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Larry and I tend to agree. The stock market's valuation makes zero sense. This is 1999 all over again. 🧐

Pick your relationships wisely! For both men and women, their partner's conscientiousness predicted their own future job satisfaction, income, and likelihood of promotion, even after accounting for their own conscientiousness. Why? Because conscientious partners (both men and women) perform more household tasks, exhibit more pragmatic behaviors that their spouses are likely to emulate, and promote a more satisfying home life, enabling their spouses to focus more on work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@CraigDMauger @grok explain to me what happened as I don't recognize this meme.

President Trump's account has shared a clip of Mellissa Carone from 2020 on Truth Social.

@BBCWorld Taking a shot at a 23 yo after he's been killed is pretty bad @BBCWorld Bad form...

Nine arrested in France over death of far-right student bbc.in/4rWJ9i6

THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN MARKET HISTORY Retail investors just bought $48 billion in stocks in 3 weeks. At all-time highs. And somehow nobody’s talking about how insane that is. This is the biggest retail buying spree ever recorded. Bigger than the meme stock era. Bigger than the pre-2022 crash buying. Bigger than anything. Quick reminder of what happened last time retail got this confident: they bought $33B before the 2022 bear market, then sold $10B at the exact bottom. Household equity allocation? 45-49% of financial assets. For context, the dot-com peak was 40%. We know how that ended. The cash on the sidelines thing drives me crazy. Sure, money markets hold trillions. But relative to market cap, that ratio is 0.19, the same as 2021’s peak. Actual bottoms? That number needs to be closer to 0.35. Meanwhile Wall Street has been dumping. $31B in net institutional selling in April while retail was buying hand over fist. Make of that what you will. Every single time households have gone this all-in on stocks, it’s ended badly. Every. Single. Time. My goal isn’t to scare you, but it’s my job to warn you when I see something unusual in the market. I don’t track prices, I track sentiment. I usually do the opposite of what the masses are doing. That’s how I bought every bottom and sold every top over the last 10 years. When the real bottom hits and I start buying heavy, I’ll say it here publicly. You will regret not following me.

We have overprotected our children in the real world and underprotected them online. This is not just about phones and iPads; it's about childhood. Let them have adventurous play, with small risks. It's safer and healthier in the long run.

When Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848, the average laborer in Paris worked 12 hours a day 6 days a week, spent 80% of his income just on food and the rest on rent but still couldn’t afford any meat, and had to have his wife and kids work as well just to not die.

If you don't agree with a religion it's not an odd view. I could post this and feel just fine about it: If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and [Satanists] is not a difficult one. You don't have to agree with a religion. You just can't block their right to practice it.

@DougHenwood Republicans 1.9%

Gallup reports 9% of US public IDs as LGBTQ+, but what an age gradient! news.gallup.com/poll/702206/lg…

Great name 🚀

@wayne_m159 Hey @grok when and where did this event happen? Also, what is the most likely response a self- driving Tesla would have made in this scenario? Cc @elonmusk

In a situation like this, what's the best possible way to avoid dying as a driver with reaction time factored in?

"Oops! We forever changed the demographics of America and Europe, destroyed social cohesion in the West, and called you a bigot for correctly saying it was bad. Anyways… you should put us back in charge now."

this is a wild chart. 15 years of near-perfect correlation between the NDX and software (IGV)...now the widest divergence on record

@Tetrahydropyran @cremieuxrecueil Links? Are they unified and all in one place every 4 years?

@Axelacks @cremieuxrecueil There are Olympics for pretty much any subject or field of study. They are for nerds.

Good. They should be having kids.

@Kalshi_Culture And also 40 years ago our childhoods' ended: youtube.com/watch?v=3U62Uy…

These visual effects are 41 years old and they still blow our minds. “The Return of the Jedi” (1983)

@KatieMiller ...it certainly would have made dating and finding a husband a lot easier!!

I, for one, am shocked that my married name isn’t on my birth certificate.

@LibOrNormal It's almost like they are begging to lose...

Rumors are circulating that this is the Democrat ticket come 2028! Thoughts....

A. GREAT! Let's get the greatest physical specimens on Earth reproducing with each other to create super athletes! B. They should have a mental Olympics as well as the physical Olympics. I want those brainiacs creating super-brain babies as well!! ...also, it would just be cool to see all the smartest people in the world compete every 4 years.

@Rainmaker1973 Does that standardize for population differences? Some populations are growing faster than others and if they happened to be the least intelligent ones it would bring down the entire average. ...or are you saying ALL populations groups are getting dumber respectively?

Scientists have identified a reversal of the long-standing Flynn effect—the roughly 200-year trend of rising average intelligence (measured via IQ and cognitive tests) across generations. For the first time in modern recorded history, Generation Z (born roughly 1997–2012) shows lower performance than previous generations in key cognitive domains, including attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, problem-solving, and general IQ—despite spending more years in formal education than ever before. Neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on January 15, 2026, highlighting this shift. In his written testimony, he stated that cognitive development in children across much of the developed world has stalled or reversed over the past two decades, with declines evident in international assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS) and other large-scale data starting around the mid-2000s and accelerating post-2010. Horvath attributes the primary driver not to reduced schooling, but to the widespread integration of digital screens and educational technology (EdTech) in classrooms. He argues that human brains evolved for deep, focused learning through face-to-face interaction and sustained attention, not fragmented skimming or constant task-switching encouraged by devices. Key points from his testimony include: - Teens now spend over half their waking hours on screens, with significant portions in school involving computers or tablets—often leading to off-task behavior and shallower processing. - Evidence from meta-analyses and national/international studies shows a consistent pattern: higher classroom screen exposure correlates with weaker outcomes in reading, math, science, and higher-order reasoning. - Digital tools may aid narrow, repetitive skill practice in controlled settings, but in core academic contexts, they tend to reduce depth of understanding, retention, and critical thinking. Horvath describes this as a "structural mismatch" between human cognition and how digital platforms are designed (to capture and fragment attention), warning that unchecked EdTech adoption risks long-term harm to workforce skills, innovation, and societal reasoning. [Horvath, J. C. (2026). Written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. U.S. Senate]