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Researchers have found that spending about two hours a day in quiet environments may lead to physical changes in the brain, including the formation of new nerve cells. Daily life is filled with constant sound, but evidence suggests that silence itself plays an important biological role. Experiments show that prolonged quiet, especially around two hours, stimulates neurogenesis in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory, learning, and spatial awareness. Rather than simply offering relaxation, silence appears to actively support brain renewal. Noise keeps the nervous system in a heightened state of readiness. In contrast, silence allows the brain to settle, creating conditions that support repair and internal processing. With fewer external signals to manage, neural networks may strengthen, and new cells are more likely to survive and integrate. This challenges the idea that the brain only benefits from stimulation, highlighting that meaningful neurological growth can also occur during deep stillness. Source: Kirste, L., Zaba, Z., Wang, S., Herrmann, T., & Kempermann, G. Is silence golden? Effects of auditory stimuli and their absence on adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Structure and Function.

@Paw_Vibe Ms. Ellie 😍

Ben Affleck just explained AI better than 99% of tech Twitter. I build with AI. I write a newsletter about it. I still couldn't frame it that cleanly. Sometimes the outsider sees what the insider can't.

Think in probabilities

If only someone could have seen this coming.

Celebrated Valentine's Day with my forever dance partner. Love you, Miche!

Elon Musk just said saving for retirement becomes pointless in 10 to 20 years. Not speculation. Math. Musk: “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in like ten or 20 years. It won’t matter.” We passed the event horizon. Retirement savings assumes scarcity persists. It won’t. AI and robotics collapse labor costs to zero. Living costs follow. You’re not saving for security. You’re saving for a world that stops existing. Musk: “If any of the things that we’ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.” Age of Abundance isn’t vision. It’s physics. Economic laws executing whether you believe them or not. 5,000 days. Fourteen years. Global GDP uncaps. Production approaches infinite. Net worth as concept dies. Only scarcity left is meaning. Money stops being the constraint. Timeline is shorter than your brain accepts. Fourteen years. We transition from survival work to Universal High Income in that window. Event horizon isn’t coming. You’re in it. Operating under old rules while ground disappears beneath you means you already lost. Production costs hit zero through automation. Everything priced on human labor reprices instantly. Housing. Food. Goods. Services. All reset when scarcity evaporates. Traditional planning assumes structure persists. Save for decades. Retire on capital returns in scarcity markets. That model shatters when abundance becomes baseline. You’re optimizing for a world vanishing while the replacement materializes. Your strategy becomes obsolete before you finish executing it. The retirement you’re building toward assumes costs stay high. They collapse. And your savings designed for expensive scarcity become irrelevant in cheap abundance. Every dollar you put away for future scarcity is a bet against the transformation already happening. And that bet loses the moment production costs hit zero and the economy you planned for stops functioning. You’re not preparing for the future. You’re clinging to a past that’s ending whether you accept it or not. And fourteen years from now, the question won’t be whether you saved enough. It’ll be why you wasted time saving for conditions that don’t exist anymore.

@mcuban We should have access to health ins without having to go through an employer. That’s an outdated idea. I'd rather my employer not be involved in my health ins. Cobra is ridiculously expensive, when changing jobs. We need a large pool of Americans so actuaries can assess risk.

Curious what healthcare geeks think about the idea of a short-term response to the ACA premium subsidies discussions: put $100 per month into an HSA that can only be used for a Direct Primary Care monthly subscription, and the balance of the expected subsidies to be used as originally planned for premiums. Having DPC should lower the plan's cost, which should allow premiums to be lowered rather than raised. Thoughts? What am I missing? @SenRonJohnson @SenBillCassidy @SenRickScott

@mcuban Most plans are already considered high deductible plans ($5,000+) with copays for primary care, specialists, and Rx. Would those copays go away?

@sciencegirl Maybe the setting of either: a bloody murder scene or one with only one trace clue.

What are your first thoughts on this home

@sciencegirl i rather go for black-wood combo

@sciencegirl Padded room vibes.

Big Business like insurance companies are just as bad as Big Govt. Power in the Masses.

@SpeakerJohnson That's actually an improvement since pre-ACA.

Obamacare has become the Unaffordable Care Act.   Premiums have skyrocketed 60% since 2010 — yet Democrats want to keep subsidizing their broken system without any reforms.   The Working Families Tax Cut is proof that Republicans don’t just talk about lowering health care costs — we’re doing it and putting American families first.

Ending the ACA subsidies. Will be the nail in the coffin. ⚰️

When the $2,000 dividend has been long spent, and Obamacare is no longer an option, Americans will have to pay top dollar for their limited coverage plans, if they want coverage. Within a year, we will be cussing the Republicans. #bet #ACA #Obamacare