Daniel Waun

Acts 2:36-38. esv.org/verses/Acts2.3…

🇺🇸🇺🇸 This will be awesome!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Henry Nowak’s final words were “I can’t breathe” after he was stabbed and police handcuffed *him* while he bled out on the street. This is a 10,000x worse than George Floyd. Why hasn’t CNN, NYT, or WaPo covered this story?

@sciencegirl Beef jerky. I went to buy my usual after a few months of not having it. The price has more than doubled. Over $12 for a small bag. The next size up was almost $30! I'm out.

What is something you've officially stopped buying in 2026 because the price has become genuinely insulting?

This car was apparently bored on the highway in traffic. I love that the car behind him gave him room to live his dreams. 😂 Sometimes you just need mental stimulation. I’ve wanted to do this so many times. I don’t think we are using our free will enough. 💯 Don’t you think we should let our impulsive thoughts win sometimes?

@GameDadVII Steve Jobs said it right 20 years ago: People don’t want to rent their content. But here we all are, renting our content.

PlayStation, Spotify, Xbox, Nintendo, Disney+, Netflix, etc I feel like everyday a service or product is getting a price increase. It's exhausting

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

You don’t miss Blockbuster. You miss living a simple, nonperformative life. You miss eye contact and company. You can bring back Blockbuster now but without the other stuff, you’d still turn off the movie after 20 minutes because you were looking at your phone instead.

This generation of PlayStation has been one of the worst in gaming history, and I'll tell you exactly why. Sony has released almost nothing that actually justifies upgrading to a new console — Spider-Man 2 being the one exception. Most people are still playing online games that run perfectly fine on last-gen hardware. If it weren't for that, nobody would have a reason to buy the PS5 at all. Then there's PS Plus — overpriced, underwhelming, and shoved down your throat just to play online. You can't even touch multiplayer without paying them first. A friend of mine couldn't play Split Fiction with me because he didn't have a PS Plus subscription, even though I already owned the game. Think about that. Who actually owns the console here — you or Sony? And the hardware situation is embarrassing. Someone jailbroke a PS5, threw Linux on it, and got performance nearly identical to the PS5 Pro. That tells you everything. The gap between the PS5 and the PS5 Pro is mostly software and AI upscaling tricks — not real hardware. Sony is artificially holding back performance and charging you $1,000 for a console that'll be obsolete in a year or two. And the controller? The DualSense is one of the most expensive controllers on the market and still ships with bad joystick components that wear out constantly. I personally know someone who's bought four of them. This is exactly why switching to PC isn't a luxury — it's a necessity. On PC, you own your games. You play on your terms. No subscriptions, no paywalls, no artificial locks. You want ray tracing? Turn it on. You want higher frames over better visuals? Your call. You want to play a game from 2003 next to a game from 2025? Go ahead. No compatibility issues. No company deciding what you're allowed to run or when. On PC, you don't need an Xbox AND a PlayStation. You don't split your money across multiple subscriptions that give you nothing back. You know exactly where every dollar goes. And speaking of where your money goes — when you buy PlayStation, you're funding a company that has spent this entire generation actively disrespecting its audience. Muscular female leads shoehorned into male-built worlds. Weak, hollow male characters. Beloved IPs gutted to push an agenda. Ghost of Tsushima. The Last of Us Part II — a game that could've been a masterpiece, thrown away to serve an ideology. Sony took "For the Players" as a slogan and spent years doing the exact opposite. I'm done with it. Sony doesn't deserve your money, your time, or your loyalty. The door to PC is open — walk through it.

Here’s a simple way to get unstuck when you’re worried, overwhelmed, or overthinking a decision. Ask yourself one question: What kind of thing am I dealing with? Most issues fall into one of three categories. 1. Settled Things These are things that have already been decided. Your birth family. Your nation of origin. Your height. Your past decisions. Your upbringing. Things you did. Things done to you. Some of these things were decided by your own past actions. Others were decided by God’s providence. As Paul says in Acts 17:26, God determined our appointed times and the boundaries of our dwelling place. You can’t go back and change these things. So the question is not, “How do I undo this?” The question is, “Does this have any bearing on what I should do now?” If not, leave it alone. Don’t spend your life fighting settled things. 2. Action Things These are things you have some real control over. Your diet. Your exercise. Your spending. Your work ethic. Your attitude. Your friendships. Your theological knowledge. Your presentability. Your habits. Your skills. These are your controllables. You may not control everything about your health, finances, relationships, or future. But you usually control more than you think. So if the issue falls here, don’t overthink it. Take direct action. Start small if you have to. Make the call. Go on the walk. Open the Bible. Apologize. Apply for the job. Pay the bill. Clean the room. Do the next faithful thing. 3. Prayer Things These are things outside your direct control, but not outside God’s control. The economy. The weather. The housing market. The availability of a suitable spouse. Other people’s choices. Timing. Open doors. Closed doors. You can’t force these things. You can’t grab the steering wheel of providence. But God can act. So you take indirect action through prayer. You ask. You wait. You prepare. You remain faithful. You do what you can do and trust God with what only He can do. So ask yourself: Is this settled? Then accept it and learn from it. Is this actionable? Then do something. Is this outside my control? Then pray and trust God. This is a simple framework, and yes, it’s a little reductionistic. But that’s the point. The goal is not to explain every complexity of life. The goal is to get you unstuck. Most people waste too much energy trying to change the past, control what belongs to God, or pray about things they simply need to obey. So categorize the issue. Then act accordingly. Accept what is settled. Act on what is yours. Pray over what belongs to God.

Gretchen Whitmer won Michigan by 469,870 votes in 2022. Michigan had 586,231 more voters than eligible voting age citizens. Michigan reported 8,226,745 registered voters in 2022. Michigan’s citizen voting-age population was 7,640,514.

@Itx_judith I have not watched a single episode of the Late Show since Dave retired.

Stephen Colbert goes off the air for good next week. Raise your hand if you say GOOD RIDDANCE!

@NeoGameSpark It’s coming. HP charges you not only for their printer cartridges, but now to even print paper AT HOME. The whole system is collapsing.

PlayStation 6 finna come with a tax just to turn the console on at the rate we’re going.

@xMBGx @DestinLegarie All this money and no games.

"market conditions" Sony's most profitable generation by the way. There is no defending it. No excuse. It's pure greed.

Peter is not the Rock, Jesus is. Mary is not the mediator, Jesus is. The Pope is not the head of the church, Jesus is. The Catholic Church is not the way to heaven, Jesus is.

Shoutout all the people who went to college and still came out a Conservative. Warriors.

@PlayStation This is part of the reason why I’m trading in my PS5 and XSX this week. This generation of consoles has been a huge disappointment. I’ll be playing the Switch 2 for the considerable future.

Starting May 20, PlayStation Plus prices for new customers will increase in select regions. Due to ongoing market conditions, prices will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP for 1-month subscriptions and $27.99 USD / €27.99 EUR / £21.99 GBP for 3-month subscriptions. This price change does not apply to current subscribers (except in Turkey and India) unless the existing subscription changes or lapses.

Two EA-18G Growlers crashed today following a midair collision at the Gunfighter Skies Airshow at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. All pilots appear to have ejected safely.

@ofctimallen Don’t go to college, join a trade, and find a mentor.

“If you knew then what you know now.” If you could send one sentence back to yourself on your 16th birthday what would it be ? Mine…Save that old stack of marvel original comics books and buy some Apple stock.

@Osint613 Elon had an iPhone 17 pro on site. But that’s likely a burner to him. And I’m sure he was on starlink.

NYP Reporter: Prior to boarding Air Force One to depart Beijing, the entire U.S. delegation disposed of every item provided to them by their Chinese hosts. Gifts, badges, pins, and commemorative items were all dumped into a trash bin on site. The directive was absolute, no item of Chinese origin was permitted to board the aircraft. The precautions extended beyond the departure itself. Delegation members had left all personal electronic devices at home before traveling to China and operated exclusively on clean burner phones throughout the duration of the trip.

@james_xond A handful of times, but nothing routine.

Trying to prove a point. Have you ever worked 55+ hours a week?