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@Geonauta2000 @Rainmaker1973 Why is everyone arguing about god when really the only sensible reaction to this is WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK AM I?

@Rainmaker1973 It shows yet again how much FAITH you need to be an atheist. Sure, atheists, this utterly complex beauty and highly advanced machine just happened by accident... God is good!

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

People blame billionaires for what politicians did People blame capitalism for what central banking did People blame free markets for what bailouts did People blame greed for what regulation did People blame profit for what redistribution did

@TukiFromKL Has anyone actually read Atlas Shrugged?

1.5 million Californians just signed a petition to tax the state's 200 billionaires 5%.. one time.. to fund hospitals, schools and food programs.. they needed 875,000 signatures.. they got nearly double.. and California's own governor is fighting against it.. the billionaires live in the same state where hospitals are closing and people can't afford groceries.. and the one person who's supposed to represent the people just told the New York Times he's fighting to protect them.. 1.5 million signatures and it still might not matter.. because the people who write the checks aren't the ones who sign the petitions

@MercuriusFilius If I was asked this question I’d stand up and ask if I could go to the gents to wash my hands

How would you answer this common J.P. Morgan interview question?

@Apu_elrojo I’d rather have a little pollution than the shit show this city has become under these commie fuckwits

Nivel de contaminación en Paris. No es magia, es el resultado de haber tenido como alcaldesa a la socialista Anne Hidalgo durante 12 años.

@SwearingSport Do the people in the stands have to pay to watch this or are they cgi?

Increase the fucking pay gap.

@UKLabour They probably spent hours coming up with this…as eloquent and informative as a dead fish

Choose Labour on 7 May for a party that gives you stronger rights at work, money off energy bills, and lower NHS waiting lists.

Choose Labour on 7 May, a party that makes it difficult to find employment, increases your taxes, your food prices & energy bills because Labour chooses to import fossil fuels at global market rates than drill for our own. A party that would rather import foreign workers for the NHS than employ trained British workers. Let these Labour Clowns know how you feel about being governed by treasonous idiots.

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.” Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules. We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch. Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.” The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere. That is not a funding problem. That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.” That sentence should keep you up tonight. We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not. It is the opposite. Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.” They did not run out of stone. They were not conquered. They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone. That is the real threat to everything we have built. Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse. A quiet forgetting. Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people. The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves. And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud. We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us. Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline. One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken. You do not lose the future in a war. You lose it in your sleep.

@Ed_Miliband In other words: ‘We are dictating to private individuals how much they can earn’ Sounds a bit communist matey.

We’re banning bonuses for energy company bosses who break the rules. For too long our energy market hasn’t worked for families and businesses. We’re changing that. lbc.co.uk/article/energy…

@smokelessworld @DonatoRaponi @SmokelessWord I’ve spent a lot of time in Sweden. A hell of a lot of men use tobacco pouches, so culturally it’s normal that they smoke less. And not to point out the literal elephant in the room but spend more time in the gym and less time telling people how to live their lives fatty.

How does the EU reach 5% smoking rates by 2040? EU tax policy expert, @DonatoRaponi has the answer: substitution products He joins The @SmokelessWord to explain why the current tax framework is stalling progress. Watch now.

This is a great account, well worth a follow.

@thedarshakrana Are long term relationships and modern society compatible?

🚨In 1999, psychologists at Carnegie Mellon 180 couples for six years and discovered something that destroys every piece of relationship advice you've ever heard. Partners who viewed each other through a lens of future potential maintained 87% relationship satisfaction. Those committed to seeing each other realistically broke up 63% of the time within three years. The researchers called it the Michelangelo Phenomenon, after the sculptor who claimed he didn't carve David from marble but simply revealed the figure that was already trapped inside the stone. Think about what this actually means for a moment. We've been conditioned to believe that healthy relationships require radical acceptance of your partner exactly as they exist today. Relationship experts preach this gospel constantly: love means embracing flaws, accepting limitations, seeing past imperfections to the "real person" underneath. The data suggests this approach is relationship poison. Couples who practiced this kind of clear eyed realism were systematically unhappier and far more likely to separate. Meanwhile, partners who maintained what psychologists would normally call "positive illusions" about each other's capabilities created relationships that lasted and thrived. But calling them illusions misses the point entirely. The couples with higher satisfaction weren't deluding themselves. They were seeing potential that existed but hadn't been actualized yet. They were recognizing capabilities their partners possessed but hadn't fully developed. They were loving the person their partner could become while simultaneously loving who they were in the present moment. This creates a feedback loop that traditional relationship psychology doesn't account for. When someone sees your potential consistently, you start to live into it. When someone believes you're capable of growth you haven't achieved yet, you unconsciously begin moving toward that vision. The "illusion" becomes a prediction that fulfills itself. The Michelangelo Phenomenon reveals that we become who we think others see us as. In relationships, this effect is amplified because romantic partners occupy an outsized role in shaping our self concept. The version of yourself that your partner consistently sees and responds to gradually becomes the version you inhabit. Which means choosing a partner is less about finding someone compatible with who you are right now and more about finding someone who can see and nurture who you're capable of becoming. And equally important: becoming someone who can see and call forth the best version of the person you're with. Most people are walking around as rough marble, waiting for someone to see the sculpture inside. What do you think?

@GodsGirl7772022 @Wired2Jam @scitemper @VaibhavSisinty @grok Ranges from 8 to 25% in the answers I’ve had

@quantumfux24 @Wired2Jam @scitemper @VaibhavSisinty @grok I don’t talk to ai, can you tell me what the percentage is?

I think this is the most insane thing the CIA has ever made public. 😨 They have a secret AI tool called Ghost Murmur. It detects your heartbeat from 40 miles away using AI. Not your phone. Not a tracker. Not a radio signal. Your heartbeat. It uses sensors built from synthetic diamonds to lock onto the electromagnetic fingerprint your heart produces every single beat, then pairs it with AI to filter that one signal from 1,000 square miles of noise. Last week, a wounded American pilot was hiding in a mountain crevice in Iran. No phone. No tracker. No way to call for help. America found him anyway. From the sky. By listening to his chest. But nobody mentioned the most important detail. This was Ghost Murmur's first operational use. It's been sitting classified for years. Tested. Ready. Waiting. They didn't reveal it to impress you. They revealed it because the rescue was already public. Every technology a government admits to is the one they've already moved past. Your heart has been broadcasting your location your entire life. Someone just built the receiver.

@Wired2Jam @scitemper @VaibhavSisinty @grok Ask any ai what % of its maximum capabilities the public has access to…it’s kind of scary

@scitemper @VaibhavSisinty @grok Been around for years? And we’ve had workable AI for what, 10 minutes?

@RasmusJarlov If you can’t see that Europe is terminally I have to question your objectivity or sanity

In the future, there will be three major powers in the world: China, USA, EU. Neutral countries will move as much as possible towards the EU as their preferred partner because both China and the USA treat other countries disrespectfully and try to extort them. Europe will be the only great power and market to turn to if you want to have an equal and fair relationship. Canada is already moving towards Europe for this exact reason. India and Japan will also form a closer relationship with Europe. This is what soft power means. MAGA replies in the comment section will prove the point.

« Pendant plus de 1000 ans, les arabes et les turcs ont fait des razzias qui ont fait entre 5 et 10 millions d’esclaves européens (…) cette résolution de l’ONU montre que le droit international est devenu le droit anti occidental » @quatremer / @DavidPujadas / LCI

@UKLabour Good argument for letting the toffs take over again

This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.

@astraiaintel God no