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why do people we pay taxes to talk to us like this

There’s a conversation happening on TikTok where the girls are finally talking about how a lot of men aren’t actually attractive. Like you go to the grocery store and see a ton of stunning women, but men? You will remember how many months back you last saw a hot man.

The thing that defines Hasan, Code Pink, and most of the DSA-extended-universe convoy members is not complicated. It's "America Bad". Look, sometimes America is bad. But that's quite literally the only lens they're capable of seeing the world through. It's why the DSA cozied up to Maduro. It's why Hasan thinks the Houthi terrorists are so cool and said America deserved 9/11. If something is against America, it's good. End of story. They don't have an ideology beyond that.

ICE terror squads in plain clothes arresting and separating families who have already gone through security in SFO airport. Expect this at voting stations in November. Not having a tourism or airline industry during another disastrous war will definitely improve the economy. Are we free yet?

band of horses is interesting because they sort of married explosions in the sky and PNW guitar music and Southern rock and showed that that specific combination is extremely corny

In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...

Hegseth: Iran is an energy rich country. instead, like so many other places, driven by a radical ideology, instead of investing in their people… they invested in missiles, and they invested in launchers and UAVS.

Ngl, it’s almost impossible to do this unless you raise your kid in like, a commune or something. As long as they know other kids, they’re going to know what iPhones are and they’re going to want one. Telling them no for 15 years is easier said than done.

Your brain peaked musically somewhere around age 16. Everything since then has been a dopamine echo. Between the ages of 12 and 22, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, the same circuit that processes cocaine and sex, fires at levels in response to sound that it will never reach again for the rest of your life. A 2011 McGill study used PET scans and fMRI simultaneously and found that music triggers dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal. The caudate nucleus lights up during anticipation of the good part. The nucleus accumbens lights up when it hits. Your brain is treating a guitar riff with the same reward architecture it uses for food-seeking and pair bonding. During adolescence, that response is dramatically amplified. Pubertal hormones are flooding the system. The prefrontal cortex is still wiring itself. Memories formed during this window get encoded with a density of emotional tagging that nothing in your 30s or 40s can replicate. Researchers at the University of Leeds identified this as the “reminiscence bump”: the period when your sense of self is forming, and the music playing during that formation becomes structurally integrated into your identity. A 2025 longitudinal study from the University of Gothenburg analyzed 40,000 users’ streaming data across 15 years. Younger listeners explored broadly across genres. Older listeners collapsed into increasingly narrow loops, almost entirely anchored to music from their teens and early twenties. Your brain stopped losing interest in new music years ago. It’s running a cost-benefit analysis. Familiar songs deliver guaranteed dopamine with zero processing cost. New songs require pattern recognition, expectation-building, and repeated exposure before the reward circuit kicks in. Past 25, most people stop paying that tax. The one variable that predicts whether someone keeps exploring: the personality trait “openness to experience.” Score high, you keep seeking. Score average, you default to the familiar forever. The fix, if you want one: deliberate exposure. Three listens minimum before your auditory cortex builds enough predictive models to generate a reward response. One passive listen on a playlist will never get there. Your brain needs repetition to find the pattern, and it needs the pattern to release dopamine.

Racism is when you discriminate against another race. It is bad. Sexism is when you discriminate against another sex. It is also bad. Antisemitism is when you discriminate against Jews. Again, bad. I could give ten more examples. So why did Muslims not create a similar word thst is bad? Why is their "bad" word Islamophobia? Which, when you break it down into it's component parts, isn't about discriminating against Muslims, but is about fearing them? And then stating that that fear is irrational and unacceptable. The word was created as a weapon, to conflate stopping discrimination (which is a good thing) with stopping criticism (which is not). Because under Sharia law, which is fundamental to Islam, criticizing Islam is a crime. In some Sharia-compliant countries, it is punishable by death. Even with all the actual violence around us, we must remember we are also in a rhetorical war over the contours of speech in this country. And I was built for that fight.

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