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Planet Fitness for the Mind™
Monterey Peninsula College

[MPC @MPCForum]

This is one for the books: the astonishing sequel to Wet Streets Cause Rain.

[Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel]

Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more Starbucks in an area --> 3-4% more inventions.

People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help see an issue from another perspective. These conversations lead to breakthroughs and inventions.

A very fun paper finds that when Starbucks rolled out to a new county, it fueled a coffee-shop culture, urging more and more people to “grab a coffee” together. The authors compare the counties where Starbucks had rolled out to those where it had not yet arrived. And they find that the number of patents in caffeinated counties is meaningfully higher.

This paper underscores how essential the face-to-face encounter is. Starbucks isn’t that old. People Could have picked up the phone and chatted at any time. People Could have dropped an email. Probably they did. But those connections didn’t yield the same insights and creativity.

Turns out that a Cup of Joe really does help the knowledge flow. We talk about how much in-person connection boosts creativity in In Person. It’s out in just few days, so now is a great time to pre-order.

To see the full research use the link in the comments.
#Innovation #InPerson #FutureOfWork #CoffeeCulture #NewBook

[𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔭𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳3𝔯 @slipsilv3r]

My enemies? A bunch of freaks, retards, and homosexuals. My friends? The same, but good.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

🚨BREAKING: First gameplay trailer for Holdout Juror Simulator.

11 against 1. Seven days. Can you hold your ground?

[Future BitPundit ✊🏻 @BitPundit]

The whole movie is like this

[MPC @MPCForum]

@RodinsRevenge What is the charge? Applauding a king? A white woman-stumping glorious king?

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

“@realDonaldTrump: I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.”

[MPC @MPCForum]

Where are the real men, the men who get their sons no-show jobs in the Swamp, who spend their entire careers at the trough, who trade on their military credentials but then when things get slightly uncomfortable immediately flip on their patriotic and self-sacrificing bosses? The REAL men.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Breaking: Where are the REAL men in America?

Too many men have quit the workforce. They simply have decided not to work, not provide for their families, or offer leadership for their sons.

The family unit has been collapsing in America for decades now partially because the man in the house decided comfort was more important than duty.

They have been spoiled.

Soft hands and weak spines.

A generation of boys are being raised on screens instead of sweat. They know every video game and almost nothing about a job that leaves dirt under their fingernails.

Reality for our nation is coming whether they (we) want it or not. A man who will not carry his load is not a man the country can afford.

Men, GET BACK TO WORK!

[MPC @MPCForum]

The funniest part is that Edelstein has a history of giving liberal women "the ick" and even brought it up in an early Slate column (I'm sure you can find it). I think it was how he wound up writing bad reviews at Slate.

If that Jew was essentially jerking off in public over a preteen, just imagine what he was doing in private social settings. Probably had a lot in common with Subway Jared. Always wondered how he avoided getting #MeTooed.

[MPC @MPCForum]

The line that annoys me the most is "this brings postpartum depression (i.e. malingering) to the forefront of public attention" It's just another fake malady they claim to suffer from in order to dodge work and responsibility. Oddly enough the only women who cry about having this are pampered UHB white women who voted for Hillary and Kamala.

And speaking of nurses, I would remind everyone that Andrea Yates was a registered nurse. I always knew nurses were stupid, but I didn't realize how many of them were total psychos.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

Lindsay was a neonatal nurse & this lunatic is an ob-gyn. Studies have found elevated levels of narcissistic & psychopathic traits, including significantly higher secondary psychopathy in nurses. Cluster B–related traits are disproportionately high in the nursing profession.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@Severn987 @DanielM65604046 Some can but they're a dying breed. Most women seem to have been one-shotted by entertainment and social media into having main character syndrome and believing they are immune from accountability.

[MPC @MPCForum]

What a condescending twat. Men have known this about women since the dawn of time. Woman, without man in charge, is hopeless. Which is why it's foolish to let them vote, sign contracts, or secure equal pay.

No shit, your hormones are completely out of whack, and nature has historically controlled for this by making you more passive and inclined to follow where men lead. But, as complexity has increasingly given women opportunities to pretend to be as productive as men, and the political power to maintain this pretense, they have veered far from natural safety. Hence they vote for immigration, against the lives of children, for violent crime, against rigorous and useful education, for absurd causes, against practical solutions--and so on.

Many fashionable mental ailments and crazes (for example, getting your completely normal child diagnosed as autistic, or insisting that it's acceptable to require anxiety meds to function) are further pushed by a dysfunctional, female-influenced health system not so subtly guided by pharma ads and other inducements to become healthy by spending money.

Some of this has complicated causes, but the emotive female mind is incapable of looking at the issue dispassionately and intelligently. And now this problem, which has been worsening for decades, has reached a state of absolute crisis.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

One of the hardest things to explain to men is just how much hormones and their shift affect the way we women think, feel and experience the world

And of course most men don’t get it, or have a very hard time understanding, because how can they really understand it. They can’t. Their biology is so much different. A quick look at the graph below and you’ll see men are mostly steady all month long. Always the same.

Women experience valleys and hills all month long, all of it with different hormones playing different roles and affecting us differently.

Men obviously have hormones that affect them but they follow a predictable daily rhythm, women do not, and pregnancy is especially brutal in terms of hormonal drops. It is no surprise then that postpartum affects our minds greatly. Many women experience this brain like fog for months. I know I did, with every of my children it takes me at the very least three months to come out of it, for the haze to finally clear.

So when I see people arguing that postpartum depression or whatever aren’t real things, well, no they are very much real. Nobody ever questions whether chemistry affects our brain in any other circumstance except for this one. If someone is up for two days without sleep we do not act surprised to see them affected by it, grumpier and much slower in terms of thinking and decision making. If someone does not eat all day it becomes far easier to lose your temper. This is also no surprise

We understand that when we change the biological conditions under which our brain is operating this can very obviously change the way someone is behaving, feeling or thinking. Hormones fall under this very same thing. They do not become a different thing simply because our bodies produces them.

Obviously hormones are not an excuse for bad behavior, or sin or crimes. But it isn’t a sin or a crime to be extremely sad after having a baby and while postpartum. If we want and desire for women to have babies and for women to desire motherhood then we first must please stop seeing women from the lens of male steadiness and behavior.

Motherhood comes with extreme hormonal shifts and accepting female nature must begin with understanding that women are not men, and thank God for that.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@ChiefTimecaster In fairness, boomer moms really did refuse to cook.

[MPC @MPCForum]

I can only explain the lack of empathy among boomers for anyone younger than them as virulent generational narcissism and small-mindedness. "I ate TV dinners" is just an insane point to make about anything other than your astronomical sodium intake.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

THEORY:

The reason we Olds don't give a crap about the food struggles of the Youngs, and the reason why the Youngs don't get why the Olds don't feel sorry for them, is as follows:

We Olds grew up eating Swanson TV Dinners and a bland, dried out pot roast and canned green beans on Sundays, so when we moved out of the house and had to live on ramen and microwave burritos for weeks at a time, it was no big deal.

The Youngs, OTOH, grew up in the Golden Age of take out of all kinds, with their parents buying high quality meals of all kinds of cuisines, and with all-natural cooking options of incredible quality from places like Whole Foods in abundance, so ramen and microwave burritos feel like a HUGE step down.

My theory. It could be right, it could be wrong, but it's mine.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Imagine a Roman coliseum, but instead of gladiators fighting lions or each other, it's emotionally unstable actors shouting and screaming at each other while thousands of women watch and nod their heads vigorously.

[MPC @MPCForum]

In the abstract, sure, but these people also voted for their own annihilation (particularly women). "Best people who lasted about two generations before ruining everything" is what they amount to.

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

The white American middle class are literally the best people on the planet. All my life I grew up with people dunking on them for their cordial relations and stuffy mores and middlebrow taste but it turns out that everything runs on their largesse. When I was an immigrant kid growing up in Central Jersey much like Hasan Piker this was a nice country with a good standard of living and a decent intellectual discourse thanks to them. Anyone who talks down to them is moralscum.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@billy_chav no it's probably okay for an 11 year old, although it does teach them that you can do any amount of damage to other people as long as you claim to be a victim

[MPC @MPCForum]

Someone has to report on the state of the purgatory, i.e. how terrible Spider-Man 4 is, therefore I was contractually bound to watch this unholy, interminable piece of crap.

Starting with a montage of cover art recreations that only your grandpa has ever seen in real life, and ending with a torturous Revenge of the Zoomers fourth act that is the world's most boring tease for a bunch of X-Men movies that will make even Satan want to kill himself, this movie is two-and-a-half hours of studiously recreated Spider-Man comics, which might not sound so bad if the last time you read comics was when you were twelve.

Trust me, you just forgot how fucking stupid they were. Those very comic books, published on newsprint with cheap color printing, were intended to be rolled up into a kid's back pocket before being discarded. True to their disposable nature, unsold comics were handled by having newsstands send back the covers--the rest was assumed to be good for nothing and not worth the cost of mailing.

Comic books are where character motivations get explained in a single panel and doctors perform surgery on a superhero without removing his mask. They feature vigilantes who, statistically, would have to be beating up a lot of brown people, but get away with it without a hint of controversy. (The movie doubles down on this by showing Spider-Man constantly on the phone with a short, brown, female police official who just wants him to get some rest. He's practically deputized a-la Adam West and Burt Ward, even though every fight he's in seems to involve massive destruction of property.)

Nowadays we spend $200M making movie versions of these retarded stories that will haunt the world for eternity. (You can thank me later for buying a ticket to this trash and adding to its tally.) Anyway, the movie is just a barrage of acrobatic, implausibly choreographed action scenes that look like AI was used to stage them, along with some tedious soap opera plot about Spidey wanting the Brown Frown to remember him. (I'm sure you'll remember, like it was your own wedding day, the last movie where a character named Doctor Strange cast a spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker, but not Spider-Man. Yeah, this lasted for exactly one movie before they undid all that.)

It really is a movie that is all about completely resetting everything...into the status quo. We even get more of Aunt May uttering banalities unworthy of a Hallmark greeting card, and she died a movie back. Tom Holland actually looks dead himself.  He's not aging great--despite or because of his gym schedule, he now looks older than Tobey Maguire (maybe it's the roids). It's hard to believe he'll make it through a second trilogy of movies before they kill him off to be replaced by the inevitable Spider-Brown, which I gather they've been teasing in cartoons.

Zendaya, on the other hand, is less grating than previously, although she has nothing to do and is just here to be moped over and play damsel in distress (odd that none of the movie reviewers are complaining about this). When Peter Parker apologizes to her for unintentionally kissing her while she was being mind-controlled, ol' MJ shrugs it off with I don't even remember that, so whatever. Sadly, Peter can't even take advantage of this old-fashioned attitude toward consent because Tom Holland demanded the movie shill his Bero near-beer brand.  Good luck getting her blacked out with that, Peter (no pun intended).

The entire fourth act should have been cut; it goes on way too long and its resolution is undermined by audience boredom, plus it forgives an antagonist who has been glibly putting thousands if not millions of people in mortal danger out of some crybaby zoomer angst. There are also a bunch of pointless scenes with the new Black Widow, whose movie bombed last year; all she does here is girlboss it up with an annoying fake accent (she sounds more Rocky & Bullwinkle than Russian, or whatever she's supposed to be).

There's also an insultingly bad post-credits scene--you can read about it in the Wikipedia entry, it's nothing.  Like the entire rest of the movie.  Which is going to make $2B.

[MPC @MPCForum]

I forgot to add, the movie is directed for retards, with every plot point hammered into your skull ten times, with Western Union working overtime to make sure you miss nothing. My favorite part of this was when the evil zoomer girl mind controls someone their body flails wildly like an inflatable tube man for a few seconds, which is done solely so children and mentally defective browns can follow what's happening in the wide shots. In fact it's only done for wide shots, probably after test audiences returned drool-covered response cards with lots of question marks scrawled on them.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Mormon men are so gay the women have to aggressively recruit from outside the cult.

[Old Tory Right - Scholastic Fundamentalist @rightwingnutrs]

Don’t fall for it. They do this to you on purpose.

[Paul Hundred, GED @paul_hundred]

She’s the product of a ten thousand year breeding program, but it’s a breeding program run by women, so they’re chunning out 4’s and being like “she’s STUNNING” and just using their psychic powers to steamroll objections.