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@Starlink on @united is life changing. I’m now a super fan of both. Let’s fly the friendly and fast WiFi skies!

Stop sending your money to China 🇨🇳 . Stop shopping at Walmart Amazon and Target and shop us made instead

I was so tired of supporting China by shopping at Amazon, WalMart and Target. So I opened my own store. Better products, USA made, oh and they cost less!

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.

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Stop buying from China. Buy USA made.

If there was a US product store that was better than WalMart, Target and Amazon.. with better, quality products... would this be something you would be curious about?

@Nurseratchett22 @JackPosobiec They are deliberately wiping out the traditional catholic neighborhoods.

@JackPosobiec My Catholic high school was destroyed. My elementary school is now apartments. My church still stands but only does a few funerals and weddings. And a neighboring Catholic elementary School is now a mosque. 😵‍💫

Here is where our Catholic high school lies destroyed - Norristown, PA After Norristown became a sanctuary city, community institutions like this where generations of my family went to school were crushed

@cheapiemac Where else can you take your kids to eat free after the Sox win?

Biggest joke I’ve ever seen. Everyone in Boston knows this 99 deserves historical status. We can’t be ripping out everything that makes Boston great for soulless shitty apartment buildings. There are empty buildings in seaport. Lower the cost instead of destroying the city.

@sciencegirl I think this error says it all

What are your thoughts on this renovation of a 1930s house

@DemzDeliver Only for illegal aliens. Taxpaying citizens can go eff themselves

@Mick_O_Keeffe @paddymacc1 If Guinness opens a pub next to this it would be the most Irish scene ever. ☘️🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪

A local priest celebrates mass in the back of a truck at the Athlone fuel protest this morning. The protests in Dublin, Cork and Galway may have been broken up overnight, but this movement is far from finished, with many protests still ongoing around the country today.

@BasilTheGreat I don’t know how you stop it at this point

This is a political candidate for election in Britain No I am not joking We are being colonised

@ksorbs No. We flee bc our red votes do t count in the blue states

They are morons. They flee the state they ruined to escape to a free state and vote the same way. Insanity.

@bennyjohnson But they still voted for them …oh wait right it wasn’t anyone who pays for Sox tix..

Massachusetts Governor Healey and Boston Mayor Wu mercilessly booed on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park. That literally says it all.

@thegabriel72 And now she has her x account on private

Sen. Kennedy just roasted a Dem witness on live TV. Law professor Mary Anne Franks, who teaches First & Second Amendment law, squirmed as Kennedy read her own anti-American, anti-conservative tweets out loud including ones calling Americans “misogynists” and blaming “white male supremacy” for Supreme Court rulings. These are the “experts” Democrats call to lecture us about the Constitution. Kennedy exposed the bias they try to hide behind academic titles. Source: Senate Judiciary Hearing video – Oct 2025 (C-SPAN.org)

@RealDonKeith Of course they are because Labour keeps giving them everything

Bullshit.

@sciencegirl Muslims

What’s preventing you from visiting London