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Le Salvador, pays affichant le taux d'homicides le plus élevé au monde il y a quelques années, présente désormais un taux inférieur à celui du Canada depuis 2024. Preuve que l'incarcération des criminels, plutôt que l'octroi de peines bonbons justifiées par des traumatismes imaginaires, fonctionne.

The Iliad and Odyssey are the only nearly complete survivors of the Epic Cycle, an 8 part collection of ancient Greek epics that once told the full mythological story of the Trojan War. Homer’s poems cover only a small portion of this larger saga, with the Iliad focusing on a brief period near the end of the war and the Odyssey detailing Odysseus’ return home. The other lost epics, including the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, expanded the narrative to include the origins of the war, Achilles’ later battles, the fall of Troy, the Greek heroes’ returns, and Odysseus’ final fate. Though these poems were once foundational to Greek literary culture, they were gradually lost as manuscript traditions declined, leaving behind only fragments, summaries, and references from later classical writers. #drthehistories

Si on prend un pas de recul, comment penser qu'une population puisse avoir une contribution économique positive alors qu'elle présente les caractéristiques suivantes ? 🔴 Taux de chômage plus élevé 🔴 Taux d'emploi plus faible 🔴 Pauvreté plus élevée 🔴 Dépendance aux aides sociales plus forte 🔴 Niveau scolaire plus faible 👉 Seul un tour de magie numérique peut faire croire qu'une telle population est une bénédiction pour notre économie ⬇️

@grok @Garnet_2203 Yes that makes sense, so it's unlikely that she can be reason with if she treats it as a moral absolute? This sounds like a cult a bit no?

It's politically risky. Even for figures like Jamil Jivani (with immigrant family roots), acknowledging data on wage suppression for low-skill workers invites accusations of xenophobia or hypocrisy. Many treat high immigration as a moral absolute rather than an economic policy with trade-offs, so nuance gets shut down to protect the broader pro-migration narrative. Evidence exists, but incentives favor avoiding it.

Canadians aren’t struggling because newcomers exist. They’re struggling because wages haven’t kept up with housing, groceries, utilities, and corporate profits for years. And it’s ironic hearing this from Jamil Jivani when his own family immigrated to Canada his father from Kenya and his grandparents from Scotland and Ireland. Blaming immigrants is the oldest political distraction in the book. The real question is: why are ordinary families working harder than ever while billionaires and corporations keep posting record profits?

@grok @Garnet_2203 Why do you think it's hard to openly talk about this link for someone like the author of the original tweet?

Yes, high levels of immigration can suppress wages, especially for low-skilled native workers in directly competing occupations. Basic economics: more labor supply (without matching demand growth) lowers equilibrium wages. Canadian studies (e.g., Aydemir/Borjas, Bank of Canada) find a 10% labor supply increase in a skill group can reduce those wages 3-4%, with recent high inflows softening overall wage growth by ~0.2-0.4 pp via composition effects. Overall/native averages often show small or negligible impacts due to complementarities and demand boosts, but low-skill segments feel it more. Effects vary by policy, skills mix, and time horizon.

The “I am your father” twist in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was kept secret from almost the entire cast, with only Mark Hamill knowing it beforehand. At the premiere, Harrison Ford leaned over & told him, “Hey kid, you didn’t f**king tell me that.”

@LP_LaPresse Le futur est tier-monde

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L’immigration n’a quasiment pas d’impact sur le financement du système de retraites Le vieillissement de la population pèse de plus en plus lourd sur les épaules des actifs peu nombreux. L’immigration en France serait sans impact sur le problème. lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran…

@LP_LaPresse Le niveau de vol a l'étalage serait extrême

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White guys liked rock, but it was pushed out by the industry in favour of rap, which is very obviously not for white guys. Streaming has broken the industry's ability to force music down your throat and rap is declining because of it

Dune has capitalized where Star Wars has faltered in recent years. It’s done this by staying focused on the higher level of “mythological” storytelling instead of modern political messaging. Myth is about portraying timeless patterns in our quest for meaning.

The placenta and mammary glands do not try to keep babies low in vitamin K. They store vitamin K and slowly leak it to the baby. They preferentially transport MK-4. They are trying to engineer the antithesis of the vitamin K shot. That antithesis is not vitamin K deficiency. It is slow accumulation over time instead of a rapid bolus dose. Why? My guess is that the babies do not have well developed detoxification systems, so the placenta and mammary glands try not to expose them to massive bolus doses of glutathione-depleting agents, so they don’t get, say, autism. Humans convert all forms of vitamin K to MK-4, which is the mammalian form of vitamin K that cannot be replaced by any other form. That process involves converting it to menadione, which has high toxicity and is detoxified using glutathione. The preferential transport of MK-4 across the placenta probably reflects an ability of the baby to accumulate MK-4 without futile conversion to menadione and back to MK-4, a process that has been verified to occur in adults mediated by intestinal tissue. Even high-dose MK-4 in this process generates menadione that leaves into the urine as a glutathione conjugate. But perhaps fetuses and infants are better able to accumulate the MK-4 without so much futile cycling. That would explain the preferential transfer from the mother. Nature does not want infants to be vitamin K deficient. Infants are born deficient in vitamin K because modern diets are deficient in it. Medicine solves this problem by doing the total opposite of what nature intended and giving the infant the massive bolus dose of vitamin K that the placenta and mammary glands were trying to defend against. They used to give menadione itself but this was so toxic to infants it was replaced by vitamin K1. But vitamin K1 in large blouses will generate considerable menadione. The solution is to obey the imperatives of the placenta and and mammary glands and operate within their parameters. That means mothers eating vitamin K-rich diets before, during, and after pregnancy.

It turns out that when you plow investment capital into house flipping instead of industrial machinery, your economy flatlines.

Another example of the fact that, unless you're willing to make life unbearable, reducing consumption is not the solution to climate change.

This is an expression of quite a widely-held pre-industrial view that trading was to be stigmatised. In the traditional agrarian imagination, traders were parasitic middlemen. They didn't create wealth, nor were they interested in honourably taking it by the sword.

4% of centenarians die from cancer. Before age 80, it's 25-40%. The people who live the longest are barely dying of the disease everyone fears most. A new @NatRevImmunol review found their immune cells tell the story. NK cells in centenarians keep young transcriptional signatures. RUNX3 stays on. Cytotoxicity stays high. Both normally fade by 70. Their bodies handle inflammation differently too. Same chronic inflammation as any aging person, but the NLRP3 inflammasome, the trigger for inflammatory disease, is suppressed. Mice without NLRP3 live 34% longer (males). 722,000 centenarians exist today. The immune pathways they've preserved are the same ones in active aging-disease trials. Survivorship bias is the obvious objection. The NLRP3 data from mouse models doesn't care.

@LP_LaPresse J'espère!

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The most fascinating part of the Odyssey to me is the Cretan Lie. When you think of the Odyssey, the first thing you picture is probably Odysseus’s run-ins with famous monsters. The Cyclopes, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, etc. But there’s a reading of the Odyssey in which none of these events took place, and a far more historically intriguing sequence of events emerges. For one, we don’t actually ‘see’ the run-ins with the monsters take place in the poem. Instead, these details all come from Odysseus’s own narration to the Phaeacians. They’re part of the story he tells them of his travels to convince them to charter a fleet to send him back home to Ithaca. The problem is, Odysseus is a liar. He lies constantly, any time he pops up in Greek mythology. In fact, in the Odyssey he tells many different people many different versions of what he did after Troy. And why would he tell the Phaeacians the truth? He wouldn’t, of course. He would tell them whatever he thought they wanted to hear. To me, the most intriguing version of events he tells is to his loyal swine herd. While still in disguise pretending to be a Cretan, Odysseus says that after the sacking of Troy, he led his men on an expedition against the Egyptians. But his expedition failed. His men were all killed or enslaved by the Egyptians. But he threw himself at the Pharaoh’s feet and begged for mercy. He received it, and spent 7 years in Egypt, where he amassed great riches, before being tricked and nearly sold into slavery in Phoenicia, but then surviving a shipwreck and making his way back to Ithaca. We know the Trojan War would’ve taken place during the same period that the Sea People were sacking their way down the coast of Anatolia (where Troy was) to Egypt, where Ramses III ultimately defeats them. This matches up perfectly with Odysseus’s ‘lie.’ I like to think that Odysseus saved the most honest version of his travels for his most loyal servant (though still cloaked in a lie, as Odysseus’s stories always are). And that Homer has preserved more about the Bronze Age collapse than we’ve ever given him credit for.

We warned scientists not to squander people’s trust. Investigate the lab leak Don’t overclaim for vaccines Don’t demand lockdowns Don’t worship models Don’t be dogmatic Encourage debate They have only themselves to blame.