@jmarr81 My guy, u forget they lost by 50 a month ago, and Luka averaged 15 a game against them this year. Either way Two completely different teams now. Thunder are so much better now, and this lakers team is worse than that mavs team.
@jmarr81 Too easy of a cop out for them. I’m Not sure it would have made any real difference, lakers moved the ball well and got decent looks consistently all series. The series was lost defensively, on the glass, and turnovers. Luka doesn’t contribute positively to any of those.
If I could, this post Is dangerously wrong on numerous counts:
Claim 1: “8-hour sleep was invented in 1938 by Simmons Beautyrest”
False. “Eight hours’ rest” dates to Welsh reformer Robert Owen in 1817 and became the 19th-century labour movement’s rallying cry. Simmons launched its Sleep Research Foundation in 1946, focused on mattress comfort, not sleep duration norms.
The 7–9 hour recommendation comes from an AASM/Sleep Research Society panel that reviewed 5,314 scientific articles across nine health domains (Watson et al., Sleep, 2015). No mattress company involved. Sorry.
Claim 2: Biphasic “4+2+4” sleep was universal for 200,000 years = distorted. Historian Roger Ekirch documented pre-industrial “first/second sleep” — but the waking interval was roughly one hour, not two, and blocks were ~3–4 hours, not 4+4. This was documented primarily in higher-latitude, long-winter-night Europe — not universally across all human populations or time periods.
Claim 3: Shakespeare wrote 1–3 AM; Mozart used “The God Hours”
Both invented. No historical record documents Shakespeare’s writing hours. Mozart never used the phrase “The God Hours.” A famous letter portraying divine inspiration is now widely considered a 19th-century forgery by Friedrich Rochlitz.
Claim 4: Kleitman faked studies, funded by the mattress industry = defamatory fabrication. Nathaniel Kleitman is the universally recognised “father of modern sleep research” — he established the first sleep laboratory. His archived funding sources: National Research Council, University of Chicago, Ovaltine’s manufacturer. Zero mention of mattress companies.
What the epidemiology actually says re: how much sleep you need to survive and thrive…the evidence is overwhelming and drawn from millions of participants:
∙Cappuccio et al. (Sleep, 2010) — 1.38 million participants: sleeping under 6 hours raises all-cause mortality risk by 12%; the lowest mortality is consistently observed at 7–8 hours
∙Itani et al. (Sleep Medicine, 2017) — 5.1 million participants: short sleep raises diabetes risk 37%, cardiovascular disease 16%, hypertension 17%, obesity 38%
∙Shen et al. (Scientific Reports, 2016) — 1.5 million participants: mortality follows a U-shaped curve, lowest at exactly 7 hours, rising sharply below 6 and above 9
∙Van Dongen et al. (Sleep, 2003): after 14 days at 6 hours/night, subjects performed as poorly as those totally sleep-deprived for 48 hours — and were unaware of their own impairment
∙Spiegel et al. (The Lancet, 1999): 4 hours/night for 6 nights reduced glucose tolerance by 30–40%, producing a pre-diabetic metabolic profile
∙IARC/WHO: night shift work — which chronically disrupts sleep — is classified a Group 2A probable carcinogen
The optimal window is 7–9 hours of consolidated sleep, supported by the largest population studies ever conducted.
Why waking at 2 AM is the opposite of creative:
Sleep inertia is worst when waking from slow-wave sleep, which dominates the early night (Tassi & Muzet, Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2000). Waking at 2 AM places you at the circadian temperature nadir — prefrontal blood flow takes up to 30 minutes to recover, meaning executive function and creativity are maximally **impaired**, not enhanced.
Fragmented sleep is also metabolically harmful even when total duration is preserved: Stamatakis & Punjabi (Chest, 2010) showed it drops insulin sensitivity by 20–25%. Calling insomnia a superpower ignores that it doubles depression risk (Baglioni et al., Journal of Affective Disorders, 2011), raises hypertension risk by 350–500% (Vgontzas et al., Sleep, 2009), and involves chronically elevated cortisol. CBT-I — not embracing 2 AM waking — is the evidence-based treatment, recommended by AASM, the American College of Physicians, and the European Sleep Research Society across 50+ RCTs.
Bottom line: This post takes a real historical curiosity and wraps it in fabricated quotes, a defamed scientist, and medically dangerous advice. 🤷♂️
Michigan is the first team in NCAA tournament history score 90+ points in five-straight games in a single tournament 🤯
Unreal consistency and scoring from the Wolverines 🔥
If i told bron that i need the money to take care of my family, he’d easily let me score. Jordan would tell me to get my black ass tf outta his face and then guard me like his life depended on it
I supported Trump in 2016.
I supported Trump in 2020.
I supported Trump in 2024.
Less than a year into his second term I took a step back, reflected, and began questioning his leadership and character.
No, I don’t wish Kamala was in office.
No, I don’t support the democratic party.
I have never trusted our government, regardless of what party was in charge. I have always believed that we should question everything because the entirety of our system and its history is corrupt.
If you can still support this administration after following the money and witnessing what is happening in real time, you are actually retarded.
If you are supporting this administration and blatantly ignoring what is going on, you are also retarded.
This was the first time in a while he found a way to be useful off-ball, playing off of Luka and reeves. He always does it when he’s easing back in after an injury and the lakers look great bc LeBron is insane off ball, but then he decides to play more on ball and kills the flow.