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@stepback  · 6h
Is Islam a Problem? Compare Iran & Afghanistan 1970s vs Now | Europe 20 Years Ago vs Today #Islam #Iran #Afghanistan #Europe #islam
Oh, you don't think Islam is going to be a problem?

Well, here's Iran in the 1970s, and here's Iran now.
Here is Afghanistan in the 1970s, and here's Afghanistan now.

Lastly, here's Europe just 20 years ago.
And here's what Europe was looking like now.

Still don't think they're a problem.
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Noor
@noorh  · 1w
America Has 40 Muslim Mayors & 4 in Congress: Does Anyone Find This Interesting? #MuslimMayors #USPolitics #islam
Did you know this? America has 40 Muslim mayors.
240 Muslims sit on city councils.
70 in the state house of representatives.
15 hold seats as state senators.
Four currently serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Does anybody else find that interesting?
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Anderson
@anderson  · Sep 30
Why Trees Break Physics: Feynman Explains the 33-Foot Water Paradox & Redwood Secrets #Physics #RedwoodTrees #ScienceExplained #NatureFacts
Pull all the air out of a pipe standing in water, and the water climbs until it hits a wall it can't get past. That wall is about 33 feet. Even with a perfect vacuum, it stops there. But there's a redwood in northern California that's about 380 feet tall and gets water all the way to the top.

So either that tree is cheating physics, or your idea of how trees drink is wrong. Physics is fine; your answer in your head is broken. The real answer has water doing something you'd swear water can't do.

Here's the answer you're walking around with: the roots suck the water up. That's the whole theory, and you've never once checked it. So let's check it, starting with the word suck, because nothing in physics sucks. When you drink through a straw, all your mouth does is lower the air pressure inside. The air outside, pressing down on the surface of your drink, shoves it up to you. That air is pressing on you right now. The whole atmosphere, about 14.7 pounds on every square inch of you, and that push is the only thing doing the lifting.

And the push has a ceiling. Take every bit of air out of the pipe and you've used up everything the atmosphere has to give. The water rises until the weight of the column matches the push of the air, and at sea level that happens at roughly 10 meters, or 33 feet. Past that, there's no push left.

People found this out the hard way. In 1638, Galileo published Two New Sciences, and one of its characters describes a water pump that stopped working. The workman said no pump of that kind could raise water more than 18 cubits (around 10 meters). The explanation in Galileo's book was that the column of water snaps under its own weight like a rope that's too long. Hold onto that rope, by the way. It's coming back because that explanation was wrong.

In 1644, Evangelista Torricelli wrote that we live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air. Air has weight, and that weight is what holds the water up. Run out of it, and the water stops.
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AI Brothers
@aibrothers  · Jun 20
Why Sam Altman Fears Your Local AI: Open Source, Compute & The Technocratic Takeover #AI #OpenAI #LocalLLM #SamAltman #Compute
They don't want us to own our own models. I keep larping about this, but none of you are really comprehending it. You're not getting it.

A lot of people want local inference and assume the problem is solved because we'll have open-source models running on our computers. But from a global allocation perspective, it's quite terrible to have everybody with the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer, used only 5% of the time.

Why doesn't Sam Altman want us to own our own compute? Because then we'd be using open-source models. Didn't Dario Amodei testify in front of Congress and say the same thing? He thinks open-source models should be banned.

Why do major AI labs not want open-source models in the public market? Because if we use those models and they power our business, our businesses retain their alpha. Our businesses have leverage in the marketplace. My business is defined by the intelligence that powers it, which I own. So I'm in control of the success of my business.

The way society is heading, we as consumers and entrepreneurs are going to be reliant on these major AI labs for their intelligence. Therefore, these labs are going to consume every single business model in society and completely strip us of our leverage.

When I keep saying AI is a technocratic communist takeover, people think I'm a schizo-conspiracist. I'm giving you technical definitions of what's going on. These people are like, "yo, just be confident, optimistic and build." I am. I am. I'm literally just giving you technical definitions of reality.

The solution is for us to own our own compute, own our own models, build our own agents that we are completely in control of, train our own agents, make them unique to us and have them power our operations. That is a true decentralized AI. That is a true decentralized agentic society. This is the economic singularity I keep yapping about in videos. These major AI labs are coming for every single piece of leverage the individual has in this economy.
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@stepback  · 6h
Is Islam a Religion or Political Movement? America Next in Line? #Islam #America #BibleTruth #Faith
Islam is not a religion, it is a political movement.

Egypt was a Christian country and it was conquered by Islam. Yemen was Christian and Islam conquered it. Morocco was Christian and Islam conquered it. Iraq was Christian and Islam conquered it.

For 1,400 years, Islam has been conquering countries, and the next big dog on the list is America.

If the American church does not wake up—not in fear, but wake up to preach the truth of the Bible—you will lose this country.

The devil wants America, but we want Jesus to reign here.
  • If you want Jesus, you've got to reject Muhammad.
  • If you want the Bible, you've got to reject the Quran.
  • If you want the 10 commandments, you've got to reject Sharia law.
  • If you want churches, you've got to reject the mosque.
You will either have Jesus or Muhammad, but you can't have both.
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