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A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@ElijahDs_Mimi @CDare10 here is a link to an immunology textbook. Based on the misinformation in your comment you would benefit from reading it. archive.org/details/basicc…

@CDare10 There's something wrong with you. Millions of us don't mask and we don't get sick because we take care of our immune system. You're wearing yours down and soon enough it will catch up with you. I'm sure you vaccinate regularly too. I'm so sorry.

Woman at garden centre on noticing myself and child in masks: Woman: (sympathetically) Ahh, have you been ill? Me: No. Woman: Vitamin C is very good you know. Me: We haven’t been sick for a long time bc we wear masks to prevent illness. Woman: (Looks confused)..cont..

@XFreeze There were a lot of others who tried; Kistler, ORTAG, American Rocket Company, Rotary Rocket, etc. Among other things Musk had better luck.

It’s actually insane what SpaceX is doing to the space industry right now In 1981, it cost ~$65,000 to put 1 kg into orbit For 50 years, the industry accepted this as the standard. Reusable rockets were "impossible" Then one company - led by a man obsessed with getting humanity to Mars, decided that $65,000/kg was unacceptable Right now, Elon and the SpaceX team are building Starship to hit $10–$20/kg That is a massive ~4,000x price collapse It’s actually wild that we get to watch this happen in real time

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I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER THAN THE REST OF US. He is 48. I am 26. He manages 3 products and never works past 5 PM. I work 10 hours a day and barely clear my Jira board. In his workspace, one specific document explained everything: Most people panic when the workload scales. They work longer hours, burn out, and eventually drop the ball. High performers do not manage time. They manage boundaries. The document was a list of strict operating rules. Here are 18 systems you can steal.

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🚨BREAKING: Claude has a secret mode called "First Principles Breakdown." It strips any complex topic down to its raw fundamentals like Elon Musk thinks through problems. Here's how to activate it:

@torybruno Please name a ship "The Vern Estes" while he is still alive to appreciate it (he's 96, bday Jan 4). Considering how flying Estes Model Rockets was such a common start for those in the industry, it would be fitting. honorestes.space #HonorEstes

That’s a beautiful engine…

@stoke_space @PORTOFMOSESLAKE @AndyLapsa @Rkt_Da Please name a ship "The Vern Estes" while he is still alive to appreciate it (he's 96, bday Jan 4). Considering how flying Estes Model Rockets was such a common start for those in the industry, it would be fitting. honorestes.space #HonorEstes

Andromeda flight engine awaiting shipment to our test site in Moses Lake, WA. 🔥 Big shout out to the local community and to our partners in the area like the @PORTOFMOSESLAKE and Grant County Sheriff's Office for being good neighbors and sharing the excitement as we work relentlessly toward launch.

@TheCinesthetic 1942. Everyone I talk to who has seen it says it's just not funny, a bad film, but there's this one scene which is hysterical. And everyone mentions a different scene.

What is the most unfairly hated movie that you will defend every time

@Engineer_Wong using mini in a hospital, you are free to use pictures. Just while I eat or take pills

@rare_jpg I inherited 60ish reel to reel tapes can post album if intrested

@Engineer_Wong am in hospital ICU right now using the pink mini to be safer, thanks

@suchnerve have you seen bigquietfan.com

Me looking at my estimate that you could maintain N95-level long-range air cleaning for an entire apartment utterly silently and using less electricity than a standard 20-watt phone charger, just by scaling PC fan air purifiers up to use 3x more fans at about 1/3 the speed 🤯

@DGrayTexas45 @WolfofX @WessJordan60 start putting money in a high yield savings account for them as they may need to pay for a lot of therapy to get over doctors being weaponized and the fear instilled.

My kind of parenting! I told my 2 year old twins if they didn’t listen better I would take them to the doctor & get them “the listening shot”…they screamed they didn’t want a shot…I said good, you can only imagine how big the needle is & showed them a turkey baster. Anytime they weren’t listening I’d pretend to make a call to the doctor…it worked until they were 6. 😂

A mom uses AI to turn her children's messes look like they're on the news.

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works. Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

COVlD research is close to blacklisted at this point. We've had grant applications triaged (hundreds of hours of work flushed down the toilet), and others get just absolutely ludicrous reviews because you have to convince unmasked Covid-uninformed people to take Covid research seriously. NIH has Covid on their "banned word" list. A lot of people have 2019 pre-pandemic projects now coming to an end (self included). Others are gaining non-Covid research funding to keep staff from being laid off, often with the hope of adding a Covid component to the work, or getting additional funding to add on to it substantially or run separate Covid studies. Anyway, I am aggravated by the situation too, but know a lot of researchers would like to be doing more research-wise than they are able to. It's the funders / general societal views blocking everything. Just sharing my perspective. Can't speak for others. Open to feedback.

@VisionsInVeils can you please give the DOI of papers that show misting e-water (HOCl) is effective, thank you

This Air Fanta is a laminar flow fan. Meaning, it mostly only filters the air 12in in front of it. Having it on the tray is too far for effective filtration. You can get the better results misting e-water (HOCl) around you from a portable humidifier/ nebulizer. Learn more ⬇️

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1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! It's so logical, yet so readily dismissed. Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵