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The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

I was talking with some friends last night about the discipline of writing. I've observed that I've talked to scores of people in my career who've asked how to write, tips to improve, and how to get published. Admittedly, some individuals have more natural fluidity with words than others. And it is difficult to turn someone with poor writing skills into a great writer. But a writer with moderate skills can become great when disciplined by technique and time. And guess what? Every writer has areas to improve upon. Growing in one's writing skills often means becoming more self-aware of one's bad habits (for me, that is wordiness, identical structuring, and passive verbs). Concise wording, active tense, and strong propositional prose are gifts that few naturally possess. The solution is simple: Write. It's not glamorous. It's labor-intensive, sometimes grueling, and often times simply incredible because writing is an act of iteration and self-discovery. I often don't fully know what I think about something until I write it down. So writing is a reflective process that, at times, produces a product I could not have conceived beforehand. Writing is, in effect, a muscle that one develops through repetition. In my experience, most people like the idea of considering themselves writers more than they are willing to commit to writing. If that describes you, my suggestion is simple: Sit at a computer and hammer out 200-300 words a day. Observe the writers whose style you enjoy and what it is about their writing style that you find admirable. Words will come easier in time. Style will improve. Moreover, if you have a writing project, taking small bites of a writing project is far more psychologically manageable than thinking of a project as a whole. And lastly, the best advice I ever received was perhaps the simplest: Read everything you write out loud. The ear will catch what the eye will miss. If it sounds bad, it's probably because the writing is bad!

@Math_files @annbauerwriter It’s time to move that kid to private school. He’s smarter than his teacher.

Why kids hate Math

Casting a vote is not a signal of someone’s eternal devotion. It’s just choosing the best available set of policies and personnel. That’s it.

So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy … a pound of sliced turkey in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store-made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? 🙄😂

It turns out the over 100 women from Turkey who flew over to America to have their babies then signed up for Medicaid So not only did their kids get birthright citizenship but then the American taxpayer had to pay for the procedure and follow up care End Birthright Citizenship

Read it in chronological order. Makes more sense. First time I read the entire Bible in a year, I read it from cover to cover. When you get into the minor and major prophets towards the end of the OT, you start reading the same stories you read months ago, and it gets confusing. When reading the NT chronologically, it makes the missionary journeys of the apostles make more sense. Here is the chronological plan I’ve been using for several years now.

Hyphenated. Non-hyphenated. The irony.

Love this

He is risen. Mel Gibson sat down with Joe Rogan and spoke plainly about why he believes it. He regards the Gospels as verifiable history, not fairy tale. Jesus existed — there are non-biblical accounts that confirm it. Every apostle who witnessed the events died rather than deny what they saw. “Nobody dies for a lie,” Gibson says. The resurrection is the hardest part for most people to accept. Buddha didn’t do that. No one else rose under their own power three days after public execution. Gibson was raised with the faith as a child, but as an adult he says he came to it through intellect, historical reading, and personal experiences in his own life. A raw, unapologetic conversation about faith on one of the biggest platforms in the world. What do you make of Gibson’s reasoning — especially the part about nobody dying for a known lie?

He is Risen.

After careful consideration I have decided to root for my own country in the war

🚨 do you understand what New York City just accidentally admitted.. NYC spent $81,705 per homeless person last year.. the median American household earned $81,228.. the government spent MORE to keep someone homeless than most families earned to keep themselves housed.. that $81,705 isn't going to the homeless person.. it's going to the system around them.. shelters, administrators, case managers, contracts, overhead.. the industry that manages homelessness.. not the end of it.. if NYC gave every homeless person that money directly.. they could afford nearly 2 years of rent.. most of them wouldn't be homeless anymore.. instead the money goes to the system.. the system keeps running.. the homelessness stays.. and every year they ask for more funding to manage the problem that the funding was supposed to solve.. the homeless are worth $81,705 a year to the system.. they're worth nothing to it solved..

Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t understand how anything works.

I love the South

Persian-Iranian man saying: "What you see here now, we've seen 50 years ago."

Hey, remember when someone leaked the Dobbs decision and we were supposed to get to the bottom of that and hold the leaker accountable? Anything ever happen with that???

Fact.