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[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

https://t.co/4i5Uq5BAHG Definitely worth watching!

[Sheriff Randy Thorp @rthorp45]

Licking County Stabbing arrest overnight https://t.co/v4bITFupK5

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@noahzweben This looks like a great way to thoroughly confuse your users and destroy the value of the subscriptions...

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@netrunner_btc @ClaudeDevs No... They are taking 80% of the value of the subscription away..

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@SahilBloom CrossFit three times a week for the past 4 years.

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@bendellwerry Awesome!
thank you

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@nasahqphoto @NASAArtemis @NASAKennedy @NASA Hey this is a good one! You need to fire all your video team and replace them with whoever set up this camera... The video looked like a bunch of 12-year-olds with equipment from 1990.

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@AiPinfu2003 Oh man cheese kneaded right into the dough sounds amazing! I will have to try that with my American BBQ toppings haha

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@SecWar What a disgusting pig you are to demand a free company cave to your blackmail.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a dopamine loop, and it’s one of the most powerful ones humans have ever encountered.

Every time you prompt an AI and get a useful result back in seconds, your brain gets a hit. Variable-ratio reinforcement, same mechanism as slot machines, except the reward is real: actual output, actual progress, actual leverage on your ideas.

Traditional work follows a delayed-reward structure. You write code for 6 hours, maybe it compiles, maybe you get feedback in a week. The gap between effort and reward is wide enough that motivation decays constantly.

AI compresses that loop to seconds. Effort → reward → effort → reward. Your prefrontal cortex stays engaged because the next payoff is always one prompt away. This is why people describe it as “fun” when they’re actually working 14-hour days. The subjective experience of effort disappears when reward frequency is high enough.

The “harder than ever” part is real too. When your bottleneck shifts from execution to imagination, you run out of excuses to stop. There’s no “waiting on the build” or “blocked by review.” Every idea you have can be tested immediately, which means your brain never gets a natural stopping point.

People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population.

The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that split is going to define the next decade of who captures value from AI and who gets displaced by it.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

“How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@nypost That "dark money" group, Sixteen Thirty Fund, is Arabella Advisors and is pure Open Society passthrough. Congratulations to Taylor Lorenz for finally catching up to what we've all known for years: that the Democratic party is controlled by Soros.

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@huang_song_ That looks really impressive, however, what are your privacy policies and privacy enforcements?

[Chris Boettcher @chrisboettcher9]

I stopped taking advice from childless people.

Fitness. Productivity. Life advice. All of it.

And here's why:

It's not that they're wrong. It's that they're playing a completely different game.

Taking life advice from someone without kids is like getting marriage tips from a guy who's "really good at first dates."

Cool, bro. But you've never had to initiate the tough conversation and own your mistake just to keep the peace.

We're not in the same sport.

We've all seen some 25-year-old fitness influencer with non-negotiable 5am routine.

Wake up. Meditate. Journal. Cold plunge. 45-minute lift.

Sounds beautiful. You know what woke ME up at 5am last Tuesday?

A 3-year-old standing 3 inches from my face whispering, "Daddy, I frowed up."

There's no cold plunge for that. Just reality.

These people have optimized their lives around ONE variable: themselves.

I'm optimizing for:

→ A marriage that still thriving after 10 years
→ Kids who actually want to be around me
→ A career that provides for my family
→ A body that lets me keep up with all of it

That's a completely different goal and it requires a different formula.

Real discipline isn't waking up at 5am when your apartment is silent and your only responsibility is a houseplant.

It's a 10pm workout after the kids went to bed because your morning blew up showing up for your family when they needed you.

That's the game I'm playing.

Childless advice isn't just impractical. It's unrelatable.

Their goal: optimize for SELF.
My goal: optimize for FAMILY.

It's like a vegan telling me how to grill a steak.

You might technically know the steps. But I don't trust you with the tongs.

The best advice I've ever gotten came from parents in the trenches.

They don't talk about "optimizing morning routines."

They talk about:
• 20 push-ups while your kid eats breakfast
• Walking with your wife after dinner because it's the only time you'll get together
• Meal prepping Sunday because Tuesday night is a warzone

THAT'S advice that actually works.

So no, I'm not taking health advice from someone whose biggest inconvenience is their supplement stack being shipped late.

I want the guy who's been elbow-deep in a diaper blowout and STILL hitting their goals.

That's the guy who I'm listening to.

Find your people. Take their advice. Ignore the rest.

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

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[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The Theory of Evolution is impossible & absurd.

Contradictory evidence & data has been around for decades, but it is mostly just ignored.

But one of the most glaring unsolvable problems facing Evolutionary Theory is this:

Haldane's Dilemma.

Buckle up for this one🧵

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The entire Book of Revelation is a giant chiasm. 🤯

A chiasm is a literary device where ideas unfold in order (A B C) and then repeat in reverse (C B A), forming an X shaped symmetry that aids memory and draws attention to the central point (C).

The Bible is amazing.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

This unbelievable clip drops the red-pill nuke on the Somali fraud scam!

She lays it out cold: "You can't afford another kid because childcare is so expensive - but Somali fraudsters got millions of your taxpayer dollars for child care centers that don’t exist."

"You can’t afford a home - but 100 Somalis spent millions of your taxpayer dollars on luxury properties."

"You’re paying $30K a year for terrible health care - while they got millions of your taxpayer dollars for health care centers they never opened."

That's the corrupt Dem elites exposed raw - putting unvetted migrants and grifters first while screwing over hardworking Americans. They robbed us blind for years and smeared anyone complaining as racist.

Everyday patriots finally shining the light forced the freezes and audits. Trump's team is cutting off the cash and cleaning house fast. Real Americans are taking our country back!

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

LONG POST WARNING: How did this Somali fraud happen?

I have a close relative who works inside this system. She processes medicalcare claims for a large provider, we’ll call it SMH, in a deep-blue state (not Minnesota).

What people miss is that the biggest fraud isn’t the checks written to individuals. It’s the staggering cost of administering the programs.

My relative isn’t some paper-pusher. She’s a nurse with multiple degrees, managing a full team. Her entire day is spent chained to a computer: nonstop paperwork, Zoom calls, audits. There’s a fingerprint scanner and a camera on her desk. Family emergency? Too bad. Break down in tears from abuse? Still too bad.

Now, start with a real medical event: heart attack, cancer, stroke. The hospital treats you, then pushes you home quickly because long stays are crazy expensive and the hospital doesn’t have enough beds. Fine.

But home recovery requires ramps, grab bars, equipment. The state cuts checks to upgrade homes. Many recipients simply pocket the money. The state knows this, but doesn’t have enough inspectors, so it forces SMH to do “due diligence.”

That means more paperwork. More subcontractors. More verification. More zoom meetings for my relative. One claim can consume hundreds of man-hours.

Then there’s a shortage of visiting nurses. So patients must travel for bloodwork and follow-ups. Transportation services exist, but they’re heavily regulated and audited. That’s expensive.

Cheaper solution? Pay family members. Give them money to add a ramp to a minivan and drive the patient themselves.

Have an uncle who already has a van (because he’s scamming the system too), great we pay him monthly and you have to do nothing.

Now the real games begin.

How much help you get depends entirely on how you answer Zoom questions. Normal Americans say things like, “My son can help” or “A neighbor can drive me.” That caps benefits.

But there are cheat codes.

Say instead:
“I care for my autistic grandson.”
“I provide childcare for my niece.”

Now SMH must either support those dependents or move the patient into a full-service facility which is vastly more expensive than any other option. So they pay for childcare.

Because my relative is a mandatory reporter and children are involved m, every meeting now includes medical care teams, child-safety teams, housing teams, transportation teams. The clock is running. These are highly paid professionals.

Except there doesn’t even need to be children involved because privacy laws prevent basic verification. No birth certificates. No DNA tests. So SMH provides a list of approved childcare facilities.

You can just borrow someone else’s child for the paperwork and give them a new name because things like ID and birth certificates are “anti-immigrant” so they can’t be checked.

Now if the child supposedly has autism, costs explode: specialized care, transportation, services.

Ironically, local public schools often have excellent autism programs but school administrators won’t jump through SMH’s audit hoops. And when a child doesn’t actually have autism, schools quietly disenroll them without paperwork to avoid lawsuits. SMH is left holding the bag so better just to contract with a center.

If anyone complains you can just say the school doesn’t meet your religious needs.

Those are just patient meetings.

There are thred more meeting categories that devour time:

State audits:
Auditors expect problems and won’t leave without finding them. Missing paperwork means more meetings.

Legal:
Endless lawyers. Enough said.

Efficiency
Then come the “efficiency experts.” SMH needs to turn a profit so my relative’s boss is an Ivy League MBA. The solution is always the same: push more work onto families because it’s cheaper than more hospital time. That’s the cheapest option.

And to republicans (the only ones demanding accountability) it makes sense to support families over facilities

Except that if you’re a normal American, you’re screwed. 1/2

[DanielSwick.X @DanielSwick]

@HHS_Jim Why has this not always been the case for every dollar spent by the government?