I think high performance in life comes down to three things:
First of all, you have to know you are safe. Doesn’t mean you won’t ever get hurt. We all deal with pain (although I prefer to choose my own). It just means you know you can come back and do it again anyway.
Then, you have to know your system cold and have practiced it until it feels completely natural. We look at athletes doing amazing things while running, jumping and throwing things. They make it look effortless because they know the plays and they have run them 10,000 times in practices.
Third, in all instances apply Reason to your process. If you start to stumble,
return to Logic. If you are running plays that you have already integrated, most of the time you will be using Deduction; the rapid fire connection between the concepts you have already induced and, ultimately, physical reality. Fortunately, deduction is elementary, my Dear Watson.
Most of getting to a high level of anything—and particularly in the individual sport of market operations—requires Induction, though. Pity those 90% of Americans who will never hear that word spoken in the context of the use of one’s mind. Because we can memorize a lot of stuff. But we can’t memorize everything. Without the ability to form new concepts independently and effectively integrate them across your experiences, you can’t get there from anywhere.
She should go to prison and be abused in the same way. But the question is, how do Christians know she was wrong and that her children weren't possessed by demons? According to the Bible, it happens all the time.
NEW: Recently released diaries from YouTube mommy blogger Ruby Franke reveal that she thought her children were "demons" which is why she subjected them to torture.
Franke would abuse her youngest children for being "possessed" and "snakes."
"If you can engage a weak-minded soul in a physical activity of obedience you can begin to break the bond Satan made w/ the weak," she said in one entry.
"I will not feed a demon," she said while describing her 12-year-old son.
Franke shaved her son's head when he cried about doing more manual labor and called him a "snake."
"I told [him] that he emulates a snake. He slithers and sneaks around looking for opportunities when no one is watching."
Franke would refuse her children food for days and would put honey and a cayenne pepper mixture in their wounds to "cast the evil spirits out of their bodies."
Franke has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison after her 12-year-old son, who she called a demon, escaped and alerted a neighbor.
@HicklandHillary This is the upper limit of risqué in ANY pre-college course, public or private. Let kids be kids. It ain’t like they are lacking access to anything else.
It’s abundantly clear that the Democrats actively wanted DC, and this nation as a whole, to be a dump.
They went out of their way to destroy this nation’s beauty and culture.
It was not an accident.
They attempted to conquer and destroy us from within.
Never again.
There will have to be an opt out on whatever universal income agreement is reached. One must be able to say, “Stop using my data,” with the understanding they also lose their UI.
There could be any number of reasons to do so. If someone has fuck you money in an economy repriced at 1920’s levels, you don’t need it and maybe it’s worth it to protect your privacy. It could be one of those journey stories “I gave up UI and started a boutique jam company in Brooklyn. Buy my products and support me!”
I imagine it would be encouraged in many ways, in fact. Although, the contract would have to be instantly renewable when the person wants to return. Probably most of the most interesting people will take this route.
I certainly will. I don’t need money and I like making it. So, there ya go.
Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.
In 1999, Ray Kurzweil predicted human-level AI by 2029. Stanford's top AI experts said 100 years. Three years from the deadline, he says two things are still missing: AI that understands physics, and a robot that knows the difference between what goes in the fridge and what goes in the trash.
-- LLMs went from unremarkable to world-changing in 12 months. AI now outperforms human doctors by 50% in diagnosis.
-- LLMs have only been truly effective for six months, according to Ray. A year ago, "not really all that impressive."
-- The Genome Project was 1% done at the halfway mark. One doubling later — done. We're at that same moment with AGI.
-- Software alone has improved roughly a millionfold over 70 years. Total compute gain = hardware (75,000 trillion fold) × software (million fold).
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: "John Bolton is planning to plead GUILTY to retaining classified information."
Bolton could be fined up to $2.25 MILLION DOLLARS
He MUST FACE PRISON TIME!
AI and robots will do all jobs by 2030.
You will not have a job.
All information work will be done by AI.
All office buildings will be empty.
All physical work will be done by robots.
All cars will be autonomous.
And we will finally be free.
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“Germany can no longer raise an army, simply because of how many Muslims are now German citizens”
“Now, allegedly, and I will say allegedly here, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz has privately admitted that he's worried about the country's ability to raise an army, simply because Germany doesn't want to put weapons in the hands of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Germans.
And he'd be right in worrying, because a recent study of young Muslim Germans showed that nearly half expressed latent Islamist attitudes, which are, you know, the kind of attitudes that turn Muslims into terrorists, and more than half said that their religious commandments were more important to them than even German democracy.
And if you ask me, these don't sound like the attitudes of Germans. These sound like the attitudes of Germany's enemies”
Let’s get into the facts
A 2025–2026 German government-backed study by MOTRA, Radicalization Monitoring System, involving the Federal Criminal Police Office, found that 45.1% of Muslims under 40 in Germany hold either “manifest” (11.5%) or “latent” (33.6%) Islamist attitudes.
This includes preferences for Sharia over the constitution, antisemitic views, and Islamist leanings
Tucker Carlson also reported on this
When you have a significant population of Muslims who hold a pro-Sharia Law mindset, you can’t trust them in your military
Can we be done with the shitcoin era now? This includes Bitcoin and all its copycats. Issuing a currency is well within the purview of national governments. It is enshrined in the Constitution. We should not allow currencies that are specifically designed to enable criminals and terrorists to even exist.
Republicans don't want to talk about universal income because their base sees it as a socialist proposition. It should be viewed the same way as when an oil company puts a rig on private land. The company get the oil, the landowner gets a cut.
I am expecting a lot of progress to be made towards such a system when attorneys start losing their jobs en masse. Probably in the next 18 months.