SINBAD THE SAILOR

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The science behind this is wild. Your face has over 300 tiny filters sitting just under your skin. They’re called lymph nodes. Your entire body only has 400 to 800 total. And the drainage system connecting them has no pump at all, which is why a brush can do what you just watched.

I looked into this. Your lymphatic system is your body’s sewage network. It collects about 3 liters of leaked fluid from your blood vessels every single day and routes it back through those nodes for cleaning. But unlike blood, which has the heart forcing it around, lymph fluid moves using muscle contractions and breathing. That’s it. No backup system.

Because the vessels sit right under your skin, even light pressure from a brush or your fingertips can physically shove fluid toward the nearest node. So the de-puffing in this video is real. You’re watching fluid get pushed out of tissue in real time.

But the research gets weird. A 2025 study out of Seoul put 34 women on gua sha or facial rollers for 8 weeks. Both tools visibly slimmed the face by over 2mm (the point where you can actually tell with your eyes). The two tools work through totally different biology, which I didn’t expect. Gua sha loosens up tense facial muscles. The roller makes the skin itself bouncier, about 8.6% more elastic. Same visible result, two completely different paths to get there.

A Japanese team in 2022 took CT scans of 5 people before and after 2 weeks of daily facial massage. The cheek tissue got thinner and shifted upward on the scans. Wild result. But 5 people and no control group, so I’d slow down before calling that proof of anything.

The honest part. UCLA Health looked at all the evidence in January 2026 and concluded: if your lymphatic system already works fine, there’s no real proof this helps it work better. An anatomist at the Medical University of Innsbruck told National Geographic the same thing. Healthy lymph nodes don’t need the help.

That sculpted jawline you see in before-and-after clips lasts 1 to 8 hours, according to a certified lymph specialist. It’s a temporary fluid shift, and the fluid comes right back. The brush is also doing nothing your own hands can’t do. A lymphatic therapist told National Geographic straight up: you don’t need any tools, just your fingers.

The unsexy answer to long-term lymphatic health is exercise and drinking water. Your muscles are the pump this system was built to run on.

[Star S.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @DominguezH31015]

Bill Clinton is smiling while looking back through old Epstein photos & nodding over memories🤣

His attorney snatches them out of Bill’s hands.

[TukTuk Academy @TukTuk_Academy]

Guess who is on the crease now? 🙈

[akrama @AkramaMianoor]

aise gandu team se main bhi hath na milaun wese

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

This is not just about carbon fiber. China went from T300 in 2008 to T1100 in 2025. That is 17 years to close a 30 year gap with Japan.

The Wassenaar export controls pushed them to do it themselves.

India is still importing T300 grade and calling it self reliance. We have no roadmap to T800, forget T1100.

Industry and academia are not talking to each other in India. IITs produce papers. DRDO produces delays. Private sector produces JVs with foreign IP.

No one is funding the 10 year grind to crack a T1000 process.

China did it with coal province researchers and state capital. We are waiting for someone else to hand it over.

This is what real chokepoint crossing looks like.

Carbon fiber goes into COMAC jets, rocket casings, and fighter airframes. China no longer needs Toray for its aerospace supply chain.

India still imports carbon fiber for Tejas composites. One country is building the ladder. The other is renting it.

India has a textiles minister promising carbon fiber by 2025-26 but no lab, no pilot line, no yield data.

Reliance is planning 4000 tons of basic grade by 2026. China just started 200 tons of T1100 aerospace grade with 95% yield. We are not even on the same ladder.

Wassenaar list was supposed to protect the West. Instead it pushed China to build its own supply chain from scratch.

Now they make T1100 for COMAC jets and rocket casings. Export controls only work if the target cannot learn. China can.

China has state labs, state capital, and state demand all working together for 20 years.

India has DRDO, Reliance, and HAL all doing separate things with no roadmap. The question is not can we catch up.

The question is whether anyone in Delhi even knows how far behind we are?

This is about China achieving mass production of T1100-grade carbon fiber - a material so advanced that only Japan's Toray Industries could make it commercially until now.

Why it matters?

T1100 carbon fiber is essentially the strongest, lightest structural material humans can produce at scale.

It's critical for fighter jets, satellites, rocket bodies, and next-gen civilian aircraft.

The material is so strategically sensitive that Japan and the US have strict export controls, you simply cannot buy it if you're China.

China has moved from lab samples to factory production. This is the hard part - lots of countries can make small quantities of advanced materials in a lab, but scaling to industrial volumes while maintaining quality is where most fail.

The "valley of death" between lab and factory is littered with promising technologies.

China's aerospace and defense programs are no longer bottlenecked by foreign carbon fiber supply.

Their C919 passenger jet, (until now one Airbus & Boeing have the monopoly) military aircraft programs, and space ambitions all become more achievable without dependency on materials they couldn't import anyway.

It also means Chinese wind turbine blades, pressure vessels, and sporting goods can use domestic high-grade fiber.

one should read about C919 passenger jet

[खुरापात @KHURAPATT]

Your name is Ujala Singh. You are from Varanasi. Your maternal uncle works as an ADJ (Additional District Judge) in the Bihar government.

You were desperate for a government job. In 2020, when BPSC released the notification for Assistant Prosecution Officer (APO), you started pressuring your parents to let you apply.

Your parents decided to show themselves as “poor” and used a small piece of land in Aurangabad, Bihar, to get you an EWS certificate. Using that EWS quota, you became an APO in 2023.

Now the big question is 👇
When all your documents, ID cards, and permanent address are from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, how did you apply in Bihar under the EWS quota without having a Bihar domicile?

Not only that—your brother also appeared in the 70th BPSC exam through the EWS category. We have all his records too.

You also own a 302 square yard house in Uttar Pradesh. Based on that, you are not eligible for EWS in UP either, in any exam.

Some people say that whenever someone raises their voice against you, your ADJ uncle teaches them a lesson.

Even the Varanasi DM conducted a full inquiry and sent a letter to BPSC. Despite that, you allegedly survived because of influence at the secretariat level.

Now come forward and tell the truth publicly. We will support you fully.

The personal documents that you don’t have, the Khurpench team does.
If you say the word, we will throw them in everyone’s face.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

I am dead, I can't even 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂

[Viktor @desishitposterr]

Few sensible people were able to connect the dots 😉

This is called Escalation Dominance 🇮🇳

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is epically bad for Meta.

Meta built an optimization loop that treats scammers as premium customers.

Meta’s systems detect fraud. When they’re 95%+ certain, they ban. When they’re 90% certain? They charge the scammer more money to keep running. They call it “penalty bids.” Scammers just pay it. Meta collects premium rates from fraudsters they know are fraudsters.

15 billion high-risk ads per day. $16 billion in 2024 revenue from scams. And internal docs show they rejected 96% of user fraud reports in 2023.

The leaked roadmap is even worse. Meta planned to reduce scam revenue from 10.1% in 2024 to 7.3% by end of 2025, then 6% in 2026, then 5.8% in 2027. They’re not eliminating it. They’re managing it down on a four-year timeline.

They budgeted $1B for anticipated regulatory fines. The scam ads generate $7B annually. That’s a 600% return on regulatory risk.

When your ad personalization algorithm identifies people vulnerable to fraud and feeds them more fraud, that’s a product decision someone made.

[Shekhar Dutt @DuttShekhar]

Rare conversation which is better than the stump mic or F1 Radio comm…

Saadharan Employee vs District Court Judge 🙏

[Bruce 17 @Missing_You_Ash]

Make the guy say “I Muffadal Vohra am proposing to you Rea. Will you marry me?”while being emotional. Then make the girl reply “jaa na lawde mai meri jaan Johns se shadi karungi” while laughing
@AskPerplexity

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

No one really cares about good vs evil. People hate weakness and admire strength.

Bloodthirsty maniacs win. “Responsible actors” who show restraint lose.

If Iran had glassed Israel, it would’ve been fast-tracked into the “international community.” But every failed retaliation makes the West hate the “Mullah regime” more — because the hounds smell weakness.

Same logic applies to Russia/Ukraine.

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

In the interview for hiring this guy, I started with a SQL question. He said "that's a dumb question."

Naturally I was taken aback by that response. "OK, let's move on then."

He was in his early 40s and had a pretty old-school stats background, so I figured a barrage of tough questions about linear regression, t-stats, etc. was fair game. He was playing a double-or-nothing game. What's crazy is he got every single one right without thinking, almost like he was reading off an answer sheet. I was impressed. You're hired buddy. I still to this day disagree that it was a dumb question, but I secretly loved his unrelenting willingness to be disagreeable.

In the first couple weeks he took on a massive project that touched every single part of the company, just reconciling data science team's internal sources of truth to our accounting. He put all the comparisons in Google Sheets broken out by month, held a meeting, pointed out all the differences, asked people to work on reconciling them. Nothing fancy, just honest to god work with a strong helping of elbow grease. Suddenly all these nerds in the meeting who can tell you what a "convolutional neural network" but can't be assed to make sure their data is of a good quality are looking a little silly. This guy learned *all* of their table schemas and their quirks, and in basically no time, figured out all the errors.

He was a good contributor to the company for a while and garnered the respect of all the other data scientists. But all good things must eventually come to an end. In his case, he went out the way he came in: by being a disagreeable asshole. He challenged management on some internal document. He was 100% correct, by the way. But management didn't want someone calling out their bullshit. 2 weeks later he was let go.

Best data scientist I ever worked with.

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Lallantop wasn't ready for this!
Javed Akhtar explains why they dont rent out their houses to muslims..

[Palisade Research @PalisadeAI]

🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.

[cheri🦭 @freakmasteryaoi]

why do we call it scissoring and not lip syncing

[Moushumi Das Gupta @dgupta_moushumi]

2 months before terror attack in Kashmir, a top US space tech co. saw unprecedented spike in orders for high-resolution satellite images of Pahalgam, by the company’s new partner: a Pak based geo-spatial company. Cracker of a story by @soumya_pillai

[ChickenTender @voluntaryasmine]

I went on a coffee date with my husband, and as soon as we walked in, he said, very loudly mind you "You don't think your husband is going to see us in here together do you!?" And now everyone is looking at me like I'm a whore.

[Aditya Tiwari ❤️👻 @aditiwari9111]

Businessman 😁