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Hezbollah directly hitting a historic Byzantine church that Israeli authorities were working hard to preserve on Friday. Did you hear any outrage? Of course not. You didn’t hear a word about it and you never will. That’s how you know these people are full of it.

Placebo effect is powerful- in a 2009 study, women who took testosterone behaved more fairly towards others in negotiations w less conflicts. However, women who believed they took testosterone (but actually just had placebo) behaved more aggressively & unfairly nature.com/articles/natur…

This image does NOT depict Donald Trump as Jesus. The original post was shared back in February by @NickAdamsinUSA, and it shows President Trump carrying out God's work in healing and restoring our nation. Context is everything, panicans—here is the actual original post for your reference:

This is so Nordau-coded.

wife using the blender: “man, I can smell the shitty brushed motor” I married right

From the timeframe the General Assembly used to adopt it to the wording of the question itself, this gerrymander referendum in Virginia has been illegal and unconstitutional from the start. It should have never been allowed to take place. But no one is coming to save us. The courts won’t stop this because they’re spineless, and national Republicans have already written us off. The only way we can save our Commonwealth is for us to defeat this thing ourselves. Vote “No” between now and April 21.

“On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.” — Zechariah 12:9

Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden… 8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years. 8% of the entire country. 7% of Cuba. 6% of Haiti. 5% of Honduras.

On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. Lee showed up dressed in his best, looking like a dignified gentleman. Grant was covered in mud after riding all morning. Before anything was signed, the two men spoke about their shared service in the Mexican War -- a reminder that Confederates and Union soldiers were nonetheless countrymen tied by mystic chords of memory. Grant did not create terms of surrender to humiliate the South. Grant and Lincoln understood that to unify the nation, you could not imprison half of it. Confederates were allowed to keep their sidearms and personal horses. When Grant learned that Lee's men were quite literally starving after having not eaten for days, he ordered 25,000 rations sent to them immediately. Lee said this would have "a very happy effect" on his men. When Lee rode away after signing terms of surrender, Union soldiers cheered. Grant forced them to stop, reminding Union soldiers that Confederates were "now our countrymen" and there would be no cheering over their downfall. (In fact, days later when actual ceremonial surrender occurred, Union Gen. Josh Chamberlain reportedly ordered his men to salute passing Confederates as a sign of respect) Lee also worked diligently to stop Confederates from waging guerrilla warfare, encouraging them to set their arms aside and return home and in peace. He was a titan in his own right. If the spirit of 1865 had been driven by the urge to shame and punish, the Union would not have lasted. So many people today misunderstand that and as such, they try to rewrite America history. God Bless America.

Never tried a chicken as a "familiar" before. But you know what enlisted folks say - "If it's stupid but it works, than it ain't stupid!!!" ❤💚💯👍

Democrats think Decarlos Brown Jr. was fit to be released back into society 14 times, and fit to vote in U.S. elections but not competent to stand trial.

Je vous jure, les physiciens ne sont pas des gens normaux.

The Utah Mammoth commissioned a Mammoth themed Zamboni and named it the "Zammoth". Life is beautiful. Art isn't dead.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

Every writing teacher who told you "be concise" accidentally murdered your best ideas. In 1987, psychologist James Pennebaker ran an experiment that broke every assumption about how human creativity works. He divided college students into two groups and gave them the same creative writing prompt. Group A had to write for 15 minutes without stopping, elaborating on every thought that surfaced. Group B had to write concise, polished responses in the same time frame. The elaborate writers didn't just produce more ideas. They produced fundamentally different types of ideas. Brain scans showed their prefrontal cortex entered a state resembling REM sleep, where distant neural networks suddenly started talking to each other. The concise writers showed patterns identical to focused problem-solving mode, which actively suppresses creative connections. Six months later, Pennebaker tested both groups again. The elaborate writers had continued generating novel solutions to unrelated problems at twice the rate of the concise group. The act of elaborative writing had permanently rewired their associative thinking patterns. The advice sounds logical. Cut the fat. Trim the excess. Get to the point faster. What they missed is that ideation and communication are completely different cognitive processes, and optimizing for one destroys the other. When you write elaborately, your brain enters what cognitive scientists call "divergent thinking mode." Each additional sentence forces your mind to find new angles, make unexpected connections, discover relationships between concepts that would never surface in a stripped-down version. The elaboration itself becomes the thinking tool. Watch what happens when you try to explain a simple concept in 2000 words instead of 200. Your brain refuses to repeat itself. It starts mining deeper layers, pulling up examples you forgot you knew, connecting dots that seemed unrelated five minutes ago. The constraint of length becomes a creativity multiplier because your mind has to work harder to fill the space meaningfully. Most people reverse this process. They think first, then write down the conclusions. They treat writing as a documentation tool for thoughts that already exist. This kills the discovery mechanism completely. Real creative thinking happens during the writing, not before it. The elaborate sentences force your brain to search its entire knowledge network for supporting ideas, contradictory evidence, parallel examples, deeper implications. Every time you expand a thought, you're asking your neural pathways to surface material that stays buried when you think in headlines. Professional researchers figured this out decades ago. They don't brainstorm in bullet points. They write massive exploratory documents where every paragraph spawns three new questions. They let themselves ramble across pages because they know the rambling is where breakthrough insights hide. The connections emerge in the elaboration, not despite it. There's another layer most people miss. When you write elaborately about a topic, you're not just exploring what you already know about it. You're discovering what you didn't realize you knew about it. The act of expansion forces you to reach into adjacent knowledge areas, pull connections from unrelated experiences, surface insights that were sitting just below conscious awareness. Pennebaker's follow-up studies revealed something even stranger. Students who wrote elaborately about completely unrelated topics showed improved creative problem-solving across all domains. The cognitive muscle of elaborative thinking transfers. Train it on one subject, and it enhances your ability to find novel solutions everywhere else. Your brain was designed to think in stories, not summaries. Feed it complexity and watch creativity multiply.

@haiku757 Likewise!

@snacks_unhinged God bless you and your family during this Passover week :)

I'm gonna eat rice even harder this pesach

@TrvlTasteTour Was there some leftover ad budget or something?

🎄 Experience Southern holiday magic in Eufaula, Alabama. The Christmas Tour of Homes on December 6, 2025, features grand mansions, historic streets, festive shops, and candlelit charm.

An Israeli emerges from his destroyed house with a beer and his gun😭