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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Iris @streetwize]

Paramount Has Blacklisted Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” and won’t work with them.

It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
Under the newly appointed head David Ellison, Paramount has made it clear that it won’t do business as usual in Hollywood any longer. They’re trying to reconfigure the landscape — and it’s already taking a toll.
@Variety gives insight into what’s coming at Paramount. As you know, Paramount executives have been outspoken about their stance on the conflict in Gaza. This past September, the company became the first major Hollywood studio to publicly reject a high-profile letter — signed by stars including Stone and Bardem — that urged a cultural boycott of Israeli film institutions accused of engaging in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians. Warner Bros. later took the same position.
Sources tell Variety that it has gone as far as Paramount creating a sort of blacklist of talent the studio will not work with because they are deemed to be “overtly antisemitic,” as well as “xenophobic” and “homophobic.”

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Hey, as you know @jordanbpeterson has been really sick. A lot of people have been asking for updates so here’s one. He’s recovering slowly day by day but I won't lie, it's slow and scary. He won't be back for another few months at least, probably longer. We’re not entirely sure what’s going on but it looks like possibly severe CIRS and a LOT of bad luck. Or we’re getting spiritually attacked. Or both.

To be perfectly honest, I think a lot of this is spiritual. My newborn Audrey almost died of heart failure for no reason in June, dad got sick and came to stay with us in July, then needed a hospital and the same day he went to the hospital by ambulance, my newborn turned blue (again) at home for a different reason not heart related and went a different hospital by ambulance.

Within 3 hours of each other.

It's been one thing after another in an otherworldly type of way.

In the meantime, we'll be going full force with @petersonacademy, and keeping his message across his brand alive while he recovers. Not letting demons get in the way of that.

Prayers are MUCH appreciated.
Ephesians 6:12

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

@benkellyone Biz

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

@benkellyone SMB

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

@ygnatyuk_ Дякую ✌🏼

[Радіо Свобода @radiosvoboda]

«Я навчився втрачати». Історія священика, який побував у російському полоні https://t.co/wsfr62lDkX

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

The Bazilevich family, whom Russia killed in Lviv

[Людмила 🇺🇦 @LdMila810824]

В Харкові поховали Софію Глиняну,усі пам'ятають фото дівчинки на лавочці з розтрощеною головою,після ракетного удару по Харькову 30 серпня, їй було всього 14 років
Батько Софійки зник безвісти на Донбасі, Боже 🙏 скільки зламаних доль💔

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

@Ukrostap Двіста гривень

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

Помітив, що найчастіше мені сниться Київ. Бо там бу��и найщасливіші роки нашого життя до війни.
Зазвичай, це дуже реальні, глибокі сни, з яких важко вибратися.
Сни, у яких бачаться друзі, родичі, та церква.
А ще сняться люди, яких я більше ніколи не побачу через цю кляту війну.

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

Прокинувся посеред ночі й не розумію, де знаходжусь.
Так сталося, що за останні 4 роки у нас було три свідомі переїзди. Плюс через служіння та волонтерську діяльність всі ці роки я постійно кудись їздив, десь жив іноді місяцями і взагалі багато де побував.

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

Чи я у Львові, займаюся розвезенням гуманітарки та волонтерським штабом? Або ж я в Карпатах, у Славському, вирішую справи нашого бізнесу, чи я зараз у Києві, і скоро треба буде прокидатися і везти дітей до ліцею?
Коротше каша…

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The side of planet Earth we aren't used to seeing.

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

Коли нема чого робити, беруться за великі справи.
Єврейське прислів'я

[Eugene Voit @Voyt_E]

@rshereme It would be great if you continued to share such thoughts on Instagram as well

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

I don’t believe in the russian opposition. I had zero respect for Navalny. But I always wanted to hope that maybe there are some “good russian” opposition leaders that could bring russia out of the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, my hope is almost gone.

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