijing could void anytime (no true legal ownership). That regulatory/geopolitical risk crushed valuations far more than business growth helped.
Structure (legal setup + China risk) overrides fundamentals alone. Burry's point: now they're so cheap, re-evaluate the full picture—vulnerabilities, virtues, and deep value.
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Hong Kong Stocks: Structure & Strategy
In the last 10 years, Netflix, Broadcom, and Tencent all increased revenue between 4.5-5X. Broadcom and Netflix have been leading performers, but Tencent’s stock has almost exactly a 0% return over the last five years.
This is the problem. All of Hong Kong’s massive tech stocks became massive since 2007, and the Hang Seng is today ~27,000, 15% lower than 2007...
$BABA $JD $PDD $BIDU $TCOM
#BABA #HangSeng #PDD #KWEB
open.substack.com/pub/michaeljbu…

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