Road to Emmaeus

OK. I’m tired of the emotional reasoning, so I went to the CDC’s website and sorted through the data myself. Here are the cold, hard facts as of 9/4/21. TOTAL CASES (US): 40,048,255 TOTAL DEATHS (US): 643,858

@ihtesham2005 Do you have a link to the research

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.

@Cernovich Honestly this gets more frightening by the day. There are no Charlie Kirks, Scott Adamses, or Jordan Petersons coming up. Just a bunch of grifters and wanna-bes. We need men.

Joe and Jim Hoft both having heart problems. Now Rudy. Everyone is getting older, myself included. Next man up.

HOT TAKE: When dealing with crazy people, you have to make them believe you are more crazy and unstable than they are, or they have the upper hand. This is why Trump appears like a madman in his posts and threats. Iran MUST believe he would drop a nuke for them to capitulate.

@nikitabier @AngelaBelcamino Should have led with “🚨BREAKING”

All aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle. We will add another 20% deduction in the next cycle. It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth. The next step is to assign a permanent deduction to habitual bait posters who use “🚨BREAKING”on every post. X will never infringe on speech or reach—but we will not compensate for manipulation of the program or our users.

Dom Lucre said he posted 100 times in a week. Now that the money’s gone, so are the stolen clips every 15 minutes. Funny how fast “content creators” disappear when the $ do. Imagine if monetization disappeared entirely—this platform would look very different overnight.

@Polymarket If it was classified, he wouldn’t be able to acknowledge its existence on twitter

BREAKING: Senator Babet announces "you would be very surprised who's not entirely human" — but says he can't disclose more because the alien hybrid program is classified.

The world is really feeling the absence of these three voices right now: @jordanbpeterson @charliekirk11 @ScottAdamsSays

@MakeGoldGreat Someone is selling these and pumping ppl to buy them knowing it’s not gonna happen

Wall Street making WAY outside the money calls on Silver now too 👀

@mark_slapinski I mean you have a 50% chance of being right. Quite the prediction…

I'm going to call it now: Trump is going to use a NUCLEAR BOMB in Iran. Bookmark this.

@TimHannan You forgot the minor detail that a pandemic shut down the world

Donald Trump inherited a solid economy twice and he completely fucked it both times.

@piersmorgan “Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”

Madness.

@Partisan_12 AI

Professor Jiang says America Is Trapped In This War And There is No Way Out!l

@MarioNawfal They are humiliating the US on the world stage. Crazy

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: IRGC just issued a statement: If the U.S. hits Iran's power plants, the Strait of Hormuz gets completely closed and won't reopen until those facilities are rebuilt. They're also threatening to destroy Israeli energy infrastructure and any regional companies with American shareholders. Power plants in countries hosting U.S. bases are now "legitimate targets." Source: Al Jazeera

@Cernovich Can’t be coincidence that the same guy was in office for the Covid and WW3 right?

I don’t spiral into doomerism because the human condition has been far worse. Cholera outbreaks. One infection killing you. No anesthesia. But we are heading in a bad direction.

@NowTheEndBegins @IsraeliPM @netanyahu Why is the press conference in English?

Netanyahu: “I am alive. You are all witnesses.” Sorry, not buying it, try again. Why doesn't the camera show the people in the room? Why are the "reporters" only on split screen? They could be anywhere. Nothing about this is real. Totally fake. @IsraeliPM @netanyahu

@Nostre_damus I’m glad they gave us their chocolate before all of this

I don't know who needs to hear this but If you're in Dubai, get the fuck out get on a plane, a train, an automobile, walk if you have to

@0hour1 @Trumpetteco I wonder where Candace was getting her info on Charlie?

President Trump has banned Candace Owen’s and Tucker Carlson from the White House.

@mtracey He could also be baiting any remaining Joe Kents.

This can be assumed to be a lie. The idea that the US "knows nothing" about Israel's targeting decisions, and these are not coordinated with the US, is laughable. Trump has also feigned ignorance of Israel's actions before (eg, June 13 sneak attack) only to admit knowledge later

@zerohedge What about mortgage rates? 🥲

*TRUMP: SOON AS WAR'S OVER, OIL PRICES WILL DROP LIKE A ROCK *TRUMP ON IRAN: WAR WILL BE OVER SOON

@brhodes Is Venezuela better off today than it was 3 months ago?

This is dangerous, immoral, and illegal - the third government he's tried to overthrow in the first three months of this year. We are in a worst case scenario of authoritarianism.

@BrandonStraka @RogerThatB17 No

LAURA LOOMER: “The President can trust me to always give him advice on who's being loyal and who's being disloyal … informing him of people who are bad mouthing him.”