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In USA our pork touches all of the water that is redistributed back into the city
It even sweats into our water source.
It's in the makeup
It's in everything.
It's in most baked treats and sweets.
It's in bread, biscuits, and tortillas.
In USA the people are more than half pork.
Muslim woman travels to South Korea and is very angry that Korean food has โtoo much porkโ:
โKoreans put pork in everything: mayo, ketchup, chips. I had to inspect everything before I ate.
South Korea claims to be this ultra-modern country, but refuses to respect 2 billion Muslims!โ
Thereโs an easy solution to her problem: donโt go there!
RAINBOW RAIN SHAFT OVER A MOUNTAIN VALLEY
A dramatic alpine scene where storm clouds, sunset light, and falling rain create a glowing curtain of color above the valley.
This effect can happen when low-angle sunlight passes through a dense rain shaft beneath a thundercloud. The water droplets bend and separate the light into vivid colors, while the dark cloud ceiling and mountain shadows make the rainbow tones look much brighter. The vertical shape comes from rain falling in a concentrated column over the distant peaks.
A view like this fits mountain valleys after strong afternoon storms, especially in places such as the Rockies, the Swiss Alps, the Cascades, or high-elevation valleys where sunlight can break through behind heavy rain.
Alchemical Riddle, Late 17th Century
Mundi fundum si profundum
laborando inveneris,
Crede mihi, habes totum
unde beari poteris.
โIf, by labor, you should find
the worldโs profoundest depth,
trust me, you possess all
that can bring you happiness.โ
What 3 years of steroids can do: 29 years old vs 32 years old.
Overuse of steriods cause collagen degradation and can weaken the skin on a face significantly.
Sharia Law in a Fort Wayne Public Part, A Christian tried to enter the Park where an Arab Festival was and was told they would arrest him and it is a criminal Trespass!
This is a Public Park and it is illegal for her to do so. She is infringing on his rights.
๐ The Lightest Giant Planets Ever Found
Scientists have discovered two giant planets as big as Jupiterโbut up to 35 times less dense! Nicknamed "shaving foam planets," TOI 791 b and TOI 791 c are so light that they could change what we know about how planets form. Sometimes, the biggest mysteries come from the lightest worlds.
Source:
Dransfield, G., et al. (2026). Nature Astronomy. University of Oxford.
In Japan, we are usually disciplined people.
We respect rules.
We avoid causing trouble.
Then Costco gives us unlimited onions for a hot dog.
Suddenly, centuries of social order disappear.
I bought a hot dog at Costco in Japan and walked over to the toppings station.
I added some onions.
Then a little more.
Then enough onions to make the sausage legally classified as missing.
I added relish.
Mustard.
Ketchup.
Then more onions, because apparently I had become a farmer.
At some point, it was no longer a hot dog.
It was an onion salad with a sausage trapped underneath.
The man next to me stared at it and said,
โAre you eating that here, or taking it home to feed a family of six?โ
I tried to pick it up.
The bun immediately gave up.
The sausage escaped from the back.
Onions fell everywhere.
One landed in my drink.
Another landed on a strangerโs tray.
A small child pointed at me and said,
โMom, that man broke his hot dog.โ
No, child.
The hot dog broke me.
I used twelve napkins, lost half the toppings, and smelled like onions for the rest of the day.
The hot dog was cheap.
The laundry bill was higher.
I went to Costco for groceries.
I left smelling like onions and carrying emotional damage.
Yes and it's also thought to be magical, myths, lores.
All that.
By the way some opals may even shine the entire rainbow including red and purple when you shine it under lights.
I love mine.
Most people look at an opal and see a pretty stone. What they're actually looking at is a frozen accident of time so improbable it borders on impossible.
Five million years for one centimeter. Read that again slowly. The opal sitting in a ring on someone's finger represents a span of geological patience that predates the entire human species. Modern humans have existed for roughly 300,000 years. The little gem catching light on a jeweler's velvet cushion has been quietly assembling itself for sixteen times longer than we've walked upright.
To understand why opals are so strange, you have to understand what they are at the molecular level, because they break a fundamental rule of what we call a "gemstone."
Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires. Every classic gem you can name is a crystal. Its atoms lock into a rigid, repeating lattice, the same geometric pattern extending in every direction. That ordered structure is exactly what gives crystals their hardness, their cleavage planes, their fire.
Opal refuses all of that. It has no crystal lattice. It's classified as a mineraloid, an amorphous solid, the same structural category as glass. At the microscopic level it's built from countless tiny spheres of silica, each one impossibly small, stacked together like cosmic billiard balls. And the magic, the entire reason opal does the thing it does, comes from how perfectly those spheres arrange themselves.
When the silica spheres are uniform in size and pack into an orderly three dimensional grid, light entering the stone gets diffracted. The gaps between the spheres act like a natural grating, splitting white light into its component colors and bouncing them back at the eye. The size of the spheres determines which colors appear. Smaller spheres throw blues and violets. Larger ones release the rare reds and oranges that make certain opals worth more than diamonds by weight.
This means the color in an opal is not pigment. There is no red dye, no green mineral, no blue compound. The stone is essentially colorless silica and water. Every flash of fire you see is pure structure, pure geometry, light itself being sorted by architecture too small to see. You are watching physics, not chemistry. The opal is a lens disguised as a jewel.
Now layer the water back into the picture.
That 6 to 10% water content is doing something almost no other gemstone does. It means opal is partly liquid history. The water trapped inside is ancient groundwater, sealed in during formation millions of years ago, fluid that touched a prehistoric world. And because that water is structurally part of the stone, opals can literally die. Take an opal from a humid environment to an extremely dry one and the water can escape over time. The stone crazes, cracks into a web of fractures, and the play of color fades forever. A diamond is functionally immortal. An opal can dehydrate and pass away like something that was once alive.
There is a poetry buried in the formation process that most people never consider. Opals form when silica rich water seeps into cracks, voids, and cavities in rock, then slowly evaporates and deposits its silica load, layer by microscopic layer, over those incomprehensible timescales. Which means an opal is a fossil of empty space. It's the cast of an absence, water patiently filling a wound in the earth and turning the scar into the most colorful substance the planet produces.
Some of the most spectacular opals on Earth take this even further. In parts of Australia, opal has replaced the bones of dinosaurs and the shells of ancient sea creatures, molecule by molecule, preserving the exact shape of a creature dead for a hundred million years but rendering it in rainbow fire. There exist opalized seashells, opalized teeth, opalized pinecones. Death and deep time and light, fused into a single object you could hold in your palm.
When you grasp all of this, the casual phrase "it's just a gemstone" collapses entirely. Each opal is a five million year exposure of liquid that touched a vanished world, an amorphous structure that bends light through pure architecture, a partially living thing that can crack and die if you treat it carelessly, and sometimes a tombstone for an animal that breathed before the first primate existed.
We mine these from the ground, polish them, and sell them in shops next to mass produced trinkets, rarely pausing to register that we're trading in compressed eternity.
The planet spent five million years per centimeter making something beautiful with no audience in mind.
We just got lucky enough to dig it up and notice.
@AndyNix68462681@0urStruggle14w To me it seems the people they label as bad guys or extreme seem to be the only ones willing to actually help their people when the courts will not....lol
@AndyNix68462681@0urStruggle14w Executing traitors could be a political decision within itself.
And this image made me laugh.
However im not racist.
But we do need more people who will defend euro and the west right now.
Too many mind states who are too inclusive which leads to them being gullible.