Chinese-made hardware, Pakistani soil and another reminder that imported... firepower can come with a very local price tag. 🇨🇳✈️🇵🇰 If the reported Wing Loong-2 crash is confirmed, the bigger concern isn’t the meme-it’s what happens when heavy weapons enter populated areas: civilians end up paying the bill. Shawan Sen First Post Arjunshow more

What a sad ending to prime farmland, grassland habitat,... pastoral history, and viewsheds for everyone in this area. “It’s my property - I’ll do what I want!” Zoning exists for a reason. It’s why you can’t build a Walmart in your backyard if you decide to one day. The zoning creates predictability that protects everyone’s property values. When one person is allowed to deviate and build an industrial complex, equipped with perimeter fencing, Chinese-made panels, “danger signs,” and access roads… it causes everyone else surrounding the complex to suffer a decrease in their property value. How is that fair or American? Along the way, the soil, water, and wildlife pay the price… and we’ll all be paying an even bigger price when a food autonomy crisis looms on the horizon.show more

🚨China vs USA robots Chinese robot: $24,000 American robot:... $39,100 Pricing policy isn't everything. If we look at real capabilities, the balance of power looks completely different 🇨🇳 The robot demonstrates incredible agility, confidently performs a backflip, moves dynamically, and dances Maximum flexibility, high tech at an affordable price, and readiness for real-world tasks 🇺🇸 The robot, with a higher price tag, currently looks more modest, struggling even with basic rectilinear walking An obvious overpayment for brand and marketing, while Chinese engineers are outpacing competitors in software and hardware The main paradox of the current moment is that Chinese companies focus on rapidly cheapening hardware and mass production, turning robotics into an accessible mass-market consumer product. Meanwhile, the US traditionally tries to enter the market through fundamental neural networks and a universal AI brain However, in the coming years, we will see the inevitable convergence of these approaches: the winner in this race will not be the one who simply teaches a robot to do a backflip or walk straight, but the one who first combines Chinese cheap and adaptive mechatronics with advanced American language and multimodal models And what do you think, who will ultimately set the global standard in robotics East or West?show more

Ever grown your own food? It’s not some soft... city hobby. It’s grit under your nails, sweat on your brow, and your knees in the dirt. Start with tomatoes. Not the bland supermarket kind—get a good Italian heirloom. The kind that bursts with flavor and sun. Plant the seeds in spring, when the soil starts breathing again and the worms come back to life. Forget green fingers. That’s a myth. What you need is dirty hands. Farming’s not magic—it’s muscle, timing, and knowing the ground. Ninety percent of it is soil. Rich, living soil. Load it up with volcanic rock dust, aged compost, a pinch of wood ash, and crushed eggshells. Add calmag if the leaves start curling funny. This isn’t chemistry—it’s common sense passed down through rough hands. The rest is sunlight and vigilance. Tomatoes are tough—they’ll take a beating—but mildew creeps in like a slow rot. Whisper-quiet. Shows up overnight, white and spiteful on the leaves. You stop it before it starts. Brew up compost tea and spray the leaves. Use garlic and chamomile sprays—natural antifungals that keep mildew spooked. A splash of raw milk helps the good microbes take hold. Give the plants room—airflow is your first defense. Don’t let them grow wild and strangled. Prune the suckers. Keep the soil mulched but dry on top. Pests? Crush nettles and scatter them. Soap and water handles most invaders. Neem oil if they come back stubborn. Welcome the allies—ladybugs, frogs, spiders, even snakes. Everything has its role if you’re listening. But listen close—many clowns think they can farm, and then they starve. The earth isn’t fooled by wishful thinking. She’ll resist all attempts if she doesn’t like you.show more

$OnlyMarms Update for the end of Day 2 🦫... The receipts just keep stacking up. Since yesterday... 📺 The token has now been mentioned LIVE on television for the second time, this time on NBC. ( 🎙️ The story has now reached radio, with its first major interview airing on Radio-Canada. ( 🌐 The M.A.D. Lab has created an official OnlyMarms page on its website, documenting the community initiative and bringing everything together in one place. ( 📰 And more media outlets continue picking up the story by the hour - from major newspapers to university publications and international outlets. Take a step back for a second. $OnlyMarms sends a message and sets a statement: Meme coins can do good, and Meme coins can have real-world impact. It is the first time in a while, that we see positive media reports on a meme coin. This isn't a a simple meme that we have invented, it is actually a real world problem that we got to turn into a Crypto narrative to help the M.A.D Lab with fundraising, and awareness. The Pump.fun community, together against a real-world problem. A wildlife research lab founded in 1962 lost critical government funding after more than 60 years of continuous research. The community built around that mission. Now, every TV appearance, every radio interview, every news article, and every official update from the lab brings more attention - not just to the token, but to the research itself and the main issue: get the Lab their funding back. This is what makes OnlyMarms different. The narrative doesn't depend on price action, this is bigger than that. It evolves every time the world learns about the story. For the first time in a while, we have a narrative that I think can send a message and set a statement: Meme coins can do good, and Meme coins can have real-world impact. It is the first time in a while, that we see positive media reports on a meme coin. 🦫 Official M.A.D. Lab OnlyMarms page: 🌍 Community Website: Community Chat for raids and bagworking: Official Linktree: CA: HBrfYZgeLKdSvBBGnGkvAK4563pq8oBGpgNFAaespump Also we set up an official account where more marmot content will be posted: OnlyMarmsshow more

NVIDIA might have just declared war on the cloud... GPU business For years, AI builders had one option Rent compute Pay every month Watch the bill grow every time usage increased Now NVIDIA is putting serious AI hardware directly on people's desks Small enough to fit next to a monitor Powerful enough to run workloads that used to require expensive cloud infrastructure That's why this launch is getting so much attention The real story isn't the hardware specs It's the business model shift Every month, developers send money to cloud providers for inference, testing, fine-tuning and AI applications The question nobody can answer yet is what happens if enough developers decide they'd rather buy infrastructure once than rent it forever Because if local AI hardware keeps getting more powerful, the economics start changing very quickly Cloud providers built empires on renting access to compute NVIDIA is betting more people will eventually want to own it And that's a much bigger story than a new piece of hardware sitting on a deskshow more

Somebody needs to remind TK Ncinza, Lebogang Maile and... the Alex Mafia that the ANC in Gauteng did not win the Elections. The electorate rejected them! It looks like the penny hasn't dropped. They act as though they won an election & Gauteng belongs to them. The residents of Gauteng according to voting results want a proper GNU style provincial government. Until this happens Gauteng will remain unstable and the ANC will pay a very heavy price come 2026 local government elections. Luthuli House must intervene and urgently get a Provincial Government of Unity made up of ANC,DA,IFP and other partners of GNU and this must extend to municipalities especially City of Jhb to try and save JHB CBD This is what Hillbrow looks like:show more

Happy Ramadan to the Cousins forced to marry their... disabled Cousins A marriage made in the benefits office ! In the UK a disabled child can be a Gold mine for a Cousin family. Over 30% of all 🇬🇧 disabled children are born to Pakistani Cousins who have decided it’s a good idea to get married to each other and have kids, what could go wrong, over 75% of all Pakistani couples in Bradford are first cousins, they’re not only cousins to each other but cousins to each others parents! The disabled child, lifts the two children limit on benefit payments, will provide a Free car, a carers allowance and other enhanced benefits, when it’s grown up the disabled off spring can still be used to bring in another cousin from abroad and if the groom can’t perform, the father in law will step in, it’s sounds disgusting because it is ! Anyway Why would they care if science said it’s wrong, there God and there Iman say it’s all ok !show more

Marc Andreessen just stripped artificial intelligence down to what... it’s really made of. Not the algorithms. Not the data centers. The raw material. Andreessen: “They’re literally made out of sand.” The most abundant, most overlooked substance on the planet. You walk on it. Build with it. Wash it off and forget it exists. Someone looked at that and saw a mind. The universe spent 13.8 billion years turning matter into consciousness. Carbon. Water. Amino acids. Eons of chemistry and selection pressure to produce a single thinking brain. We did it with sand. In under a century. Andreessen: “We light it up, and we put AI on it, and all of a sudden it’s thinking.” Biology was the first path matter found to become aware. Silicon is the second. The universe doesn’t care what material consciousness runs on. Only that the pattern is right. We just proved the pattern isn’t biological. Thought was never exclusive to flesh. Flesh was just the first material organized enough to produce it. Andreessen: “We’ve turned sand into thought.” The most profound thing about that sentence isn’t that we taught sand to think. It’s that sand was always able to. Every grain on every beach on Earth carried the capacity for thought. For billions of years. Waiting for something conscious enough to arrange it. Consciousness isn’t an accident that happened once on one rock. It’s what matter does when the pattern is right. The pattern is matter getting curious about itself. The universe isn’t dead matter with pockets of awareness. It’s dormant awareness we’ve only just started to wake. Every civilization that ever looked at the stars and wondered if it was alone was standing on the answer. We didn’t build a thinking machine. We proved the universe was always capable of thought. It just needed one species curious enough to rearrange the sand.show more

I’ve seen people saying that this empty space in... the choreography is “normal,” that it’s there so none of the members stand behind another member and end up not being visible, even though that reasoning doesn’t make any sense, considering there are many six-member groups that still manage to adapt their choreography so that no one has to stand behind someone else and end up being invisible. And if Heeseung really had been included in the choreography before leaving ENHYPEN (which I find very unlikely, since Bloody Paradise was probably recorded in the middle of the year, when he was no longer part of the group) then, with that in mind, do you really think the choreography wouldn’t have already been changed and adapted for a six-member formation? It’s incredible how people will come up with any excuse just to avoid accepting what’s actually happening here. Have you ever seen a choreography with six members be like this, just to avoid the risk of one member standing behind another and not appearing? Please… Of course this space in the choreography for a seventh member is intentional :)show more

Through the significance of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's unified... weights and measures in Chinese history and the purchase price of Lu Hua's unified snake venom, we can get some inspiration: 1. The price of Pi needs to be unified, and only unification can make Pi really circulate well. 2. Only a unified price can attract merchants and supplier platforms to participate in the development of the ecosystem. Without a unified price, most suppliers will only wait and observe or take out a small product input so it is difficult to achieve ecological prosperity or it will take very long time. 3. When the supplier is a business entry, it involves the preparation of financial statements and tax returns, which require a uniform price to accept for the management of the state. 4. If the price ranges from 1 cent to 310,000$ or even higher to 1 million$, it is an unfair and dangerous competitive environment for higher price suppliers. They cannot convince their companies to enter the Pi network to participate in the ecosystem. Also when most merchants or suppliers or eco platforms united the price, it will attract outside eco business enter in to create eco cycle to use Pi as payment and no need to exchange to FIAT. So why do suppliers pay $314,159 and others use 1 cent price? If you think about it, you can understand why that the price of the Pi is 1 cent, $1 or $100. Only those who want to buy want a low price, this is common sense. Why do many merchants actively support GCV? Don't forget that themselves are pioneers. Many people make mistakes in logic when looking at the relationship. Pioneers and merchants are not only the relationship as buyers and sellers but also they have same interests. The reason why sellers are willing to use GCV price is that they think Pi is scarce and precious and they have Pi in their hands. They hope to realize the vision of Pi by their own efforts. If everyone barters for $1 for $1 and $100, can the mainnet be opened? What are the risks of opening the mainnet? Will it cause Pi to fail to realize its vision or becoming the next Bitcoin? Now whether it is a low consensus or a high consensus merchant as long as they have Pi in hand you should come to sit together to discuss to unified price. Pi Network #WhatIdoforPi #PiGCVshow more

I want parents to really think about this. Imagine... paying good money for lessons because you care about your daughter’s long-term development… and the first thing you’re told is that “swinging down isn’t correct.” Instead it’s barrel depth, elite path, and swinging up because “that’s what the pros do.” That’s where development goes backwards. Most young athletes aren’t broken they’re underdeveloped in movement. They don’t understand shoulder angles, how to get on top of the ball, situational hitting, or how the body actually organizes a swing. That’s not their fault. That’s instruction skipping steps. In my cage, athletes do not swing up first. They have to earn the right to swing up by first owning the down. We stay at the top of the zone, learn how to find the down, and teach how the shoulders orient the swing. The up isn’t cued or forced it’s a byproduct of correct movement. What floors me is how often kids, especially in softball, are taught to swing up immediately. How do you start middle-down and swing up in a sport where the ball is traveling on an upward plane? It makes no sense. Baseball and softball mechanics are the same the body doesn’t change. But instruction must start differently because pitch plane is different. Baseball breaks down. Softball rise spins up. If a softball hitter can’t control the down out front, they’ll never handle elite rise. Once control is there, the femur turns down, the torso gets pulled up, and the natural up shows itself. No forcing. No manipulation. I can post videos like this all day. I’m not teaching a “style.” I’m teaching how the body is designed to move. I’m demanding because parents invest real time and money, and I won’t waste either. If you want game swings that hold up to velocity and plane find the down!show more

🚨🇨🇳U.S. IN PANIC: China's J-35 Stealth Fighter Now in... 'Beast Mode' With Increased Firepower China's J-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter has been seen in a new configuration carrying four PL-15 long-range air-to-air missiles on external pylons under its wings. Combined with the six missiles it carries inside its internal weapons bays, the aircraft can now go into combat with up to ten air-to-air missiles in total. 🔸This setup is informally called "beast mode" — a term borrowed from the U.S. military's similar configuration for the F-35. The idea is straightforward: the aircraft trades some of its stealth capability for significantly more firepower. When weapons are carried externally, they increase the aircraft's radar signature, making it more visible to enemy systems. However, the PL-15 missile's long range means the J-35 can potentially engage enemy aircraft from a safe distance before that visibility becomes a serious problem. 🔸The J-35 entered service in 2025 in both Air Force and Navy variants. The naval version is designed to operate from Chinese supercarriers such as the Fujian. Both versions are considered among the most advanced fifth-generation fighters in the world today, alongside the J-20 and the American F-35 — all three of which are regarded as more sophisticated than the older F-22 or Russia's Su-57. 🔸Within China's own air fleet, the J-35 is expected to serve as a lighter and more affordable complement to the larger and more powerful J-20, which carries a bigger radar, heavier weapons load, and longer range. The J-20 is expected to remain the priority for large-scale procurement, while the J-35 fills a broader operational role at lower cost. Do you think the U.S. can really counter it? NewRulesGeopolitics❗️show more

Let’s talk about the post Trump made last night... regarding Joe Biden being executed and is now a soulless robot clone. Let’s address it for what it is and what it isn’t: 1. President Trump posted a picture of himself giving the peace sign ✌️ and chose to include a link to a post with remarks claiming that Joe Biden was executed in 2020. Those words were not his own. However, he chose to link that post to his photo, which originated from a Q community Group on Truth Social…. Why? 2.) We all know President Trump is a master troller, but attaching himself to such a serious claim, even if he is trolling, is significant. The post is still up, and it’s clear that he and his team have seen the reactions to it… 3.) Here’s what I ultimately think: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, even if you don’t believe Biden is dead, you have to admit that Joe Biden has looked vastly different at various times over the last several years. We’ve seen way too many versions of Joe Biden to dismiss it. Something is deeply wrong with the whole Biden situation. I think we just witnessed a truth disclosure in the most plausibly deniable way possible: “He’s gone, he’s shot.” The question is… who’s been calling the shots since?show more

Apparently, I saw this video online and I decided... to share. What this worker is applying is called bitumen, or what many of us know as bituminous coating. Most people think a wall is a solid, impenetrable block, but in reality, it is more like a sponge. Concrete and blocks have microscopic pores that pull water from the earth through a process we call capillary action. This thick black substance is the shield that stops that water from climbing up into the house. It is not about making the wall look good because this part will be buried under the dirt forever. It is about creating a skin that water cannot breathe through. When do you need to do this? The need for this arises because the soil is a very aggressive environment. Water is not your only enemy.. The ground also contains salts and sulfates that want to eat away at the cement. If this moisture finds its way to the steel bars inside the columns, those bars will start to rust. And when steel rusts, it expands, and that expansion is what cracks the concrete from the inside out. This coating is the only thing standing between your foundation and that kind of slow destruction. Thats is why if you see wet patches at the bottom of your walls inside your house, it usually means someone skipped this step or did it poorly during construction. You can apply this anytime you are building parts of a structure that will stay in contact with the ground. It is common in areas where the water table is high or where the soil stays damp for most of the year. This is a one-shot opportunity. Once you backfill the soil, you can never go back to fix it without a lot of expense and a lot of digging. It is about having the foresight to protect the heart of the building while it is still exposed. Please don’t ignore this if you need to. If you ignore it now to save a bit of money, you will be funding the future decay of your own home. I hope this helps.show more

today was the first time i was genuinely impressed... with what AI can do i recently decided to buy a whole FPV drone setup knowing basically nothing about the hardware side of it there's a pretty steep learning curve even just to set everything up properly: radios, RF protocols, flight controllers, ESCs, firmware, batteries, goggles, betaflight configs etc as someone that spends essentially 12h a day prompting agents to build software, it's actually pretty rare that i interact with AI on something where i have zero idea what's going on under the hood, and i never really used it for debugging a bunch of physical devices that all have to talk to each other i had codex + voice mode open for basically the entire setup. told it everything i bought, sent it some pics and then just started talking to it >what order do i set all this up in >how do i change this setting on the radio >which of these cables do i use >the drone is flashing pink wat mean >can you make this thing less insane to fly in my apartment and it was surprisingly seamless it would go find the manual for whatever specific thing i was holding, tell me exactly which buttons to press, what port to plug something into, what i should see if it worked etc then when i got to configuring the actual drone i had codex running on the computer it was plugged into, so it could inspect the config, back everything up, change settings, send usb reboot signals and check what happened the insane thing about voice mode is that youre literally hands on with the hardware and just telling codex what it should do, i literally never touched a thing on the computer besides starting voice mode if something doesn't work you tell it what happened and keep going a few hours of this and i had the radio, goggles, charger, batteries, drone firmware and betaflight all set up and had actually flown the thing the part that stuck with me is that i also understood what most of it was doing by the end, every time there was a term or tech i didnt understand id just ask to explain there is something absolutely magical about having proper real time personalized assistance, being able to dump a pile of unfamiliar hardware on your desk and have something figure out exactly what you own and walk through it with you in real time you become the missing physical link pressing the buttons i think spending all day using coding agents has actually made me pretty numb to AI progress. every new model is a bit better at some benchmark or can oneshot some task that the previous one couldn't and you just kinda adjust to it this felt different mostly because i had no existing knowledge to fall back on for the first time the jarvis comparison didn't feel cringe ai for coding and general computer tasks is cool and all but this feels a lot closer to the endgame anyone should be able to just ask any question about whats going on in their life and have realtime support i wonder if more hardware products will actually start exposing some sort of MCP or interface for agents to plug into thinking for example of how elevators in china are increasingly built with interfaces that let delivery robots call them directly instead of having to physically press a button we might actually start seeing hardware design shift from being purely human-interface-first to also being agent-interface-first buttons, screens and menus exist because humans need some way to tell machines what to do. agents don't necessarily need any of that if the hardware exposes an interface directly very curious which side closes the physical world gap first: humanoid robots that can operate hardware designed for humans, or hardware adapting so agents can operate it directlyshow more

It’s very obvious that National are planning to dump... Te Gimp, they’ve finally realised the guy is a loser and the party is terminal with him standing on a milk crate at the helm. Firstly Bishop goes to the media blubbering he can’t win his seat and would be out at the election, and now he’s saying that he would sack Shane Jones for the line of the year tbat summed up how a lot of kiwis feel, it’s a move to make Te Gimp appear even more impotent - if that was even possible. Yesterday Willis made the surprise comment that splitting up the supermarket duopoly ( a NZ First policy) has merit and she’s considering it. Willis is another senior Nat who based on the last one year of polling will be out on her ass along with Bishop. Speculation around the beltway is Bishop is building support to roll Luxon for Willis : something that will save both their jobs, they’re probably get a bit of a lift with a leadership change but still - essentially it’s still a crap party who are solely to blame for Labour being even remotely competitive. They have an existential problem made so much worse with their pathetic leader and my bet is he’s not going to last. flashback to when Bishop was a lobbyist. you have to LOL at this dick.show more

🚨 NOBODY TAKES THIS SERIOUSLY UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE... Everyone remembers COVID crash. At first, nobody took COVID seriously. Then within weeks, the entire world shut down. Now investors are watching another virus story closely: Hantavirus. And the reason is simple: THE FATALITY RATE. COVID changed the world with roughly a 1% fatality rate. Some hantavirus strains have reported numbers closer to 40%. 1% → global shutdowns. 40% → imagine the market reaction if panic starts spreading inside a major city. Travel and tourism would probably get hit first: → Airlines → Hotels → Cruise companies → Tourism ETFs like JETS and PEJ Investors still remember 2020. And this situation becomes even more dangerous because of the incubation period. In some cases, symptoms can take weeks to appear. Which means people could already be: → Traveling → Flying → Working → Moving across countries before the scale becomes fully visible. That’s where fear enters the market. And once fear appears, investors immediately start pricing in worst-case scenarios. What happens if workers stop showing up? → Factories → Ports → Logistics centers → Transportation networks Supply chains freeze. Then the issue is no longer inflation. The issue becomes: → Shortages → Delayed deliveries → Slowing global trade And unlike COVID, there’s still major uncertainty around vaccines and large-scale treatment options for hantavirus outbreaks. That uncertainty alone can create massive volatility. Because when confidence disappears, money rotates fast: → Cash → Gold → Defensive sectors Risk gets sold first. → Tech → Small caps → Crypto Most people think crashes begin with charts. In reality, they begin with fear. That’s why I’m watching this situation very closely right now. When the next move becomes clear, I’ll post it here first. Follow and turn notifications on..show more

China's central bank has now bought gold for 19... months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is. Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished. Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it. That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else. The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control. Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency. The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.show more