QuietKnight

Husband, father, grandfather and technology enthusiast with a healthy amount of skepticism.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The SpaceX IPO and associated taxes of people staying in California would have filled the budget gap. As kids we all read the story of the goose who laid the golden egg. Even a child could see the moral of the story. Democrats cannot.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@sam_nore @KyleKulinski And yet you are able to display your strong command of the English language (such as it is), on the 'evil doers' platform.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@GasandElectric6 @KyleKulinski Aah yes, the Austrian Civil War. Good times.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@Mary_Walker8 I am sure you have based this reply on actual data and not on gut emotion. I stand corrected...

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@ewarren *that have

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@ewarren Unlike you, a 'native American', Elon shows us the potential America has to offer to those have chosen to become American. Shame on you...

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

Emotional reply. Ask yourself a simple question. Why would Angelenos vote to increase their tax rate in this same election? Escapes logic doesn't it? But if you had NGOs and unions that would benefit from the 'legal' weaknesses in the system (e.g., no voter ID, ballot harvesting, self dating ballots, etc...) , why wouldn't they? Move beyond emotion and ask questions, that is all I'm suggesting here.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

What is notable here is that you do not refute Weinstein's logic, you simply try to marginalize him with childish insult. You and others like you have built these election systems with every feature possible to invite fraud (albeit 'legally') and then claim that people are conspiracy theorists when they call you out on it. Nice try though...

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

Bret Weinstein cuts straight to the chase:

"We are going to have an endless battle in which those of us who see what we believe is clear evidence of some kind of election rigging or fraud are faced with indignation from a vast array of people portraying themselves as more rigorous and careful who say, 'Where is your evidence? Where exactly is your evidence that there was something wrong with this election?' And we are gonna be caught in the following predicament.

No piece of evidence is sufficient to establish that case. And the sum total of all of the evidence contains true things and false things. So it is also no good.

So the question is, can you logically deduce that something has gone wrong? I believe you can easily.

Can you prove it? No.

And not being able to prove it means that the election will proceed. It will be validated by all of the structures, including the courts. And that means that those who take on the power that derives from these elections will be the result of whatever process we just went through, whether it was an election that happened to be anomalous through organic means, or it was the result of some kind of fraud or election rigging. That is not an accident.

That is not an accident.

And the point that I wanna make primarily is the primary evidence against elections that look like this being organic is not actually in the trickle of evidence that we are actually able to see, the moment by moment vote count that does something strange during the night when some large tranche of ballots is suddenly counted or something like that.

The evidence is in the structure of how the elections are actually carried out. These elections are designed to allow fraud that cannot be detected and will not be prosecuted. And that's really the thing that we must focus on."

@BretWeinstein

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@brhodes "is the"

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@brhodes Authoritarian? Scott Pelley got Scott Pelley terminated. This the difference between a business and a non-profit advocacy operation.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@JohnCornyn You have perfectly described the Republican Senate and the wary voters that put them there. Glad you're finally seeing the light John. 🙄

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@seanmdav "When you take money from me to give to a purpose I vehemently disagree with, that's tyranny." Yeah Tillis, we know a little about that sentiment...

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@TIME Who even knew Time was still in business...

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Who is “we”? Not Jamie Dilon or his family or family’s friends.

He supported mandatory vaccines for the armed forces.

He debanked conservatives - the people most likely to serve.

He funded Black Lives Matter rioters.

Who is the “we” in the sentence?

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@BillKristol Spoiler alert, we knew long before today.

[QuietKnight @QuietKnight1]

@Cernovich We are so lucky that MA has enacted the stricter 2024 unconstitutional gun regulations. This could have been much worse...🙄

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.