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A lot of this needs to be remembered going into the new year

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

22 thoughts from 2022 I'd like to take into 2023:
https://t.co/bo83E67GbW

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@bigbooty_TD @GuyYoung436461 @KaptinYap Wi-Fi mate

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I Origin

[goma @soigomaa]

A riddle from 1688 goes: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes,if given the ability, could he distinguish those objects by sight alone?" In 2003, the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored through surgery. They could not.

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Yup

[Mikli @CryptoMikli]

Bryan Johnson reveals 5-MeO-DMT therapy outperformed every longevity protocol he’s tried

"If I compare my experience with 5-MeO to having a better diet, exercising every day, sleeping well, doing sauna, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, this was more efficacious than all of them in terms of a reset of me as a human. It’s just incomparable"

"When you sleep well you feel great, when you exercise you feel great, but nothing compares to what 5-MeO did in terms of resetting me as a human"

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@AussieJoker69 @KobieThatcher Are you even living in Australia?

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@AussieJoker69 @AlboMP *Laughs in Australian*

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@rivet0011 @10NewsMelb If it means anything, solar panels can charge through smoke and clouds.
It's about photons, not visible light

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@O2debt @pharaohroccia @dangiuz *Mute

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@O2debt @pharaohroccia @dangiuz Just block the dude and move on with your life.
No reason to mull on it

[The Leonardo Da Vinci Archive 📜 @DaVinciArchive]

“Water is the driving force in nature.”

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

Latest podcast from @Gregory_C_Allen has an insane section on criminal activity at Meta.

Internal docs leaked to Reuters show:

• 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year)
• Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US
• That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year
• Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone

The China case study:

• In 2024, Meta made $18B+ from Chinese companies advertising to foreign consumers
• Internal teams found ~19% was scams/banned content
• An anti-fraud team successfully cut these ads in half
• When Zuckerberg saw the revenue impact, he told them to "pause" and the team was disbanded
• By mid-2025, banned ads climbed back to 16% of China revenue
• This results in money being stolen and going directly from ordinary Americans to Chinese criminals

The deliberate enabling:

• Fraud earns 10% of all revenue, but anti-fraud teams were blocked from any action costing >0.15%, so they couldn't effectively do anything
• Meta charged higher rates for suspected fraudulent ads — a "scam tax"
• Their algorithm naturally identifies people vulnerable to frauds and feeds them more and more

The cold calculation:

• Meta anticipated up to $1B in regulatory fines for this
• But they make $3.5B every 6 months from high-risk ads
• They view these fines as just "cost of doing business"

Senators Blumenthal & Hawley now calling for FTC/SEC investigations in a blistering letter, noting that all this happened while Meta cut safety staff and moved billions over to VR and AI.

WTF.

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@elonmusk @elonmusk
Look man, the lack of a title on external articles is really difficult.
If you (the user) can't post a link without any context, why bother.
I get why you (the owner) doesn't want this though

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@Pirat_Nation Mass Effect

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@marclou Instead of stopping, what about slowing down. Maybe power walking will help with your mindset for the day but save your knees.
My wake discipline is dead hanging for 20 minutes and slowly increasing it

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

How I kill my players' characters (even in Call of Cthulhu). I give them three chances.

First, I warm that there is a threat. This is often ignored. I adjust the warning with the threat level.

For instance, if the party might be able to handle it, the locals might say, "Not everyone who enters the woods during the Teddy Bear's Picnic returns."

But if I don't think they have a chance, the locals might say, "No one has ever returned from the Devil's Playground. Ever."
1/3

[Italian 🚅🇮🇹🇻🇦 @Italian347]

So let's say hypothetically that you're in the Bavarian Countryside.

You see a Church. Looks alright but nothing spectacular.

You decide to enter

[Cine Vichaar @Cine_vichaar]

🎬 Top 50 Greatest MIND FU*KING Films of All Time

1. Incendies 🇨🇦
2. Oldboy 🇰🇷
3. Memento 🇺🇸
4. The Prestige 🇺🇸🇬🇧
5. Fight Club 🇺🇸
6. Perfect Blue 🇯🇵
7. Primer 🇺🇸
8. The Handmaiden 🇰🇷
9. Se7en 🇺🇸
10. Mulholland Drive 🇺🇸
11. Predestination 🇦🇺
12. Coherence 🇺🇸
13. Shutter Island 🇺🇸
14. The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 🇳🇱
15. Arrival 🇺🇸
16. Inception 🇺🇸🇬🇧
17. The Matrix 🇺🇸
18. Enemy 🇨🇦🇪🇸
19. Burning 🇰🇷
20. The Skin I Live In 🇪🇸
21. Parasite 🇰🇷
22. Jacob's Ladder 🇺🇸
23. Dogtooth 🇬🇷
24. Get Out 🇺🇸
25. The Wailing 🇰🇷
26. Timecrimes 🇪🇸
27. Synecdoche, New York 🇺🇸
28. Donnie Darko 🇺🇸
29. The Game 🇺🇸
30. Moon 🇬🇧
31. Ex Machina 🇬🇧
32. Triangle 🇬🇧🇦🇺
33. The Sixth Sense 🇺🇸
34. Audition 🇯🇵
35. Martyrs 🇫🇷🇨🇦
36. Gone Girl 🇺🇸
37. The Others 🇪🇸🇺🇸
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 🇺🇸
39. The Usual Suspects 🇺🇸
40. Identity 🇺🇸
41. 12 Monkeys 🇺🇸
42. Hereditary 🇺🇸
43. Under the Skin 🇬🇧
44. Caché 🇫🇷
45. Frailty 🇺🇸
46. The Mist 🇺🇸
47. Black Swan 🇺🇸
48. Pi 🇺🇸
49. Holy Motors 🇫🇷
50. Enter the Void 🇫🇷

[EndGame Macro @onechancefreedm]

If You Understand This Map, You Understand Africa’s Future

If you look at Africa through this kind of population density map, you start seeing something deeper than dots on a continent. You’re looking at where people choose to live when left to their own incentives, where water is reliable, where food can be grown, where trade naturally flows, where elevation cuts the heat, and where a day’s work has the best chance of paying off.

And once you know how to read that pattern, the whole continent reorganizes itself in front of you.

Instead of 54 countries, you see three massive demographic engines forming on their own terms.

Africa’s Three Natural Power Corridors

The West African corridor From Abidjan to Lagos and inland to Kano

That glowing belt is one of the most important facts in the 21st century global economy. Tens of millions live along that coastal strip because that’s where the rainfall is kinder, the port access is natural, the soil is usable, and the informal economy is unbelievably dense. If governance stays even halfway functional, this region becomes one of the biggest urban networks on Earth.

The Nile Horn And Great Lakes Arc

The bright spine along the Nile, the Ethiopian highlands, and around Lake Victoria is a 4,000 year old trade corridor that only looks new on a modern map. People settle here because altitude cools the air, rivers solve the water problem, and fertile land makes population density sustainable. It’s one of the few regions in Africa where population density and food production can actually scale together.

Southern Africa’s triangle: Gauteng, Coastal KZN, Cape Town

This cluster glows not because the land is perfect, but because the industrial base is. Johannesburg Pretoria is the economic engine, Durban is the shipping artery, and Cape Town is the brain trust. This region has the best infrastructure to population ratio on the continent, which is why it holds so much of Africa’s formal GDP.

My Read

The glowing clusters are Africa’s economic destiny zones. They tell you where transportation networks want to develop, where capital naturally gravitates, and where political stability pays the highest dividends.

The harsh truth is if these regions get reliable electricity, functioning ports, and even moderately effective governance, Africa will experience one of the largest urban demographic booms in human history.

If they don’t and if power grids crumble, food prices spike, or climate pressure gets worse these same density belts become engines of migration, instability, and political volatility.

Population density is not just about where people live. It’s a map of future opportunity, future conflict, and future capital flows.

And this map is telling you exactly where Africa’s next 30 years will be decided.

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Cool

[Iva Apostolova @Pergament_F]

When you feel down, start washing the floor with your hands, without gloves.
My grandmother used to say:
"The brain must return to the body."
You feel the dirt, the effort, the weight, the cold and gradually you regain control.
It's not about cleanliness, it's about grounding.
While you're only in your head, you're worried.
When you’re with the rag, you're in the moment.

Before an important decision, sleep three nights.
Not one, three.
The first day you’re driven by emotion. The second, fear.
Only on the third day does your head start to think.
And honestly, how many times have you regretted rushing?
And how many times have you regretted waiting?
That's right. This is wisdom in action.

If you can't wake up, wash your feet with cold water.
Not a cold shower, not frostbite just your feet.
Grandma used to say: "This is how you come back to earth."
And it's true, the body wakes up, the brain gets a grip on reality,
the dizziness disappears.

When nothing is going well start frying something in a pan.
Whatever it is. Even if you're not hungry.
The sound, the aroma, the heat all these are safety signals for the brain.
"If I’m cooking – then I’m alive."
Really, it brings you back to yourself better than meditation, especially on those days when everything falls apart.

When everything annoys you, go out and walk until you’re tired.
No phone, no music, just walk.
Don't run away from problems, walk through them.
Grandma used to say: "Anger is a force that needs to be burned out, not suppressed."
The faster it passes through the body, the faster it subsides.
There's nothing wrong with that. There are no breakdowns.
This is the wisdom that the old people left us.

My "Macedonian" grandmother was a terribly wise woman!

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@Excogitatoris13 @arbsmichael The link helps your case, it's just a good source and not just vibe crafting

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@Excogitatoris13 @arbsmichael Here man let me help you it. TLDR☠️⏫
https://t.co/McfhSrXBbl
1) don't take pushback personally and get emotional.
2) share references with data (preferably ones that can be opened in a spreadsheet)
Legacy meadow click bait and a individuals opinion it's much to take to the bank