BriGuyMcFly

@bryan_johnson Is this smut

It’s been 19 days and 20 hrs since I last felt Kate’s warm embrace. She landed 47 minutes ago. The 24 hours of travel no doubt has her rushing to shower. She needs to cleanse herself of a dirtied world incompatible with her sensibilities. The wash doubles as a ritual, preparatory for entrance into the symbolic world we’ve constructed. The time apart has been costly.  My body’s electrical signaling betrays the separation. Without her touch, my vagus nerve’s 100,000 myelinated fibers have dropped their high frequency spectral power, squawking distress. An intelligent system broadcasting diminished wave forms, hoping to be heard.  There are other signals of distress. My white blood cells have shifted their gene expression, upregulating pro-inflammatory genes IL-6 and TNF-alpha and downregulating my antiviral genes.  A pro-aging biochemical signature of a system suffering hardship. My environment is a pristine anti-aging laboratory. Air, water, food and light are meticulously measured. Toxins are filtered. Purification systems run autonomously. Biomarkers tracked. Nutrition is calibrated. Yet outside my control is the affection of another. The 68 trillion cells that constitute Bryan Johnson run non-negotiable code. They demand tenderness, and not of a whimsical type, but deep, all-encompassing love that must be earned and carefully maintained. Otherwise they protest in self-termination. She’s now only 13 miles away and I can viscerally feel her essence. The transmission pulses in high fidelity. As if there were a fiber optic cable streaming our connection at light speed through the multiplexed cylinders of glass. The time apart created latency, buffering the connection, depriving us of the luminescence and dimming into noise. In 15 minutes she will be within reach. I can visualize the whites of her eyes and smell her aroma. When she arrives, she will be shy. Whenever we are apart, she returns to zero. Her previous openness will be closed. Her emotional dynamic range will be held in reserve until she feels she is safe and can trust.  I’ll need to kindle her again. The rush of the courtship enthralls me. The anticipation drives a small cluster of my midbrain neurons to flood dopamine. Nerve fibers activate, lighting up my skin’s receptors as it awaits for slow, caressing touch. My hypothalamus begins synthesizing oxytocin, preparing to dump it upon first eye contact to ensure the reestablishment of our pair bond. This biochemical orchestra fills me with delight and sensorial want. Kate’s been mulling over what she’ll wear for days.  She’s considered dozens of possibilities and modeled out my anticipated emotional state, the weather, and our planned activities. The colors will be representative of her psychological state and be positioned to soothe mine. The texture, style, and hues will interplay with our biology. The deliberately chosen accessories will add flair, intrigue and play. This is how she flirts, seduces and bypasses my mind to speak directly to my physiology. She has other tricks too. She’s arrived. I must wait for her. Her timidness will want to determine the cadence. I hear the door crack open and her bag drop to the floor. She’s nervous. I’m on the couch, neutral and open. She rounds the corner and our eyes meet. The inhibitions wither as the magnetism draws us together. Soft hellos are whispered and our bodies interdigitate. I feel her finger tips on the back of my neck. Goose bumps light up my body. Skin nerve cells fire signals directly to my brain, bypassing the analytical mind. The hypothalamus dumps the oxytocin, inhibiting fear and lowering cortisol. The body washes itself in this anti-inflammatory chain reaction.  Our respiration and heart beats are now synchronizing. The brain piles on with a release of endorphins to soothe the psychological pain of our separation. New powers are now in control. Let them run in glory. I press my cheek against hers. The skin on skin triggers a wave of desire. I brush her lips with mine, catalyzing a massive activation of neurons in her brain, overwhelming thought and forcing presence. She relents and wants to dance. She’s home. I slip my hand under her shirt and brush the small of her back. Goosebumps spread like a wildfire across her body. Her hypothalamus stimulates the release of GnRH which tells the pituitary gland to wake up her reproductive system. Our olfactory systems consume each other with delight, signaling immune system compatibility. I move both my hands to her jawline, holding her head firmly in place. Our mirror neurons speak to each other. I know what she wants. My lips press against hers and I softly bite her lower lip. Kate’s blood vessels dilate from the acetylcholine and nitric oxide release, flushing her lips, skin and body. The cascade is nearing waterfall. The executive control of our brains surrenders. No longer concerned with the 68 trillion cells. The prefrontal cortex goes dark. Eliminating future planning and probabilistic modeling. Activity in our parietal lobes diminishes, dissolving the boundary that distinguishes between self and other. No longer is there Kate and Bryan, just a singular biological entity suspended in a state of bliss. The outside world goes quiet. It doesn’t exist. We dissolve into raw existence.

I know a box of Cheez Its hate to see me coming

@phillyfromNOLA @larry_birdsall @eflynt HE’S AN ETHICAL BUCKET GETTER

@larry_birdsall @eflynt I would rather die a hero than survive a villain

Lu Dort being called for 16 fouls in 3 games has me madder at our series than I was at the time. I was sitting here blaming the “playoff whistle” while 4 different ref crews allowed him to beat the hell out of Brandon Ingram for a week.

@ashane888 @JackFarley96 @Stimpyz1 Let me stop you at “correct scientific measurement of owners equivalent rent”

@JackFarley96 @BrainBarbera @Stimpyz1 Y/Y CPI is already at 2% if correct scientific measurement of current owners equivalent rent is used. Please read how it is measured by doing an internet search. It is designed to be a lagging indicator and always works with a lag. bls.gov/opub/btn/volum….

Stock market hits all-time high S&P 500 4818 a/o 1:08pm previous high: 4796, January 3, 2022

@JackFarley96 @Stimpyz1 Compounding* well above the 2% ceiling / target / average / floor? Can’t keep up with the goal or even the way they calculate it. But yay cheaper leverage for Wallstreet

@Stimpyz1 because inflation is falling

@jasonfurman @FoxNews A 5% increase on avg wage ($60,000) is $3000. A 5% increase on avg house ($400,000) is $20,000. Plus food, car, insurance, utilities. Stop gaslighting

Absolutely true and I was sorry to see @FoxNews imply otherwise this morning. No matter how you measure wages they are up more than prices since prior to the pandemic. There are debates about what the right trends/counterfactuals are but shouldn't obscure this basic fact.

@DrDodjie @GRomePow @DiMartinoBooth Poor people are priced out by the price of houses. ZIRP and QE was implemented to raise those prices. I still haven’t heard any convincing argument on how raising overall prices helps poor ppl.

Normalizing rates is the arch enemy of the wealthy.

@libertymonk @MiddleClassPats @unusual_whales What % of their wealth comes from income vs capital gains which have been massively inflated thanks to money printing/debt monetization

@MiddleClassPats @unusual_whales The top 1% of earners pay 50% of the income taxes the federal government collects. The bottom ~50% of earners pay no income tax.

"How much is too much? You're sitting at an almost $32 trillion debt. Your debt is now larger than your economy," Speaker McCarthy has said. "We cannot ignore this problem. We have to put a trajectory that we're actually curbing the spending level."

@profplum99 I guess it’s a success if your timeline is 12 whole years.

I understand this thinking. It is wrong. There is nothing inevitable, but death and taxes. Those 12 years bought us incredible advances in technology that create the possibility of a new world largely free of want. It’s our collective fear that prevents us from realizing it.

@Plop04090445 @EdithMLeach1 @US_OGA That’s not how commodities work

@EdithMLeach1 @US_OGA You are making his point. Without competition from the oil companies that went under the big oil companies could charge whatever they wanted and they did.

April 2020 - Flattening the curve causes demand collapse. Traders pay $37 per barrel NOT to take delivery. Trump proposes $4 billion for buying cheap oil to fill the SPR. Pelosi and Schumer kill it - no rescue for industry they say. 100s of companies go under. Not startups but established companies. Don't let the Left Coast elites ever say that O&G gets special treatment again.

@EdithMLeach1 @US_OGA Everyone makes “record” profits in nominal terms that’s how inflation works

@John_J_Ahearn @matthew_pines @LukeGromen Love how the argument from central bank apologists has devolved into “they can’t do that we’ll just kill them all”.

@pendrik_kerkins Sheesh

@Joseph_Browning @zei_squirrel The “wage-price spiral” is complete propaganda from central banks. This isn’t a red vs blue debate. It’s labor vs capital and the sooner ppl realize central banks don’t represent working class or Main St the better.

@zei_squirrel I love how he didn't concede to the false narrative that workers are forever supposed to be made poorer or "Economy Jesus will punish you."

since the media are smearing the rail workers and trying to divide workers against each other, here again is the masterful takedown of that propaganda by union leader Eddy Dempsey

@asteveintime @EWErickson What part of this is capitalism?

These stories are infuriating. The investor class depriving Americans of the ability to build wealth through homeownership and forcing them into permanent tenancy will end badly for all of us. wsj.com/articles/atlan…

@AdamSimecka Now do gold

Some of you all don't want to hear this, but there is claim to much more than 21M bitcoin right now.

@hankdatank44 @GreekFire23 @co_sta_ki Shout out to tort reform

@BrainBarbera @GreekFire23 @co_sta_ki

@GreekFire23 PV = cash flows / (1+i)^t When you artificially suppress interest rates, you artificially jack up the present value of assets. Why is this not considered inflationary

@POTUS Lower inflation and lower costs are mutually exclusive

Today’s inflation numbers show a meaningful reduction in headline inflation over last month. We are making progress in slowing the rate of price increases. But there is still more work to do — I remain focused on lowering costs for families and maintaining strong economic growth.