There is plant called Colletia paradoxa it doesn’t have leaves, but has flattened, leaf-like stems These help the plant collect sunlight, Sometimes it’s called the "Jet Plane Plant" because the flat geometric stems are in opposite pairs https://t.co/0CXld1MTeG

The growth profile for USDe has always been non-linear and hard to forecast with periods of parabolic expansion, followed by months of flat or bleeding supply that sets higher lows through time USDe supply is back into growth for the first time in ~3 months with $300m added in the last few days to get back to ~$5b The last growth period for USDe in October last year added ~$4b of supply in under 8 weeks where inflows outpaced the majority of BTC ETFs and all ETH ETFs combined That period of growth was with a fraction of the current distribution channels we have put in place since then I expect this next leg up will be more violent than the last

Your eyes are more powerful than you might think. The Earth’s curvature is what keeps a person from seeing for kilometres in the distance. But if the Earth were flat, you’d be able to detect the flame of a candle from 48 kilometres (30 miles) away. That’s like being able to see the flame of a candle from twice the length of the island of Manhattan!

NEW: Byron Donalds says Schumer didn’t just lie about the SAVE Act—he exposed just how desperate Democrats are to keep illegals voting. Chuck Schumer is calling the SAVE Act “voter suppression.” But Rep. Byron Donalds says that’s a flat-out lie—and he’s calling him out, hard. “My response is Chuck Schumer is lying again when it comes to actual voting policy to protect the franchise for the American people.” Donalds pointed to a basic fact: Every state already uses Real ID—which helps women who change their names. So Schumer’s talking point? Pure fiction. “So Chuck Schumer is lying and he’s gaslighting.” And this isn’t the first time they’ve done it. Back in 2022, Donalds reminded us how Schumer, Biden, Harris, and Pelosi tried to smear Georgia’s new election laws as “Jim Crow 2.0.” But the truth? “More Black people in Georgia voted in the midterm elections than in the history of the state of Georgia.” They lied then. They’re lying now. “Once again the Democrats are gaslighting, they are lying. They should be joining us to protect the franchise of voting in the United States of America.” Donalds said the real threat isn’t voter suppression—it’s illegal voting. And with 30 million illegals that crossed into the U.S., he says it’s not a conspiracy. It’s happening. “We’ve already seen through the work of DOGE that they have had access to registering to all kinds of programs.” The fix? “All we’re saying is proof of citizenship to make sure you’re voting in American elections. This is common sense stuff.” Donalds dunked on the Dems in his final line: “Once again, the Democrats simply are not serious. They would prefer to gaslight than do what’s right on behalf of the American people.”

TRUMP’S TARIFF PLANS NEAR FINALIZATION Trump is set to unveil new tariffs Wednesday but is still finalizing details. Options include a tiered system (10%-20%) or a flat 20% global tariff. The White House remains silent, though Trump claims he has "settled" on an approach. Uncertainty remains over tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico. Trump aims to raise $700B annually from tariffs, but concerns grow over economic risks, inflation, and potential recession

I wish to address Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's Executive Order on the Social Health Insurance Scheme that mandates a ₦15,000 monthly contribution from every Lagos resident. While I acknowledge the good intentions behind universal health coverage, this flat-rate approach reveals a fundamental disconnect from the economic realities facing most Lagosians. For minimum wage earners, this ₦15,000 monthly contribution represents nearly 20% of their income—an unsustainable burden that will push many further into economic hardship. Simultaneously, this same flat rate is insignificant for middle and upper-income earners, creating an inherently regressive system. I propose instead a proportional 5% contribution of monthly income, which would distribute the financial responsibility more equitably across income levels while ensuring sustainable funding for the scheme. However, we must address the elephant in the room and resist the urge to place the cart before the horse. According to a recent statement by the Lagos State Commissioner of Health, Lagos suffers from a deficit of 30,000 doctors. Therefore, before mandating and enforcing such an Executive Order, substantial investment in healthcare infrastructure and personnel is imperative. The alarming statistics speak for themselves—according to a 2016 report (with conditions likely worse today), Lagos has: 5,014 persons to 1 general medical doctor 2,942 persons to 1 specialist 2,165 persons to 1 nurse 5,117 persons to 1 midwife These ratios are dramatically higher than the recommended doctor-to-population ratio of 1:600, clearly demonstrating the lack of priority given to public health in our state. Consequently, the Sanwo-Olu administration must adopt the 2014 Abuja Declaration, which recommends allocating 15% of the state budget to healthcare. In 2024, the Lagos State government fell short of this laudable vision by allocation 6.75% of its budget to healthcare. Without significant investment in healthcare professionals through better compensation and career development, alongside substantial upgrades to medical facilities and equipment, this insurance scheme risks becoming merely another financial burden on Lagosians without delivering the promised healthcare improvements. True healthcare reform requires both sustainable funding mechanisms and robust healthcare delivery systems. I call on the Governor to reconsider this Executive Order and engage in meaningful dialogue with healthcare professionals, economic experts, and community representatives to develop a more equitable and effective approach to universal health coverage in Lagos State.

Heat pumps too modern for old homes? Think again 🤔 A 100-year-old social housing block in London is now warmed by 'shoebox' heat pumps installed in a cupboard of each flat, using water piped from the earth’s warmth. #MythBusted# #RenewableHeating# https://t.co/aWqXJnD6BU

Wow. Kamala Harris won that debate… comfortably. Trump was unusually flat, and very repetitive. Harris was nervous to start but grew increasingly confident. He didn’t seem to know how to handle her. Big win for Kamala. Wasn’t expecting that. Could be an election game-changer. https://t.co/aXERpORMdH

Our Artist of the Week is Own World. Own World, a band born from the upheaval of a subsiding flat, found their musical identity in an unlikely place: an industrial estate in Tottenham. Full Article - https://t.co/RiX533NBA1 https://t.co/enwnxyt7SZ

for non-listed crypto companies, issuing debt to buy tokens isn’t really an option. so building crypto reserves isn’t very practical either. a more feasible way is to regularly set aside a small part of revenue to buy bitcoin and never sell. this creates moderate exposure without adding operational risk. but at the core, growth and revenue matter most. if profits mainly come from price gains instead of actual business output, something’s off. earning tokens ≠ making money. if your bottom line depends on asset swings, it might look good, but it’s shaky. a solid crypto company should thrive even in flat markets. bull runs should be accelerators, not life support.

The physics of heat transfer are way cooler than you think. If we designed homes with them in mind, they'd be a lot more resilient and energy efficient, and people would be a lot more comfortable. Insulation standards and HVAC systems are designed around maintaining the air temperature inside a building, but air temperature is only a tiny slice of the picture. In typical conditions, only ~15% of the human body's heat loss is from convection. ~60% is from radiation, and ~20% is from evaporation (breathing and sweating). Your body glows like a light bulb with infrared radiation. You are constantly emitting infrared radiation into the environment and absorbing infrared radiation from the environment. Radiative power scales with the 4th power of temperature, so even small changes in temperature result in large changes in heat flux. If your skin temp is 34°C (93.2°F), you emit 505 W/m^2. A wall at 10°C (50°F) emits 364 W/m^2 while a wall at 40°C (104°F) emits 545 W/m^2. Your body is ~100 W and ~2 m^2. You need a net cooling of ~50 W/m^2 to maintain your body temperature. If you weren't constantly bathed in infrared radiation, you'd quickly lose heat to the environment. If you're surrounded by hot surfaces, you can be baked by infrared even if the air temperature is low. The temperature of the walls, ceiling, and floor is more important than temperature of the air. Underinsulated surfaces can be cold even when the air is warm, and hot even when the air is cold. This (and humidity) is why your house at 70°F doesn't feel the same in the winter and the summer. Doubling the amount of insulation in a home cuts the energy required to maintain a given air temperature in half, but it also cuts the differential between the temperature of the walls and the air. With better insulation, not only do you not need as much energy to maintain the same air temperature, you don't even have to maintain the same air temperature. Air conditioning can reduce humidity, but most air conditioners can't intentionally control humidity, and most HVAC system have no way to increase humidity. Better control over humidity reduces the temperature differential your house has to maintain with the outside to provide the same heat transfer for the people inside. Having air that's not overly dry in the winter means it doesn't have to be as warm to be comfortable. Having air that's not overly humid in the summer means it doesn't have to be as cold. The goal is to maintain human body temperature, not air temperature. Radiation and evaporation make up most of the heat transfer. Looking only at air temperature completely misses the big picture. We underinsulate our homes and don't provide adequate control over the aspects that are most important for comfort. Insulation provides a much larger efficiency benefit than you'd expect from a simple Manual J calculation. That's compounded by the fact that the economic value of that energy savings is far larger than flat volumetric pricing indicates. (because insulation provides the most benefit in extreme conditions where capacity is constrained and prices are high) Heat and cooling are the majority of energy use in homes, and the vast majority of energy costs. Real consideration of the physics of heat transfer and the economics of energy systems in the way we design homes and HVAC systems would provide massive economic benefits.

What have Europeans been busy with these years? My son said he plans to go to the UK for graduate school after graduating from Berkeley, but I rejected it outright. I said, the UK, Europe, now, they have nothing left. Apart from their inexplicable arrogance, they have absolutely nothing. Today's Europe is simply a replica of the people in the video below. After nationwide blackouts in Spain, Portugal, and France, trains in motion were forced to stop, and all the passengers, bewildered, aimless, and lost, wandered in the fields, looking around with indifference—a vivid image of soulless shells drifting across the European continent. This is the state of Europe today. Europe's decline is beyond imagination. In summer, buses in some European regions dare not turn on air conditioning; in winter, there’s no heating either. Some apartment buildings even inform tenants in advance that there’s no air conditioning. The reason for this dire situation is that the EU, as a whole, has completely tied its energy security to Russia. Today, because of the war, Europe’s demand for energy is as desperate as Zelenskyy’s craving for American weapons. How pathetic. Europe’s dependence is incomprehensible. Europe’s security and defense entirely rely on NATO, with the United States as its absolute pillar. The cunning and schizophrenic nature of Europeans lies in their fear of the Russian bear ravaging their homeland again, yet, after securing America’s protection, they shamelessly do energy business with Putin. How shameful. Europe’s backwardness is irreversible. Europe was the cradle of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, driving the world from an agricultural era to an industrial one. But when Nokia was abandoned by the AI era, Europe comprehensively fell behind in the information age and the AI age. Europe has calmly accepted this lag, as seen in their serene acceptance of watching their Mercedes and BMWs being crushed by Chinese new-energy vehicles. You can sense that, after their ideals shattered and hope vanished, their mindset has completely flattened. What a pity…

2025-4-22！周二好，今天送娃喝早茶后，突然有点案子上急事处理，刚弄妥来到办公室茶室，泡好茶，休息休息，品茶如人生，在点支烟，看袅袅云烟，舒服！ 1️⃣全球金融市场继续拉跨，黄金一直走高，好在数字黄金已经被越来越多的人认识，比特币硬邦邦，难道真成了避险资产了？因为88060一线被突破，偏多的反弹甚至反转行情随时出现，回到高位蓄势区间等放水发令枪，大家也好受一点！继续躺平yap看戏！ 2️⃣昨天正式加入了@ethos_network ，其实这也是把自己放在阳光下，昨天发文已经说了，声誉积分是你ip的照妖镜，如果你作恶，会很快被直观的体现出来，为了声誉价值，你就会非常努力输出优秀内容，不乱喊单，没逻辑的推荐！慢慢会让最好的内容和最优质的Kol留在市场！尤其和Kaito合二为一，Ai➕人性的结合，真是叙事完美的产品！目前非常早期，一码难求，大家要想办法尽早参与进来，边积累自己的荣誉价值，边积累XP，多美！甚至未来很多项目方也会进来，因为项目的声誉价值就代表着市场的接纳价值！让垃圾项目早早被识别唾弃，让无良Kol早早被驱逐出市场！那会Web3的世界该多美！ 3️⃣昨天有新的项目@zed_champions 公告，将奖励空投Kaito的Holder，马上快照，具体奖励去看推文，分配还没确定，但是我说的三合一yapper即将开始赢麻的过程，(Yaps➕sKaito➕创世NOT)，这仅仅只是开始！抓紧yap吧🌊！@KaitoAI 这轮牛市我就盯着Punk黑手党了，哈哈！昨天忘了说 #base# 老大@jessepollak 也是Punk，哈哈！好了，喝茶，看书，刷推，去Ethos看看！ 2025-4-22! Hello, Tuesday. After sending the baby to have morning tea today, I suddenly had some urgent matters to deal with the case. I just came to the office tea room, made tea, rested, tasted tea like life, lit a cigarette, and looked at the smoke. It was comfortable! 1️⃣ The global financial market continues to pull over, and gold has been rising. Fortunately, digital gold has been recognized by more and more people. Bitcoin is hard. Has it really become a safe haven asset? Because the first line of 88060 has been broken through, a lot of rebounds and even reversals will appear at any time. Everyone is also a little better when returning to the high-level momentum range and waiting to release water! Continue to lie flat and watch the play! 2️⃣ I officially joined @ethos_network yesterday. In fact, this is also putting yourself in the sunshine. Yesterday's article has already said that reputation points are the mirror of your IP. If you do evil, it will soon be intuitively reflected. For the value of reputation, you will work hard to output excellent content. , don't shout randomly, illogical recommendation! Gradually, the best content and the best quality Kol will remain in the market! Especially with Kaito, the combination of Ai➕ human nature is really a perfect narrative product! At present, it is very early, and it is difficult to find a yard. Everyone should find a way to participate as soon as possible, and accumulate their own honor value and XP at the same time. How beautiful! Even many project parties will come in in the future, because the reputation value of the project represents the acceptance value of the market! Let the garbage project be identified and rejected early, and let the unscrupulous Kol be expelled from the market early! How beautiful the world of Web3 would be! 3️⃣ Yesterday, there was a new project @zed_champions announcement, which will reward the airdrop Kaito's Holder, immediately snapshot, the specific reward to see the tweet, the allocation has not been determined, but the three-in-one yapper I mentioned is about to start the process of winning, (Yaps➕sKa ito➕Genesis NOT), this is just the beginning! Hold on to yap🌊! @KaitoAI I'm staring at the Punk mafia in this bull market, haha! I forgot to say yesterday that #base# boss @jessepollak is also Punk, haha! All right, drink tea, read a book, brush and tweet, and go to Ethos to have a look!

吴说获悉，Coinbase Institutional 发布公告称，Coinbase Prime 将于本月底终止对 49 种资产的托管支持。平台会定期评估其支持的资产，以确保它们持续符合平台标准。这 49 种资产包括：VideoCoin（VID）、Coffee Token（CFT）、BOSAGORA（BOA）、FISCO Coin（FSCC）、Sentinel protocol（UPP）、Cellframe（CELL）、Ideaology（IDEA）、Dorayaki（DORA）、CPUCoin（CPU）、SIREN（SI）、Somnium Space Cubes（CUBE）、UREEQA Token（URQA）、Oraichain Token（ORAI）、UniLend Finance（UFT）、Carry（CRE）、0chain（ZCN）、Nord Finance（NORD）、MahaDAO（MAHA）、YOP（YOP）、Unipilot（PILOT）、QASH（QASH）、SparkPoint（SRK）、Telcoin（TEL）、MixMarvel（MIX）、OnX Finance（ONX）、EMBLEM（EMB）、Newscrypto（NWC）、Compound DAI（CDAI）、NFTrade Token（NFTD）、pNetwork（PNT）、E-RADIX（EXRD）、EDDASwap（EDDA）、IndexedFinance（NDX）、RioDeFi（RFUEL）GMO Internet（GYEN）、1717 Bissonnet（1717）、The Edison（edsn）、Draper Garland Apartments（gfdg）、Forest Crossing Apartments（gffc）、Hello Albemarle（hlab）、Hello Flatbush（hlfb）、Hello Lenox（hllx）、Hello Nostrand（hlno）Lakehouse Oakland（lhok）、Nottingham Village（ntvl）、Core Fund（rscp）、Value Fund（rsva）、The Verge at Summer Park Apartments（tvsp）、Tower 27（twr27）。 https://t.co/SRgrVWuuws