Calvin

There’s really nothing stopping China from taking Taiwan rn. Like literally nothing. The UN has collapsed, international law is over, geopolitical assasinations are legal again, and occupation is cool.

There is an old Japanese saying that explains the virtues of TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS

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.

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."

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.”

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

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]

The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.

King Louis XIV's last words.

Two French companies that process gum arabic are implicated in the war in Sudan. See below.

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.

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.

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

🚨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.

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.

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.

Habits so simple you think they’re not worth doing, but have a profound impact on your life: - Not touching your phone when you wake up - Not thinking about work after work is done - Putting a book down once you find an idea worth thinking about - Setting aside time to do nothing for 10 minutes a day - Going on a short walk after each meal - Eating a meal without a screen in front of you - Saying "I don't know" instead of pretending you do - Asking "What if this isn't actually a problem?" before trying to solve it - Letting yourself be bad at something instead of expecting perfection - Trying to understand something you disagree with instead of looking for flaws - Defaulting to "no" until you think through the commitment

We don’t talk enough about CLOVE breaking down some of the most stubborn BIOFILMS in the body. Most of which traditional applications like Nattokinase miss. Clove is rich in a signature Eugenol, one that contains a spiritual factor which infuses protection & purification back into the system. In a very profound way, there is quantum intelligence fabricated in Clove. Not only does it eradicate biofilm… But also inhibits pathogens that escape to look for another environment.. Penetrating through their cell membranes, disrupting all of their adaptation & survival mechanisms. As well as aggressively hunting for both Gram positive & negative bacterias protective matrix.. Cleaning up everything that stands in its way. On a Quantum level, Clove disrupts lattice biology… Changing behavioral & spatial structures pathogens use to survive. This means less interaction of pathogen & cell, eradication of hosts, interruption of pathogens defined rules. (Science will catch up with me here) Clove improves how the body calculates what is considered a mathematical error, which intern humors B cells. Excites them. Simultaneously activating Humoral Immunity after its job is done & tagging in a signature antibody mediated response to finish off what’s left circulating. Steep as tea or add to bone broths. Consume with the intention of eradicating old films (timelines) from the past that made you feel unprotected & muddied your vulnerability. This helps surface imprints that protect the integrity of biofilms biological structures & gives clove direct instructions. Perfectly coding its hunt mechanism to seek what no longer serves & later pass on this intelligence to B cells which close the reel. 📽️🎞️

There’s a bacterium in your mouth that’s been found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It’s called P. gingivalis. It produces LPS that enters your bloodstream through inflamed gums. Once systemic, it triggers a cascade that drives chronic inflammation and insulin resistance. Mice given P. gingivalis orally developed endotoxemia, increased visceral fat, and impaired glucose tolerance. (PMID: 28067105) Your mouth is the first firewall. If it’s breached, your gut, brain, and metabolism pay for it. Its proteases (gingipains) have been found in Alzheimer’s brains — correlating directly with tau pathology. (PMID: 30746447) No one connects oral health to belly fat or neurodegeneration. But the mechanism is sitting right there in the literature. One of the few compounds shown to kill P. gingivalis without destroying healthy tissue: mastic gum. Mastic extract killed P. gingivalis at just 2.4 μg/mL. The strongest active compound identified: isomasticadienolic acid. (PMID: 16822220) Your mouthwash isn’t enough. The bacteria driving your inflammation might not be in your gut. It might be in your gums. I use @GrecoGum mastic gum. Code GUNNAR saves you 10%. Link in the comments.