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@WarClandestine @shadowintel2 Just muted them. Can’t stand a thief.

Unfuckingbelievable… POTUS just shared a screenshot of a tweet from the user @shadowintel2 talking about Tulsi proving the smoking gun evidence for treason. The only problem is, IT’S MY FUCKING TWEET from July 2025, stolen word for word. This shit pisses me off so much. I never get the fucking credit I deserve and people steal my shit all the time.

@SouthernMB82 JC Penny towels were the best. I can’t find anything like them now.

In the 1990s, JCPenney used to sell the best towels. They lasted up to 20 years and were made in the USA. Even Target sold high quality towels in the early 2000s that were made in the USA. I still have a set I bought when I first moved out in 2001 that have held up well. Now, I’m lucky if towels last a few years. I would pay three times as much for towels made to the standards of the 1990s.

We are going through this in Texas as well with the high speed rail project. It’s threatening to take my parents farm. My dad turns 80 next week and is a disabled vet that just wants to live out his years on his farm with his cows. It’s heartbreaking that he’s so stressed about someone coming in and taking his land and legacy.

This is NOT what eminent domain laws were meant for! The Georgia Court of Appeals just sided with Sandersville Railroad in a history-changing decision. The decision now empowers a PRIVATE COMPANY to take family farmland that's been with families since the Civil War. That reportedly includes some families whose ancestors farmed the land dating back to slavery times. Families and farmers argue this is a ‘an abuse of eminent domain: a private company using government power to take land primarily for its own benefit’. Next up... Supreme Court. If a private company can take something that your family has owned for centuries... do we really own anything? REPOST and make sure EVERYONE sees this. #thinblueline #Lawenforcement

@DrSuneelDhand You should educate yourself. It only takes a dose or two, medically supervised, to get lasting relief and break addiction.

Disagree with this. The absolute last thing America needs is more people on mind-altering drugs. 14 million people— is that 5% of the country?? I had to double check this isn’t April 1

@HarmeetKDhillon @Ruby07400254 I thought I was the only one who puts black pepper on my cottage cheese. My Paw ate it that way, and it’s great!

7.5 mile walk in the Florida heat. Protein and electrolyte water en route plus cottage cheese and Cuties with sea salt and freshly ground pepper… It’s hard to keep up with my fitness routine because I travel so much, but I’m on a 7 month streak! And it feels good!

Grok is really helpful with this. I’ve used it several times to map out a learning path to competency in a new skill or area of learning for myself and my kids. Latest example is a path to learning what my daughter needed to know by a certain date to compete in her first horse judging event for 4H. She’s ready and competing today! Mastery follows with practice.

A new father became so terrified of never learning anything again that he accidentally dismantled the biggest lie in education. His name is Josh Kaufman, and he wasn't a neuroscientist or a professor. He was an author working from home, running a business with his wife, with a newborn daughter who had just obliterated any concept of free time he thought he had. Around week 8 of sleep deprivation, he had the thought every parent has. I am never going to learn anything new ever again. And because he was the kind of person who responds to panic with research, he went to the library and started reading everything he could find about how humans acquire skills. He read book after book, study after study. Every single one said the same thing. 10,000 hours. He had a full-body reaction to that number. 10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years. He didn't have five years. He didn't have five hours. He had a newborn and a business and a wife who was also building a business in the same house. So he kept digging. And here is where it gets interesting. The 10,000 hour rule came from a researcher named K. Anders Ericsson at Florida State University. What Ericsson actually studied was professional athletes, world-class musicians, chess grandmasters people at the absolute tip of ultra-competitive, ultra-high-performing fields. His finding was that the people at the very top of those narrow fields had put in around 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. That is all the finding said. Then Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers in 2007, and the message went through a game of telephone that destroyed its meaning entirely. It takes 10,000 hours to reach the top of an ultra-competitive field became it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, which became it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something, which became it takes 10,000 hours to learn something. That last statement is completely false. And the actual research had been showing something different the entire time. When cognitive psychologists study skill acquisition, they measure a graph that looks identical across every domain they have ever tested. At the start, performance is terrible. With a small amount of practice, it improves rapidly. Then it plateaus, and subsequent gains become much harder and slower to achieve. The steep part of that curve the jump from knowing nothing to being reasonably good happens much faster than anyone tells you. Not 10,000 hours. Not 1,000 hours. 20 hours. Kaufman tested this himself. He had always wanted to learn ukulele. He picked one up, put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into it, and stood on a TEDx stage playing a medley of recognizable pop songs in front of a live audience. The crowd went wild. He then told them that performance was his 20th hour. But 20 hours is not just a number. There is a method inside it. The first step is to deconstruct the skill. Most things we think of as single skills are actually bundles of dozens of smaller skills. You do not need all of them. You need the ones that get you to your specific goal the fastest. In music, this means most songs use four or five chords. Learn those first. Ignore the rest until they matter. The second step is to learn just enough to self-correct. Get three to five resources books, courses, videos but do not use them as a reason to delay practice. The point of learning is not to master theory first. It is to get good enough at noticing your own mistakes that you can adjust as you go. The third step is to remove barriers to practice. Not through willpower. Through structure. If the instrument is in the case in the closet, you will not play it. If your phone is in the room, you will not focus. Kaufman was brutal about this. The environment does the work that discipline cannot sustain. The fourth step is the one that actually makes the system work. Pre-commit to 20 hours before you start. Here is why this matters. Every skill has what he called a frustration barrier. The early part of learning anything is genuinely terrible. You are incompetent and you know it. That feeling is so uncomfortable that most people quit before they ever cross to the other side of the curve. By pre-committing to 20 hours, you are making a contract with yourself to push through the frustration long enough to arrive at the part where things start clicking. The barrier to learning something new is never intellectual. It is emotional. We are afraid of feeling stupid. That fear costs most people everything they could have learned. Kaufman figured this out while holding a baby and running out of time, which is the most human possible condition for having a breakthrough. Most people are waiting for the perfect season to start. He just started. 20 hours is 45 minutes a day for a month. That is it. That is the price of going from knowing nothing to being genuinely capable at almost anything you can name. The 10,000 hour rule was never about learning. It was about becoming the best in the world. You probably do not need to be the best in the world. You just need to start.

Agreed. I exclusively breastfed 4 babies, and in the beginning there’s always some soreness as you adjust. Another common misconception is when baby has a feeding frenzy to increase your milk supply, moms think they aren’t producing enough and supplement. This defeats the purpose and you won’t produce more. Breastfeeding moms need support, so if you’re experienced, be there for other moms that are new to it. My good friend who had nursed twins was my supporter. No other women in my family had breastfed their babies.

This is so true and nobody talks about it honestly. Breastfeeding hurts in the first two weeks for most women, even with a perfect latch. Your nipples are not used to that level of friction and suction and they need time to toughen up. I have heard moms with 4+ kids say it still hurts at the beginning with every single baby and then goes away. The standard advice that "breastfeeding should never hurt if the latch is correct" makes women think something is wrong when the pain is actually a normal part of the adjustment. Yes, a bad latch can cause pain. But so can a brand new nipple being used 10+ times a day for the first time. Those are two very different things and they get lumped together in a way that confuses new moms and sometimes causes them to give up early. It gets better. Usually by week 2 or 3 the pain fades. Push through those first couple weeks if you can.

@joeroganhq Shows you that just because they’re doctors or surgeons, they can still be very ignorant about nutrition. He got so many things wrong in his cons list.

Asking a heart surgeon about his thoughts on the carnivore diet.

@BradWilcoxIFS @lymanstoneky I’ve always felt that not taking the husband’s surname shows there’s one foot in and foot out of the marriage. It’s a hesitancy to commit from day 1. Marriage is both difficult and wonderful. If you’re not committed, it won’t last.

"Spouses who don’t share a surname divorce at about a 50% higher rate than those who do share a surname, and their divorces come about 30% earlier in their marriages." Striking new divorce research from @lymanstoneky reinforces my earlier research on marital quality & naming:

@DrSyedHaider Exactly my thoughts as well. People doing “studies” and making claims about data really should have a better understanding about isolating variables and looking at the whole picture. It’s why medicine is such a mess. All of science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Lol. Tennis is a rich smart healthy people sport. That’s the entire explanation. You can’t control well enough for all the confounding factors to study it. I’ve seen people who were half dead jogging. They would have been utterly incapable of playing tennis for so many reasons.

Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child. *RubyRidge Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1993. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home. You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why. The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly. All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate. Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property. After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy. They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip. But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother. Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯

How fun! I guess my version of this scenario would be picking up George Strait and The Fireman starts playing on the radio. 😂

In 1953 an American physiologist called Ancel Keys stood up at a World Health Organization conference in Geneva and presented a graph. The graph plotted fat consumption against heart disease mortality in six countries. The United States at the top. Japan at the bottom. A smooth upward curve in between. The room was convinced. The graph would go on to define global nutrition policy for the next seventy years. There was one small problem with the graph. Keys had data from twenty-two countries. He chose six. The other sixteen, which included France and Switzerland eating vast quantities of butter and cheese with low heart disease, and countries like Chile eating almost no animal fat and having high heart disease, did not produce the line he wanted. So they were not on the graph. When this was pointed out, in print, at the time, Keys did not engage with the science. He launched a career. He became chair of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee. He got himself on the cover of Time magazine. He organised the Seven Countries Study, a sequel to the cherry-picked six, which selected populations and time points that would confirm his hypothesis and excluded those that would not. Crete was measured during Lent. The comparisons were, by design, not fair. Then he did the thing that turned him from a scientist into a politician. He went after the opposition. Dr John Yudkin, a British physiologist, published a book in 1972 called Pure, White and Deadly, arguing that sugar was a better fit for the heart disease data than fat. His data covered more populations, more years, and more accurately matched the rise in cardiovascular mortality across the twentieth century. Keys called him, in print, a charlatan. He used his position at the AHA to block Yudkin's research from conferences. He pressured editors. He lobbied funders. Yudkin's grants dried up. His reputation was systematically dismantled by a man who was, at this point, not doing science but running a protection racket for a hypothesis. Yudkin died in 1995 in obscurity. His work has since been quietly vindicated. Nobody has apologised. Meanwhile the American Heart Association, funded since 1948 by a $1.7 million donation from Procter and Gamble (makers of Crisco, a product that urgently needed a reason for Americans to stop cooking with lard), adopted Keys's recommendations and issued them as medical advice. The American public complied. Butter consumption collapsed. Margarine tripled. Seed oils, negligible in 1950, became the dominant cooking fat. The food industry reformulated thousands of products to remove fat and replace it with sugar, because the fat was the enemy and the sugar was not. American obesity rates, stable for fifty years, began to climb in 1977, the year the McGovern committee translated Keys's hypothesis into federal guidelines. They have not stopped climbing since. Type 2 diabetes followed. Metabolic syndrome followed. Fatty liver disease, which barely existed in 1950, became endemic. The entire constellation of chronic metabolic disease now occupying every doctor surgery in the developed world tracks, almost perfectly, onto the adoption curve of the guidance Keys spent his career promoting. He retired to Italy, drank olive oil, ate cheese, lived to 100, and described himself in interviews as a pioneer. He was a pioneer. He pioneered the practice of producing a predetermined conclusion from selective data, destroying the reputations of anyone who noticed, and using institutional capture to convert the conclusion into policy. Ancel Keys was not wrong the way scientists are sometimes wrong. Ancel Keys was wrong the way politicians are wrong. Deliberately. Profitably. Without consequence. You are still eating the consequences now.

@SteveLovesAmmo I had a border collie over 30 years ago who got hit by a car. She had to have a back leg amputated. She healed up, and it didn’t slow her down a bit. She moved so fast that most people didn’t realize she was a tripod. She was an amazing dog!

This border collie is not messing around. Wow!

My mother has terminal cancer. She’s in pain. The CVS in her small town refuses to fill her opioid pain meds prescription from her doctor. They lie and say they haven’t talked to the doctor or received the prescription. They did this when the Dr had my mom on the line as well , so we know they spoke with him to verify the prescription. So my 80 year old disabled veteran dad who falls a lot has to drive an hour each way to get her pain medicine. CVS is the absolutely worst pharmacy!

Went to pickup my NP thyroid medication like I do every 3 months for the last 10 years. New pharmacist. She acted like I was trying to refill Percocet or Oxy. “Why NP?” Me: “Versus Synthroid or Levo? Because T4 only medications are poison for many of us.” For a minute I thought she wasn’t going to fill it, and I’d be on some randos TikTok for losing my mind ON my birthday no less . She then prints this out, and asks me if I’d like immunizations, because I’m “not up-to-date.” “I’m in a huge hurry; can I get them all at once?” And this Gen Z pharmacist…without missing a beat, says “absolutely.” I just grabbed the form and walked off. @cvspharmacy , you need to train your people better. And why the high turnover rate at your pharmacies? Unbelievable.

@nicksortor @deltamojoworkin My dad said the Red Cross was awful even back during the Vietnam War. But the group at the front lines supporting the soldiers was the Salvation Army.

Major point of disagreement with President Trump today following him saying Americans “support” the Red Cross The Red Cross is evil. NO American should support them - They HANDED OUT MAPS for third worlders to invade our country - Attempted to SEIZE Starlinks deployed by me and @ChrisHallWx in Western North Carolina to reconnect victims of Hurricane Helene (they wanted to be the WiFi gatekeepers) - Tried THROWING AWAY hot food we donated to shelters near Asheville, simply because they wanted to be able to bill TAXPAYERS for each plate of slop they were force-feeding to victims My Red Cross rage is actually how I first met @mattvanswol, who helped me coordinate relief efforts. Red Cross is a corrupt organization, and it should be dissolved.

@Math_files Actually, they were probably too dumb to know the kid answered it correctly if the answer key said what the teacher wrote. I reviewed so many text books and standardized testing samples in which the answer key was wrong or multiple choice questions that offered no correct answer.

Teachers who are incapable of controlling their emotions towards children they're meant to be teaching shouldn't be teachers.

@klepka07 Unfortunately, this is pretty normal especially for those of us in Generation X. I’m raising my children with a different expectation. I hope they stay close as long as they want.

Иностранцы, в частности, американцы, а это правда, что родители стараются от вас избавиться, как только вам исполняется 18 и вы в целом сами по себе, как только стали совершеннолетними?

Doing our best to raise wild children.

I left after 12 years. I’ve been out 17 now, and my last business deal paid me more than I made in my last 3 years of teaching for about 3 months of work. It took time to find the niche, build the network, and build the business, but if you can successfully manage a classroom you have the skills to run a business. Good luck on your next adventure!

I calculated what I’d be giving up if I leave public school: roughly $830,000 over my lifetime, assuming I retire at 65 and live to 80. This is why so many teachers stay once they’ve put in 10 years. The financial handcuffs are real. But money doesn't buy happiness, so I'm choosing to exit the insanity. About 35 more school days left until my next adventure begins.