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Diana Took Back Her Genes When He Started Acting Like His Dad

so this started as a comment on reddit, where i was going with the idea Prince William looked quite passable in the 30s, in his post Royal Air Force days, where he had a prominent beard which works well with the thinning hair / receding hair line. However in trying to google it i found a picture of then Prince Charles with a full on beard and i'm just stuck

#beard #beard porn #king charles iii #prince william #prince charles #sausage fingers #reddit

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FUTURE PREDICTIONS: In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years - and most people don’t see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore’s law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and got mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to the Exponential Age.

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don’t own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world. Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don’t own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected. In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain. Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 time more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. By 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous Cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars will appear for the public. Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted. You don’t want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving. Our kids will never get a driver’s license and will never own a car. It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars for that. We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide. We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km. That will save a million lives each year.

Most car companies may become bankrupt. Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. I spoke to a lot of engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.

Insurance Companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars won’t become mainstream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter. We don’t have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.

Health: There will be companies that will build a medical device (called the “Tricorder” from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free.

3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from $18,000 to $400 within 10 years. In the same time, it became 100 times faster. All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes. Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large number of spare parts they used to have in the past.

At the end of this year, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home. In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building. By 2027, 10% of everything that’s being produced will be 3D printed.

Business Opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: “in the future, do you think we will have that?” and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner? If it doesn’t work with your phone, forget the idea. And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years. There will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.

Agriculture: There will be a $100 agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields. Agroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow-produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows. Imagine if we don’t need that space anymore. There are several startups that will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It contains more protein than meat. It will be labeled as “alternative protein source” (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects).

There is an app called “moodies” which can already tell in which mood you are. Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying. Imagine a political debate where it’s being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it’s 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year. So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100.

Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.

Robert M. Goldman MD, PhD, DO, FAASP www.DrBobGoldman.com World Chairman-International Medical Commission Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board-A4M Founder & Chairman-International Sports Hall of Fame Co-Founder & Chairman-World Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine President Emeritus-National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Chairman-U.S. Sports Academy’s Board of Visitors

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#DrBobGoldman #DrRobertGoldman #A4m #ISHOF

callmedougan

a blog post from ten years ago // frustratingly i cant find the original article but fascinating look into the future (from the past)

also fascinating the claim that bitcoin will become mainstream in 2017 - i remember one of my colleagues leaving work in 2017 & at his leaving do asked me what i knew about bitcoin & the stock market (i know a lot more now then i did back then)

#future tech #bitcoin #kodak #ai

The Salary-Sacrifice ‘Crisis’ That Isn’t a Crisis

Everyone is freaking out about the Government’s new “£2,000 pension NI allowance cap”, like we’ve entered some kind of retirement apocalypse.

But here’s the thing:

To even touch that £2,000 cap, you’d need to be earning enough — and sacrificing enough — for your pension contributions to hit that threshold.

And guess what?

Most people don’t earn anywhere near enough for this to be an issue.

MoneySavingExpert even did the maths: 👉 https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/11/salary-sacrifice-capped-national-insurance-budget/

Sally Sacrifice earns £35k and puts 5% into her pension. That’s £1,750/year. Still under the cap. Zero NI charged. Zero change.

Peter Pension, earning £60k and contributing 6%, puts in £3,600. That’s £1,600 over the cap, so that bit gets NI slapped on it.

So unless you’re on a higher salary and sacrificing a hefty chunk of it, nothing changes.

Meanwhile, the UK median salary? ~£39k. Which means the “average person” doesn’t even earn enough for this to affect them.

So the idea that this is a universal disaster is… honestly wild. Most people are not suddenly getting robbed of their retirement. Most people won’t even notice this happened.

But sure, let’s all have another collective panic because a policy aimed at higher earners must obviously be an attack on the working class. 🙄

Go make a cup of tea. You’re fine.

$BYND — the comfy meat-free squeeze

So I’ve officially wrapped up what’s turned into a multi-year saga with $BYND — a stock that somehow manages to swing between meme chaos and genuine long-term comfy.

After crunching the numbers, the final realised P&L came out to +£60.52 overall. Not bad for a few rounds of tofu-flavoured turbulence.

💥 Trade highlights:

2022: +£28.73 🟢

2023: -£60.84 🔴 (ouch)

2024: +£28.37 🟢

2025: +£58.25 and +£6.01 🟢

That last pair in October 2025 brought everything back into the green — even with the infamous AWS outage blocking me from buying more at the £1 mark. (Nothing like watching a perfect entry price vanish while your broker just... spins.)

Still, I’ve got time for $BYND. The meat-free future feels like a real long-term play once the memery dies down. I’ve traded it three times over the years — two out of three runs in profit, easily outpacing the losses.

And honestly? This whole ride just reinforces the oldest truth in the book:

⏳ Time in the market beats trying to time the market.

#stocks #bynd #investing #trading #memestock #plantbased #finance #comfy #pnl #stocktalk #beyondmeat

We all have that one friends who has RGB everything

#slow horses #rgb #sword

Mince Watch (tesco 2025.09.25)

Not sure if earlier “mince watch” posts (1) (2) were satire or genuine, but in Tescos you’re getting a range of price points - £18.5 per kilo of the organic 5% beef steak mince, down to £7 per kilo for 20%beef mince.

No extras / additives in these packs, though there were also beef&pork packs, along with beef&veg mixes.

I shall report back next Thursday

#mince #mince watch #minceflation #inflation

and in other conditions we are using antiVEGF treatments to stop blood vessel growth (i see it used for wte AMD & diabetic maculopathy)

#anti-vegf #healing wounds #Youtube

Add Directory / Program to Windows PATH

To add to PATH in Windows, we need to open the Environment Variables tool. Here is how.

Press the Start key on your keyboard.

Search and open “Edit the system environment variables.”

Go to the “Advanced” tab.

Click the “Environment variables” button.

Select the “Path” variable under “User variables” or “System variables.”

Click the “Edit” button.

Press the “New” button.

Type the full directory path of the program.

Press “Enter” to confirm the path.

Click “Ok.”

Press the “Ok” button in the Environment Variables window.

Click “Ok” in the System Variables window.

#windows #win 10 #path

april

ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

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⚠︎ Tip

Nap lengths are always randomised.

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This sad Brazilian fan was shown crying. But no ones published this beautiful picture of him handing the trophy to a German fan. He was quoted as saying “Take it to the final! As you can see, it is not easy, but you deserve it, congratulations” (Roughly translated)

via

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Whilst the Brazilian team didn’t try try hard enough it’s clear the dans recognise talent

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7-1 will always live on in my opinion

lol what ?

help I’m dying

trying to deal with your emotional baggage

#hitman

uberzers

This honestly just showed up on my dash.

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You Know Who

Some wise advice circulating: 1. Don’t use his name; 2. Remember this is a regime and he’s not acting alone; 3. Do not argue with those who support him-it doesn’t work; 4. Focus on his policies, not his orangeness and mental state; 5. Keep your message positive; they want the country to be angry and fearful because this is the soil from which their darkest policies will grow; 6. No more helpless/hopeless talk; 7. Support artists and the arts; 8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it; 9. Take care of yourselves and 10. Resist! Keep demonstrations peaceful. In the words of John Lennon, “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” When you post or talk about him, don’t assign his actions to him, assign them to “The Republican Administration,” or “The Republicans.” This will have several effects: the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don’t like; he will not get the focus of attention he craves; Republican representatives will become very concerned about their re-elections.

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so i found a post from 2016, not long after the first Trump election

how does it hold up ?

#trump #trump administration #president trump

any easy ways to prune dead content

can anyone recommended any easy ways of finding old content, hitting select all & delete on tumblr.

im trying to prune some of the spam posts i made back in the day with IFTTT