Yelena Citor

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@johnmkunz @RaymondArroyo He never said The return was an epic tale. You do.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@RaymondArroyo The 2025 movie The Return with Ralph Fiennes. Minimalist, philosophical, deep energy, essential. I watched it several times. I love it so much.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

Amerikalı eski bir istihbarat subayı Scott Ritter:

“İranlı olsaydım, İsrail'in tuz arıtma tesislerini hemen şimdi ortadan kaldırırdım. İsrail'i bitirirdim.

İsrail'in varlığına son verilmesi gerekiyor. Kelimenin tam anlamıyla gezegenin kanseri.”

[WhoOneIs @WhoOneIs138318]

The Primacy of Self-Knowledge

• “To understand everything except one’s own self is very comical.”
Kierkegaard, Unscientific Postscript.

Kierkegaard suggests that intellectual brilliance is almost absurd if it is not accompanied by self-understanding. It is a criticism of objective knowledge pursued at the expense of subjective existence.

• “I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning.”
Walt Whitman, “By Blue Ontario’s Shore.”

Whitman rejects the idea that human beings are less meaningful than the objects they create. The question of meaning must begin with the self, not merely with the world or the things we create.

• “If thou desirest peace of mind and true unity of purpose, thou must put all things behind thee, and look upon thyself.”
Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ.

Here the emphasis is contemplative. Peace comes by withdrawing attention from the multiplicity of things and turning towards oneself.

• “I will confess then what I know of myself; I will confess also what I know not of myself.”
St Augustine, Confessions.

Augustine acknowledges that the self is partly hidden even from itself. Genuine self-knowledge includes humility before the mystery within.

In Summary

Taken together, the quotations express four complementary insights:

Self-knowledge is more important than knowledge of the world (Kierkegaard).

The question of meaning must begin with the self, not merely with the world or the things we create (Whitman).

The path begins by turning attention towards oneself (à Kempis).

That inward journey reveals both what is known and what remains mysterious (Augustine).

#SelfKnowledge #Philosophy #Contemplation #KnowThyself

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@Thraxas2000 @TheBigNolife @Midilibre «R*cisme de m*rde». Zéro argument, vacuité intellectuelle absolue, donc cerveau limité à l'insulte. Même pas foutu d'argumenter. Pfff !
Pour info, Tintin est une personnage de fiction, il est néanmoins européen, et pas africain. Allez voir Spiderman, c'est de votre niveau.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@Thraxas2000 @TheBigNolife @Midilibre Hélène de Troie était blanche et grecque et la reine de Saba noire et éthiopienne. On sait qu'on est en époque de post-verité et politiquement correct, mais tout de même. Le feu ne mouille pas, l'eau ne brûle pas, même si vous le désirez très très fort.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@_crimsongrad @charise_lee Indeed, 3 minutes wasted.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@f_asselineau On verra bien à l'enterrement s'il y aura un cercueil ouvert ou fermé.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The burner under a Chinese restaurant wok puts out 100,000 to 150,000 BTUs of heat. The strongest burner on your home stove tops out near 12,000. Some restaurant jet burners run past 200,000. Roughly ten times your kitchen, sometimes twenty.

At that heat an empty steel wok can climb past 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and food sears the instant it touches the metal. The Cantonese call the result wok hei, the breath of the wok, the smoky charred taste you can almost never pull off at home. It comes from a few things happening at once in seconds: the browning reaction that crusts a steak, the sugars in the sauce caramelizing, and tiny droplets of oil catching fire in the air as the cook throws everything around. One dish off the fire takes about ninety seconds.

That speed is also why a giant order lands in ten minutes. Nothing sits in an oven waiting. Every ingredient is washed, cut, and portioned before you ever call, so once the ticket prints the cook is assembling, not prepping. Each dish hits the flame, gets tossed together, and slides into the box still steaming.

The wok's whole design traces back to one problem: saving fuel. Wood and charcoal ran expensive across much of old China, and a thin round metal bowl dropped into the flame heats faster and wastes less than a flat pan sitting on top of one. Cooks chopped everything small, because more surface area meant less time over the fire, and they learned to work in fast bursts of high heat.

For most of Chinese history, stir-frying wasn't even the common way to cook. Boiling and steaming came first, partly because the oil stir-frying needs was costly. The technique took off in the late Ming dynasty, the 1500s and 1600s, when firewood near the growing cities got expensive enough that cooking fast and cheap really mattered. Less fuel burned per meal, and busy city trade rewarded the speed. A money-saving trick slowly became the signature of an entire cuisine.

Steel melts around 2,500 degrees, so the food never gets remotely close. But the instinct behind that tweet is right. The reason your takeout shows up in ten minutes, scorching, is a four-hundred-year-old fix for an energy problem, still roaring under a wok tonight.

[Francesca Gee @FrancescaRGee]

Vous voyez l'image ci-dessous?
Ce n'est pas Aleister Crowley comme je l'avais cru au premier coup d’œil😉, mais Victor, troisième Lord Rothschild.
Selon l’auteur australien Roland Perry, Rothschild aurait été "The Fifth Man", le Cinquième Homme. Les quatre autres étant les agents soviétiques sous couverture (et agents doubles pour la plupart) Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess et Anthony Blunt.
Comme eux issu de l'université de Cambridge, comme eux acquis au travaillisme voire au communisme alors très à la mode, pendant la 2e guerre mondiale Victor Rothschild dirigea le service de contre-sabotage du MI5 (sécurité intérieure britannique).
Après la libération de Paris, l'hôtel Rothschild de l'avenue de Marigny devint le siège des activités en France du MI6 (futur renseignement extérieur). Victor Rothschild y travaillait avec Kim Philby et Guy Burgess, ses amis très proches, ainsi qu'avec Malcolm Muggeridge.
Au cours d'un des nombreux dîners que les quatre hommes ont alors partagés, Rothschild avait défendu avec véhémence l'idée que les secrets de l'espionnage britannique devaient être partagés avec l'URSS. Muggeridge, choqué, a rapporté cette anecdote dans un livre de souvenirs.
Pourtant, tous les historiens britanniques qui se sont penchés sur la question ont conclu que Rothschild n'était pas le "cinquième homme", expression devenue synonyme de traître caché au sein des agents de haut niveau.
Ils ont préféré accuser John Cairncross, qui pour sa part a toujours nié.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@wiseconnector Thrive, drive.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@MitchHorowitz I didn't know. She was my hero back in the days.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@conspjustice @ImpactMediaFR 1997 pas 1967 !!!!

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@JeffMarchand15 @clashreport The missiles and warheads were located in Ukraine. But the launch codes, the strategic chain of command, and much of the infrastructure remained under Moscow’s control.
Ukraine did not have the full autonomous capability to use them.

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@PtitGregg @BFMTV Et qu'est-ce que vous voulez insinuer ?

[Yelena Citor @YCitor]

@virginie3300 @FrancescaRGee En quoi la mère est étrange ?

[Satchin Panda @SatchinPanda]

Exercise doesn’t just strengthen muscles—it rewires immunity.
Acute workouts and long-term training reshape immune cell behavior through exerkines, metabolites, blood flow, and even the gut microbiome, with implications for cancer, autoimmunity, and healthy aging. #ExerciseImmunology #Healthspan #Immunology
https://t.co/ieYqsZEw96

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

What gives Iran the social basis for its resilient stand against the imperialist attack? In this week’s Tricontinental newsletter, I look at the idea of ‘Iranian civilisation’ and the idea of ‘civilisation’ itself. Read it here, and share: https://t.co/FyZs7487SL

[Sam Mathverse @Sam_Axiom]

What's Calculus=?

Calculus Part-1: It all begins with limits — understanding how things behave as they approach change.
Before solving problems, you learn to see patterns, continuity, and logic behind motion.