Guillermo Jimenez @ProfJimenez

@pureguava10300 Well done slice of Thai history.

@aporia9n I think the same can be said of weekdays as well — people often seem to be optimizing for the single perfect day, when it may sense to runs a type of “leg day/back day/arms day” rotation even among your cognitive or emotional tasks.

@ElderBeast1 Nice guns there!

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Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs

6 days ago

"Les gens qui lisent sont moins cons que les autres, c’est une affaire entendue. Cela ne signifie pas que les lecteurs de littérature ne comptent pas d’imbéciles et qu’il n’y a pas de brillantes personnalités chez les non-lecteurs. Mais, en gros, ça s’entend, ça se voit, ça se

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Congratulations to Nirosha Murugan who found photons buried in human EEG. Yes there are photons inside all our cells from mitochondria and reactive oxygen, and though likely random may be processed and utilized for information processing and consciousness by microtubules especially in brain neurons. In this paper pubs.acs.org/acscii/article… we concluded ‘microtubules are remarkably efficient photon harvesters’. We also know microtubule oscillations generate photons at 613 terahertz (489 nanometers) nature.com/articles/s4159… The brain is more like this organic quantum optical gel than a silicon computer iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Nirosha J. Murugan @niroshajmurugan

2 weeks ago

You emit light. Expanding biology beyond molecules allows us to consider another layer of life: how energy, including light, may reflect and perhaps help coordinate biological activity. Thank you to @JoMarchant and @Nature for featuring our work alongside other leaders in the

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The accuracy in this video is 1000/10 😭😂😂

Your friend has been spending a little too much time talking to AI. 😂

The German state law exam decides who becomes a judge, prosecutor, or attorney in Germany. It is graded on an 18-point scale; below 4 is a fail; 9 or above is a distinction. The written part, which carries most of the grade, is graded blind: a code number, two independent examiners, name and sex of examinees invisible. In North Rhine-Westphalia (2023), results show women failing at 34% vs. 22% for men, and distinctions going to 27% of men vs. 16% of women—the male distribution sitting 1.3 points higher, at equal variance. Other regions and years tend to show a similar pattern. The part of the exam with the lowest grader bias—that is, the anonymous written part—consistently shows the widest gender gap, with men outperforming women. Naturally, the German government has commissioned an investigation

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3 weeks ago

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During Fauci's reign of terror, they scrubbed and hid this video from the internet. Its Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis (inventor of PCR) saying Fauci is a fraud. I taught it to my college students mid-Pandemic. Thanks to @elonmusk for buying X, we can now see it. @RandPaul

A guy named Plumes goes to national parks, zoos etc and sings to animals as he plays his guitar. The wolf here is called Dirvus, and he's the last remaining of his pack. The keepers said he had been very lonely and withdrawn and hasn't howled in a long time. Until now 🥹🥰 @plumesofficiel

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A wife went viral for admitting she and her husband are mediocre. Average looking, not funny, no friends, mentally ill. And she can't explain why their marriage feels like a fairytale. A psychologist in Seattle solved this exact puzzle in the 1990s. John Gottman wired an apartment near the University of Washington with cameras and brought in 130 newlywed couples to just live in it. He tracked something he called bids: the tiny reaches for attention partners make all day. "Look at that bird." "Listen to this." A sigh that wants acknowledging. Six years later, 17 couples had divorced. When his team went back to the tapes, the still-married couples had turned toward those bids 86% of the time. The divorced couples had managed 33%. That one behavior predicted the outcome better than anything else in the data. Looks never entered the model. Humor never entered the model. Intelligence, money, status, shared hobbies: none of it showed up. Now reread her post. "I can spend every minute of every day with this dude and not really get tired of it. We can get in the car and just drive for hours and talk." Two people driving nowhere for hours are exchanging hundreds of bids and catching nearly all of them. She graded the marriage on every trait that predicts nothing, and missed that they're elite at the one behavior that predicts almost everything.

busty elf ranger 🔞 @reincheisyuri

a month ago

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This is why China is winning

Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began. 1. His central question is not “what are your rights?” It is “what are you for?” Eudaimonia — flourishing, not happiness — is the answer: the full realization of what a human being can become. The moment a civilization stops asking this question and starts asking only about rights, equality, and safety, it has already chosen administration over life. 2. Virtue is not a rule you follow. It is a habit you form – through practice, through the right environment, through a community that models and rewards excellence. This is why negative selection is so catastrophic in Aristotelian terms: it doesn’t just promote the wrong people. It corrupts the very mechanism by which virtue is transmitted across generations. 3. Man is a political animal – not in the sense that man should be governed, but that man is constituted by his community. You cannot flourish alone. But the corollary is equally precise: the polis exists for man’s flourishing, not the other way around. The moment the state becomes the end and the citizen becomes the means, you have not just bad government – you have the inversion of the natural order. 4. Aristotle catalogued the corruptions of every form of government: monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes oligarchy, polity becomes mob rule. The pattern in every case is identical – the rulers stop ruling for the common good and start ruling for themselves. This is not a modern insight. It is the oldest political observation in the Western tradition. Every system contains the seed of its own corruption. The question is always: who is it for? 5. Phronesis — practical wisdom — the ability to judge particular situations correctly, without a rulebook. The bureaucratic state destroys phronesis systematically, replacing judgment with procedure, wisdom with compliance, the experienced man with the certified one. This is Aristotle’s explanation for why the credentialed class produces so many wrong decisions with such complete confidence. 6. He identified the middle class as the foundation of the stable republic – the ballast that prevents the ship from capsizing toward oligarchy above or mob rule below. Not as a sociological observation. As a structural necessity. Destroy the middle class and you have not just inequality – you have the preconditions for every tyranny he ever described. 7. The West replaced Aristotle with procedure, utility, and rights. It gained a framework for managing conflict but lost the vocabulary for saying what a good life is. The system can optimize for GDP, equality of outcome, measured safety – but it cannot tell you what you are for. Aristotle could. Every civilization that forgot that question discovered, eventually, that someone else was happy to answer it for them.

Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland

3 months ago

The Six Guys who Built The West What those three little French dudes were trying to destroy (deconstruct), someone had to construct in the first place. Everything of any value has to be built by someone. Meet our civilizational founding fathers – actually three pairs of guys:

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@realityacid108 It’s how I thought it would be.

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.” “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?” “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.” The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?” “Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.” “Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.” He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.” “Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.” I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside. “Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t. “Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up. “Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?” It didn’t seem like they did. “Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.” Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing. I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it. “Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled. Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him. “Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen. I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!” He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose. “All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.” “Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy. “Because I was afraid.” “Afraid?” “Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.” I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head. “Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.” He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me.

Peter Teal @RealPeterTeal

2 months ago

@growing_daniel Gambling is very bad and I don’t partake, but how do you square this with freedom to do what you want? Yeah it’s addictive, but this isn’t heroine where literally anyone is instahooked - I liken it more to a sugar addiction Genuinely in two minds about it In places like the

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Sine and Cosine waves are...nothing but the shadows of a spinning circle.

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This log moving gadget is a game-changer. It grips securely and makes transporting heavy logs around the yard or worksite much easier.