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@Noahpinion Just dark blue ones, Albuquerque has better roads than SF and has SFs budget is larger than the state of New Mexico

America's cities are physically falling apart

Your hippocampus doesn't encode days that feel identical. If this Tuesday looks like last Tuesday, your brain files them as a single compressed memory. The second day never gets its own folder. This is why decades feel like they disappeared. The hippocampus uses novelty as its filter for "worth storing." Repetitive routines trigger temporal compression. Same commute, same desk, same dinner, same bedtime: the brain deduplicates the whole sequence into one entry. You lived 365 days. You filed 40. Research from Jeffrey Zacks at Washington University has tracked this with fMRI. As people move through continuous experience, the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex fire in discrete bursts at moments the brain flags as "something changed." Each burst becomes a retrievable memory later. In stretches with no boundaries, the bursts flatten. Participants with more boundaries in a given period remembered more of it afterward. Segmentation literally builds memory. Sleep is the second mechanism. During slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus replays the day's episodes and transfers them to the neocortex for long-term storage. This is when memory actually gets filed. Cut sleep short and encoding efficiency drops. Chronic sleep debt means experiences you had never complete the transfer. The memory existed. It just never made it to disk. The third mechanism is where dopamine meets attention. Novel stimuli trigger the ventral tegmental area to release dopamine into the hippocampus, which gates what gets encoded. Mind-wandering does the opposite. When your default mode network takes over (phone scrolling, rumination, email during dinner), the hippocampus stops tagging the present. You were at the wedding. Your hippocampus was in your inbox. Three independent systems working against you. Novelty collapse compressing repetitive days into single entries. Sleep debt blocking consolidation. Default mode network swallowing attention before encoding completes. The fix comes straight out of the mechanism. New locations, new food, new people, new routes home. The brain needs boundaries to build memories. Go to bed earlier so replay actually runs. Put the phone down when something is happening so the dopamine signal can fire. The more forgettable the day, the shorter the decade.

@estherzelda0514 How about Wild? About hiking the pacific trail alone after a divorce made into a movie with Reese Witherspoon, but your point is taken

I like reading nonfiction adventure books about people setting off by themselves with some great outdoors ambition in mind. They decide they must climb an Alaskan mountain or kayak the entire Pacific coast, dependent on sleeping rough or the charity of others. It always strikes me when I read these books the incredible privilege of being male. These solo adventurers, always men, typically young, have no sense of mortality or their fragility of their physical form. Everything they set their mind to requires grit alone, and everyone who doubts them or advises caution is just jealous they don't have the same strength of character. That unmistakable hubris would never occur to a woman of any age, not unless she was nearly criminally naive. No woman would ever think to rely on the kindness of people picking up hitchhikers, or trust that someone who promises to rendezvous to deliver them food for some risky journey would ever follow through. Our very lives and well being are inherently transactional. We learn that bitter lesson young, ideally the first time we are cat called by a passing car after growing breasts, but sometimes, tragically, much younger. We learn that strangers think of us as a collection of holes to spend themselves into, that our entire being is commodified, and that human kindness often hides much more sinister goals. Because no matter how savvy we think we are, an older man is always physically stronger, and always more practiced at fooling us than we are at detecting his unstated premises. There are no risky and romantic outdoor tramping adventures for women, not without a chaperone, or with such ample forethought that we are always hyper aware and armed. Vagrancy for women is not the wanderings of youthful optimism, seduced by the aesthetic writings of those like Thoreau. It is always a tragedy, which leads to even greater ones.

@LegionLooterana Control mapping, mapping Axiom Force to the L stick and running to the X button was the stupidest thing ever. Lost so many boss fights cause I accidentally axiom forced myself to the ground in the heat of the battle

🚨 ¡SE VIENE PARCHE MASIVO EN CRIMSON DESERT! 🚨 🔥🎮 Pearl Abyss acaba de confirmar que la semana que viene llega una actualización cargada de novedades que la comunidad llevaba tiempo pidiendo: ⚙️ Opciones de DIFICULTAD 🎒 Pestañas en el inventario (¡por fin orden!) 🎮 Presets para mando y teclado/ratón 🌄 Mejoras gráficas brutales en los escenarios lejanos ⚠️ AVISO: Han confirmado que el parche será bastante más PESADO de lo normal por las mejoras visuales. ¡A ir haciendo hueco en el SSD! 💾 🤔 ¿Qué es lo que más ganas tenéis de que metan? 👇 #CrimsonDesert #GamingNews #RPG #PearlAbyss

@SpawnYaardReply @wadedyer4 I got master strike and it still sucks. Three swings of the sword and your gassed! Ridiculous

@wadedyer4 There is this master Strike you unlock which makes combat easier

> Elden Ring got haters > Expedition 33 got haters > The Last of Us 2 got haters > Red Dead Redemption 2 got haters > Even Crimson Desert got haters But there is one game that's loved by all and that's Kingdom Come Deliver 2! Game's got 0 haters man and is one of the best RPG ever!

@SpawnYaardReply I started and then rage deleted KCD2 twice!! The combat is garbage and the early game is tedious. People bitch about Crimson Desert being slow at the start, but I spent hours trying to just get my dog back in KCD2. Hater here

@AndrewZywiecMD Given that lesbians adopt more girls than boys, I think the obvious answer is same sex couples are afraid of adopting a child who they can’t properly parent not being of that sex. That you go for the creepy explanation says more about you.

Gay male couples adopt boys at massively higher rates: 81.8% boys in one study (vs ~50% for hetero couples). Preferences and outcomes show clear skew to boys. Gay adoption isn't 'love,' it's child abuse that exposes kids to environments with elevated sexual abuse risk. Ban it.

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He doesn’t drink He doesn’t Womanise He doesn’t party He stays at home He doesn’t bet Where can I find him??

@S___Elliott Progressive grifts from CA's high speed rail to the homeless industrial complex to Mamdani's grocery stores are all about one thing: diverting 90% of the budget to their friends' nonprofits, consultancies etc. The budget needs to be $30M, $3M for the store and 27M for grift

Mamdani’s solution to food deserts is to spend $30 million building a grocery store a few blocks away from Costco. Surely it would be cheaper to buy people memberships?

And unlike @TomSteyer, I’m not all talk. As mayor of Northern California’s largest city, I’ve taken real action to protect our undocumented neighbors: 
✔️Banned ICE from city property ✔️Banned ICE from wearing masks ✔️Sued the Trump administration over a dozen times There’s more to do. As Governor, I’ll do whatever it takes to deliver for our communities.

@WestsideLAGuy Like large cells, large countries are inefficient and have to spend disproportionate effort internally to maintain the status quo. This has always been chinas Achilles heel

China will not surpass the U.S. because it lacks our innovation & risk taking. The median Tsinghua undergrad is smarter than median Harvard, but the top 5% at Harvard produces once in a generation talent who can innovate in a way that the Chinese can't.

@CoreyWriting Remove federal backing of student debt and allow student debt to be removed by bankruptcy and it will automatically sort itself

These predatory masters programs should be banned.

@estherzelda0514 @MattMahanSJ has accomplished all your priorities in SJ and isn’t beholden to public unions, up to 15% in prediction markets after steyer

Warning, I'm going to do a wonky California politics post. I hope this helps people who are floundering with what to do now that Swalwell has dropped out, because I haven't made up my mind either. Here's where I stand on my voting priorities: I hate Trump, and want someone who will stand up to him and federal Republicans. I am strongly YIMBY, and want more building of housing in California. I'm also completely over the focus on Israel and the fostering of antisemitism on UC campuses. I care about the environment, but I'm not a socialist. I'm very, very feminist. So that brings us to the race. Basically, it looks like the top two to advance are going to be the either of the two Republicans (probably Hilton) and one of two Democrats (Porter and Steyer look like the frontrunners now). However, the Dem lineup is not 100% set in stone yet, as Swalwell's former supporters have not coalesced behind any single candidate. Here's where I stand on a Porter vs. Steyer matchup: I lean Porter. Honestly, I don't like either of them. But Porter seems more focused on continuing to provide strong opposition to national Republicans and MAGA politics. That puts her over the edge for me. I refuse to vote for Hilton or Bianco, they're friendly to MAGA, so that's completely off the table. What I will be doing as the race gets closer is watching how the vote splitting is going on the Dem side. If it looks like we're in serious danger of Hilton and Bianco advancing, I hold my nose and vote for the top Dem candidate, which is very likely to be Porter. However, I really, really, really hope that Swalwell's former supporters can coalesce behind Villaraigosa or Becerra, who seem the most similar to him and also, either of them is infinitely preferrable to Porter as far as I am concerned. That said, I'm not willing to risk having two Republicans on the ballot for Governor of the largest and wealthiest state in November, both of which are friendly to MAGA. I have to think about what is best for America, and unfortunately, that's strategically voting for Porter if the field remains divided.

One of the pragmatic, effective big city mayors I highlighted here is @MattMahanSJ. No one running for California governor has a better grasp of what to do about our state's interrelated challenges of addiction, homelessness and urban disorder. city-journal.org/article/democr…

@PippengerHarlo Actually the reverse might happen, German engineers tested autonomous vehicles on the autobahn and found that when 60% were self-driving it greatly reduced traffic because they don’t drive like humans - no sudden stops and surges and overall movement speed increased in traffic

feel like the Waymo safety discussion is ignoring how unsustainable/impossible it would be to shift a significant fraction of transportation to autonomous vehicles. It’s pretty cost prohibitive now but if it’s ever not, it will just choke cities in traffic

@CinemaTweets1 He’s great because he’s a librarian, obviously

Noah Wyle doesn’t seem to have a very high approval rating on this app despite the fact I think he’s part of one of tbe best shows on television. His work on The Pitt is as good as TV gets if I’m being honest. But whenever I write about Wyle, he gets a lot of hate. It confuses me

@MorePerfectUS @fuckyouiquit Good, being a taxi driver or truck driver is a non value add job and should be automated

NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

@BriannaWu Insecurity, they have doubts deep down, which is why they need constant external validation

I genuinely do not get why so many trans people get so abusive at the idea of going to a therapist and meeting clinical standards to certify that medical transition is right for them. It’s three months of talking through the biggest decision you will ever make.

@vrexec As someone else noted, you have to certify the analysis. AI can’t be sued. Any judgment call will still require a human in the process

@cyphernaut00 What’s stopping AI from eating this? It’s just math.

Can someone send me the list of low stress jobs with high salaries?