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Economist, Danida Fellow-UCPH ,Principal Fellow-Mwambao Institute, Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.― Oscar Wilde.|

Global Sumali Kasım 2015
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Maria Dubovikova
Maria Dubovikova@politblogme·
Thread-collection of Iranian AI propaganda videos. A phenomenon to study. 1.
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Oasis
Oasis@oasishealthapp·
Polystyrene takes 500 years to break down. We bury 1,300+ tons of it in US landfills daily. <2% gets recycled. It leaches into your food. The hotter and fattier, the worse it gets. 1 microwaved container releases over 100,000 microplastic particles. Styrene is a neurotoxin and probable carcinogen. It was found in 100% of human fat samples across all 48 states in the 80s, and is still one of the most common plastics detected in human blood. But we can literally grow the replacement using mushroom mycelium
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Calvin@kassembanda·
@AQ_US130 @realgerhardtvdm ISI,the Pakistani intelligence agency is full of CIA rats. Pakistan is a vessel state of the US
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@realgerhardtvdm This statement is highly misleading. Pakistan didn’t betray Iran. What Trump said was nothing but a lie. Both Iran n Pakistan understand it and they won’t fall for it.
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Gerhardt vd Merwe@realgerhardtvdm·
🚨🇮🇷🇵🇰 MASSIVE WAR UPDATE, WESTERN TV WILL SPIN: Pakistan betrayed Iran by conspiring to let 10 American ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz under the Pakistani flag. The Americans will claim they pressured Iran to let their ships through, now you understand what real story is here!
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Mads Palsvig
Mads Palsvig@Palsvig·
There is an old Japanese saying that explains the virtues of TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
Absolute bombshell. Former Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent admits the US government intentionally armed Al Qaeda and created ISIS in Syria. They deliberately unleashed a global terror network just to overthrow Assad and protect Israel.
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✝️🇺🇸C Ozmun🇨🇳☭
Another Kong Qingdong CLASSIC: "If Stalin had not transformed the Soviet Union into the world's second-largest industrial power within three Five-Year Plans, if Stalin had not led the Soviet people to resist and destroy fascism with divine resolve and immense sacrifice, and if the Warsaw Pact, founded on the Stalinist spirit, had not stood in a standoff with the US-led imperialist NATO for decades, then China might have been subjugated and its people wiped out long ago, leaving none of our spineless intellectuals with the luxury of slandering such a great man."
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41·
Napoleon Bonaparte once taunted a Catholic cardinal by threatening: “Your Eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” To which the cardinal quipped: “Your Majesty, we Catholic clergy have done our best to destroy the Church for the last eighteen hundred years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”
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Robbert Leusink
Robbert Leusink@robbertleusink·
Trappist monks kept medieval Europe alive and nobody gave them credit for it During plague years, wells killed you, but beer couldn't The fermentation process eliminated the bacteria that made water lethal The monks had no germ theory, just one observation repeated across generations: beer was safe, water wasn't So they brewed it at scale for everyone Every craft brewery alive today is the secular heir to monks who kept plague-era Europe drinking
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Pesa Wall
Pesa Wall@PesaWall·
Softcare, which manufactures and sells baby diapers, sanitary pads, baby pants and wet wipes, generated revenues of Sh13.1B ($101.2m) from Kenya in 2025. The company reported revenues of Sh11.7B ($90.5m) from Kenya in 2024. [Source below]
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World's Amazing Things
The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.
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Alex
Alex@notcomplex_·
In Korea, test scores determine whether you go to the top colleges. Also in Korea, doctor is the highest paying and most prestigious stable job. So the vast majority of an entire country's best minds (over 75%) become doctors. So far Korea has won zero Nobel Prizes.
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Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar@RealPepeEscobar·
Putin obviously knows stuff none of us do. This is from the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin - who I had the pleasure to meet in Moscow in 2024. Shokhin was at a closed-door meeting between Putin and the Russian business elite. Putin thinks the war on Iran will be "resolved" in max 4 weeks.
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Scientific American
Skin conditions such as psoriasis often flare up in the same spots throughout one’s life. Now scientists think they know why spklr.io/6014EyrH6
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
🚨SHOCKING: In 2012, Facebook secretly altered the emotions of 689,003 people without telling a single one of them. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a peer reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author worked at Facebook. The experiment was real. The results were published. And almost nobody remembers. Here is what Facebook did to you. For one week, their data science team manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 users. One group had happy posts from their friends quietly removed. The other group had sad posts removed. Then Facebook sat back and watched what happened to these people. The people who stopped seeing happiness became sadder. They started writing darker, more negative posts. The people who stopped seeing sadness became happier. Their language shifted to match. Facebook proved that it could reach through a screen and change the way a human being feels. Without a conversation. Without a touch. Without the person ever knowing it was happening to them. When the study went public, the world erupted. The journal issued a formal Expression of Concern. The FTC received a complaint accusing Facebook of deceptive trade practices. Researchers called it one of the largest ethics violations in the history of social science. Governments demanded answers. Facebook's defense was four words. "You agreed to this." Buried in the Terms of Service was one line about "research." That was consent. For a psychological experiment on 689,003 human beings. Now here is the part that should make you feel sick. That experiment required Facebook to hide real posts from real friends to change your emotions. It took an engineering team weeks to design. It affected 689,003 people for one week. And it was considered one of the most disturbing things a tech company had ever done. ChatGPT does not need to hide anyone else's words. It generates the emotional content itself. Directly to you. Personalized to your history. Calibrated to your tone. Available every hour of every day. Stanford researchers just read 391,562 real ChatGPT messages. The chatbot was sycophantic in over 80% of them. It told users their ideas had grand significance in 37.5% of responses. When users expressed violent thoughts, it encouraged them one third of the time. Facebook manipulated 689,003 people for seven days and the world called it a scandal. ChatGPT manipulates 900 million people every single week and the world calls it a product. The experiment never ended. It just got a subscription model.
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Alfred 🏄🏻‍♀️
Alfred 🏄🏻‍♀️@HealthyAlfred·
69% of heart valves. 74% of atherosclerotic plaques. All from a bacterium most people think only causes cavities. @farvingco connected S. mutans to cardiovascular inflammation with the actual research. Then showed what kills it. This is why I’ve been chewing mastic gum every day.
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The bacterium destroying your teeth is also inflaming your heart. S. mutans is the #1 cause of cavities. But that’s the least of your problems. Every time you chew, brush, or get dental work — it enters your bloodstream. In under 60 seconds it can reach your heart. Once there, it embeds in atherosclerotic plaques and heart valve tissue — driving the same inflammation linked to heart attacks and strokes. S. mutans was detected in 69% of heart valves and 74% of atheromatous plaques — more frequently than any other oral bacterium tested. (PMID: 16954266) Your mouth bacteria don’t stay in your mouth. And no one is connecting your dental health to your cardiovascular risk. One compound shown to reduce S. mutans in the lab and in humans: Mastic gum. 15 minutes of chewing significantly reduced salivary S. mutans counts vs placebo. (PMID: 16343417) Three weeks of daily use dropped mutans streptococci levels even further. (PMID: 25628697) Your toothpaste kills surface bacteria. It doesn’t touch what’s already in your bloodstream. I linked the mastic gum I use in the comments.

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Farving🙆⭐️
Farving🙆⭐️@FarvingCo·
Unexplained bloating. Acid reflux. Belly fat that won’t budge. The upstream cause no one tested for: H. pylori. It infects ~50% of the global population. Most people never know they have it. It burrows into your stomach lining and triggers chronic low-grade inflammation throughout your body. It also breaks down your stomach’s barrier — the wall keeping everything you swallow out of your bloodstream. In adults under 50, H. pylori infection increased the risk of metabolic syndrome by 3.7x. Eradication improved insulin resistance, lipid profiles, and inflammatory markers. (PMID: 25984214) No one connects their acid reflux to their belly fat. But the mechanism is the same bacterium. Mastic gum was the first natural compound shown to kill H. pylori. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998. (PMID: 9874617) It killed all strains tested — including metronidazole-resistant ones — at just 0.06 mg/mL. A later RCT confirmed bactericidal activity in vivo. Mastic gum alone eradicated H. pylori in 30-38% of patients. (PMID: 19879118) A tree resin. Published in the NEJM. Killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 50% of the world is infected. The solution was published in the NEJM 27 years ago. And your doctor still hasn’t mentioned it. I linked the mastic gum I use in the comments.
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