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@ShaneEthridge Let me guess. This was written in an order to one of Trump’s lawyers?

If a Judge ever wrote something like this in an order about me I’d probably melt right into the ground never to be seen again.

@KenHanscom There are no new tickets available for Drop 1. Basically every popular sport is completely sold out.

Hearing for the queue for the first LA28 ticket drop is not too bad, ~5-7 minutes for those that were fortunate enough to get a slot for this morning. Good luck to those in the queue.

@WestsideLAGuy You seem to have very inconsistent opinions on the state of “White America”

The resurgence of the MLB is part of the same dynamics underlying the rise of country music, Taylor Swift, & the decline of NBA & hip hop. White America is rising culturally while Black America is declining. What are the key drivers behind this? -Black population is stagnant and projected to decline while Latino/Asian/Mixed are surging. The national race discourse is no longer binary White vs Black. -BLM excess, police body cams, social media, brought to light the problem of Black crime, violence, culture. This has undermined the status of Blacks in the U.S. -The liberal media tried too hard to shove Black culture down our throats. Blacks are massively overrepresented in media; lot of White Americans just got tired of it. -White Americans are rediscovering & celebrating their identity as a reaction to radical demographic change that they did not ask for & the discriminatory policies against White men in admissions and hiring. Whites were 72% of the U.S. in 2010 and now only 57%. -In reaction to the unpleasant demographic transformation, White Americans are retreating inwards through curated events, hobbies, activities. This undergirds the popularity surge of MLB, tennis, golf, skiing, F1, pilates, country concerts, etc.

@anishmoonka @bbgirl_21 Was the Toronto ever replicated? For the other study, I would definitely assume that the students who didn’t quit were more genetically gifted to begin with.

@bbgirl_21 partialy true, genetics set the range. training determines where you land in it. the toronto study in the post was randomized, same kids, same starting IQ, and the music group still pulled ahead

Your kid's piano teacher was reshaping their brain. A Harvard-led team tracked children from age 6 to 9 and found that kids who practiced an instrument at least 2.5 hours a week grew the corpus callosum (the cable connecting the left and right halves of the brain) by about 25% in the region that handles movement planning. Kids who practiced less or quit showed zero growth there. USC ran a separate study starting in 2012 that followed children from low-income LA neighborhoods. One group learned violin through the LA Philharmonic's youth orchestra program. A second did soccer. A third had no structured after-school program. Two years in, only the music group showed brain changes: stronger white-matter connectivity, faster maturation of auditory processing, and greater activation in networks involved in decision-making and impulse control. The soccer and no-program groups looked the same on brain scans. A randomized trial at the University of Toronto tested 144 six-year-olds assigned to keyboard lessons, voice lessons, drama, or nothing for a full school year. The music kids gained about 7 IQ points on average. Drama and no-lessons kids gained 4-5. That roughly 3-point gap showed up across every subtest, including reading and math. Now the language side. Bilingual kids outperform monolingual kids on task-switching tests (jumping between different sets of rules quickly), and it holds regardless of which second language they speak. Brain scans of nearly 1,300 children and young adults from a 2021 Georgetown and University of Reading study showed that bilinguals kept more grey matter (the layer where the brain's processing cells live) as they grew up than kids who spoke one language. The long game is where this gets serious. A 2025 Monash University study of 10,893 Australians over 70 found that people who regularly played an instrument had 35% lower odds of developing dementia. Bilingualism shows an even sharper effect. Studies across India, Canada, and the US consistently find that bilingual adults develop dementia symptoms 4 to 5 years later than monolingual adults. A 2024 door-to-door survey of 1,234 people over 60 in Bengaluru, India, found dementia in 4.9% of monolinguals and just 0.4% of bilinguals. Both piano and a second language work through a similar mechanism. They force the brain to manage competing systems at once, left hand versus right hand, one language versus another. That constant switching strengthens the frontal regions responsible for planning, focus, and filtering distractions, building what neurologists call cognitive reserve: a buffer that lets the brain keep working even as age-related damage accumulates. Those parents running their kids between piano on Tuesdays and Mandarin on Thursdays were basically running a two-front neuroplasticity program without knowing it.

@maiab @CorruptionWire @oloal Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Jumping into parenthood without figuring out how to live with your partner for AT LEAST a year will likely cause much pain and conflict within that relationship down the road.

@Botbiases @CorruptionWire @oloal women at that age who know what they want can move fast!

@maiab @CorruptionWire @oloal You really think that she’s gonna have a baby immediately after she meets someone? If she found someone today and they dated for just two years before having their first kid, she would already be 38. Sure, it is not too late just yet, but getting very close.

@CorruptionWire @oloal it is not 10 years too late for a healthy baby 🙄

@LA28 @axs @eventim_usa Are you suggesting that there will be no new tickets added to Drop 1 that were not already available at the end of the presale period?

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@rockstarnoguitr Cornball alert

had a bad date with this girl but at the end of the day we’re all human beings out here trying…we all should be more kind and accepting to one another

@WestsideLAGuy You are wrong about 1 and right about 2.

I have two huge blackpills on America's future. 1) Crime will skyrocket in coming years due to socially deficient young men (COVID generation) coming of age, and female judges & DAs letting criminals go. 2) Ethnic balkanization intensifies, with America becoming another Brazil.

@Vibutler_ The vast majority of CALIs at my law school are given to people with accommodations who take the exams in a completely different room. It is most definitely ruining the curve.

As a law student, I consistently place high in my curved classes, even against students with accommodations. I know for a fact that I have better grades than some of my classmates with accommodations. This idea that it’s ruining law school curves simply isn’t true

@cremieuxrecueil Does this data include students who applied with an ACT score?

It was very good idea giving my friend access to this data. He's produced lots of great analyses with it, showing everything from within-Anglo differences in admissions rates to the impossibility of filling a class with perfect scorers to anti-Indian discrimination.

@cremieuxrecueil Thank you. Finally someone who actually looked at the data instead of just the headline.

The study behind this claim is a qualitative risk assessment and not a real evaluation of the evidence The citations were: - Vapers have higher nicotine levels than non-smokers - 3 unconfirmed cancer case-reports - A selective review of animal studies - Mechanistic reasoning

@ClayTravis They will never win with Rick Barnes

Michigan is really good and destroyed Tennessee today. Three straight Elite 8’s is a great run for Vols. Big UT boosters & administration have a decision to make — how much money are they willing to give Rick Barnes to give him a truly elite roster?

@MythNix @fakegazillionai So when the MVP and “GOAT” is guarded with a different scheme and has to play heavy minutes in the finals his production drops off a cliff. Really strong argument for Lebron there man… MJ averaged 43 mins in the finals and his production increased btw

@Botbiases @fakegazillionai If the Heat lost in the CF, you’d blame LeBron. Too funny. LeBron didn’t collapse. He was guarded differently and wore out in 46 minute games.

Jordan gets huge credit for his 2 Olympic medals…and he didn’t even play well. The 1984 win was meaningless. The USA was 63-1 in the Olympics prior to 1984, and the hardest opponent didn’t even show up. He was awful in the 1992. 1-11 vs Puerto Rico (vs 5 Barea’s)! 🤔

@MythNix @fakegazillionai What are you even saying? Lebron had a decent series in the ECF and Wade put up a stinker. Wade would’ve been rightfully blamed if the Heat lost. They easily won bc the Bulls are far worse than the Mavs. None of this makes Lebron’s finals collapse look any better.

@Botbiases @fakegazillionai Huh. In the prior series, Lebron scored 26 and Wade scored 18. But they won. So Lebron scored enough for them to win. What was the difference?

@MythNix @fakegazillionai Wade averaged 26.5 with better efficiency than 2 time MVP prime Lebron who couldn’t even put up 20 a game. He is unequivocally the reason they lost. The superteam couldn’t do it against Dallas because Lebron didn’t show up. Btw, Heat were -200 going into the finals.

@Botbiases @fakegazillionai They weren’t heavily favored. Lebron isn’t why they lost. Lebron and Wade combined to score 44 in the prior series and won. Why couldn’t they do it against Dallas?

@MythNix @fakegazillionai When a heavily favored team ends up losing in the finals because their star player can’t do better than 3/11 in 46 minutes it is objectively bad basketball. No serious person equates a random olympic game to Lebron letting his superteam down on the biggest stage in the sport.

@Botbiases @fakegazillionai So you’re defending someone who plays worse? Is letting your teammates shoot 12-17 in a quarter bad? Tell me. Is that bad basketball?

@MythNix @fakegazillionai The 8 point performance was in the NBA finals with the series on the line dude the two games aren’t even comparable

@fakegazillionai So Jordan is allowed a “bad night?” But an 8 point game for Lebron is legacy-defining?

@PONTA6565 @bronhistory Didn’t Kidd put Lebron as his goat?

In case there was still doubt… Here are ten minutes of former players and coaches calling LeBron the greatest basketball player of all time 👑

@FastbreakHoops5 Lebron went 9-24 with 5 turnovers in game 7 vs GSW… That game should realistically be nowhere near the top 5

Top 10 NBA Finals player performances.