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I have a simple experiment for anyone who disingenuously argues that people vote for the candidate and not the party. Run as an independent and see how far you get. Better yet, look into the history of independent candidates in Canada and how they do compared to people running for parties. Forming a majority government through floor crossing is undemocratic and betrays what people voted for. Case closed.

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

@nenshi I think I’m gonna call you Gumby with all the stretching you do!! Alberta is gonna separate because of the liberals and carney not because of Elon musk.

I’m ready to fight like hell for this country, and against anyone trying to tear it apart. The richest man in the world wants Canada to become the 51st state and is now amplifying Alberta separatism. So let’s ask the question: Who is funding this movement? Albertans deserve to know.

@Twitawoo8 I understand ppl disagree but this is over the top!

I'm a liberal woke pussy... Ok psycho whatever you say

@Twitawoo8 That’s a little bit of a stretch. Live rural grew up rural, not one person I know who hunted as a child is lacking empathy. Jesus I hunted as a youth. Have you ever lived rural? Or born and raised city?

And so the female version of Dexter was born... as this little girl gets a massive hit of the brain chemicals, which will become addictive and she will associate it with enjoyment of killing things, empathy will automatically reduce as a result. Before anyone pops off... 1/2

This is fascinating

@johnrbolton01 So is she gonna go protest, send email, phone her? Whats she gonna do, we need to turn this anger into something good before we all say fuck it to voting!

My sister just contacted me from Sarnia. Gladu is her MP... she voted for her as a Conservative. Very upset. #canadaisbroken #albertaindependence

Stop the scrolling and go sign!

@StaceyMonette27 I just signed them today.

These 2 e-petitions are still open. Just saying… ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/P… Closes May 31st 927 signatures currently ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/P… Closes April 17th 64,708 signatures currently

@david_parker Yet he got 87% of the leadership vote. Sit down

Pierre Poilievre has created a party that has no confidence in him. This many floor crossers is unprecedented. He will not survive as Leader of the Opposition till the next election. A man who had his chance to seize greatness, and fumbled it in the most pathetic way at possible.

@SpencerFernando Fuck off with the Donald Trump bullshit! Most Canadian are sick of immigrants getting taxpayers money, our taxes going to Afghanistan for gender studies and where ever else it gets funneled besides Canada to help Canadians and Canada prosper

The Briefing: The Conservatives will continue to struggle in Canada until they decisively differentiate their political philosophy from that of Donald Trump. patreon.com/posts/briefing…

Dark indeed!

@Deefer62042349 @buperac That’s crazy.

@buperac You get all the poll results you want when you pay for it...

They claim 83% of Canadians want to join the EU according to a poll no real person took so let’s find out now. If you are Canadian, would you want to join the EU?

@PrairieVeteran Yes and sunshine baby is the worst.

Exactly as predicted. Instill doubt into the conservative so they replace him and then call a general election immediately afterwards.

@mrsunshinebaby Why? Because ppl who hood winked their constituents decided to sell their souls? Yes you’ve said many times that pp should resign. That’s why I quit watching your channel. It got to be ridiculous when you couldn’t articulate as to why. Besides floor crossers.

I don't know if I've said this publicly before, but I am willing to bet that Pierre Poilievre will resign as leader of the Conservative Party before the next election.

@SpencerFernando Then let the voters decide if they want the traitor.

Whatever you think of Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing, you should want MPs to have their own minds. spencerfernando.com/2026/04/08/wha…

@Pete7911 @mattRlive @BillboardChris @PierrePoilievre @AndrewScheer I think times were different back then. There wasn’t concern for a majority gov with floor crossers. I can understand why thy would’ve changed their minds today. im sure we all have opinions on things from 15 maybe even 5 yrs ago that have changed.

@ThatHmmmmm @mattRlive @BillboardChris @PierrePoilievre @AndrewScheer I’d love for them all to justify that. To me, it’s a no brainer; you campaign under a particular party then you’re betraying your voters if you flip sides. If you want to follow the idea that a person votes for a person and not a party, cool - run as an independent.

Mark Carney is seizing a costly Liberal majority that voters denied him, and doing so through backroom deals. In January, MP Gladu said that floor crossers should face voters in a byelection to give voters the final say. I could not agree more. She should do so. The people in her community voted for our Conservative vision of a Canada that is affordable, safe, and strong at home, not for the costly Liberal government she has now joined. She should honour her word and let voters decide.

@pat_mag @Pondsnifferson @NathanMCFrancis @mark_slapinski Great. It should change. If they’re so confident their constituents want the polar opposite of what they voted take it to a vote. Let them decide.

@Pondsnifferson @NathanMCFrancis @mark_slapinski MPs from all parties have crossed the floor at one time or another. It's nothing new. The list is long. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C…

BREAKING: There are reports that up to NINE MORE Conservative MPs will soon be crossing the aisle to Mark Carney's Liberal Party. The Conservative Party is irrelevant now. And will become less relevant in the upcoming weeks and months!

@Concern70732755 No why would he. How is he responsible for those floor crossers selling their souls? Why aren’t you asking at what cost they sold their souls for?

Will he now resign as party leader to stem the tide of crossovers ?? Thoughts ?

@TheRealKeean Can we get some white hats to do some digging! We need a Canadian Julian assange. There must be proof somewhere.

I think these guys are being blackmailed.