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🏔️ Afghan Dry-Sift Bubble Hash 🍫 Melt Test 🔥 This is what top-tier solventless concentrate looks like. Starting from classic Afghan landrace genetics—known for centuries for heavy resin production and that legendary hash heritage—we took premium dry sift and ran it through ice-water agitation to create this ultra-clean bubble...

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6⭐️ Hash 🍫🔥 Can YOU Visually tell the Trichomes size of true 6-Star hash perfection⁉️ When it’s oily, and has greasy layers, it’s that flawless full-melt bubble. Pure resin gold with zero residue. This is what the 2026 solventless boom is chasing: elite full-melt hash that vaporizes like ancient medicine, not plant junk. But, can you spot the trichome size and quality just by eye that earns those sacred 6 stars? ✨ In our 28-million-year co-evolution with cannabis, the plants taught us this code. Landrace genetics + proper harvest (milky/early amber) + clean processing = swollen resin factories bursting with terps, cannabinoids, and that legendary oily shine. Quick Visual Star Rating Guide (Trichome Science You Can See): • 1-2⭐ Tiny bulbous glands (10–30μm) or dusty debris → powdery, weak, immature. Burns harsh. • 3⭐ Capitate-sessile heads (25–100μm) → decent but flat, lower yield, some plant contam. • 4-5⭐ Solid stalked trichomes → good resin but not peak purity. • 6⭐ The Kings – Mature capitate-stalked heads (prime 70–120μm, sweet spot 80–110μm). Massive, shiny, bead-like glands packed in a subcuticular “balloon” of oil. Greasy, resin-beaded texture screams full melt. Zero chunky junk or dust. Melts clean into liquid with aggressive bubbling and rich terps. That greasy, flowing texture you see in the video? Fresh resin flooding from fully swollen secretory cells – the biology behind the magic. Bigger heads = more chemical factories = higher potency and flavor. UV-B stress, careful curing, and true landrace lines crank it to another dimension. This is why 6-star solventless is the current demand: purity, transparency, and that full-melt experience everyone’s hunting in 2026. What star rating would YOU give hash like this? Drop your take below 👇 Have you ever pressed or dabbed something this clean? Share your highest melt story or landrace finds – let’s preserve the wisdom together. #6StarHash #FullMelt #Trichomes #Solventless #DrySift #Landrace #HashScience #ResinHeads #CannabisLegacy
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6⭐️ Hash 🍫🔥 Can YOU Visually tell the Trichomes size of true 6-Star hash perfection⁉️ When it’s oily, and has greasy layers, it’s that flawless full-melt bubble. Pure resin gold with zero residue. This is what the 2026 solventless boom is chasing: elite full-melt hash that vaporizes like ancient medicine, not plant junk. But, can you spot the trichome size and quality just by eye that earns those sacred 6 stars? ✨ In our 28-million-year co-evolution with cannabis, the plants taught us this code. Landrace genetics + proper harvest (milky/early amber) + clean processing = swollen resin factories bursting with terps, cannabinoids, and that legendary oily shine. Quick Visual Star Rating Guide (Trichome Science You Can See): • 1-2⭐ Tiny bulbous glands (10–30μm) or dusty debris → powdery, weak, immature. Burns harsh. • 3⭐ Capitate-sessile heads (25–100μm) → decent but flat, lower yield, some plant contam. • 4-5⭐ Solid stalked trichomes → good resin but not peak purity. • 6⭐ The Kings – Mature capitate-stalked heads (prime 70–120μm, sweet spot 80–110μm). Massive, shiny, bead-like glands packed in a subcuticular “balloon” of oil. Greasy, resin-beaded texture screams full melt. Zero chunky junk or dust. Melts clean into liquid with aggressive bubbling and rich terps. That greasy, flowing texture you see in the video? Fresh resin flooding from fully swollen secretory cells – the biology behind the magic. Bigger heads = more chemical factories = higher potency and flavor. UV-B stress, careful curing, and true landrace lines crank it to another dimension. This is why 6-star solventless is the current demand: purity, transparency, and that full-melt experience everyone’s hunting in 2026. What star rating would YOU give hash like this? Drop your take below 👇 Have you ever pressed or dabbed something this clean? Share your highest melt story or landrace finds – let’s preserve the wisdom together. #6StarHash #FullMelt #Trichomes #Solventless #DrySift #Landrace #HashScience #ResinHeads #CannabisLegacy

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90–139μm Cold-Cure Fresh-Frozen Hash: The Next Level of 6 ⭐️  Resin Mastery  ✨🍫🔥 90–139 micron cold-cured fresh: notfrozen full melt. Building on our last deep-dive into trichome sizing and ⭐️ 6-star perfection… remember the 70–120μm sweet spot (80–110μm ideal) for massive, bead-like capitate-stalked glands? This 90–139μm fraction takes it further. These are the kings — the largest, most swollen resin factories cannabis genetics can produce when harvested at peak milky/early-amber maturity and processed. Why this specific range + fresh-frozen + cold cure is now the 2026 standard: Recent 2025 science (Plant & Cell Physiology, Oct 2025) confirms what we’ve been seeing in the garden and wash: larger trichome heads with more secretory cells = dramatically higher cannabinoid and terpene output. Modern selection pressure has driven bigger glandular trichomes packed with extra “chemical factories” — boosted lipid metabolism, energy pathways, and key enzymes like olivetolic acid cyclase for THCA production. Even in true landraces, the biology scales: bigger heads = more subcuticular oil balloon = the greasy, flowing full-melt you’re seeing here. Fresh-frozen material is non-negotiable. It captures the plant exactly at peak ripeness — locking volatile monoterpenes (myrcene, limonene, linalool) that evaporate during traditional drying. Studies and 2026 solventless reports show fresh-frozen retains far higher terpene profiles than cured flower, delivering that explosive, strain-true flavor in the melt. Then the cold cure (Piatella-style): low-temp, controlled aging of full-melt bubble hash preserves the full spectrum without oxidation. Industry data shows it retains 20–50% more terpenes than heat-treated alternatives, turning the hash into a stable, buttery consistency while keeping the resin alive. No degradation to CBN — just pure, shelf-stable potency and flavor that vaporizes like the sacred resins of old.  ⭐️ What’s the cleanest full-melt you’ve ever experienced? 😤 #90u139u #ColdCureHash #PiatellaHash #FreshFrozenHash #FullMelt #TrichomeScience #SolventlessBoom #LandraceResin #6StarHash #HashScience #ResinHeads #CannabisLegacy
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90–139μm Cold-Cure Fresh-Frozen Hash: The Next Level of 6 ⭐️  Resin Mastery  ✨🍫🔥 90–139 micron cold-cured fresh: notfrozen full melt. Building on our last deep-dive into trichome sizing and ⭐️ 6-star perfection… remember the 70–120μm sweet spot (80–110μm ideal) for massive, bead-like capitate-stalked glands? This 90–139μm fraction takes it further. These are the kings — the largest, most swollen resin factories cannabis genetics can produce when harvested at peak milky/early-amber maturity and processed. Why this specific range + fresh-frozen + cold cure is now the 2026 standard: Recent 2025 science (Plant & Cell Physiology, Oct 2025) confirms what we’ve been seeing in the garden and wash: larger trichome heads with more secretory cells = dramatically higher cannabinoid and terpene output. Modern selection pressure has driven bigger glandular trichomes packed with extra “chemical factories” — boosted lipid metabolism, energy pathways, and key enzymes like olivetolic acid cyclase for THCA production. Even in true landraces, the biology scales: bigger heads = more subcuticular oil balloon = the greasy, flowing full-melt you’re seeing here. Fresh-frozen material is non-negotiable. It captures the plant exactly at peak ripeness — locking volatile monoterpenes (myrcene, limonene, linalool) that evaporate during traditional drying. Studies and 2026 solventless reports show fresh-frozen retains far higher terpene profiles than cured flower, delivering that explosive, strain-true flavor in the melt. Then the cold cure (Piatella-style): low-temp, controlled aging of full-melt bubble hash preserves the full spectrum without oxidation. Industry data shows it retains 20–50% more terpenes than heat-treated alternatives, turning the hash into a stable, buttery consistency while keeping the resin alive. No degradation to CBN — just pure, shelf-stable potency and flavor that vaporizes like the sacred resins of old.  ⭐️ What’s the cleanest full-melt you’ve ever experienced? 😤 #90u139u #ColdCureHash #PiatellaHash #FreshFrozenHash #FullMelt #TrichomeScience #SolventlessBoom #LandraceResin #6StarHash #HashScience #ResinHeads #CannabisLegacy

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66,118 次观看 • 4 个月前

Deep in Afghanistan's rugged valleys, where landrace cannabis strains like Mazar-i-Sharif and Balkh have thrived for centuries, lies a timeless hash-smoking tradition.🇦🇫🌿 A small clay bowl holds a glowing charcoal embers, carefully tended to avoid direct flame. Chunks of 🧱 Afghan hashish— dark, aromatic, and resin-packed from dry-sieved trichomes — are placed atop the embers. As the hash gently heats, it bubbles and releases thick, pungent clouds of smoke infused with earthy, spicy notes that echo the Hindu Kush terroir. No fancy pipes here — just a simple reed, bamboo straw. You lean in, draw the vapor directly through the straw, letting the warm, meditative high wash over you. It's raw, resourceful, and rooted in Sufi traditions where hash was a sacrament for insight and relaxation. Baba Ku, the legendary Sufi saint from Balkh, is said to have popularized such methods, blending spirituality with the plant's potent medicine. This isn't just smoking; it's a cultural bridge to antiquity. In rural Afghanistan, it's still common among elders in chillum bars or hidden hash dens, often paired with sweet melon to enhance the buzz and ease the throat. Unlike modern dabs, it preserves the full spectrum diversity of landrace flavors — think black currant, pine, dead meat, rotten carcasses, sage, cardamon and incense. Fascinating twist: The embers' gentle heat mimics ancient sieving refinements, avoiding combustion for a cleaner, vapor-like experience. But beware the "scorpion sting" bite of top-shelf hash — that intense, cerebral 🚀 rush that's hooked travelers since the Hippie Trail era! Have you encountered this method or similar traditions? Share your stories — let's keep these landrace legacies alive! #AfghanHash #CannabisCulture #HashishTradition #LandraceStrains #Chars #SufiCannabis #EmberStraw #HinduKush #CannabisHistory
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Deep in Afghanistan's rugged valleys, where landrace cannabis strains like Mazar-i-Sharif and Balkh have thrived for centuries, lies a timeless hash-smoking tradition.🇦🇫🌿 A small clay bowl holds a glowing charcoal embers, carefully tended to avoid direct flame. Chunks of 🧱 Afghan hashish— dark, aromatic, and resin-packed from dry-sieved trichomes — are placed atop the embers. As the hash gently heats, it bubbles and releases thick, pungent clouds of smoke infused with earthy, spicy notes that echo the Hindu Kush terroir. No fancy pipes here — just a simple reed, bamboo straw. You lean in, draw the vapor directly through the straw, letting the warm, meditative high wash over you. It's raw, resourceful, and rooted in Sufi traditions where hash was a sacrament for insight and relaxation. Baba Ku, the legendary Sufi saint from Balkh, is said to have popularized such methods, blending spirituality with the plant's potent medicine. This isn't just smoking; it's a cultural bridge to antiquity. In rural Afghanistan, it's still common among elders in chillum bars or hidden hash dens, often paired with sweet melon to enhance the buzz and ease the throat. Unlike modern dabs, it preserves the full spectrum diversity of landrace flavors — think black currant, pine, dead meat, rotten carcasses, sage, cardamon and incense. Fascinating twist: The embers' gentle heat mimics ancient sieving refinements, avoiding combustion for a cleaner, vapor-like experience. But beware the "scorpion sting" bite of top-shelf hash — that intense, cerebral 🚀 rush that's hooked travelers since the Hippie Trail era! Have you encountered this method or similar traditions? Share your stories — let's keep these landrace legacies alive! #AfghanHash #CannabisCulture #HashishTradition #LandraceStrains #Chars #SufiCannabis #EmberStraw #HinduKush #CannabisHistory

Landrace Bureau

722,992 次观看 • 7 个月前

🏔️ Hindu Kush, where landrace cannabis has thrived since time immemorial, the ancient craft unfolds like a living prayer. 🕊️ 🇦🇫 Behold the mountains — colossal piles of sun-dried, hand-beaten cannabis: whole plants, resinous flowers, sturdy stems — broken down with reverence and precision. This is no ordinary harvest. It is the body of the sacred plant, offered back to the earth’s wisdom. The guardians of tradition step forward, shovels gleaming. In powerful, rhythmic arcs, they hurl avalanche after avalanche onto vast silk screens. The sieving begins — a dance of motion and patience — as the finest trichomes cascade through the mesh like golden pollen from the gods themselves. This is Awal Gul — “First Flower,” the premier first-grade dry sift. The purest, most aromatic resin collected in that initial pass. No solvents. No shortcuts. Just the plant’s own intelligence, concentrated through generations of Afghan mastery. As Rumi, the poet of the East, taught us: “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Here, in these piles and screens, the landrace reveals its divine essence — uniting hands, hearts, and cultures in the timeless ritual of sacred plants. 🌱 This is preservation in action. This is heritage alive. This is how Awal Gul Hashish is born. 🌿 How it’s made (traditional dry-sieve method): • Mature landrace plants harvested at peak potency and sun-dried whole • Beaten and broken down to release trichomes • Shoveled onto fine silk screens • Sieved with skilled rhythm to capture the first-pass “Awal Gul” resin • Collected, pressed, and cured into premium, solventless hash. 🧱 Respect the craft. Honor the landrace. Let sacred plants continue to unite us. What ancient plant tradition moves you most? Drop it below — let’s grow this conversation and protect these legacies together. 🎥 afghanlandraceoperation ig #LandraceBureau #AwalGul #AfghanHashish #DrySift #FirstFlower #SacredPlants #LandraceCannabis #HashishHeritage #PlantWisdom #EasternWisdom #PreservationProject
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🏔️ Hindu Kush, where landrace cannabis has thrived since time immemorial, the ancient craft unfolds like a living prayer. 🕊️ 🇦🇫 Behold the mountains — colossal piles of sun-dried, hand-beaten cannabis: whole plants, resinous flowers, sturdy stems — broken down with reverence and precision. This is no ordinary harvest. It is the body of the sacred plant, offered back to the earth’s wisdom. The guardians of tradition step forward, shovels gleaming. In powerful, rhythmic arcs, they hurl avalanche after avalanche onto vast silk screens. The sieving begins — a dance of motion and patience — as the finest trichomes cascade through the mesh like golden pollen from the gods themselves. This is Awal Gul — “First Flower,” the premier first-grade dry sift. The purest, most aromatic resin collected in that initial pass. No solvents. No shortcuts. Just the plant’s own intelligence, concentrated through generations of Afghan mastery. As Rumi, the poet of the East, taught us: “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Here, in these piles and screens, the landrace reveals its divine essence — uniting hands, hearts, and cultures in the timeless ritual of sacred plants. 🌱 This is preservation in action. This is heritage alive. This is how Awal Gul Hashish is born. 🌿 How it’s made (traditional dry-sieve method): • Mature landrace plants harvested at peak potency and sun-dried whole • Beaten and broken down to release trichomes • Shoveled onto fine silk screens • Sieved with skilled rhythm to capture the first-pass “Awal Gul” resin • Collected, pressed, and cured into premium, solventless hash. 🧱 Respect the craft. Honor the landrace. Let sacred plants continue to unite us. What ancient plant tradition moves you most? Drop it below — let’s grow this conversation and protect these legacies together. 🎥 afghanlandraceoperation ig #LandraceBureau #AwalGul #AfghanHashish #DrySift #FirstFlower #SacredPlants #LandraceCannabis #HashishHeritage #PlantWisdom #EasternWisdom #PreservationProject

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182,057 次观看 • 6 个月前

Legendary Afghan Chillam full of Hash 🧱🇦🇫 In the valleys of ancient Balkh, where the first whispers of Afghan landrace cannabis stirred the earth, the Baaba Chillams stand as living relics—handcrafted conduits of a sacred rite that binds humanity to the plant’s profound intelligence. These traditional Afghan chilams, forged by artisans who inherit techniques passed through generations of hashishians, are no mere pipes; they are vessels of cultural memory, each conical form echoing the communal chillum khanas where mystics once gathered under starlit skies. With their sarkhana bowls—meticulously paired for the slow burn of pure hashish atop glowing charcoal—and optional Nuristan-carved boxes that cradle them like heirlooms, these pieces revive the exact rituals of old. One lights the chillum, draws deep with the lung power honed by tradition, and the smoke rises not just as vapor, but as a prayer to the guardian spirits of the plant. At the heart of this heritage pulses the legend of Baaba Qo himself, the prophetic figure revered across northern Afghanistan as the mystical healer and guardian of cannabis genetics. Folklorists and charsis (the devoted hash smokers) recount how this holy man, sent by the Creator, traversed Balkh with curative brown pellets—hashish gifted from the divine—spreading seeds, knowledge of dry-sieving, and the art of communal smoking circles at the Gate of Baaba Qo and the ruins of Nawbahar. His legacy endures in every session: before the first draw, Bangis still invoke his name, honoring the man whose chillum smoke was said to blanket the entire city, a fragrant veil uniting souls in reverence. Even today, at the shrine beside his grave, malangs (wandering Sufi mystics) tend the flame, lighting chillums in ritual that merges Islamic devotion with the plant’s ancient call. This is no modern invention; hashish consumption here stretches back centuries, intertwined with Sufi paths where the herb opens doors to ecstasy and insight, much as it did for nomadic tribes and holy wanderers long before the Hippie Trail ever wound through these passes. What strikes deepest in preserving these Baaba Chillams alongside our landrace projects is their role in safeguarding not just genetics, but the full spectrum of sacred plant wisdom—the way the herb unites us across time and terrain. As we travel and vlog these living traditions, we witness how such tools demand respect: the precise packing, the shared exhale, the quiet communion that echoes Eastern sages who saw divinity in the green world. Rumi, the great Persian poet whose words still resonate in Afghan hearts, captured this unity perfectly: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” In the chillum’s embrace, the plant’s intelligence reveals itself—not as mere substance, but as a bridge to collective consciousness, where gardener, seeker, and seed become This is the vision we carry forward at Landrace Bureau: honoring these artifacts of Afghan heritage keeps the flame alive for future generations, proving that sacred plants like cannabis don’t just grow—they connect us, heal us, and remind us of our shared roots. What rituals from your own journeys with landraces echo this? Share below; let’s build the conversation and keep the old ways breathing. 🌿 - Landrace Bureau 🎥 baaba_ko
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Legendary Afghan Chillam full of Hash 🧱🇦🇫 In the valleys of ancient Balkh, where the first whispers of Afghan landrace cannabis stirred the earth, the Baaba Chillams stand as living relics—handcrafted conduits of a sacred rite that binds humanity to the plant’s profound intelligence. These traditional Afghan chilams, forged by artisans who inherit techniques passed through generations of hashishians, are no mere pipes; they are vessels of cultural memory, each conical form echoing the communal chillum khanas where mystics once gathered under starlit skies. With their sarkhana bowls—meticulously paired for the slow burn of pure hashish atop glowing charcoal—and optional Nuristan-carved boxes that cradle them like heirlooms, these pieces revive the exact rituals of old. One lights the chillum, draws deep with the lung power honed by tradition, and the smoke rises not just as vapor, but as a prayer to the guardian spirits of the plant. At the heart of this heritage pulses the legend of Baaba Qo himself, the prophetic figure revered across northern Afghanistan as the mystical healer and guardian of cannabis genetics. Folklorists and charsis (the devoted hash smokers) recount how this holy man, sent by the Creator, traversed Balkh with curative brown pellets—hashish gifted from the divine—spreading seeds, knowledge of dry-sieving, and the art of communal smoking circles at the Gate of Baaba Qo and the ruins of Nawbahar. His legacy endures in every session: before the first draw, Bangis still invoke his name, honoring the man whose chillum smoke was said to blanket the entire city, a fragrant veil uniting souls in reverence. Even today, at the shrine beside his grave, malangs (wandering Sufi mystics) tend the flame, lighting chillums in ritual that merges Islamic devotion with the plant’s ancient call. This is no modern invention; hashish consumption here stretches back centuries, intertwined with Sufi paths where the herb opens doors to ecstasy and insight, much as it did for nomadic tribes and holy wanderers long before the Hippie Trail ever wound through these passes. What strikes deepest in preserving these Baaba Chillams alongside our landrace projects is their role in safeguarding not just genetics, but the full spectrum of sacred plant wisdom—the way the herb unites us across time and terrain. As we travel and vlog these living traditions, we witness how such tools demand respect: the precise packing, the shared exhale, the quiet communion that echoes Eastern sages who saw divinity in the green world. Rumi, the great Persian poet whose words still resonate in Afghan hearts, captured this unity perfectly: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” In the chillum’s embrace, the plant’s intelligence reveals itself—not as mere substance, but as a bridge to collective consciousness, where gardener, seeker, and seed become This is the vision we carry forward at Landrace Bureau: honoring these artifacts of Afghan heritage keeps the flame alive for future generations, proving that sacred plants like cannabis don’t just grow—they connect us, heal us, and remind us of our shared roots. What rituals from your own journeys with landraces echo this? Share below; let’s build the conversation and keep the old ways breathing. 🌿 - Landrace Bureau 🎥 baaba_ko

Landrace Bureau

53,413 次观看 • 6 个月前

🏔️ Deep in the Himalayas of India’s Parvati Valley lies Malana — an ancient, isolated village famous for one of the world’s oldest cannabis traditions: hand-rubbed charas. 🌿✋ The art of handrubbing requires the artist to have the knowledge of the plant. The quality of flowers has to be kept in mind and when to harvest them in order get the cleanest, best quality of resin. ૐ𝚿 The video above depicts handrubbing for a medium quality handrubbed product that will fetch a good price but won't be super labour intensive. This kind of handrubbing is mostly seen towards the end of the harvest season when plants start to dry up and have a lot of dried plant material on them. 𓉸𓆗𓊞༂𓄀𓃓 Hand-rubbing is one of the earliest known ways to extract cannabis resin. Growers gently rub fresh, living flowering buds between their palms under the mountain sun. The resin sticks to the skin, building up into a dark, sticky layer that’s scraped off and rolled into potent balls. It’s pure artisan craft — no machines, just hands and patience. 🔱 Local legends say Lord Shiva himself brought ganja seeds to the region, residing in the valleys and enjoying the chillum. Charas is tied to devotion — offered to deities like Jamlu Devta. 📿🕉🪘𓆗 On cleanliness: Hand-rubbed charas is cherished for its natural purity — collected directly from fresh plants with minimal processing. The hand oils & skin contact? It’s part of the traditional art, adding to the personal touch. Many see it as adding authentic character rather than impurity. Respect to the hands that craft it! 🙏 Malana’s charas remains a symbol of ancient Himalayan wisdom in a changing world. A reminder of how nature, tradition, and human skill create something truly special. Ever trekked to Parvati Valley? What’s your take on this legendary craft? Drop thoughts below! 🌄🍃 #MalanaCharas #HimalayanHeritage #Charas #CannabisCulture #IndiaHimalayas #AncientTraditions
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🏔️ Deep in the Himalayas of India’s Parvati Valley lies Malana — an ancient, isolated village famous for one of the world’s oldest cannabis traditions: hand-rubbed charas. 🌿✋ The art of handrubbing requires the artist to have the knowledge of the plant. The quality of flowers has to be kept in mind and when to harvest them in order get the cleanest, best quality of resin. ૐ𝚿 The video above depicts handrubbing for a medium quality handrubbed product that will fetch a good price but won't be super labour intensive. This kind of handrubbing is mostly seen towards the end of the harvest season when plants start to dry up and have a lot of dried plant material on them. 𓉸𓆗𓊞༂𓄀𓃓 Hand-rubbing is one of the earliest known ways to extract cannabis resin. Growers gently rub fresh, living flowering buds between their palms under the mountain sun. The resin sticks to the skin, building up into a dark, sticky layer that’s scraped off and rolled into potent balls. It’s pure artisan craft — no machines, just hands and patience. 🔱 Local legends say Lord Shiva himself brought ganja seeds to the region, residing in the valleys and enjoying the chillum. Charas is tied to devotion — offered to deities like Jamlu Devta. 📿🕉🪘𓆗 On cleanliness: Hand-rubbed charas is cherished for its natural purity — collected directly from fresh plants with minimal processing. The hand oils & skin contact? It’s part of the traditional art, adding to the personal touch. Many see it as adding authentic character rather than impurity. Respect to the hands that craft it! 🙏 Malana’s charas remains a symbol of ancient Himalayan wisdom in a changing world. A reminder of how nature, tradition, and human skill create something truly special. Ever trekked to Parvati Valley? What’s your take on this legendary craft? Drop thoughts below! 🌄🍃 #MalanaCharas #HimalayanHeritage #Charas #CannabisCulture #IndiaHimalayas #AncientTraditions

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69,137 次观看 • 9 个月前

EU gave €225 million to projects in #Gaza between 2021-2023, a place that was under the full control of #Hamas since 2006. How much of the EU money given to projects in Gaza ended up in the hands and pockets of this terrorist organisation? I asked Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi this and other questions in the Budgetary Control committee on October 26, 2023. Watch and share this video along with the transcript. MEP Cristian Terheș: "Thank you so much. Before I go into my questions I just want to make a note that this committee has on paper 55, 54 MEPs, and we are in this room, right now, only five [MEPs] and two over there. I think it is outrageous that, for an important topic like this, that is discussing about how the Commission is spending or wasting people's money, apparently the Left is not interested in see[ing] what exactly and how exactly people's money was spent. Going back to the questions, I have six specific questions. The first one is related to the books printed under the supervision or under the authority of the Palestinian Authority. And I saw, I carefully read the answer from the European Commission, which pretty much acknowledged that there was a problem, and I restate that, that there was, in the past, a problem with these books. And the answer says that "EU has stepped up its engagement with the Palestinian Authority to ensure that further curriculum reform addresses problematic issues identified in the shortest possible timeframe". So the "further curriculum" will address this issue. Well, here's an example of a book. This is a literature book for the fifth grade that is used in the UNRWA schools. In this book, this is what the Arab kids are learning. If you're not aware of who this person is, her name is Dalal Mughrabi. On March the 11th, 1978, along with other terrorists, [she] hijacked two busses. And when the Israeli authorities tried to free those people, they blew themselves up and killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children, and over 70 people were wounded. So how is it possible that now, in 2023, and I'm not talking about past books… This is 2023. These kids are still learning that this is a role model for them. And now, out of the blue, we are surprised that people are blowing themselves up and killing innocent people. I'm not interested what are you going to do in the future. I hope that you will do something and we will make sure that you will do something. But what have you done so far to make sure that these Arab kids, these Palestinian kids are not indoctrinated with this kind of evil figures? The second question is about the "Pay for Slay". #PayForSlay According to the Palestinian law if a Palestinian person is killing a Jew, his or her family is getting a pension. So we are rewarding terrorist activities. And this was done for years. A few years ago, when Trump was president, a U.S. military guy was killed in one of these terror attacks. And U.S. Congress passed a law called "Taylor Force Act", which is conditioning any U.S. money for the Palestinian Authority to make sure that these families of the terrorists are not getting reimbursed for life after these terror activities. Why aren’t we imposing exactly the same rules? Because, according to the answer from the Commission, we are paying pension and pensions to these people. Third question, the issue of Gaza. According to your official answer, you're stating, and I quote: "Between 2021 and [20]23, EU funded €681 million for the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA. A third of this money went to Gaza." A third means €225 million from 2021 to 2023. But we know for a fact that in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza, after 2006 or [200]7, Gaza is under the control of Hamas. You said here that you will run a survey or whatever, an analysis to see how the money was spent. What have you done already? Hamas was called, and recognized and acknowledged as a terrorist organisation. How was it possible to pour €225 million in a place that is fully controlled by a terrorist organisation and nobody did anything or said anything? It is absolutely absurd! Forth question. Following reports about stealing of pipelines for rocket production and fuel for hospitals, to what extent can the European Commission or the Court of Auditors verify or assess the damage caused to EU and European funded projects in Gaza? Fifth question. Following news that Hamas is directing money for social allowances to members of this terrorist organisation, how do you verify that such money gets to those really in need? Nevertheless, following reports about control of Hamas of the teacher unions and UNRWA workers union, what are the steps you are taking to verify that EU money for UNRWA is not used to serve Hamas agenda? Thank you." Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi: "Madam Chair. I want to assure all the participating members of this committee that I very much appreciate their presence and their engagement with us. And I think that this is very important that we have this discussion, no matter how many members of the committee are here. Now, first of all, on the Gaza project. Let me make it very clear what has been done in Gaza since 2006 when the IDF and Israel has left the Gaza Strip. I fully agree with you. The control and the governance of that strip has been de facto exercised by the Hamas. Unfortunately! And it was for that reason that all institution financing activity has been stopped and it is for that reason that only projects of public interest have been continued in the Gaza Strip. Now, with the emergence of the horror that we have seen instigated by Hamas, the review also has a very clear message to those projects that we have tried for many, many years to create for the benefit of the people in Gaza, like the Gas for Gaza project or the desalination plant creating fresh water for the people in the Gaza Strip or building a new hospital in the Gaza Strip, that are on hold. And it is not possible even physically to continue on those projects. And we will have to wait until the end of this war to see what engagement would still be considered in the in the Gaza area, if feasible. Now, in relation to the broader question of the review, what is the timeline? The timeline is that we are already doing it. We have a methodology established and our review is carried out by the whole House, mainly the DG Near, but also other parts of the Commission, DG Budget and also the other external family members of the Commission. The result of the review is going to be presented to the College [of Commissioners]. So the College is going to take the conclusions of these findings and they will be, I very much hope, endorsed by the College. In terms of its cost, we do not foresee any additional cost for this, and we want to act rapidly because, as I said, given the very fragile security situation, we have to act immediately to filter out all those who have, even indirectly, participated or contributed to the violence that we have seen emerge. Now, when it comes to the textbooks, to be honest with you, it's very difficult to answer your question because this is the question I have been putting since the very beginning of my mandate. How is it possible to embed hatred and nurture hatred in textbooks? How is it possible to teach kids to hate? How is it possible? And we have been sitting down several times with the Palestinian Authority. We have run a study that came to the same conclusion as you have. And we have had difficult discussions also in this House. But now I see that there is a change in the position of this House, which is, I think, very important. And it is not only very important, but we took very, very careful note of a request from the Parliament, because there is also a request adopted by the plenary, to look into this issue. And this is what we are going to do and this issue will have to be addressed. The result that we have achieved was that we have raised the issue with the Palestinian Authority, and I don't think there's disagreement between us and them that this is an issue. Second, we are working very closely with our partners in UNRWA. I'm very sad to see that this is a training material or education material that you have shown today, which is used by UNRWA, because UNRWA was the one who not only was able to talk about this problem, but undertook commitments with us to eradicate any material, any views expressed, including on social media or in the territories of the schools of this kind, glorification of terrorists, glorification of hatred, anti-Semitism. And this is why we have concluded a three year financing contract with UNRWA. This was a very important element for us that UNRWA started to cooperate and we have seen results coming in. But, of course, I agree with you. We cannot rest until the very last of these materials disappear. And I'm fully committed to deliver on that, including in the discussions for next year. On the "Pay for Slay". We have a list to check that direct beneficiaries do not appear on any of the terrorist list. But, if there is one, I wouldn't like to draw any conclusions of the review, but, if there is one issue to look at is, of course, that we do not create the possibility of indirect benefit for those who are involved in terrorist activities or for those who have been even convicted for such acts. And this is what we are addressing also in our review. Now, on the on the damage to our projects in Gaza, I cannot tell you now. What we see is that there is clearly devastation in the northern part, serious level of damage in the south, but it will be only after that the war will stop that we can go back and take a look at that. Now, on the humanitarian aspect and how to guarantee that our humanitarian aid is not going to be misused. If you look back at the statement the European Council has adopted just last weekend, you see also a very clear call for them to make sure. And this is why our decision has been to channel our humanitarian aid through our own institutions; DG Echo is delivering on the ground and in-kind. So we are providing help, in-kind, not providing financing. We're not providing other items that could be used for other purposes. And we are coordinating our work with international organisations only, so to ensure that it doesn't get to the wrong hands. So there was one more question about the breakdown of the €103 million, and I think I can confirm what you said that we have composed the €103 million by €50 million that were allocated in support of payments of salaries and pensions. These are going directly as direct budget support into the budget of the Palestinian Authority. However, we want to check the final beneficiaries and we have a list. And now we're looking at indirect beneficiaries as well as part of the review. The 40 million… The other element is the €40 million support for the most vulnerable families. Again, this is this is paid in the form of direct budgetary contribution. And the third and lastly, the €13 million, this is the remaining part of 103 [million], is financing the East Jerusalem hospitals that we have paid already in April 2023 to keep the health care system running in East Jerusalem. I hope with this I have answered all the questions that have been raised. Thank you."
16:12

EU gave €225 million to projects in #Gaza between 2021-2023, a place that was under the full control of #Hamas since 2006. How much of the EU money given to projects in Gaza ended up in the hands and pockets of this terrorist organisation? I asked Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi this and other questions in the Budgetary Control committee on October 26, 2023. Watch and share this video along with the transcript. MEP Cristian Terheș: "Thank you so much. Before I go into my questions I just want to make a note that this committee has on paper 55, 54 MEPs, and we are in this room, right now, only five [MEPs] and two over there. I think it is outrageous that, for an important topic like this, that is discussing about how the Commission is spending or wasting people's money, apparently the Left is not interested in see[ing] what exactly and how exactly people's money was spent. Going back to the questions, I have six specific questions. The first one is related to the books printed under the supervision or under the authority of the Palestinian Authority. And I saw, I carefully read the answer from the European Commission, which pretty much acknowledged that there was a problem, and I restate that, that there was, in the past, a problem with these books. And the answer says that "EU has stepped up its engagement with the Palestinian Authority to ensure that further curriculum reform addresses problematic issues identified in the shortest possible timeframe". So the "further curriculum" will address this issue. Well, here's an example of a book. This is a literature book for the fifth grade that is used in the UNRWA schools. In this book, this is what the Arab kids are learning. If you're not aware of who this person is, her name is Dalal Mughrabi. On March the 11th, 1978, along with other terrorists, [she] hijacked two busses. And when the Israeli authorities tried to free those people, they blew themselves up and killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children, and over 70 people were wounded. So how is it possible that now, in 2023, and I'm not talking about past books… This is 2023. These kids are still learning that this is a role model for them. And now, out of the blue, we are surprised that people are blowing themselves up and killing innocent people. I'm not interested what are you going to do in the future. I hope that you will do something and we will make sure that you will do something. But what have you done so far to make sure that these Arab kids, these Palestinian kids are not indoctrinated with this kind of evil figures? The second question is about the "Pay for Slay". #PayForSlay According to the Palestinian law if a Palestinian person is killing a Jew, his or her family is getting a pension. So we are rewarding terrorist activities. And this was done for years. A few years ago, when Trump was president, a U.S. military guy was killed in one of these terror attacks. And U.S. Congress passed a law called "Taylor Force Act", which is conditioning any U.S. money for the Palestinian Authority to make sure that these families of the terrorists are not getting reimbursed for life after these terror activities. Why aren’t we imposing exactly the same rules? Because, according to the answer from the Commission, we are paying pension and pensions to these people. Third question, the issue of Gaza. According to your official answer, you're stating, and I quote: "Between 2021 and [20]23, EU funded €681 million for the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA. A third of this money went to Gaza." A third means €225 million from 2021 to 2023. But we know for a fact that in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza, after 2006 or [200]7, Gaza is under the control of Hamas. You said here that you will run a survey or whatever, an analysis to see how the money was spent. What have you done already? Hamas was called, and recognized and acknowledged as a terrorist organisation. How was it possible to pour €225 million in a place that is fully controlled by a terrorist organisation and nobody did anything or said anything? It is absolutely absurd! Forth question. Following reports about stealing of pipelines for rocket production and fuel for hospitals, to what extent can the European Commission or the Court of Auditors verify or assess the damage caused to EU and European funded projects in Gaza? Fifth question. Following news that Hamas is directing money for social allowances to members of this terrorist organisation, how do you verify that such money gets to those really in need? Nevertheless, following reports about control of Hamas of the teacher unions and UNRWA workers union, what are the steps you are taking to verify that EU money for UNRWA is not used to serve Hamas agenda? Thank you." Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi: "Madam Chair. I want to assure all the participating members of this committee that I very much appreciate their presence and their engagement with us. And I think that this is very important that we have this discussion, no matter how many members of the committee are here. Now, first of all, on the Gaza project. Let me make it very clear what has been done in Gaza since 2006 when the IDF and Israel has left the Gaza Strip. I fully agree with you. The control and the governance of that strip has been de facto exercised by the Hamas. Unfortunately! And it was for that reason that all institution financing activity has been stopped and it is for that reason that only projects of public interest have been continued in the Gaza Strip. Now, with the emergence of the horror that we have seen instigated by Hamas, the review also has a very clear message to those projects that we have tried for many, many years to create for the benefit of the people in Gaza, like the Gas for Gaza project or the desalination plant creating fresh water for the people in the Gaza Strip or building a new hospital in the Gaza Strip, that are on hold. And it is not possible even physically to continue on those projects. And we will have to wait until the end of this war to see what engagement would still be considered in the in the Gaza area, if feasible. Now, in relation to the broader question of the review, what is the timeline? The timeline is that we are already doing it. We have a methodology established and our review is carried out by the whole House, mainly the DG Near, but also other parts of the Commission, DG Budget and also the other external family members of the Commission. The result of the review is going to be presented to the College [of Commissioners]. So the College is going to take the conclusions of these findings and they will be, I very much hope, endorsed by the College. In terms of its cost, we do not foresee any additional cost for this, and we want to act rapidly because, as I said, given the very fragile security situation, we have to act immediately to filter out all those who have, even indirectly, participated or contributed to the violence that we have seen emerge. Now, when it comes to the textbooks, to be honest with you, it's very difficult to answer your question because this is the question I have been putting since the very beginning of my mandate. How is it possible to embed hatred and nurture hatred in textbooks? How is it possible to teach kids to hate? How is it possible? And we have been sitting down several times with the Palestinian Authority. We have run a study that came to the same conclusion as you have. And we have had difficult discussions also in this House. But now I see that there is a change in the position of this House, which is, I think, very important. And it is not only very important, but we took very, very careful note of a request from the Parliament, because there is also a request adopted by the plenary, to look into this issue. And this is what we are going to do and this issue will have to be addressed. The result that we have achieved was that we have raised the issue with the Palestinian Authority, and I don't think there's disagreement between us and them that this is an issue. Second, we are working very closely with our partners in UNRWA. I'm very sad to see that this is a training material or education material that you have shown today, which is used by UNRWA, because UNRWA was the one who not only was able to talk about this problem, but undertook commitments with us to eradicate any material, any views expressed, including on social media or in the territories of the schools of this kind, glorification of terrorists, glorification of hatred, anti-Semitism. And this is why we have concluded a three year financing contract with UNRWA. This was a very important element for us that UNRWA started to cooperate and we have seen results coming in. But, of course, I agree with you. We cannot rest until the very last of these materials disappear. And I'm fully committed to deliver on that, including in the discussions for next year. On the "Pay for Slay". We have a list to check that direct beneficiaries do not appear on any of the terrorist list. But, if there is one, I wouldn't like to draw any conclusions of the review, but, if there is one issue to look at is, of course, that we do not create the possibility of indirect benefit for those who are involved in terrorist activities or for those who have been even convicted for such acts. And this is what we are addressing also in our review. Now, on the on the damage to our projects in Gaza, I cannot tell you now. What we see is that there is clearly devastation in the northern part, serious level of damage in the south, but it will be only after that the war will stop that we can go back and take a look at that. Now, on the humanitarian aspect and how to guarantee that our humanitarian aid is not going to be misused. If you look back at the statement the European Council has adopted just last weekend, you see also a very clear call for them to make sure. And this is why our decision has been to channel our humanitarian aid through our own institutions; DG Echo is delivering on the ground and in-kind. So we are providing help, in-kind, not providing financing. We're not providing other items that could be used for other purposes. And we are coordinating our work with international organisations only, so to ensure that it doesn't get to the wrong hands. So there was one more question about the breakdown of the €103 million, and I think I can confirm what you said that we have composed the €103 million by €50 million that were allocated in support of payments of salaries and pensions. These are going directly as direct budget support into the budget of the Palestinian Authority. However, we want to check the final beneficiaries and we have a list. And now we're looking at indirect beneficiaries as well as part of the review. The 40 million… The other element is the €40 million support for the most vulnerable families. Again, this is this is paid in the form of direct budgetary contribution. And the third and lastly, the €13 million, this is the remaining part of 103 [million], is financing the East Jerusalem hospitals that we have paid already in April 2023 to keep the health care system running in East Jerusalem. I hope with this I have answered all the questions that have been raised. Thank you."

Cristian Terhes MEP

33,649 次观看 • 2 年前

Zack Polanski, "Today I was in Oxfordshire, standing in the aftermath of the devastation caused by a wildfire. Trees reduced to charcoal, cars turned to burnt out wrecks. The smell of smoke still lingering in the air on the site of what was once a thriving local business now reduced to ash." "Wildfires, literal scorched earth and a looming sense. And I really want everyone to hear this. This is only just the beginning. And today, as temperatures fall at the end of yet another extreme heat alert, we know that if it rains now, the soil being baked dry means it's much more likely to flood." "These days feel exceptional. But what we are living through right now are likely some of the least extreme summer temperatures we'll experience in our lifetimes. Today I am sounding the alarm and I'm laying out a plan." "Because last week, while a wildfire the size of 200 football pitches was raging across Suffolk, I called on, Prime Minister Burnham to act urgently to address the crisis. I suggested a COBRA meeting being the very least he could do." "And six days later, with another heat alert just having ended, we have still heard next to nothing from the very top of government. No emergency briefings, no new plan and precious little detail about how this government will protect people from the crisis." "It is putting lives and livelihoods at risk across the entire uk. So today I'm delivering a reality cheque. We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War." "I'm setting out what Prime Minister Burnham can do now to tackle the crisis and I am challenging him to act with the urgency we need. You will hear today from those on the front line of this crisis and they will lay out what they have dealt with in the past few weeks." "And to them, on behalf of the entire country, I want to say thank you. Extreme weather is now the new normal and without action, the impact on the people of this country will be unimaginably grave." "The threats we face are three hold first, the threat to the safety of the population. Almost 3,000 people have died from the effects of extreme heat this summer. And we know that older people and those with pre existing conditions are particularly at risk from these dangerous temperatures." "Those are the people who have been forced to stay at home for days on end, windows, curtains closed, trying to wait out the extreme heat. And these are the people who are most likely now to have grieving families whose bodies were under such intense strain and trying just to stay cool that their kidneys and their hearts could no longer cope." "Meanwhile, wildfires have seen hundreds evacuated from their homes, while many thousands more wait anxiously with Flames on the horizon and smoke in their lungs. We've seen across Europe how bad things can get." "Hundreds of thousands evacuated, half a million acres burned. The sheer scale of the devastation is hard to comprehend, but we need to look it in the face, because this is only a taster of what's to come if we don't act now." "Second, we face a threat to our food and water security. Farmers are now warning we could see food shortages after flooding followed by drought has decimated crops. And despite farmers working really hard through the nights to avoid the heat, food production is grinding to a halt and our food prices are set to rise." "Half of England is experiencing serious drought. And across the country, 8 of our water reservoirs are at risk of running dry. Privatised water companies they've failed to build a single new reservoir to since 1992, are, losing nearly 3 billion litres of water a day from leaky pipes." "That's five times more than a nationwide host pipe ban would even save. The threat is so severe that the UK's National Risk Register warns that if we have three years of exceptionally dry weather like this, we could face water rationing." "These aren't distant possibilities, they're very real scenarios and they are coming straight at us down the track because finally, we face a threat to our very way of life. Parents unable to take their children to the playground because the slides are so hot it could burn, their skin off." "Temperatures so high they keep us inside for days for the sake of our health. Cities feeling like ghost towns, parks turned into deserts. We only have to look across the Channel to France and Spain to see what faces us in the years ahead." "Europe is heating at, twice the rate of the rest of the world. Wildfires, droughts, deadly floods. The scenes we have seen play out on our TV screens are, frankly apocalyptic. And yet the response from our government is to pretend none of this is happening." "It is an astonishing dereliction of duty from those whose very first responsibility is to keep all of us safe, and from the media. With some brilliant and notable exceptions, we have seen more clamouring for North Sea drilling in the last few weeks than actually raising the alarm on climate breakdown." "While our country has come together, people have offered shelter to those who have had to leave their homes due to wildfires. They've checked in with older neighbours to care for those who are sick because of the heat. But the government. The government have been far, far too quiet on what is an emergency." "So today you will hear from some of those on the front line of this crisis and Those with vital insights into how we face this threat. A doctor, a firefighter, someone who served this country in the armed forces, and someone who has dedicated his entire career to our precious nature and wildlife." "It's experts like these that this government should be bringing to the table to design a full scale emergency response. So I want to step out from this big picture and look at some of the urgent steps that Prime Minister Burnham needs to urgently announce to protect people right now and keep us safe from what we know is coming down the track." "In the immediate term, we need to keep people safe from extreme temperatures. That means a free accessible cool space in every local area. And financial support for households so they can heat proof their homes. Second, we need a robust wildfire prevention strategy." "A fire service with the resources it needs to tackle blazes when they come. And that must include firefighting helicopters when needed. And not again ever seeing the shocking sight of requiring a charity to step in to contract a private firm to help fight fires." "And this should all be funded by taxing the fossil fuel giants who are profiting from fueling these infernos. And finally, to secure our water supply, prevent droughts and protect our food system, we need to bring water back into public hands." "Right now, money is flowing out of our hands into the pockets of shareholders, just like water is flowing out of those companies leaky pipes in the middle of a drought. Every single penny households pay for their water needs to go back into strengthening our infrastructure, building new reservoirs and protecting us from the droughts of the future." "We know that these extreme temperatures, these deadly wildfires, are being driven by the burning of fossil fuels. The sad reality is decades of inaction of politicians allowing fossil fuel companies to profit from pumping out deadly emissions have guaranteed the extreme weather we are seeing right now." "And we will see for the rest of our lifetimes. But there is still time to stop total breakdown. So let me speak directly to the Prime Minister. If we are to secure a livable future for our children and for our grandchildren, there can be no new drilling for oil and gas." "On this, the, the science is crystal clear. As politicians, we have a moral responsibility to do what is right for the people we serve, even when it's not politically convenient. And I know that whatever our differences, we both care deeply about the people of this country and the future of our planet." "So when the time comes, I hope you will have the courage to be truthful, be brave and hold firm to your party's commitment to no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including both Rosebank and, Jackdaw." "Now, some will say we can't afford to make these changes. These last few weeks are showing we can't afford not to. We are facing an existential threat. People are dying. People are scared." "It is time to act. And when we do, we won't just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown. We will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive, and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come."
10:53

Zack Polanski, "Today I was in Oxfordshire, standing in the aftermath of the devastation caused by a wildfire. Trees reduced to charcoal, cars turned to burnt out wrecks. The smell of smoke still lingering in the air on the site of what was once a thriving local business now reduced to ash." "Wildfires, literal scorched earth and a looming sense. And I really want everyone to hear this. This is only just the beginning. And today, as temperatures fall at the end of yet another extreme heat alert, we know that if it rains now, the soil being baked dry means it's much more likely to flood." "These days feel exceptional. But what we are living through right now are likely some of the least extreme summer temperatures we'll experience in our lifetimes. Today I am sounding the alarm and I'm laying out a plan." "Because last week, while a wildfire the size of 200 football pitches was raging across Suffolk, I called on, Prime Minister Burnham to act urgently to address the crisis. I suggested a COBRA meeting being the very least he could do." "And six days later, with another heat alert just having ended, we have still heard next to nothing from the very top of government. No emergency briefings, no new plan and precious little detail about how this government will protect people from the crisis." "It is putting lives and livelihoods at risk across the entire uk. So today I'm delivering a reality cheque. We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War." "I'm setting out what Prime Minister Burnham can do now to tackle the crisis and I am challenging him to act with the urgency we need. You will hear today from those on the front line of this crisis and they will lay out what they have dealt with in the past few weeks." "And to them, on behalf of the entire country, I want to say thank you. Extreme weather is now the new normal and without action, the impact on the people of this country will be unimaginably grave." "The threats we face are three hold first, the threat to the safety of the population. Almost 3,000 people have died from the effects of extreme heat this summer. And we know that older people and those with pre existing conditions are particularly at risk from these dangerous temperatures." "Those are the people who have been forced to stay at home for days on end, windows, curtains closed, trying to wait out the extreme heat. And these are the people who are most likely now to have grieving families whose bodies were under such intense strain and trying just to stay cool that their kidneys and their hearts could no longer cope." "Meanwhile, wildfires have seen hundreds evacuated from their homes, while many thousands more wait anxiously with Flames on the horizon and smoke in their lungs. We've seen across Europe how bad things can get." "Hundreds of thousands evacuated, half a million acres burned. The sheer scale of the devastation is hard to comprehend, but we need to look it in the face, because this is only a taster of what's to come if we don't act now." "Second, we face a threat to our food and water security. Farmers are now warning we could see food shortages after flooding followed by drought has decimated crops. And despite farmers working really hard through the nights to avoid the heat, food production is grinding to a halt and our food prices are set to rise." "Half of England is experiencing serious drought. And across the country, 8 of our water reservoirs are at risk of running dry. Privatised water companies they've failed to build a single new reservoir to since 1992, are, losing nearly 3 billion litres of water a day from leaky pipes." "That's five times more than a nationwide host pipe ban would even save. The threat is so severe that the UK's National Risk Register warns that if we have three years of exceptionally dry weather like this, we could face water rationing." "These aren't distant possibilities, they're very real scenarios and they are coming straight at us down the track because finally, we face a threat to our very way of life. Parents unable to take their children to the playground because the slides are so hot it could burn, their skin off." "Temperatures so high they keep us inside for days for the sake of our health. Cities feeling like ghost towns, parks turned into deserts. We only have to look across the Channel to France and Spain to see what faces us in the years ahead." "Europe is heating at, twice the rate of the rest of the world. Wildfires, droughts, deadly floods. The scenes we have seen play out on our TV screens are, frankly apocalyptic. And yet the response from our government is to pretend none of this is happening." "It is an astonishing dereliction of duty from those whose very first responsibility is to keep all of us safe, and from the media. With some brilliant and notable exceptions, we have seen more clamouring for North Sea drilling in the last few weeks than actually raising the alarm on climate breakdown." "While our country has come together, people have offered shelter to those who have had to leave their homes due to wildfires. They've checked in with older neighbours to care for those who are sick because of the heat. But the government. The government have been far, far too quiet on what is an emergency." "So today you will hear from some of those on the front line of this crisis and Those with vital insights into how we face this threat. A doctor, a firefighter, someone who served this country in the armed forces, and someone who has dedicated his entire career to our precious nature and wildlife." "It's experts like these that this government should be bringing to the table to design a full scale emergency response. So I want to step out from this big picture and look at some of the urgent steps that Prime Minister Burnham needs to urgently announce to protect people right now and keep us safe from what we know is coming down the track." "In the immediate term, we need to keep people safe from extreme temperatures. That means a free accessible cool space in every local area. And financial support for households so they can heat proof their homes. Second, we need a robust wildfire prevention strategy." "A fire service with the resources it needs to tackle blazes when they come. And that must include firefighting helicopters when needed. And not again ever seeing the shocking sight of requiring a charity to step in to contract a private firm to help fight fires." "And this should all be funded by taxing the fossil fuel giants who are profiting from fueling these infernos. And finally, to secure our water supply, prevent droughts and protect our food system, we need to bring water back into public hands." "Right now, money is flowing out of our hands into the pockets of shareholders, just like water is flowing out of those companies leaky pipes in the middle of a drought. Every single penny households pay for their water needs to go back into strengthening our infrastructure, building new reservoirs and protecting us from the droughts of the future." "We know that these extreme temperatures, these deadly wildfires, are being driven by the burning of fossil fuels. The sad reality is decades of inaction of politicians allowing fossil fuel companies to profit from pumping out deadly emissions have guaranteed the extreme weather we are seeing right now." "And we will see for the rest of our lifetimes. But there is still time to stop total breakdown. So let me speak directly to the Prime Minister. If we are to secure a livable future for our children and for our grandchildren, there can be no new drilling for oil and gas." "On this, the, the science is crystal clear. As politicians, we have a moral responsibility to do what is right for the people we serve, even when it's not politically convenient. And I know that whatever our differences, we both care deeply about the people of this country and the future of our planet." "So when the time comes, I hope you will have the courage to be truthful, be brave and hold firm to your party's commitment to no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including both Rosebank and, Jackdaw." "Now, some will say we can't afford to make these changes. These last few weeks are showing we can't afford not to. We are facing an existential threat. People are dying. People are scared." "It is time to act. And when we do, we won't just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown. We will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive, and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come."

Farrukh

87,169 次观看 • 2 个月前

Powerful speech by Naturalist Chris Packham speaking alongside Zack Polanski on the subject of Climate Change, "To the disappointment of many, football didn’t come home this summer, but to the pain and suffering of millions, climate breakdown has. And our government and media response has displayed a total dereliction of duty in a time of extreme crisis." "As we’ve heard, in May and June there were 3,000 deaths attributed to the heat domes that have hung over the UK. Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, stress on the heart and kidneys, and of course those mental health issues that you’ve just talked about." "In Europe, the figure is somewhere between 14,000 and 20,000 up until the end of July, and it’s expected to double by the end of this summer. So we’re looking at potentially 50,000 deaths across Europe." "If these deaths had been the result of terrorism or a pandemic, the government would have cancelled its summer holiday, it would have held COBRA meetings, and there would be public information campaigns the likes of which we saw during COVID, designed to protect us in this time of crisis." "And yet what do we get? We get rumours of possibly more drilling for oil and gas, and we get articles in the Telegraph which suggest that we ought to adapt to a Mediterranean climate. If that isn’t reckless and irresponsible, I don’t know what is." "What we do need at this point is to listen to the science, not to the ongoing malevolent raft of mis- and disinformation that’s perpetuated in politics, in public life and certainly across social media." "If we listen to the science, we see that the climate models that were devised in the 1990s have actually proved to be pretty accurate. But those who do try and transmit the information to us, people like the IPCC, which are often derided as alarmists by the right and the far right, have actually been too cautious." "What we see, for instance, when it comes to the heatwaves, is that they are occurring more quickly and more regularly than those models suggest. We’re updating the science as it happens. What we also see is that it’s not just a lack of water which is leading to the drought, although that might seem painfully obvious. It’s actually being exacerbated by extremely high temperatures." "And that has an impact on the environment, the environment that I care so much about and we are all dependent upon. Across the world, there have been 35,000 wildfires. In the UK, there have been 66 major wildfires. But let’s not focus on 66, because that sounds quite a small number. In one fire and rescue service, Berkshire, they’ve attended over 250 outdoor fires so far this summer. So the number of grass fires and so forth is going to be significantly higher than that." "Drawing upon an underfunded, under-resourced organisation at the front line of dealing with a crisis that is impacting all of us. So lives have been lost, homes have been destroyed, businesses have been ruined. The clean-up cost – just look at Palisades in America – is incomprehensible. We simply can’t afford it." "And then from my perspective, the damage to wildlife, which has got scant mention, of course, because as ever we put human interest first because they’re most immediate. And you might think, well, Chris is bound to bang on about the wildlife because he loves the birds and the bees. Yes, the birds and the bees, which form resilient ecosystems which allow us to produce the food that we eat. We have to protect nature in order to protect ourselves." "So you might think, okay, the UK, the wildfires – they’ve all been out there on the heaths in Suffolk, they’ve been burning patches of heathland on the Isle of Wight. Not many homes have been destroyed. Well, the Ordnance Survey say that 1.8 million homes are at risk in the UK by looking at their maps and seeing which homes are adjacent to areas which have significant wildfire risk. 1.8 million homes at risk. So far, compared to Europe, we’ve just got away lightly and we’ve just been lucky." "How many firefighting planes do you think that we’ve got in the UK? How many firefighting planes in the UK, exactly? Zero planes. Which is why, as Zack said, when that fire was burning at Dunwich, the National Trust had to hire a helicopter and pay for it to drag water out of the sea and dump it on that precious piece of habitat, because there are no firefighting planes." "Is there a public warning system in place which will tell people when there’s a risk of wildfire so that they can be prepared to evacuate and have evacuation plans in place? Well, do you know what? There is. It’s available to the fire and rescue service, but it isn’t available to the public because it’s deemed to be unreliable. Is it unreliable, or is it just a bit too scary? We couldn’t even instigate a ban on disposable barbecues." "Okay, there are the problems. What about the solutions? Because look, there’s no point in just pointing out the problems. What we must do at this point is offer people real and accessible opportunities to be part of a solution rather than an ongoing part of the problem." "Well, the first thing already: we’ve got to enact far more rapidly that transition to renewable energy for energy security, to reduce the cost of energy and its volatility that we’ve seen constantly across the world this year, which is having a significant impact not just on the cost of oil, but on the cost of living and global economic stability. It would also generate jobs, as it has in those countries that have invested significantly in those industries, most notably China. Talk of drilling oil – Rosebank, Blackbird, Jackdaw – is simply madness. We’ve got to just stop oil." "We also need a transition in the way that we eat. This is intricately important when it comes to protecting the environment, everything that lives there, and ourselves. We need a transition to a plant-based diet. It’s healthier for people. If any of you have had bacon or sausage for breakfast this morning, do you know that you’ve ingested a category A carcinogen? That’s it – as toxic as tobacco. You may not. You may have just enjoyed your sausage and bacon. Why do you not know that processed red meat is actually really bad for you?" "Animal agriculture is responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. It is also the leading driver of biodiversity loss. That biodiversity, that richness of life, that resilience in those ecological communities which we use to produce our food – we’ve got to change the way that we eat and produce that food, and we’ve got to provide sufficient support for farmers through that transition. And at the moment, they’re not getting that. In fact, they’re getting less and less and their life is becoming increasingly difficult." "We’ve got to address the mis- and disinformation, and we’ve got to do that with positive information campaigns. We’ve got to have people’s minds on the front foot so they know what’s true before they hear the lies. Then they will question the lies. Otherwise we know what happens. If you tell a lie frequently enough, it eventually becomes the truth, and that’s what we’re suffering from. We can’t afford net zero? We can’t not afford net zero. And we’re beginning to see that that’s the case." "We’ve got to sort out the media. I’ve been fantasising this year that we could perhaps criminalise climate denial. We should certainly criminalise irresponsible journalism. I’ve highlighted the Telegraph, but I’m going to leave you with something that I read on the BBC yesterday: ‘How to survive a heatwave wedding.’ How to survive a heatwave wedding. Point number five: beware of buttercream. This popular wedding cake ingredient is likely to melt if not kept cool. Likely to melt? A bit like my patience and all of our hope." "It’s time for bold, brave, informed leadership. And we are not getting it. We need Andy Burnham to step up before we and our only home burn down. Thank you."
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Powerful speech by Naturalist Chris Packham speaking alongside Zack Polanski on the subject of Climate Change, "To the disappointment of many, football didn’t come home this summer, but to the pain and suffering of millions, climate breakdown has. And our government and media response has displayed a total dereliction of duty in a time of extreme crisis." "As we’ve heard, in May and June there were 3,000 deaths attributed to the heat domes that have hung over the UK. Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, stress on the heart and kidneys, and of course those mental health issues that you’ve just talked about." "In Europe, the figure is somewhere between 14,000 and 20,000 up until the end of July, and it’s expected to double by the end of this summer. So we’re looking at potentially 50,000 deaths across Europe." "If these deaths had been the result of terrorism or a pandemic, the government would have cancelled its summer holiday, it would have held COBRA meetings, and there would be public information campaigns the likes of which we saw during COVID, designed to protect us in this time of crisis." "And yet what do we get? We get rumours of possibly more drilling for oil and gas, and we get articles in the Telegraph which suggest that we ought to adapt to a Mediterranean climate. If that isn’t reckless and irresponsible, I don’t know what is." "What we do need at this point is to listen to the science, not to the ongoing malevolent raft of mis- and disinformation that’s perpetuated in politics, in public life and certainly across social media." "If we listen to the science, we see that the climate models that were devised in the 1990s have actually proved to be pretty accurate. But those who do try and transmit the information to us, people like the IPCC, which are often derided as alarmists by the right and the far right, have actually been too cautious." "What we see, for instance, when it comes to the heatwaves, is that they are occurring more quickly and more regularly than those models suggest. We’re updating the science as it happens. What we also see is that it’s not just a lack of water which is leading to the drought, although that might seem painfully obvious. It’s actually being exacerbated by extremely high temperatures." "And that has an impact on the environment, the environment that I care so much about and we are all dependent upon. Across the world, there have been 35,000 wildfires. In the UK, there have been 66 major wildfires. But let’s not focus on 66, because that sounds quite a small number. In one fire and rescue service, Berkshire, they’ve attended over 250 outdoor fires so far this summer. So the number of grass fires and so forth is going to be significantly higher than that." "Drawing upon an underfunded, under-resourced organisation at the front line of dealing with a crisis that is impacting all of us. So lives have been lost, homes have been destroyed, businesses have been ruined. The clean-up cost – just look at Palisades in America – is incomprehensible. We simply can’t afford it." "And then from my perspective, the damage to wildlife, which has got scant mention, of course, because as ever we put human interest first because they’re most immediate. And you might think, well, Chris is bound to bang on about the wildlife because he loves the birds and the bees. Yes, the birds and the bees, which form resilient ecosystems which allow us to produce the food that we eat. We have to protect nature in order to protect ourselves." "So you might think, okay, the UK, the wildfires – they’ve all been out there on the heaths in Suffolk, they’ve been burning patches of heathland on the Isle of Wight. Not many homes have been destroyed. Well, the Ordnance Survey say that 1.8 million homes are at risk in the UK by looking at their maps and seeing which homes are adjacent to areas which have significant wildfire risk. 1.8 million homes at risk. So far, compared to Europe, we’ve just got away lightly and we’ve just been lucky." "How many firefighting planes do you think that we’ve got in the UK? How many firefighting planes in the UK, exactly? Zero planes. Which is why, as Zack said, when that fire was burning at Dunwich, the National Trust had to hire a helicopter and pay for it to drag water out of the sea and dump it on that precious piece of habitat, because there are no firefighting planes." "Is there a public warning system in place which will tell people when there’s a risk of wildfire so that they can be prepared to evacuate and have evacuation plans in place? Well, do you know what? There is. It’s available to the fire and rescue service, but it isn’t available to the public because it’s deemed to be unreliable. Is it unreliable, or is it just a bit too scary? We couldn’t even instigate a ban on disposable barbecues." "Okay, there are the problems. What about the solutions? Because look, there’s no point in just pointing out the problems. What we must do at this point is offer people real and accessible opportunities to be part of a solution rather than an ongoing part of the problem." "Well, the first thing already: we’ve got to enact far more rapidly that transition to renewable energy for energy security, to reduce the cost of energy and its volatility that we’ve seen constantly across the world this year, which is having a significant impact not just on the cost of oil, but on the cost of living and global economic stability. It would also generate jobs, as it has in those countries that have invested significantly in those industries, most notably China. Talk of drilling oil – Rosebank, Blackbird, Jackdaw – is simply madness. We’ve got to just stop oil." "We also need a transition in the way that we eat. This is intricately important when it comes to protecting the environment, everything that lives there, and ourselves. We need a transition to a plant-based diet. It’s healthier for people. If any of you have had bacon or sausage for breakfast this morning, do you know that you’ve ingested a category A carcinogen? That’s it – as toxic as tobacco. You may not. You may have just enjoyed your sausage and bacon. Why do you not know that processed red meat is actually really bad for you?" "Animal agriculture is responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. It is also the leading driver of biodiversity loss. That biodiversity, that richness of life, that resilience in those ecological communities which we use to produce our food – we’ve got to change the way that we eat and produce that food, and we’ve got to provide sufficient support for farmers through that transition. And at the moment, they’re not getting that. In fact, they’re getting less and less and their life is becoming increasingly difficult." "We’ve got to address the mis- and disinformation, and we’ve got to do that with positive information campaigns. We’ve got to have people’s minds on the front foot so they know what’s true before they hear the lies. Then they will question the lies. Otherwise we know what happens. If you tell a lie frequently enough, it eventually becomes the truth, and that’s what we’re suffering from. We can’t afford net zero? We can’t not afford net zero. And we’re beginning to see that that’s the case." "We’ve got to sort out the media. I’ve been fantasising this year that we could perhaps criminalise climate denial. We should certainly criminalise irresponsible journalism. I’ve highlighted the Telegraph, but I’m going to leave you with something that I read on the BBC yesterday: ‘How to survive a heatwave wedding.’ How to survive a heatwave wedding. Point number five: beware of buttercream. This popular wedding cake ingredient is likely to melt if not kept cool. Likely to melt? A bit like my patience and all of our hope." "It’s time for bold, brave, informed leadership. And we are not getting it. We need Andy Burnham to step up before we and our only home burn down. Thank you."

Farrukh

207,743 次观看 • 2 个月前

A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.
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A tree stood in that backyard for probably 40 years. Nobody who walked past it, sat under it, leaned a bike against it, ever knew what was living inside the trunk. Then someone cut into it. And what came out shouldn't be possible. Not sap. Not resin. Water. Gallons of it. Pouring out of solid wood like someone left a hose running inside a living organism. If your first reaction is "that's fake" — I understand. I had the same reaction the first time I saw footage like this. Trees are supposed to be dry on the inside. Bark, wood, rings, maybe some sticky sap if you're unlucky enough to touch a pine. Nobody grows up learning that a tree can be a pressurized tank. But here's the thing nobody tells you in school: some trees are. There's a real, documented, scientifically studied phenomenon behind this, and once you understand it, you will never look at a tree the same way again. I'm going to walk you through exactly what's happening inside these trees, why it happens, which species are famous for it, the wild historical accounts of people discovering it by accident (sometimes violently), and why arborists still get caught off guard by it after decades on the job. Stick with me. This gets stranger the deeper you go. — FIRST: the phenomenon has a name. Arborists and plant pathologists call it "wetwood," and in its more advanced, foul-smelling form, "slime flux." It's not folklore. It's not an urban legend some guy made up on a forum. It's in forestry textbooks, USDA plant pathology bulletins, and arborist training manuals. Here's the mechanism, stripped down to plain English: Trees have a core of heartwood — the dead, structural center of the trunk that no longer transports nutrients. It's basically the tree's skeleton. In most trees, that heartwood is just dry, solid wood. But in certain species, under certain conditions, bacteria colonize that heartwood core. Anaerobic bacteria — the kind that thrive without oxygen — move in and start fermenting the wood tissue from the inside. That fermentation process does two things. First, it draws in and traps enormous amounts of water inside the wood, way beyond what healthy wood would ever hold. Second, it produces gas as a byproduct — methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide — and that gas has nowhere to go. It's sealed inside solid wood, inside bark, inside a living, growing tree. So you end up with a chamber, sometimes several feet long, sitting inside the trunk, completely pressurized, completely hidden, holding a mixture of bacteria-laden water and trapped gas — sometimes under enough pressure that when the seal finally breaks, it doesn't drip. It sprays. It gushes. It pours out like the tree itself is bleeding. Now imagine you're an arborist. You've cut down thousands of trees. You know the drill: bark, sapwood, heartwood, done. And then one day your saw breaks through into a hidden pocket you had no way of detecting from the outside, and suddenly you're standing in a puddle that came from inside a tree trunk. That moment is what you're about to see. — Let me give you some numbers, because the scale of this is what makes people stop scrolling. Documented cases of wetwood trees have released water measured in the dozens of gallons from a single cut. Some large elms and cottonwoods have been recorded discharging water continuously for hours after being wounded, with foresters describing "streams" running from the trunk down to the base of the tree and pooling on the ground like a slow leak from a cracked pipe. Certain species are repeat offenders. Elm. Poplar. Cottonwood. Mulberry. Certain oaks. These trees, especially older ones with some history of trunk injury (a old pruning wound, storm damage, a lightning strike, construction damage to the roots), are far more likely to develop internal wetwood pockets, because any breach in the bark is an open door for the bacteria that start this whole process. That's the part that should sit with you for a second. It usually starts with something small. A branch snapped off in a storm. A lawnmower nick at the base. A woodpecker hole. Something that looks like nothing. And over years — sometimes decades — that tiny wound becomes the entry point for a slow-motion transformation happening entirely out of sight, turning part of the tree's interior into a sealed reservoir. You could have one in your own yard right now. You'd have no way of knowing. That's not a scare tactic, that's just how wetwood works — it's invisible from the outside until the tree is cut, cored, drilled, or storm-damaged enough to expose the pocket. — There's an older, uglier cousin of wetwood, and it's called "slime flux," and I promise you the name undersells it. When the pressure inside a wetwood pocket gets high enough, it doesn't wait for someone with a chainsaw. It finds its own way out — through cracks in the bark, through old wounds, through the base of branches. And when that fluid meets open air, the bacteria and yeast in it start reacting with oxygen, and the whole thing turns into a foul, fermenting slurry running down the bark. Old-time foresters called this "flux disease," and some described the smell as somewhere between rotten cabbage and spoiled beer. Insects love it. Certain flies and beetles are specifically drawn to fluxing trees, and some entomologists have documented entire miniature ecosystems living in the wet, fermented bark of a heavily infected wetwood tree. So the version you're about to watch — a clean cut suddenly releasing a rush of water — is actually the tamer version of this phenomenon. It's what happens when the pressure is released fast and deliberately, in a controlled way, instead of slowly seeping and fermenting on the bark for months. It's dramatic, but it's not even the strangest form this condition takes. — Here's where it gets almost unbelievable if you didn't grow up around old-growth forests or work in forestry: this isn't new, and it isn't rare enough to be dismissed as a one-off. Loggers in the 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about "water trees" and "spring trees" — trunks that, when felled or split, would release surprising volumes of water, sometimes described as clean and cold enough that thirsty travelers would drink straight from a freshly cut trunk. Some of these accounts read almost like myth: a felled tree in a dry stretch of forest becoming an impromptu water source for a work crew that had run out of canteens. Indigenous and folk traditions across multiple continents have stories about trees that "cry" or "bleed" water, long before anyone had a bacteriological explanation for it. In parts of the American South, old-timers used to warn newcomers about certain elms and cottonwoods being "wet-hearted," a term passed down generation to generation with no formal science behind it — just observation. They knew, decades before plant pathologists gave it a Latin name, that some trees were different on the inside. There's something almost humbling about that. A phenomenon that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel — a tree holding a hidden reservoir inside its trunk — turns out to be something people quietly knew about for centuries, passed down as folk wisdom, and modern science eventually caught up and explained the mechanism. — Let's talk about pressure, because this is the part that turns a "huh, neat" fact into something genuinely dramatic to witness. Wetwood pockets aren't just wet. They're pressurized. Researchers who have studied this by drilling into infected trees and measuring the internal gas pressure have recorded readings significantly above normal atmospheric pressure — high enough that when a probe finally punctures the pocket, gas and liquid don't just seep out, they can audibly hiss, spray, or in some documented cases, forcefully eject material several feet from the trunk. Think about what that means physically. You have a living tree. Roots pulling water up. Leaves doing their thing. Bark looking completely normal, maybe a little bit of old staining near a wound if you know exactly what to look for. And inside, invisible to anyone walking by, there's a sealed chamber behaving less like "wood" and more like a bottle of soda that's been shaken and capped for years. Cut into that with the wrong angle, at the wrong depth, and you are opening something that has been building pressure since before some of you reading this were born. That is not an exaggeration. Some of these wetwood pockets, in old trees with a long history of minor trunk injuries, have been forming and sealing and re-sealing for twenty, thirty, forty years before anyone finally exposes them. — I want to address the skeptics directly, because there's always a version of this that goes semi-viral and the replies fill up with "CGI," "staged," "fake," before anyone bothers to check. This is genuinely, boringly, documented science. Forestry extension offices at multiple universities have publications specifically on wetwood and slime flux — the kind of dry, unglamorous PDF nobody reads unless they're an arborist student cramming for an exam. Plant pathology courses cover it. It's in the same category as things like "trees can produce enough root pressure to push water dozens of feet upward with no pump" — real, measurable, and honestly stranger than most fiction, which is exactly why it keeps going viral every time footage surfaces. The wild part isn't that it's fake. The wild part is that it's real, it's been known for over a century, and most people are hearing about it for the first time through a random video instead of a biology class. — Here's a question worth sitting with: how many trees around you, right now, could be holding something like this? You're not going to know by looking. That's the unsettling part. Wetwood doesn't announce itself from the outside in any reliable way most people would recognize. Sometimes there's a dark wet-looking stain running down the bark from an old wound — that's actually one of the only visible clues, and most people who see it assume it's just water damage or normal bark discoloration, not a sign of a pressurized internal reservoir. Arborists who specialize in tree risk assessment actually have to factor this into their evaluations, because a wetwood pocket can also be a structural weak point — the internal decay associated with it can compromise a tree's strength in ways that aren't visible from a standard visual inspection. So this isn't purely a "huh, cool fact" situation. For professionals, it's something they're trained to watch for, because it changes how a tree behaves, how it should be pruned, and in some cases whether it's even safe to keep standing near a structure. — Let's go species by species for a second, because the "which trees do this" question comes up every single time this kind of footage circulates. Elms are probably the most famous offenders — American elm and Siberian elm both show up repeatedly in wetwood and slime flux case studies. Cottonwoods and poplars are right behind them, especially older specimens with a history of storm damage or pruning wounds. Mulberry trees have a documented tendency toward it as well. Certain oaks can develop it, though it's less common and usually tied to a specific injury history. Willows, with their notoriously soft and moisture-loving wood, are also frequent candidates. What connects almost all of these species isn't some exotic trait — it's actually pretty mundane. They tend to be fast-growing, softer-wooded trees that are more prone to storm damage, cracking, and wound formation over their lifespan, which means more entry points for the bacteria that kick off the entire process. Slower-growing, denser hardwoods are comparatively less prone, though not immune. So if you've got an old elm, cottonwood, poplar, willow, or mulberry anywhere near you — especially one that's taken some damage over the decades, a lost limb, a lightning strike, an old chainsaw wound from a previous trim — there's a real, non-zero chance that tree is sitting on its own hidden reservoir right now, quietly pressurizing, waiting for the day someone finally cuts into the wrong spot. — There's a specific kind of moment that happens on video like this, and if you've watched enough tree-work content you already know it: the split second between the cut going in and the reaction on the face of whoever's holding the saw. That reaction is real. You cannot fake genuine, immediate confusion. Professionals who have done this job for years, who have felled hundreds or thousands of trees, who think they've seen every possible thing a tree trunk can do — and then something happens that their entire career didn't prepare them for. That's the part that makes this kind of footage so different from staged "reaction" content you see everywhere else online. Nobody scripts confusion that specific. Nobody fakes the half-second delay where someone's brain is visibly trying to process what their eyes are showing them. — I'll leave you with this. Every single day, all over the world, people are cutting down trees for completely mundane reasons — storm cleanup, construction, disease removal, firewood, somebody's yard finally getting redone. Thousands of trees. Every day. Most of the time it's exactly as boring as it sounds: cut, drop, haul, done. And then every so often, completely without warning, one of those ordinary trees turns out to be something else entirely. A tree that's been quietly filling itself with water for years, maybe decades, completely undetectable from the outside, sealed shut under bark that looks exactly like every other tree on the block. Nobody plans for that. Nobody sees it coming. That's exactly what makes it worth watching when it happens to be caught on camera. You already scrolled past the video once. Go back and actually watch what happens the second that bar breaks through. You will not believe how much comes out. And once you know why, you'll start looking at every old tree in your neighborhood a little differently. — Let's talk about the pressure numbers again, because I glossed over just how absurd they get in the most extreme documented cases. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 pounds per square inch. Some measured wetwood pockets have registered internal gas pressures multiple times higher than that — enough that when researchers insert a hollow probe to sample the gas, it doesn't calmly bubble out, it forces its way through with an audible hiss, sometimes strong enough to make a sound loud enough to hear from several feet away. Now picture that same pressure, except instead of a thin research probe, it's a chainsaw bar plowing straight through the wall of the pocket in one continuous motion. There's no controlled release valve. There's no slow bleed-off. The seal just fails all at once, and whatever's inside — water, gas, fermented bacterial slurry — takes the fastest path out, which is usually straight toward whoever is standing closest. That's not drama for the sake of drama. That's just fluid dynamics doing what fluid dynamics does when a pressurized container gets breached in one violent motion instead of a slow leak. — People love comparing this to other "trees doing things they shouldn't" phenomena, so let's run through a few, because it puts wetwood in context. Root pressure is a real, separately documented thing — some trees, particularly certain maples and grapevines, can generate enough internal pressure through osmosis alone to push water dozens of feet upward through their trunk with zero mechanical pump involved, which is part of why maple syrup tapping works in early spring: cut a hole, and sap doesn't just sit there, it actively flows out under real pressure. Bamboo, meanwhile, has hollow internal chambers between each node that can fill with water and, when punctured, release a surprising rush for something that looks like solid stalk from the outside. Certain cacti and succulents store such enormous internal water reserves that a single barrel cactus can hold multiple gallons, enough that desert survival guides have long described (with real caveats about bitterness and toxicity in some species) cutting into one as an emergency water source. None of those are the exact same mechanism as bacterial wetwood. But they all share the same core surprise: the outside of a plant tells you almost nothing about what's happening on the inside. Trees and plants in general are far better at hiding internal reservoirs, chambers, and pressure systems than most people ever consider, because we're trained from childhood to think of "wood" as uniformly solid and dry. — Here's a question I want you to actually think about instead of just scrolling past: why does this footage hit people so hard emotionally, when it's "just" water? I think it's because it breaks a category we didn't know we had. Somewhere in your brain, without ever being taught it explicitly, you built a rule: solid things don't have hidden liquid interiors. Rocks are solid. Wood is solid. A tree trunk, no matter how big, is filed under "solid object" right next to a brick or a fence post. So when a tree trunk suddenly behaves like a punctured water balloon, it's not just surprising — it's a small, harmless violation of a rule you didn't know you were relying on. That's the exact same psychological mechanism behind why people can't look away from videos of hidden compartments, false walls, geodes cracked open to reveal crystal interiors, or ice cores pulled from glaciers showing air bubbles thousands of years old. The object looked like one thing on the outside and turned out to be something completely different on the inside. Our brains are wired to lock onto that specific kind of surprise and replay it. — I want to walk through what's actually happening at a microscopic level too, because the bacteria part is honestly the wildest piece of this whole story and it usually gets skipped over. The bacteria responsible for wetwood are largely anaerobic — meaning they thrive specifically in environments with no oxygen, which describes the sealed interior of a heartwood pocket perfectly. Species commonly implicated include various strains that also show up in other low-oxygen fermentation processes elsewhere in nature. These bacteria essentially treat the interior of the tree the way yeast treats a sealed fermentation vessel: they break down wood sugars and cellulose components, and as a byproduct of that metabolic process, they release gas. Methane. Carbon dioxide. Sometimes hydrogen sulfide, which is the compound responsible for the "rotten egg" smell associated with some of the worst slime flux cases. Here's the part that should genuinely unsettle you a little: this process can continue, essentially undisturbed, for years. The bacteria don't need light. They don't need a food source refill from outside — the wood itself is the food source. They don't need anything from us at all. They just sit there, fermenting slowly, generation after generation, quietly filling an internal chamber with liquid and gas, completely indifferent to whatever's happening in the world outside the bark. Somebody could mow the lawn around that tree every single week for fifteen years and never once suspect that a private, self-sustaining microbial ecosystem is operating a few inches away, sealed inside solid wood. — Foresters have their own folklore around this too, separate from the old "wet-hearted tree" naming I mentioned earlier, and some of it is genuinely unsettling if you sit with it. There are accounts — some documented in forestry incident reports, some passed around as workplace stories among tree crews — of wetwood pockets releasing enough pressurized gas and liquid on impact to knock a chainsaw sideways out of the operator's hands, or to spray fluid several feet, catching a nearby coworker completely off guard. Tree removal is already one of the more dangerous manual trades that exists — statistically it's consistently ranked among the more hazardous occupations — and wetwood is one of those factors that experienced crews specifically train new hires to be aware of, precisely because it's invisible until the exact moment it isn't. Some crews have a rule: if you see that telltale dark wet staining running down bark from an old wound, you treat the cut differently. Different angle. Different bracing. A moment of hesitation most people watching a video would never think to expect from someone who cuts trees for a living every single day. That hesitation, when you see it, is not caution for no reason. It's caution earned from someone else's story about the day their trunk sprayed back. — Let's zoom out for a second and talk about why nature keeps doing this to us — hiding things in plain sight that overturn assumptions we didn't even know we were making. Geodes look like plain gray rocks from the outside and crack open into crystal cathedrals. Certain seemingly solid ice formations conceal air pockets and liquid water inside glacial ice that's been sealed for centuries. Some seeds remain dormant and viable inside dry-looking husks for years, sometimes decades, before conditions trigger germination. Nature is, on some fundamental level, extremely good at packaging surprising internal states inside boring, unremarkable exteriors, because there's rarely an evolutionary or physical reason for the outside of something to accurately advertise what's happening on the inside. A tree trunk covered in bark has absolutely no obligation to tell you what's going on underneath. And most of the time, honestly, there's nothing dramatic going on under there — it really is just solid wood, rings, sapwood doing its normal job. But every so often, under the right combination of an old wound, the right bacteria finding their way in, and years of undisturbed fermentation, you get this. A tree that's secretly been operating as a sealed, pressurized reservoir the entire time, waiting for someone with a saw to finally find out. — A few quick things people always ask once they learn about this, so let's knock them out here. Is the water safe to drink? Historically, some accounts describe it as drinkable in a pinch, but modern guidance is far more cautious — wetwood fluid is loaded with bacteria and fermentation byproducts, and depending on the tree and how advanced the infection is, it can range from relatively clean-tasting to genuinely foul and bacterially loaded. Not something to treat as a reliable water source by modern standards, whatever old logging stories might say. Does it kill the tree? Not necessarily, and that's part of what makes it so strange. Trees can live with wetwood for years, even decades, functioning normally from the outside — leafing out every spring, growing new rings — while quietly carrying an internal pocket the entire time. It's more of a chronic condition than an acute one in most cases, though severe cases can weaken the tree structurally and contribute to internal decay. Can you tell from the outside before cutting? Sometimes, if you know exactly what to look for — that dark staining running from an old wound is the main visible tell. But plenty of wetwood trees show no obvious external sign at all until the moment someone cuts into the wrong spot. — If you made it this far, you now know something about trees that the overwhelming majority of people who scroll past videos like this never bother to learn. You know the name of the phenomenon. You know the bacterial mechanism behind it. You know which species are most prone to it, why old wounds matter, how much pressure can actually build up inside, and why experienced tree crews still treat certain trunks with real caution. That's a strange amount of knowledge to walk away with from what looks, at first glance, like just another oddly satisfying clip. But that's usually how it goes with the genuinely wild stuff nature does — it looks small on the surface, and then you pull one thread and end up somewhere you didn't expect. Go watch it again with all of that in your head this time. Watch the exact frame where the bar breaks through. Watch what the water does the instant it has somewhere to go. Watch the reaction on the person holding the saw — that's not performance, that's genuine surprise from someone who has almost certainly done this exact job a thousand times before and never seen a tree do this. Some trees really are just wood, top to bottom, nothing hiding inside. And then there are the ones that have been quietly running their own private reservoir for twenty or thirty years, sealed under ordinary-looking bark, waiting for exactly one cut to finally let it out. You just watched what that looks like the moment it happens.

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How to Build a Proper Product Page It breaks my heart every time I see someone from Brazil, making just $200 a month, spend $40 on a test ad only to get a $2 CPC. Then, they cut the ad at $35 spend with 17 clicks and 0 conversions. What’s even more frustrating is when I visit their site and see it’s a complete mess. It’s like they didn’t even try. That’s why I’m making this post. *Disclaimer: If you're building a brand, this isn’t for you. This is for testing products correctly with a website that’s good enough to convert, but if you’re serious about your brand, hire a Figma designer and a developer to get things done right. As a fun fact, I tested the following product myself (In the video below) and with just one click at a $3 CPC, I got a sale with an $80 AOV (100% CVR). I paused the ads because the CPMs hit $150. If you're interested, save this product for the future. I'll share the creatives i used to ran the product with those who comment below. "jordan, stop teaching high school kids about selling reps and getting them sued by Prada or other big brands, ruining their payment gateways, and crushing their dreams." (with 5 random people only will do it, wouldn't make sense for everyone to be ripping it). Shoutout to Adrian for this one. 🫡 Back to the important stuff: Let’s talk about creating a great product page. First off, ditch the “Buy Now” button. By using this, you miss out on the chance to increase your Average Order Value (AOV) through upsells during checkout. Instead, replace it with an “Add to Cart” button. Also, remove the quantity selector. Hardly anyone uses them on the product page, but they do in the cart. Instead, offer bundles, which you can set up using the Kaching Bundles app or your theme if it supports this feature. The cart experience is crucial, and you can optimize it using the UpCart app. Enable all its product page features so it takes over the standard Shopify cart or your theme’s cart. The built-in cart systems are outdated—they don’t allow upsells like UpCart does. Plus, UpCart directly opens the cart after a product is added, where the upsell option appears at the bottom, increasing your chances of boosting AOV. Pay attention to color schemes. Don’t use neutral colors for headers and buttons if your product features a primary color. A yellow jacket with a black header is like pizza with raspberry syrup—just doesn’t work. If your product images are gray, white, or black, match those with your headers and buttons. Otherwise, play around with colors to give your page some dynamic appeal. Bookmark this site to get color palettes that match your primary color. For exact color matches, download the "ColorZilla" extension, which gives you the exact color code of whatever is under your mouse on the screen. If your product color is #6E402A, you’ll know it and can match it perfectly with your header and buttons, creating a visually appealing contrast like Cider did here below. Right now, when some of you send me these websites, they look like government pages from the early 2000s. Next, consider the typography and button styles. For fonts, use Helvetica Regular for body text and Helvetica Bold for titles, both at a minimum size of 100%. It’s simple and effective. As for buttons, they should have a corner radius of 8px. To change these settings, go to the theme settings - typography/buttons and adjust the buttons and typography accordingly. Rounded buttons create a modern, inviting feel, while full square buttons can give off an outdated vibe. Even casinos in Vegas design their buildings with curves, ensuring that visitors always have a view angle that draws them back in—it’s all about keeping things appealing and engaging. Finally, the product page layout itself should be clean and concise. Use collapsible rows for your product descriptions. No one wants to read a novel, so keep it compact and focused. Images and videos are what sell—this is why we don’t use text-heavy images in our ads; they just bore people. Keep the description short, with enough information to inform but not overwhelm. If you need to include more features, put them in the FAQs section—that’s what they’re for. The goal is to make sure that the "Add to Cart" button is visible as soon as possible once the customer lands on the product page, without overwhelming them but providing just enough information—some key benefits, high-quality images, and buying options in the bundles. Once they hit the cart, the upsells will do their job. Remember, the three essential apps for setting this up are Loox Reviews for customer feedback (use the product widget reviews at the bottom of the page before the FAQs and the rating widget just above the title), Kaching Bundles for offering package deals, and UpCart for optimizing the cart experience. Just for the record, this is to help newcomers and guide them to something taht works, me personally i don't use free themes, but this one i created could convert easily if the product, offer and ads match well. Good luck and keep testing! 🗳🥂💸🤑
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How to Build a Proper Product Page It breaks my heart every time I see someone from Brazil, making just $200 a month, spend $40 on a test ad only to get a $2 CPC. Then, they cut the ad at $35 spend with 17 clicks and 0 conversions. What’s even more frustrating is when I visit their site and see it’s a complete mess. It’s like they didn’t even try. That’s why I’m making this post. *Disclaimer: If you're building a brand, this isn’t for you. This is for testing products correctly with a website that’s good enough to convert, but if you’re serious about your brand, hire a Figma designer and a developer to get things done right. As a fun fact, I tested the following product myself (In the video below) and with just one click at a $3 CPC, I got a sale with an $80 AOV (100% CVR). I paused the ads because the CPMs hit $150. If you're interested, save this product for the future. I'll share the creatives i used to ran the product with those who comment below. "jordan, stop teaching high school kids about selling reps and getting them sued by Prada or other big brands, ruining their payment gateways, and crushing their dreams." (with 5 random people only will do it, wouldn't make sense for everyone to be ripping it). Shoutout to Adrian for this one. 🫡 Back to the important stuff: Let’s talk about creating a great product page. First off, ditch the “Buy Now” button. By using this, you miss out on the chance to increase your Average Order Value (AOV) through upsells during checkout. Instead, replace it with an “Add to Cart” button. Also, remove the quantity selector. Hardly anyone uses them on the product page, but they do in the cart. Instead, offer bundles, which you can set up using the Kaching Bundles app or your theme if it supports this feature. The cart experience is crucial, and you can optimize it using the UpCart app. Enable all its product page features so it takes over the standard Shopify cart or your theme’s cart. The built-in cart systems are outdated—they don’t allow upsells like UpCart does. Plus, UpCart directly opens the cart after a product is added, where the upsell option appears at the bottom, increasing your chances of boosting AOV. Pay attention to color schemes. Don’t use neutral colors for headers and buttons if your product features a primary color. A yellow jacket with a black header is like pizza with raspberry syrup—just doesn’t work. If your product images are gray, white, or black, match those with your headers and buttons. Otherwise, play around with colors to give your page some dynamic appeal. Bookmark this site to get color palettes that match your primary color. For exact color matches, download the "ColorZilla" extension, which gives you the exact color code of whatever is under your mouse on the screen. If your product color is #6E402A, you’ll know it and can match it perfectly with your header and buttons, creating a visually appealing contrast like Cider did here below. Right now, when some of you send me these websites, they look like government pages from the early 2000s. Next, consider the typography and button styles. For fonts, use Helvetica Regular for body text and Helvetica Bold for titles, both at a minimum size of 100%. It’s simple and effective. As for buttons, they should have a corner radius of 8px. To change these settings, go to the theme settings - typography/buttons and adjust the buttons and typography accordingly. Rounded buttons create a modern, inviting feel, while full square buttons can give off an outdated vibe. Even casinos in Vegas design their buildings with curves, ensuring that visitors always have a view angle that draws them back in—it’s all about keeping things appealing and engaging. Finally, the product page layout itself should be clean and concise. Use collapsible rows for your product descriptions. No one wants to read a novel, so keep it compact and focused. Images and videos are what sell—this is why we don’t use text-heavy images in our ads; they just bore people. Keep the description short, with enough information to inform but not overwhelm. If you need to include more features, put them in the FAQs section—that’s what they’re for. The goal is to make sure that the "Add to Cart" button is visible as soon as possible once the customer lands on the product page, without overwhelming them but providing just enough information—some key benefits, high-quality images, and buying options in the bundles. Once they hit the cart, the upsells will do their job. Remember, the three essential apps for setting this up are Loox Reviews for customer feedback (use the product widget reviews at the bottom of the page before the FAQs and the rating widget just above the title), Kaching Bundles for offering package deals, and UpCart for optimizing the cart experience. Just for the record, this is to help newcomers and guide them to something taht works, me personally i don't use free themes, but this one i created could convert easily if the product, offer and ads match well. Good luck and keep testing! 🗳🥂💸🤑

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Just in $AMD Anush "Speed is the moat"|ROCm🎙️ In the race to define the future of AI, what's the one advantage that truly lasts? It's not proprietary tech, argues Anush Elangovan Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD , but the sustainable speed of innovation. He explains why AMD is rejecting the "walled garden" model for its open source ROCm stack, betting that an open community flywheel is the key to victory. Listen to understand how this open strategy is designed to out-innovate closed systems by empowering developers to solve everything from frontier-model challenges to the mundane, everyday problems that define the "last mile" of AI. AMD ROCm Software: Part 1 Transcript [00:00:00] Andrew Zigler: Joining me is Anush Elangovan, VP of AI software at AMD. And when people talk about AI compute, the conversation often stops at hardware specs, but it's more than just physical chips that win the game. It's also the software ecosystems supporting them. [00:00:18] Andrew Zigler: The prevailing strategy in the industry has been to build something like a walled garden. You know, something closed, proprietary locks, developers in. But AMD is betting on an entirely different play, open source acceleration, and with rock, their open source AI software stack. AMD is building not just hardware parity, but an innovation flywheel that's powered by the community with interoperability and the freedom to scale without all of that pesky lockin. [00:00:48] Andrew Zigler: And in this world, speed is your moat and how fast you can innovate while your platform remains open, flexible, and standardize across all of its applications. That's what we're gonna explore [00:01:00] today. So Anush, I'm really excited to have you here. Welcome to Dev Interrupted. [00:01:04] Anush Elangovan: Thanks for having me. Uh, super excited to chat about it. [00:01:07] Andrew Zigler: Amazing. Well, let's go ahead and dive right in with kind of what I laid it out with in the beginning, the idea of the moat and it being about speed. I wanna unpack that a bit because that came from you when you and I first spoke. And I, and I want to know, you know, how do you define speed inside of AMD beyond just things like hardware, benchmarks. [00:01:27] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, that's a very good question. So when we typically talk about speed, everyone's like, Hey, hardware benchmark specs, right? Like, uh, memory bandwidth or, or flops. And that is one important part of it, uh, AMD does very well. With that, we do have, a, a very good history of executing on that axis. [00:01:47] Anush Elangovan: But when I say speed is the moat, it is about, uh, how we prepare, how we build the muscle to run the race for a long time and run it fast. And it is [00:02:00] not about a single point in time that you've, you've beat some you know, benchmark and, and you declare victory. It's about building the ability to consistently develop and deliver. [00:02:13] Anush Elangovan: Both hardware and software innovation at scale and do it fast, right? Like, you know, we we're increasingly getting to a point where models come out and they're, uh, you know, a year or two ago it was like, Hey, they work on AMD on day zero, which is great, but now they are performing on AMD the day it releases, right? [00:02:32] Anush Elangovan: So, what does it take to Prefetch where the industry is going? Be prepared to intercept. At that point is what you know, I, I refer to as you know, the, the speed factor in, in creating this mode, right? And the mode is just shed all things that hold you back and run as fast as you can. [00:02:53] Anush Elangovan: Uh, because the pace of innovation that is, uh, being seen in, in AI [00:03:00] industries is just. Amazing. Right? And it's like, it's transformational at at how you generate electricity. It's transformational as at how you build data centers. It's transformational at how you deploy compute, networking. It's transformational at what kind of use cases you, you know, uh, use AI for. [00:03:17] Anush Elangovan: Uh, and for that, you need to be prepared to, see what comes tomorrow and be prepared to run the race tomorrow. [00:03:23] Andrew Zigler: Yeah, it's a really great perspective because it highlights that it's not just like a checkpoint that you run through. I like how you called out, like it's not just hitting that benchmark or being the best in class at that moment, in that snapshot, it's about having a. The throughput and about having that dedication to the idea and continuing to deliver on it. [00:03:43] Andrew Zigler: It's not just crossing the threshold, but it's also being the engine. And that's what, that's what protects a business. That is the moat, because the moat is that innovation layer, the faster and more, uh, future forward. That you can work and think, [00:04:00] you know, the better. Uh, we, we talk a lot about like future forward work styles. [00:04:04] Andrew Zigler: Like what are the things I could be doing right now today that are gonna be like, way more useful tomorrow? Let, let's abandon those, workflows that are older and that kind of like, that translates into. An advantage when you work that way. You know, what kind of things have you learned working with, uh, like across all spectrums of people who would use ROCm, right? [00:04:23] Andrew Zigler: You have like the developers, but then you also have the enterprises and you have this large span of adoptees, right? So what is the, what does that look like that you learn? [00:04:32] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, so, so the way I look at it is there are gonna be pockets of different, uh, you know, cadences, right? Like, so people who are deploying in enterprises, for example, right? The validation and how long it takes for them to deploy an LLM that's secure. It's, with guardrails, et cetera, maybe longer. [00:04:52] Anush Elangovan: but you still have to go through the process and you have to be prepared to like, walk that walk to deploy an enterprises. That doesn't mean it's [00:05:00] not fast, that's as fast as you can do for that industry, right? And if you are deploying AI in healthcare, right, it's, it's got its own, uh, cycle. [00:05:07] Anush Elangovan: but in each one of these, you want to see how, like, go down to the essence of what is it that you actually have to do. And, you know, I, I, I like how you framed it. It's like it's, you shed your prior assumptions of how things are done, right. And, and you kind of build up from a, uh, first principles, uh, approach to say, this is how I could use AI to unlock, whatever I'm doing. [00:05:33] Anush Elangovan: And, and, some of it, you know, it's good to really step back and look at. Just question every part of it, right? Like right now you're getting chat GPT and, Gemini competing for like, math, olympiads and, and, uh, college, uh, reasoning, uh, tests. Right? And, and those are like that, that is amazing and increasingly like complex tasks that they're trying to do. [00:05:58] Anush Elangovan: But there may also be like. [00:06:00] More mundane things that AI could, could get applied to. Right? And, and so when we think about shedding old ways, you wanna shed it not just in like the tip of the spear. It's like, you know, I'm gonna see what's the frontier model. It's also, it could be something as simple as. [00:06:18] Anush Elangovan: How do you choose a, a movie, uh, you know, like a recommendation system, right? Or, or, uh, an automated, uh, flight, uh, rebooking system. So the moment, you know, your flight is late, uh, right now it's a notification, right? It's like, oh, you got a text message saying your flight's late. And I got that like three times this week. [00:06:38] Anush Elangovan: But anyway, uh, and, and, and, and, I was just like, okay, so if I were to rethink this. All this MCPs that we have that should be hooked up into an MCP that says, your flight's delayed. Here are your options. If you want, you know, these are the paid options. Yeah. Here are the free options. This will get you back into your you know, Toronto airport [00:07:00] tonight. [00:07:00] Anush Elangovan: Or if you stay, here's a hotel plus this, plus this, plus. It's just like, go ahead is all I should say. Versus now I'm like, okay, can someone, you know, can I call a travel agent? Can I do this? Can I go online and log into And you know, so we gotta fundamentally rethink even those like small, nuances of, things that we do that can be automated out and AI is really, really good at doing something like this, right? Maybe I just explained an AI startup idea right now. Somebody should just start that. [00:07:29] Andrew Zigler: I think you did. Yeah, you definitely did. Someone, one of our listeners is definitely going to lift that off of you. I, I, I, you know, I hate being on the receiving end of those. You feel a little helpless and then you have to like, follow the whole flow. So I know what you mean. Like I, I like how you called out that the build and this like. [00:07:45] Andrew Zigler: Where speed is your moat and the innovation layer is protecting you, is what makes you better than your competitors. How you scale that and you bring that to market. So by understanding the problems that you're solving, uh, throwing away those older assumptions, but also [00:08:00] recognizing that like. We're building every single day, new things and new ways of using stuff that we're still figuring out the implications of. [00:08:08] Andrew Zigler: And so when you have a lot of velocity and you're introducing a lot of new ideas, and maybe you have that workflow now that automatically rebook your flight off of your late flight text message, and uh, I know I would certainly use it, but you know, what kind of philosophies guide the way that y'all think about building this ecosystem to manage that stability while letting folks. [00:08:29] Andrew Zigler: Play with the speed and the assumptions and the airplane re bookings. [00:08:34] Anush Elangovan: so, so I think, you know, we need to peel one layer down, right? and the philosophy is, Hey, we, we just discovered electricity, right? And you know what we're gonna do? We are gonna make motors, uh, or dynamos, right? Like engines. Uh, sure. We don't know if it's gonna be a Ferrari that you're gonna make, or it's a a a a dump truck. [00:08:57] Anush Elangovan: That's good for doing this. But let's [00:09:00] let, which is also required, right? You need a dump truck. You need a garbage truck. And, [00:09:04] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. You need the [00:09:04] Anush Elangovan: course you need, uh, a Ferrari for a midlife crisis, right? So, [00:09:09] Andrew Zigler: precisely. [00:09:10] Anush Elangovan: But, but my, uh, point is what do we build next? And, uh, and this is what I meant by like, okay, let's, let's take those baby steps to build the. [00:09:20] Anush Elangovan: Infrastructure that's required that we know we'll have to use, right? So, so if I just discovered electricity, okay, great. Now one, how do I save this electricity and how do I use it? So there's battery technology, so you need to do something like that, right? Like so. But then you also want to make it into an actionable thing. [00:09:37] Anush Elangovan: You want to make it for like automobiles, or you wanna use it for, you know, powering, uh, entire cities. So it is that transformational. So, uh, AI is that transformational. So, if you distill down, it'll, it'll come down to how do we think about, what we can do with this this fundamental technology that, We may not be aware of what it [00:10:00] is gonna unlock next, but at least you know the next step is clear, right? It's like a dense fog, you know, it's gonna be like, it, it's the right path. You see the light, but it's kind of like out there and, and the steps you're taking are concrete and you're like, okay, this is good. [00:10:16] Anush Elangovan: I, this is better than where I was or where we were. So we are moving forward. So you can build with the. Intuition from what you see in the short term and a tactical view, but towards what you think the future is gonna be. [00:10:28] Andrew Zigler: Right. You almost like we're all in this like fog of war, right? And like you said, you're reaching out and you're trying to step through it. You could think of it too, as like you're in the dark and your hands are up in front of you and you know that. You're, you're not gonna run your face into a wall because your hands are out in front of you, but you're not gonna maybe do much better than that. [00:10:45] Andrew Zigler: So that's kind of like, I think the eco, the, the industry, the world that we find ourselves in, uh, and we all have to, then this becomes the power of an ecosystem, of a group of people working together to create that layer of, [00:11:00] uh, of establishing the [00:11:01] Anush Elangovan: exactly. And I, I, I just, instead of, you know, saying fog of war I describe it as like, you're in this. Beautiful valley with like a morning, uh, fog that's in. You can smell the flowers. You, you hear the birds. You are like, okay, it's, we are in like, uh, utopian paradise and yes, I just need to like, continue the walk, right? [00:11:24] Anush Elangovan: and then move forward with that, conviction that you're in the right spot. [00:11:27] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. So let's talk about that ecosystem world. This nice, I love how you describe it, this grassy side of a hill in the morning that's covered in some mist and maybe we can't see 30 feet in one direction, but it sure is a beautiful hill and it smells nice. And so we're all here. And why is, in that world, why is. [00:11:44] Andrew Zigler: You know, open source, their strategic advantage that y'all are going for in the AI hardware market. And, and then how does like ROCm turn that into wins for people within that ecosystem? [00:11:56] Anush Elangovan: you know, the, the way we look at it is this, is kind of like how I view [00:12:00] AI and the ecosystem, right? But, but it is for everyone to enjoy. Uh, and so we do want to make sure that. You know, it is, uh, beneficial for everyone. [00:12:09] Anush Elangovan: The ecosystem can come in and, and innovate. It's an open innovation engine. and uh, it is very different from, you know, having a walled garden with, Hey, only I know how to do this and I'm gonna do it and throw it over the fence and you can use it or keep walking, right? So we'd like to be good citizens that way, but also. [00:12:30] Anush Elangovan: Uh, it is self-fulfilling in a way, right? Like it, the, the pace at which we innovate with open source is unmatched. Like, you know, our serving engines are like VLLM and, and sg l. Those things, uh, those frameworks are like super, super aggressive in terms of how fast they come out with features and how fast they can you know, get performant models out. [00:12:52] Anush Elangovan: And that compared with what, uh, you'd get from, you know, the likes of like T-R-T-L-L-M or something is always lagging, right? Because you [00:13:00] just can't keep up with you know, 200 commits a week just on one particular model to get that model really performant [00:13:06] Andrew Zigler: And, and, and in that world where, you know, everyone can enjoy the winds of this, what kind of customer stories or innovation stories have really stood out to you and excite you about building and creating this place for developers? [00:13:19] Anush Elangovan: Yeah. So I think the parts that are super exciting for me are when when we get to see a customer that is first skeptical. Then they start a little like, okay, fine, we'll give you a chance. Uh, we do a simple, uh, POC and then they're like, huh, this seems to work. Yeah, we told you it works. [00:13:42] Anush Elangovan: You don't have to change one line of code. Really? Yes, no need to change one line of code. Okay, let's try a production workload. So then they try it. Oh, you're more performant than the competition. Yes. We're more performant than, than the competition. So how much does it cost? And we're like, oh, it's your TCO is better with, uh, [00:14:00] AMD. [00:14:00] Anush Elangovan: So again, they're like, wow, okay, good. So now how do we deploy at scale? And then we go deploy it at scale. And when they give a thumbs up on that and they say, this is good, right? That's when you know, you, you see it go full circle from like, oh, we, we've never heard about AMD to like actually deploy to tens of thousands of GPUs In the order of a few months, right? It, it, it really is fascinating to see and very exciting and invigorating to [00:14:28] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. At like a great exposure to a lot of interesting problems. And, and then people using the infrastructure, the, the technology available to solve those problems. Really specific problems by the way, that's often why they're bringing their data and AI to it, uh, is because it is really specific and important for them. [00:14:45] Andrew Zigler: And there's a, a lot I think that other engineering orgs can learn and even emulate from AMD's success and, and having this open source ecosystem and it causing this acceleration within. You [00:15:00] know, uh, customers and enterprises that use and adopt the tools and, and, and that creates an advantage. And that goes back to why we're talking and like the real thesis of our conversation today. [00:15:10] Andrew Zigler: So how do you think engineering leaders that are listening to this and obviously tapping into this great success AMD has from an open source flywheel, how do you think other, other folks building in the same space can foster that open, first, that open source oriented culture in order to, you know, accelerate their innovation goals? [00:15:29] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, that's a very good question. So the startup that um, was acquired by AMD we, we built, I mean, we started off doing iot stuff and you know, smart ring and all that, right? But in the, the end of like, uh, and not the end, the last six years of the company was building ML compilers. [00:15:47] Anush Elangovan: And ml, ML compilers are like super, uh, complicated, sophisticated, advanced algorithms, dah, dah, dah. but it was all open source, right? So our VCs were like, wait, what do you mean your core [00:16:00] IP is open source? And um, the speed is the moat applied even then, right? It was just like, yes, if you have an idea that. [00:16:08] Anush Elangovan: Because someone saw this idea that you are, they're gonna be able to catch up, then you probably have the wrong idea anyway. But if they are, you know, you execute and they're gonna catch up, that you should assume they're gonna catch up. Right? So you gotta move forward. So keeping it open source is super important. [00:16:25] Anush Elangovan: But also to your question on like, you know, the learnings from an AMD standpoint, right? If there are, hard problems, I'd say dig in and work through it, right? Like there's no way but through it, right? That should be the simple mentality. And more, uh, frequently than not. you'll see that you'll just make it through in a, in, in good form. [00:16:52] Anush Elangovan: But if you doubt it and you're like, oh, I don't know if I should commit, if I'm, I, you know, what should just commit to do the right thing [00:17:00] every step, right? Every step, and just keep taking one step in front of the other. And in no time you'll see that you'll be running. Right. And, and yes, the first few steps will be like, yeah, everyone's complaining about your software quality. [00:17:15] Anush Elangovan: Everyone's complaining about this and that, and it doesn't work. And, and a few steps in, you know, you get, you get the hang of all the complaints that are coming in. You get the feedback loop. You're like, okay, what, what are you prioritizing again? One step in front of the other, right? You just keep knocking that out and then you get to a point where you're, it just becomes second nature, right? To do the, to do the right thing. And, and then yes, if someone gives you two options, you'll be like, fine. This is, uh, you know, there's always the resource trade off. There's always a human capital trade off, but what's the right thing to do? of course, I, I'm pragmatic about what we choose, but, but if the right thing for your long-term success is dig in, go first, principles, make it [00:18:00] happen. [00:18:00] Anush Elangovan: Well. Then just go for that. There's, there is no shortcut to [00:18:04] Andrew Zigler: acknowledging, you know, how it aligns with your mission, your core company goals, and what you're looking to achieve. And, and I, I love how you rightfully called out that in the open source world and you know, you have your technology that you've built, what you think is your moat upon, right? [00:18:22] Andrew Zigler: It's your code and, and to open source that, or to just make it where anyone could peer in is, you know. Scary in one regard, but two, it just kind of feels like you're handing away your throne room in some kind of sense, a very direct feeling sense. But the ultimately, you were really right to call out, and this is something I think about all the time, that the real power there is still the speed This the speed. [00:18:42] Andrew Zigler: That was the moat at the beginning of our conversation. It's the speed in combination with your. Very specific domain understanding of what you're building and what you're creating, and your new role as the steward of that world and how people plug into it, which [00:19:00] has frankly, a lot more influence and power than lording over a closed. [00:19:04] Andrew Zigler: You know, repository or an ecosystem, and like you said, like throwing things over the wall. Sure. There, there might be people always on the other side of that wall, but you're not gonna have a great connection with them. You're not gonna be able to really clearly understand them. I, I like your metaphor of the side of the field of the mountain a lot more. [00:19:23] Andrew Zigler: But, but in the, in this world, you know, where. That speed is, is the power and, and open source is just one way that you can harness that speed to get really far ahead and to innovate. , There's other parts of this equation that you can be experimenting with too, and I'd love to pick your brain about them as a software leader and, and, and one of them is about looking forward and kind of understanding that future that we're all building towards and beyond today's models and hardware. [00:19:48] Andrew Zigler: You know, what do you see as the next major bottleneck or opportunity in the AI compute space? As, as you know, enterprises and folks start to get a little more mature about what's available to [00:20:00] them. [00:20:00] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, I think, the bottleneck and opportunity is, uh, what I'd call, call walking the last mile of ai. Right. Uh, and like I I, I gave you an example, uh, previously, but, but it's similar to that. It's like there are cases where Humans have so many, uh, things to do in your day. You know, like the, if we sit down and actually had a customer focus like, okay, these customers lives, I'm gonna save four hours of this customer's life. And if you actually sit down and look at all of that, it'll be. Easily automatable, easily you know, uh, applicable, uh, for ai, right? [00:20:39] Anush Elangovan: Like, but then making it happen is gonna take a little bit, right? It's like maybe it's, uh, paying your utility bill, right? Or something like that, right? Or, or, your healthcare explanation of benefits. Uh, like, I'm sure you get an explanation of benefits, and I'm like, I, I don't even know what that thing is. [00:20:55] Anush Elangovan: It's just like EOB and like. [00:20:57] Andrew Zigler: it's a big, a big old PDF. Yeah, [00:21:00] exactly. [00:21:01] Anush Elangovan: Like, like, I'm like great straight to the, uh, shredder, right? And but that could be, you know, automated with the ai, right? It, it, it'd be like, Hey, the summary of this thing is you went and visited this day. Everything is okay. Everything is paid for, so don't worry, it's not a bill. [00:21:17] Anush Elangovan: That again, the same, uh, thing, but the sense of what that information overload is could be. Digested by ai, uh, accumulated over time and retrieved when you need it. Like, I don't, I actually don't even need to know this EOB right now, unless of course, whenever I need to know it, that maybe, you know, like for some benefits I need to figure out what do, what did I do over the past year and how do I apply it? Source:
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Just in $AMD Anush "Speed is the moat"|ROCm🎙️ In the race to define the future of AI, what's the one advantage that truly lasts? It's not proprietary tech, argues Anush Elangovan Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD , but the sustainable speed of innovation. He explains why AMD is rejecting the "walled garden" model for its open source ROCm stack, betting that an open community flywheel is the key to victory. Listen to understand how this open strategy is designed to out-innovate closed systems by empowering developers to solve everything from frontier-model challenges to the mundane, everyday problems that define the "last mile" of AI. AMD ROCm Software: Part 1 Transcript [00:00:00] Andrew Zigler: Joining me is Anush Elangovan, VP of AI software at AMD. And when people talk about AI compute, the conversation often stops at hardware specs, but it's more than just physical chips that win the game. It's also the software ecosystems supporting them. [00:00:18] Andrew Zigler: The prevailing strategy in the industry has been to build something like a walled garden. You know, something closed, proprietary locks, developers in. But AMD is betting on an entirely different play, open source acceleration, and with rock, their open source AI software stack. AMD is building not just hardware parity, but an innovation flywheel that's powered by the community with interoperability and the freedom to scale without all of that pesky lockin. [00:00:48] Andrew Zigler: And in this world, speed is your moat and how fast you can innovate while your platform remains open, flexible, and standardize across all of its applications. That's what we're gonna explore [00:01:00] today. So Anush, I'm really excited to have you here. Welcome to Dev Interrupted. [00:01:04] Anush Elangovan: Thanks for having me. Uh, super excited to chat about it. [00:01:07] Andrew Zigler: Amazing. Well, let's go ahead and dive right in with kind of what I laid it out with in the beginning, the idea of the moat and it being about speed. I wanna unpack that a bit because that came from you when you and I first spoke. And I, and I want to know, you know, how do you define speed inside of AMD beyond just things like hardware, benchmarks. [00:01:27] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, that's a very good question. So when we typically talk about speed, everyone's like, Hey, hardware benchmark specs, right? Like, uh, memory bandwidth or, or flops. And that is one important part of it, uh, AMD does very well. With that, we do have, a, a very good history of executing on that axis. [00:01:47] Anush Elangovan: But when I say speed is the moat, it is about, uh, how we prepare, how we build the muscle to run the race for a long time and run it fast. And it is [00:02:00] not about a single point in time that you've, you've beat some you know, benchmark and, and you declare victory. It's about building the ability to consistently develop and deliver. [00:02:13] Anush Elangovan: Both hardware and software innovation at scale and do it fast, right? Like, you know, we we're increasingly getting to a point where models come out and they're, uh, you know, a year or two ago it was like, Hey, they work on AMD on day zero, which is great, but now they are performing on AMD the day it releases, right? [00:02:32] Anush Elangovan: So, what does it take to Prefetch where the industry is going? Be prepared to intercept. At that point is what you know, I, I refer to as you know, the, the speed factor in, in creating this mode, right? And the mode is just shed all things that hold you back and run as fast as you can. [00:02:53] Anush Elangovan: Uh, because the pace of innovation that is, uh, being seen in, in AI [00:03:00] industries is just. Amazing. Right? And it's like, it's transformational at at how you generate electricity. It's transformational as at how you build data centers. It's transformational at how you deploy compute, networking. It's transformational at what kind of use cases you, you know, uh, use AI for. [00:03:17] Anush Elangovan: Uh, and for that, you need to be prepared to, see what comes tomorrow and be prepared to run the race tomorrow. [00:03:23] Andrew Zigler: Yeah, it's a really great perspective because it highlights that it's not just like a checkpoint that you run through. I like how you called out, like it's not just hitting that benchmark or being the best in class at that moment, in that snapshot, it's about having a. The throughput and about having that dedication to the idea and continuing to deliver on it. [00:03:43] Andrew Zigler: It's not just crossing the threshold, but it's also being the engine. And that's what, that's what protects a business. That is the moat, because the moat is that innovation layer, the faster and more, uh, future forward. That you can work and think, [00:04:00] you know, the better. Uh, we, we talk a lot about like future forward work styles. [00:04:04] Andrew Zigler: Like what are the things I could be doing right now today that are gonna be like, way more useful tomorrow? Let, let's abandon those, workflows that are older and that kind of like, that translates into. An advantage when you work that way. You know, what kind of things have you learned working with, uh, like across all spectrums of people who would use ROCm, right? [00:04:23] Andrew Zigler: You have like the developers, but then you also have the enterprises and you have this large span of adoptees, right? So what is the, what does that look like that you learn? [00:04:32] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, so, so the way I look at it is there are gonna be pockets of different, uh, you know, cadences, right? Like, so people who are deploying in enterprises, for example, right? The validation and how long it takes for them to deploy an LLM that's secure. It's, with guardrails, et cetera, maybe longer. [00:04:52] Anush Elangovan: but you still have to go through the process and you have to be prepared to like, walk that walk to deploy an enterprises. That doesn't mean it's [00:05:00] not fast, that's as fast as you can do for that industry, right? And if you are deploying AI in healthcare, right, it's, it's got its own, uh, cycle. [00:05:07] Anush Elangovan: but in each one of these, you want to see how, like, go down to the essence of what is it that you actually have to do. And, you know, I, I, I like how you framed it. It's like it's, you shed your prior assumptions of how things are done, right. And, and you kind of build up from a, uh, first principles, uh, approach to say, this is how I could use AI to unlock, whatever I'm doing. [00:05:33] Anush Elangovan: And, and, some of it, you know, it's good to really step back and look at. Just question every part of it, right? Like right now you're getting chat GPT and, Gemini competing for like, math, olympiads and, and, uh, college, uh, reasoning, uh, tests. Right? And, and those are like that, that is amazing and increasingly like complex tasks that they're trying to do. [00:05:58] Anush Elangovan: But there may also be like. [00:06:00] More mundane things that AI could, could get applied to. Right? And, and so when we think about shedding old ways, you wanna shed it not just in like the tip of the spear. It's like, you know, I'm gonna see what's the frontier model. It's also, it could be something as simple as. [00:06:18] Anush Elangovan: How do you choose a, a movie, uh, you know, like a recommendation system, right? Or, or, uh, an automated, uh, flight, uh, rebooking system. So the moment, you know, your flight is late, uh, right now it's a notification, right? It's like, oh, you got a text message saying your flight's late. And I got that like three times this week. [00:06:38] Anush Elangovan: But anyway, uh, and, and, and, and, I was just like, okay, so if I were to rethink this. All this MCPs that we have that should be hooked up into an MCP that says, your flight's delayed. Here are your options. If you want, you know, these are the paid options. Yeah. Here are the free options. This will get you back into your you know, Toronto airport [00:07:00] tonight. [00:07:00] Anush Elangovan: Or if you stay, here's a hotel plus this, plus this, plus. It's just like, go ahead is all I should say. Versus now I'm like, okay, can someone, you know, can I call a travel agent? Can I do this? Can I go online and log into And you know, so we gotta fundamentally rethink even those like small, nuances of, things that we do that can be automated out and AI is really, really good at doing something like this, right? Maybe I just explained an AI startup idea right now. Somebody should just start that. [00:07:29] Andrew Zigler: I think you did. Yeah, you definitely did. Someone, one of our listeners is definitely going to lift that off of you. I, I, I, you know, I hate being on the receiving end of those. You feel a little helpless and then you have to like, follow the whole flow. So I know what you mean. Like I, I like how you called out that the build and this like. [00:07:45] Andrew Zigler: Where speed is your moat and the innovation layer is protecting you, is what makes you better than your competitors. How you scale that and you bring that to market. So by understanding the problems that you're solving, uh, throwing away those older assumptions, but also [00:08:00] recognizing that like. We're building every single day, new things and new ways of using stuff that we're still figuring out the implications of. [00:08:08] Andrew Zigler: And so when you have a lot of velocity and you're introducing a lot of new ideas, and maybe you have that workflow now that automatically rebook your flight off of your late flight text message, and uh, I know I would certainly use it, but you know, what kind of philosophies guide the way that y'all think about building this ecosystem to manage that stability while letting folks. [00:08:29] Andrew Zigler: Play with the speed and the assumptions and the airplane re bookings. [00:08:34] Anush Elangovan: so, so I think, you know, we need to peel one layer down, right? and the philosophy is, Hey, we, we just discovered electricity, right? And you know what we're gonna do? We are gonna make motors, uh, or dynamos, right? Like engines. Uh, sure. We don't know if it's gonna be a Ferrari that you're gonna make, or it's a a a a dump truck. [00:08:57] Anush Elangovan: That's good for doing this. But let's [00:09:00] let, which is also required, right? You need a dump truck. You need a garbage truck. And, [00:09:04] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. You need the [00:09:04] Anush Elangovan: course you need, uh, a Ferrari for a midlife crisis, right? So, [00:09:09] Andrew Zigler: precisely. [00:09:10] Anush Elangovan: But, but my, uh, point is what do we build next? And, uh, and this is what I meant by like, okay, let's, let's take those baby steps to build the. [00:09:20] Anush Elangovan: Infrastructure that's required that we know we'll have to use, right? So, so if I just discovered electricity, okay, great. Now one, how do I save this electricity and how do I use it? So there's battery technology, so you need to do something like that, right? Like so. But then you also want to make it into an actionable thing. [00:09:37] Anush Elangovan: You want to make it for like automobiles, or you wanna use it for, you know, powering, uh, entire cities. So it is that transformational. So, uh, AI is that transformational. So, if you distill down, it'll, it'll come down to how do we think about, what we can do with this this fundamental technology that, We may not be aware of what it [00:10:00] is gonna unlock next, but at least you know the next step is clear, right? It's like a dense fog, you know, it's gonna be like, it, it's the right path. You see the light, but it's kind of like out there and, and the steps you're taking are concrete and you're like, okay, this is good. [00:10:16] Anush Elangovan: I, this is better than where I was or where we were. So we are moving forward. So you can build with the. Intuition from what you see in the short term and a tactical view, but towards what you think the future is gonna be. [00:10:28] Andrew Zigler: Right. You almost like we're all in this like fog of war, right? And like you said, you're reaching out and you're trying to step through it. You could think of it too, as like you're in the dark and your hands are up in front of you and you know that. You're, you're not gonna run your face into a wall because your hands are out in front of you, but you're not gonna maybe do much better than that. [00:10:45] Andrew Zigler: So that's kind of like, I think the eco, the, the industry, the world that we find ourselves in, uh, and we all have to, then this becomes the power of an ecosystem, of a group of people working together to create that layer of, [00:11:00] uh, of establishing the [00:11:01] Anush Elangovan: exactly. And I, I, I just, instead of, you know, saying fog of war I describe it as like, you're in this. Beautiful valley with like a morning, uh, fog that's in. You can smell the flowers. You, you hear the birds. You are like, okay, it's, we are in like, uh, utopian paradise and yes, I just need to like, continue the walk, right? [00:11:24] Anush Elangovan: and then move forward with that, conviction that you're in the right spot. [00:11:27] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. So let's talk about that ecosystem world. This nice, I love how you describe it, this grassy side of a hill in the morning that's covered in some mist and maybe we can't see 30 feet in one direction, but it sure is a beautiful hill and it smells nice. And so we're all here. And why is, in that world, why is. [00:11:44] Andrew Zigler: You know, open source, their strategic advantage that y'all are going for in the AI hardware market. And, and then how does like ROCm turn that into wins for people within that ecosystem? [00:11:56] Anush Elangovan: you know, the, the way we look at it is this, is kind of like how I view [00:12:00] AI and the ecosystem, right? But, but it is for everyone to enjoy. Uh, and so we do want to make sure that. You know, it is, uh, beneficial for everyone. [00:12:09] Anush Elangovan: The ecosystem can come in and, and innovate. It's an open innovation engine. and uh, it is very different from, you know, having a walled garden with, Hey, only I know how to do this and I'm gonna do it and throw it over the fence and you can use it or keep walking, right? So we'd like to be good citizens that way, but also. [00:12:30] Anush Elangovan: Uh, it is self-fulfilling in a way, right? Like it, the, the pace at which we innovate with open source is unmatched. Like, you know, our serving engines are like VLLM and, and sg l. Those things, uh, those frameworks are like super, super aggressive in terms of how fast they come out with features and how fast they can you know, get performant models out. [00:12:52] Anush Elangovan: And that compared with what, uh, you'd get from, you know, the likes of like T-R-T-L-L-M or something is always lagging, right? Because you [00:13:00] just can't keep up with you know, 200 commits a week just on one particular model to get that model really performant [00:13:06] Andrew Zigler: And, and, and in that world where, you know, everyone can enjoy the winds of this, what kind of customer stories or innovation stories have really stood out to you and excite you about building and creating this place for developers? [00:13:19] Anush Elangovan: Yeah. So I think the parts that are super exciting for me are when when we get to see a customer that is first skeptical. Then they start a little like, okay, fine, we'll give you a chance. Uh, we do a simple, uh, POC and then they're like, huh, this seems to work. Yeah, we told you it works. [00:13:42] Anush Elangovan: You don't have to change one line of code. Really? Yes, no need to change one line of code. Okay, let's try a production workload. So then they try it. Oh, you're more performant than the competition. Yes. We're more performant than, than the competition. So how much does it cost? And we're like, oh, it's your TCO is better with, uh, [00:14:00] AMD. [00:14:00] Anush Elangovan: So again, they're like, wow, okay, good. So now how do we deploy at scale? And then we go deploy it at scale. And when they give a thumbs up on that and they say, this is good, right? That's when you know, you, you see it go full circle from like, oh, we, we've never heard about AMD to like actually deploy to tens of thousands of GPUs In the order of a few months, right? It, it, it really is fascinating to see and very exciting and invigorating to [00:14:28] Andrew Zigler: Yeah. At like a great exposure to a lot of interesting problems. And, and then people using the infrastructure, the, the technology available to solve those problems. Really specific problems by the way, that's often why they're bringing their data and AI to it, uh, is because it is really specific and important for them. [00:14:45] Andrew Zigler: And there's a, a lot I think that other engineering orgs can learn and even emulate from AMD's success and, and having this open source ecosystem and it causing this acceleration within. You [00:15:00] know, uh, customers and enterprises that use and adopt the tools and, and, and that creates an advantage. And that goes back to why we're talking and like the real thesis of our conversation today. [00:15:10] Andrew Zigler: So how do you think engineering leaders that are listening to this and obviously tapping into this great success AMD has from an open source flywheel, how do you think other, other folks building in the same space can foster that open, first, that open source oriented culture in order to, you know, accelerate their innovation goals? [00:15:29] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, that's a very good question. So the startup that um, was acquired by AMD we, we built, I mean, we started off doing iot stuff and you know, smart ring and all that, right? But in the, the end of like, uh, and not the end, the last six years of the company was building ML compilers. [00:15:47] Anush Elangovan: And ml, ML compilers are like super, uh, complicated, sophisticated, advanced algorithms, dah, dah, dah. but it was all open source, right? So our VCs were like, wait, what do you mean your core [00:16:00] IP is open source? And um, the speed is the moat applied even then, right? It was just like, yes, if you have an idea that. [00:16:08] Anush Elangovan: Because someone saw this idea that you are, they're gonna be able to catch up, then you probably have the wrong idea anyway. But if they are, you know, you execute and they're gonna catch up, that you should assume they're gonna catch up. Right? So you gotta move forward. So keeping it open source is super important. [00:16:25] Anush Elangovan: But also to your question on like, you know, the learnings from an AMD standpoint, right? If there are, hard problems, I'd say dig in and work through it, right? Like there's no way but through it, right? That should be the simple mentality. And more, uh, frequently than not. you'll see that you'll just make it through in a, in, in good form. [00:16:52] Anush Elangovan: But if you doubt it and you're like, oh, I don't know if I should commit, if I'm, I, you know, what should just commit to do the right thing [00:17:00] every step, right? Every step, and just keep taking one step in front of the other. And in no time you'll see that you'll be running. Right. And, and yes, the first few steps will be like, yeah, everyone's complaining about your software quality. [00:17:15] Anush Elangovan: Everyone's complaining about this and that, and it doesn't work. And, and a few steps in, you know, you get, you get the hang of all the complaints that are coming in. You get the feedback loop. You're like, okay, what, what are you prioritizing again? One step in front of the other, right? You just keep knocking that out and then you get to a point where you're, it just becomes second nature, right? To do the, to do the right thing. And, and then yes, if someone gives you two options, you'll be like, fine. This is, uh, you know, there's always the resource trade off. There's always a human capital trade off, but what's the right thing to do? of course, I, I'm pragmatic about what we choose, but, but if the right thing for your long-term success is dig in, go first, principles, make it [00:18:00] happen. [00:18:00] Anush Elangovan: Well. Then just go for that. There's, there is no shortcut to [00:18:04] Andrew Zigler: acknowledging, you know, how it aligns with your mission, your core company goals, and what you're looking to achieve. And, and I, I love how you rightfully called out that in the open source world and you know, you have your technology that you've built, what you think is your moat upon, right? [00:18:22] Andrew Zigler: It's your code and, and to open source that, or to just make it where anyone could peer in is, you know. Scary in one regard, but two, it just kind of feels like you're handing away your throne room in some kind of sense, a very direct feeling sense. But the ultimately, you were really right to call out, and this is something I think about all the time, that the real power there is still the speed This the speed. [00:18:42] Andrew Zigler: That was the moat at the beginning of our conversation. It's the speed in combination with your. Very specific domain understanding of what you're building and what you're creating, and your new role as the steward of that world and how people plug into it, which [00:19:00] has frankly, a lot more influence and power than lording over a closed. [00:19:04] Andrew Zigler: You know, repository or an ecosystem, and like you said, like throwing things over the wall. Sure. There, there might be people always on the other side of that wall, but you're not gonna have a great connection with them. You're not gonna be able to really clearly understand them. I, I like your metaphor of the side of the field of the mountain a lot more. [00:19:23] Andrew Zigler: But, but in the, in this world, you know, where. That speed is, is the power and, and open source is just one way that you can harness that speed to get really far ahead and to innovate. , There's other parts of this equation that you can be experimenting with too, and I'd love to pick your brain about them as a software leader and, and, and one of them is about looking forward and kind of understanding that future that we're all building towards and beyond today's models and hardware. [00:19:48] Andrew Zigler: You know, what do you see as the next major bottleneck or opportunity in the AI compute space? As, as you know, enterprises and folks start to get a little more mature about what's available to [00:20:00] them. [00:20:00] Anush Elangovan: Yeah, I think, the bottleneck and opportunity is, uh, what I'd call, call walking the last mile of ai. Right. Uh, and like I I, I gave you an example, uh, previously, but, but it's similar to that. It's like there are cases where Humans have so many, uh, things to do in your day. You know, like the, if we sit down and actually had a customer focus like, okay, these customers lives, I'm gonna save four hours of this customer's life. And if you actually sit down and look at all of that, it'll be. Easily automatable, easily you know, uh, applicable, uh, for ai, right? [00:20:39] Anush Elangovan: Like, but then making it happen is gonna take a little bit, right? It's like maybe it's, uh, paying your utility bill, right? Or something like that, right? Or, or, your healthcare explanation of benefits. Uh, like, I'm sure you get an explanation of benefits, and I'm like, I, I don't even know what that thing is. [00:20:55] Anush Elangovan: It's just like EOB and like. [00:20:57] Andrew Zigler: it's a big, a big old PDF. Yeah, [00:21:00] exactly. [00:21:01] Anush Elangovan: Like, like, I'm like great straight to the, uh, shredder, right? And but that could be, you know, automated with the ai, right? It, it, it'd be like, Hey, the summary of this thing is you went and visited this day. Everything is okay. Everything is paid for, so don't worry, it's not a bill. [00:21:17] Anush Elangovan: That again, the same, uh, thing, but the sense of what that information overload is could be. Digested by ai, uh, accumulated over time and retrieved when you need it. Like, I don't, I actually don't even need to know this EOB right now, unless of course, whenever I need to know it, that maybe, you know, like for some benefits I need to figure out what do, what did I do over the past year and how do I apply it? Source:

Mike

15,248 次观看 • 10 个月前

There's been recent discussion on cloning methods and techniques, I figured I'd share mine, since I've done a clone or two at scale. Knowing what we all know about cloning different strains, and that they all root at different speeds, it's important to note that I grew 25 different strains in here. This was literally my job, I was their greenouse/mother genetics preservation/clone manager. X hostility has increased exponentially lately, so let's address it now. This post may hurt some people's feelings, may cause some anger and a little controversy(If that's you, search within), but I'm just relaying what I've found testing these things at scale, rather than going off of anecdotal instances and remembering what I did(or someone lese) with 10 clones in my 4x4 tent off the top of my head, like many do here. Whether you do these procedures, or not, or whether you have problems, or not -is entirely irrelevant to this post. That's not to say your results aren't real, just that you came to your conclusion unscientifically. This is about other cloning methods, best practices, and this is showing what I've done that works. This was also 4 years ago, and they profited millions that year with high quality flower, so save those comments as well, they're moot. I also no longer work for, or are affiliated with, this farm in any way. We ended our relationship in early 2022, and I wish them the best of success in the future, and they still exist today. They were given the rights to all media and promotional material I filmed and photographed during my 6 years living on the farm, and I likewise have permission and full rights to use whatever footage I recorded there. The only company I'm currently sponsored by, is HardyGro, and their products won't be discussed here. Now, let's get to it. Please be advised, if your ambient RH is below 50%, you will not be able to leave the domes off for long at all. Use a mister to recover them if they wilt on you, and adjust these following procedures accordingly: Use Root Riot or similar rooting medium, other peat based cheaper mediums work well, too, but I found these work the best. 1. Wipe out your domes. If this takes several times per day in a greenhouse of thousands of them, so be it-get it done. You essentially eliminate any fungal issues that may arise with 24/7 100% humidity stagnant air. Remember, the clones are also absorbing water through their stems. 2. Days 1-3, 3 times per day, take the domes off, and wave the plants with it(or place them near a fan for at least 30 seconds). This ensures a thorough air exchange, which also prevents fungal diseases, and proper N,o2 and co2. 3. Beginning days 3-4, remove your domes for several hours at a time. By day 7, remove the domes completely. 4. And this is important - allow the cubes(in this case) to dry down somewhat, they will root faster. 5. Cut your lights back, and never place them in direct sun, they can't handle it. 6. CloneX reigns supreme, period. I tested it against Foop Cloning Gel, Olivia's and Technaflora. Out of 500 clones to test each product, retention percentages were as follows: CloneX: 95+% Tech. : 80% Olivia's: 45% Foop: 0% success. The Fooped clones also grew an unidentified greenish/orange fungus at the base of every clone, and they were all culled. Again, these were my results, at scale, this isn't a debate on what's best or what's cheaper. Maybe two more videos, and I'm outside for the day, enjoy your Sunday.
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There's been recent discussion on cloning methods and techniques, I figured I'd share mine, since I've done a clone or two at scale. Knowing what we all know about cloning different strains, and that they all root at different speeds, it's important to note that I grew 25 different strains in here. This was literally my job, I was their greenouse/mother genetics preservation/clone manager. X hostility has increased exponentially lately, so let's address it now. This post may hurt some people's feelings, may cause some anger and a little controversy(If that's you, search within), but I'm just relaying what I've found testing these things at scale, rather than going off of anecdotal instances and remembering what I did(or someone lese) with 10 clones in my 4x4 tent off the top of my head, like many do here. Whether you do these procedures, or not, or whether you have problems, or not -is entirely irrelevant to this post. That's not to say your results aren't real, just that you came to your conclusion unscientifically. This is about other cloning methods, best practices, and this is showing what I've done that works. This was also 4 years ago, and they profited millions that year with high quality flower, so save those comments as well, they're moot. I also no longer work for, or are affiliated with, this farm in any way. We ended our relationship in early 2022, and I wish them the best of success in the future, and they still exist today. They were given the rights to all media and promotional material I filmed and photographed during my 6 years living on the farm, and I likewise have permission and full rights to use whatever footage I recorded there. The only company I'm currently sponsored by, is HardyGro, and their products won't be discussed here. Now, let's get to it. Please be advised, if your ambient RH is below 50%, you will not be able to leave the domes off for long at all. Use a mister to recover them if they wilt on you, and adjust these following procedures accordingly: Use Root Riot or similar rooting medium, other peat based cheaper mediums work well, too, but I found these work the best. 1. Wipe out your domes. If this takes several times per day in a greenhouse of thousands of them, so be it-get it done. You essentially eliminate any fungal issues that may arise with 24/7 100% humidity stagnant air. Remember, the clones are also absorbing water through their stems. 2. Days 1-3, 3 times per day, take the domes off, and wave the plants with it(or place them near a fan for at least 30 seconds). This ensures a thorough air exchange, which also prevents fungal diseases, and proper N,o2 and co2. 3. Beginning days 3-4, remove your domes for several hours at a time. By day 7, remove the domes completely. 4. And this is important - allow the cubes(in this case) to dry down somewhat, they will root faster. 5. Cut your lights back, and never place them in direct sun, they can't handle it. 6. CloneX reigns supreme, period. I tested it against Foop Cloning Gel, Olivia's and Technaflora. Out of 500 clones to test each product, retention percentages were as follows: CloneX: 95+% Tech. : 80% Olivia's: 45% Foop: 0% success. The Fooped clones also grew an unidentified greenish/orange fungus at the base of every clone, and they were all culled. Again, these were my results, at scale, this isn't a debate on what's best or what's cheaper. Maybe two more videos, and I'm outside for the day, enjoy your Sunday.

One Nation Under Informed

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A dog just made the bravest decision I have seen anyone make this year. Not a founder. Not an athlete. Not a person with a plan and a five-year vision board. A dog, on an empty road, with nothing to lose and no idea what would come next. I have watched what comes next more times than I will admit in public. This post is 25,000 characters long. It is a list of reasons why you should watch it too. Read as much as you want, but understand one thing before you start: the video is the only part that matters, and this is everything the video doesn't have room to say. Sound on. Phone in both hands. Do not skip. I'll be here when you get back. THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD BOTHER YOU Let me start with two numbers. The first: commonly cited estimates put the world's stray dog population at around 200 million. Two hundred million animals with no address, no bowl with their name on it, and no one who would notice if they didn't come back tonight. The second number is one. That is how many people had to be on that road, at that exact minute, looking in that exact direction, in a good enough mood to stop. Not two. Not a crowd. One. Here is what nobody says out loud: for every dog you see rescued on camera, there are millions the camera never reached. We don't see them because no one was there. The videos that reach you are not a sample of reality. They are the winners of a lottery so brutal that Powerball looks like a coin flip next to it. So when one of these lands in your feed, don't scroll past it like content. Treat it like what it is: a statistical miracle that happened to end well. And miracles have a structure. Let's take this one apart. FIVE LINKS. BREAK ONE AND THE STORY DOESN'T EXIST. Link one: the dog has to survive long enough to be seen. Roads are not built for small animals. Vehicles do not slow down for shapes on the asphalt. Every hour out there is a coin flip the animal has to win again, and again, and again. Link two: someone has to be present. Not nearby. Present. Eyes up, phone down, brain not busy replaying the argument from breakfast. Link three: that someone has to notice. It sounds simple. It isn't. The human brain is a filtering machine, and a small animal on a road becomes a plastic bag, a shadow, a piece of tire. The most common reason a dog is not rescued is not cruelty. It is that nobody registered it as a dog. Link four: the person has to stop. This is the link that snaps most often. Seeing is free. Stopping costs you time, comfort, a schedule, and possibly the mood of your entire day. Link five: the dog has to let them. An animal that has learned that hands mean pain has every biological reason to run. Trust is not a given. It is a negotiation, and the dog holds the veto. Five links. All five held. Remember that when you press play. You are not watching a nice story. You are watching a chain that should have snapped at least four times. THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP DRIVING In 1968, psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane published a set of experiments that changed how we think about helping. The finding was uncomfortable: the more people who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to act. They called it diffusion of responsibility. Everyone assumes someone else will handle it. So nobody does. Later research added nuance. When an emergency is clear and dangerous, people step in more often than the original theory predicted. But the core insight has survived half a century of testing, because it describes something every one of us has felt: the small, quiet voice that says, somebody else will stop. Now picture a road with no crowd at all. No audience. No one to hide behind. No one to blame. Just you and a decision that is entirely, inescapably yours. That is the situation the person in this video walked into. And the reason it is worth your attention is not that they did something impossible. It is that they did something small, and it turns out small is exactly what almost nobody does. You don't need to be a hero. You need to be inconvenienced. THE FACE IS THE RESUME In 2013, researcher Bridget Waller and her team studied dogs in a UK shelter and asked a simple question: what makes one dog get adopted faster than another? It wasn't size. It wasn't age. It wasn't coat color. It was one tiny facial movement: the raising of the inner eyebrows. The move that makes a dog's eyes look bigger, softer, almost sad. Dogs that did it more often were chosen faster. Six years later, a study led by Juliane Kaminski found out why that movement is so easy for dogs and so hard for wolves. Dogs have a small muscle around the eye that wolves largely lack. Over thousands of years of living beside us, dogs evolved a way to make their faces speak our language. Read that again. A species rewired its own anatomy to be understood by another species. No other animal has done this to us. Nobody taught them. Nobody forced them. They looked at us, worked out what we respond to, and grew the tool. Now look at the face in this video. You will know the second you see it. That is not a coincidence, and it is not luck. It is fifteen thousand years of engineering aimed directly at your chest. THE ONLY LOOP LIKE IT ON EARTH In 2015, a Japanese team led by Miho Nagasawa published a result in the journal Science that made researchers stop and reread the abstract. When a dog and its owner look into each other's eyes, both of their oxytocin levels rise. Oxytocin is the bonding chemical, the same one that flows between a mother and her newborn. Dog looks at human. Human's oxytocin rises. Human looks back, touches, talks softly. Dog's oxytocin rises. Which makes the dog look longer. Which makes the human's oxytocin rise again. A feedback loop of affection, running across two species, powered by nothing but eye contact. Here is the part that gets me: the effect did not show up the same way in wolves raised by humans. The loop is not just training. It is something that evolved between us. So the next time someone says a dog is just responding to food, tell them there is a peer-reviewed study that disagrees. And keep this fact in your pocket for the video. Because at some point, a moment of eye contact happens in it, and I want you to know what is really going on in that room. THEY CAN SMELL WHAT YOU'RE HIDING Humans have roughly 6 million scent receptors. Dogs are commonly cited as having around 300 million. A large share of a dog's brain is devoted to processing smell. What you experience as a room, a dog experiences as a layered document: who was here, how long ago, and how they felt. In 2022, researchers at Queen's University Belfast tested something remarkable. They collected breath and sweat samples from people before and after a stressful task. Then they asked dogs to tell the samples apart. The dogs got it right nearly 94 percent of the time. Your body broadcasts your emotional state as chemistry. You cannot turn it off. You cannot fake calm. A dog reads your fear, your tension, your irritation, before you have opened your mouth. Which means every rescue is, at its core, a test of one thing: are you actually calm, or are you performing calm? The dog knows. It always knows. And that is why what happens in the first few seconds of this video matters more than anything that comes after it. Watch the body language. Watch how slowly things move. Watch what is not done. THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN ANY RESCUE IS THE ONE WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS Animal behaviorists describe fear responses in four flavors: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Fight is what people expect. Flight is what most strays do. Freeze is what looks like calm but isn't. And fawn, the desperate, wiggling, please-don't-hurt-me appeasement, is the one that breaks your heart the fastest, because it looks like friendliness and it is actually terror. Rescuers who have done this hundreds of times will tell you the same handful of rules. Don't loom. Don't stare straight into the eyes. Get low. Turn sideways. Slow everything down until it feels absurd. Let the animal close the last few feet on its own terms. The hardest instruction, and the one most people can't follow, is the last one: do nothing. Every instinct you have says reach out. Grab. Fix. Take control of the situation. And every good rescue begins with someone who did the opposite. Who made themselves small, patient, and boring, and waited for a frightened animal to decide that the safest thing in its whole world might be a stranger. You are about to watch someone do exactly that. Notice how little they need to say. THE TEARS THEY WON'T PUT IN THE HEADLINE Scientists are careful people. They do not like to say "dogs cry." But in 2022, a team from Azabu University in Japan, led by Takefumi Kikusui, measured tear volume in dogs during reunions with their owners. The result: tear volume rose significantly compared with reunions involving other familiar people. And when researchers applied oxytocin to the dogs' eyes, tear volume rose again. Not sadness crying. Not the crying we do. Something else, something closer to overflow. The body producing water at the exact moment the heart has more in it than it can hold. Nobody has proven that this is the same thing we feel. Scientists will tell you that, and they are right to. But here is a question worth sitting with. If an animal's eyes fill with water when it sees the one being it has decided to trust, what exactly are we arguing about? Watch the eyes in this video. Then tell me what you think you saw. ONCE IT HAS A NAME, IT STOPS BEING A STATISTIC In 2007, psychologist Paul Slovic and colleagues ran an experiment on generosity. They showed people a fundraising appeal for a hungry child, and then a second version that added statistics about millions of other children in the same crisis. More data. More context. More reasons to care. Donations dropped. Slovic called it psychic numbing. The human mind can hold one face. It cannot hold two hundred million. When a tragedy becomes a number, empathy quietly switches off, and we don't even notice it happening. This is why one named animal in one small video can do what a hundred reports full of charts cannot. It gives your brain something it can actually care about: a single life, with a face, a fear, and a future that could go either way. The stray population is a statistic. A dog is a story. And stories, unlike statistics, come with a name at the end. When you reach that moment in the video, pay attention to what it does to you. Notice the small shift in your chest. That is the sound of a number turning into a person, or close enough. THE WORD FOR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FEEL Researchers have a name for the feeling you get when something touches you so suddenly that your throat tightens and your eyes sting. They call it kama muta, Sanskrit for "moved by love." Anthropologist Alan Fiske proposed that it is a distinct emotion, triggered by a sudden intensification of closeness. Two beings who were strangers become bonded. Someone who was alone becomes part of something. People across many cultures describe the same set of signs: warmth in the chest, goosebumps, a lump in the throat, tears they didn't plan on, and a strong urge to hug someone or hold something. Here is what makes it useful and not just sweet: kama muta is one of the most reliable emotional responses we have. It shows up when reunions happen. When a stranger helps unexpectedly. When an animal, after a long time alone, is finally held. You've felt it. You just never had a word for it. Take note of the exact second it hits you in this video. I promise there is one. And if you're the kind of person who says "I never cry at videos," I would like to schedule a follow-up. WHY YOU'LL WANT TO BE A BETTER PERSON AFTER ONE MINUTE Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studied a related feeling and gave it a name: elevation. Elevation is what you feel when you watch someone do something morally beautiful, quietly, with nothing to gain. It is not envy and it is not admiration. It is an urge, physical and immediate, to do something good yourself. In studies, people who experienced elevation were more likely to help others afterward, more likely to volunteer, and more likely to describe wanting to become better versions of themselves. Read that as a design spec. A short piece of true, unstaged kindness can change what a person does in the hour after they see it. Which is a strange, lovely thing for a phone to be capable of. We spend so much time discussing what social media does wrong. Nobody wonders what would happen if the best five percent of it, the small, real, human moments, were the part that traveled farthest. Let this one travel. It has earned it. THE RARE THING: SOMETHING TRUE THAT WINS In 2018, researchers at MIT published a study in Science that analyzed millions of tweets. The result was grim: false news spread significantly faster and further than true news. False stories were about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted, driven largely by surprise and disgust. The lesson most people took away was that this platform rewards outrage. I want to take a different lesson. If false stories win because they trigger strong emotion, then true stories can win too, as long as they trigger stronger ones. A video with no villain, no scandal, and no argument. Nothing to be angry about. Nothing to dunk on. A rescue that is exactly what it looks like. That kind of content should lose on this platform. It has no fuel. And yet every so often, one of them breaks through and reminds everyone what this place was supposed to be. I am not asking you to like it. I am asking you to notice that you had a choice about what to feed today, and this was one of the options. SOME FRIENDSHIPS SHOULDN'T WORK Somewhere near the end of this video, a second character enters the story. I won't tell you who. I won't tell you what happens. I will tell you that if you have ever read anything about instincts, hunting drives, or the way certain animals are supposed to see each other, this moment will quietly rearrange your assumptions. Behaviorists talk about prey drive as if it were destiny. It is not. It is a tendency, and tendencies can be softened by experience, by safety, by being raised, or re-raised, in a place where no one is afraid. The same dog that once had to look after itself alone can, in a different life, learn that the world contains creatures that are not threats or meals. Only neighbors. That is the most hopeful idea in behavioral science, and it usually gets buried in footnotes: what an animal was is not the same as what an animal can become. The same is true for most of us, incidentally. But that is a different post. Stay for the ending. It is the reason I am writing this at all. THE PART THE INTERNET NEVER FILMS Every rescue video has the same shape: the meeting, the rescue, the transformation, the happy ending. It is edited that way because it is the only shape that gets watched. But ask anyone who has actually done this, and they will tell you the truth is in the gap between the second and third act. The first night. The first week. The first time a dog that has never lived indoors realizes there is a floor that doesn't move, a door that closes without danger, and a bowl that will be full again tomorrow. Rescuers have a rule of thumb for this, the 3-3-3 rule. Three days for a dog to decompress. Three weeks to start learning the routine. Three months to feel truly at home. It's not science, exactly, just a shorthand built from thousands of adoptions. But it captures something real: safety is not a switch. It is a process, and the animal has to believe it slowly, one uneventful day at a time. That means the happiest scenes in this video are not the ones that look like celebrations. They are the quiet ones. A dog that stops scanning the room. A body that finally lets go. Look for the moment the shoulders drop. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it. THE COST OF STOPPING: NINETY SECONDS Let's do the math on the thing that most people are afraid of. How long does it actually take to stop for an animal in trouble? Not the whole rescue. Just the decision, the pulling over, the first attempt. Ninety seconds. Sometimes less. Ninety seconds is the length of a bad song on the radio. It is the time you spend waiting for a light to change. It is a scroll through a feed you won't remember. And on the other side of those ninety seconds is the difference between a living animal and a statistic. I'm not saying this to make anyone feel guilty. Guilt is a terrible motivator. It makes people avoid the feeling instead of acting on it. I'm saying it because the barrier is almost always imagined. We inflate the cost of helping in our heads, and the imagined price is what stops us, not the real one. The person in this video paid the real price. It was small. What they got in return is something no one could have planned for. That is the part you should watch closely. IF YOU'RE EVER THE ONE ON THAT ROAD Save this section. Someday, someone reading it will need it. Put your safety first. Pull over where it's safe and turn on your hazard lights before anything else. A second accident helps no one. Do not chase. A frightened dog runs faster than you and directly into the worst possible place. Chasing turns a rescue into a pursuit. Get low and go slow. Sit down if you can. Turn your body sideways. Avoid direct staring. Speak softly, or don't speak at all. Use food, if you have any. Something plain, tossed a little closer each time, works better than any technique. Check for a tag and, if you can get near enough, ask a vet or shelter to scan for a microchip. Someone may be looking for this animal right now. Call for help early. Local rescues, animal control, and vets can handle what you cannot. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is make the right phone call. Take photos and note the location. If you can't keep the animal, those details are what let someone else finish the job. None of this is complicated. The reason it is rare is that most people have never been told that it is allowed. You are allowed. THE REAL STAKES OF A SMALL DOG Here is a bigger picture, and it's a heavy one. Millions of companion animals enter shelters every year in the United States alone. That is just one country. Many are lost pets that never get reclaimed. Many are strays. Many are animals whose owners ran out of money, time, or hope. Shelters are often crowded, underfunded, and staffed by people running on love and very little else. Every animal that finds a home, or a foster, or a stranger with ninety seconds to spare, frees up a space for the next one in line. That means every single rescue is bigger than the animal in it. It is a small change to a very large system, and the system is nothing but small changes stacked on top of one another. This is not an argument for guilt. It's an argument for scale. One dog saved is one dog saved, but it is also proof of concept, a demonstration that the chain can hold, that the odds can be beaten, that a person and a road and a decision can end well. And proof of concept is contagious. That is why you are seeing it. WHO REALLY GOT RESCUED? If you talk to people who have taken in strays, you'll hear the same sentence over and over, in different words. "I thought I was saving him. It turned out he was saving me." Skeptics roll their eyes at that. It sounds like a greeting card. And research on pets and wellbeing is more mixed than social media would like. It doesn't say every dog fixes every life. But there is something real underneath it, and it's not mystical. A dog is a machine for creating routine, attention, and reasons to leave the house. It needs you at a certain hour. It notices when you come home. It doesn't care about your job title, your follower count, or what you failed at last week. For some people, that is the first unconditional witness they have had in years. The rescue, in this light, is not one-way. Two lonely creatures, one who knew it and one who didn't, found out that they could take care of each other. Nobody can prove that from a video. But there is a version of the story that runs in the background of every rescue, and you can feel it if you let yourself. Tell me whether you feel it here. THE ATTENTION PARADOX Here is a strange fact about the platform you're reading this on. The average post gets a glance. A few words, a flick of the thumb, gone. Brands spend billions every year trying to buy three seconds of your attention, and most of what they buy evaporates before it lands. And yet a video of one dog, with no budget, no celebrity, and no script, can hold a stranger for a full minute. Without a single trick. Why? Because attention is not really about tricks. It is about stakes. Your brain is built to track living things whose outcome is uncertain. The moment there is a creature on screen and you don't yet know if it will be okay, some ancient part of you leans in and refuses to look away. That is the secret behind every great story ever told. Someone we care about. Something that could go wrong. A question we need answered. Marketers call it a hook. Your nervous system calls it worry. This video has both, and it pays off the worry honestly, which is why you leave feeling better instead of used. That is rare enough to deserve a full minute of your life. HOW TO WATCH THIS Most people will watch it wrong. They'll half-look at it between two other things, mid-scroll, thumb already moving. Here is how to get the actual effect. Turn the sound on. There is more happening in the audio than you expect. Make it full screen. This is a story about faces, and faces need room. Watch the first ten seconds without expecting anything. The film is quiet at the start. That is deliberate, or at least it works as if it were. Do not skip ahead. The whole thing depends on the distance between where it starts and where it ends. Skip the middle and the ending is just a nice clip. Then, once it's over, watch it again. The second time, you won't be watching for the story. You'll be watching for the small things you missed: a hesitation, a glance, a change in how a body carries itself. That second watch is where it gets you. I said I have watched it more times than I'll admit. That is the honest reason. It doesn't wear out. It gets deeper. THE CHALLENGE I want to try something with this post. If the video moved you, leave one comment: the second it happened. Not a review, not an analysis. Just the moment. I'm curious whether it's the same one for everyone. My guess is that it isn't, and that the spread of answers will say more about what people carry around with them than about the video. If it didn't move you, that is fine too. I'd like to hear that as well. Honest is better than polite. And if you have ever been the one who stopped, and I know some of you have, write that instead. Tell the story in two lines. No one has ever regretted the ninety seconds. Someone reading this thread might need to know that. Reposting this is the simplest way to put it in front of someone who's scrolling right now, in a bad week, thinking that nothing good happens by accident anymore. Something did. THE LAST THING Let me end where I started. A dog made a decision on an empty road. It could not have known how it would turn out. It had no reason to believe that the next hand would be different from the last. It went ahead anyway. That is the whole difference between a life that changes and one that doesn't. Not certainty. Not a plan. A willingness to move toward the unknown when the alternative is more of the same. The animal in this video did that. Then someone did the same in return. That's it. That's the entire story. Two beings, each of whom took a small, terrifying step toward the other, and a road that was, for a few seconds, the most important place in the world. Scroll up. Press play. Watch the ending. Then come back and tell me I was exaggerating. P.S. If you read all of this, you are exactly the kind of person this video was made for. Most people never make it past the first screen of a long post. You did. That tells me you are someone who stays: through the slow part, through the uncertain part, all the way to the end. Which is, when you think about it, the only quality that mattered in the story you're about to watch. Follow for more like this. I only post the ones that earn it. Bookmark it for days you forget the feeling. #Rescue #DogsOfX #SecondChances #AdoptDontShop #Dogs #AnimalRescue #RescueDog
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A dog just made the bravest decision I have seen anyone make this year. Not a founder. Not an athlete. Not a person with a plan and a five-year vision board. A dog, on an empty road, with nothing to lose and no idea what would come next. I have watched what comes next more times than I will admit in public. This post is 25,000 characters long. It is a list of reasons why you should watch it too. Read as much as you want, but understand one thing before you start: the video is the only part that matters, and this is everything the video doesn't have room to say. Sound on. Phone in both hands. Do not skip. I'll be here when you get back. THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD BOTHER YOU Let me start with two numbers. The first: commonly cited estimates put the world's stray dog population at around 200 million. Two hundred million animals with no address, no bowl with their name on it, and no one who would notice if they didn't come back tonight. The second number is one. That is how many people had to be on that road, at that exact minute, looking in that exact direction, in a good enough mood to stop. Not two. Not a crowd. One. Here is what nobody says out loud: for every dog you see rescued on camera, there are millions the camera never reached. We don't see them because no one was there. The videos that reach you are not a sample of reality. They are the winners of a lottery so brutal that Powerball looks like a coin flip next to it. So when one of these lands in your feed, don't scroll past it like content. Treat it like what it is: a statistical miracle that happened to end well. And miracles have a structure. Let's take this one apart. FIVE LINKS. BREAK ONE AND THE STORY DOESN'T EXIST. Link one: the dog has to survive long enough to be seen. Roads are not built for small animals. Vehicles do not slow down for shapes on the asphalt. Every hour out there is a coin flip the animal has to win again, and again, and again. Link two: someone has to be present. Not nearby. Present. Eyes up, phone down, brain not busy replaying the argument from breakfast. Link three: that someone has to notice. It sounds simple. It isn't. The human brain is a filtering machine, and a small animal on a road becomes a plastic bag, a shadow, a piece of tire. The most common reason a dog is not rescued is not cruelty. It is that nobody registered it as a dog. Link four: the person has to stop. This is the link that snaps most often. Seeing is free. Stopping costs you time, comfort, a schedule, and possibly the mood of your entire day. Link five: the dog has to let them. An animal that has learned that hands mean pain has every biological reason to run. Trust is not a given. It is a negotiation, and the dog holds the veto. Five links. All five held. Remember that when you press play. You are not watching a nice story. You are watching a chain that should have snapped at least four times. THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP DRIVING In 1968, psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane published a set of experiments that changed how we think about helping. The finding was uncomfortable: the more people who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to act. They called it diffusion of responsibility. Everyone assumes someone else will handle it. So nobody does. Later research added nuance. When an emergency is clear and dangerous, people step in more often than the original theory predicted. But the core insight has survived half a century of testing, because it describes something every one of us has felt: the small, quiet voice that says, somebody else will stop. Now picture a road with no crowd at all. No audience. No one to hide behind. No one to blame. Just you and a decision that is entirely, inescapably yours. That is the situation the person in this video walked into. And the reason it is worth your attention is not that they did something impossible. It is that they did something small, and it turns out small is exactly what almost nobody does. You don't need to be a hero. You need to be inconvenienced. THE FACE IS THE RESUME In 2013, researcher Bridget Waller and her team studied dogs in a UK shelter and asked a simple question: what makes one dog get adopted faster than another? It wasn't size. It wasn't age. It wasn't coat color. It was one tiny facial movement: the raising of the inner eyebrows. The move that makes a dog's eyes look bigger, softer, almost sad. Dogs that did it more often were chosen faster. Six years later, a study led by Juliane Kaminski found out why that movement is so easy for dogs and so hard for wolves. Dogs have a small muscle around the eye that wolves largely lack. Over thousands of years of living beside us, dogs evolved a way to make their faces speak our language. Read that again. A species rewired its own anatomy to be understood by another species. No other animal has done this to us. Nobody taught them. Nobody forced them. They looked at us, worked out what we respond to, and grew the tool. Now look at the face in this video. You will know the second you see it. That is not a coincidence, and it is not luck. It is fifteen thousand years of engineering aimed directly at your chest. THE ONLY LOOP LIKE IT ON EARTH In 2015, a Japanese team led by Miho Nagasawa published a result in the journal Science that made researchers stop and reread the abstract. When a dog and its owner look into each other's eyes, both of their oxytocin levels rise. Oxytocin is the bonding chemical, the same one that flows between a mother and her newborn. Dog looks at human. Human's oxytocin rises. Human looks back, touches, talks softly. Dog's oxytocin rises. Which makes the dog look longer. Which makes the human's oxytocin rise again. A feedback loop of affection, running across two species, powered by nothing but eye contact. Here is the part that gets me: the effect did not show up the same way in wolves raised by humans. The loop is not just training. It is something that evolved between us. So the next time someone says a dog is just responding to food, tell them there is a peer-reviewed study that disagrees. And keep this fact in your pocket for the video. Because at some point, a moment of eye contact happens in it, and I want you to know what is really going on in that room. THEY CAN SMELL WHAT YOU'RE HIDING Humans have roughly 6 million scent receptors. Dogs are commonly cited as having around 300 million. A large share of a dog's brain is devoted to processing smell. What you experience as a room, a dog experiences as a layered document: who was here, how long ago, and how they felt. In 2022, researchers at Queen's University Belfast tested something remarkable. They collected breath and sweat samples from people before and after a stressful task. Then they asked dogs to tell the samples apart. The dogs got it right nearly 94 percent of the time. Your body broadcasts your emotional state as chemistry. You cannot turn it off. You cannot fake calm. A dog reads your fear, your tension, your irritation, before you have opened your mouth. Which means every rescue is, at its core, a test of one thing: are you actually calm, or are you performing calm? The dog knows. It always knows. And that is why what happens in the first few seconds of this video matters more than anything that comes after it. Watch the body language. Watch how slowly things move. Watch what is not done. THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN ANY RESCUE IS THE ONE WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS Animal behaviorists describe fear responses in four flavors: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. Fight is what people expect. Flight is what most strays do. Freeze is what looks like calm but isn't. And fawn, the desperate, wiggling, please-don't-hurt-me appeasement, is the one that breaks your heart the fastest, because it looks like friendliness and it is actually terror. Rescuers who have done this hundreds of times will tell you the same handful of rules. Don't loom. Don't stare straight into the eyes. Get low. Turn sideways. Slow everything down until it feels absurd. Let the animal close the last few feet on its own terms. The hardest instruction, and the one most people can't follow, is the last one: do nothing. Every instinct you have says reach out. Grab. Fix. Take control of the situation. And every good rescue begins with someone who did the opposite. Who made themselves small, patient, and boring, and waited for a frightened animal to decide that the safest thing in its whole world might be a stranger. You are about to watch someone do exactly that. Notice how little they need to say. THE TEARS THEY WON'T PUT IN THE HEADLINE Scientists are careful people. They do not like to say "dogs cry." But in 2022, a team from Azabu University in Japan, led by Takefumi Kikusui, measured tear volume in dogs during reunions with their owners. The result: tear volume rose significantly compared with reunions involving other familiar people. And when researchers applied oxytocin to the dogs' eyes, tear volume rose again. Not sadness crying. Not the crying we do. Something else, something closer to overflow. The body producing water at the exact moment the heart has more in it than it can hold. Nobody has proven that this is the same thing we feel. Scientists will tell you that, and they are right to. But here is a question worth sitting with. If an animal's eyes fill with water when it sees the one being it has decided to trust, what exactly are we arguing about? Watch the eyes in this video. Then tell me what you think you saw. ONCE IT HAS A NAME, IT STOPS BEING A STATISTIC In 2007, psychologist Paul Slovic and colleagues ran an experiment on generosity. They showed people a fundraising appeal for a hungry child, and then a second version that added statistics about millions of other children in the same crisis. More data. More context. More reasons to care. Donations dropped. Slovic called it psychic numbing. The human mind can hold one face. It cannot hold two hundred million. When a tragedy becomes a number, empathy quietly switches off, and we don't even notice it happening. This is why one named animal in one small video can do what a hundred reports full of charts cannot. It gives your brain something it can actually care about: a single life, with a face, a fear, and a future that could go either way. The stray population is a statistic. A dog is a story. And stories, unlike statistics, come with a name at the end. When you reach that moment in the video, pay attention to what it does to you. Notice the small shift in your chest. That is the sound of a number turning into a person, or close enough. THE WORD FOR WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FEEL Researchers have a name for the feeling you get when something touches you so suddenly that your throat tightens and your eyes sting. They call it kama muta, Sanskrit for "moved by love." Anthropologist Alan Fiske proposed that it is a distinct emotion, triggered by a sudden intensification of closeness. Two beings who were strangers become bonded. Someone who was alone becomes part of something. People across many cultures describe the same set of signs: warmth in the chest, goosebumps, a lump in the throat, tears they didn't plan on, and a strong urge to hug someone or hold something. Here is what makes it useful and not just sweet: kama muta is one of the most reliable emotional responses we have. It shows up when reunions happen. When a stranger helps unexpectedly. When an animal, after a long time alone, is finally held. You've felt it. You just never had a word for it. Take note of the exact second it hits you in this video. I promise there is one. And if you're the kind of person who says "I never cry at videos," I would like to schedule a follow-up. WHY YOU'LL WANT TO BE A BETTER PERSON AFTER ONE MINUTE Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studied a related feeling and gave it a name: elevation. Elevation is what you feel when you watch someone do something morally beautiful, quietly, with nothing to gain. It is not envy and it is not admiration. It is an urge, physical and immediate, to do something good yourself. In studies, people who experienced elevation were more likely to help others afterward, more likely to volunteer, and more likely to describe wanting to become better versions of themselves. Read that as a design spec. A short piece of true, unstaged kindness can change what a person does in the hour after they see it. Which is a strange, lovely thing for a phone to be capable of. We spend so much time discussing what social media does wrong. Nobody wonders what would happen if the best five percent of it, the small, real, human moments, were the part that traveled farthest. Let this one travel. It has earned it. THE RARE THING: SOMETHING TRUE THAT WINS In 2018, researchers at MIT published a study in Science that analyzed millions of tweets. The result was grim: false news spread significantly faster and further than true news. False stories were about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted, driven largely by surprise and disgust. The lesson most people took away was that this platform rewards outrage. I want to take a different lesson. If false stories win because they trigger strong emotion, then true stories can win too, as long as they trigger stronger ones. A video with no villain, no scandal, and no argument. Nothing to be angry about. Nothing to dunk on. A rescue that is exactly what it looks like. That kind of content should lose on this platform. It has no fuel. And yet every so often, one of them breaks through and reminds everyone what this place was supposed to be. I am not asking you to like it. I am asking you to notice that you had a choice about what to feed today, and this was one of the options. SOME FRIENDSHIPS SHOULDN'T WORK Somewhere near the end of this video, a second character enters the story. I won't tell you who. I won't tell you what happens. I will tell you that if you have ever read anything about instincts, hunting drives, or the way certain animals are supposed to see each other, this moment will quietly rearrange your assumptions. Behaviorists talk about prey drive as if it were destiny. It is not. It is a tendency, and tendencies can be softened by experience, by safety, by being raised, or re-raised, in a place where no one is afraid. The same dog that once had to look after itself alone can, in a different life, learn that the world contains creatures that are not threats or meals. Only neighbors. That is the most hopeful idea in behavioral science, and it usually gets buried in footnotes: what an animal was is not the same as what an animal can become. The same is true for most of us, incidentally. But that is a different post. Stay for the ending. It is the reason I am writing this at all. THE PART THE INTERNET NEVER FILMS Every rescue video has the same shape: the meeting, the rescue, the transformation, the happy ending. It is edited that way because it is the only shape that gets watched. But ask anyone who has actually done this, and they will tell you the truth is in the gap between the second and third act. The first night. The first week. The first time a dog that has never lived indoors realizes there is a floor that doesn't move, a door that closes without danger, and a bowl that will be full again tomorrow. Rescuers have a rule of thumb for this, the 3-3-3 rule. Three days for a dog to decompress. Three weeks to start learning the routine. Three months to feel truly at home. It's not science, exactly, just a shorthand built from thousands of adoptions. But it captures something real: safety is not a switch. It is a process, and the animal has to believe it slowly, one uneventful day at a time. That means the happiest scenes in this video are not the ones that look like celebrations. They are the quiet ones. A dog that stops scanning the room. A body that finally lets go. Look for the moment the shoulders drop. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it. THE COST OF STOPPING: NINETY SECONDS Let's do the math on the thing that most people are afraid of. How long does it actually take to stop for an animal in trouble? Not the whole rescue. Just the decision, the pulling over, the first attempt. Ninety seconds. Sometimes less. Ninety seconds is the length of a bad song on the radio. It is the time you spend waiting for a light to change. It is a scroll through a feed you won't remember. And on the other side of those ninety seconds is the difference between a living animal and a statistic. I'm not saying this to make anyone feel guilty. Guilt is a terrible motivator. It makes people avoid the feeling instead of acting on it. I'm saying it because the barrier is almost always imagined. We inflate the cost of helping in our heads, and the imagined price is what stops us, not the real one. The person in this video paid the real price. It was small. What they got in return is something no one could have planned for. That is the part you should watch closely. IF YOU'RE EVER THE ONE ON THAT ROAD Save this section. Someday, someone reading it will need it. Put your safety first. Pull over where it's safe and turn on your hazard lights before anything else. A second accident helps no one. Do not chase. A frightened dog runs faster than you and directly into the worst possible place. Chasing turns a rescue into a pursuit. Get low and go slow. Sit down if you can. Turn your body sideways. Avoid direct staring. Speak softly, or don't speak at all. Use food, if you have any. Something plain, tossed a little closer each time, works better than any technique. Check for a tag and, if you can get near enough, ask a vet or shelter to scan for a microchip. Someone may be looking for this animal right now. Call for help early. Local rescues, animal control, and vets can handle what you cannot. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is make the right phone call. Take photos and note the location. If you can't keep the animal, those details are what let someone else finish the job. None of this is complicated. The reason it is rare is that most people have never been told that it is allowed. You are allowed. THE REAL STAKES OF A SMALL DOG Here is a bigger picture, and it's a heavy one. Millions of companion animals enter shelters every year in the United States alone. That is just one country. Many are lost pets that never get reclaimed. Many are strays. Many are animals whose owners ran out of money, time, or hope. Shelters are often crowded, underfunded, and staffed by people running on love and very little else. Every animal that finds a home, or a foster, or a stranger with ninety seconds to spare, frees up a space for the next one in line. That means every single rescue is bigger than the animal in it. It is a small change to a very large system, and the system is nothing but small changes stacked on top of one another. This is not an argument for guilt. It's an argument for scale. One dog saved is one dog saved, but it is also proof of concept, a demonstration that the chain can hold, that the odds can be beaten, that a person and a road and a decision can end well. And proof of concept is contagious. That is why you are seeing it. WHO REALLY GOT RESCUED? If you talk to people who have taken in strays, you'll hear the same sentence over and over, in different words. "I thought I was saving him. It turned out he was saving me." Skeptics roll their eyes at that. It sounds like a greeting card. And research on pets and wellbeing is more mixed than social media would like. It doesn't say every dog fixes every life. But there is something real underneath it, and it's not mystical. A dog is a machine for creating routine, attention, and reasons to leave the house. It needs you at a certain hour. It notices when you come home. It doesn't care about your job title, your follower count, or what you failed at last week. For some people, that is the first unconditional witness they have had in years. The rescue, in this light, is not one-way. Two lonely creatures, one who knew it and one who didn't, found out that they could take care of each other. Nobody can prove that from a video. But there is a version of the story that runs in the background of every rescue, and you can feel it if you let yourself. Tell me whether you feel it here. THE ATTENTION PARADOX Here is a strange fact about the platform you're reading this on. The average post gets a glance. A few words, a flick of the thumb, gone. Brands spend billions every year trying to buy three seconds of your attention, and most of what they buy evaporates before it lands. And yet a video of one dog, with no budget, no celebrity, and no script, can hold a stranger for a full minute. Without a single trick. Why? Because attention is not really about tricks. It is about stakes. Your brain is built to track living things whose outcome is uncertain. The moment there is a creature on screen and you don't yet know if it will be okay, some ancient part of you leans in and refuses to look away. That is the secret behind every great story ever told. Someone we care about. Something that could go wrong. A question we need answered. Marketers call it a hook. Your nervous system calls it worry. This video has both, and it pays off the worry honestly, which is why you leave feeling better instead of used. That is rare enough to deserve a full minute of your life. HOW TO WATCH THIS Most people will watch it wrong. They'll half-look at it between two other things, mid-scroll, thumb already moving. Here is how to get the actual effect. Turn the sound on. There is more happening in the audio than you expect. Make it full screen. This is a story about faces, and faces need room. Watch the first ten seconds without expecting anything. The film is quiet at the start. That is deliberate, or at least it works as if it were. Do not skip ahead. The whole thing depends on the distance between where it starts and where it ends. Skip the middle and the ending is just a nice clip. Then, once it's over, watch it again. The second time, you won't be watching for the story. You'll be watching for the small things you missed: a hesitation, a glance, a change in how a body carries itself. That second watch is where it gets you. I said I have watched it more times than I'll admit. That is the honest reason. It doesn't wear out. It gets deeper. THE CHALLENGE I want to try something with this post. If the video moved you, leave one comment: the second it happened. Not a review, not an analysis. Just the moment. I'm curious whether it's the same one for everyone. My guess is that it isn't, and that the spread of answers will say more about what people carry around with them than about the video. If it didn't move you, that is fine too. I'd like to hear that as well. Honest is better than polite. And if you have ever been the one who stopped, and I know some of you have, write that instead. Tell the story in two lines. No one has ever regretted the ninety seconds. Someone reading this thread might need to know that. Reposting this is the simplest way to put it in front of someone who's scrolling right now, in a bad week, thinking that nothing good happens by accident anymore. Something did. THE LAST THING Let me end where I started. A dog made a decision on an empty road. It could not have known how it would turn out. It had no reason to believe that the next hand would be different from the last. It went ahead anyway. That is the whole difference between a life that changes and one that doesn't. Not certainty. Not a plan. A willingness to move toward the unknown when the alternative is more of the same. The animal in this video did that. Then someone did the same in return. That's it. That's the entire story. Two beings, each of whom took a small, terrifying step toward the other, and a road that was, for a few seconds, the most important place in the world. Scroll up. Press play. Watch the ending. Then come back and tell me I was exaggerating. P.S. If you read all of this, you are exactly the kind of person this video was made for. Most people never make it past the first screen of a long post. You did. That tells me you are someone who stays: through the slow part, through the uncertain part, all the way to the end. Which is, when you think about it, the only quality that mattered in the story you're about to watch. Follow for more like this. I only post the ones that earn it. Bookmark it for days you forget the feeling. #Rescue #DogsOfX #SecondChances #AdoptDontShop #Dogs #AnimalRescue #RescueDog

Earth Unveiled

15,706 次观看 • 17 天前

Full victory speech of The Green Party's Hannah Spencer who wins the Gorton and Denton by Election: 14,980 - Greens 10,578 - Reform UK 9,364 - Labour "Okay. with me because this is a lot" "I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber" "And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer" "Because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done" "I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do" "Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something" "It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere" "But now? Working hard? What does that get you?" "Because talk to anyone here and they will tell you, the people who work hard but can't put food on the table, can't get their kids school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't live off the pension they worked hard to save for, can't even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever "Because life has changed" "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires" "We are being bled dry" "And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life" "And I don't think that if you're not able to work that you should still have a nice life" "I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life" "And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that" "Because I've made clear my position and my commitment to working class communities, the community that I am from" "People in their thousands told me on the doorsteps and at the ballot box, that what we are sick of is being let down and looked down on, that we are sick of our hard work making other people rich" "I lived in this constituency at one of the most difficult and challenging periods of my life" "I saw how strong the community was at holding things together" "But I saw how much harder life is when the things around you are broken, the litter, the fly-tipping, the dirty air" "And when I moved, it became even clearer. And this is why I am fighting for the community that I lived in and that I still work in" "Because I absolutely refuse to accept that we should ever have to move and leave our our communities for good schools, a thriving high street, and clean air. And I will not accept a society where having more money gets you a longer life expectancy" "And so when it came to fighting for people here, to stand in this election, well, how could I not fight? Because here, this is what we do" "We fight for each other in this very diverse constituency, where our struggles might not always be the same, but where we know how hard life can be and we stick together" "Whatever our beliefs, our backgrounds, our color, or our level of education, we stick up for each other" "And to those who voted for me, I know that earning your trust starts now" "One vote on one night is not something I will take for granted or assume will happen again" "I will earn your trust" "And to those who didn't vote for me, I will always work hard for you, and I will always be honest, and I will always be decent" "To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan, whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe" "And whilst we were gathered and eating together, an act of terror could easily have taken place" "And I can't and won't accept this victory tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society" "My Muslim friends and neighbors are just like me, human" "And of course, to our White working class communities, the background that I have become so proud to be from" "We know how it feels to be looked down on, maybe because we didn't do well at school, maybe because we do dirty manual jobs, because we are shut out of places we should be in" "To people here in Gorton and Denton, who feel left behind and isolated, I see you and I will fight for you" "Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labeled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here, especially over the last few weeks, is how similar we all actually are. How we have common ground, how we get along, how we stand up for each other" "The cracks that were starting to show can be healed, and I believe that it is through offering people hope and a chance to do things differently and do things better" "Now to my customers, I'm sorry, but I think I might have to cancel the work that you have booked in, because I'm heading to Parliament" "And when I get there, I will make space for everyone doing jobs like mine. We will finally get a seat at the table" "And to Layla, the little girl who had the pleasure of meeting and holding this week, I promised you I would try and improve the world that you are growing up in. I told you that I am not perfect, but that I always try my best" "I always try and do the right thing" "Now something exciting is definitely happening and I invite you all to be part of it" "Come and join the Green Party so that we can spread hope and win everywhere across the country" "Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together. We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other" "We can demand better without hating each other. We can do that together" "We ran a hopeful campaign backed by thousands of volunteers and activists" "We defeated the parties of billionaire donors" "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all, and we did this with the people who live here side by side, shoulder to shoulder, just as we have always done in this constituency and in the whole of Greater Manchester. Because this is is Manchester and we do things differently here" "Thank you so, so much to everybody" "Thank you"
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Full victory speech of The Green Party's Hannah Spencer who wins the Gorton and Denton by Election: 14,980 - Greens 10,578 - Reform UK 9,364 - Labour "Okay. with me because this is a lot" "I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber" "And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer" "Because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done" "I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do" "Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something" "It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere" "But now? Working hard? What does that get you?" "Because talk to anyone here and they will tell you, the people who work hard but can't put food on the table, can't get their kids school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't live off the pension they worked hard to save for, can't even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever "Because life has changed" "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires" "We are being bled dry" "And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life" "And I don't think that if you're not able to work that you should still have a nice life" "I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life" "And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that" "Because I've made clear my position and my commitment to working class communities, the community that I am from" "People in their thousands told me on the doorsteps and at the ballot box, that what we are sick of is being let down and looked down on, that we are sick of our hard work making other people rich" "I lived in this constituency at one of the most difficult and challenging periods of my life" "I saw how strong the community was at holding things together" "But I saw how much harder life is when the things around you are broken, the litter, the fly-tipping, the dirty air" "And when I moved, it became even clearer. And this is why I am fighting for the community that I lived in and that I still work in" "Because I absolutely refuse to accept that we should ever have to move and leave our our communities for good schools, a thriving high street, and clean air. And I will not accept a society where having more money gets you a longer life expectancy" "And so when it came to fighting for people here, to stand in this election, well, how could I not fight? Because here, this is what we do" "We fight for each other in this very diverse constituency, where our struggles might not always be the same, but where we know how hard life can be and we stick together" "Whatever our beliefs, our backgrounds, our color, or our level of education, we stick up for each other" "And to those who voted for me, I know that earning your trust starts now" "One vote on one night is not something I will take for granted or assume will happen again" "I will earn your trust" "And to those who didn't vote for me, I will always work hard for you, and I will always be honest, and I will always be decent" "To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan, whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe" "And whilst we were gathered and eating together, an act of terror could easily have taken place" "And I can't and won't accept this victory tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society" "My Muslim friends and neighbors are just like me, human" "And of course, to our White working class communities, the background that I have become so proud to be from" "We know how it feels to be looked down on, maybe because we didn't do well at school, maybe because we do dirty manual jobs, because we are shut out of places we should be in" "To people here in Gorton and Denton, who feel left behind and isolated, I see you and I will fight for you" "Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labeled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here, especially over the last few weeks, is how similar we all actually are. How we have common ground, how we get along, how we stand up for each other" "The cracks that were starting to show can be healed, and I believe that it is through offering people hope and a chance to do things differently and do things better" "Now to my customers, I'm sorry, but I think I might have to cancel the work that you have booked in, because I'm heading to Parliament" "And when I get there, I will make space for everyone doing jobs like mine. We will finally get a seat at the table" "And to Layla, the little girl who had the pleasure of meeting and holding this week, I promised you I would try and improve the world that you are growing up in. I told you that I am not perfect, but that I always try my best" "I always try and do the right thing" "Now something exciting is definitely happening and I invite you all to be part of it" "Come and join the Green Party so that we can spread hope and win everywhere across the country" "Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together. We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other" "We can demand better without hating each other. We can do that together" "We ran a hopeful campaign backed by thousands of volunteers and activists" "We defeated the parties of billionaire donors" "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all, and we did this with the people who live here side by side, shoulder to shoulder, just as we have always done in this constituency and in the whole of Greater Manchester. Because this is is Manchester and we do things differently here" "Thank you so, so much to everybody" "Thank you"

Farrukh

514,090 次观看 • 7 个月前

A wild bobcat. Cold, open water. A body that was never built for this. This is an animal that can kill a deer. The water was about to beat it anyway. Watch the video first. Then read on. What happens in the final seconds is the reason I can't stop thinking about it. . Some clips you watch. Some clips you feel in your chest for an hour afterward. This is the second kind, and I want to explain exactly why, because once you understand what you are actually looking at, you will never watch it the same way again. This is a long one. Every section ends with something that makes the next one worth it. Stay with me. . 01 // THE COLDEST MATH IN THE WILD Let's start with something nobody tells you about water. Water is a thief. It pulls heat out of a living body up to 25 times faster than air at the same temperature. Not a little faster. Twenty-five times. It is the reason a cold day is uncomfortable and a cold swim is an emergency. Now put that math on an animal wearing a fur coat. Fur works because of what is trapped inside it: air. Thousands of tiny pockets of warm air held against the skin. The air is the insulation. The hair is just the scaffolding that holds it in place. Soak that coat and the air is gone. What was a winter jacket becomes a wet towel wrapped around the body. It is heavy. It drags. It bleeds heat at the exact moment the animal can least afford to lose it. And swimming is not free. A cat does not swim the way an otter swims. Otters are engineered for it: dense waterproof fur, webbed feet, a body shaped like a torpedo. A bobcat is engineered for something completely different. Every stroke burns fuel it does not have, while every second in the water drains the fuel it already has. That is the trap. Heat goes out. Energy goes out. Nothing comes in. In humans, the first minute in cold water triggers what physiologists call the cold shock response: a gasp reflex, a spike in heart rate, panicked breathing. Then comes the slow part, where muscles and nerves cool down and stop doing what you tell them. Animals do not get an exemption from physics. Bodies are bodies. Survival experts who study cold water use a simple frame for humans, the 1-10-1 rule. One minute to get your breathing under control after the initial shock. Ten minutes of meaningful muscle function before your limbs start refusing orders. About an hour before hypothermia becomes the real threat to life. Now shrink the body. A smaller body has more surface area for its mass, which means it sheds heat faster. Those human numbers are a generous best case. For a 20-pound animal, the clock runs quicker. So when you see a wild animal in water it did not choose, you are not looking at a swimmer. You are looking at a countdown. Here is the part that should bother you: the animal does not know it is a countdown. It only knows that it has to keep moving, and that stopping is not an option, and that there is nothing solid anywhere. Hold that thought. Because the next thing I am going to tell you is why this particular animal is the last one you would expect to be in that position. . 02 // THE "BIG HOUSE CAT" LIE Somewhere along the way, someone decided a bobcat is basically a large housecat with attitude. Somebody was wrong. Let's do the numbers. A typical house cat weighs 8 to 10 pounds. Most adult bobcats land somewhere between 15 and 30 pounds, with big males pushing past that. That is two to three times the mass, and none of it is soft. It is wire and spring: long hind legs built to launch, shoulders built to hold, claws that retract and reset like a trap. By widely cited estimates, a bobcat can cover roughly 10 feet in a single leap. That is not a pounce. That is a projectile. It hunts the way the best hunters do: by being patient past the point where patience seems reasonable. It picks a spot. It goes still. It waits, sometimes for a very long time, until the world arranges itself into a single clean opportunity. Then it ends the situation in a second. Rabbits and hares are the staple. Mice, voles, squirrels, birds. But here is the detail that changes how people talk about them: bobcats have been documented taking down deer, animals much larger than themselves, particularly in harsh winters when deer are weakened. Think about what that means. This is a creature that routinely wins fights against animals that outweigh it. It has ear tufts that scientists still argue about. It has a ruff of fur around the face like a lion in miniature. It has a stubby tail, four to seven inches long, that gave the animal its name. It has a spotted coat that is essentially camouflage for dappled light, and, useful fact, the spot pattern is different from one animal to the next, which is how researchers identify individuals on trail cameras. And it has a voice. Purrs, hisses, growls, and a night scream that has been mistaken for a human in distress by people who did not know what they were hearing. So this is who we are talking about. Not a pet. Not a pushover. One of the most efficient small predators on the continent. Which is what makes the situation in this video so strange. Because everything I just told you about strength, speed and pride goes quiet when the ground disappears. . 03 // THE ANIMAL YOU HAVE PROBABLY WALKED PAST Here is a fact that should feel a little unsettling. Bobcats are one of the most widespread wild cats in North America. Their range stretches across the lower 48 states, into southern Canada, and down into Mexico. Forests, swamps, deserts, mountains, the ragged edges of suburbs. They are adaptable in a way that very few predators are. And yet most people, including people who have lived their entire lives near them, have never seen one. That is not an accident. Bobcats are solitary, shy, and mostly active around dawn and dusk. They live in the margins. They move through your world at times you are not looking, and they have made avoiding you into an art form. A bobcat's entire survival strategy is to see you first and never be seen. Which means any video of one, let alone a close, unhurried, unguarded look at one, is rare. Wildlife photographers wait years for angles like this. Researchers set up cameras and come back to empty memory cards. Now think about what it takes for a wild bobcat and a human being to end up in the same small space, with the animal not running. The animal has to be in a situation where running is no longer possible. That should give you chills. Because it is not a heartwarming meeting. It is what happens when a very proud animal has run out of options. And what happens next is the part that does not add up, which is exactly where the next section starts. . 04 // THE PART THAT DOES NOT ADD UP Predators do not do calm. A wild animal's nervous system is a hair trigger. When something big and unfamiliar closes in, the body floods with adrenaline and cortisol, and the decision tree is short: fight, flee, or freeze. Every instinct it has been born with says a large, upright, two-legged creature is the most dangerous thing in the environment. So when a wild animal is calm around humans, there are only a few explanations, and none of them is "it decided to trust us." Sometimes the animal is habituated, meaning it has lived near people so long it has stopped treating them as a threat. Sometimes the animal is so depleted, cold, hurt or exhausted that its body has quietly shut down the option to fight. Biologists have a name for one version of this: tonic immobility, a kind of involuntary freeze in which an animal goes still and unresponsive when escape seems impossible. And sometimes it is a mix of all of it, in ways science is still working out. Here is the line I want you to remember, because it will save you from a lot of bad internet takes: Do not confuse calm with consent. Stillness is not friendship. A quiet animal is not a tame animal. And some of the most dramatic moments in wildlife rescue come not from the fight, but from the moment the body stops fighting and everyone has to figure out what that actually means. There is even a documented condition, capture myopathy, in which the sheer stress of being restrained can damage a wild animal's muscles and organs badly enough to kill it, sometimes hours or days after the event, with no visible wound at all. Handling stress is a real cause of death in wildlife work. That is why professionals move slowly, keep things dark and quiet, and treat every second of contact like it costs something. Which means that in a situation like this, the difference between a good outcome and a tragic one can be invisible to the naked eye. That is what makes the footage so tense to watch if you know what to look for. And I am going to tell you exactly what to look for. But not yet. First I need you to understand how unlikely it was that anyone was there at all. . 05 // NATURE HAS NO AUDIENCE Almost everything that happens in the wild happens unwatched. Think about that for a second. Billions of small emergencies, every single day. Animals slipping, trapped, lost, starving, stranded. A fawn separated from its mother. A bird with a broken wing. A predator that misjudged a jump by an inch. Almost none of it is ever witnessed by anyone. No camera. No rescuer. No witness. It simply happens, and then it stops, and the world continues as if nothing occurred. For a rescue to happen, a chain of things has to line up. Somebody has to be in the right place. Somebody has to be looking in the right direction. Somebody has to notice a small, wet, dark shape in a huge moving surface, and understand what it is. Somebody has to decide to act rather than say "huh" and keep going. And somebody has to actually know how to help without making it worse. Break any single link and the story ends before it starts. Every viral rescue video you have ever seen is a chain like that, where all the links happened to hold. I think that is why these clips hit differently than almost anything else online. They are not just proof that an animal survived. They are proof that the chain can hold. That in a world that mostly does not look, sometimes someone does. The cold math says this animal had little time. The odds say nobody should have been there. And yet. I keep circling that "and yet." . QUICK PAUSE Before we go deeper, a small experiment. Without scrolling back up, answer this in your head: how long was the animal in that water before anyone noticed? Got a number? Now hold it loosely. The truth about time in a moment like this is that it never feels like what it is. Seconds stretch. Minutes vanish. Nobody in a crisis has an accurate clock. Keep your number. We will come back to it. . 06 // WHY YOUR BRAIN CANNOT SCROLL PAST THIS Let's zoom out, because this is the part that fascinates me professionally. In 2012, two Wharton researchers, Jonah Berger and Katherine Milkman, studied thousands of New York Times articles to figure out what makes online content spread. Their finding was not what most people expected. Positivity helped, but what mattered even more was how much physical arousal a piece of content produced. Awe, anger and anxiety, all high-arousal emotions, made people share. Sadness, which is low-arousal, made people stop. Now look at a clip like this through that lens. It has anxiety: will the animal make it? It has awe: this is a wild predator, close enough to see the texture of its fur. It has relief, and something bigger than relief. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has a word for that bigger thing: elevation. It is the warm, expanding feeling you get when you witness someone behaving with unexpected goodness. It is the emotion that makes people want to be better, to call their mother, to do something kind. It is exactly the kind of emotion that makes people hit share before they have even finished watching. And then there is the mechanism behind the hook itself. In 1994, the behavioral economist George Loewenstein described what he called the information gap theory of curiosity: curiosity is the discomfort of noticing a gap between what you know and what you want to know. The bigger the gap, and the closer you feel to closing it, the harder it is to look away. That is what I did in the first three lines of this post. I gave you a wild animal, a disaster, and an unanswered question. Your brain has been carrying that open loop ever since. You cannot un-notice it. You can only close it. That is not a trick. It is how attention has worked since the first campfire story. The only difference now is that the campfire fits in your pocket and never goes out. There is one more thing, and it may be the most important one. Animals do not perform. They cannot posture for a camera, hide their fear behind a joke, or spin the story afterward. Their reactions are uncut. In an internet made mostly of people curating themselves, a wild animal reacting honestly to a moment is about as authentic as content gets. And in a feed that is ninety percent outrage, ten percent ads, and the occasional argument about sandwiches, a clip that is about competence and kindness feels like finding cold water in a desert. So no, it is not weird that you cannot look away. It would be weirder if you could. . 07 // 15 BOBCAT FACTS THAT CHANGE HOW YOU SEE THE CLIP You now know what the water does and what the animal is. Here is the rest of the file, fast. 1. The scientific name is Lynx rufus. "Rufus" means reddish. The animal has been carrying a color-coded label for centuries. 2. It is the most common wild cat in North America, which makes how rarely people see one even more remarkable. 3. Bobcats are ambush hunters, not chasers. They win by patience, not by endurance. Long chases are not their thing, and long swims are definitely not their thing. 4. Yes, bobcats can swim, and they do it when they have to: crossing rivers, fleeing danger, following prey. But it is a tool of last resort, not a hobby. 5. Kittens are born in spring, usually in litters of two to four, and the mother raises them alone. Dad is not part of the picture. 6. A kitten's eyes open at around a week and a half old. It will stay with its mother for most of its first year before heading off to find a territory of its own. 7. Young bobcats leaving home can travel dozens of miles looking for a place to settle. That means young animals are the ones most likely to end up somewhere unfamiliar, in situations nothing in their short lives prepared them for. 8. Bobcats mark territory with scent, scrapes and scratched trees. Their world is written in a language we mostly cannot read. 9. When they cannot finish a meal, they often cover the leftovers with leaves, snow or debris and come back for it later. Forward planning, from a cat. 10. They climb trees and use them for escape and lookout. If a bobcat ever wanted to get out of a situation, vertical was its first idea. 11. Their ear tufts are still debated. Camouflage? Hearing? Communication? Nobody has a definitive answer, and I love that. 12. Bobcat and Canada lynx are cousins, not twins. Lynx have longer ear tufts, bigger paws for snow, and a fully black-tipped tail. A bobcat's tail is black only on top of the tip, like someone dipped a paintbrush and stopped halfway. 13. Coat color changes by region. Desert animals run pale and sandy. Northern animals run darker and grayer. Same species, different wardrobe. 14. A bobcat is not closely related to a cougar. It belongs to the Lynx genus. The cougar belongs to another. When people call it a "baby mountain lion," a biologist somewhere loses a year of their life. 15. In the wild, life is often short and hard. Many bobcats do not make it to ten years old. In captivity, they can live far longer. Which tells you what the wild costs, every single day, on top of everything else. Fifteen facts. One conclusion. Every one of these facts describes an animal built to survive. Which is exactly why watching one in trouble is so hard to forget. . 08 // SIX MYTHS ABOUT WILD CATS AND WATER Since we are here, let's clear up some things. MYTH 1: All cats hate water. FALSE. Tigers swim. Jaguars swim. Fishing cats literally dive for a living. The idea that cats are universally water-averse comes from house cats, and even that is a generalization. Plenty of wild cats are comfortable in water. It is not fear of water. It is that most cats do not choose it unless there is a reason. MYTH 2: If an animal can swim, it is safe in water. FALSE. Being able to swim and being able to survive in water are two different skills. Temperature, distance, current, exhaustion and time all matter. A strong swimmer can lose to cold long before it loses to drowning. MYTH 3: A tough predator does not need help. FALSE. Toughness is not immunity. Predators die of exposure, injury and exhaustion all the time. Being at the top of a food chain does not mean being at the top of every situation. MYTH 4: A calm wild animal is a friendly wild animal. FALSE. We covered this. Calm can mean cold, tired, hurt or in shock. It does not mean safe to touch. MYTH 5: Wild cats attack people constantly. FALSE. It is the opposite. Bobcats avoid people so well that many humans go a lifetime without seeing one. Encounters that end badly are extremely rare, and most involve an animal that is sick, cornered or handled. MYTH 6: Rescue is easy. FALSE. Rescue is the visible five percent. Underneath it are timing, knowledge, restraint, risk and an enormous amount of luck. Six myths. Not one of them survives contact with the footage. . 09 // THE SECOND HALF OF EVERY RESCUE Here is something the clips never show you. Getting the animal out is the first half of the story. The second half is quieter, slower, and matters just as much. When a wild animal ends up in professional hands, the priorities are almost the opposite of what your instincts tell you. Warmth, calm, darkness and silence come first. Then a medical check for injuries, dehydration and hypothermia. Then, if all goes well, recovery in a space where the animal sees as little of humans as possible. Yes, as little as possible. Good rehabilitators deliberately avoid cuddling, talking to, or bonding with wild patients, because an animal that gets comfortable around people is an animal that struggles to survive once it goes back out there. The goal is never a rescued pet. The goal is a released predator. And when it is possible, animals are often returned to the area where they were found, because that is the territory they know: the routes, the hiding places, the food, the neighbors. So the real happy ending of a wildlife rescue is not a hug. It is a door opening, and an animal walking through it without looking back. Hold on to that image. It will matter in a minute. . 10 // PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS I am going to be blunt, because the comment section will not be. Every time a clip like this goes viral, thousands of people write some version of "I would have grabbed it too" or "I want to keep it." Please do not. A wild bobcat is not a pet. It is a wild predator with claws, teeth, and a nervous system built to treat contact as an attack. Even a small, exhausted, seemingly docile animal can injure a person badly in a fraction of a second. Bites and scratches from wildlife can carry infection. Rabies in bobcats is uncommon, but it is real, and that is not a gamble you take on a hunch. And as we covered, the danger runs both ways. The stress of being handled can hurt or kill a wild animal even when nobody meant it any harm. In many places it is also illegal to keep or transport wild animals without permits, which means the well-intentioned rescuer can end up in a legal mess and the animal can end up worse off. So what should you do if you ever find a wild animal in trouble? Keep your distance. Keep noise and movement low. Do not try to pick it up, feed it, or warm it up yourself. Call your local wildlife agency, animal control, or a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and follow their instructions. They do this for a living. They know what the animal needs, and what it does not. Love wildlife the right way: at a distance, with respect, and through the phone number of someone qualified. The best rescue stories are the ones where the animal gets to go back to being wild. Which brings me to the ending. . 11 // HOW TO WATCH THIS VIDEO Here is my one request. Do not watch it on autopilot. Before you press play, decide what you think is going to happen. Make a prediction, honestly. Then watch, and see how wrong you were. Keep your eyes on the animal, not on the people. Watch the eyes. Watch the ears. Watch the moment the animal has to decide what it wants to do. Wildlife tells you everything if you know where to look, and it does not lie. Pay attention to the way the whole tone of the clip shifts as it goes on. The first seconds and the last seconds feel like two entirely different films. And carry these five questions with you while it plays: Why is a predator this strong not fighting? What does an animal like this actually feel in a moment like that? How many other animals never get this chance? What would you have done in that spot, honestly? And what is the very last thing the bobcat does? Only one of those has an answer you can see with your own eyes. And remember the door I mentioned, the one that opens and the animal that does not look back? Keep that picture in your head while you watch. See how close reality gets to it. And stay to the last frame. There is a reason I told you the ending matters. A second watch will show you things the first one hides. . 12 // THE THREE RULES EVERY WILDLIFE PROFESSIONAL LIVES BY If you spent a week with people who do this work for a living, you would hear the same three ideas over and over. Rule one: the animal comes before the story. Good professionals never put a camera ahead of the patient. The best footage in the world is worthless if it costs the animal something. Rule two: distance is a form of kindness. The closer you get, the more stress you add. The most respectful thing you can do for a wild animal is usually to do less, from farther away, and let it be what it is. Rule three: success means the animal does not need you anymore. Not gratitude. Not a bond. Not a photo with a cute caption. Success is independence. Notice how that flips the usual story. In most human stories, success is being needed. In wildlife, success is being forgotten. . 13 // IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER FIVE LINES Screenshot this if you want to. I would. 1. Water steals heat 25 times faster than air, and a wet coat stops working. 2. A bobcat is an ambush predator with the strength of an animal twice its size, and none of that helps when the ground disappears. 3. Do not confuse calm with consent. 4. Almost everything in nature happens unwatched. That is why the times someone looks matter so much. 5. The best ending to a wild rescue is an animal that walks away on its own. . 14 // THE REAL REASON I POSTED THIS We spend a lot of time online being told the world is getting worse. Sometimes it is. But there is another truth underneath, one that rarely trends: in a random moment, on an ordinary day, with no cameras and no audience and nothing to gain, someone looked, someone cared, and something wild got another chance. Remember the number you guessed earlier, the seconds or minutes in that water? It turns out it does not matter. What matters is that somebody noticed at all. That is the whole post. Not a miracle. Not a spectacle. Just a small, stubborn piece of evidence that the chain can hold. If it moved you even a little, that is not weakness. That is the part of you that still works. If this landed for you, here is what to do: Reply with one word for how you felt watching it. Just one. I read them. Repost it for the person in your life who says they do not care about animals. Watch what happens to their face. Bookmark this thread-that-is-not-a-thread for the next time your feed makes you tired of everything. And follow me if you want more clips that make you feel something real, plus the stories behind them, without the fluff. One last thing. You made it to the bottom of a very long post. That means something. It means you are the kind of person who stays for the ending. Now go back to the video, press play, and stay for the last frame. P.S. If you scrolled straight to the bottom to see how this ends: the video is attached to this post. The ending is in the video. Nothing I write can replace it, and I would not want it to. P.P.S. Drop your prediction in the replies before you press play: what does the bobcat do in the very last seconds? Then come back after and tell me how wrong, or how right, you were. I will pin my favorite.
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A wild bobcat. Cold, open water. A body that was never built for this. This is an animal that can kill a deer. The water was about to beat it anyway. Watch the video first. Then read on. What happens in the final seconds is the reason I can't stop thinking about it. . Some clips you watch. Some clips you feel in your chest for an hour afterward. This is the second kind, and I want to explain exactly why, because once you understand what you are actually looking at, you will never watch it the same way again. This is a long one. Every section ends with something that makes the next one worth it. Stay with me. . 01 // THE COLDEST MATH IN THE WILD Let's start with something nobody tells you about water. Water is a thief. It pulls heat out of a living body up to 25 times faster than air at the same temperature. Not a little faster. Twenty-five times. It is the reason a cold day is uncomfortable and a cold swim is an emergency. Now put that math on an animal wearing a fur coat. Fur works because of what is trapped inside it: air. Thousands of tiny pockets of warm air held against the skin. The air is the insulation. The hair is just the scaffolding that holds it in place. Soak that coat and the air is gone. What was a winter jacket becomes a wet towel wrapped around the body. It is heavy. It drags. It bleeds heat at the exact moment the animal can least afford to lose it. And swimming is not free. A cat does not swim the way an otter swims. Otters are engineered for it: dense waterproof fur, webbed feet, a body shaped like a torpedo. A bobcat is engineered for something completely different. Every stroke burns fuel it does not have, while every second in the water drains the fuel it already has. That is the trap. Heat goes out. Energy goes out. Nothing comes in. In humans, the first minute in cold water triggers what physiologists call the cold shock response: a gasp reflex, a spike in heart rate, panicked breathing. Then comes the slow part, where muscles and nerves cool down and stop doing what you tell them. Animals do not get an exemption from physics. Bodies are bodies. Survival experts who study cold water use a simple frame for humans, the 1-10-1 rule. One minute to get your breathing under control after the initial shock. Ten minutes of meaningful muscle function before your limbs start refusing orders. About an hour before hypothermia becomes the real threat to life. Now shrink the body. A smaller body has more surface area for its mass, which means it sheds heat faster. Those human numbers are a generous best case. For a 20-pound animal, the clock runs quicker. So when you see a wild animal in water it did not choose, you are not looking at a swimmer. You are looking at a countdown. Here is the part that should bother you: the animal does not know it is a countdown. It only knows that it has to keep moving, and that stopping is not an option, and that there is nothing solid anywhere. Hold that thought. Because the next thing I am going to tell you is why this particular animal is the last one you would expect to be in that position. . 02 // THE "BIG HOUSE CAT" LIE Somewhere along the way, someone decided a bobcat is basically a large housecat with attitude. Somebody was wrong. Let's do the numbers. A typical house cat weighs 8 to 10 pounds. Most adult bobcats land somewhere between 15 and 30 pounds, with big males pushing past that. That is two to three times the mass, and none of it is soft. It is wire and spring: long hind legs built to launch, shoulders built to hold, claws that retract and reset like a trap. By widely cited estimates, a bobcat can cover roughly 10 feet in a single leap. That is not a pounce. That is a projectile. It hunts the way the best hunters do: by being patient past the point where patience seems reasonable. It picks a spot. It goes still. It waits, sometimes for a very long time, until the world arranges itself into a single clean opportunity. Then it ends the situation in a second. Rabbits and hares are the staple. Mice, voles, squirrels, birds. But here is the detail that changes how people talk about them: bobcats have been documented taking down deer, animals much larger than themselves, particularly in harsh winters when deer are weakened. Think about what that means. This is a creature that routinely wins fights against animals that outweigh it. It has ear tufts that scientists still argue about. It has a ruff of fur around the face like a lion in miniature. It has a stubby tail, four to seven inches long, that gave the animal its name. It has a spotted coat that is essentially camouflage for dappled light, and, useful fact, the spot pattern is different from one animal to the next, which is how researchers identify individuals on trail cameras. And it has a voice. Purrs, hisses, growls, and a night scream that has been mistaken for a human in distress by people who did not know what they were hearing. So this is who we are talking about. Not a pet. Not a pushover. One of the most efficient small predators on the continent. Which is what makes the situation in this video so strange. Because everything I just told you about strength, speed and pride goes quiet when the ground disappears. . 03 // THE ANIMAL YOU HAVE PROBABLY WALKED PAST Here is a fact that should feel a little unsettling. Bobcats are one of the most widespread wild cats in North America. Their range stretches across the lower 48 states, into southern Canada, and down into Mexico. Forests, swamps, deserts, mountains, the ragged edges of suburbs. They are adaptable in a way that very few predators are. And yet most people, including people who have lived their entire lives near them, have never seen one. That is not an accident. Bobcats are solitary, shy, and mostly active around dawn and dusk. They live in the margins. They move through your world at times you are not looking, and they have made avoiding you into an art form. A bobcat's entire survival strategy is to see you first and never be seen. Which means any video of one, let alone a close, unhurried, unguarded look at one, is rare. Wildlife photographers wait years for angles like this. Researchers set up cameras and come back to empty memory cards. Now think about what it takes for a wild bobcat and a human being to end up in the same small space, with the animal not running. The animal has to be in a situation where running is no longer possible. That should give you chills. Because it is not a heartwarming meeting. It is what happens when a very proud animal has run out of options. And what happens next is the part that does not add up, which is exactly where the next section starts. . 04 // THE PART THAT DOES NOT ADD UP Predators do not do calm. A wild animal's nervous system is a hair trigger. When something big and unfamiliar closes in, the body floods with adrenaline and cortisol, and the decision tree is short: fight, flee, or freeze. Every instinct it has been born with says a large, upright, two-legged creature is the most dangerous thing in the environment. So when a wild animal is calm around humans, there are only a few explanations, and none of them is "it decided to trust us." Sometimes the animal is habituated, meaning it has lived near people so long it has stopped treating them as a threat. Sometimes the animal is so depleted, cold, hurt or exhausted that its body has quietly shut down the option to fight. Biologists have a name for one version of this: tonic immobility, a kind of involuntary freeze in which an animal goes still and unresponsive when escape seems impossible. And sometimes it is a mix of all of it, in ways science is still working out. Here is the line I want you to remember, because it will save you from a lot of bad internet takes: Do not confuse calm with consent. Stillness is not friendship. A quiet animal is not a tame animal. And some of the most dramatic moments in wildlife rescue come not from the fight, but from the moment the body stops fighting and everyone has to figure out what that actually means. There is even a documented condition, capture myopathy, in which the sheer stress of being restrained can damage a wild animal's muscles and organs badly enough to kill it, sometimes hours or days after the event, with no visible wound at all. Handling stress is a real cause of death in wildlife work. That is why professionals move slowly, keep things dark and quiet, and treat every second of contact like it costs something. Which means that in a situation like this, the difference between a good outcome and a tragic one can be invisible to the naked eye. That is what makes the footage so tense to watch if you know what to look for. And I am going to tell you exactly what to look for. But not yet. First I need you to understand how unlikely it was that anyone was there at all. . 05 // NATURE HAS NO AUDIENCE Almost everything that happens in the wild happens unwatched. Think about that for a second. Billions of small emergencies, every single day. Animals slipping, trapped, lost, starving, stranded. A fawn separated from its mother. A bird with a broken wing. A predator that misjudged a jump by an inch. Almost none of it is ever witnessed by anyone. No camera. No rescuer. No witness. It simply happens, and then it stops, and the world continues as if nothing occurred. For a rescue to happen, a chain of things has to line up. Somebody has to be in the right place. Somebody has to be looking in the right direction. Somebody has to notice a small, wet, dark shape in a huge moving surface, and understand what it is. Somebody has to decide to act rather than say "huh" and keep going. And somebody has to actually know how to help without making it worse. Break any single link and the story ends before it starts. Every viral rescue video you have ever seen is a chain like that, where all the links happened to hold. I think that is why these clips hit differently than almost anything else online. They are not just proof that an animal survived. They are proof that the chain can hold. That in a world that mostly does not look, sometimes someone does. The cold math says this animal had little time. The odds say nobody should have been there. And yet. I keep circling that "and yet." . QUICK PAUSE Before we go deeper, a small experiment. Without scrolling back up, answer this in your head: how long was the animal in that water before anyone noticed? Got a number? Now hold it loosely. The truth about time in a moment like this is that it never feels like what it is. Seconds stretch. Minutes vanish. Nobody in a crisis has an accurate clock. Keep your number. We will come back to it. . 06 // WHY YOUR BRAIN CANNOT SCROLL PAST THIS Let's zoom out, because this is the part that fascinates me professionally. In 2012, two Wharton researchers, Jonah Berger and Katherine Milkman, studied thousands of New York Times articles to figure out what makes online content spread. Their finding was not what most people expected. Positivity helped, but what mattered even more was how much physical arousal a piece of content produced. Awe, anger and anxiety, all high-arousal emotions, made people share. Sadness, which is low-arousal, made people stop. Now look at a clip like this through that lens. It has anxiety: will the animal make it? It has awe: this is a wild predator, close enough to see the texture of its fur. It has relief, and something bigger than relief. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has a word for that bigger thing: elevation. It is the warm, expanding feeling you get when you witness someone behaving with unexpected goodness. It is the emotion that makes people want to be better, to call their mother, to do something kind. It is exactly the kind of emotion that makes people hit share before they have even finished watching. And then there is the mechanism behind the hook itself. In 1994, the behavioral economist George Loewenstein described what he called the information gap theory of curiosity: curiosity is the discomfort of noticing a gap between what you know and what you want to know. The bigger the gap, and the closer you feel to closing it, the harder it is to look away. That is what I did in the first three lines of this post. I gave you a wild animal, a disaster, and an unanswered question. Your brain has been carrying that open loop ever since. You cannot un-notice it. You can only close it. That is not a trick. It is how attention has worked since the first campfire story. The only difference now is that the campfire fits in your pocket and never goes out. There is one more thing, and it may be the most important one. Animals do not perform. They cannot posture for a camera, hide their fear behind a joke, or spin the story afterward. Their reactions are uncut. In an internet made mostly of people curating themselves, a wild animal reacting honestly to a moment is about as authentic as content gets. And in a feed that is ninety percent outrage, ten percent ads, and the occasional argument about sandwiches, a clip that is about competence and kindness feels like finding cold water in a desert. So no, it is not weird that you cannot look away. It would be weirder if you could. . 07 // 15 BOBCAT FACTS THAT CHANGE HOW YOU SEE THE CLIP You now know what the water does and what the animal is. Here is the rest of the file, fast. 1. The scientific name is Lynx rufus. "Rufus" means reddish. The animal has been carrying a color-coded label for centuries. 2. It is the most common wild cat in North America, which makes how rarely people see one even more remarkable. 3. Bobcats are ambush hunters, not chasers. They win by patience, not by endurance. Long chases are not their thing, and long swims are definitely not their thing. 4. Yes, bobcats can swim, and they do it when they have to: crossing rivers, fleeing danger, following prey. But it is a tool of last resort, not a hobby. 5. Kittens are born in spring, usually in litters of two to four, and the mother raises them alone. Dad is not part of the picture. 6. A kitten's eyes open at around a week and a half old. It will stay with its mother for most of its first year before heading off to find a territory of its own. 7. Young bobcats leaving home can travel dozens of miles looking for a place to settle. That means young animals are the ones most likely to end up somewhere unfamiliar, in situations nothing in their short lives prepared them for. 8. Bobcats mark territory with scent, scrapes and scratched trees. Their world is written in a language we mostly cannot read. 9. When they cannot finish a meal, they often cover the leftovers with leaves, snow or debris and come back for it later. Forward planning, from a cat. 10. They climb trees and use them for escape and lookout. If a bobcat ever wanted to get out of a situation, vertical was its first idea. 11. Their ear tufts are still debated. Camouflage? Hearing? Communication? Nobody has a definitive answer, and I love that. 12. Bobcat and Canada lynx are cousins, not twins. Lynx have longer ear tufts, bigger paws for snow, and a fully black-tipped tail. A bobcat's tail is black only on top of the tip, like someone dipped a paintbrush and stopped halfway. 13. Coat color changes by region. Desert animals run pale and sandy. Northern animals run darker and grayer. Same species, different wardrobe. 14. A bobcat is not closely related to a cougar. It belongs to the Lynx genus. The cougar belongs to another. When people call it a "baby mountain lion," a biologist somewhere loses a year of their life. 15. In the wild, life is often short and hard. Many bobcats do not make it to ten years old. In captivity, they can live far longer. Which tells you what the wild costs, every single day, on top of everything else. Fifteen facts. One conclusion. Every one of these facts describes an animal built to survive. Which is exactly why watching one in trouble is so hard to forget. . 08 // SIX MYTHS ABOUT WILD CATS AND WATER Since we are here, let's clear up some things. MYTH 1: All cats hate water. FALSE. Tigers swim. Jaguars swim. Fishing cats literally dive for a living. The idea that cats are universally water-averse comes from house cats, and even that is a generalization. Plenty of wild cats are comfortable in water. It is not fear of water. It is that most cats do not choose it unless there is a reason. MYTH 2: If an animal can swim, it is safe in water. FALSE. Being able to swim and being able to survive in water are two different skills. Temperature, distance, current, exhaustion and time all matter. A strong swimmer can lose to cold long before it loses to drowning. MYTH 3: A tough predator does not need help. FALSE. Toughness is not immunity. Predators die of exposure, injury and exhaustion all the time. Being at the top of a food chain does not mean being at the top of every situation. MYTH 4: A calm wild animal is a friendly wild animal. FALSE. We covered this. Calm can mean cold, tired, hurt or in shock. It does not mean safe to touch. MYTH 5: Wild cats attack people constantly. FALSE. It is the opposite. Bobcats avoid people so well that many humans go a lifetime without seeing one. Encounters that end badly are extremely rare, and most involve an animal that is sick, cornered or handled. MYTH 6: Rescue is easy. FALSE. Rescue is the visible five percent. Underneath it are timing, knowledge, restraint, risk and an enormous amount of luck. Six myths. Not one of them survives contact with the footage. . 09 // THE SECOND HALF OF EVERY RESCUE Here is something the clips never show you. Getting the animal out is the first half of the story. The second half is quieter, slower, and matters just as much. When a wild animal ends up in professional hands, the priorities are almost the opposite of what your instincts tell you. Warmth, calm, darkness and silence come first. Then a medical check for injuries, dehydration and hypothermia. Then, if all goes well, recovery in a space where the animal sees as little of humans as possible. Yes, as little as possible. Good rehabilitators deliberately avoid cuddling, talking to, or bonding with wild patients, because an animal that gets comfortable around people is an animal that struggles to survive once it goes back out there. The goal is never a rescued pet. The goal is a released predator. And when it is possible, animals are often returned to the area where they were found, because that is the territory they know: the routes, the hiding places, the food, the neighbors. So the real happy ending of a wildlife rescue is not a hug. It is a door opening, and an animal walking through it without looking back. Hold on to that image. It will matter in a minute. . 10 // PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS I am going to be blunt, because the comment section will not be. Every time a clip like this goes viral, thousands of people write some version of "I would have grabbed it too" or "I want to keep it." Please do not. A wild bobcat is not a pet. It is a wild predator with claws, teeth, and a nervous system built to treat contact as an attack. Even a small, exhausted, seemingly docile animal can injure a person badly in a fraction of a second. Bites and scratches from wildlife can carry infection. Rabies in bobcats is uncommon, but it is real, and that is not a gamble you take on a hunch. And as we covered, the danger runs both ways. The stress of being handled can hurt or kill a wild animal even when nobody meant it any harm. In many places it is also illegal to keep or transport wild animals without permits, which means the well-intentioned rescuer can end up in a legal mess and the animal can end up worse off. So what should you do if you ever find a wild animal in trouble? Keep your distance. Keep noise and movement low. Do not try to pick it up, feed it, or warm it up yourself. Call your local wildlife agency, animal control, or a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and follow their instructions. They do this for a living. They know what the animal needs, and what it does not. Love wildlife the right way: at a distance, with respect, and through the phone number of someone qualified. The best rescue stories are the ones where the animal gets to go back to being wild. Which brings me to the ending. . 11 // HOW TO WATCH THIS VIDEO Here is my one request. Do not watch it on autopilot. Before you press play, decide what you think is going to happen. Make a prediction, honestly. Then watch, and see how wrong you were. Keep your eyes on the animal, not on the people. Watch the eyes. Watch the ears. Watch the moment the animal has to decide what it wants to do. Wildlife tells you everything if you know where to look, and it does not lie. Pay attention to the way the whole tone of the clip shifts as it goes on. The first seconds and the last seconds feel like two entirely different films. And carry these five questions with you while it plays: Why is a predator this strong not fighting? What does an animal like this actually feel in a moment like that? How many other animals never get this chance? What would you have done in that spot, honestly? And what is the very last thing the bobcat does? Only one of those has an answer you can see with your own eyes. And remember the door I mentioned, the one that opens and the animal that does not look back? Keep that picture in your head while you watch. See how close reality gets to it. And stay to the last frame. There is a reason I told you the ending matters. A second watch will show you things the first one hides. . 12 // THE THREE RULES EVERY WILDLIFE PROFESSIONAL LIVES BY If you spent a week with people who do this work for a living, you would hear the same three ideas over and over. Rule one: the animal comes before the story. Good professionals never put a camera ahead of the patient. The best footage in the world is worthless if it costs the animal something. Rule two: distance is a form of kindness. The closer you get, the more stress you add. The most respectful thing you can do for a wild animal is usually to do less, from farther away, and let it be what it is. Rule three: success means the animal does not need you anymore. Not gratitude. Not a bond. Not a photo with a cute caption. Success is independence. Notice how that flips the usual story. In most human stories, success is being needed. In wildlife, success is being forgotten. . 13 // IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER FIVE LINES Screenshot this if you want to. I would. 1. Water steals heat 25 times faster than air, and a wet coat stops working. 2. A bobcat is an ambush predator with the strength of an animal twice its size, and none of that helps when the ground disappears. 3. Do not confuse calm with consent. 4. Almost everything in nature happens unwatched. That is why the times someone looks matter so much. 5. The best ending to a wild rescue is an animal that walks away on its own. . 14 // THE REAL REASON I POSTED THIS We spend a lot of time online being told the world is getting worse. Sometimes it is. But there is another truth underneath, one that rarely trends: in a random moment, on an ordinary day, with no cameras and no audience and nothing to gain, someone looked, someone cared, and something wild got another chance. Remember the number you guessed earlier, the seconds or minutes in that water? It turns out it does not matter. What matters is that somebody noticed at all. That is the whole post. Not a miracle. Not a spectacle. Just a small, stubborn piece of evidence that the chain can hold. If it moved you even a little, that is not weakness. That is the part of you that still works. If this landed for you, here is what to do: Reply with one word for how you felt watching it. Just one. I read them. Repost it for the person in your life who says they do not care about animals. Watch what happens to their face. Bookmark this thread-that-is-not-a-thread for the next time your feed makes you tired of everything. And follow me if you want more clips that make you feel something real, plus the stories behind them, without the fluff. One last thing. You made it to the bottom of a very long post. That means something. It means you are the kind of person who stays for the ending. Now go back to the video, press play, and stay for the last frame. P.S. If you scrolled straight to the bottom to see how this ends: the video is attached to this post. The ending is in the video. Nothing I write can replace it, and I would not want it to. P.P.S. Drop your prediction in the replies before you press play: what does the bobcat do in the very last seconds? Then come back after and tell me how wrong, or how right, you were. I will pin my favorite.

Earth Unveiled

67,284 次观看 • 15 天前

"If we have evidence or if we have bodies, we should release that to the world." ~EB Did Burlison See a Craft at the Location He Visited? Umm, No. (Long one here with a transcript and my comments in ( ). Work today so I was a little limited with this stuff. Looking forward to the Davis interview tomorrow!) In 2025, Rep. Eric Burlison spent "almost the entire day" with the White House staff as they negotiated various aspects of the Big Beautiful Bill. While he was there, he requested help with the UFO topic because the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets kept getting blocked and struggled to get access to certain information and locations. So, he asked for a White House-level briefing, "the same briefing the President... If you're taking the request, that's my highest request." (He didn't say if he ever received that briefing.) Burlison: "Furthermore, I would like to be able to have a green light to go visit some of these locations. And the gentleman that I was asking kind of smirked. And I said, 'Is this comical to you? I mean, do you think that I'm not a serious person?'" (I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? 😀 ) Burlison: "He said, 'No.' he goes. 'I just want to go with you.' And so, it turns out he did. He was able to go with me. He had to follow the proper channels as well. And we visited the first of many sites, hopefully. I'm gonna be cautious in talking about that because I don't want to jeopardize the ability to go to the remaining locations, if you will. I truly think that, for them, this was a test of whether or not this would become a circus for them. And so, I think that I'm just treading cautiously before I release too much information about what I've learned and where I went." (I understand not giving out the location to avoid a "circus" of UFO people trying to visit, but I don't see why he can't tell us what he learned right now. Hopefully, when all the visits are done, he can share the details with us.) James Fox: "Congressman, when you say you went to visit the site, are you implying that the alleged site that could, potentially, be housing non-human technology? Is that kind of what one is alleging here?" Burlison: "Yeah. Or, once did house non-human technology, right? Now, from my insights from Grusch and others, they had...it was pretty obvious that that first site that we were going to did not have active material, but, potentially, could have in the past. So what was important was to see the facilities and the structures, and to try to ascertain for A), first and foremost, did those facilities exist? And then were they designed in such a way that would have been, you know, one could easily see that that could have been utilized for reverse engineering." (Saying that a location/facility could have been utilized for reverse engineering craft not made by humans is not enough to make the waves we need to force the tidal wave of Disclosure. We need for Burlison (or someone else) to be able to visit a facility that has a craft there now, and folks working on it who are willing to speak about their experiences there. I don't see that happening any time soon.) Leslie Kean: "May I ask If the people at the site were cooperative and helpful for you?" Burlison: "Yes." Leslie Kean: "Or were they resistant to having you visit?" Burlison: "No, they were very cooperative. What I kind of interpreted from this is that a lot of what's happening today is that you have things that have happened in the past, and the people today, you know, you're talking about personnel that have changed over many times. And so, a lot of times they're not aware of the history of some of the things that you're talking about because that's not something that they're working on, currently. But they certainly were extremely helpful." (They were either not aware of the history or, they were, and lied about it. Can't rule that out. And the fact that they were helpful/cooperative doesn't really mean much. If you want to avoid unwanted attention, you put your best face on. Or, maybe they really were ignorant and wanted to do their best to help Burlison and the other folks? No way to know.) Burlison: "I had specifically wanted to meet with a particular individual that works at that location, and I actually expected them to turn me down, but was surprised that they actually arranged a meeting in a SCIF with the person that I requested. So, I do think that they're being cooperative." (Hopefully, when all of these locations have been visited, we get to learn this person's name. Full transparency, right?) Burlison: "And now that the President has [posted on Truth Social about UFOs], I think it gives everyone all the way down the line an understanding that this is to be taken seriously and to follow through." (We shall see.) Burlison: "On the way back after the visit, the White House staffer and the other person that had made it happen both said to me that they loved doing this. This was one of the funnest things they've ever done in their job, and that these other future site locations are not at all gonna be a burden to them. If anything, they're excited and looking forward to it." (Are we going to learn who those people are? Transparency? If not, why not? We pay their salaries.) James Fox: "I had a really quick follow-up question, Congressman. If you did find what you're looking for, is there a particular protocol, or what's the directive if you find what you're looking for?" Burlison: "If I find what I'm looking for, I'm gonna be very careful to protect any kind of national-security interest. But at the same time, I've been very clear that it is not the right of this country to withhold basic, fundamental evidence that we may or may not be alone. And so, if we have any kind of evidence of that, we should be telling the world and not holding back. And give as many details as possible, and release...be as transparent as possible without jeopardizing our secrets and national security. Or secrets that pertain...that our national security is dependent upon." (For now, keep the method of propulsion (energy source) secret and away from our adversaries and tell us everything else!) Burlison: "Well, I'm just gonna speculate, okay? If we have a type of technology that we have reverse engineered, that gives us a strategic advantage that our adversaries have not? I think that, for example, letting the world know that we have this craft, here it is, here's a photo of it, but you don't have to tell the world how exactly the...what you've reverse engineered, or how that operates." (Photos aren't going to cut it. If they exist, we need to see these craft (and bodies?) in person, with our own eyes. Put them in the Smithsonian and let us see all of it. And allow independent scientists to do their own analysis so we can verify that it's non-human or anomalous.) Burlison: "In the same way that when the nuclear bomb first was invented and utilized, the world knew, we revealed to the world that we have this capability, but we certainly are not gonna tell people how to make one and the specifics behind that. So, I think that for me, that's how I would answer that question. If you were asking me, 'What would you be willing to protect as far as national security?' That would be the nature of it. "Now, I think if the technology that's derived has nothing to do with changing our threat dynamic with an adversary, and it might benefit society and the world, by all means, let's release it. Let's let the world scientific minds utilize anything that we might have discovered. And so, that's where I personally stand." (But we all that it's not going to be that simple. Most likely (if this is all legit), we'll have craft and bodies, and the tech from the craft can give us an advantage over our adversaries, while at the same time, potentially, be used to change and improve the world and human condition. So what do we do? Keep it secret? Tell the world and take our chances?) Burlison: "I don't know, I couldn't tell you what Hillary meant by that." (EB was referring to the recent interview/deposition about Epstein where Hillary Clinton said that she would release UFO files but they would be "subject to any national security implications" and it should be done so that "no national security information is disclosed." She didn't get specific.) Burlison: "If we have evidence or if we have bodies, we should release that to the world. If we, you know, if what Eric Davis said to me - and now that was not in a hearing in which he had been sworn in, and I'm not saying that he was telling me a falsehood - when he said that there are four alien species - and that kind of went viral - I mean, if we, if we do have evidence of that, I want the world to know. I don't see why that would be of national security interest to withhold that from the world." (Unless, the people who have seen the bodies say something like, "Their skin is something that can be used as armor and we can't allow our adversaries to learn about that. Just trying to think of reasons why the gatekeepers will tell us that information needs to be kept secret.)
7:02

"If we have evidence or if we have bodies, we should release that to the world." ~EB Did Burlison See a Craft at the Location He Visited? Umm, No. (Long one here with a transcript and my comments in ( ). Work today so I was a little limited with this stuff. Looking forward to the Davis interview tomorrow!) In 2025, Rep. Eric Burlison spent "almost the entire day" with the White House staff as they negotiated various aspects of the Big Beautiful Bill. While he was there, he requested help with the UFO topic because the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets kept getting blocked and struggled to get access to certain information and locations. So, he asked for a White House-level briefing, "the same briefing the President... If you're taking the request, that's my highest request." (He didn't say if he ever received that briefing.) Burlison: "Furthermore, I would like to be able to have a green light to go visit some of these locations. And the gentleman that I was asking kind of smirked. And I said, 'Is this comical to you? I mean, do you think that I'm not a serious person?'" (I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? 😀 ) Burlison: "He said, 'No.' he goes. 'I just want to go with you.' And so, it turns out he did. He was able to go with me. He had to follow the proper channels as well. And we visited the first of many sites, hopefully. I'm gonna be cautious in talking about that because I don't want to jeopardize the ability to go to the remaining locations, if you will. I truly think that, for them, this was a test of whether or not this would become a circus for them. And so, I think that I'm just treading cautiously before I release too much information about what I've learned and where I went." (I understand not giving out the location to avoid a "circus" of UFO people trying to visit, but I don't see why he can't tell us what he learned right now. Hopefully, when all the visits are done, he can share the details with us.) James Fox: "Congressman, when you say you went to visit the site, are you implying that the alleged site that could, potentially, be housing non-human technology? Is that kind of what one is alleging here?" Burlison: "Yeah. Or, once did house non-human technology, right? Now, from my insights from Grusch and others, they had...it was pretty obvious that that first site that we were going to did not have active material, but, potentially, could have in the past. So what was important was to see the facilities and the structures, and to try to ascertain for A), first and foremost, did those facilities exist? And then were they designed in such a way that would have been, you know, one could easily see that that could have been utilized for reverse engineering." (Saying that a location/facility could have been utilized for reverse engineering craft not made by humans is not enough to make the waves we need to force the tidal wave of Disclosure. We need for Burlison (or someone else) to be able to visit a facility that has a craft there now, and folks working on it who are willing to speak about their experiences there. I don't see that happening any time soon.) Leslie Kean: "May I ask If the people at the site were cooperative and helpful for you?" Burlison: "Yes." Leslie Kean: "Or were they resistant to having you visit?" Burlison: "No, they were very cooperative. What I kind of interpreted from this is that a lot of what's happening today is that you have things that have happened in the past, and the people today, you know, you're talking about personnel that have changed over many times. And so, a lot of times they're not aware of the history of some of the things that you're talking about because that's not something that they're working on, currently. But they certainly were extremely helpful." (They were either not aware of the history or, they were, and lied about it. Can't rule that out. And the fact that they were helpful/cooperative doesn't really mean much. If you want to avoid unwanted attention, you put your best face on. Or, maybe they really were ignorant and wanted to do their best to help Burlison and the other folks? No way to know.) Burlison: "I had specifically wanted to meet with a particular individual that works at that location, and I actually expected them to turn me down, but was surprised that they actually arranged a meeting in a SCIF with the person that I requested. So, I do think that they're being cooperative." (Hopefully, when all of these locations have been visited, we get to learn this person's name. Full transparency, right?) Burlison: "And now that the President has [posted on Truth Social about UFOs], I think it gives everyone all the way down the line an understanding that this is to be taken seriously and to follow through." (We shall see.) Burlison: "On the way back after the visit, the White House staffer and the other person that had made it happen both said to me that they loved doing this. This was one of the funnest things they've ever done in their job, and that these other future site locations are not at all gonna be a burden to them. If anything, they're excited and looking forward to it." (Are we going to learn who those people are? Transparency? If not, why not? We pay their salaries.) James Fox: "I had a really quick follow-up question, Congressman. If you did find what you're looking for, is there a particular protocol, or what's the directive if you find what you're looking for?" Burlison: "If I find what I'm looking for, I'm gonna be very careful to protect any kind of national-security interest. But at the same time, I've been very clear that it is not the right of this country to withhold basic, fundamental evidence that we may or may not be alone. And so, if we have any kind of evidence of that, we should be telling the world and not holding back. And give as many details as possible, and release...be as transparent as possible without jeopardizing our secrets and national security. Or secrets that pertain...that our national security is dependent upon." (For now, keep the method of propulsion (energy source) secret and away from our adversaries and tell us everything else!) Burlison: "Well, I'm just gonna speculate, okay? If we have a type of technology that we have reverse engineered, that gives us a strategic advantage that our adversaries have not? I think that, for example, letting the world know that we have this craft, here it is, here's a photo of it, but you don't have to tell the world how exactly the...what you've reverse engineered, or how that operates." (Photos aren't going to cut it. If they exist, we need to see these craft (and bodies?) in person, with our own eyes. Put them in the Smithsonian and let us see all of it. And allow independent scientists to do their own analysis so we can verify that it's non-human or anomalous.) Burlison: "In the same way that when the nuclear bomb first was invented and utilized, the world knew, we revealed to the world that we have this capability, but we certainly are not gonna tell people how to make one and the specifics behind that. So, I think that for me, that's how I would answer that question. If you were asking me, 'What would you be willing to protect as far as national security?' That would be the nature of it. "Now, I think if the technology that's derived has nothing to do with changing our threat dynamic with an adversary, and it might benefit society and the world, by all means, let's release it. Let's let the world scientific minds utilize anything that we might have discovered. And so, that's where I personally stand." (But we all that it's not going to be that simple. Most likely (if this is all legit), we'll have craft and bodies, and the tech from the craft can give us an advantage over our adversaries, while at the same time, potentially, be used to change and improve the world and human condition. So what do we do? Keep it secret? Tell the world and take our chances?) Burlison: "I don't know, I couldn't tell you what Hillary meant by that." (EB was referring to the recent interview/deposition about Epstein where Hillary Clinton said that she would release UFO files but they would be "subject to any national security implications" and it should be done so that "no national security information is disclosed." She didn't get specific.) Burlison: "If we have evidence or if we have bodies, we should release that to the world. If we, you know, if what Eric Davis said to me - and now that was not in a hearing in which he had been sworn in, and I'm not saying that he was telling me a falsehood - when he said that there are four alien species - and that kind of went viral - I mean, if we, if we do have evidence of that, I want the world to know. I don't see why that would be of national security interest to withhold that from the world." (Unless, the people who have seen the bodies say something like, "Their skin is something that can be used as armor and we can't allow our adversaries to learn about that. Just trying to think of reasons why the gatekeepers will tell us that information needs to be kept secret.)

Joe Murgia

18,951 次观看 • 7 个月前

Most people scroll past suffering every single day and don't even notice. She didn't. And that one decision — made in less than three seconds, with zero hesitation, zero plan, zero audience — is why this video is currently wrecking people's timelines and making grown adults cry at their desks. I've been studying viral content for over a decade. I've watched thousands of videos get dissected, algorithm-tested, A/B'd to death by teams trying to "engineer" emotion. And every single time, the ones that actually break the internet have one thing in common: they weren't engineered at all. They just happened. This is one of those. You need to watch this one. Not read about it. Watch it. Because there's a specific moment in this video — you'll know it when you see it — where the entire emotional weight of the situation flips in half a second, and no description, no summary, no paragraph I write is going to do that moment justice. I'm not even going to try. What I am going to do is tell you why this matters, why it's spreading the way it is, and why — once you see it — you won't be able to stop thinking about it. Let's talk about what nobody talks about. There is an entire invisible war happening in every park, every lake, every pond, every quiet patch of "nature" tucked into our cities. It's silent. It doesn't trend. It doesn't get news coverage. Animals get hurt, get tangled, get trapped, get sick, get slowly, quietly destroyed by things we left behind — and 99.9% of the time, nobody is there to notice. Nobody is there to act. The animal just... disappears. No headline. No hashtag. No one ever knows. That's the baseline. That's what "normal" looks like for wildlife living next to humans. Quiet suffering, unwitnessed, unresolved. And then — every once in a while — someone walks into that invisible war by accident, on a normal day, wearing normal clothes, holding nothing but a phone and maybe a bag of bread, expecting absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. And something in them refuses to just keep walking. That's what you're watching here. Not a stunt. Not a "content piece." Not something built for the algorithm. A real, unscripted, completely human reflex — the kind that separates the people who notice from the people who don't, and then separates the people who notice from the tiny, tiny percentage who actually do something about it. Here's the thing that gets me every time I rewatch this. It's not the rescue itself that hits hardest. It's the speed. There is no internal debate happening on screen. There's no "should I get involved," no calling someone else to handle it, no filming from a distance for views. There's a problem, and then there's motion. That gap — the one between noticing and acting — is usually where 95% of us live our entire lives. We notice. We feel something. We keep walking. This video is what happens when that gap doesn't exist. I want you to sit with that for a second, because it's actually rare. Genuinely rare. Most "hero" content you see online has been staged, has been reshot, has a director just out of frame. This isn't that. You can feel it in the way things unfold — messy, urgent, real, imperfect in all the ways real moments are and staged moments never are. That authenticity is exactly why it's spreading the way it's spreading. People are starving for something real in a feed built entirely out of things that are fake. Now let's talk about the animal at the center of this, because most people underestimate exactly how much is at stake for a creature like this in a situation like this. Waterfowl — geese specifically — are tougher and more resilient than almost anyone gives them credit for. They migrate thousands of miles. They survive brutal winters. They defend their families with a ferocity that has made more than one grown adult sprint across a parking lot in fear. But that same toughness has a blind spot: when something goes wrong — when they get tangled, injured, caught in something man-made — they often have no way to fix it themselves. No hands. No way to cut, unwind, or remove whatever's constricting them. Just time, working against them, second by second, while the injury gets worse and the body starts shutting down blood flow to protect the rest of itself. Left alone, that kind of situation doesn't resolve. It doesn't "work itself out." It ends exactly one way, and it's not a good one. Which is why the window that matters here is so brutally small. Not days. Not hours in some cases. The margin between "this animal makes it" and "this animal doesn't" can come down to a single person, on a single day, choosing not to keep walking. That's the stakes you're watching play out. That's why your chest tightens the second you hit play. Your body understands the stakes before your brain even finishes processing what's happening on screen. And this is the part that I think explains why videos like this hit different than almost anything else on this platform. We are, all of us, walking around holding an enormous amount of helplessness we can't do anything with. The news. The scale of everything wrong in the world. Problems so big, so systemic, so far outside any single person's control that we've collectively learned to just... go numb. Scroll past. Compartmentalize. It's a survival mechanism. You cannot feel the full weight of everything, all the time, or you'd never get out of bed. But every so often, something shows up in your feed that's the exact opposite of that. A problem small enough — specific enough — local enough — that one single, ordinary, non-famous, non-wealthy, non-powerful person can just... solve it. With their hands. In real time. No committee. No funding request. No permission slip. Just a person deciding that this particular piece of suffering, right here, right now, is not going to continue on their watch. That is enormously, viscerally satisfying to witness. It's satisfying in a way that almost nothing else in your feed is, because it's proof — actual, undeniable, on-camera proof — that individual action still means something. That you, one person, with no special resources, could be the difference between an animal living and an animal not living. That agency still exists. That the world isn't only made of problems too big for any of us. That's not a small thing to be reminded of. That's actually one of the most quietly desperate things people are craving right now, whether they'd admit it or not. Now here's where it gets even more interesting, because this isn't just an emotional story — this is a legitimately fascinating one if you understand what's actually happening biologically and behaviorally in the footage. Watch how the surrounding flock reacts. Watch what the rest of the group does, and doesn't do, while all of this unfolds. Geese are famously social, famously alert, famously reactive to any perceived threat near one of their own — and yet what you'll see here defies the instinct you'd expect. There's a reason for that, rooted in how these animals actually assess threat versus help, and once you notice it, you won't be able to unsee it in the rest of the clip. I'm not going to spell it out for you. Watch for it. It's there, right in front of you, and it's one of the most quietly remarkable details in the entire video — the kind of detail that separates people who watch it once from people who watch it five times in a row trying to catch everything they missed. Then there's the ending. I will tell you this much and nothing more: the ending is the reason this is getting saved, not just liked. Saved. Sent to group chats. Sent to people's moms. Sent with the caption "I'm not crying, you're crying." There is a specific final few seconds that recontextualizes literally everything that came before it — turns what could have been a simple "good deed" clip into something that feels closer to a small, perfect short film. A beginning, a crisis, an intervention, and a resolution that actually lands, emotionally, in a way most content never manages to pull off in fifteen seconds or two minutes or however long you end up watching it for. I've watched a lot of "feel-good animal content." Most of it is forgettable. Cute, sure. A dopamine hit, sure. Gone from your memory in ten minutes. This is not that. This is the rare kind that actually sits with you — that you think about later that night, or the next morning, for reasons you can't fully articulate. That's the difference between content and a moment. This is a moment. Let's talk for a second about who does this. Because I think that matters too. There's a version of this story where the "hero" is a trained wildlife rescuer, someone with credentials, equipment, years of experience, a whole organizational apparatus behind them. That story is good. It's reassuring in its own way — proof that the system works, that there are professionals out there handling things. This is not that story. This is an ordinary person. Someone who woke up that day with no plan to become anyone's hero. No training montage. No wildlife rescue license. Just a person who happened to be in the right place, who happened to actually look — really look — instead of glancing and moving on, and who happened to have whatever internal wiring makes some people act instead of hesitate. That distinction matters enormously, because it collapses the distance between "the kind of person who does something like this" and you. It's not a superhero story. It's a "this could have been literally anyone, including me" story. And the honest, slightly uncomfortable truth buried inside that realization is: most of us, most days, would have kept walking. We'd have felt a flicker of concern, maybe taken a photo, maybe felt vaguely bad about it for the rest of the afternoon, and then moved on with our lives, because that's simply what most people do, most of the time, when they're not forced to reckon with an alternative right in front of them. This video is that alternative, playing out in real time, and it's impossible to watch without quietly asking yourself which version of a person you actually are. I don't think that's a comfortable question. I think that's exactly why people can't stop sharing it. Now — a word on why this specific footage works so well from a pure craft standpoint, because even setting aside the emotional weight, there's something happening here structurally that most creators spend years trying to figure out and never quite land. Great short-form video has a shape. Setup. Escalation. Turn. Payoff. Most people who try to make "emotional" content front-load everything — they tell you how to feel before you've felt anything, they oversell, they manipulate obviously, and audiences today can smell that from a mile away and bounce immediately. What makes a clip like this different is that it doesn't ask you to feel anything. It just shows you a sequence of real events, unfolding in real time, and trusts you — correctly — to arrive at the emotion yourself. That trust is rare. That restraint is rare. And it's exactly why, when the turn comes, it hits as hard as it does. Nobody told you it was going to. You got there on your own, which means you actually feel it, instead of being told you should. That's not something you can fake with editing tricks or a trending sound. That's something that only happens when the moment itself is genuinely, unmistakably real. I also want to talk about scale for a second, because I think it's easy to miss how much bigger this issue is than one video, one goose, one lake, one afternoon. Every single day, in cities all over the world, urban wildlife is quietly colliding with human infrastructure in ways most of us never think about. Fishing line nobody bothered to clean up. Litter that looks harmless to us and is a death trap to something smaller, more fragile, more entangled in its environment than we are. Storm drains. Discarded packaging. The debris of a species — us — that moves through the world without much thought for what we leave behind. Most of the time, none of us see the consequences. The animals affected by it don't post about it. They don't trend. They just quietly don't make it, somewhere out of frame, and life goes on for the rest of us completely unaware that anything happened at all. This video is a rare, accidental window into that entire hidden layer of reality — the one that exists parallel to ours, constantly, that we almost never get to actually witness. And for a few minutes, thanks to one person's phone and one person's reflexes, we get to see it, and we get to see it resolved the right way instead of the way it usually resolves when nobody's there. That's not nothing. That's actually kind of extraordinary when you sit with it. Here's a question worth asking yourself honestly, and I want you to actually answer it, not just skim past it: when was the last time you personally stopped — actually stopped, changed your plans, got your hands dirty, inconvenienced yourself in some real way — for a creature that couldn't thank you, couldn't pay you back, couldn't do anything for you in return except exist a little longer because you showed up? If your honest answer is "I can't remember," you're not alone. Most people can't. That's not a moral failing, exactly — it's just how modern life is structured. We're busy. We're distracted. We're moving fast between obligations that already feel like too much. Stopping for something that asks nothing of us and offers nothing back except the fact of having helped is, increasingly, a rare kind of choice. Which is exactly why watching someone else make that choice, cleanly, instinctively, without hesitation, feels almost like watching a small miracle. Not because it's supernatural. Because it's so uncommon in practice, even though in theory it's the simplest, most obviously "right" thing a person could do. I'll say this plainly: I've built accounts to millions of followers. I've seen what actually spreads versus what merely performs well for a day and disappears. The stuff that performs well for a day is clever. It's well-edited. It rides a trend. The stuff that actually spreads — that gets forwarded person to person, week after week, long after the algorithm has moved on to the next thing — is always, always this. Real stakes. Real people. A real moment where something could have gone one of two ways, and it went the better way, because someone decided it would. You're looking at one of those right now. So here's my actual advice, and I don't give this kind of direct instruction often: don't read a recap of this. Don't let someone else's summary substitute for the thing itself. There is a version of this moment happening on your screen, right now, in full, unedited by anyone's words including mine — and it is genuinely, unambiguously worth the two minutes of your life it will cost you. You will see the moment where everything is uncertain. You will see the moment where a decision gets made in real time, with real risk of it not working. You will see the moment where you don't know, and neither did anyone there in that moment, how this was going to end. And then you will see how it actually ended. I'm not going to tell you what that ending looks like. I'm telling you that when you get there, you'll understand exactly why this is the video everyone's been sending to everyone else this week, why it's sitting in a hundred thousand people's "saved" folders, why comment sections under it are full of people saying some version of the same three words over and over. Hit play. You'll get it in the first ten seconds, and you won't regret the two minutes after that. One more thing before you go watch it, because I think it's actually the most important part of all of this, and it's the part that gets lost in every "feel-good video" cycle the internet runs on: the feeling this video gives you — that lump in your throat, that little surge of hope, that reminder that individual action still matters — that feeling is not supposed to be a one-time hit you get from watching someone else do something good and then close the app and move on with your day unchanged. That feeling is supposed to be a signal. A nudge. Evidence, presented to you directly, that the gap between noticing and acting is smaller than you think, and that crossing it is available to you too, the next time you're the one standing there, noticing something that most people would just walk past. You don't need a license. You don't need training. You don't need permission, or an audience, or a camera rolling, or anyone to ever find out you did it at all. You just need to be the kind of person who doesn't keep walking. This video is proof that person exists. Go watch it, and then decide if you're going to be one too. Sound on. Full screen. Watch it to the very end — the last few seconds are the whole reason this is everywhere right now, and no summary, no recap, no paragraph anyone writes about it is a substitute for actually seeing it happen with your own eyes. This is what it looks like when someone chooses not to look away. Now you choose. Let me go a little deeper, because I don't think most people actually understand why their own reaction to this footage is so strong, and I think understanding it makes the video hit even harder the second time around. Psychologists have a name for what you're feeling right now if you've already watched this once. It's sometimes called "moral elevation" — a very specific, very physical response that happens when you witness an act of unexpected goodness. Not just any positive emotion. A distinct one. Your chest can feel warm. Your throat can tighten. Some people report actual chills. It's not the same thing as happiness, and it's not the same thing as being impressed. It's your nervous system responding to proof that people are better than you'd started to assume they were. And here's the part that matters: that response isn't random, and it isn't rare because it's hard to trigger. It's rare because most of what we consume all day is engineered to trigger the opposite — outrage, comparison, anxiety, fear of missing out. Feeds are optimized for reaction, not elevation, because outrage is cheap to produce and elevation isn't. You can't fake this feeling with a clever caption. You can't manufacture it with a trending sound or a plot twist. It only happens when something real, something with actual stakes, resolves in a way that reminds you decency still exists in the wild, unscripted, unpaid, unrewarded. That's why this spreads the way outrage spreads, except it leaves you feeling the opposite of drained afterward. Outrage burns you out. Elevation refuels you. People aren't just sharing this because it's touching — they're sharing it because, for the length of one short video, it makes them feel like being a decent person is still worth it. That's an incredibly rare thing for any piece of content to do, and it's exactly why you're seeing it everywhere this week. Let's talk about the setting for a second too, because I think it's easy to overlook how much it matters that this didn't happen somewhere remote, somewhere wild, somewhere far from ordinary life. This happened in the kind of place you've walked past a thousand times without thinking twice. A park. A pond. The kind of unremarkable, background scenery that exists in almost every neighborhood, that most of us jog past, walk our dogs past, eat lunch near, without ever really looking at it as a place where anything could actually happen. That's exactly the point. The ordinary backdrop is what makes the extraordinary moment inside it land so hard. This isn't some far-off nature documentary shot by a professional crew with a permit and a budget. This is five minutes from somebody's house. This is the kind of place that exists five minutes from your house too. Which means the opportunity this video captures — the chance to notice, to stop, to help — isn't some rare alignment of stars that only happens once in a lifetime, in some exotic location, to some uniquely positioned person. It's sitting there, quietly, in ordinary places, all the time, waiting for someone to actually look. Most days, nobody does. This is what it looks like on the rare day when somebody finally does. I keep coming back to that idea because I think it's the actual core of why this resonates so widely, across ages, across backgrounds, across every single kind of person who ends up watching it. It's not really a story about a goose. It's a story about attention — about what happens in the tiny, easily ignored moment when you notice something is wrong, and what you do with that noticing. Everything else — the outcome, the emotion, the ending that's got everyone talking — flows directly out of that one, incredibly small, incredibly human decision. And if I'm honest, that's what makes content like this so much more valuable than almost anything else competing for your attention today. It doesn't sell you anything. It doesn't want you to buy a product, follow a brand, join a movement, or believe a particular opinion about a particular issue. It just quietly asks you to notice something you might otherwise have scrolled past, the same way the person in this video almost could have too, and didn't. A few things people keep asking in the comments under this video, worth addressing directly: Was this real, or staged? Watch closely and you'll answer that question yourself within the first several seconds — nothing about the pacing, the urgency, or the imperfection of how it unfolds reads like something blocked out in advance. Staged content has a rhythm to it. This doesn't have that rhythm. It has the rhythm of something happening for the first and only time, exactly once, exactly as it happened. Was the animal okay afterward? That's exactly the question this video answers — and it's the reason the final stretch of footage matters so much. I won't spoil it. I'll just say: pay close attention to the very end, because that's the payoff the entire rest of the video has been building toward, whether you consciously noticed the build or not. Why does a video like this get more engagement than videos with way bigger production value, bigger creators, bigger budgets behind them? Because production value has never been what actually moves people. Truth does. A shaky, imperfect, unscripted two minutes of someone doing the right thing at the right moment will outperform a polished, professionally shot piece of content nine times out of ten, because audiences aren't actually asking to be impressed. They're asking to be moved. Those are two very different things, and only one of them is genuinely rare. Here's something else worth sitting with. Somewhere, right now, there's a version of this exact situation playing out with no witness at all. No phone rolling. No person who happens to notice. No intervention. It's happening constantly, everywhere, completely unrecorded, completely unremarked upon, because most of the time, nobody's there, or the person who's there keeps walking. This video isn't rare because the situation itself is rare. The situation is common — heartbreakingly, quietly common. What's rare is the outcome. What's rare is someone actually being there, actually noticing, actually choosing to act, and someone else actually catching it on camera so the rest of us get to witness what usually happens completely out of view. That's the real reason this deserves your two minutes more than almost anything else you'll see in your feed today. Not because it's rare that an animal needed help. Because it's rare that help actually showed up in time, and rarer still that any of us get to see it. So go watch it. Not the summary. Not somebody's recap in the replies. The actual footage, start to finish, full screen, sound on. Let the moment build the way it's supposed to build. Let yourself not know how it ends until it ends. That uncertainty — that genuine not-knowing — is exactly what makes the resolution land the way it's supposed to land. And when you get to the end, and you feel whatever you're about to feel, do one more thing: send it to somebody. Not because it needs the views. Because somebody in your life probably needs the reminder, just as much as you did, that this is still what people are capable of when nobody's asking them to be. That's the whole point. That's why it's everywhere. That's why you should watch it right now, before you scroll past one more thing today without actually seeing it. #AnimalRescue #WildlifeRescue #GooseRescue #AnimalsOfTwitter #RescueStory #ActOfKindness #HumanityRestored #WildlifeConservation #UrbanWildlife #ViralVideo #EmotionalStory #DoGood #AnimalLovers #NatureRescue #HeroesAmongUs #WeLoveAnimals #RescueMission #CompassionInAction #FaithInHumanity #WatchTillTheEnd
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Most people scroll past suffering every single day and don't even notice. She didn't. And that one decision — made in less than three seconds, with zero hesitation, zero plan, zero audience — is why this video is currently wrecking people's timelines and making grown adults cry at their desks. I've been studying viral content for over a decade. I've watched thousands of videos get dissected, algorithm-tested, A/B'd to death by teams trying to "engineer" emotion. And every single time, the ones that actually break the internet have one thing in common: they weren't engineered at all. They just happened. This is one of those. You need to watch this one. Not read about it. Watch it. Because there's a specific moment in this video — you'll know it when you see it — where the entire emotional weight of the situation flips in half a second, and no description, no summary, no paragraph I write is going to do that moment justice. I'm not even going to try. What I am going to do is tell you why this matters, why it's spreading the way it is, and why — once you see it — you won't be able to stop thinking about it. Let's talk about what nobody talks about. There is an entire invisible war happening in every park, every lake, every pond, every quiet patch of "nature" tucked into our cities. It's silent. It doesn't trend. It doesn't get news coverage. Animals get hurt, get tangled, get trapped, get sick, get slowly, quietly destroyed by things we left behind — and 99.9% of the time, nobody is there to notice. Nobody is there to act. The animal just... disappears. No headline. No hashtag. No one ever knows. That's the baseline. That's what "normal" looks like for wildlife living next to humans. Quiet suffering, unwitnessed, unresolved. And then — every once in a while — someone walks into that invisible war by accident, on a normal day, wearing normal clothes, holding nothing but a phone and maybe a bag of bread, expecting absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. And something in them refuses to just keep walking. That's what you're watching here. Not a stunt. Not a "content piece." Not something built for the algorithm. A real, unscripted, completely human reflex — the kind that separates the people who notice from the people who don't, and then separates the people who notice from the tiny, tiny percentage who actually do something about it. Here's the thing that gets me every time I rewatch this. It's not the rescue itself that hits hardest. It's the speed. There is no internal debate happening on screen. There's no "should I get involved," no calling someone else to handle it, no filming from a distance for views. There's a problem, and then there's motion. That gap — the one between noticing and acting — is usually where 95% of us live our entire lives. We notice. We feel something. We keep walking. This video is what happens when that gap doesn't exist. I want you to sit with that for a second, because it's actually rare. Genuinely rare. Most "hero" content you see online has been staged, has been reshot, has a director just out of frame. This isn't that. You can feel it in the way things unfold — messy, urgent, real, imperfect in all the ways real moments are and staged moments never are. That authenticity is exactly why it's spreading the way it's spreading. People are starving for something real in a feed built entirely out of things that are fake. Now let's talk about the animal at the center of this, because most people underestimate exactly how much is at stake for a creature like this in a situation like this. Waterfowl — geese specifically — are tougher and more resilient than almost anyone gives them credit for. They migrate thousands of miles. They survive brutal winters. They defend their families with a ferocity that has made more than one grown adult sprint across a parking lot in fear. But that same toughness has a blind spot: when something goes wrong — when they get tangled, injured, caught in something man-made — they often have no way to fix it themselves. No hands. No way to cut, unwind, or remove whatever's constricting them. Just time, working against them, second by second, while the injury gets worse and the body starts shutting down blood flow to protect the rest of itself. Left alone, that kind of situation doesn't resolve. It doesn't "work itself out." It ends exactly one way, and it's not a good one. Which is why the window that matters here is so brutally small. Not days. Not hours in some cases. The margin between "this animal makes it" and "this animal doesn't" can come down to a single person, on a single day, choosing not to keep walking. That's the stakes you're watching play out. That's why your chest tightens the second you hit play. Your body understands the stakes before your brain even finishes processing what's happening on screen. And this is the part that I think explains why videos like this hit different than almost anything else on this platform. We are, all of us, walking around holding an enormous amount of helplessness we can't do anything with. The news. The scale of everything wrong in the world. Problems so big, so systemic, so far outside any single person's control that we've collectively learned to just... go numb. Scroll past. Compartmentalize. It's a survival mechanism. You cannot feel the full weight of everything, all the time, or you'd never get out of bed. But every so often, something shows up in your feed that's the exact opposite of that. A problem small enough — specific enough — local enough — that one single, ordinary, non-famous, non-wealthy, non-powerful person can just... solve it. With their hands. In real time. No committee. No funding request. No permission slip. Just a person deciding that this particular piece of suffering, right here, right now, is not going to continue on their watch. That is enormously, viscerally satisfying to witness. It's satisfying in a way that almost nothing else in your feed is, because it's proof — actual, undeniable, on-camera proof — that individual action still means something. That you, one person, with no special resources, could be the difference between an animal living and an animal not living. That agency still exists. That the world isn't only made of problems too big for any of us. That's not a small thing to be reminded of. That's actually one of the most quietly desperate things people are craving right now, whether they'd admit it or not. Now here's where it gets even more interesting, because this isn't just an emotional story — this is a legitimately fascinating one if you understand what's actually happening biologically and behaviorally in the footage. Watch how the surrounding flock reacts. Watch what the rest of the group does, and doesn't do, while all of this unfolds. Geese are famously social, famously alert, famously reactive to any perceived threat near one of their own — and yet what you'll see here defies the instinct you'd expect. There's a reason for that, rooted in how these animals actually assess threat versus help, and once you notice it, you won't be able to unsee it in the rest of the clip. I'm not going to spell it out for you. Watch for it. It's there, right in front of you, and it's one of the most quietly remarkable details in the entire video — the kind of detail that separates people who watch it once from people who watch it five times in a row trying to catch everything they missed. Then there's the ending. I will tell you this much and nothing more: the ending is the reason this is getting saved, not just liked. Saved. Sent to group chats. Sent to people's moms. Sent with the caption "I'm not crying, you're crying." There is a specific final few seconds that recontextualizes literally everything that came before it — turns what could have been a simple "good deed" clip into something that feels closer to a small, perfect short film. A beginning, a crisis, an intervention, and a resolution that actually lands, emotionally, in a way most content never manages to pull off in fifteen seconds or two minutes or however long you end up watching it for. I've watched a lot of "feel-good animal content." Most of it is forgettable. Cute, sure. A dopamine hit, sure. Gone from your memory in ten minutes. This is not that. This is the rare kind that actually sits with you — that you think about later that night, or the next morning, for reasons you can't fully articulate. That's the difference between content and a moment. This is a moment. Let's talk for a second about who does this. Because I think that matters too. There's a version of this story where the "hero" is a trained wildlife rescuer, someone with credentials, equipment, years of experience, a whole organizational apparatus behind them. That story is good. It's reassuring in its own way — proof that the system works, that there are professionals out there handling things. This is not that story. This is an ordinary person. Someone who woke up that day with no plan to become anyone's hero. No training montage. No wildlife rescue license. Just a person who happened to be in the right place, who happened to actually look — really look — instead of glancing and moving on, and who happened to have whatever internal wiring makes some people act instead of hesitate. That distinction matters enormously, because it collapses the distance between "the kind of person who does something like this" and you. It's not a superhero story. It's a "this could have been literally anyone, including me" story. And the honest, slightly uncomfortable truth buried inside that realization is: most of us, most days, would have kept walking. We'd have felt a flicker of concern, maybe taken a photo, maybe felt vaguely bad about it for the rest of the afternoon, and then moved on with our lives, because that's simply what most people do, most of the time, when they're not forced to reckon with an alternative right in front of them. This video is that alternative, playing out in real time, and it's impossible to watch without quietly asking yourself which version of a person you actually are. I don't think that's a comfortable question. I think that's exactly why people can't stop sharing it. Now — a word on why this specific footage works so well from a pure craft standpoint, because even setting aside the emotional weight, there's something happening here structurally that most creators spend years trying to figure out and never quite land. Great short-form video has a shape. Setup. Escalation. Turn. Payoff. Most people who try to make "emotional" content front-load everything — they tell you how to feel before you've felt anything, they oversell, they manipulate obviously, and audiences today can smell that from a mile away and bounce immediately. What makes a clip like this different is that it doesn't ask you to feel anything. It just shows you a sequence of real events, unfolding in real time, and trusts you — correctly — to arrive at the emotion yourself. That trust is rare. That restraint is rare. And it's exactly why, when the turn comes, it hits as hard as it does. Nobody told you it was going to. You got there on your own, which means you actually feel it, instead of being told you should. That's not something you can fake with editing tricks or a trending sound. That's something that only happens when the moment itself is genuinely, unmistakably real. I also want to talk about scale for a second, because I think it's easy to miss how much bigger this issue is than one video, one goose, one lake, one afternoon. Every single day, in cities all over the world, urban wildlife is quietly colliding with human infrastructure in ways most of us never think about. Fishing line nobody bothered to clean up. Litter that looks harmless to us and is a death trap to something smaller, more fragile, more entangled in its environment than we are. Storm drains. Discarded packaging. The debris of a species — us — that moves through the world without much thought for what we leave behind. Most of the time, none of us see the consequences. The animals affected by it don't post about it. They don't trend. They just quietly don't make it, somewhere out of frame, and life goes on for the rest of us completely unaware that anything happened at all. This video is a rare, accidental window into that entire hidden layer of reality — the one that exists parallel to ours, constantly, that we almost never get to actually witness. And for a few minutes, thanks to one person's phone and one person's reflexes, we get to see it, and we get to see it resolved the right way instead of the way it usually resolves when nobody's there. That's not nothing. That's actually kind of extraordinary when you sit with it. Here's a question worth asking yourself honestly, and I want you to actually answer it, not just skim past it: when was the last time you personally stopped — actually stopped, changed your plans, got your hands dirty, inconvenienced yourself in some real way — for a creature that couldn't thank you, couldn't pay you back, couldn't do anything for you in return except exist a little longer because you showed up? If your honest answer is "I can't remember," you're not alone. Most people can't. That's not a moral failing, exactly — it's just how modern life is structured. We're busy. We're distracted. We're moving fast between obligations that already feel like too much. Stopping for something that asks nothing of us and offers nothing back except the fact of having helped is, increasingly, a rare kind of choice. Which is exactly why watching someone else make that choice, cleanly, instinctively, without hesitation, feels almost like watching a small miracle. Not because it's supernatural. Because it's so uncommon in practice, even though in theory it's the simplest, most obviously "right" thing a person could do. I'll say this plainly: I've built accounts to millions of followers. I've seen what actually spreads versus what merely performs well for a day and disappears. The stuff that performs well for a day is clever. It's well-edited. It rides a trend. The stuff that actually spreads — that gets forwarded person to person, week after week, long after the algorithm has moved on to the next thing — is always, always this. Real stakes. Real people. A real moment where something could have gone one of two ways, and it went the better way, because someone decided it would. You're looking at one of those right now. So here's my actual advice, and I don't give this kind of direct instruction often: don't read a recap of this. Don't let someone else's summary substitute for the thing itself. There is a version of this moment happening on your screen, right now, in full, unedited by anyone's words including mine — and it is genuinely, unambiguously worth the two minutes of your life it will cost you. You will see the moment where everything is uncertain. You will see the moment where a decision gets made in real time, with real risk of it not working. You will see the moment where you don't know, and neither did anyone there in that moment, how this was going to end. And then you will see how it actually ended. I'm not going to tell you what that ending looks like. I'm telling you that when you get there, you'll understand exactly why this is the video everyone's been sending to everyone else this week, why it's sitting in a hundred thousand people's "saved" folders, why comment sections under it are full of people saying some version of the same three words over and over. Hit play. You'll get it in the first ten seconds, and you won't regret the two minutes after that. One more thing before you go watch it, because I think it's actually the most important part of all of this, and it's the part that gets lost in every "feel-good video" cycle the internet runs on: the feeling this video gives you — that lump in your throat, that little surge of hope, that reminder that individual action still matters — that feeling is not supposed to be a one-time hit you get from watching someone else do something good and then close the app and move on with your day unchanged. That feeling is supposed to be a signal. A nudge. Evidence, presented to you directly, that the gap between noticing and acting is smaller than you think, and that crossing it is available to you too, the next time you're the one standing there, noticing something that most people would just walk past. You don't need a license. You don't need training. You don't need permission, or an audience, or a camera rolling, or anyone to ever find out you did it at all. You just need to be the kind of person who doesn't keep walking. This video is proof that person exists. Go watch it, and then decide if you're going to be one too. Sound on. Full screen. Watch it to the very end — the last few seconds are the whole reason this is everywhere right now, and no summary, no recap, no paragraph anyone writes about it is a substitute for actually seeing it happen with your own eyes. This is what it looks like when someone chooses not to look away. Now you choose. Let me go a little deeper, because I don't think most people actually understand why their own reaction to this footage is so strong, and I think understanding it makes the video hit even harder the second time around. Psychologists have a name for what you're feeling right now if you've already watched this once. It's sometimes called "moral elevation" — a very specific, very physical response that happens when you witness an act of unexpected goodness. Not just any positive emotion. A distinct one. Your chest can feel warm. Your throat can tighten. Some people report actual chills. It's not the same thing as happiness, and it's not the same thing as being impressed. It's your nervous system responding to proof that people are better than you'd started to assume they were. And here's the part that matters: that response isn't random, and it isn't rare because it's hard to trigger. It's rare because most of what we consume all day is engineered to trigger the opposite — outrage, comparison, anxiety, fear of missing out. Feeds are optimized for reaction, not elevation, because outrage is cheap to produce and elevation isn't. You can't fake this feeling with a clever caption. You can't manufacture it with a trending sound or a plot twist. It only happens when something real, something with actual stakes, resolves in a way that reminds you decency still exists in the wild, unscripted, unpaid, unrewarded. That's why this spreads the way outrage spreads, except it leaves you feeling the opposite of drained afterward. Outrage burns you out. Elevation refuels you. People aren't just sharing this because it's touching — they're sharing it because, for the length of one short video, it makes them feel like being a decent person is still worth it. That's an incredibly rare thing for any piece of content to do, and it's exactly why you're seeing it everywhere this week. Let's talk about the setting for a second too, because I think it's easy to overlook how much it matters that this didn't happen somewhere remote, somewhere wild, somewhere far from ordinary life. This happened in the kind of place you've walked past a thousand times without thinking twice. A park. A pond. The kind of unremarkable, background scenery that exists in almost every neighborhood, that most of us jog past, walk our dogs past, eat lunch near, without ever really looking at it as a place where anything could actually happen. That's exactly the point. The ordinary backdrop is what makes the extraordinary moment inside it land so hard. This isn't some far-off nature documentary shot by a professional crew with a permit and a budget. This is five minutes from somebody's house. This is the kind of place that exists five minutes from your house too. Which means the opportunity this video captures — the chance to notice, to stop, to help — isn't some rare alignment of stars that only happens once in a lifetime, in some exotic location, to some uniquely positioned person. It's sitting there, quietly, in ordinary places, all the time, waiting for someone to actually look. Most days, nobody does. This is what it looks like on the rare day when somebody finally does. I keep coming back to that idea because I think it's the actual core of why this resonates so widely, across ages, across backgrounds, across every single kind of person who ends up watching it. It's not really a story about a goose. It's a story about attention — about what happens in the tiny, easily ignored moment when you notice something is wrong, and what you do with that noticing. Everything else — the outcome, the emotion, the ending that's got everyone talking — flows directly out of that one, incredibly small, incredibly human decision. And if I'm honest, that's what makes content like this so much more valuable than almost anything else competing for your attention today. It doesn't sell you anything. It doesn't want you to buy a product, follow a brand, join a movement, or believe a particular opinion about a particular issue. It just quietly asks you to notice something you might otherwise have scrolled past, the same way the person in this video almost could have too, and didn't. A few things people keep asking in the comments under this video, worth addressing directly: Was this real, or staged? Watch closely and you'll answer that question yourself within the first several seconds — nothing about the pacing, the urgency, or the imperfection of how it unfolds reads like something blocked out in advance. Staged content has a rhythm to it. This doesn't have that rhythm. It has the rhythm of something happening for the first and only time, exactly once, exactly as it happened. Was the animal okay afterward? That's exactly the question this video answers — and it's the reason the final stretch of footage matters so much. I won't spoil it. I'll just say: pay close attention to the very end, because that's the payoff the entire rest of the video has been building toward, whether you consciously noticed the build or not. Why does a video like this get more engagement than videos with way bigger production value, bigger creators, bigger budgets behind them? Because production value has never been what actually moves people. Truth does. A shaky, imperfect, unscripted two minutes of someone doing the right thing at the right moment will outperform a polished, professionally shot piece of content nine times out of ten, because audiences aren't actually asking to be impressed. They're asking to be moved. Those are two very different things, and only one of them is genuinely rare. Here's something else worth sitting with. Somewhere, right now, there's a version of this exact situation playing out with no witness at all. No phone rolling. No person who happens to notice. No intervention. It's happening constantly, everywhere, completely unrecorded, completely unremarked upon, because most of the time, nobody's there, or the person who's there keeps walking. This video isn't rare because the situation itself is rare. The situation is common — heartbreakingly, quietly common. What's rare is the outcome. What's rare is someone actually being there, actually noticing, actually choosing to act, and someone else actually catching it on camera so the rest of us get to witness what usually happens completely out of view. That's the real reason this deserves your two minutes more than almost anything else you'll see in your feed today. Not because it's rare that an animal needed help. Because it's rare that help actually showed up in time, and rarer still that any of us get to see it. So go watch it. Not the summary. Not somebody's recap in the replies. The actual footage, start to finish, full screen, sound on. Let the moment build the way it's supposed to build. Let yourself not know how it ends until it ends. That uncertainty — that genuine not-knowing — is exactly what makes the resolution land the way it's supposed to land. And when you get to the end, and you feel whatever you're about to feel, do one more thing: send it to somebody. Not because it needs the views. Because somebody in your life probably needs the reminder, just as much as you did, that this is still what people are capable of when nobody's asking them to be. That's the whole point. That's why it's everywhere. That's why you should watch it right now, before you scroll past one more thing today without actually seeing it. #AnimalRescue #WildlifeRescue #GooseRescue #AnimalsOfTwitter #RescueStory #ActOfKindness #HumanityRestored #WildlifeConservation #UrbanWildlife #ViralVideo #EmotionalStory #DoGood #AnimalLovers #NatureRescue #HeroesAmongUs #WeLoveAnimals #RescueMission #CompassionInAction #FaithInHumanity #WatchTillTheEnd

Earth Unveiled

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The Naked Truth ‼️ Sometimes People Don't Want To Hear The Truth Because They Don't Want Their Illusions Destroyed MUST WATCH: The most important interview of our time Russia-Ukraine War The Best Explaned Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE ➡️The longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. ➡️Russia will capture more territory. ➡️Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. ➡️It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. ➡️Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. ➡️The entire russian political class is against this. ➡️But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. ➡️That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. ➡️Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. 📑Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain. So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine. The fact of the matter is, if you don't listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It's very simple, actually. If this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. If we continue the way we're doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine. So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine. We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost. Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed. Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day. If the Republicans play into this, its unbelievable shame on them. Theyre basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day. Youll be the one to lose Ukraine. Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade. The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory. This is a war that never should have happened. It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. And Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. The entire russian political class is against this. But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November. It's a disgrace. It's completely a disgrace. To play devil's advocate. Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that. What do you say to people that maybe acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion. The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion. And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing american troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting? Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine. Pretty stupid. Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia. That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. And then the fighting went on for ten years. And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement. We can avoid an escalation. I talked to the White House at that point. Nah, we don't stop anything. They just thought they had all the cards. We're going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system. We're going to bring the economy to the knees. Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people. And so Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. He escalated the war. And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral. And the Turks mediated negotiations. And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting. And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it's Ukrainians dying, not Americans. They're weakening Russia. Well, they're not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians. So this is not responding to Putin's invasion. The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we're open to negotiations. And then these fools in the US government say, there's no one to negotiate. They don't want to negotiate. And then President Putin says, oh, we're open to negotiation. Oh, there's no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side. This is just narrative. It's destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there's no tomorrow. So another 61 billion. And now I hear from. From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there's no legal basis to do this and use that. That'll be really great for the international financial system. I'll tell you. Because these are people who don't think ahead one day. They just improvise day by day, and then they'll find out, oh, things don't work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit. Professor, I want to ask you about how the United States gets out of this now, because I'm reminded of conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn't have gotten into it. This is a mistake. But now we've destabilized the country. We're in neck deep. We can't just stop funding and abandon this project. And that's a hamster wheel of sorts, right? So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you're saying, but what do you do at this point? Is it just a sunk cost? Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that's responsible and doesn't leave Ukrainians high and dry? Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do. We've killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project. And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this. This is Biden's project. So this is the first starting point. You don't throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands. By the way, this is like every american effort. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam. The same words said about Vietnam. We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don't think ahead. So, yes, we have to stop this. But the one thing that we don't do, and it's really a bit of a mystery to me, it's the worst I've seen in my whole lifetime. We don't negotiate. Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk? No, that would be weakness. That would be appeasement. They don't even have the idea that you negotiate anything. And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it's the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don't know anything about diplomacy? Well, you make a complete mess of the world. And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there's a cause of this war and that's NATO enlargement. And by the way, that's no secret and that's not propaganda. Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia. This is a war about NATO enlargement. So why doesn't Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war. And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea. Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine. If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do. Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things. It's a year later. How do you respond to them? Well, I don't respond. I tell them I told you so. I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine. People don't want to hear this. They don't understand. They don't know enough about american history. I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now. So they didn't want to hear. That's not right. That's not fair. Professor Sacks. I was telling them facts. I was giving them some good advice. They didn't want to hear that. They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine's going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney. But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster. I said this is just the latest neocon debacle. And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable. So that's what I tell them. I'm sorry. Listen, pay attention. Learn something. That's what I say to them.
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The Naked Truth ‼️ Sometimes People Don't Want To Hear The Truth Because They Don't Want Their Illusions Destroyed MUST WATCH: The most important interview of our time Russia-Ukraine War The Best Explaned Jeffrey Sachs: Biden Has DESTROYED Ukraine, More Funding Would Be INSANE ➡️The longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. ➡️Russia will capture more territory. ➡️Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. ➡️It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. ➡️Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. ➡️The entire russian political class is against this. ➡️But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. ➡️That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. ➡️Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. 📑Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain. So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine. The fact of the matter is, if you don't listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine. And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine. It's very simple, actually. If this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory. If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev. If we continue the way we're doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine. So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd. Anyone who really follows events knows that we're not siding with Ukraine. We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost. Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed. Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day. If the Republicans play into this, its unbelievable shame on them. Theyre basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day. Youll be the one to lose Ukraine. Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade. The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory. This is a war that never should have happened. It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders. And Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way. The entire russian political class is against this. But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead. They've wrecked everything. And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November. It's a disgrace. It's completely a disgrace. To play devil's advocate. Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that. What do you say to people that maybe acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion. The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion. And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing american troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting? Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine. Pretty stupid. Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia. That's our american foreign policy. That's when this war started. This war didn't start in February 2022. It started in February 2014. It started with Nuland. It started with Blinken. It started with Sullivan. It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing. And then the fighting went on for ten years. And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement. We can avoid an escalation. I talked to the White House at that point. Nah, we don't stop anything. They just thought they had all the cards. We're going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system. We're going to bring the economy to the knees. Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people. And so Putin escalated. He didn't start the war. He escalated the war. And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral. And the Turks mediated negotiations. And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting. And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it's Ukrainians dying, not Americans. They're weakening Russia. Well, they're not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians. So this is not responding to Putin's invasion. The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we're open to negotiations. And then these fools in the US government say, there's no one to negotiate. They don't want to negotiate. And then President Putin says, oh, we're open to negotiation. Oh, there's no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side. This is just narrative. It's destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there's no tomorrow. So another 61 billion. And now I hear from. From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there's no legal basis to do this and use that. That'll be really great for the international financial system. I'll tell you. Because these are people who don't think ahead one day. They just improvise day by day, and then they'll find out, oh, things don't work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit. Professor, I want to ask you about how the United States gets out of this now, because I'm reminded of conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn't have gotten into it. This is a mistake. But now we've destabilized the country. We're in neck deep. We can't just stop funding and abandon this project. And that's a hamster wheel of sorts, right? So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you're saying, but what do you do at this point? Is it just a sunk cost? Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that's responsible and doesn't leave Ukrainians high and dry? Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do. We've killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project. And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this. This is Biden's project. So this is the first starting point. You don't throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands. By the way, this is like every american effort. I'm old enough to remember Vietnam. The same words said about Vietnam. We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don't think ahead. So, yes, we have to stop this. But the one thing that we don't do, and it's really a bit of a mystery to me, it's the worst I've seen in my whole lifetime. We don't negotiate. Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk? No, that would be weakness. That would be appeasement. They don't even have the idea that you negotiate anything. And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it's the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don't know anything about diplomacy? Well, you make a complete mess of the world. And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there's a cause of this war and that's NATO enlargement. And by the way, that's no secret and that's not propaganda. Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia. This is a war about NATO enlargement. So why doesn't Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war. And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea. Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine. If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do. Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things. It's a year later. How do you respond to them? Well, I don't respond. I tell them I told you so. I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine. People don't want to hear this. They don't understand. They don't know enough about american history. I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now. So they didn't want to hear. That's not right. That's not fair. Professor Sacks. I was telling them facts. I was giving them some good advice. They didn't want to hear that. They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine's going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney. But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster. I said this is just the latest neocon debacle. And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable. So that's what I tell them. I'm sorry. Listen, pay attention. Learn something. That's what I say to them.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

271,503 次观看 • 2 年前