$308,000,000,000 has been wiped out from stocks in just 30 minutes as market opens

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Know your worth, don’t beg

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Reindeer Herders' Day is celebrated in Taimyr Peninsula, Russia's Far North

Residents gather in Tukhard settlement & organise reindeer sled races

Hope, animals are not exploited... look at their tongues

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I've heard of red sprites before, but is it common for there to be so many of them all at once?

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Germany's AfD co-chair:

"Spain closed its bases to the Iran war, now its ships sail through Hormuz undisturbed.

Germany should do the same and send U.S. troops home."

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Hedge funds are moving to the sidelines at a near record pace:

Hedge fund net leverage dropped -3.1 points last week, the biggest weekly decline since the first week of April 2025 amid "Liberation Day".

This is the 5th largest reduction in leverage over the last 5 years, comparable to the 2022 bear market.

Furthermore, hedge funds posted their 6th consecutive weekly sale of US equities, the biggest 6-week sale since April 2025.

Since 2016, the only two larger 6-week sales were during the 2020 pandemic and in March-April 2025.

As a result, hedge fund net positioning is down to near the most bearish level since 2018.

Sentiment is becoming overly bearish.

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I guess I’m not going to work today

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Energy stocks are making history:

The US Energy Select Sector Index has gained for 14 consecutive weeks, the longest streak on record.

The index has rallied +43% over that stretch, fueled by the Iran War and investor rotation out of software and AI stocks earlier this year.

Over the same period, investors have poured a massive +$5.5 billion into the Energy Sector ETF, $XLE.

To put this into perspective, the previous record was 10 weeks, set in 1998.

Energy stocks have also reached 25 all-time highs year-to-date, the most in a single year since the 41 records set in 2007.

Energy stock prices are soaring.

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Kim Jong Un personally attended a showcase of North Korea’s special forces

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BREAKING:

Fed Chair Powell says tariffs could add 0.5%-1% to inflation.

We are now going through an energy crisis, and Powell is still focused on tariffs inflation.

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According to the Turkish Ministry of National Defense, after an Iranian ballistic missile heading towards Turkey entered Turkish airspace, NATO air and missile defense systems in the Mediterranean Sea, possibly a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, intercepted the missile

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What the f*ck is controversial about it

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Incredible mask-off moment

British MP Alex Wilkinson says that X is a "major problem" because you can voice immigration concerns online

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FLASHBACK: Organizing my old files. My Grandfather saved everything. He was a B-25 pilot during WWII in the Pacific theater. His radioman was Charleston Heston. We lost him a few years ago, he was 98

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For decades, many scientists assumed that serial cloning — the repeated cloning of clones — could theoretically continue indefinitely. A landmark 20-year experiment has now demonstrated that this is not the case. Researchers found that successive rounds of somatic cell nuclear transfer lead to the progressive accumulation of genetic mutations, eventually creating insurmountable barriers to further cloning.

The study, conducted by Teruhiko Wakayama and colleagues at the University of Yamanashi in Japan, began in 2005 using cells from a single female mouse. Over nearly two decades, the team produced more than 1,200 cloned mice across 58 generations. Early generations appeared healthy, with cloning success rates even improving slightly in the first 25–26 rounds. However, from around the 27th generation onward, success rates began to decline steadily. By the 57th generation, the average success rate had fallen to just 0.6%. All mice from the 58th generation died within a day of birth due to severe genomic instability.

Whole-genome sequencing revealed that each round of cloning introduced new mutations at a rate approximately three times higher than in naturally mated mice. These included an accumulation of single-nucleotide variants and large structural abnormalities, such as chromosomal losses and translocations. Unlike sexual reproduction, which benefits from natural DNA repair and recombination mechanisms during meiosis, cloning bypasses these processes, allowing deleterious mutations to build up unchecked — akin to the progressive degradation seen in repeated photocopying.

Importantly, while the late-generation cloned mice still appeared phenotypically normal and had typical lifespans up to the 57th generation, the accumulated genetic load proved fatal when attempting the 58th round. The study underscores that, without the introduction of genetic diversity through sexual reproduction, long-term serial cloning in mammals is ultimately unsustainable.

These findings have significant implications for biotechnology. They highlight fundamental limits for applications such as de-extinction efforts, long-term agricultural cloning, and conservation breeding programs. While cloning remains a powerful tool for producing genetically identical animals, the research serves as a clear reminder that current techniques cannot indefinitely replace the evolutionary safeguards provided by sexual reproduction.

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