Matthew Halma

"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
~Nietzsche

[Matthew Halma @MatthewHalma]

Whats the mechanism behind PACVS?

Prof. Paolo Bellavite, MD - former Professor of General Pathology at the University of Verona, presents on GPCR autoantibodies, renin-angiotensin system disruption, and the immunopathological basis of PACVS.

@PACVSResearch
@BellavitePaolo

🗓 Tues, March 31 · 7 AM CT / 8 AM ET / 2 PM CEST
🆓 Free · Virtual

Register: https://t.co/0Wz6dpgXXk

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

The Air Wing commander already had UCMJ charge document written up for him because he failed to return to ship when ordered to. These are the moments of immense moral courage that enabled victory in a true sliding door moment of peril for America. He should have a CVN named for him not another politician.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

– Michelangelo

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Unless you become the media, you will never know the truth

[Edward Dutton @jollyheretic]

"Please don't politicise the consequences of our treasonous and fatal policies."

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

This book is incredible and the first time you read it you marvel at how the ancient world was entirely defined by religion and how much things have changed

Then you realize nothing has actually changed and you’ve been handed the keys to understand the world

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Problem solved.

[Athenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger]

Nietzsche nailed it in saying the problem with classicists —and why classical studies would die— is they only want to find the virtues of the Modern Enlightenment in the classical texts

That *alone* explains the entirety of the present misreadings and re-writings of the classics

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@RobertJenrick Absolutely

[⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬 @SolBrah]

When we perceive a past loss, our testosterone can literally dip.

The same is true for when we remember a past victory; we feel great, our testosterone boosts.

So what is the effect then if you have the perspective that everything in your past sucked, was bad, and all these people were getting the best over you and being mean to you and all the rest of it?

Now, what does it do to your physiology to imagine the world is on your side, everything happened for a reason, and you are so blessed to have gone through everything that you've gone through?

[Matthew Halma @MatthewHalma]

I'd be curious how predictive the presence of hashtag #Kony2012 in one's post history turns out to be for ideological alignment.

At the time, and millennials remember it well, there were several viral activist social media campaigns, typically organized around a hashtag (e.g. #MeToo, #BLM, etc). These hashtag campaigns are still ongoing I assume, but they were a cultural phenomenon from 2012 to maybe 2022, where COVID related campaigns were prominent.

They were effective in terms of engagement at the time. It did impact, if not dictate, what people talked about after. For basically a decade, there was a mandatory "conversation about X topic" every 4 months or so, which was more like a struggle session.

Progressivism became intertwined with morality and emerged as an ersatz morality. A 'good person' is defined as someone with progressive views.

This was the milieu for millennials during their teens and 20s. It is incredible how fast climate change has dropped off as a concern, and it could be added to that LGBTQ, etc, it doesn't have nearly the prominence or public support it used to. Millennials in Canada at least keep the governing ideology intact by adopting anti American or vaguely anti capitalist positions, but generally non substantive or cynical.

As a generation, we were naive, and it convinced a lot of good people to take paths like social work or professions to 'make a difference' and thereby have diluted impact. These were also what was generally available employment wise at the time.

DOGE's mission has still not been fully realized, but the funding for the NGO industrial complex has massive inertia, and will take decades if not generations to correct.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

There was no award when Newton discovered three laws of forces, nor when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

There was no Grammy for Beethoven or Chopin, nor a Nobel Prize in Literature for Homer.

Masterpieces do not seek transient trophies but aim to be timeless.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

This is the best opening paragraph of any textbook I’ve ever read.

As a bonus it makes for a terrific start for a horror plot.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Alberta is the richest — and most conservative — province in Canada.

And it’s sitting on 3 times the oil reserves of the entire United States.

The rest of Canada treats them like an ATM, then throws them in jail for mis-gendering. Albertans have had enough.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

If I may offer a piece of advice, bearing in mind the brevity of life:

Don’t read books about the classics.

Read the classics.

[BOBBY MARS @bobby_on_mars]

They all were. They all acted in accordance with Hellenistic virtues which transcend petty moralities. Except for Paris, who is the obvious villain of the tale.

[Joker @BachelorJoker]

@pcgamer He deserves more imho. He's singlehandedly saved and made PC gaming far superior to any console in existence throughout history.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The people who built this believed in something greater than themselves

They weren’t motivated by profit

[Lomez @L0m3z]

Big announcement tomorrow on a series of kids books that we’ve been working on morning, day, and night for the last year.

An entire library of books for K-6 readers that spans the entire foundation of the Western Canon.

Stay tuned!

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Every time you start over explaining yourself to people, you will regret it.