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Customer: "Oat milk, please. Trying to lower my footprint."
Barista: "Course. Happy with the rapeseed oil in it?"
Customer: "Rapeseed oil? In milk?"
Barista: "It's not milk. It's oats, water, and a good glug of seed oil for the creaminess."
Customer: "I avoid seed oils."
Barista: "You're about to wear a moustache of one."
Customer: "...Almond, then?"
Barista: "Lovely. How do you feel about draining California?"
Customer: "The soy?"
Barista: "Comes with a complimentary top-up of oestrogen. On the house."
Customer: "...Coconut?"
Barista: "Flown across an ocean, and more saturated fat than lard."
Customer: "What's the little carton at the back?"
Barista: "That one's just milk. Cow, field, grass, done. No factory, no solvent, no asterisk."
Customer: "And the footprint on that?"
Barista: "She made it out of rain. Yours is the taxi you took here to ask."
For the first time, Stuart Williams gives an inside look at the long-range rainfall anomaly model Cynoptec has been quietly building — and the verification results are striking.
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Trump is literally cooking the Islamic regime from the inside, and today we witnessed yet another public crack in the system.
Most people are completely fixated on this MoU, treating it as the main story. In reality, it is largely just a pretext, a tool being used to advance much deeper games. The real game playing out is something else entirely, and people should be looking elsewhere to understand what’s truly happening.
Few days ago, one faction of the regime’s gangsters has been faking letters supposedly from Mojtaba Khamenei to claim that negotiations with the US were personally approved by him. Others quickly learned the trick and started playing the same game.
Today, one of the rivals claimed they have access to Mojtaba’s confidential letters with the current negotiating team. It turned into a full-blown public shitshow. Honestly, it was both ridiculous and entertaining. The pigs are turning on each other.
Let me lay out the full picture for you.
Khamenei, to coup-proof his rule, massively empowered the IRGC and turned it into a powerful state-within-a-state. But then he became afraid of his own creation, so he deliberately prevented power from concentrating in any single hand and allowed different competing cartels to form inside the IRGC.
Most of the top figures in these cartels are deeply corrupt, ideology is just a facade for them.
At the same time, he personally cultivated a loyal base from the poorest and most broken layers of society: fanatical, powerless people who were extremely loyal to him personally and would attack anyone on his command like rabid dogs.
After his death, the IRGC clearly took full control of the country, but they are far from united. They’re now openly fighting each other for the real seat of power.
Trump, with his deal-making style and the huge carrot of money, especially after the naval blockade pushed them into real poverty and begging, has brilliantly pushed these corrupt elements forward.
This has created open clashes with the more ideological factions. One of these hardliner cartels belongs to Saeed Jalili and includes figures like the cleric Mahmoud Nabavian, a sitting MP.
Today, Nabavian went on state TV and announced he wanted to reveal Mojtaba Khamenei’s confidential letters criticizing the negotiating team and the current deal. He started reading them live, but they cut him off mid-sentence. The network later called it a serious violation, announced legal action, and even one of the directors resigned and was rebuked.
This was their last desperate attempt to stop the negotiating team from reaching Geneva. But it failed. Just hours later, the other side, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and his crew, still made it to Geneva.
A few days ago, they even put the approval of this Memorandum of Understanding to a vote in the Supreme National Security Council. Everyone approved it except one person, and many believe that lone dissenter was Saeed Jalili, from the same cartel as Nabavian.
Meanwhile, another IRGC cartel, Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, tried to sabotage the surrenderist negotiators’ trip to Geneva by claiming they had closed the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM immediately clapped back and said the Strait is wide open (and ships are moving freely). Perfect own-goal.
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. He understands these animals better than anyone. He’s weakening the regime from within, without firing a single shot. Just as he predicted, as soon as the corrupt ones smelled real money, they sold out the entire regime and its ideology without hesitation.
Let the man cook, trust the process.
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.
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A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties https://t.co/VY80MBDosd
A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.
Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.
The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.
The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.
At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.
Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.
But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.
Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)
Tens of thousands of slabs of reinforced concrete weighing up to 1,000 tonnes are being abandoned in the ground as turbines hit the end of their working lives.
The reinforced concrete base of a typical 2-3 MW wind turbine can weigh anywhere from 400 to 800 tonnes. But the concrete foundations of even bigger turbines (5 MW+) can exceed 1,000 tonnes. As lifespans end these massive concrete monoliths are abandoned where they lie. This is an issue of significant contention.
In many jurisdictions, including Australia and the US, decommissioning regulations only require the operator to ensure the concrete foundation stays at a depth of 1 meter (approx. 3.3 feet) below the surface.
The remaining 3-plus metres of these steel-reinforced concrete fossils are typically left in the ground indefinitely. Over the decades, they can interfere with deep-soil hydrology or remain as a permanent industrial remnant in rural landscapes.
Contracts usually say operators are responsible for decommissioning. But the financial reality is complex. Bank guarantees or bonds set aside for removal (around €50,000 or $100,000 per turbine) are frequently far too low. Real-world estimates for total removal and site restoration can exceed $200,000 to $400,000 per unit.
If the cost of total removal ($200k–$400k) exceeds the bond set aside by the operator ($50k–$100k), there is a strong financial incentive for companies to declare bankruptcy . Or they sell the asset to a shell company as the turbine nears its end-of-life, leaving a landowner with the bill.
While the steel towers are more easily recyclable, their triple fibreglass blades are notoriously difficult to process and often end up in turbines blade graveyards.
The theoretical benefits from renewable technology are meaningless compared with the staggering environmental costs.
Dr. Pierre Kory exposes a massive media anomaly. He reveals over 100,000 articles were published globally about Hantavirus in days.
He confirms this massive coordination is entirely unnatural.
Why is a minor outbreak suddenly consuming the global media cycle?
Jensen Huang just told the world something nobody wants to hear.
AI is not coming for your job.
It is coming for the part of your job you mistakenly believe IS your job.
Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks that you do in your job are related but not the same.”
That one sentence is the fault line between the people who thrive in the next decade and the people who vanish from it.
Huang used himself as proof.
Reduce the CEO of Nvidia to his raw outputs and his entire career is typing and talking.
Both have been automated to superhuman levels.
Huang: “Typing and talking have both been automated to a superhuman level by AI. And yet, I’m busier than ever.”
The man building the infrastructure that automates human labor has never worked harder.
That should stop you cold.
We look at a profession and see the tasks. The motions. The mechanical friction.
We never see the intent underneath.
And when AI arrives, we panic. Because we confuse the task with the job.
The task was never the job.
It was always the bottleneck between a human and their actual purpose.
Now the bottleneck is dissolving.
Years ago, the experts declared radiology dead. The algorithm could read a scan better than any human.
A generation of medical students listened. They walked away from the field.
The result was catastrophic.
Huang: “We need more radiologists than ever, and we don’t have enough.”
The algorithm did not replace the doctor. It armed the doctor.
Suddenly the department could see more patients. Catch more anomalies. Generate more revenue.
The hospital did not fire the radiologists. It tried to hire more.
And could not find them.
Because we terrified an entire generation out of a career with a prediction that landed exactly backwards.
Now the same hysteria is consuming software engineering.
The timeline is screaming that coding is dead.
Meanwhile, inside the very company building the hardware that automates code.
Huang: “The software engineers that know how to use AI, know how to work with agentic systems, are the most popular and the most successful.”
The tool did not replace the architect. It replaced the shovel.
This is the pattern nobody wants to confront.
AI does not eliminate the human. It eliminates the friction that made the human slow.
And when the friction disappears, demand for the human explodes.
But only if the human shows up.
The ones who defined themselves by the mechanical act of writing code are fading.
The ones who defined themselves by what the code was meant to build are now the most valuable people on the planet.
That is not a nuance. That is the entire dividing line.
The machine will write the script. Read the scan. Draft the brief.
It will never possess the reason any of it needed to exist.
The task was never the job.
And nobody who figures that out last gets the privilege of figuring it out twice.
This Iranian woman is going viral for setting the record straight on Iranians: “Iranians are not Muslim. We all hate Islam after 47 years of Islamic regime. Under Sharia… I would be killed for dressing like this. We’re peaceful people.”
just spent 2 weeks in china. went into it thinking we're cooked. came back more bullish on america than ever. here's why:
1. chinese citizens are way more chronically online. on the subway, train, anywhere, literally everyone is glued to their phone. gaming, short form, wechat. "don't walk and look at your phone, it's dangerous!" announcements flood crowded areas. their tiktok isn't any better, its still garbage, soft-core porn, etc.
2. everyone's using AI — deepseek, kimi, doubao. but nobody's afraid of losing their job to it. here it feels like there's an existential crisis every week. in china, nothing. i think the CCP won't let companies mass-layoff workers. great for short-term stability. terrible for long-term competitiveness on a global scale.
3. china doesn't produce weirdos. i sat in on a class at tsinghua (china's MIT). not one student spoke unless the professor read their name out loud. no questions. no debate. chinese education produces world-class executors, not contrarians. it does make it a safer place to live though.
4. china doesn't have christianity but it has something america doesn't have: a shared story everyone believes in. every person age 25-70 watched their country go from abject poverty to skyscrapers in one lifetime. that kind of collective proof has a deep unifying effect. compare that to how divided we are right now. america has a huge meaning vacuum that needs to be filled.
nevertheless, i return back to my home in america reinvigorated. because everything i saw confirms one thing: china optimizes. america innovates. and the innovators always win.
My friend Craig Bergman offers a brilliant take: Unless you live under a rock or are intentionally obtuse, let me explain things. There is no cease-fire.
The reason there is no cease-fire is Iran no longer has a functioning government.
Trump negotiated with one of the larger factions.
There are 24 factions
Not all of them want peace. Not all of them will even negotiate.
So what is Trump doing?
It should be completely obvious to anyone who is not intentionally not wanting to understand.
He is pitting the factions against each other with competing interests for money and power and safety.
And when one of them betrays the other, they will take care of the bad one.
If they don’t, then Trump will randomly target them again and blame them all as if they are one government. That will frustrate them greatly, causing them again to turn on each other because there is no longer any single central authority.
This is absolutely brilliant, but if you think it’s gonna mean peace, if you think the Strait is really going to be open, and if you think Iran has surrendered and decided to play nice, you are delusional.
If you think Trump wants to murder 90 million people you are beneath delusional: you are intentional.
So chill out and watch the show: it is a master class.
And yes, I’m not predicting it. I am telling you what is happening.
This is not a guess. This is not an informed opinion.
I am speaking fact. Watch it happen.
RE: Islamic Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
I sense that too many Americans do not understand the public face-saving that is integral to Islamic culture in the Middle East and Central Asia.
I recall numerous times I dealt with government or military officials in the region where they let me know that what was being said publicly was in no way related to what was actually going on. A leader or politician in these countries will never, ever publicly say the truth if the truth suggests weakness or vulnerability. Never. It just does not happen. They will lie publicly with outrageous bombast, knowing full well that what they are saying is untrue, because their culture demands it.
Additionally, they respect the strongman. The strongman who speaks with ferocity and then backs it up with deeds is always respected (or feared, depending on the situation).
These are vital concepts to understand when analyzing the public pronouncements of the Iranian regime and the Truth Social declarations of President Trump. The Iranians must save face no matter what. Literally none of their public pronouncements can be trusted as being accurate or truthful. At the same time, when Trump posts things like “ending a civilization,” he is NOT TALKING TO YOU. He is talking to the mullahs in the only language they understand. In fact, as the Democrat/Media Complex derides Trump as an idiot for such pronouncements, HE is the one who is culturally attuned in a very profound way that totally flies over the heads of his critics.
These are vital concepts that must be understood to accurately interpret the very public exchange of declarations between Trump and the mullahs.
An armada of at least 11 MR tankers carrying US diesel is now heading towards Africa, with volumes split between West Africa and the Durban storage hub in South Africa. Several vessels were diverted away from Europe toward Africa with abrupt deviation on their final leg of the trans-Atlantic voyage. underscoring how quickly trade flows are being redrawn.
With passage through the Strait of Hormuz still restricted, demand centres are scrambling to secure supply amid rising shortage risks. A similar pattern is emerging east of Suez, where cargoes originally bound for Europe from the Middle East are being redirected into Asia.
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Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science...
The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.
However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years.
It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.
When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.