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Bamboo is 11 times stronger than steel.
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The fact that milk strengthens your teeth and bones is a myth.
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“Musk Is a Nazi in a Dollar Wrapper”
Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the AfD on Saturday, reiterating his support ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 election and telling the crowd that it’s time to “move on” from “past guilt.”
“Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,”
“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,”
“The words we heard from the main actors of the AfD rally about ‘Great Germany’ and ‘the need to forget German guilt for Nazi crimes’ sounded all too familiar and ominous. Especially only hours before the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,”
“Musk started cherish actively his Canadian grand-father’s Nazi sentiments. He is a Nazi in a dollar candy wrapper,”
There are about 40,000 muscles in an elephant's trunk.
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Babies have chubby cheeks to make it easier to drink milk from the breast.
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Taphophilia is an attraction to cemeteries, tombstones, epitaphs, and funeral rituals.
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Hamas Claims Victory: Israel's Bitter Peace 🕊
Breaking News 📊
Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya declares ceasefire "historic moment" for terrorists, highlighting Israel's failure to achieve stated war objectives.
Victory Claims 🎯
Hamas Statements:
• October 7 "military achievement"
• Israel's goals thwarted
• Leadership intact
• Control maintained
Strategic Reality 💫
"Hamas will neither forget nor forgive"
Gambian hamster rats can be trained to smell tuberculosis.
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Flamingo feathers are not naturally pink.
• Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they feed on.
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India produces 45% of the world's mangoes
• But exports account for only 1% of international trade – almost all the mangoes are eaten by locals themselves.
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The Moon is not a sphere, but a spheroid - it is not round, but ovoid
• But the Moon always faces the Earth with its “wide” side and appears to us to be absolutely round.
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The brain does not feel pain
• Most open brain surgeries require the patient to remain conscious.
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Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
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Zelensky says it’s “shameful” for European countries to worry about energy cost increases!
Without a clear alternative in place, the deal that allows Central European nations to buy Russian gas via Ukraine will be allowed to expire at the end of the year.
“This contract will no longer exist, that much is clear,”
“But that’s fine — we will survive, Gazprom will survive.”
Ceasefire in Gaza is a real possibility — is it the “Trump Effect”?
Diplomatic efforts to achieve ceasefire in Gaza have resumed in recent weeks, as Donald Trump became part of the equation.
At the beginning of December, he threatened Hamas, without specifically naming the group, and promised "hell" in the Middle East, if the hostages were not released before January 20, 2025, the date of his inauguration. For the first time in a long time, a ceasefire seems possible.
But perhaps it’s not Trump. Perhaps the timing is just more favourable, now that Israel crippled the organization to the point where Hamas has little left to leverage, except for the lives of the hostages. Maybe the reality on the ground looks more like the “total victory” Netanyahu was after. Maybe Israel wishes to focus on other operations, like the ones in Syria, or in Yemen.
#USA #Gaza #Ceasefire #Trump
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The Coca-Cola logo cost the company $0 to create and was created by the company's accountant.
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Peas can even grow in human lungs.
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Your blood type may change if you have a bone marrow transplant.
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There are brain-eating amoebas
• They live in fresh water and can enter the body through the nose, and then begin to eat brain tissue.
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A LETTER, ADMITTING ELECTION INTERFERENCE, IMPLICATING ELON MUSK, MARC ANDREESSEN
Dated:
1/10/2025
“To Whom It May Concern,
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do…”
“When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical.”
“We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide.
One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Haven't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic.”
“Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them.
”Perhaps the most unethical part was how we manufactured news stories. One team would write completely fake articles, while another team would artificially boost their engagement metrics to make them go viral. We specifically targeted certain groups of people, knowing exactly how to manipulate their views and emotions.”
“We systematically silenced anyone who got in our way, enforcing the rules when it suited us and ignoring them when it didn't. Elon Musk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat MAGA."
“What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed. People don't know what's real anymore, and that's exactly what we wanted.
[…]
The pilot program for the Eliza AI Agent, was election interference. Eliza was released officially in October of 2024, but we had access to it before then thanks to Marc Andreessen.”
“I'm terrified to be writing this, but I had to speak up.
[…]
For more evidence look at the docs of Eliza AI Agent software. We left bread crumbs.
Yours sincerely,
A former employee who can't sleep at night.”
Dragonflies have three pairs of legs, but they can't walk.
• The legs are too weak to support the dragonfly's body.
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While underwater, beavers can hold their breath for 15 minutes.
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«Vietnam and Russia inked Tuesday an agreement to boost cooperation on nuclear energy during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s two-day visit to Hanoi,»
There are just over 1 quadrillion (one followed by 15 zeros) tons of diamonds hidden deep within the Earth.
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Another pandemic? 😩
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👂 More on Trump's Ear
Daily showering weakens the skin's protective functions.
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China’s Trump Challenge.
Some Perspectives On a Possible War
People and companies in China—indeed in business communities around the world—have eagerly embraced Beijing’s promises to enact policies that will restore the nation’s economic momentum. However, disappointment has always followed. It is beginning to look as though China’s leadership simply does not know what to do.
This conclusion is entirely plausible since China’s economic and financial troubles largely sprouted from ill-conceived policies dating back to well before the pandemic.
China’s economy has come a long way from the place that once garnered nothing but praise from Western media. Not too long ago, it was common to read that China’s economy would soon eclipse that of the United States.
Commentary often praised the effectiveness and prescience of Chinese top-down planning, some suggesting that perhaps it was superior to the comparative chaos of democratic practice and market-based approaches. In 2009, for instance, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman extolled what could be accomplished by China’s “one-party autocracy.”
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau spoke admiringly about how China’s “basic dictatorship” allowed it to “turn the economy around on a dime.”
President Barack Obama gave credit to China’s approach to bringing millions out of poverty. This is just a small sample of the kind of commentary that was prevalent during China’s great growth strides. But now, that system seems to be failing.
Praise for the prescience of China’s central planning was always misplaced. Since modern China began as a severely underdeveloped and war-torn economy, its planners had an easy time identifying where the nation should put its emphasis.
All they needed to do was to look at the developed world. They could see that building new roads, rail links, port facilities, housing, power stations, and the like would pay huge growth dividends, and they did. People rose from dire poverty and became richer.
However, as China developed and joined more advanced economies, its future needs became less obvious. Beijing’s central planners had lost their model and increasingly began to make mistakes.
This new fact of economic life (for China) became evident in the 2010s. By then, the authorities had been promoting residential construction for some time, giving subsidies for building, advancing credit on easy terms to developers, and enlisting the support of local governments by making land sales lucrative for them and even encouraging them to enter joint ventures with developers.
However, as China shifted from a housing-short economy to one of abundant housing, planners made the mistake of keeping these policies in place. Real estate development rose to an unsustainable 30% of China’s economy.
When Beijing finally woke up to the problem, it made a second error. In 2019–2020, Beijing suddenly removed all the former support to the housing sector. The decision was reasonable, but the suddenness of the action caused problems.
It caught both developers and local governments by surprise, leaving them no time to adjust. Having extended themselves under policies that no longer existed, developers and local governments faced severe financial troubles.
In 2021, developers began to fail, and local governments began to report difficulties meeting their financial obligations, in some cases, even in providing basic public services.
That year, matters in Chinese finance began to resemble those in the United States during the global financial crisis of 2008. Rather than act forcefully to stem the spread of financial failure, the authorities in Beijing made yet another mistake.
They sat on their hands as if nothing were wrong. Their inaction allowed the financial problems to spread throughout the system, rendering Chinese finance far less able to support growth than it had been.
PART 2
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Russia and China want to trade in the Northern Sea Route. Consider it a bargaining chip that could benefit the West, too.
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When a spider weaves a web, its legs work autonomously, without the involvement of the brain.
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War Must End: Trump's Peace Push 🔍
Breaking News 📊
Trump signals shift in Ukraine policy, describing conflict as "worst carnage since WWII" while pushing for negotiations despite Kyiv's resistance.
Brutal Reality 🎯
Direct Quote:
"People are being killed at levels that nobody's ever seen... It's very level fields, the only thing that stops a bullet is a body. And the number of soldiers that are being killed on both sides is astronomical."
"You know it's nice to say they want their land back, but the cities are largely destroyed,"