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Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

Mississippians watching the Brits

My thoughts on the security at the WHCD last night. The first exterior security for me was on the street outside of the hotel. I flashed my ticket and was waved through in one second. My name was not checked against any list, I showed no ID, I was not patted down and did not go through a metal detector. I probably could have shown a ticket from a prior year or a fake one as they barely looked at it. (I don't know who that exterior security was, they were guys in suits). From that point, I walked into the hotel with no further security check, and I walked down to the Fox pre-party where there were multiple ballrooms that were absolutely PACKED with attendees. Still did not go through any security at that point. Hypothetically, If I had hidden an explosive in my shoe or my jacket, I would have had no problem getting into one of those ballrooms. Only once it was time to get into the main ballroom for the dinner did we pass through magnetometers, empty our pockets, and get a pat down. And even that checkpoint was just outside of the dinner room. Two things can be true at the same time. Secret Service reacted quickly to an active armed threat and prevented that threat from getting into the ballroom. But the security leading up to that point, in my opinion, appeared to be lacking severely.

Eurail demanded passport numbers to sell train tickets. Now 308,777 of those passports are on the dark web, and victims are paying out of pocket to replace them. Every mandatory ID scheme rests on this same fantasy: that the database won't get breached. They always do. reclaimthenet.org/the-eurail-bre…

It’s going to be crazy watching the world’s “just stop oil” crowd flipping into the “we need more oil” crowd. #OOTT

@JackPosobiec @thomasbsauer All of these groups are over saturated by loud, but weak people (like not able to fix anything, do anything right/by hand). Easy to kick their asses when we finally decide to.

Neo-Bolsheviks have radicalized suburban moms into conducting ISIS-style vehicle attacks on federal agents Nurses stalking federal police with firearms Teachers rushing into White House dinners shooting shotguns College students shooting conservative leaders Wake up

I thought I knew all the communist jokes, but happy to announce random guy on my YouTube comments proves me wrong:

@sundiamondshine @TheOnlyDSC You will keep paying their salaries.

Just so you know: this fat bitch is a teacher too.

@TheOnlyDSC Basically a group of retards on government welfare.

@Heritage We have a right wing over politeness problem.

We have a left-wing violence problem.

Poor people can eat whatever they want, I just don't want to pay for it Hope that helps

If you’re not condemning these lunatics, you’re advocating for the end of the American empire. I’m not for canceling people, but the fact the @nytimes and @newyorker not only employees these individuals, but selects them to represent their brands, shows exactly how bankrupt they are.

@Rothmus And the commies in Cuba.

Every region on Earth solved basic electricity access. Except sub-Saharan Africa. After trillions in aid, the region still can’t build functioning societies. Worse, it’s regressing on multiple fronts. It’s a lost cause. Stop wasting people’s money.

Leftists have tried to kill the president three times now. They killed Charlie. They've shot up churches and Christian schools and rioted in the streets. They are the party of terrorism. Political violence comes from one side. How much longer will we allow these people to wage war on the country?

@Macarena_Olona @nayibbukele Why do you give them chairs?

Ayer pedí autorización para publicar estas imágenes y mostraros algunos de los monstruos que he visto en el CECOT. He estado en la cárcel de máxima seguridad de El Salvador en 2 ocasiones y mi sensación fue la misma: miras al Mal a los ojos. Ahora están siendo juzgados y la comunidad internacional critica a Bukele y le acusa de “crímenes de lesa humanidad”. Estos monstruos, 486 cabecillas de la Mara Salvatrucha, ordenaron más de 29.000 asesinatos en una población de algo más de 6.000.000 de habitantes durante 10 años, entre 2012 y 2022. Los testigos protegidos han declarado que ordenaron «abrir las válvulas» (asesinar a salvadoreños de forma masiva) en cuatro ocasiones: la primera fue en 2012, luego en 2016, la tercera en 2019 y la última en 2022, la cual llevó al Gobierno a instaurar el régimen de excepción. Son líderes de pandillas bien conocidos, la mayoría de ellos ya condenados por crímenes que cometieron personalmente, incluyendo asesinato, violación (a menudo violación seguida de asesinato), extorsión y secuestro. El único aspecto “novedoso” es hacer responsables a los jefes por los crímenes llevados a cabo por sus organizaciones. No han inventado ese principio. Se llama “responsabilidad de mando”, y se aplicó en Europa durante los Juicios de Núremberg. Fijaos bien en las imágenes. ¿Veis algún preso con mal aspecto físico, con signos de tortura, desnutrido? Lo que no tienen es libertad. Tampoco para salir del CECOT para ser juzgados y poder fugarse. El juicio se celebra de forma telemática, con todas las garantías legales. Fijaos bien en las imágenes. Si resultan condenados estarán en prisión de por vida. ¿Cuál es el problema? “Hay quien dice que encarcelamos a miles, pero la realidad es que liberamos a millones”, Presidente @nayibbukele.

The left is sending an assassin every few months while the GOP whines about the filibuster One side is fighting a war, the other is worried about breaking Robert’ Rules of Order

Build the White House Ballroom.

Either we fight back or they will kill us