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Anybody who spends a few minutes with a random selection of homeschooled kids of any age immediately sees this is true. The social skills of homeschooled kids are dramatically better than those of schooled kids, public or private. #homeschooling

@ScottAppliedSci People would be amazed at what psyllium husk can do also

There are enough cases of people using diet and lifestyle alone to cut their LDL by more than 50% that we know it is achievable for some. The man in the case example below made some dietary swaps for just 6 weeks and sustainably cut his LDL by almost 53%. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC63…

@CynicalPublius There's a lot of TS/SAP tech that is not common sense and that really would be very damaging if released.

I handled Top Secret information only a handful of times in my military career. Every time I did, I remember thinking to myself "Why is this classified? Everybody suspects this is true, it's just common sense..." But then I remembered that the reason the data was classified was so that no one in the know would or could ever confirm or deny whether "common sense" suspicions were actually true. THAT is the power of security classifications. My point is this: it does not matter whether or not anyone has a common sense suspicion that stores of precision munitions might be depleted. When Kelly officially verified that suspicion at the individual munition level, he created a grave breach of national security. Prosecute this traitor. Remember when some submariner went to the brig because he posted a picture from the inside of a sub? This is far worse. Prosecute.

A new study just reversed aging by 73% in old, near-dying bodies. Researchers found a way to silence the toxic signals in your blood that force your body to age. I'd bet my life savings you'll be shocked after reading this thread:

“So, son, I hear you have interest in my daughter. She is a fine young woman, a fine young woman. You would be very, very lucky to have her.” “Yes sir, I we have been talking for many months, we both are part of the 20 somethings ministry at church…” “Now just to be up front, if you want to marry my daughter you will have to pay off her college loans… it’s not that much, really… , heck, it’s only about the same amount as I paid for our first house thirty some years ago (laughs in 1980s fat dad sitcom laughter…), oh those were the days, but let’s stay on topic shall we… ” “Oh, okay… did she get a useful degree? Does she want to have kids and do a fantastic job keeping our home and is she willing to sacrifice some things the first few years we are married while we have to work to pay those off? ” “Oh… Not so sure how my little princess will feel about all that… Her base expectation is what I do for her mother - a weekly date night at a nice restaurant, once a month two- day getaway to a nice place a state or so away, and yearly 2 week vacation to a tropical destination or foreign country, but she may be willing to fudge on some of this a small, small bit… she does say she likes you some… you are over six feet tall and will make over 100k a year, right?… Oh… and she also has some car and credit card debt, that you will also be taking on…” “Oh… um… okay…” “Oh, and just to be up front, please don’t expect us to babysit or anything like that… once she is married, we plan to be away quite a bit… been pushing off travel and what not for years and years, you understand…. But we will need you all to take care of our dogs when we are away… we currently only have three… all on very special diets and the like, but it will be good practice for when you add kids!” “Aaa….” “Also, she most likely has had two or three boyfriends during college… (who she might have slept with… lets not talk about highschool…)… but you looked at that glossy magazine twice back in 11th grade, so you all are even and equal and square there, actually what you did is way worse, never forget that…” “What…. wait???” “Well, you know, college, she had to get an education! You want her to be a good mom? Right, how could my little princess do that without a degree! (Laughs in 1980s fat dad sitcom again…) So tell me son, how do you plan to be a servant leader to her?” “Actually, sir, never mind, I’m not interested anymore…” Leaves quickly. “Sorry daughter, young men today are just terrible and selfish, but we will eventually find a good servant leader for my little princess… you deserve only the very best, the very best and so few of these men are actually worth your attention… yes I know you turn 34 soon…”

@dpuellARK I haven't read those so I'll take a look, but what about Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series?

Objectively speaking, these are the best sci-fi and fantasy novels of the 20th century, respectively. *Sees Dune and LOTR bulls approach.* *Ducks.*

🚨 ALIENS ORDERED NASA OFF THE MOON AFTER APOLLO 17? "NEVER RETURN" WARNING EXPOSED! 👽🌕🔥 Fresh Pentagon UAP files reveal Apollo 17 (Dec 7-14, 1972) encountered multiple UFOs: flashing lights, rotating objects, and "train-headlight" phenomena watched for 3 hours by Commander Eugene Cernan. Japanese NASA historian Takano Jousen, close friend of Cernan, now claims the astronaut privately revealed: aliens delivered a direct mental message : "never return." That’s why NASA stopped at Apollo 17. Budget cuts or extraterrestrial "no trespassing" order? The timing is explosive. 👀

@ExtraSatan @pearlythingz A 4 compartment model is actually more accurate than Dexa but it's more work and you need someone to do the calcs.

Skin fold caliber or resistance measurement? They are vastly different. So the answers will vary widely, and then that will be another argument. Pearl, you have to give people rules, or they will just internet expert you into boredom. The most accurate methods to measure body fat include DXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) and underwater weighing, while more accessible options like bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and skinfold calipers are also commonly used but may be less precise. Each method has its own advantages and limitations regarding accuracy and cost Here's a link to have these retards play by the same set of rules, or you're going to get nothing but garbage. Satan loves you healthline.com/nutrition/ways…

What percent body fat would you consider to be thin, thick, chubby, and fat? Put men versus women below!

@heynavtoor Now do X

If you use TikTok, you should read this once. In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a copy. What was inside was TikTok's own engineers, in their own words, describing what their app does to a human brain. Not a critic's brain. Yours. Here is what they wrote down. — TikTok ran the math on how long it takes to develop "compulsive use" of the app. The number is 260 videos. With 8-second videos played in rapid-fire succession, that works out to roughly 35 minutes. The company's internal documents call this the compulsive-use threshold. — TikTok's own research describes what compulsive use causes: "diminished analytical ability, impaired memory, contextual reasoning, conversational depth, empathy, and heightened anxiety." That is not a quote from a critic. That is TikTok's own language, in its own internal documents. — A team inside the company called "TikTank" wrote in an internal report that compulsive use on the platform was "rampant." — After 30 minutes of continuous use in one sitting, the company's own documents state that users are placed into "filter bubbles" — algorithmic loops the user did not choose and cannot easily escape. Then there is the screen-time tool — the one TikTok publicly markets as proof it cares. — TikTok ran an experiment on the 60-minute screen-time prompt. Daily teen usage dropped from 108.5 minutes to 107. A reduction of 1.5 minutes. — Internally, the screen-time tool was not measured by whether it reduced screen time. Its top success metric, in writing, was "improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage." — A project manager wrote in internal chat: "Our goal is not to reduce the time spent." Another employee added that the goal was "to contribute to daily active users and retention." — A TikTok executive approved the screen-time feature only on the condition that its impact on the company's "core metrics" was minimal. The lawsuit alleges the company planned to "revisit the design" if the tool ever reduced usage by more than 10%. The "Are you still scrolling?" break videos? An executive admitted in an internal meeting they were "useful talking points" for lawmakers, but "not altogether effective." Then there is the algorithm itself. — An internal report flagged that the For You feed was showing what the company called "a high volume of not attractive subjects." TikTok then retooled the algorithm to suppress those users. Kentucky authorities wrote: "By changing the TikTok algorithm to show fewer 'not attractive subjects' in the For You feed, [TikTok] took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users." That sentence is the entire pitch of the platform, said out loud. — Internally, TikTok also acknowledged that its publicly reported content moderation metrics were "mostly misleading," because they only measured the content the company successfully moderated — never the content it missed. Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case. The company knows the addiction threshold. The company measured it. The company ranked engagement over mental health in writing. The company built a screen-time tool whose internal success metric was PR. The company suppressed people it deemed unattractive to keep you scrolling. The company called its own moderation numbers misleading. None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist's interpretation. This is a court filing. The documents are TikTok's. The words are TikTok's. The math is TikTok's. The 14 state attorneys general who signed onto this lawsuit aren't fringe activists. They're a bipartisan coalition. Sources at the bottom: NPR, CNN, AP, Mashable, OPB, The Independent. All citing the same accidentally-unsealed Kentucky filing from October 11, 2024. The next time the company tells you it cares about your wellbeing — the screen-time prompts, the break videos, the safety features, the careful PR statements — remember that its own engineers wrote down, in court-admissible language, that the safeguards were never meant to work. The app is not broken. It is performing exactly as designed. You were the spec.

@optionscjp $3.70-3.90 in the South

Just filled up the Land Cruiser for $6.25/ gallon here in CA 😅 Where do you live and how much is gas there?

@SathvikBil @bryan_johnson Your AI response contradicts itself.

3x this week I sat in 200°F (93°C) dry sauna for 55 min to get my core body temp to 102.4°F (39°C) That temp, at that duration, triggers primal panic. Took blood samples before and after each session to measure heat shock protein expression. Sauna is one of the world's best longevity therapies. What we don't know is whether hitting the core temp threshold unlocks a meaningfully superior response or whether the benefits are more fundamental: vascular shear stress, nitric oxide release, sweating. Most people doing sauna never reach 102.4°F. That's high-grade fever territory. I'm excited to see the data.

@TheMedievalMann @tyromper My boomer parents ignore their grandchildren and me. They do intend on dying alone

@tyromper Boomers largely don't care much about their children or grandchildren. They are the most narcissistic and selfish generation yet. They could care less about the state of our nation that they are passing on to the rest of us. Many will die, alone in hospice. Very gross.

I don't understand the boomers that hoard all their wealth from their kids. I have a good buddy that's struggling. Married with a few kids. He's smart. Graduated university with great grades, got hired by a good company, & did everything "right." He got laid off over a year ago & told me he's sent 10,000 resumes in with no job offerings..... He's working side gigs but his family is stressed. His folks are retired & in their 70's. His dad recently told him he's got north of 15 million invested!!! My buddy said he didn't say anything & didn't want to be disrespectful but it perplexed him. Why wait until you die to gift it to your kids?! It's worth more now helping out in my opinion that in 20 years when you die & you give 25 million to a 55 year old that's also then likely set & not stressed. You can gift like what 16k a year tax free too. It's their money, & when my folks sat my sister & I down for the inheritance talk we both said we don't want/expect anything you raised us well so do you!!!! But, I guarantee if I was in this guys shoes my folks would offer help. I don't understand the logic not to.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@AstiAlexandria @TradingWarz If it's fake, it's a good fake because that's exactly what the phone app looks like.

@TradingWarz Sounds great good for you. That’s not what the IBKR page looks like though. Fake!

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@TradingWarz By free he means paid. The substack is not free

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@bobisnot_real @bryan_johnson "Unmodified potato starch is considered the most concentrated natural dietary source of Type 2 resistant starch (RS2), consisting of intact starch granules that resist enzymatic breakdown in the small intestine due to their crystalline structure"

@DreadBlockrat @bryan_johnson If true than the ai is just giving me a hilarious guru task sending me on the learning of boiling potatoes and then freezing it, as if it’s the most efficient way to optimize this nutrient for gut biome

Surprising new findings about coffee: you are drinking coffee for the gut bugs that run your brain. > coffee affects the gut which then affects your brain > it's the coffee bean, not the caffeine, doing most of the work > polyphenols feed gut microbes, microbes send chemical messages, brain responds > both coffees lowered inflammation, caffeine drove it further down (IL6, IL10) > decaf raised systemic inflammation markers (hs-CRP, TNF-alpha) > decaf uniquely fed the protective gut microbes > caffeine blocked those gains by pushing food through too fast for the Clostridia bacteria to finish their work > at baseline, coffee drinkers sat in the bottom 25 to 30 percent for protective gut metabolites compared to non-drinkers > coffee lifted mood, cut depression and stress > caffeine specifically lowered anxiety. > the stress hormone story people tell about coffee does not hold up, cortisol did not budge Study details: 62 people, 14-day coffee washout, then 21 days randomized double-blind to caffeinated or decaf. They measured gut bacteria, stool and urine chemistry, cognition, mood, blood inflammation, and cortisol. What to do Caffeinated in the morning for focus and lower anxiety. Decaf in the evening for memory and gut. One cup 6 hours before bed still acts like half a cup at bedtime. Less is better than more either way. The takeaway You are drinking coffee for the bugs that run your brain.

What Bret means to say is that “we low carb influencers made hyperbolic statements about muscle loss from GLP1 and we were wrong. The human data does not show disproportionate loss of muscle mass. We should stop scaring patients away from effective therapy. Adequate protein and resistance training is helpful.”

Clown. He ignored reason, clinical evidence, and reports from fitness coaches, scared people away from a class of miracle drugs, and now is trying to save face. What a quack. Put this guy on mute forever.

@bobisnot_real @bryan_johnson a couple tablespoons of unmodified potato starch is way easier

@bryan_johnson Bro given this you gotta try resistant starch potatoes. The reason caffeine settled my gut lung wheeze was super levelled up with both pasta and potatoes cooked hot then cooled (frozen with the potatoes) to make it a super good with rS3

I’ve been cautious about GLP-1 medications. One of my primary concerns has been the loss of fat free mass (ie, muscle). But I was wrong. The paper published last week (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41850248/) showed that most of the “fat free mass” that’s lost not only isn’t from muscle, but it’s mostly from shrinking the liver. Ironically, likely partly due to a reduction in liver fat (which gets counted as fat free mass on DXA scans). In fact, muscle strength was completely normal and the muscle:fat ratio was significantly improved. There is still ample reason to be cautious, but the concerns about muscle loss appear to be overblown.

@TicTocTick She bought a boat and a professional rower. Nice.

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