Marek Sas-Kulczycki

Why no one (?) considers "GHE" in liquid water? It covers 71% of the earth's surface. The transmittance of it allows 10 meters (oom) of penetration for visible light, while it absorbs IR in a layer of a few mm. There is no convection because temperature decreases and density increases with depth, however the top layer (few meters) is circulated by wind. Conduction is transporting heat both downwards and upwards. Seems that it has a great potential for trapping thermal energy.

🚨🚨🚨 IRAN JUST REVEALED ITS DEADMAN SWITCH: ATTACK KHARG ISLAND AND THE HOUTHIS SHUT DOWN BAB AL-MANDAB. THE TRAP IS SET. 🚨🚨🚨 Iranian officials just told Tasnim News: if the US launches a military attack on Kharg Island, Iran will activate the Houthis to shut down the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Not a threat. A promise. Published through state media. Let that sink in. 💀 Kharg Island — handles 90% of Iran's oil exports 💀 Bab al-Mandab Strait — handles 10% of ALL global trade 💀 The Houthis already proved they can shut it down — they did it in 2024 💀 The US Navy COULDN'T stop them then. With FEWER ships now, they definitely can't stop them during a war 💀 Iran is telling the US IN ADVANCE: touch Kharg, and the world economy pays the price ⚠️ The US spent $1 BILLION trying to stop Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping in 2024. It failed. Ships rerouted around Africa. Costs went up 400%. That was with the strait still partially OPEN. ⚠️ If Bab al-Mandab closes COMPLETELY — the Suez Canal becomes useless. Every ship from Asia to Europe adds 3 WEEKS to its route. The global supply chain BREAKS. The media is showing you "US planning Kharg Island operation." They're NOT showing you that Iran has already told the world EXACTLY what happens if they try it. Here's the trap: → The US takes Kharg Island to cut Iran's oil revenue → Iran activates the Houthis → Houthis close Bab al-Mandab → Strait of Hormuz is already a no-go zone → Now BOTH chokepoints are shut → 30% of the world's oil — GONE → 10% of all global shipping — GONE → Oil goes to $200+. Gas hits $12/gallon. Global recession in DAYS. → The US "wins" Kharg Island but the entire world economy collapses Iran doesn't need to beat the US military. It needs to make the COST of winning unbearable. And it just told you the price tag: the entire global shipping network. This is not a war plan. It's a hostage situation. And the hostage is the world economy. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 They don't want you seeing this. Follow + RT to beat the algorithm. 🚨

@elonmusk @zdenDuran14 @davidpattersonx Everything will be abundant, except one thing: freedom

@zdenDuran14 @davidpattersonx There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance.

By 2030, all jobs will be replaced by AI and robots. Easily. The US labor force is about 170 million workers. About 80 million of those jobs include hands-on work. Automated systems can work four shifts a week. Replacing all physical labor would require about 20 million autonomous systems - including autonomous vehicles, automated equipment, and robots. That can be accomplished easily in the next four years. People saying it's not physically possible to build that many systems in four years are delusional. For comparison, 16 million cars were sold in the US last year. Cars are 20 times the mass of a humanoid robot. If robots were sold at the same rate as cars, that would be 320 million robots per year. Even a tiny fraction of that would be enough to replace all human manual labor.

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.

@flyer_2001 Congratulations! Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła, póki my żyjemy!

As of today, I am officially a Polish citizen. Yes, my Polish nationality has been granted!

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@VigilantFox How do you achieve a deal with Zionists? Offer them: "You will stop lying about us, and we will stop telling the truth about you." Kent told the truth.

Lindsey Graham says Joe Kent is “lying,” argues his resignation letter effectively said: “If the Jews weren’t around, we’d all be safe.” O’REILLY: “The head of counterterrorism says it wasn’t imminent. And he’s got the same info you have.” GRAHAM: “No, he doesn’t. He’s lying.” O’REILLY: “Why? Why would he lie?” GRAHAM: “Well, why did he say the Jews [dragged] us into it?” “He’s saying, you know, ‘If the Jews weren’t around, we’d all be safe.’ This letter of resignation was full of misinformation and anti-Semitism.”

- Meet Gottfrid Svartholm - Co-founder of The Pirate Bay - A man who believed information should be free. - helped create the largest torrent site in the world - Handles millions of users - openly mocked powerful corporations - joked about moving servers to North Korea ,space ... just for fun 😭 - Servers were seized and site went down - came back in 3 days - kept changing domain constantly - treated lawsuits like free marketing 😭 - traffic actually spiked after raids - created loopholes and confused courts for years - once tried to buy a country, Sealand, a micronation, to escape copyright laws - designed server to be bulletproof - Governments from multiple countries tried to shut it down permanently but failed - inspire platforms like KickassTorrents and 1337x - became one of the most blocked websites in history yet undefeated - Even fans cloned the entire platform to keep it alive He was playing a cat-and-mouse game with the entire internet… And somehow, the mouse kept winning.

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

My 72-year-old uncle and his doctor had a conversation about statins. He has always been healthy, fit, and active. A low BMI, good BP, he doesn't smoke or have diabetes. He eats beef, seafood, some vegetables, rice, potatoes, nuts, and some fruits. No sweets or processed foods. Doc: "Your cholesterol is high. I'd like you to start taking a statin. Uncle: "What part of my cholesterol is high?" Doc: "Your LDL." Uncle: "Why do I need a statin?" Doc: "Because high LDL will increase your risk of heart attack or stroke." Uncle: "But I'm healthy and active. What's my actual risk?" Doc: "High. If you take a statin, you'll have a lower risk and longer life expectancy." Uncle: "What are the side effects of a statin?" Doc: "Well, some people experience joint pain, muscle soreness, memory issues, elevated blood sugar, and digestive issues." Uncle: "So, it could increase my risk of diabetes?" Doc: "Yes." Uncle: "By how much?" Doc: "Up to about 35%." Uncle: "Isn't diabetes a big risk factor in developing cardiac issues and heart attacks?" Doc: "Yes. It's a major risk factor." Uncle: "By how much?" Doc: "People with diabetes have a 3x-4x higher chance of having a heart attack." Uncle: "So, how much would diabetes reduce my life expectancy?" Doc: "Up to 10 years." Uncle: "So, if I took a statin, how long would I need to take it?" Doc: "For the rest of your life." Uncle: "And what would my life expectancy be if I took it, and it didn't give me diabetes?" Doc: "There is a calculation I could do that tells me your risk and life expectancy." Uncle: "How does the calculation work?" Doc: "It looks at information like your BMI, BP, total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and the fact that you don't smoke, you don't have diabetes, and if you're on any meds for hypertension or cholesterol." Uncle: "So, it doesn't just look at my LDL but my overall health too. What does it say my life expectancy would be if I took a statin and it didn't give me diabetes?" Doc: "You could live 1 extra day." Uncle: "Just 1 day? I would take a med for the rest of my life that could cause joint pain, muscle soreness, memory loss, digestive issues, up to 35% chance of developing diabetes which could put me at a 3x-4x higher risk of having a heart attack and taking up to 10 years off of my life, and I'd only get 1 extra day?" Doc: "Well, yes." Uncle: "Ya, I don't think I need the statin."

I appreciate unequivocal allegiance to truth, but I see it from a slightly different angle. The state which institutions are fighting and undermining each other is a weak state. I think she is desperately trying not to tell lies, while being loyal to the system of institutions which forms what we call the government. She is positioned on the point of a clash of conflicting values: truth v-s integrity of the state. A good topic for a Greek tragedy.

Intel gets fired for contradicting this president's narrative. This line of questioning intentionally put her at a crossroad as everyone in that room is aware of the precedent set by the firing of Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse. She could have chosen to tell the truth, but she chose to keep her job instead.

Ossoff: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Gabbard: The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president. It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. Ossoff: It is precisely your responsibility. This is the worldwide threats hearing where, as you noted in your opening testimony quote, you represent the ic's assessment of threats.

This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel. He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome of the talks (something confirmed by the UK's National Security Advisor, who also attended: x.com/i/status/20341…) and that the military strike by the U.S. and Israel was "a shock." Interestingly, given he is one of Iran's neighbors and given that Oman has been struck multiple times by Iran since the war began (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran…), he writes that "Iran’s retaliation against what it claims are American targets on the territory of its neighbours was an inevitable result" of the U.S.-Israeli attack. He describes it as "probably the only rational option available to the Iranian leadership." He says the war "endangers" the region's entire "economic model in which global sport, tourism, aviation and technology were to play an important role." He adds that "if this had not been anticipated by the architects of this war, that was surely a grave miscalculation." But, he adds, the "greatest miscalculation" of all for the U.S. "was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place." In his view this was the doing of "Israel’s leadership" who "persuaded America that Iran had been so weakened by sanctions, internal divisions and the American-Israeli bombings of its nuclear sites last June, that an unconditional surrender would swiftly follow the initial assault and the assassination of the supreme leader." Obviously, this proved completely wrong, and the U.S. is now in a quagmire. He says that, given this, "America’s friends have a responsibility to tell the truth," which is that "there are two parties to this war who have nothing to gain from it," namely "Iran and America." He says that all of the U.S. interests in the region (end to nuclear proliferation, secure energy supply chains, investment opportunities) are "best achieved with Iran at peace." As he writes, "this is an uncomfortable truth to tell, because it involves indicating the extent to which America has lost control of its own foreign policy. But it must be told." He then proposes a couple of paths to get back to the negotiating table, although he recognizes how difficult it would be for Iran "to return to dialogue with an administration that twice switched abruptly from talks to bombing and assassination." That's perhaps the most profound damage Trump did during this entire episode: the complete discrediting of diplomacy. If Iran was taught anything, it is: don't negotiate with the U.S., it's a trap that will literally kill you. The great irony of the man who sold himself as a dealmaker is that he taught the world one thing: don't make deals with my country. Link to the article: economist.com/by-invitation/…

In 1953, Ancel Keys published a paper showing a relationship between dietary fat consumption and heart disease mortality across six countries. The relationship was striking. The graph was compelling. The problem: Keys had data from twenty-two countries. He selected six. The six that supported his hypothesis. If you plot all twenty-two countries, the relationship disappears. This was pointed out at the time, by Yerushalmy and Hilleboe in 1957, in the American Journal of Public Health. Keys was aggressive in dismissing the criticism. He was influential enough to make it stick. He later chaired the committee that wrote the American Heart Association dietary guidelines. The guidelines blamed fat. The guidelines became government policy. The government policy became the food pyramid. The food pyramid became what your grandmother was told to eat. It began with a man who had twenty-two data points and published six. Everything downstream: the statins, the low-fat products, the LDL obsession, the dietary guidelines your doctor is still referencing, traces back to that selection. Cherry-picking doesn't usually have this kind of legacy. This one did.

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Luuudzieee, dudka po raz pierwszy w życiu widziałam!! Ja wiem że tu wszyscy piękne zdjęcia robią i moje to jakaś szósta liga, ale to jednak MOJE, własne, osobiste i naoczne😁 #nowymszlakiemzeszczeniakiem

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@Mr_Husky1 Lovely. This reminds me of The Butterfly Circus (short film). I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched it. I remind my daughters every year to rewatch it. If you are curious: vimeo.com/17150524?fl=pl…

According to the Stanford's coursework (link below) we have about 53 years worth reserves, taking into account expected increase in production and demand. Recycling can extend that time a lot, I guess. Still, this is not unlimited, so for long range civilization sustainability we have to treat it as transitional. large.stanford.edu/courses/2024/p…

Depending on how many batteries you have, it could last forever. In reality, we only need storage for a maximum of 2–3 days! Lithium is not rare, nor are the other so-called "rare earth" metals! We are exchanging oil/fossil fuels with Solar + batteries not because it is greener, but because it is cheaper..

Doubling CO2 theoretically produces only +0.71 C of warming ... which doesn't include CO2's cooling effects associated with increasing CO2.