Magia & Tecnologia.
Nós conseguimos o que somos.
Minha missão é conhecer de forma profunda, mergulhar e escalar buscando conhecimento, melhorar e ajudar.
Meditação bíblica, Hebreus 11.
Curiosidades.
Entre os místicos o 11 simboliza fé.
Donald Trump = 11 letras.
Bill Clinton = 11 letras.
George W Bush = 11 letras
Barack Obama = 11 letras
Você já teve a curiosidade de ver quantas pontas tem a estrela na base da estátua da Liberdade? A grande maioria nem sabe que existe uma estrela na base dessa estátua.
Apollo 11, o homem chega à lua pela primeira vez.
Seria o 11/09 uma tentativa de abalar a fé do povo americano?
Curiosidade, carta do tarot 11.
Numerologia, 11 é o primeiro número mestre.
Cabala, 11 é um portal para o divino, iluminação.
O que sei, o que é certo é que, a América é bem forte.
A Brazilian coffee farmer earns about 7 dollars for one kilogram of green coffee beans.
After roasting, blending, and branding, that same coffee retails in the United States for around 20 to 25 dollars per kilogram in a Lavazza tin.
Italy does not produce a single coffee bean.
Not one coffee tree grows on Italian soil.
Italy imports about 240,000 tonnes of Brazilian coffee every year, more than from any other country.
Brazil is the largest single origin in nearly every famous Italian espresso blend.
Lavazza Crema e Gusto is Brazilian Arabica with African and Indonesian Robusta.
Their Qualità Rossa blend uses Brazilian Arabica with African Robusta.
Illy's classic blend of 9 Arabicas is anchored by Brazilian beans.
Segafredo even operates a coffee plantation and processing plant inside Brazil to handle its own green beans.
Italy is now the second-largest roasted coffee exporter on Earth, with nearly 2.9 billion dollars in coffee exports in 2024.
That entire export industry runs on beans that were never Italian.
The Brazilian farmer captures roughly 10 percent of the final retail price of a bag of Italian-branded coffee.
The Italian roaster, distributor, and brand capture the other 90 percent.
The Italian coffee identity is one of the most successful branding operations in the history of global commerce.
It was built on a supply chain that runs through Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and the Cerrado.
The next time you pay a premium for Italian coffee, remember that no country supplies more of those beans than Brazil.
Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?
The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...
Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.
His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"
Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.
The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:
"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."
Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.
But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.
And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...
Happy Mother's Day.
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"If I was aware of the slightest evidence of aliens, I would immediately post out on 𝕏. This would be the most viewed post of all time. We've got 9000 satellites up there, we've never had to maneuver around an alien spaceship yet."
一 Elon Musk
1.Before the modern state of Israel (established in 1948), there was the British Mandate (1920-1948), not a Palestinian state.
2.Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire (1517-1917), not a Palestinian state.
3.Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt (1250-1517), not a Palestinian state.
4.Before the Islamic Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Dynasty (1171-1260), not a Palestinian state. Godfrey of Bouillon conquered it in 1099.
5.Before the Ayyubid Dynasty, there was the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291), not a Palestinian state.
6.Before the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171), not a Palestinian state.
7.Before the Fatimid Caliphate, there was the Byzantine Empire (330-636), not a Palestinian state.
8.Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire (27 BCE - 476 CE), not a Palestinian state.
9.Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean Dynasty (140-37 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
10.Before the Hasmonean Dynasty, there was the Seleucid Empire (312-63 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
11.Before the Seleucid Empire, there was the Empire of Alexander the Great (334-323 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
12.Before the Empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
13.Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire (c. 1894-539 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
14.Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea (c. 1050-586 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
15.Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea, there was the Kingdom of Israel (c. 1040-722 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
16.Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (c. 1400-1050 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
17.Before the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, there was the individual state of Canaan (c. 3000-1200 BCE), not a Palestinian state.
In fact, in this corner of the earth, there was everything but a Palestinian state!
SpaceX ride hailing:
London to Dubai 🇦🇪
39 minutes
Tokyo to Cairo
27 minutes
Sydney to New Delhi
31 minutes
Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪
33 minutes
Starship is the future 🚀 …. Elon Musk is a genius !
Always hilarious to me that China and India didn't even know this massive continent in their backyard. And then some English dude from the other side of the world just came along and yoinked it.
Did you know?
An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of its ability to develop into an embryo.
In other words, life begins with a flash of light.
Everyone is going to want a ~$30K Tesla Cybercab when it becomes available, they just don’t know it yet.
• Much safer than human driving.
• No steering wheel or pedals.
• Have the ability to legally sleep as it’s driving you to your destination.
• Two-seater design, with tons of legroom
• Great for elderly individuals who are no longer able to drive, as well as people with disabilities.
• Work as are you being driven, or watch movies/play games.
• Send off to run errands (pick up kids, pick up someone at the airport, etc).
• The ability to add/subtract from the Tesla Robotaxi fleet to earn passive income.
• You could buy a fleet and run your own business.
• Send to pick up groceries, or other orders.
• Have the ability to send home after getting dropped off your location, eliminating the need for parking.
• Send for service autonomously when needed.
• Autonomous Home Delivery
• Virtually Zero Maintenance
• $0.20 or less per mile operating costs
• Wireless charging capabilities with well above 90% efficiency.
This car will revolutionize the transportation industry and car ownership.
Brazilian agribusiness can do five things no other country on Earth can replicate.
The first: two harvests on the same land in the same year.
About 40% of Brazil's soybean fields are immediately replanted with corn after the soy harvest.
In Mato Grosso, irrigated farms are now growing three crops per year on the same hectare.
The second: eucalyptus that matures in 6 to 7 years.
Pine in the U.S. South takes 22 to 40 years.
Pine in Canada and Scandinavia takes 60 to 100 years.
The third: cattle finished primarily on grass.
About 78% of Brazilian beef still comes from grazing systems.
In the United States, almost all beef cattle pass through feedlots in their final phase.
The fourth: sugarcane that produces both sugar and ethanol on the same crushing run.
Brazilian flex plants switch the output ratio between sugar and ethanol based on which price is higher.
The fifth: coffee, soy, beef, cellulose, and orange juice all grown on the same continental landmass.
Brazil is the world's largest producer or exporter in every single one of those categories.
Brazil functions as an agricultural civilization.
Climate, soil, and decades of breeding research at Embrapa built it.
Three structural advantages no other country can replicate.
The world's quiet bread basket is operating at a scale most investors have never measured.
Brazil's most underappreciated strategic asset is a tree.
Brazilian eucalyptus is the most efficient timber crop on Earth.
Eucalyptus in Brazil reaches harvest in 6 to 7 years.
Pine in the U.S. South takes 22 to 40 years.
Pine in Canada and Scandinavia takes 60 to 100 years.
Brazil's average eucalyptus yield is 35.7 cubic meters of wood per hectare every year.
That is almost double the productivity of pine plantations in the Northern Hemisphere.
Same hectare. Same year. Twice the wood.
Brazil now operates more than 10 million hectares of planted forests.
Three out of every four trees planted in Brazil for industrial use are eucalyptus.
Suzano alone operates 2.7 million hectares across seven Brazilian states.
That makes Suzano the largest pulp producer on the planet, and Brazil the global leader in cellulose, tissue, and packaging supply chains.
Climate, soil, and decades of breeding research at Embrapa.
Three structural advantages no Northern Hemisphere forestry operation can replicate.
The most underappreciated industrial advantage in the world is growing on Brazilian land right now.
Most investors are still treating forestry as a slow asset class.
In Brazil, it compounds in 6 years.
Israel appoints its first-ever Special Envoy to the Christian World! 🇮🇱✝️
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar named George Deek, an Arab Christian diplomat and former ambassador, to deepen Israel’s ties with Christian communities worldwide.
A great move!
🚨GERMANY WANTS TO LEAVE EU!
🇩🇪 Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is rapidly gaining popularity and aims to leave the European Union if they win the next election.
Japan becomes the first country, to successfully test fire a Ship Mounted Electromagnetic Railgun at a Target ship.
Installed on modern Japanese Naval Ships, these Rail Guns could completely transform modern missile defense, making Chinese missiles obsolete!