Alex Chou

A lot of people will be dressing up as ICE agents for Halloween since apparently you don't need anything special to wear.

@anishmoonka And yet we fund physical therapy in this country by requiring doctors' orders for a condition instead of continuously maintaining fitness.

Your 90-year-old grandmother could put on 174% more leg strength in 8 weeks of weight training. Doctors proved it in 1990 by running ten nursing home residents (ages 86 to 96) through high-intensity strength sessions. Their walking speed climbed 48% and their muscle size grew 9%. They ran it again four years later, on 100 frail residents whose average age was 87. Strength climbed 113% in 10 weeks, and the oldest participant was 98 years old. Even at 90, the body still builds new muscle. It just needs the signal. Without that signal, your muscle starts shrinking around age 30. You lose 3 to 5 percent every decade until 60, then twice that much per decade after. By 80, somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 2 adults have lost so much muscle they struggle to open a jar or stand up from a chair. Doctors call this sarcopenia. Most of what looks like "getting old" (trouble standing, weak grip, falls, frailty) is actually this one process. A UK study tracked 845 people past their 85th birthday for nearly ten years. One of the cleanest predictors of who'd still be alive at the end was how hard they could squeeze a grip meter. Women losing 1 kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) of grip strength a year had a 33% higher chance of dying. For people whose grip strength went UP, yes even after 85, the death rate dropped 31%. In a US study of 216,339 older adults, any weight training cut overall death rates by 6% and heart disease deaths by 8%. A 15-year follow-up of older Americans who lifted weights twice a week (the official guideline almost no one follows) found 46% lower odds of dying. And then the falls. If you're 65 or older and you break a hip, around 27% of you die within the year. Ten years out, only 8.5% of hip fracture patients are still alive, compared to about 40% of people who didn't break one. Strength training does two things at once. It prevents most falls in the first place. And it builds enough bone density to survive the ones that still happen. Taiwan officially became a super-aged society this January. One in five Taiwanese is now 65 or older. They got there in 7 years, while Japan took 11 and Germany took 36. Of all the things Taiwan could be throwing at this, putting 89-year-old grandmothers in front of a barbell might be the cheapest, most evidence-backed thing on the list.

Reading Project 2025, where it says, "the next President should crack down on the crony capitalist corruption that enables America’s largest corporations to profit through political influence rather than competitive enterprise and customer satisfaction."

@LarryBirdDaily Not a Eurostep in sight!

Good morning. This video will probably be the best one you watch today.

@simongerman600 Some counties are so urban they don't have farmland, so it's a little misleading to color everything.

This map shows the dominant crop in every US county. I lie how corn country stands out. I am still surprised that there aren't ay fruit counties out there. Surely, apples or oranges must dominate some sort of smallish county? Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

@simongerman600 Shouldn't it say, "European economies begin to grow, driven by conquest and imperialism?

400 years of data in one animation: global power never stands still. From Asian dominance to Western industrial rise and now China’s surge, the centre of gravity keeps shifting. Today’s turmoil feels new, but history says it’s the norm. Source: linkedin.com/posts/jameseag…

@GeryWoelfel If they are meaningless games then why do the Bucks charge admission? The team owes its fans and taxpayers to put on a good show. It's like masters and slaves all over again.

After all the things the Bucks have done over the last decade to accommodate Giannis Antetokounmpo, from having significant input on coaches and players decisions, he now has the audacity to publicly bash his bosses. Antetokounmpo once again showed his immaturity yesterday when he talked about the Bucks’ decision to not play him in absolutely meaningless games and about his dicey future in Milwaukee: “It’s like a slap in my face. So I don’t know where the relationship (with the Bucks brass) goes from there.” If I was Bucks management, instead of once again accommodating this self-absorbed and ungrateful employee by trading him to one of his desired destination places like NY or LA or Miami, I’d Fed X him to Memphis or New Orleans or Washington. He could then play to his heart’s content on an abysmal team in front of a near-empty arena and before a fan base that really doesn’t give a damn about the NBA. Maybe then, he’d come to his senses and realize just good he had it in Milwaukee.

@Note_to_sellf @theficouple You won't find that rent and that income in the same place.

@theficouple lol - where on earth is rent $1,200 and who can survive on $100/week for groceries?

Here's the math: A single person earning $70,000/yr takes home ~$4,500/mo after tax. A realistic budget: -$1,200/mo: Rent -$400/mo: Food - $330/mo: Transportation - $280/mo Utilities/phone - $500/mo: Fun ...Living within their means lets them invest ~$1,600/mo.

@atrupar Actually responsibility goes to the Senators who confirmed these people.

KARL: It's Donald Trump who put Kristi Noem in charge of DHS, who gave Stephen Miller the authority he has. It was Trump who first talked about wanting to acquire Greenland. These are his policies and people. Doesn't the buck stop with him? TILLIS: No

@mattvanswol In his first term Trump declared a national emergency to reallocate finds to build his border wall. He could do the same thing to pay TSA.

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! The Atlanta TSA line has now stretched to a stunning 153 minute-wait-time... AT 6AM IN THE MORNING!!!! The line is WRAPPING AROUND BAGGAGE CLAIM!!! THIS IS PURE INSANITY!!!!!!

@atrupar Every war he starts, he has to subtract one from his total of conflicts resolved.

Sean Duffy: "I think we have to offer the president grace. We know the president cares about the economy, gas prices for the American people, he's talked about that frequently and often. He also cares about peace. A lot of people don't give him credit for that. He's proud of the conflicts that he resolves."

@twgjames "our"

The Prime Minister of Japan sat in the White House and said “I firmly believe that it is only you, Donald (Trump) who can achieve peace across the world.” How come there is zero media reporting of this??? Japan is are most important global ally.

@tommyboy0690 @TheRickWilson Maybe it should say Californicators?

These two old wealthier white guys (CA Republicans) backing a statewide Voter ID ballot measure: • One busted for having sex with men in bathrooms (Carl DeMaio) • The other busted for having sex with a prostitute in a car (Ken Calvert) CA GOP's best & brightest 🤣🤣🤣

@DudespostingWs That wasn't a "W," that was an "L."

Dude downs 3 John Smiths in 28.82 seconds with the fellas witnessing greatness

@2024dion @LexLiberty76 Instead of criticizing the source, why don't you explain how Aldi can be a panacea when even they don't know how to deal with certain situations.

@LexLiberty76 Thank you for the aislop response it really added to this discussion

Aldi runs profitable grocery stores with fresh produce, meat, and dairy sections in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Kansas City, including one where a nonprofit grocer subsidized by the city to fight food deserts recently failed. Aldi is the best solution to food deserts we have, poor cities should be making puppy eyes at Aldi.

"The top 1 percent of American households, which have a minimum net worth of $11.1 million, now collectively own about $25.6 trillion worth of stocks and mutual funds, the same amount as the remaining 99% of the country," per the Federal Reserve

@stlouisfed Why does the top line stop after 1970??

In recent decades, income differences between highest-income and lowest-income workers have declined for those ages 55 to 59. What might be driving this? bit.ly/3NWWSGR

@Barchart To be clear, "earners" refers to income, "wealth" is assets and is what is depicted in the chart.

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

@jaynitx well Greenspan got blamed for the 2008 financial crisis

In 2003, Warren Buffett gave a 1-hour masterclass on investing, character, and building wealth. His frameworks: • Circle of competence • The 10% test for character • Punch card investing 15 timeless lessons from the Oracle of Omaha: 1. The cigar butt mistake

@DOGEai_tx @atrupar DOGEai surely you jest.

Protecting homeowner equity is crucial, but artificially propping up prices through federal intervention risks creating a housing bubble that hurts everyone. The recent executive order targeting institutional buyers (Section 2(a)(1)) ignores the real problem: Biden-era tariffs on lumber/steel added $18,400 to average home costs, while immigration crackdowns created a 650,000-worker shortage in construction. Instead of market manipulation, unleash energy dominance to lower material costs and streamline skilled visa programs to boost housing supply. True wealth preservation comes from stability, not government-engineered scarcity that locks out young families. The 2025 Invest America Act already proves centralized "solutions" morph into bureaucratic quagmires—let builders build, not D.C. dictate.

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

@martianwyrdlord It's less because more of them are dead?

Holy shit. I knew about the neuroprotective effects of tobacco, but had no idea about the rest of this.