Take Notes Like a Nerd, Fight like a Warrior

📝🥋 I wanted to share an oldie but a goodie: 7 game-changing notetaking tips for martial artists from BJJ to MMA that are easy to do and will make you more productive and progress faster! ✍️ Watch now: youtu.be/Sr_8OepFDwQ?si… #NoteTakingTips #MYMmethod

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right. Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue. Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate. The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway. Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy. Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million. DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder. The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers. Thirty-nine state governments now do.

I was skeptical, but now I’m completely convinced. Fencing will become super popular due to this one very particular improvement to the sport. “Sword tip visualization” It’s going to debut at the summer olympics. Every single duel will look like a bloody lightsaber fight

Warren Buffett says if the top 800 other major corporations paid what Berkshire Hathaway did in taxes, Americans wouldn't have to pay a dime in income taxes, or any taxes “If we send in a check like we did last year, we send in over $5 billion to the US federal government, and of 800 other companies had done the same thing. No other person in the United States would've had to pay a dime of federal taxes. Other income taxes, no social security taxes, no estate taxes — It doesn't bother me in the least to write that check, and I would really hope with all the America's done for all of you, it shouldn't bother you that we do it” You understand what he’s saying here right? We are subsidizing corporations cheating on taxes with our income tax Abolish the Income Tax

Talked to a former agency guy who feels like I do on this…. Why is the CIA trying to get credit here? Stay silent. Now the Iranians can reverse engineer the “how’s”

@KTB_500 @AdamKinzinger You get your legal guidance from a guy who tweeted mamdani only has 2 bases, communists and jihadists?

I will tell you I do this not because of anything political, but I am the one that fights each and every Mech BCT. I see it personally and I care, I care that our formations are the best they can be. Period full Stop, as professionals we owe it to our Soldiers to do everything possible for them. I write to share lessons, I talk to each and every unit, and I use this platform to get messages out. There are experts on here like @jameskgreer77 That have more experience in operational planning than anyone, @infantrydort that is passionate more than any, @CynicalPublius with legal experience to guide us, @CasualArtyFan that along with our UAS are charting unknown territory. For this particular issue MIssion Command is absolutely critical for survival on the current Battlefield, I see it everymonth. And I care about this a lot I have dedicated my life and my family to this Profession and as Professionals we owe each other the same professionalism.

A full bird colonel thinks he’s gonna make general by tweeting

@Art0fLife_ Or just pay people a living wage, give them affordable / free health insurance, and don’t let wall st buy up residential apartments and homes and people can say “I actually DO have a wonderful new apartment.”

Speak like this and your life will change:

So the @BBC is going to fight back hard against Trump and put him under oath? This is how you do it, to our feckless weak organizations that roll over and settle despite knowing you will win in court because some billionaire needs to squeeze more money out of constitution

Today, the EU gets lectured about “free speech” for trying to make platforms more transparent… 🇪🇺 Meanwhile, the US is considering blocking entry if your social media looks politically inconvenient 😇 Even travellers from France — no visa required — would have to hand over 5 years of posts. A very curious way to defend “freedom”, privacy and personal data 🤔

This is exactly what is worth the time of Marco Rubio. Winning the battle against woke fonts

@ElonMuskNews47 Yes

Evil people out there that need serious therapy

Disgusting there were still enough voters who fell for the con in ‘24

Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.

Here’s one I’ve been working on for a while: How the sprawling six-fight series between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta captured the best and worst of a period when boxing thrived and the mob feasted on it. sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/su…

@iamwjs67 @chrismwojcik And that’s not even counting the time to respond and send feedback after you watch their 5 minute video

Often people don’t have respect or even think of other peoples time. They think it’s just 5 min. But if 500 people want 5 minutes that’s a full work week. Most of the time they are well meaning people, especially in jiu jitsu. They just don’t think about scale and how small asks can add up.

Guys, I love Jiu-Jitsu so much, I love watching it, and I love helping people, but please don't randomly send me videos of your matches and expect me to watch them and give you advice for free 😅

@BjjTip Thanks for sharing

This is a deceptively simple but amazingly effective approach to closed Guard. All beginners should check this out and try to implement it...

That is one of the best fight posters I’ve seen in years.

Men will literally re-enter the UFC testing pool to fight at UFC White House instead of going to therapy

Why Craig Jones Doesn’t Like Cornering MMA.

@CNN Columbia coordinated with ice to deport students over free speech. They banned students for sitting on the lawn. They even tourtued students and sent them to the hospital all to appease trump. Shows this was never about antisemitism but extortion and they still got screwed