Andrew Hejnar

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

I told my therapist,

"I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy."

She didn't give me comfort.
Hearing her, my whole body went still.

Here's what she just replied:

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

Gen X is just built different.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Both great singers. The girls tone is mesmerising. Beautiful❤️

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Absolutely amazing😍❤️

[Brian Wilson @BrianWilsonLive]

Today in 1988, Brian released “Love and Mercy,” from his album Brian Wilson. “I would think love is a gentle thing and mercy would be more desperate, ultimately a more desperately needed thing in life. Mercy – a little break here and there for somebody who’s having trouble.”

[LIV Golf @livgolf_league]

ALBATROSS at Oakmont 😱

@PReedGolf makes history claiming the 4th double-eagle in U.S Open history 🙌

#USOpen @4AcesGC_

[Andrew Hejnar @Andrew_Hejnar]

@zkerravala @PaloAltoNtwks @beege15 Complexity in modern network and security solutions IS the main problem today! Not surprised because of the group surveyed. Dunning-Kruger anyone? https://t.co/clCPDeUGfI AI is not a pancea ....for the time being anyway.

[Pivot Podcast @thepivot]

“For the past 20 years, we’ve been living through the death of the American male, they’ve killed masculinity in our communities…” @AnthonyMackie

Star actor Anthony Mackie has soared to the highest levels in Hollywood but one thing he doesn’t play about is raising his boys to be young men. He shares with @Realrclark25 @FredTaylorMade @OfficialCrowder how he keeps them humble, he brings them up with respect and responsibility but strays from society’s trend of what they are trying to make young men think and feel.

https://t.co/xJLQno04yj

Thoughts? Full conversation on @youtube and all audio platforms now. #podcast #parenting #father #blackmen #football #nfl #hollywood

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Here’s what’s repulsive about the climate change movement to so many of us.

Its branding is fearful, negative, and disempowering.

Radical climate activists keep telling us how we need to do less.

Have fewer kids.

Use less energy.

Stop eating meat.

Stop killing the planet.

Humans are cancer.

Ruin art for attention.

It feels anti-human.

It feels weak.

Like the sky is falling, and we need to be scared.

Then, when disasters happen, politicians point at the climate so we don’t point at them.

The truth of climate change is undermined by the fear around it.

Many of the same scared zealots who tell us to be afraid of climate change also get in the way of nuclear energy.

Which is one of the best solutions to it, but crippled by fearful regulation.

China understands this.

That’s why they shamelessly use fossil fuels now, but aggressively invest in nuclear for the future.

Technology and growth will save us, not restriction and contraction.

Regulators won’t save us, creators will.

People are tired of being told how bad they are.

People want to feel inspired and empowered.

We don’t want to be shamed into scarcity.

We want to be inspired into action.

We don’t want to run away from fear.

We want to run toward a vision.

It’s not that we think climate change isn’t real.

It’s that we know fear is also real, and we want nothing to do with it.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They say red light helps you sleep better

[Delano Squires @DelanoSquires]

@jasonwhitlock The team was in the same spot a few years back when they paid him top dollar. I’m a diehard Cowboys fan, but I wouldn’t paid him $60M. Dak is a trailer, not a tractor.

[AdWock | tech & business @adwock]

She can't even be a school president. 🤦‍♂️

[FOX 4 NEWS @FOX4]

Jane's Addiction cancels remaining tour dates after Perry Farrell threw a punch at guitarist Dave Navarro during a Boston concert.
Credit: Richard Whitaker via Storyful

https://t.co/5lxxPWRBaf

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Haters will say this is AI 🕺🕺

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They should actually teach this in biz school

[Andrew Hejnar @Andrew_Hejnar]

@sethfiermonti Seth, congratulations for the countless hours of effort studying for this extremely intellectually strenuous test of yor moral compass 🤣

[Andrew Hejnar @Andrew_Hejnar]

@FoxNews You’re coverage has been horrible. ABC ran circles around you.

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

Democrat logic