Rok Praprotnik

[Andreja Loncar @AndrejaLoncar]

Kot je v DZ povedal Tomaž Perše, FS, je plačna reforma “že v prvem letu izvajanja prinesla hitrejšo rast izdatkov za zaposlene, kot je bila predvidena za cela štiri leta”.

Tu pa še druge postavke, ki vzhajajo hitro, prehitro .. 👇

https://t.co/md8M6P5wjy

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

Look how imposing the Julian Alps look from the Mediterranean.

Slovenia has amazing geographic diversity for such small country.

[Matej Rigelnik @Matej_R81]

Da vidimo, koliko vas zdrži 60 sekund! Odprite spletno stran in opazujete rdeči števec, ki meri naraščanje slovenskega javnega dolga točno 60 sekund. Nobene panike, samo čista in brutalna davkoplačevalska matematika.
Da sploh ne govorim o "Arhivu absurdov" Litijska? Računalniki? Vse je dokumentirano.Martin Krpan. Vaš novi, neusmiljeni spletni Watchdog portal.
Glejte, kako vam pred očmi izginja denar: 👉 https://t.co/xrZbaeRxhT

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

This map of European river basins is a thing of pure beauty.

Image here: https://t.co/T02gZu399c

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 2022 a team of Czech and Montenegrin anthropologists published the most comprehensive height survey ever conducted in the Western Balkans. They measured 47,158 people across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo.

The result overturned an assumption that had stood for fifty years. The tallest 18-year-olds in the world are not Dutch.

They are from Montenegro. The average 18-year-old male in Montenegro is 182.9 cm. In Dalmatia, 183.7 cm. There is a continuous belt running from the Adriatic coast through Herzegovina into central Montenegro where average male height exceeds 184 cm. In some towns it is over 187 cm.

This is the highest mean stature ever documented in any human population.

The strange part is that the Balkans are not rich. GDP per capita in Montenegro is roughly a fifth of the Netherlands. Protein intake is well below Western European levels. By every conventional metric, the Western Balkans should be producing average heights similar to Bulgaria or Romania.

Instead they are producing the tallest men on earth.

The explanation is genetic. Y-chromosome haplogroup I-M170, present in over 70% of men in Herzegovina, correlates with male height across all 55 European and Near Eastern populations the researchers tested. Wherever the haplogroup is common, the men are tall.

The haplogroup is descended from the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic. The Gravettians were big-game hunters. They specialised, for roughly 15,000 years, in killing mammoth, bison, reindeer, and aurochs across Europe. They ate, in caloric terms, almost exclusively animal products. The most meat-heavy diet documented in the European archaeological record. Hundreds of generations of selection pressure for converting animal protein into skeletal stature.

When the megafauna disappeared, most Gravettian populations dispersed and intermarried with incoming farmers from the Near East, who carried different haplogroups associated with shorter stature. The Western Balkans, isolated by the Dinaric Alps, retained an unusually high proportion of the original hunter genetics.

The men of Herzegovina are the genetic descendants of mammoth hunters who spent the Ice Age eating fat and meat in quantities no modern population approaches.

They are still tall, on a sub-optimal modern diet, because the genes were selected for height by 15,000 years of animal-based eating.

If their nutrition reaches Northern European levels, the prediction is that average male height in central Herzegovina will reach 190 cm within two generations. Six foot three. As an average.

The Dutch built their height in 150 years on dairy.

The men of the Dinaric Alps built theirs over 15,000 years on mammoth.

And the variable, in both cases, was the animal.

[WhiteRabbitIA {Liberchist} @WhiteRabbitIA]

🚂🚚 Perth, Western Australia: The most isolated city in the world

How WA gets non-bulk freight (food, medical, consumer goods) from Aus eastern states:

Rail:
• ~57% rail
• Trans-Australian Railway across Nullarbor
• Diesel locomotives. No electrified freight across Nullarbor
• ~1 week transit time

Road:
• ~43% road
• 2,700km+ journey
• Diesel trucks. 3-4 days each way
• 2-4 days transit time

Sea:
• Unclear percentage
• Coastal shipping, multiple sailings per week
• Used mainly for non-urgent, bulk/heavy items
• Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) or Marine Diesel Oil (MDO)
• 10-14 days door-to-door. 1 week sailing + port handling

When fuel runs out:
• Trucks & trains can’t cross Nullarbor
• Ships can’t sail
• No alternative routes
• No backup systems
• Perth gets cut off

[Richard Schmitt @Schmitt_News]

Was will diese Bundesregierung eigentlich Ende April „bremsen“? Wenn kein Wunder mehr passiert, lädt eben der letzte Öltanker in Koper seine Ladung aus - dann ist Sense. In Triest & Venedig ist das auch so, die Raffinerie in Rotterdam ist ausgefallen.
Die 7,5 Millionen Lkw & Autos fahren aber weiter …
Hat diese Koalition keine Infos von Nachrichtendiensten - oder verschweigt sie uns diese?
#IranWar‌
Auge @MarkelGerald

[Croatian-Istrian @IstrianMario]

Registered legal residents of Croatia.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The small European country of Slovenia has begun rationing fuel after panic buying driven by the Hormuz closure emptied gas stations and caused multi-hour lines to obtain petrol.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇸🇮 Slovenia limits fuel purchases as pumps run dry.

Fuelling at individual service stations is limited to 50 litres per day for private vehicles and 200 litres for legal entities and private businessmen, such as farmers. The restrictions will stay in ⁠force until further notice.

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

@sumonkais @grok fact check

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

Slovenian president of the USA. 😉

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

Two days ago, the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman, today they have ZERO. The Iranian regime has harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of Oman for decades. Those days are over. Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global economic prosperity for more than 80 years. U.S. forces will continue to defend it.

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

@hrastelj Splošna razgledanost ni tekmovanje v enciklopedičnem znanju, temveč osnovni okvir za razumevanje sveta. Nihče ne more vedeti vsega, vendar Hormuška ožina ni obrobna trivialnost.

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

British fighrer jet intercepting the Iranian drone over Cyprus.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

At 11:03 p.m. ET, March 1, three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles flying in support of Operation Epic Fury went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident.

Read more:
https://t.co/i2y3Q3vo2E

[حزب الامارات 🇦🇪 @gang_uae]

🔴🔴🔴🔴 عــــاجــــل (متداول) :

• أبوظبي 🇦🇪 توجه مدراء وملاك الفنادق بتمديد إقامة السياح والنزلاء المتعذر سفرهم بسبب الظروف الراهنة وعلى أن تتكفل دائرة الثقافة والسياحة بقيمة التمديد بالكامل

- لا أحد يُترك خلف الظروف، الدولة تتحمل كامل المصاريف وسلامة الضيف قبل أي اعتبار ♥️

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

The geopolitical equivalent of sending a strongly worded calendar invite.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday.

For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Insane!
It ejects man from truck at 82 km/h in Slovenia for a gentle landing.

[Rok Praprotnik @Praprotnik]

@petra_j_ Ta tabela pove vse. Trend je uničujoč.