Anders Sparkle

[ُ @Asensii20]

He wasn’t lying because what the hell is this???

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

- you have 1500 followers
- you've locked down your 10/10 girl
- you spent 5 years together
- but the soccer star from your country with 50 million followers wants your girl.
- she dumps you in 2 weeks for Lamine Yamal
- now he took her to the World Cup

Competition was unfair.

[The Hair King @jamesbondwisdom]

washing your hair with an anti dandruff shampoo to regrow hair sounds like nonsense until you read the clinical study showing ketoconazole shampoo improved hair density and thickness comparably to 2% minoxidil over 6 months. then it sounds like a $12 shampoo doing a prescription drug's job

ketoconazole is an antifungal compound that was designed to treat dandruff. but researchers noticed something unexpected during trials. patients using it were growing thicker hair. not just cleaner hair. measurably thicker individual hair shafts and more of them

the mechanism is dual. first it eliminates malassezia fungus on the scalp which causes the chronic low-grade inflammation that accelerates follicle miniaturization. second, and this is the part nobody expected, ketoconazole appears to disrupt DHT activity at the follicle level through a mechanism that's still being fully mapped

- the study compared ketoconazole 2% shampoo used 2-4 times per week against 2% minoxidil. hair shaft diameter and the proportion of hairs in the growth phase improved comparably in both groups
- it works on contact meaning you don't need to leave it on for hours. 3-5 minutes on the scalp during a shower is sufficient for the antifungal and anti-DHT effects
- unlike minoxidil there is no dependency. if you stop using ketoconazole shampoo your hair doesn't fall out in response. minoxidil cessation causes accelerated shedding of every hair it was maintaining
- the anti-inflammatory effect reduces the perifollicular inflammation found in every biopsy of androgenetic alopecia. you're treating one of the root causes not just a symptom
- it's available over the counter as Nizoral in most countries. no prescription needed. no doctor visit required. $8-12 per bottle lasting 2-3 months
- you can stack it with every other treatment. use ketoconazole to clean the scalp and reduce DHT, then apply rosemary oil or peppermint oil after. the clean follicle environment amplifies everything applied afterward

the most effective hair loss shampoo ever studied sits on the drugstore shelf next to the Head and Shoulders. nobody buys it for hair growth because nobody told them it works for hair growth. because there's no profit margin in telling people a $12 shampoo does what a $40/month prescription does

[⭐ | wera ⚢ | ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 @werahoesat]

in Poland we call it "nie udało mi się życie, zmarnowałem. Uciekłem od pierwszej jedynej miłości, potem ożeniłem się bez miłości. Jedyna istota którą kocham, mój syn, wychowywał się w piekle mojego małżeństwa, tak jak ja wychowywałem się w piekle małżeństwa moich rodziców"

[TR @Deji_mide]

I’m crying man 😂😂😂

[2minbinsunger @user9221025]

nobody in the norway team passing to haaland in this match and the Only person who does always pass to haaland, is now on the opposite team… oh my haalingham…

[Blagra @BlagraDomino]

@juunolilia Nie wiem, może to, że autorka nie przeprowadza żadnej krytyki źródeł, bezkrytycznie traktuje relacje bez analizy ich wiarygodności? Za to nie brakuje jej prezentyzmu.
Polecam tekst: https://t.co/GRBn9JvwVJ

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

This

[` @blvkray]

🇳🇴 Erling Haaland: “Do you want my shirt? You were pulling it around all game.”

🇮🇹 Francesco Acerbi: “Can I have two?”

🇳🇴 Erling Haaland: “🤬”

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

>the Croatian team is the only European team that is 100% European

>the Croatian team is 100% Croatian Catholics

>the entire Croatian team attended Holy Mass together before the tournament

>half of England’s team is Muslim and/or African

If you aren’t rooting for Croatia today you simply aren’t on the team

[evie @Eviemagazine]

Russell Crowe pushed back against "Gladiator" sex scene: "It doesn't make any sense."

“There was a lot of pressure to bow to a desire that the studio and one of the producers had at the time that there should be sex scenes between Maximus and the female characters. And I just kept pushing back.

I said ‘This is the story about a man who's avenging the death of his wife and his child. There cannot be a moment on that journey where he stops and has sex with somebody. It doesn’t make any sense because then that destroys the journey.’

They fought me, and they sent me letters about it and everything, and I just stuck to my guns. Luckily for me, he agreed with me back then that that was the moral core of the film.

For them, in a second movie to destroy that moral center… it’s very interesting, because the second movie barely took the same box office that the first movie took.

They failed. And they failed because they didn’t understand why [the original movie] was successful. It was successful because it had a moral core.”

[Sergio Ferrero @calotonterias]

Dejar a los niños jugar solos al aire libre exponiéndose a riesgos controlados (escalar árboles, jugar con agua o fuego, luchar de broma, explorar zonas donde hay riesgo de perderse, correr a gran velocidad, saltar desde cierta altura...) es necesario para su correcto desarrollo.

Aumenta significativamente su autoconfianza y su sentimiento de competencia, mejora el bienestar psicológico, fortalece la resiliencia emocional y les ayuda a regular el miedo de forma saludable (efecto anti-fóbico). Además, favorece el desarrollo físico (fuerza, coordinación, equilibrio y habilidades motoras), incrementa la actividad física y reduce el sedentarismo. A nivel social, mejora sus habilidades de interacción con otros niños, la resolución de conflictos, la cooperación y el liderazgo. También estimula la creatividad, la resolución de problemas y la capacidad de evaluar y gestionar riesgos reales por sí mismos.

Por el contrario, apartarlos de cualquier peligro y sobreprotegerlos aumenta notablemente el riesgo de desarrollar fobias y ansiedad, reduce su resiliencia, disminuye su autoestima y su capacidad para manejar el estrés y los desafíos de la vida. También favorece el sedentarismo, la obesidad, un menor desarrollo de habilidades motoras y peores competencias sociales, dejando a los niños menos preparados para enfrentarse al mundo real.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

There is probably a correlation between morality and sense of humor.

Larry Niven once theorized that humor is associated with an interrupted defense mechanism.

The idea is that you have a situation presented to you which would normally trigger a defensive response, but when you realize it is actually harmless, the response that you experience as laughter or amusement is your brain's way of derailing that inappropriate defense mechanism.

Because it isn't appropriate to fight or run away from harmless things.

This mechanism become easy to see when you look at very simple or developing senses of humor. To a baby, unexpected + safe = comedy gold.

And my cat Dante's favorite joke is "I BITE your toes! ... but actually, I don't bite them! I just lick them by surprise, watch you jump, then run away mewing and looking pleased with myself!"

Humor can become quite sophisticated, but I've never yet seen anything funny that couldn't be understood this way.

But there's a certain type of evil person who is evil precisely because they don't interrupt defense mechanisms.

They fight harmless things. Even beneficial ones. And they give you long lectures about how the harmless or even the wonderful thing is ackshually super-problematic.

This is the visible symptom of a form of neurotic hypervigilance which can, and often does, progress to the point of simply lashing out, figuratively or even literally, at random parts of the environment, because the brain has constructed some narrative whereby it's a threat.

The humor response is our natural way of not doing this.

[Realitarian Reformer @realitarianre4m]

@QuetzalPhoenix I have tried this, and it is true. Mid-00s sitcoms for teens/tweens is social conditioning for being an asshole. Laugh tracks in general don't even seem to necessarily be preceded by jokes. They serve more like Pavlov's bell.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[MindVoyager @Karol1669024]

Finlandia zamieniła gumowy plac zabaw na leśne błoto. Dzieci miały silniejszą odporność już po miesiącu

Badanie Uniwersytetu Helsińskiego wykazało, że przekształcenie asfaltowego placu zabaw przy przedszkolu w teren przypominający leśne runo wywołało zauważalne zmiany w odporności dzieci już po 28 dniach.

Na podwórkach rozłożono darń, mech, krzewy, skrzynie do uprawy roślin oraz naturalną ściółkę. Dzieci codziennie bawiły się w środowisku bogatym w mikroorganizmy pochodzące z lasu i gleby.

Naukowcy porównali grupę korzystającą z zielonego placu z dziećmi z tradycyjnych miejskich przedszkoli. Analizy krwi i próbek skóry wykazały wzrost różnorodności bakterii korzystnych dla organizmu oraz wyższy poziom komórek i markerów związanych z regulacją układu odpornościowego.

Zaobserwowano między innymi zwiększenie liczby limfocytów T odpowiedzialnych za kontrolowanie reakcji zapalnych.

Autorzy badania podkreślili, że kontakt z naturą może wspierać rozwój odporności i ograniczać ryzyko chorób autoimmunologicznych oraz alergii, szczególnie u dzieci wychowujących się w silnie zurbanizowanym otoczeniu.

Wyniki wspierają hipotezę bioróżnorodności, według której ubogie środowisko mikrobiologiczne osłabia trening odporności. Badacze sugerują tworzenie zielonych stref przy szkołach i żłobkach. w miast

[🌐 ᴛʜᴇᴘᴏʟᴀɴᴅɴᴇᴡs 🌐 @thepolandnews_]

Krajowy Związek Rewizyjny Spółdzielni Spożywców „Społem” złożył zawiadomienie do UOKiK na sieci Biedronka i Lidl. Organizacja zarzuca dyskontom sprzedaż masła poniżej kosztów w ramach agresywnych promocji, które mają przyciągać klientów do sklepów. Według „Społem” tak niskie ceny są nieosiągalne dla mniejszych sklepów i mogą prowadzić do ograniczenia konkurencji na rynku. Związek domaga się zbadania polityki cenowej sieci oraz oceny, czy działania dyskontów nie stanowią nieuczciwej konkurencji.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

“wHy aRe tHerE iNdiaNs In pOrTuGaL?!”

Because they are good slaves, you are not.

I hate essay-posting but allow me a rare indulgence:

To understand what is happening now, you need understand that this isn’t the first time it’s happened.

Why are there Indians in Kenya? Suriname? Fiji? Burma?

Because Indians have always been the preferred servile class of elites. The evidence for this goes back hundreds of years.

I’ve spoken about British colonial Burma before, and it is a great example of what this looks like.

Even after extensive efforts to bring them to heel, the majority of the Burmese ethnic groups were far too resistant to submit to the British empire to be reliable labor. They refused to abandon their culture and ways of life to be slave drones for British pocketbooks. So the Brits started importing Indians to be their colonial administrators, preferring them as labor because they were easier to control and satisfy.

By the 1940s, Indians made up almost 20% of the population of the entire country.

Another great historical example of this is Suriname - a small country in South America that had been under Dutch colonial rule for 300 years.

The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, forcing colonial plantation owners to have to hire labor to do the work they had previously been using slaves for. But… they didn’t want to pay former slaves or Indigenous locals a living wage for the work.

So what did the Dutch elites do instead? Import Indians.

Today, Indians still make up 27% of the population. 27%. Of a tiny, obscure South American country.

We could basically go through the list of every country with a non-negligible Indian population and the theme would be consistent: They were brought there by elites who needed a submissive, easily exploitable labor pool when local labor asked for better living conditions or wages.

Why? Because Indians never did. They are a population that seems fully content with subjugation (even Marx noticed this).

So it’s easy to see why they were such an ideal population for the intensive global expansion era of colonial empires. And it’s even easier to see why they are perfect subjects for late capitalism now.

They are the culturally, psychologically, and physically ideal organism for the dominant system.

There’s 1.4 billion of them. They are deeply socially stratified and so expect and even enjoy inequality. Their cuisine is cheap, meat-free slop. They live amongst trash and filth with no qualms. They don’t care about the environment. Their reaction to death and abuse is blank-eyed indifference. They are physically and spiritually malleable. They not only adopt and internalize the demands of the dominant system as personal ambition, they believe this servitude makes them better than everyone else who hasn’t.

Absolutely IDEAL subjects.

You, on the other hand, are not the ideal subject.

You want to live in a high-trust society. You would shed tears if someone tried to cut down the apple tree you climbed as a child to build a data center. You want to see and experience beauty. You want your own space. You have an expectation that your living conditions will improve over time. You would not be content to live in a room with 10 other people, work 16 hours per day for pennies, and eat cheap slop.

You are a liability. Just like the Burmese and Surinamese slaves were.

And as we continue to crawl deeper into this late capitalist hellscape, you and your silly little needs will come into increasing conflict with those of the system.

Thus, you WILL be replaced by people far easier to control and far less concerned about their own welfare or the welfare of everyone and everything around them.

… Unless you do something about it. But the system has already locked-in that you won’t, and that you’ll just sort of fade into nothingness, distracted by meaningless comforts and terrified of the uncertainty of change.

So “why are Indians in [wherever]?”

Because you are about to not be.