I’d Rather Be Golfing

@SawyerMerritt “Sure, people hate it, but it will grow on you” -Ferrari

The Pope checked out the new Ferrari Luce EV today. In response to public criticism of the car’s design, Ferrari’s CEO said today, “Real innovation is not democratic. Breakthrough ideas rarely emerge from immediate consensus.”

@RepThomasMassie @sunnyright So go be useful Why have you wasted your time in government?

@sunnyright Nothing left but a wonderful family, 30 patents, 2 engineering degrees from MIT, a farm with a peach orchard, a herd of Wagyu cattle, a dozen inventions in my head, a clucks capacitor roaming my fields, and investors lined up to back whatever I invent next.

Your reminder that Massie has been living off politics for upwards of 16 years, so it was either this or a podcast because he's got nothing else left

@PeterRHann1 When you see a $400k Ferrari, you can see and feel why it’s $400k This is a $650k Ferrari and it looks like a $40k Kia.

I'm not a car guy. I'm missing something. Why the hate? Not sexy? Cyber Truck ain't sexy and people worship it. What is the issue?

@ChrisJBakke How many people looked at this car, from design to production? 1000? No one said, “uhh…guys…what are we doing?”

Imagine accidentally hitting this car in a parking lot, having a moment where you go, “well at least it was a cheap Hyundai,” getting out of your car and realizing it’s a $800,000 Ferrari

@SawyerMerritt This looks like a kid made it out of Legos

Ferrari has just officially unveiled its first ever all-electric car, called the Ferrari Luce. • Starting price: $640,000 • Interior co-designed with Apple's former head of design, Jony Ive • Range: 280 miles (expected EPA) • Peak charging speed: 350kW • 122 kWh battery • 1,050 horsepower • 0-60mph: 2.4s • 800v • Four-door four-seater • Four electric motors • OLED screens • Weight: 4,982 lbs • Front motors spin to 30,000 rpm, rears hit 25,500 rpm • Car uses an accelerometer to capture real vibrations from the electric motors & rear chassis. An algorithm filters out unpleasant frequencies and amplifies only the more “musical” sounds. This can be heard inside and outside the car. • Paddle shifter on steering wheel changes how aggressively torque is delivered, with five different levels • The trunk has 21.1 cubic feet of space, the largest luggage capacity the company has ever offered • 197.6 inches long, about as long as a Tesla Model S U.S. deliveries start in Q2 2027. More photos in the thread below:

As predicted in our Nant Cancer vaccine patent. Most excited to see the readout of the Lynch Syndrome trial to prevent cancer. 2 year follow up coming by next year. NK cell stimulation happening so far.

@DavidJHarrisJr So…. ….hes had the names all this time, yet he’s kept them secret? Why is Massie protecting pedos?

🚨BREAKING: Thomas Massie says he will publicly read the names of Epstein clients before leaving Congress.

@RealJamesWoods I mean, we know for sure at least three of them can’t swim…

Do you have to use the life jacket at all?

@ShadowofEzra No chance he does this If he had the names, he’d have read them already A con man….right til the end

Thomas Massie says he will publicly read the names of the Epstein clients before his time in Congress comes to an end. Massie says there will be no high-level arrests as long as Todd Blanche and Kash Patel work for the United States government. Massie says Melania Trump knows the truth about Epstein not acting alone. "Todd Blanche is violating the law."

A University of Kentucky epidemiologist convinced 678 Catholic nuns to donate their brains and their entire life records to science, and the autopsies he performed quietly rewrote everything modern medicine thought it knew about Alzheimer's disease. The findings have been published in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. Almost nobody outside the field of neurology has heard of them. His name was David Snowdon. He was a young epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in 1986 when he had what most of his colleagues considered a crazy idea. He wanted to study Alzheimer's disease the way it had never been studied before. Not through brain scans of confused 80-year-olds in a hospital. Not through self-reported family histories. He wanted to find a group of people whose entire lives were on paper, from their twenties to their deathbeds, and then look inside their brains after they died and see what the autopsies actually showed. He chose 678 Catholic sisters from the School Sisters of Notre Dame congregation. The choice was not random. Nuns lived almost identical lifestyles. Same diet. Same housing. Same daily schedule. Same medical care. No smoking. No drinking. No pregnancies confounding the hormonal data. They were, statistically speaking, the cleanest research population on Earth. And they had something no other study population had ever offered. Their entire lives were already documented. Every nun in the order had written a one-to-two-page autobiography in her early twenties, before taking her final vows. The essays had been sitting in convent archives for 60 years, untouched, waiting to be discovered. Then Snowdon did the part most researchers would never have agreed to. He asked the nuns, in person, one at a time, if they would donate their brains to science after they died. They said yes. All of them. The study ran for over 25 years. Annual cognitive tests. Annual physical exams. Detailed medical records. And at the moment of death, every single brain was carefully removed and analyzed under a microscope. The findings broke modern neuroscience. The first thing the autopsies showed was that many of the nuns had brains riddled with the classic plaques and tangles of full-blown Alzheimer's disease. Severe damage. The kind of damage that, in any other patient, would have produced complete dementia. But while they were alive, these particular nuns had shown no symptoms at all. They had stayed sharp until the day they died. They had taught classes. They had run errands. They had recognized everyone. Their brains were destroyed. Their minds were intact. Something was protecting them that nobody had ever measured before. Snowdon called it cognitive reserve. The brain, he argued, can absorb extraordinary amounts of damage without showing symptoms, as long as it has been built thick enough beforehand. The nuns who stayed sharp had brains that had been so well-developed over a lifetime of learning, teaching, reading, and thinking that they could afford to lose huge sections of tissue and still keep functioning. Then he found the second thing. The one that made the study famous. He pulled the autobiographies out of the archives. The essays written by the same nuns 60 years earlier, when they were 22 years old. He measured a single linguistic feature called idea density. How many distinct ideas a writer packed into each ten words of prose. Not vocabulary. Not grammar. Not style. Just the raw informational compression of a young mind. The result was so clean it should be illegal to ignore. The nuns who had the lowest idea density at age 22 were 59 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's by age 85 than the nuns who had the highest idea density. Snowdon could predict with roughly 80 to 90 percent accuracy who would develop dementia 60 years before it happened, from a single essay written before the woman had even taken her vows. The detail that should disturb every adult reading this is what happened when the researchers controlled for the obvious objections. When they controlled for education, the effect held. When they controlled for occupation, the effect held. When they controlled for the age at which the nun entered the convent, the effect held. The cognitive complexity of the 22-year-old mind, measured in a single autobiographical paragraph, was a stronger predictor of Alzheimer's six decades later than any other variable Snowdon could find. Then he ran the second analysis. The one that almost nobody quotes. He measured the emotional tone of the same autobiographies. The frequency of positive words like joy, gratitude, hope, love, contentment. The nuns who wrote about their lives in positive emotional terms at age 22 lived an average of 10.7 years longer than the nuns who wrote in neutral or negative terms. Same convent. Same diet. Same medical care. Same prayer schedule. The lifespan was being shaped by something invisible. Something that had been written down before the nun had any way of knowing it would matter. The paper landed in JAMA in 1996. It has been cited thousands of times since. Almost no one outside academic neurology has heard of it. The reason most people resist this finding is that it sounds like a sentence handed down before adulthood even began. If the architecture of your old-age brain is being built by what you do with your mind in your twenties, and your emotional resilience is being calibrated by the words you use about your own life, then your eighties are being shaped right now by patterns you cannot even feel yourself making. Snowdon argued the opposite. He said the data showed cognitive reserve could be built throughout life. The nuns who continued to learn languages, teach courses, read difficult books, and engage in complex conversations in their 60s and 70s also showed slower decline. The brain does not stop responding to mental work just because you got older. It only stops responding when you stop asking anything of it. The most uncomfortable part of the research is the contrast Snowdon repeatedly emphasized. Two nuns could have identical brain damage on autopsy. Identical plaques. Identical tangles. Identical genetics. One would have lived her last years confused, frightened, and lost. The other would have lived her last years lucid, joyful, and intact. The only meaningful difference between them was the depth of the cognitive and emotional architecture each had built across the decades before the damage arrived. The brain you will have at 85 is being constructed right now by the books you choose not to read, the conversations you choose not to have, and the words you choose to use about your own life. The dementia that arrives at 80 is not a verdict. It is the bill for a structure you either built or did not build between 22 and 60. Almost nobody walks through the window because almost nobody knows it is open. You can be the one who does.

@ClayTravis With more time, she can blow thru $5 billion, easy. The woman is a professional blower

Kamala is going to be the nominee. The more Gavin Newsom talks the less people like him. If he were a black woman that wouldn’t matter, but Newsom has no base. He and Mayor Pete will battle for the white wine moms. Shapiro is Jewish and done. It’s going to be Kamala.

@JamesHeartfield If you smash one of them in the head with a club, the rest of them will meekly walk away. you’re welcome

This is the moment it kicked off in the Basque airport. You can see the flotilla activists made a line across the exit that blocked other passengers. The police tried to make a space for them to get through. The protester shoved the police and it started.

@Dapper_Det California. Record homelessness Illinois. Record homicides Newsom and Pritzker are the leading candidates to be the Dem nominee make it make sense

🚨BREAKING: 21 people shot, including children across Chicago so far this weekend, mass shooting last night & 5 police officers hospitalized after being mowed down by an 18-year-old at a teen takeover on the West Side. Chicago is a total war zone ruled by Democrats.

@BlackLabelAdvsr They have an obvious clientele NYC transplants They’ve never had a yard

I see these neighborhoods being built in Texas and I’m trying to figure out who in their right mind would buy a mansion with zero lot lines. Like, you could do a handshake through your kitchen window. Insane! Please make it make sense.

@TheDegenWeekly You said it’s poison, and that you’re a pussy if 3 glasses gives you a hangover Maybe be more careful about what you post

@blissful017 Not the message at all. You can workout if you’re hungover. Thats the message

There’s a great story about when Clinton Portis was severely hungover before a game. He was going to tell Mike Shanahan he couldn’t play. Shannon Sharpe stopped him and made him run sprints till he threw up. Portis rushed for 228 yards and 2 touchdowns. I’m not here to tell you alcohol is good bc it’s not. It is poison and I wish I didn’t love it. But if you can’t go to the gym bc you’re hungover after 3 glasses of wine, you are just a ginormous pussy.

@camhigby We’re being asked to extent equal rights to people who are not our equals

🚨🏳️‍⚧️NAKED AND A FREAK: Seattle Transgender activists stands completely naked with boobs and a penis out in the presence of minors. I guess these are the trans rights they keep shouting about.

@Skulledwedge Some of those kids will go on to work in the pro shop, where they’ll have the opportunity to meet people who can change their life. Always support caddies

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you’re playing a club that has highschool/middle school kids as caddies, absolutely take one. Had two kids in my group today who had their first ever loop. Both just graduated 8th grade. One had never been on a golf course before other than the caddie training. Both just want to make a good impression, learn how to talk with adults, and make some money this summer. It’s worth the extra $60-$80.

@jarvis_best uhhh…. …who the hell is taking the pic?

Lot of cheap classless gold diggers on this planet but this chick is EARNING her future divorce settlement holy cow.

@bryan_johnson @_katetolo Has anyone else wondered, “who the f*ck took the picture?”

Examining Kate’s 1% She has suspected endometriosis. This affects at least 1 in 10 women, likely more. Here she’s getting an ultrasound. Historically you needed surgery just to diagnose it (incisions are made in the abdomen). We're doing a non-invasive route. Typically women live with endometriosis for 7-10 years before being diagnosed. It’s the leading reason women aged 30 to 34 get hysterectomies (permanent surgery to entirely remove the uterus). This condition is where endometrial-like tissue starts growing outside the uterus, in ovaries, bowel, bladder, even the diaphragm. This tissue inflames, scars, and glues organs together. Our first step is to find out if @_katetolo has it. Initial measurements we’re doing: + trans vaginal ultrasound + pelvic MRI w and w/o contrast + hormonal labs All during the early part of her cycle to get the clearest picture. During her ultrasound, a slim probe, about the width of two fingers, 10-12 inches long (although only a small portion is inserted) is covered with a protective sheath and lubricant and gently inserted into the vagina (patient has to empty their bladder first). This creates real-time images of the uterus, ovaries, and surrounding pelvic structures. While inserted, the probe is turned 90 degrees to evaluate all the various structures, angles and views. There is no radiation exposure. The technician is looking for scarring, ovarian cysts, adhesions, and for organs that are fused together with tissue. This ultrasound can confirm endometriosis but it cannot rule it out. What endo does to the body: + 90% report pelvic pain + 50% report severe fatigue + 26% report infertility. However many sources cite 30 to 50 percent. + 50% experience pain during sex. + Many have pain with ovulation, bowel movements, and urination + Severe bloating called “endo belly” where the abdomen visibly distends There are a handful of theories about why endometriosis develops but the honest answer is no one is quite sure. We’ll keep you posted on her results.