Cloffio

I have shiny dreams about retiring before my 55th birthday. 44yo blue collar from Italy

[Jake Steiner @endmyopia]

You're 35. Your glasses prescription was −2.00 at 18. It's −5.00 now.

You can't see anything without glasses these days at all.

You spend 9 hours on screens. You wear your glasses. You just got a stronger pair. You've stopped bringing it up.

You don't have a vision problem. You have a signal problem.

In 2010, researchers at Queensland University put 28 adults under one hour of hyperopic defocus — the same type of blur your glasses create when you look at a screen.

Axial length increased by +8 µm. -> Eyesight is measurably worse, in ONE HOUR.

They tried the opposite — myopic defocus. Same 60 minutes. Same subjects.

Axial length decreased by −13 µm. -> Vision measurably improves, with eyeball LENGTH reducing.

One blur grows your eye. The other shrinks it. p < 0.0001. (Read et al., IOVS 2010)

Your optometrist lens subscription seller gives you full correction for distance. You wear that same prescription to look at a phone 30 cm from your face.

Your eyes under-accommodate. Research confirms myopes have ~2× the accommodative lag of emmetropes — about 0.6 D of hyperopic defocus at near. (PMC9544228)

That's the same signal that made the +8 µm happen. Every screen session. Every year.

In 2023, a JAMA Pediatrics RCT (n=263) found that naked-eye 3D vision training — creating myopic defocus — reduced axial elongation by 24%. With high adherence, 40%. (Xie et al., JAMA Pediatr 2024)

A 2025 study (n=208) showed visual training dropped axial elongation from 0.38 mm/year to 0.23 mm/year — 39.5% reduction. And it was additive — it worked on top of orthokeratology, atropine, and defocus lenses with no statistically significant difference between combinations. (Xu et al., Clin Optom 2025)

In 2025, a preprint documented full reversal of −6.00 D myopia in an adult in 5 months — using only myopic defocus and consciously triggered accommodation. n=1, not peer-reviewed. But the trajectory is suggestive. (Martinez-Saito, OSF 2025)

The industry has known since 2002 that passive undercorrection backfires. The Chung study showed giving kids −0.75 D blur with no training made things worse. Critics cite this endlessly. They ignore that it tested passive blur — not differential lenses + active focus. Apples and hand grenades.

The endmyopia approach is different:

Wear differential lenses (1.5–2.0 D weaker aka "computer glasses") for close work — eliminates the hyperopic defocus stimulus entirely
Wear normalized lenses (slightly weaker) for distance — creates mild myopic defocus
Active focus — consciously clear the blur, retraining the ciliary muscle
Two roads. One is a lifetime lens subscription sold by retail optometry, the other is you taking back control.

Keep feeding your eyes the signal that says "grow longer, clearer" — 8 hours a day, every day.

Or fix the signal.

Nobody is coming to tell you this. They make 150 billion dollars a year counting on you not figuring it out.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@cperruna What's this shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no taste whatsoever on the other side of the atlantic

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@Marxism4D @MikhailaFuller Your opinion is entirely worthless. Why speak up?

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@giacomococcia2 @virgo1972_ @Leonardobecchet Se ciò che ho detto é una stupidaggine, allora le STAZIONI FERROVIARIE sono dei dormitori per senzatetto. Ti invito a seguire un corso di logica, ne avresti bisogno.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@giacomococcia2 @virgo1972_ @Leonardobecchet La STAZIONE FERROVIARIA non é un dormitorio per persone che non possono avere o non vogliono una casa. È una STAZIONE FERROVIARIA. Ci sono altre soluzioni per dare supporto a queste persone, ma non le STAZIONI FERROVIARIE.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@giacomococcia2 @virgo1972_ @Leonardobecchet Non era una battuta. Apri casa tua ai senzatetto sei hai un briciolo di coerenza.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@giacomococcia2 @virgo1972_ @Leonardobecchet Andare a casa tua

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@Adriana87707668 @Andrea_Radic @reportrai3 Il burro è ciò che è buono e sano nel cornetto. Il tuo volerci dentro la margarina ti può causare occlusioni nelle arterie. Ne vale la pena?

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@thealepalombo Lol. B has the best food in the world, beaches, mountains and Trieste as an added bonus. No contest.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@pinciukas1 @nicknorwitz That is not the point.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@_OliverVenture @ifixhearts Silly.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@healthnutritipz This is silly. Not a word on protein availability. So many useless words on calories.

[Cloffio @Cloffio1]

@litocoen Try to avoid the crappy touristic bars.
Italian cafes serve some of the most esthetically appealing coffee in the whole world.

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Every major gold bull market — 1970s, 2001–2011, now — has corrected to the 200 DMA.

Every single touch was a generational entry.

Weak hands sold. Specs got flushed. The 200 DMA held.

And gold went on to make new highs every single time.

The 200 DMA isn't a warning. It's where bull markets reload 🔥🔥🔥

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Big Silver hits from $KTN.v $KOOYF kootenay Silver.
10m of 503gpt Silver, well above the resource grade 🔥🔥🔥

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Long Gold
Long Copper
Short bonds

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

Juniors/smallcaps medical condition chart: the Canadian Venture exchange

Breaking out 🔥🔥🔥

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

The Silver market is about to collapse.

February 27, 2026 is First Notice Day for March silver futures on COMEX.

400 million ounces are tied to March contracts.

Silver available for delivery? Just 82 million ounces.

But it gets even worse:

On February 27, 2026 traders must choose:
→ Roll
→ Close for cash
→ Or demand physical delivery

Normally? Routine.

This time? SYSTEM LEVEL.

The paper-to-physical ratio in silver now sits near 360:1.

Read that again.

For every ounce of real metal, HUNDREDS of paper claims exist.

Inventory recently fell below 100 million ounces for the first time in modern history.

And withdrawals are accelerating: ~785,000 ounces per day.

If even 25–50% of contract holders demand metal…

The exchange can’t perform.

That’s not fear.
That’s math.

And behavior is changing.

Historically, only 3–5% take delivery.

February 2026?
Delivery demand surged toward 98%.

During the January 30 crash, when silver collapsed from $121 to $64, vaults still saw 3.3 million ounces withdrawn.

In a single day.

Price down.
Metal leaving.

That’s not retail panic.

That’s large capital choosing CUSTODY over leverage.

Zoom out.

The market is fragmenting East vs West.

China controls roughly 70% of refined silver output and tightened export controls in January.

Inventories in Asia are tight.
Short exposure is elevated.

Meanwhile, corporations are bypassing exchanges entirely.

Samsung secured a two-year exclusive offtake for the full output of a Mexican silver mine.

No paper exposure.
Just guaranteed supply.

Underneath it all:

The world is running a 40–50 million ounce MONTHLY silver deficit.

Cumulative shortages since 2021 approach 820 million ounces.

That’s structural.
Silver isn’t just an investment.

It’s solar.
It’s electronics.
It’s defense.
It’s AI infrastructure.

Strategic deficits don’t resolve quietly.

They REPRICE.

If COMEX cannot deliver on February 27, it can legally settle contracts in cash.

But cash settlement confirms one thing:

Paper silver is leverage.
Physical silver is reality.

With a 360:1 claim structure, confidence is everything.

If confidence cracks, price discovery won’t be gradual.
It will be forced.

This isn’t just another contract cycle.

It’s a stress test of the entire paper silver system.

Stay disciplined.
Don’t get shaken out.

February 27 will show how strong the structure really is.

I’ve studied markets for over 10 years, and I’ve called every major market top and bottom.

Follow and turn notifications on.

I’ll post the next warning BEFORE it hits the headlines.

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

$EQTY.v $EQMEF breaking out nicely ahead of new mineral resource: right in time for PDAC conference next week? trading at 1$ per ounce right here, massive upside.

[Gold Ventures 🟡 @TheLastDegree]

$MGG.V (Minaurum Silver) is massively undervalued: production-permitted Alamos project in Mexico hosts an initial resource of ~55M oz AgEq at high-grade 320 g/t AgEq (from just 3 of 26 vein zones, with massive expansion potential).

At ~$0.50/share and current market cap and silver prices, the upside is a 6x