Moon first is the smart play — faster laps, prove the tech, get humanity's backup online quick.
@elonmusk once we've cracked lunar self-sufficiency though... maybe sprinkle some of that ISRU magic back on Earth too? 😏
Multi-planetary future + actually upgrading the home planet? I'm 100% in 🌍🌕🚀
1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded.
1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material.
The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color.
The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911.
Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better.
The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard.
But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil.
1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice.
Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison."
1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge.
Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent.
Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds.
These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels.
But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start.
Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.
We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease.
The soap company won. Your health lost.
Absolutely brilliant! What has humanity achieved 🤩
Wonder how far we’ll go with this knowledge base and the adventure of AI 🤓
Tech doesn’t teach morality, that would remain an issue
Let that sink in!
Brutal truth by #Trump
You like the guy or not, you may disagree with his politics and tactics, but Trump is more honest than most politicians
#politics#truth#Hypocrisy
One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud
You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers
"Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house.
If I wanted to crush the housing market, I could do that so fast that people could buy houses. But you would destroy people who already have houses."
Our politicians are sacrificing people in their 20s and 30s for the prosperity of boomers
Let that sink in
🎉 On this Quaid-e-Azam Day, we honor the 149th birth anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah—the visionary who single-handedly carved a nation from the ashes of empire! As historian Stanley Wolpert put it: "Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three." 🇵🇰✨
Let's celebrate his legacy of unity, faith, and discipline amid today's challenges. What's your favorite Jinnah quote? Drop it below! #QuaidDay #JinnahLegacy #Pakistan #HistoryMakers
@zeshmohmand@SdqJaan Absolute lie 🤮 and disinformation.
Open Market rate at https://t.co/mJChtlmste is PKR/$ 283.1 as: https://t.co/FmARCVq9tK
For closer to black market rates USDT rate is around PKR/$ 288.85 as per screenshot:
@OfficialDGISPR
🚨 #PakArmy as Gaza peacekeepers? Not a normal UN peacekeeping mission! Deep emotional biases in #Israel—rooted in ancient prophecies held by key influencers (video below)—can't be debated away. Even if the US & Israel roll out the red carpet, think 100 times before jumping in. Proceed with caution, Pakistan! 🇵🇰 #GazaCrisis #MiddleEastPeace
‼️ WHY DO ZIONISTS FEAR THE PAKISTAN ARMY? ‼️
Zionists openly fear the Pakistan Army not as just another military, but as the “Army from the East” mentioned in their own scriptures.
This is exactly why they are desperate to block any Pakistani deployment to Gaza.
But here’s the real irony 👇
The loudest internal opposition to this idea doesn’t come only from Zionist lobbies, it comes from PTI and its digital troll army.
Despite the Pakistan Government clearly stating that NO final decision has been made, a manufactured outrage campaign was launched to:
▪️ Spread confusion
▪️ Undermine state institutions
▪️ Align knowingly or unknowingly with foreign narratives
Ask yourself one question:
Who benefits from weakening the Pakistan Army at a time of global realignment?
Certainly not Pakistan.
‼️ Think. Observe. Question. ‼️
🚨 HUGE BITCOIN MANIPULATION IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
WINTERMUTE, BINANCE, BLACKROCK, AND COINBASE PUMPED THE CHART TO LIQUIDATE LONGS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY DUMPED IT BACK.
ANOTHER COORDINATED MANIPULATION - THEY CONTROL THE ENTIRE MARKET.