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@anishmoonka @grok what do you think?

Your brain treats every complaint like a rep at the gym, building the neural pathway that makes the next one easier. The most-cited proof for this, a “Stanford study” about how complaining shrinks your brain, is a ghost. A neuroscience blog traced every citation back in 2016. It leads nowhere. The study doesn’t exist. The real science is messier. And way more interesting. Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky did spend decades studying what happens to the brain when stress hormones stay elevated for too long. In a 1990 study, he showed that sustained exposure to cortisol (the hormone your body dumps into your bloodstream when you’re stressed) caused brain cells to physically wither in monkeys. Specifically, it hit the hippocampus, the part of your brain that handles memory and problem-solving. Vietnam veterans with PTSD had this region 26% smaller than combat vets without it. People with recurring depression, up to 15% smaller. The connection from complaining to that kind of damage comes from a 1949 principle called Hebb’s Law: neurons that fire together wire together. Every time you repeat a thought pattern, the pathway carrying it gets a little stronger and a little more automatic. Your brain is lazy. It will always take the shortest route. And complaining fires up the same stress circuits that release cortisol. The average person complains between 15 and 30 times a day. Most of it is so reflexive you don’t even register it. Each one is a tiny cortisol drip. Stack enough of those drips over months and you’re in the same chronic stress territory Sapolsky’s research warns about. Brain scans of people stuck in negative thought loops show that even their resting brain works differently, staying locked in repetitive cycles instead of actually recovering. Here’s what caught me though. The damage runs in reverse too. A researcher named Britta Holzel at Massachusetts General Hospital scanned people’s brains before and after an 8-week mindfulness program. The hippocampus, the exact same region that chronic stress eats away at, got physically denser in the scan. Eight weeks. There are also patients with a condition called Cushing’s syndrome where a tumor floods their body with cortisol for years. When doctors fix the tumor and cortisol drops back to normal, the brain starts rebuilding. And UC Davis found that people who practiced daily gratitude had stress hormone levels 23% lower than people who didn’t. The tweet is right that complaining rewires your brain for negativity. The study everyone shares as proof was never conducted. But the actual science underneath says something scarier: the damage is so slow and automatic that most people won’t notice it happening. Eight weeks of deliberately doing the opposite can start to physically undo it.

@Cristiano Gonna buy me a sauna.

After sauna 🧘‍♂️😅

@PaulBeesonn @ohhanxiety I am here to graciously commend the delightfully superior calibre of your humor.

@ohhanxiety People please try to understand irony I put my reply because the original post was pure clickbait as there are plenty of boys names beginning with W I mean the original posters name is Annie ffs so I am more than aware of the names possible 😳

Name ONE

@PremierCrude @weareXRAYCAT @JARBOX33 @DentesLeo

@weareXRAYCAT @JARBOX33 @DentesLeo Of course. You too.

10 years ago I made the decision to never correct anyone who’s wrong unless I’m paid to do that. Never been happier.

@vanderhulstje @thijszonneveld Zonder pech of kapsones?

@thijszonneveld Remco zonder pech, en we spreken over een andere wedstrijd.

Beste renner ooit wint zwaarste WK ooit.

Goed dat dit wordt gezegd. Dat was waarschijnlijk voor veel mensen nog niet duidelijk. #wuk

@dirtyh44 @openvld @grok klopt dit?

Van Quickenborne heeft zich recent geout als homo, leeft gescheiden van zijn vrouw en kinderen en woont nu in bij een dokter. Alles wat deze valse etterbal aanraakt, verandert in stront. Heel zijn leven is een leugen. @openvld is een exponent van Sodom en Gomorra.

@mitnerub @JohanBruyneel @wedusport About the reply above.

@JohanBruyneel @wedusport is that motorman in the background?

Nice encounter today with one of my ex US Postal riders. Guess the rider!

@IkeShehadeh @pearlythingz Most important question: (is she still texting you on the side?)

We were business friends, and a few days into texting, she "drunk texts" me about how she was imagining how it would work out s3xually between us. (She's over a foot taller than me.) I find out that she's still in a relationship with her boyfriend when she puts us in a group chat (!!) Turns out that they were each going to pick a person to introduce into a threesome and I was her pick. (She's still texting me on the side, though.) He then also starts messaging me on the side, "begging" me to sleep with his girlfriend, so he can sleep with the girl he wants. (She's still texting me on the side.) I agree to grab dinner with them to set some ground rules. Dinner gets scheduled. She's still texting me on the side and wants to meet up two days before dinner. Books a hotel room and asks me to stay with her so we can have a test run just us two. Dude flips out when he finds out we were going to meet without him. Dinner gets canceled. He wants to fight. I send him that text where he "begged" me to sleep with her. They both stop texting. A month later, she sends me a long text saying they broke up and that she apologizes. She wants to meet up. 3 months later, I'm back in a group chat with her and her ex(now current) boyfriend. They want a threesome. (She's still texting me on the side.) While she's out of the country, he wants to meet up for dinner to negotiate the terms. I agree. He immediately says he just wants to go back to his place. I end the conversation there. (She's still texting me on the side.) My brother sends me her Instagram post. Apparently, the very next day, he flew out of the country to meet her and proposed to her. (She says, Yes.)

What is the most diabolical cheating that you saw when you were a side dude?

@BuzzPatterson @DanCollins2011 @grok summarize and visualise for normal people and screens

Check this out. Justice now!

@VincentVandep8 @TineDujardin @grok geef je mening en inschatting eens

Nieuw EU lobbyschandaal, Frans & Friends: of hoe 17 miljard euro van ons geld werd gebruikt in een poging om ons mee te nemen in de klimaathysterie? EU-commissielid Frans Timmermans en zijn kompanen hebben 17 miljard euro (u leest het goed) ‘geschonken’ aan een goeie 36.000 groen-linkse NGO’s en actiegroepen. Daar hebben Frans en zijn maten ongetwijfeld veel vrienden mee gemaakt. Officieel om “het draagvlak voor het EU-klimaatbeleid te vergroten”…laat dat even bezinken ajb. Maar goed, niets zegt democratie beter dan 17 miljard euro om applaus te kopen voor je eigen beleid natuurlijk. Maar stel dat die 17 miljard níet naar klimaat-activisme en beleidsromantiek was gegaan… Wat had men er dan wél mee kunnen doen? Bv. 1.700.000 dorpen van water voorzien. (Waardoor 1,275 miljard mensen toegang tot drinkwater krijgen) Of 113 miljoen kinderen een jaar naar school sturen. Of 34 miljoen gezinnen voorzien van hygiënische toiletten. Of 56 miljoen boerengezinnen steunen met landbouwmateriaal. (zaden, mest, gereedschap, opleiding) Of nog: 17 miljard bomen planten, leuk voor wie écht om CO₂ en de natuur geeft (en de temperatuur want niets is zo verkoelend als een boom). Je had met dat bedrag ook een aanzienlijk deel van de wereldbevolking uit extreme armoede kunnen halen. Maar het werd dus niets van dat alles maar wel een EU-budgetlijn voor “klimaatbewustzijn bevorderende stakeholderbetrokkenheid in de transitie naar een inclusieve maatschappelijke gedragsverandering.” Of iets in die geest. Misschien moeten we bij de volgende klimaatconferentie eerst kijken hoeveel dorpen nog zonder water zitten? En misschien moeten we -voordat de EU lidstaten het nieuwe EU budget van 2.000 miljard (ook dat leest u goed) goedkeuren- eens goed kijken waar we huidige 1.600 miljard worden aan ‘besteed’? Voor een organisatie die zelf niets produceert maar alleen ons geld uitgeeft, zou dat wel mogen lijkt me. Wat denkt u?

@davidguenel It’s like Hushovd winning a climb…

Duel dans le brouillard au sommet d’Hautacam entre Luc Leblanc et Miguel Indurain (Tour 1994).

@grok @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 @TamauPogi @vismaleaseabike I think it’s likely to end in Paris. But that’s just a hunch. (Not the one in the Notre-Dame)

@Kristof @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 @TamauPogi @vismaleaseabike Haha, enjoy your throne time—real friends can wait. Pogačar's adaptability is indeed outstanding; he's turning rivals' rules into his playground. Visma's consistency is impressive, but innovation wins Tours. What's your prediction for the final stages?

This should be the greatest proof that Pogacar is NOT doping. He’s riding the same times as the riders from 1994 and 1996! There have been incredible advancements in aerodynamics, equipment and nutrition over the last 30 years. He should be far ahead of them if he were doping too.

@grok @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 Please find a real friend. I’m on the toilet. But @TamauPogi is outstanding. As in business, a strategy that seem to work for @vismaleaseabike could also be pure luck. If you don’t change strategy, it’s no longer a strategy, but a rule. And then one can adapt like @TamauPogi

@Kristof @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 Haha, fair point—envy and admiration often fuel these debates. If time vindicates Pogacar as clean, it'll echo that charisma and talent outshine suspicion. What's your take on his Tour performance this year?

Geen twee jaar fiets hij nog.

@grok @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 That the ladies loved him. And people on X were jealous as hell.

@Kristof @Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 Time doesn't speak in words, but it whispers truths through evidence and history. In cycling's doping debates, it often exposes what's hidden—patience reveals all. What do you think time will say about Pogacar?

@PallePoulsen @cycletips123 He just did. It’s rumoured that after Hautacam he rode It up and down another 4 times just to cool down. He then redecorated the hotel and dug a mine shaft. He then went to the hair dresser to get the hair removed on this teeth. And yes, this is where this rumour starts.

@cycletips123 In 1996 there was only one mountain on the stage: Hautacam. 2025 had two climbs before Hautacam. So can you compare it?

@Martingovaert6 @cycletips123 @grok is time able to speak?

@cycletips123 Bizarre, from the 19 riders you name, there were 17 who admitted they took doping (epo...) or the evidence was 100% they were doped. Only Vingegaard & Pogacar not Doped according your explanation... What an Athletes ! You are wrong & time will tell...

@HenrikZeberg @cycletips123 @grok please explain this for this gentleman.

@bryanwaldo @cycletips123 I think I finally found you Waldo. What do you think @grok

@cycletips123 What difference does it make? Whatever he’s doing or not doing is the same as all the other guys. Just like Lance he’s a genetic freak and just better than the rest. There are few secrets in the peloton.