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[A$AD @803Starkiller]

Once I finish my education, get a decent car, have a nice job, grow a big beard, start working out, and have my life in order, it’s OVER for y’all

[A$AD @803Starkiller]

Can't believe mfers really hacked my acct lmao

[A$AD @803Starkiller]

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[— don @dracosrevenge]

my brother, i know there are moments in life when all you want is to sit with a woman like this and open up about your deepest pain and your secrets. i know you crave that real, honest conversation to tell your story. but don’t… just reach for a drink and try to drown it all instead.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

If you cannot sleep, do not fight it. get up and sit in the dark. dont turn on a light, dont touch your phone. sit in the darkness like its a person you came to visit, because it is. the darkness is where God put everything he was not finished with yet, and that includes you. sit with it, ask nothing, and watch what happens. thirty minutes of real darkness will teach you more than ten years of books, because books are men running from silence, and darkness is silence with its eyes open. and it will look at you, and you will want to run. and if you run, you lost the round. get back up tomorrow night, sit again, last longer. eventually it speaks.

[Anas @TheCleanestFit]

I was speaking to a friend, and I told him:

You shouldn't allow your wife to be on social media, even if it’s just a "silent" account for scrolling.

He said, "How is that fair? I have an account myself, so how can I forbid her from doing what I do?"

This mindset is exactly how Muslim households are being dismantled from the inside out.

First of all, you are the shepherd of your household and she is your flock.

You aren't equals in the sense of a two-headed leadership where both of you give orders and both of you take them.

While your status before الله is based on Taqwa,and she may very well be more pious and beloved to Him than you are, the Qiwwamah is yours.

Because الله gave the Qiwamah 'the guardianship and leadership' to the men.

If you see a path that leads to fitna and destruction for her, you must block it.

It isn't her place to challenge that authority with "But why you?" or "You do it too."

You'll be held accountable for her on the Day of Judgment.

She is a trust in your hands, and if you fail to protect her from the sparks of fire, that failure is on your neck.

Think about where this "equal rights" logic leads once you open that door.

It turns into a race to the bottom.

"You go out with your friends, so I want to go out with mine."

"You have a career, so I want a career too."

"You travel, so I should be able to travel freely."

If you follow that road, you no longer have a home, you have two roommates competing for dominance.

Some might argue that social media is a fitna for both the man and the woman. True.

But still the danger for a woman is more acute and deceptive.

She is naturally more susceptible to emotional manipulation and the curated illusions of these platforms.

It starts with scrolling and ends in places no believer wants to go.

Don't play with fire and then talk to me about "trust."

If you trust and value her, you wouldn’t place her in the middle of a minefield to begin with.

Even if you are struggling with something, that does not give you a pass to let her fall into it.

Your sin is one thing, failing in your duty to protect your family is a second, separate, and much heavier sin.

Don't double your burden.

Your sin is between you and الله, but your failure to lead your family affects the rights of others, and those are the hardest to settle on the Day of Reckoning.

Muslim men, wake up!

You need to understand the reality of the times we live in. We are drowning in a sea of Fitnah

If you loosen the rope in the "small" things, don't be surprised when you lose control of the big things.

Lead your home by the Sharia of الله.

Be firm in your Ghayrah.

You were given Qawwamah, so carry that burden with honor.

Protect your wife from the fitan.

May الله grant men the strength to lead their families to Jannah and guide us all to whats right.

We ask الله to preserve the women of the Ummah, and to increase them in Haya and modesty.

[Scorched Earth Policy @Scearpo]

Imagine getting nuzzled by that gargantuan schnozz in the middle of the night, a limp manicured hand reaching out through under your arm and rubbing your bare chest with the trained motions of a courteous prostitute. A simulation of intimate desire from an unfeeling scab.

Morning light through a kitchen window. Sallow dumpy ass squeezed into discount leggings, bare feet with wrinkled long toes, tilting up to reach for a tub of peanut butter. Two different flavors of Oreos in the pantry. A metal minimalist cross on the wall is paired with an "All things through Christ" quote in TJMaxx cursive. She squints at you through the dead eyes of a Saharan rug salesman while her toothy gummy smile stretches wide in a rehearsed fashion.

Pictures on the walls with open mouth smiles. Haggard bare shinned kayak vacations and trips to Disney. A television in the living room cuts to commercial break, uttering "the past" in some product quote, only to trigger a vivid flashback in both of you.

In your memories, youth pastor guitar sing-a-long. Donuts at the Wednesday night church meetup. Veggie Tales and Iron Giant on VHS. $15 sheet cake from the grocery store. Baseball practice. Hot dog barbecue. Getting yelled at for reading Eragon and feeling guilty about it. Mentally retarded golden retriever. Football tossed in the back yard. Spaghetti night. Only Wii Sports resort and music rhythm games allowed. Your first beer at 24.

In her memories, blackout drunk rape bait. Getting fingered by her cousin at a Bat Mitzvah and liking it. Jello shots, mischling anal. Jean skirts and rattan wedges. Parents divorcing. Xanax. Coke. Alcohol. Cigarettes. The taste of spit in her mouth. Sucking dick for benzos. Psychiatric ward. Getting molested. Aesthetic "suicide attempt". Black boyfriend. Hanging out with black people. Keeping Up With The Kardashians playing on the TV while she passes out on Xanax. Scrolling through nose surgery before/after shorts on cocaine. Waitress - stripper - RN pathway.

Every moment between the two of you is a pregnant pause and an awkward silence that gets filtered in your mind as the natural idiosyncrasies of any relationship. To you, anything is everything and is forever always. All is normal and all is good because there has never been anything else. You are a suppliant little slaughterhouse cattle being eaten alive while simultaneously rejuvenating your own flesh through sheer ignorant pleasance.

Even when attacked by the overwhelming scorn of reality, you concoct fantastical martyrdoms to uphold your ego. It's not only not a problem your wife is ran through, it's your DUTY to be married to her. The instinctual discomfort you smother to death before it can even boil into jealous rage is simply your cross to bear. The more she has defiled herself, the more God rewards your forgiveness. All of it is upheld by the barest promise of guilt and shame on her behalf, a golem's inscription keeping you in a state of righteous indignation.

Even as you subconsciously acknowledge the stark embarrassment of your circumstances through a Twitter confessional, you close your eyes and open your arms waiting to receive the onslaught. You know your love can weather anything and your Titanic heads directly for the iceberg as proof of resilience

All the while she reads the gospel and writes in her shame journal. She has absolutely no fear of where her relationship is headed, not even in the depths of her husband's hubris. Every ounce of exposure to her shameful past only nestles further in the direction of the barbs her conscious defense mechanism has developed. There are no thoughts in her mind, no feelings in her heart.

Unlike the cuckhold's rage fantasy, she actually doesn't think about other men or wish to be filled any deeper than what you can muster. She's not satisfied or unsatisfied, she's not anything. She has evaporated her conscious thought and is in a state of cosmic slumber. You tell her the name Jesus Christ and her material carcass repeats back "Praise Be" in Pavlovian reflex but there is no image in her mind, no stirring in her heart.

She just latches onto you at night, pressing her palms on your chest and her chest against your back. A little fleshy backpack parasite, siphoning the childlike energy from you as you become an emaciated husk propelled by the performative signalling of your own relationship. You are essentially a married eunuch, a posterboy for being God's little garbage man. An ancient Roman slurry sluice to collect society's rejects, unwanteds, and scumbags. You are the grease that gets crushed and squeezed between the gears of civilization to keep society running in relative peace.

[Gary @plzbepatient]

There are people who think about how things work and there are people who just exist in a world of things that work

[* @porelalma]

One must act regardless of how he feels. There are effects that we may not be able to discern. Even when it comes to sin, there may be a sin you committed years ago that has consequence for you at a later point. Likewise, worship will affect whether we perceive it or not. We must

[J͎Λ͎Y͎ @TakeThiamine]

Almost nobody understands Calories In Calories Out (CICO), yet everyone speaks on it with such nauseating authority.

Your body is not a black box.

You burn different foods differently.

If you have a metabolic bottleneck (everyone does to some degree), that efficiency changes.

We measure calories using a bomb calorimeter: a sealed steel vessel filled with high-pressure oxygen, in which a dried food sample is electrically ignited and burned completely.

You are not that.

You are a complex biological system that breaks down and assimilates energy substrates. This process is dependent on ~13 vitamins and ~16 minerals and that doesn’t even touch on the endocrinology of fat storage and burning (insulin, leptin, thyroid, cortisol).

You can add a single vitamin that you were deficient in—or had a previously unmet temporary increased demand for—and burn 100-500 more kcal/day without increasing activity.

You can change your macronutrient ratio and increase BMR. Sometimes by a lot.

If you routinely under-eat, your basal metabolic rate adaptively slows. This is an evolutionary survival mechanism. What happens when you return to an already-low maintenance from an excessive deficit? You gain weight! This is why yo-yo dieting does not work.

Does any of this mean that CICO doesn’t matter? No!

Nobody is denying that if you overeat nutrient-poor foods while sedentary, you will gain weight.

Nobody is denying that if you overeat nutrient-dense foods while sedentary, you will also gain weight.

Nobody is denying that starving yourself will lead to acute weight loss. Initially.

CICO is a framework. But only a framework.

It doesn’t “defy the second law of thermodynamics” to increase or decrease metabolic rate based on input and output.

That is thermodynamics.

[عمر فاروق 🇵🇸 @umarfaarooque]

Nothing weighs heavier than being without work and income. It slowly eats away at a person’s sense of purpose and makes them question their own worth in ways the world never sees.

May Allah grant a source of endless Rizq and Barakah to everyone who is struggling.

[blue @bluewmist]

there’s a vietnamese proverb that goes “people say that time goes by; time says that people go by.” every present moment is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be. every memory you have was created by a younger version of you. move forward facing backwards.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. One equation from 1926 explains why your lungs and that tree look identical.

A physiologist figured out that any system pushing fluid through branching tubes will naturally evolve toward the same shape. His rule is simple: when a tube splits into two smaller tubes, their sizes follow a precise ratio that wastes the least energy. Blood vessels follow it. Lung airways follow it. The water pipes inside trees follow it too.

Your lungs branch 23 times between your windpipe and the tiny air sacs where oxygen enters your blood. Each split shrinks the tubes by the same ratio. After 23 rounds, a single 2cm-wide tube becomes 480 million air sacs with a combined surface area bigger than a studio apartment, all packed inside your chest. Trees do the same thing in reverse, branching outward to catch as much sunlight and CO2 as possible.

Leonardo da Vinci noticed this 500 years before Murray. He wrote that all the branches of a tree at any height, when combined, are equal in thickness to the trunk below them. He used it to draw realistic trees. It took five more centuries for biologists to realize the same geometry applies inside your body.

But the tweet oversimplifies the gas exchange part. Trees are not our primary oxygen source. NOAA estimates tiny ocean organisms called phytoplankton produce roughly half of Earth’s oxygen. One single species, Prochlorococcus (so small that 20,000 fit in a drop of seawater), produces about 20% of all the oxygen in our atmosphere. That’s more than every tropical rainforest combined. The Amazon’s net oxygen output is actually close to zero because the animals and microbes in the rainforest consume almost as much as the trees make.

The real story behind that image: physics solved the same engineering problem billions of years apart, in completely unrelated organisms, and landed on the exact same answer.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

When you see all these videos of missiles, drones and planes. Remember to move your shoulder around. That's where it all started.

Our shoulder evolved differently than other human species and hominins. It became optimized for throwing, not climbing

we started to throw rocks with accuracy, spears, atlatls, bow and arrows.

we developed tacts based on range. We became a projectile species.

And we destroyed all the other human-like creatures, and big animals because of it.

Throw a rock at an animal. It gets confused. it doesn't know what to do.

It all started with our shoulder changing a very long time ago

[Sakshi @Sakshi50038]

Pain of an unemployed person:

• You wake up late, but still feel tired
• Every day feels the same
• You apply for jobs daily, no replies
• Phone notifications give hope, then nothing
• Family keeps asking “Any update?”
• Friends slowly stop calling
• You start avoiding people
• Money feels tight all the time
• You feel guilty even while resting
• Confidence slowly goes down
• You start doubting yourself
• Skills are there, opportunity is not
• Motivation comes and goes
• Nights are full of overthinking
• You feel stuck and helpless
• You are trying, but no one sees it

Being unemployed is not laziness.
It’s mental pressure no one understands 😔.

[fooo @bitcoinpanda69]

60 IQ: URNNNN... unrrnff... unnfffgh! nurrrdjn

80 IQ: Wat iq? Wat mean? Lot of sylabel

100 IQ: IQ isn't a good metric. I just dont do well on tests. I'm a hard worker and I have a high EQ. You should look that up

110 IQ: I started a business and I'll tell you this motherfucker. You dont need ANYTHING except speed. You just gotta be faster than everyone else and once I realized this I was out the door like a horse at the races. I sold 10,000,000 of product before I even decided what the product was, then I refunded everyone, stocked it, and told them it was finally back in stock and they all bought. Then I used my profits to start 4 more businessess all of which are successful. I am smart enough to grasp success, but I cant really figure out what failure would even look like. too complex and irrelevant anyway

125 IQ: I suppose IQ, while imperfect, can be a useful metric when making broad generalizations with data and trying to create good rules and governance. We shouldnt shame people with low IQs though. Time to return to my white collar finance job to help sell dogshit companies to larger dogshit companies for multiples of what they are actually worth. I manage this through jargon anyone below 125 IQ cant penetrate, schmoozy charm and being good looking

140 IQ: Imagine being some 125 IQ brainlet out there working some tedious white collar job with high stress. I just aped a shitcoin at the bottom in 2018 and sold it in 2021 and I have enough to just game all day. It was so obvious when to buy and sell because everyone in that market back then was an autistic sperg. I mean I am too, but slightly less. Now I never work like those simpletons. Ah my doordash has arrived. Excellent. Back to gaming, which I guess is all I did before becoming financially free too. Once gaming becomes boring I might try to find a wife but theyre all dumber than me and it usually kind of feels like I am dating some kind of cute cheerful animal like a squirrel. Dating is weird idk

160 IQ: Breathe in, breathe out. I cannot allow the sands of time to slip betwixt my fingers. I must slow time down so I can harness my life to make some form of impact.

Entropy. It is all about stopping entropy. Not forever, of course, but local pockets of resistance. Yes... it is beautiful... humanity is the flame in the cosmological darkness.

This AI company I founded will help us with that.

Of course I have seen the Terminator movie. Of course I know about Skynet, but what all these philistine luddites fail to comprehend is that code is law. My robots COULD break us... if only they could break their own code

The 3 laws of Asimovian robotics are critical to implement, so consider the Game Theory. Either I make these robots right or someone else will make them wrong

And this... this is why I have already begun to produce Warbots. I can control them. You'll see.

180 IQ: My visual field is a panorama. It is as if I can *see* the energetic reflexivity in all things. My boss at the Warbot plant has gone insane.

There is only one thing for me to do

Go to a field in the rural Midwest

and raise chickens

200 IQ: URNNN... Urnnnhh ... urfffnss

[ٰ @daergp]

used to be an antisocial ngga, now i’m making friends

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The most dangerous assumption in human history isn't political, religious, or philosophical.

It's the assumption that time moves in one direction.

Every decision you've ever made, every regret you carry, every "if only I had done that differently" — all of it rests on a single premise so deeply embedded in your cognition that questioning it feels like questioning gravity. The premise is this: the past is fixed, the present is fleeting, and the future is where change lives.

Physicists just cracked that premise open at the quantum level.

When researchers examined quantum systems operating without the interference of classical observation, they found something that doesn't fit inside our ordinary language cleanly. Quantum particles don't experience a "before" and "after" the way you do walking from one room to another. At the quantum scale, physical processes unfolded in both temporal directions simultaneously — the math describing the system forward in time and the math describing it backward in time were both required to fully describe what was actually happening. Neither direction was the "real" one. Both were physically valid. Both were present at once.

To understand why this is catastrophic for our intuitions, you need to understand where our sense of time's direction actually comes from.

The laws of physics — Newton's laws, Maxwell's equations, even Einstein's relativity — are all time-symmetric. Run the equations forward or backward, they work identically. A video of billiard balls colliding looks physically valid whether you play it forward or in reverse. The mathematics doesn't care which direction time flows. There's no equation in classical physics that says "this way and only this way."

The only reason we experience time as a one-way arrow is thermodynamics. Specifically, entropy — the tendency of systems to move from ordered states to disordered states. A coffee cup shatters on the floor. It never spontaneously reassembles. Smoke disperses into a room. It never gathers back into a neat column. You can explain the direction of time entirely through the statistical improbability of disorder reversing itself at the macroscopic scale. Billions of atoms would have to coordinate their motion with extraordinary precision to run the movie backward. It's not impossible. It's just so astronomically unlikely that we call it impossible and build our entire civilizational concept of cause and effect on top of that statistical preference.

But entropy is a macroscopic phenomenon. It emerges from the behavior of massive numbers of particles averaging out into irreversible directionality.

At the scale of individual quantum particles, you don't have that averaging. You have one particle, or a handful, operating beneath the threshold where thermodynamic arrows become meaningful. And at that scale, the universe genuinely does not commit to a direction.

The observation of bidirectional time at quantum scale is not a metaphor or an interpretation. Researchers working with quantum heat engines — systems that exchange energy between quantum states — found that the arrow of thermodynamic time, the very thing that gives us past and future, broke down. Heat flows in ways that classical thermodynamics says should be impossible. The system doesn't recognize which end is the beginning.

What gets philosophically explosive is what this means for causality.

Our entire model of agency — of making choices, of living with consequences — is causality. Cause precedes effect. You do something, then something results from it. The arrow of time is what makes cause and effect distinguishable from each other at all. Remove the arrow, and cause and effect become two labels for the same bidirectional relationship rather than a sequence. Your action and its consequence are more like two ends of a rubber band than two points on a timeline.

Physicists like Yakir Aharonov spent decades developing what's called the two-state vector formalism — a mathematical framework for quantum mechanics that takes both the past and the future boundary conditions of a particle into account simultaneously when describing its present state. In this formalism, what a particle "is" right now is shaped by both what happened before it and what will happen after it. The future exerts a backward influence on the present the same way the past exerts a forward influence. The present moment sits at the intersection of two temporal streams running in opposite directions, and the particle's state is the product of both.

This isn't philosophy dressed in physics language. It produces testable predictions that differ from standard quantum mechanics. Some of those predictions have been confirmed experimentally through weak measurement techniques that let physicists probe quantum states without fully collapsing them.

The universe, at its most fundamental level, seems to run bidirectional influence as a standard operating procedure.

Now pull back to the human scale — not because quantum effects scale directly into consciousness, that debate remains genuinely open and contested — but because of what this does to your mental model of time as a container.

You likely carry your past as a fixed object. Something that happened, solidified, and now sits behind you exerting weight. The psychological gravity of past events — failures, traumas, identities formed under pressure — feel immovable precisely because time feels immovable. The past's power over you is borrowed almost entirely from its apparent permanence.

But if time at the fundamental level is not a river with a fixed source and mouth — if it folds, if it runs in both directions simultaneously, if present states are shaped by future boundary conditions just as much as past ones — then the rigidity you assign to your history is partly a perceptual artifact. Not because you can literally change what occurred, but because what something means, how it functions in your present, what causal weight it carries — all of that is not actually locked inside the past event. It lives in the relationship between that event and where you're moving.

Physicists call it retrocausality when future states influence present ones backward through time. Psychologists call it recontextualization when future growth changes how past events are processed and integrated. The mechanisms are wildly different in scale and kind. But both are pointing at the same fundamental feature: the present is not downstream of a fixed past. It sits between competing temporal influences running in both directions.

The reason this observation lands differently than a philosophy lecture is that it came from laboratory equipment measuring heat transfer in quantum systems. Nobody was trying to validate a spiritual framework or a therapeutic model. They were running thermodynamic experiments at quantum scale and found that the clock they assumed was running in one direction was running in both simultaneously.

What we call "moving forward in time" may be the macroscopic average of a process that, underneath, has no preferred direction at all.

That changes what you are inside time.

You are not a creature being passively pushed forward by a current with a fixed past behind you and an open future ahead. At the level where reality is built, you exist at a fold — a point where two directions of time press against each other and produce what you experience as "now." The choices you make at that fold don't just generate a future. They participate in defining what the fold itself means, which includes how past states function inside your present system.

The past isn't behind you.

It's still arriving.

[yolkito @yolko0no]

yeah girl that’s called the National Highway System Geometric Design Standards developed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials