ANNOUNCEMENT I am hereby taking environmentalism from the left. You did nothing to preserve the environment. In fact you made it worse. And at the same time you gutted critical industries. Therefore, you can't have it anymore. Your protection mandate is revoked. It's ours now

90% Of His Brain Was Missing And He Did Not Know It — In 2007 in France, a 44-year-old man went to the doctor complaining of numbness in his leg and underwent a brain CT scan that revealed a shocking truth. That man didn't have 90% of his brain. The skull was almost entirely filled with cerebrospinal fluid and all that remained of the brain was a thin peripheral portion surrounding the skull. Yet that man, whose IQ was just below average (IQ 75), had been leading a normal life for years: he was married, had two children, a job and was obviously aware of himself, he moved, laughed, loved and ultimately he lived. The case shocked the world scientific community and was described in the prestigious Lancet journal, becoming the subject of questions and amazement. The evidence of the facts raised, as can easily be imagined, many questions about the very concept of consciousness, understood as "awareness of the self" and the possibility of leading a normal life practically without a brain. The patient's clinical history was reconstructed and it was discovered that he was born suffering from a form of hydrocephalus. For this reason, a few months before his life, a cerebral shunt was inserted into his skull, capable of draining excess cerebrospinal fluid. That shunt was removed at the age of 14 and the patient, after an initial series of problems that had caused paresis in his left leg, was eventually able to resume an almost normal life and had completely forgotten about the problem. Over the next 30 years, the liquor began to invade the skull again and progressively erode the brain (90% of the brain!), leading to that feeling of weakness in the leg which prompted the patient to undergo a medical examination. at the age of 44. But all this was not able to explain how the brain invaded by cerebrospinal fluid and eroded by 90% of its volume had "known" to recalibrate itself over the years, allowing him to lead a normal life anyway. Axel Cleeremans, a cognitive psychologist at the Université Libre of Brussels, Belgium, attempted to answer these questions in 2016 during a conference of the Association for Scientific Studies on Consciousness, held in Buenos Aires. According to Cleeremans, the case of the French patient had demonstrated the extraordinary "readaptation capacity" of the human brain. The frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes of the brain, in fact, preside over the main cognitive and perceptive functions, yet in the patient they were practically completely absent and this demonstrated that the brain of that man - and therefore of every man - had been able to "move" those functions to the residual perimeter section of 10%. The second ability that was made evident by the clinical case under examination was the "plasticity of the brain". According to Cleeremans' hypothesis, "self-awareness" (or detailed self-cognition) is formed through experience, the relationship between oneself and the surrounding world and learning, and is subject to continuous modifications and adjustments in course of life. The case of the French man who lived a normal life until the age of 44 without 90% of his brain demonstrated to science a fact that had until then been unknown, namely that just 10% of the brain tissue is sufficient to re-elaborate a “theory of the self” and to make that person a man in all respects. We can’t even begin to know what we don’t know…

Meeting with the Internet: North Korean soldier reportedly caught watching girls dancing on social media.

BREAKING: United Airlines Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from San Francisco, crushing cars on the ground

In the US, the average woman aged 20 is 5'4" and 170 pounds — a BMI of 29.2. This is firmly in the range of overweight, very nearly obese. Any program that wants to solve low marriage rates cannot be serious unless it addresses this.

Now feels like a good time to remind people that many indigenous communities consider photographing the northern lights to be disrespectful and viewing pictures of the lights is avoided If you’re going to post pictures of the lights, warn people

A lot of the new projects in Saudi Arabia are so futuristic that they look AI-generated. This one is a new five-star resort in the Red Sea called Shebara Rooms start $2400. No alcohol.

True force projection isn't about missiles and tanks it's about having a freaking sports bar on an aircraft carrier

STEM people look so lonely, while those in the humanities appear to have innumerate friends

If space is to be colonized I'm convinced that establishing new sovereignty is the only way forward. A colony forced to abide by US civil rights or labor law (or the 14th and 15th Amendments for that matter) is DOA. Once it gets to a certain size, all the various parasites that are slowly eating away at this country will hop aboard on the first available rocket and creep into the woodwork. Over time, maintaining such a habitat - whose margins for waste and error will be much tighter than anywhere on Earth - will become unsustainable. Social problems and security risks will exacerbate out of control. Eventually the colony might be abandoned, or some extremist or schizo will find a way to break the life support and everyone dies. In other words, long-term preservation and growth would require precautions and preemptive measures which are categorically forbidden under the US Constitution and also under most current international human rights treaties as well. Therefore the only remedy is to create new republics and other sovereign domains that will not be subject to any of these and are therefore immunized from the social decay, subversion and lawfare currently eating away at liberal societies from within. And given how the Left is now vehemently opposed to the very idea out of pure unbridled resentment, they will be conspiring tirelessly to destroy such settlements as soon as the first colonists touch down. And on a spiritual level, it's far more fitting. Nations aren't simply mere ideas, they have roots in the land and the people that comprise them. These places are untouched lands. Its natives, yet to be determined. Each will shape the other, defining a wholly novel culture starkly different to any that exist on Earth today. Cultures that can remove themselves from the historical burdens of the metropole. New ideas, new nations and new banners for new lands. That should be the goal, not an extra star or two on an already crowded flag.

The right wing will never psy-op me into liking trains. Trains are for losers, poors and Europeans, it’s anti-aspirational slop transport. Henry Ford loves me and wants me to be happy bc I’m an American. Cars are anti egalitarian, they are status. Hierarchy of the parking lot.

Bringing this back to my own experience, when I got to 10% body fat, I was coming from almost 2 whole years of maintaining weight within a 5 lb range. Slowly getting leaner. Then with a high metabolism and active lifestyle, I started removing calories and increased cardio. Easy.

Tech bros have nothing on Wernher von Braun btw. He would have never acted without discipline like Elon is doing. Discipline. You can’t build anything without it. And of course knowing one’s place. Get Elon sober, get him off ketamine. If you’re his friend IRL reach out to him.

Civil engineering, real estate development, natural resources extraction and refinement, manufacturing. There are no substitutes for this. These are the bedrock industries. Dynasties are built on these, and freedom is won for entire families this way.

"Pennies for the hungry, billions for space! Spent in the name of our lovely race!"

“The TAM is out of this world” (Zooms in on the $27 quintillion asteroid)

Northrop Grumman/DARPA's long-range submarine drone shaped like a robotic Manta Ray with the ability to go dormant on the seabed and recharge itself is probably going to end up as an Ace Combat villain

There’s a lot of fear mongering surrounding high purity quartz (“HPQ”) and Spruce Pine, NC following the devastating flooding from Hurricane Helene The area contains the purest form of natural quartz, but the significance of supply disruptions from the mines is exaggerated 1/8

For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

I'm not going to rig an ongoing poll by linking directly to it, but I will say that >90% of respondents so far were wrong: The answer is climate🧵

I believe I can ratio this absolute dysgenic degenerate with a simple picture of his face. Help me achieve my dream.

Psychologist Laszlo Polgar ran the most bizarre experiment on his kids. After studying 1000s of geniuses, He was sure that geniuses are made, not born. His attempt succeeded and all 3 daughters ended up as chess grandmasters. Here are his 6 tips for raising a genius:

Thinking about Marx's attempt to disprove the concept of derivatives.

Over the skies of Kherson Oblast, a Ukrainian FPV drone repeatedly whacks a Russian ZALA 421-16E reconnaissance drone with a stick, before eventually disabling the Russian drone’s motor.

People philosophize about what they’re interested in, what they want to justify. This makes aesthetic thinkers, like Scruton, the most moral and ethical “thinkers,” like Singer, the most immoral

They can keep it. I don’t want this socialist horseshit

Domestic violence increases by 26% when the England football team wins or draws and 38% when they lose. Watching the way this city fan celebrated his team scoring last night leaves me cold. I love football, but we've got to do something about this.

The children yearn for the factory work

“Why would you want to colonize space ? We’re safe right here. Are you gonna leave me? Do you not love me ?”

A perfect summary of the Chinese economic model in a single photo: the government would rather build a subway line for peasants to sell their produce in the city rather than simply providing them direct financial support—even though the latter would clearly be the cheaper option.

.@jason_a_w u mad?