noneya - I believe #BLM

What does the far right want? A society that suppresses the majority: slate.com/articles/life/…

Dear MAGA, Let me explain something to you. "Drill baby drill" doesn't help you personally, whatsoever. Not a penny for you, not a dime. America is already the largest oil producer in the world, and a leading exporter of total petroleum products. Drilling won't make gas cheaper. It won't make America more profitable, nor will it pay off our national debt. It may create some jobs in the energy sector, but those jobs will soon be obsolete. Why? Because China is leading the world in clean and renewable energy with wind and solar. China is building for the future, lowering costs and fueling the global economy as the dominant supplier in the global green technology market. So why does Trump want to "Drill baby drill" and destroy America's beautiful public lands, oceans and wildlife for future generations? It's simple: personal profit. Drilling won't help you or your family whatsoever. In fact, it will make life worse for most of you. Hunting areas wiped out. Clear cut. Toxic waste and polluted water from mining and fracking. Beaches closed and contaminated from oil spills. But it will make him, and his big oil buddies and real estate developer cronies billions of dollars. "Drill baby Drill" is America Last.

@ThatEricAlper Doc Severinsen. I was a bellmen at his hotel & I gave him a ride to the fitness center at our sister property. I was going on & on about jazz. Then I said "Sorry. I bet everyone talks your ears off about music, huh?" He said, "No. Most people just wanna know what Johnny's like."

Who is the most famous musician you have ever spoken to

Great sign.

@rushicrypto I wouldn't be outraged if they were merely "comfortable". These fuckers have the resources to indulge any fantasy a human being can conjure. And some of them could leave behind enough to allow their descendants for 10 generations to do the same. That's how broken the system is.

It actually bums me out… We have the resources to fix our society, stop our reliance on fossil fuels, and feed every person in the country. But we don’t… because it would mess with the money of a tiny group of people. Like… millions struggle so a handful can stay comfortable. That’s insane when you really think about it.

@p3driver @RubenNorseman a) Wait, so now your side thinks "the jab" is a good thing? 😉 b) The science behind Warp Speed started long before Trump. Researchers started working on COVID's virus group back in the early 2000s, when SARS reared its ugly head. They already had the basics laid out by 2020.

Dear MAGA, Just out of curiosity: If president Biden had banged porn stars, cheated on multiple wives, lied 30,000 times, singlehandedly and unilaterally started a war, released 5,000 Talibanis, bombed a school, bungled the Covid response, added trillions to the deficit, claimed windmills cause cancer, abandoned veterans, bombed 8 countries in one year, altered a weather map with a Sharpie, praised Allah in an Easter message, slept through numerous meetings, threatened to bomb another nation back to the Stone Ages because 'they're animals', violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause, sided with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies, revealed highly classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office, and golfed when dead service members returned home, would you think it was okay and support his right to do so? If not, then why let Trump get away with it?

@MbarkCherguia Cow(boy, girl) up! 🤠

Which other up do you know???

@Eman_8282 Orange juice. Went through a couple gallons a week in high school. Haven't had a gallon total in the last 20 years.

5 billion..yes BILLION people have had a Covid vaccine If they were anywhere NEAR as unsafe as antivaxxers would have you believe, we should have had a mass global population die off by now We have not They are lying Have a lovely day

I have never seen a tournament with so many putts missing by less than a centimeter, or so many shots knocked in from off the green, in such a short period of time. It's either ecstatic feast or heartbreaking famine out there today. #TheMasters #Augusta #Masters

@AnchorLightPub Don't forget "dumb as fuck". I live in Arizona and haven't used an umbrella in over 30 years but I still know how to close one.

A character defining video. Privileged. Arrogant. Asshole.

Master your self-discipline.

@anxietymsgs Master your self-discipline.

You meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. What do you say?

@Simi_2210_ 179

If you solve this, you’re different Can you solve ?

@aakashgupta When my sleep hygiene is really on point, when I'm consistently in bed at 10 pm with an alarm set at 5 am, I will start waking up on my own after 6.5 hours, around 430 am. What should I make of that? Is my own body sabotaging me or do we find our own optimal level in time?

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening. UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm. The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6. Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it. The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in. About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters. "I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

@Gulicio1 @JoJoFromJerz Please, my brother, I'm begging you. Spit out the Kool Aid & walk away from the cooler. I'm not being snarky or trolling you here. I'm saying this with love. This isn't about left vs right anymore. It's about good vs evil, light vs dark. Trump is the devil. Return to the light.

@JoJoFromJerz Another left wing talking point that attacks the First Amendment!

The fact that Donald Trump didn’t follow through on his threats of committing genocide doesn’t mean we should move on from the fact that he threatened to commit genocide.

🚨In 1990s, Stanford researcher Dr. Robert Sapolsky discovered something that should have broken the internet by now. He was studying dopamine pathways in primates and found that the brain doesn't just adapt to repeated stimulation. It actively fights back. When you flood dopamine receptors consistently, the brain deploys what neuroscientists call "opponent processes." For every artificial high you create, your nervous system generates an equal and opposite neurochemical low. Not eventually. Immediately. The system is designed to maintain balance, so it starts producing compounds that directly counteract dopamine while you're still experiencing the dopamine hit. This means every notification, every scroll, every digital reward doesn't just give you a high followed by a return to baseline. It gives you a high followed by a crash below baseline. You end up in neurochemical debt. Tech companies never publicized this research. They probably never read it. They were too busy discovering that variable ratio reinforcement schedules could keep users engaged for hours. They built addictive systems by accident, then refined them into addiction machines once they realized what they'd stumbled onto. Your phone delivers an average of 80 dopamine hits per day. Your ancestors got maybe 5. Each hit triggers opponent processes that create a corresponding low. By the end of a typical day of normal phone usage, your baseline dopamine is running in negative territory. You feel flat, restless, vaguely unsatisfied, and hungry for stimulation because your brain chemistry is literally below zero. You think you're bored. You're chemically depressed by artificial highs. The opponent process theory explains why nothing feels interesting anymore. Your brain isn't broken. It's precisely calibrated to maintain neurochemical balance, and you keep throwing that balance off with artificial intensity. Every Instagram hit requires an equal Instagram crash. Every TikTok high gets paid for with a TikTok low. Every notification rush gets balanced with notification emptiness. Your reward system is running a neurochemical deficit that grows larger every day. Sapolsky's research revealed something even more disturbing: opponent processes don't just create temporary lows. They become permanent changes to your baseline dopamine production. Chronic overstimulation doesn't just make you tolerant to digital rewards. It makes you insensitive to natural rewards. The sunset that would have captivated your great-grandfather becomes invisible to you not because sunsets got worse, but because your dopamine system needs intensity levels that sunsets can't provide. A good conversation becomes boring not because conversations got less interesting, but because your brain requires the rapid-fire stimulation of social media to register engagement. You've accidentally trained your reward system to ignore everything that isn't artificially amplified. This connects to research from Dr. Anna Lembke at Stanford, who found that people who undergo complete digital fasting for just 30 days show measurable increases in dopamine receptor density. Their brains literally regrow sensitivity to natural rewards. Food tastes better. Music sounds more complex. Social interactions become genuinely engaging again. But there's a catch that nobody talks about: the first two weeks of dopamine detox feel like clinical depression. Your brain has been chemically dependent on artificial stimulation for years. Removing that stimulation creates actual withdrawal symptoms. Restlessness, anxiety, inability to focus, emotional flatness, and desperate cravings for digital input. Most people interpret these symptoms as evidence that they need their phones. Actually, they're evidence that they've been neurochemically dependent on their phones without realizing it. The withdrawal period isn't a bug. It's proof the reset is working. What happens after week three is remarkable. Colors become more vivid. Conversations become genuinely absorbing. Simple pleasures like hot coffee or cool air become satisfying in ways you forgot were possible. Your brain rediscovers that reality contains enough complexity and beauty to hold your attention without artificial amplification. You don't need more interesting content. You need more sensitive reward systems. The solution isn't better apps or more engaging entertainment. The solution is restoring your brain's factory settings for what constitutes a worthwhile experience. Sapolsky's opponent process research suggests this can happen faster than anyone expected. Every day you don't artificially spike your dopamine, your baseline moves a little higher. Every natural reward you pay attention to rebuilds receptor density. Every moment of boredom you endure without reaching for stimulation strengthens your capacity for sustained focus. Ancient humans lived in a world that provided exactly the right amount of stimulation to keep their reward systems healthy. Enough challenge to stay engaged, enough calm to stay balanced, enough novelty to stay curious, enough routine to stay stable. We built a world that provides 10 times too much stimulation and wonder why nothing feels rewarding anymore. Your brain is not the problem. Your environment is the problem. Change the environment, and the brain heals itself automatically.

You share 98.8% of your DNA with chimpanzees. A group of 200 of them just tore itself apart in a Ugandan rainforest, and researchers have been watching it happen for a decade. A study came out yesterday in Science, one of the top research journals in the world. For 30 years, scientists tracked the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This was the largest known chimp group on the planet, around 200 animals all living, hunting, and raising families together. Then around 2015, the group started splitting down the middle. Two clusters, one on the west side of the territory and one in the center, stopped spending time together. Males stopped mating with females from the other side. By 2018, they'd drawn a line through the forest and refused to cross it. The Western chimps started raiding. Between 2018 and 2024, they killed 7 adult males and 17 babies from the Central group. They ripped infants straight off their mothers' chests. Fourteen more Central males vanished during that stretch, bodies never found, while Western's population climbed from 76 to 108. John Mitani, a University of Michigan researcher who spent over 20 years with these chimps, told NBC he believes the Central group is "doomed." He used the phrase "extinction event." This almost never happens. DNA evidence suggests chimp communities fracture like this roughly once every 500 years. The only other time anyone saw it was in the 1970s with Jane Goodall's chimps in Tanzania, but researchers questioned that case because Goodall's team had been feeding bananas to the animals for years, which may have warped their natural behavior. Ngogo is the first split observed with zero human interference. The cause dates back to 2014. Five males died that year, likely from disease. These weren't random chimps. They had close bonds on both sides of the group, the kind of friendships that kept 200 animals functioning as one unit. Once they were gone, a new top male seized control in 2015, a disease swept through and killed 25 more in 2017, and the two sides just kept drifting until there was nothing connecting them anymore. One part of the paper sat with me. These chimps have no ethnicity. No religion. No political parties. The war started because friendships broke down, cliques solidified, and new group identities replaced years of cooperation. Aaron Sandel, the lead researcher from UT Austin, argued that keeping relationships alive across group lines may be the actual recipe for preventing this kind of collapse. In a species 98.8% identical to us, that recipe failed in under ten years.