politically corect

@visualizevalue @SteveBakerHW

@AarivKhanna For anyone interested: tcd.ie/news_events/ar…

Breaking: Your phone is sending data to Google every 4.5 minutes. Screen off. Phone untouched. Trinity College Dublin confirmed it in a peer reviewed study. Here are 12 settings to cut it off:

@lostinganglia And why do the stars rotate in different directions depending on what hemisphere you're standing on ?

On this flat earth of ours, why is the moon upside down in the southern hemisphere?

It's somewhat of an American vernacular. When you're arrested in the USA you can 'go to jail' or 'jailed'. When you're arrested in the UK you can be chucked into a cell. But we don't say someone is 'celled'. Moreover, it's temporary (or can be). Now, 'prison' is where you can end up once sentenced of something. They said 'go to jail' on the Rogan podcast. This lines up with how an American could describe being arrested. You said that they said prison in your tweet. They didn't say that. You did. You pivoted on a vernacularism hoping to congratulate yourself in virtue.

Hi @dshensmith just checking in respectfully… not sure why I called out a statement by Joe Rogan saying 12,000 people had gone to prison for posting on Twitter was wrong. They haven’t and the 12,000 figure includes all electronic harassment as you know.

@oneKing4me @JesseBWatters Good point. But imagine a tribe coming across a broken down jeep in the Serengeti.

@JesseBWatters Okay, does no body see the problem with this story? I am supposed to believe aliens manage to make it through the vast gulf of space only to crash on Earth... NOT once but multiple times. AND still there's no significant evidence of these creatures? Smells like distraction to me.

🚨WOAH! RESEARCHERS SAY DOZENS OF CRASHED UFOS HAVE BEEN RECOVERED — WITH FOUR DIFFERENT ALIEN SPECIES ON BOARD 🛸👽 TWO ARMS, TWO LEGS… LONG TAILS LIKE A LIZARD! 7 FEET TALL! 👾 SOURCES ARE TOO SCARED TO TALK… SAYING AN INTERVIEW COULD “FORFEIT THEIR LIFE” 😳💀

Only yesterday I was walking after a long car journey and doing that to relieve my neck and shoulder tightening. Probably from a habit I've fallen into recently of falling asleep in front of the TV and awakening with a crooked neck and shoulders. I don't blame you, Sabine. Even though you're responsible for me settling down in front of YouTube to gorge on your scientific insights at the start of the evening... 😀

@alluringmedia this is exactly how I walk when my back issue is acute

Take it from me, as someone who did COPIOUS amounts of Ketamine in my 20s, that is not all he is on.

@ihtesham2005 And using a fountain pen improves things too!

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@TheVixhal 🤯

Every electron in the universe might be the same electron. In 1940, John Wheeler called Richard Feynman and suggested that the reason every electron has exactly the same mass and charge, to a precision we cannot even measure a deviation from, is that there is only one of them. A single electron, weaving forwards and backwards through time, threading through every moment of cosmic history, appearing as matter when it moves one way and as its antiparticle when it moves the other. The idea was never proven, but it was never quite killed either. The math allows it. An electron going backwards in time is mathematically identical to a positron going forwards, and the equations do not care which description you pick. If Wheeler was right, then the particle in your retina reading this sentence is the same particle burning in the heart of a star ten billion light years away. You are not made of many things. You are made of one thing, seen from many angles at once.

@DanielSmidstrup USA innovates. China replicates. EU regulates.

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

@Rainmaker1973 Every colour exists only in the brain. They're simply how we choose to perceive the different frequencies of an electro-magnetic radiation we call 'light'.

Purple is purely a mental construct of the human brain. We invented the color because of a lack of a sensor signal.

@Chrisey96 @Rainmaker1973 I was just about to say that the last time I did it I had to cut all three!!!! 🤣 So many hours spent in that game! Made some great friends, too. From all over the world, rattling around in a jeep thing causing carnage. Good times!

@Rainmaker1973 "You weren't there man, you weren't there"

This is what happens if you cut only one support cable which holds tower

@trippcircuit @CuriosityonX And God was created by..? We're back to Square One.

@CuriosityonX In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. - God.

If the BIG BANG started everything, what existed before it?

'Before' requires two or more things and for them to be moving. Only then can time 'emerge' into something meaningful. You need two things moving to describe 'time'. Ponder on this. See if you can 'feel' it. You have to pretend you're not 'there' to visualise it but give it a go. Now, if the Big Bang started from a singularity, there would be no time (as everything we know of now is that single entity) thus 'before' is meaningless. It's a brainfuk, innit?

@excelonman @rawespresso 'everyone' ? You mean only those not on the public sector payroll.

@rawespresso Does anyone realise that the current level of personal tax allowance is in fact the highest in the G20? It does not need to be raised at all. Everyone should contribute into the tax base, even a little. And yes, all the loopholes for the wealthy need to be closed

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021. That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it. In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel. If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700. Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030. The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels. The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.

Inflation is, indeed, perhaps the most insidious, reprehensible tax a government can inflict surreptitiously upon its population. It's not the same as prices fluctuating due to supply and demand issues. Inflation is an increase in the money supply, by governmental decree, giving them the purchasing power of the current money supply so they can fulfil their 'promises' they made to obtain power before it seeps into the economy and is diluted. Problem is, its unsustainable.

@MAGA_Aliens Will it be blurred and shaky? All the best ones are.

Something big just landed in our inbox. We’ve received footage of a UFO that has never been released publicly before. Currently speaking with several news outlets.

@otokyo__ Probably the egg that wasn't burnt to a crisp. Or a big mushroom, perhaps ?

Whats missing from this breakfast? 🍳☕️🍽

So when the Tories were vanquished in the last General Election (by people not voting Tory) they were actually being supported and encouraged (by the people who didn't vote Tory) to get on with the job .. by being voted out of power ? Is this one of those “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” type things ?

“A lot of people feel bitterly let down… about our failure to get on and deliver” Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson admits there are "big and serious issues to address” but that Keir Starmer should not be replaced as Labour leader #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@darrenpjones @Keir_Starmer There's nothing like a demonstration of a lack of support for your policies as proof that you should continue to pursue those policies (many of which weren't on your manifesto) that people, weirdly, aren't showing support for. It's bewildering. Truly bewildering..

The election results today have clearly been tough for Labour. I’m sorry that we’ve lost so many brilliant Labour colleagues across the country, and thank them for their service. And I’m sorry that so many voters felt unable to vote Labour at these elections. @Keir_Starmer has taken responsibility and committed all of us to delivering on the mandate the country gave us at the last election. The Labour Party shouldn’t waste a minute of the time we’ve been given to get on with that job. If we turn inwards the public will think we’re walking away from that challenge. The next election will have unity or division on the ballot. A Britain built for all, or a Britain for the few. Britain is at its best when we come together and rise to the challenges of our time. And Labour is at its best when our values of equality, collectivism and unity power our project for the British people. We can deliver a better Britain in the years ahead and beat the prospect of division at the next election, but only if we come together, get on with the job and face the future.

@RossKempsell I still get the sense he's a nice bloke, but.. just as thick as shit.

barely a day goes by when I don’t watch this

@Master_Debunker @MatthewStadlen Any system with more than two parties, each having the exact same share except for one, will have more people voting for something other than the winner. So your point is..?

Big disappointment for Reform. Looking like they’ve done worse than last year.