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A boy becomes a man when he realizes when he was born he wasn’t given a survival manual and he must make his as he goes along. And it’s his job to master the art of survival so he can pass it down to his family.

@basedamericana Nice pic.

“I’m marching to my death for this fledgling republic… so that 250 years later, spineless traitors can import 100 million third-worlders, dilute everything we bled for, and transform our shining city on a hill into a sprawling favela” - The Unknown Patriot

A man who reads old books cannot be fully captured by modern stupidity. He has dead kings, prophets, poets, killers, saints, drunks, generals, and madmen whispering in his bloodstream. The feed has no chance against this.

@hippie_ripper @BowTiedBull Just learned the hard way

@BowTiedBull If you do a combat sport never train/spar w those guys either.

For guys in 20s, please remember to avoid the unsuccessful middle aged/older man. He has nothing to lose, no self awareness and severe anger issues. Probably more dangerous to go out drinking with these types than a reckless 20 year old. At least the 20 year old still has hope

@sculptherbody Who is she?

Glutes on fire

@Craftsman_Redux @Athens_Stranger Thankyou. Wanted to ask, Where can I buy this please?

@osteovator @Athens_Stranger

This little book is very much worth owning for reference — sample of the contents in the comment

@Craftsman_Redux @Athens_Stranger Please post more Jefferson library books.

@Athens_Stranger You need to be Sowerbymaxxing.

@CarlosRivasMD Thankyou Sir.

If you’re able to match into ortho in the US it means you are extremely intelligent. So: trust your own ability to reason and logic MORE than the guidelines you’re forced to memorize. When something doesn’t seem right, no matter what the source is (attending, mentor, textbook, uptodate, boards, AI, NEJM, whatever) keep digging until you make it make sense for YOU, even if you end up concluding that everything you were taught was wrong. Do it in a state that honors medical autonomy, where patients can refuse any medical intervention they want without risk of facing mandates and doctors can go off guideline with minimal regulatory risk. Stay true to your oath, the original reason you chose medicine: to leverage all the available medical science for the ultimate benefit of the patient, every time. Keeping your integrity with your patients is worth more than any paycheck or any title. Always be skeptical, always look for sources of bias and manipulation in the information that is being presented to you. There are many forces that want to profit off of manipulating the way you make decisions. Be open to working collaboratively with patients and colleagues (including non-allopathic health practitioners) that have a more integrative perspective than you do. They can teach you a lot if you’re open to it. Remember that the US institutions have the most prestige but the US is not the end all and be all of medical treatment. There are many niches (example in your field: articular stem cell therapies) where international facilities are way ahead because of more open regulation and more appreciation for integrative approaches. Read. A lot. Much of what you have been taught and will be taught is just plain wrong. The biochemistry, molecular biology, pathology, etc, basic science of the first two years of med school, even though your attending a basically ignore most of that, if you can learn how to deepen and leverage that basic medical science for the benefit of your patient, you will serve them in a much more long term beneficial and truly scientific manner than your colleagues who just follow the guidelines without thinking.

@CarlosRivasMD @BookClubCali Thankyou Sir.

@osteovator @BookClubCali

Spain didn’t lose a land battle for a hundred years, created the first empire on which the sun never set, institutionalized diplomacy, and laid the foundation of the entire concept of a global economy, but has relatively less interest than the Greeks or Romans.

@CarlosRivasMD What’s your advice for a medical student who plans to match orthopedic surgery and also plans to open his own surgical center?

It’s important to understand that most people who debate on this platform do not do so with genuine intent to understand reality and learn from the exchange. They simply are trying to farm engagement and use any disingenuous rhetorical trick they can conjure, including stories, tales, lies, exaggerations, mischaracterizations, playing dumb (which is the one I hate the most), deflecting, distraction, strawman, ad hominem, inventing restrictive rules of discourse on the spot, and on and on. When faced with facts they cannot refute, they try a few of their tricks. A favorite trick of these types lately is to just regurgitate some slop they got from AI. Due to their dim IQ, they themselves are so awestruck by AI that they think that no one could possibly effectively refute the garbage that AI pumps out. They are left flabbergasted because: 1. Overuse of AI has worsened their cognitive deficit 2. They don’t understand how someone can be more intelligent or more forthright than AI 3. They find themselves exposed for pretending to be an expert with the ventriloquist AI and not knowing how to respond They inevitably block because they were never interested in genuine debate and learning and knowledge sharing for their audience, and they want to insulate their audience from the criticism and logic that is being presented. These people have PhDs, MDs, JDs, executives at major institutions, and they are found to be completely lacking mentally. They are just political propaganda tools with bifocals. Beware who you get your information from. The tools for propaganda and narrative control are pervasive, and in this short form video low attention span low literacy world we are in now, people don’t have the patience nor the capacity to process and suss out truth from half-truth. Don’t be like Sanjeev. Stay open to new information, even if that means realizing you’ve been wrong and that you’re out of your element and that there are experts that are smarter and more informed and less politically handicapped than AI. Don’t block people you disagree with if it is simply a difference of perspective or opinion or interpretation. When you’re wrong, admit it. Keep an open mind. If we’ve learned anything from the last 10 years, let it be that the “truth” is rarely settled and that the establishment and “expert” narrative is riddled with bias and propaganda and psychological operations that can take decades to centuries to sort out by bold intelligent individuals who are willing to stand against the whole damn world for the defense of the truth.

@CarlosRivasMD @BookClubCali Best books on Ferdinand, Isabella, Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, please. I’m very interested in them

@BookClubCali If Ferdinand & Isabella, Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro aren’t up there with Alexander, Julius, Cleopatra and Constantine in your mind, you’re NGMI. Sparta’s 300 got nothin on Pizarro’s 168. The Crusades got nothin on the Reconquista. ⚔️

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

@hamptonism How do you recommend reading Carl Jung teachings?

Life after mastering game theory, delusional optimism, pattern recognition, Carl Jung’s teachings, & obsession:

Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone. – David J. Schwartz

@theoldworldshow @Will_Tanner_1 Post more on your great man reading list.

Reject the self-help slop Embrace the Great Man biography

@AscendantPower This. This just shifted and elevated my thinking. Had to read it again and again to get it.

If you do it right, poor people think you’re poor and wealthy people think you’re wealthy.

“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” — Luke 10:18-19

@MurrayHillGuy1 Hey Murray, You recommend directly asking if she’s single or compliment then ask for number?

Any girl walking a dog on the west side highway is BEGGING to be approached It’s so easy “Wait your dog is so cute what’s its name?” Bonus points if you know dog breeds. You should study these. “Is that a mini goldendoodle?” You’ll know instantly if she’s interested. Get the number and ask if she’s looking for a step dad for the dog and maybe herself Few

@PJSobkowski Nice, gonna use that to build mine. Had to pause the vid to see the names of the books. But yeah cool shelves man.

A follower on Bluesky asked for a library tour, and I thought I’d share here. Enjoy!

@MurrayHillGuy1 Okay.

Dating app tip for short kings: Set your height to 6’3 The key now here is to let matches come in, but you can’t message them for at least a month Change height back to 5’7 and they won’t remember you Invest

@1776pax USA not DNA.

BLEED AMERICAN 🦅