Chantilly

🇨🇦 Proud Wife, Mom, Scorpio.

Plant a garden
❤️ Alberta oil and gas
Liberals have destroyed Canada

[Chantilly @ThatHmmmmm]

This is crazy cool!

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[BlendrNews @BlendrNews]

France, the UK, Canada, and 11 others banned kids from social media at nearly the same time, with nearly the same law.

If your government actually answered to you, its laws wouldn't arrive on the same schedule as thirteen others.

[Chantilly @ThatHmmmmm]

How could this guy on UFC screw up so badly?

[Cav Senpai @cavannastan]

Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.

They did not accept.

[Chantilly @ThatHmmmmm]

Still cant believe that ppl voted for essentially the equivalent to a used car sales man. Nobody trusts them or bankers

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Mark Carney claims he didn't say what said.

The backpedal:

"To be clear, if you look at the speech, I've never advocated that all of a sudden there was going to be a band of middle powers, you know, the M20 or something like that."

The facts:

"I argue the middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu... in a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact."

Another day, another spin.

[Chantilly @ThatHmmmmm]

When are liberal voters going to take off their blindfolds and realize that Mark Carney is a two-faced grifter?

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 PM @MarkJCarney is under pressure to dump his Brookfield holdings after the CEO admitted Carney still profits from the success of almost 2,000 Brookfield firms .. none of which go through ethics screens.

That’s not a blind trust.

That’s a spotlight on conflict of interest.

#cdnpoli #Carney #Ethics #Accountability #Transparency #CdnPolitics

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Please don't lie on Twitter.

Your scheme forces adults to provide ID to get on social media to prove they're not children.

You're using kids as an excuse to track adults.

And we remember you supported seizing bank accounts during the trucker convoy: https://t.co/LfiXiR6hlt

[Chantilly @ThatHmmmmm]

Fuck no! I’m sick of immigrants. My small rural white town is now filled with them.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Liberals are about to launch a campaign for MASS IMMIGRATION into Canada? WTF⁉️

"We're also preparing to launch a targeted advertising campaign for international, or internationally, so that people are aware of what's available in Canada, and there can be those closer links to the great life here, the opportunities here, and links into employers as well."

Insanity!

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him.

We lost more than half our household income overnight.
Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem.

Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435.

To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus.
To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money.

Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate.

So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier.

It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink.

Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit.

My GST rebate went up.
By six dollars.
Not sixty.
Not six hundred.
Six.

Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought:

"Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔

What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it.

People working two jobs.
People trying to raise families.
Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher.
People doing everything right and still falling behind.

So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question.

Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it?

Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money.

A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance.

The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more!

I'm not proud to qualify for this.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque.
👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate.
👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches.

I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it.

The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country.

Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success.

It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong.

What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars.

Six dollars!
That's not economic leadership.
That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this:

If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this?

At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

If by “shitty” you mean everything in their society is exactly the same, but somehow cheaper, cleaner, and more inspiring then can we import some of that “Russian shit” to America? Gas is cheaper, food is cheaper and they have less debt. Our media lies day in and day out and pretends Russia is on the brink of collapse to justify our own citizens struggling to afford basic necessities. Keep playing up to the Western delusion that Russia is failing because we punished them with sanctions for their moral sins, while we roll out the red carpet for the genocidal state of Israel. Keep applauding the same dumb foreign policy initiatives which brought us “we can overtake Persia in two weeks, Mr. President!”.
Everything we are doing and have done is stupid and we owe it to a bunch of geriatric Baal Worshipers who think if they kill enough Palestinian children, they’ll prove themselves ‘chosen’ for Satan.
Reality? The Eastern hemisphere is now on the rise and you can’t gatekeep that reality forever.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

In France there is a new activity that the Left is getting their knickers in a twist about.

Le Canon Français is running massive banquets. For about £70 you can have great food and drinks and spend time singing patriotic songs.

The “Far Left” is furious.

LFI says it has evidence of racist chanting, and of immigrant staff being insulted. With pork regularly on the menu, they say the feasts are purposely designed to exclude Muslims and vegetarians.

Meanwhile, everyday people who love France, love food and beer are having the time of their lives.

[theficouple @theficouple]

Reminder for all young parents:

You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager

This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

[Andra @BioavailableNd]

One of the coolest fungal findings in the research: brushing your teeth 2-3x vs 1x/day lowered Candida Albicans not just in the mouth… but in stool too. Your oral microbiome and gut microbiome are deeply connected.

[Pascal Anglehart @DemosKratosCA]

If you run for office in Canada and vote on laws that affect me and my family, you should hold only one passport: a Canadian passport.

I don't have access to a quick Plan B, and neither should you.

Make it illegal for elected officials to hold dual citizenship.

[Élie Cantin-Nantel @elie_mcn]

This is pretty radicalizing. Ngl.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

BREAKING: a BC First Nation just put in writing, to the BC government, their threats:

✅ They will block the Island Highway

✅ They will block marine terminals

✅ They will block Seymour Narrows, the only cruise ship and shipping corridor through that section of coast

✅ They will block BC Hydro dams in the Campbell River watershed

They will do it all, unless the K’omoks treaty is paused.

In other words, infighting for a land claim.

As a reminder, the 2022 Convoy didn’t block hydro dams, critical infrastructure or shipping corridors.

Nor was a formal threat made to the government of civil disobedience.

The Emergencies Act was invoked anyway.

So which is it: Is the Emergencies Act a tool for actual blockades of critical infrastructure?

Or is it a tool for political enemies?

[Cormac @cormachayden_]

big water is trying to silence us