cnoteworthy
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cnoteworthy
@cnoteworthy
Professional Solicitor ✊ | Mediocre golfer | Father
Katılım Kasım 2021
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More of this duo, please.
Inside the ropes with @BakerMayfield and @JordanSpieth as they take on the Copperhead Course 🐍
@ValsparChamp | @Buccaneers
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Excellent read from the mind of @tferriss
"The older I get, the more I think that self-help can be a trap. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease."
tim.blog/2026/03/04/the…
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@newstart_2024 @grok how did this conversation about caffiene end? What was his ultimate take away?
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Michael Pollan quit caffeine for 3 months… and realized his “normal” self was just caffeinated.
First week: “Felt like I contracted ADD. Couldn’t concentrate, couldn’t write, veil between me and reality.”
Month 1: Functional but miserable.
Month 3: “Slept like a teenager… but I was still a mess.”
First cup back:
“Waves of well-being → euphoria → like cocaine for 20 minutes.”
Then: irritability, compulsive cleaning, unsubscribing from 100 listservs, reorganizing sweaters, plotting the next dose.
Classic addict behavior — even he admits it.
Chronic caffeine lowers adenosine sensitivity (your brain’s sleep-pressure signal). Withdrawal = fog/ADD-like symptoms. Re-dose = euphoric adenosine clearance after 24+ hours of buildup. Baseline becomes caffeinated baseline.
Pollan’s takeaway: “Yourself is caffeinated… and that is baseline for many of us.”
Ever quit caffeine cold turkey?
What hit you hardest — the brain fog, the irritability, the insane euphoria on return, or something else?
Your stories 👇
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@WIZDOMETRY Warning ! - Be careful of these so called gimimmicks packed as a reset for the brain blah blah , it's a process where if you tune in they steal your thoughts and memories along with passwords and secrets, do not tune in to this !
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🌀 This sound will reset your brain.
Just listen for 12 seconds…
This is 432 Hz Golden Ratio Frequency.
432 Hz is often described as a calming and balanced tuning — but what makes this truly powerful is the golden ratio (1.618…). The tones are layered and spaced using that geometric pattern, the same spiral found in seashells, galaxies, DNA, and even your heartbeat.
For many people this sound at first may be irritating as their baseline state is governed by low frequency vibrations.
✨ What happens when you listen:
• Your brainwaves shift out of chaos and into balance.
• The nervous system relaxes almost instantly.
• You feel lighter, clearer, more present.
It’s not just music — it’s the sacred geometry of life, turned into sound.
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@NFL_DovKleiman If you truly love and respect sports you wouldn’t use your page to turn athletes personal lives into a soap opera
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This paragraph by Fyodor Dostoyevsky hits so hard:
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.
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I made a deal with death.
Didn’t negotiate for legacy. Didn’t ask for more runway.
Asked for cold lake water that hits like a slap from someone who loves you. Mountains that make your problems correctly-sized. Heartbreak with enough voltage to rewire something permanent. Friends you’d lie for. Bathroom floors at 2am, tile against your cheek, crying about something you couldn’t explain to anyone — and somehow that’s the most honest you’ve ever been.
The drive home after. Windows down. Nothing on the radio. Feeling scraped clean.
A grocery store on a gray Tuesday. Fluorescent lights. Terrible music. A stranger’s kid losing his mind over cereal — and for no reason, no reason at all, your chest cracks open just a little.
There it is.
That’s what I came back for. Not the moments worth photographing. The ones nobody warns you about. The ones that hit at 40 miles an hour in a parking lot and leave you gripping the steering wheel like it owes you something.
I promised I wouldn’t waste it.
I forget. Then a lake. Then someone laughing so hard they can’t breathe.
And the deal comes due again.
I asked to come back for this.
All of it.
Even the parts that wrecked me.
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@rawsalerts This could be a micro-confession or a decoy confession- admitting to something small as a way to redirect attention. It’s still potentially misdirection: using a controlled confession as camouflage so people stop digging deeper.
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🚨#BREAKING: Bill Gates has issued an apology to his foundation staff over Epstein ties. Billionaire admitted that he had two affairs with Russian women
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you're about to pay that $14,000 hospital bill. Stop
call the billing department and say five words: "I need an itemized statement"
watch $14,000 turn into $4,200
hospitals don't send you itemized bills by default. they send you a summary. one line. one number. pay this
the itemized version shows every single charge. and that's where the scam falls apart
$78 for a single Tylenol you could buy at CVS for $3 $400 for "room usage" for a room you sat in for 12 minutes $1,200 for "physician consultation"
when a nurse practitioner spent 45 seconds checking your chart $250 for "surgical supplies"
when you got 3 stitches and a bandaid duplicate charges for the same procedure billed twice under different codes
hospitals get away with this because most people never ask. they just pay the summary or let it go to collections and destroy their credit for 7 years over charges that were never real
the call script:
"Hi, I'm calling about account number [X]. I'd like a fully itemized statement showing every individual charge, CPT code, and unit cost. I'm also requesting the chargemaster rate versus what my insurance was billed"
they'll push back. "we already sent your statement." no. you sent a summary. you want the itemized breakdown with procedure codes
once you get it:
step 1: google every CPT code on the bill. compare their price to the Medicare rate for the same procedure. hospitals routinely charge 300-800% above Medicare rates. you now have negotiating leverage
step 2: call back. "I've reviewed the itemized statement. There are duplicate charges on lines [X] and [X]. The charge for [procedure] is $1,200 but the Medicare reimbursement rate is $180. I'd like to discuss a fair adjustment"
step 3: ask about financial hardship discount. every nonprofit hospital has one and many for-profit hospitals do too. most require a simple application. income under $60K-$80K for a family qualifies at most nonprofit hospitals for 40-100% reduction. they won't volunteer this. you have to ask
step 4: if they won't negotiate, say "I'd like to file a formal billing dispute and request review by your patient advocate"
this triggers an internal audit. a different person reviews the charges. errors get caught. bills get reduced
step 5: offer a lump sum. "I can pay $3,800 today if we can settle this account in full." hospitals would rather take $3,800 now than send $14,000 to collections where they'll recover a fraction of the balance
and if it already went to collections? the collection agency bought that $14,000 bill for pennies on the dollar. they'll often take a fraction of the original amount to delete it and walk away happy
you were about to destroy your credit for 7 years over a bill that was mostly inflated charges
five words would have saved you
(i repair credit in 60-90 days, links in my bio)
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