Kroger made $527 Million in profit in 2024 selling your shopper data. Now stores are eyeing personalized pricing via digital tags + phone data to charge each person the max they’ll pay. One price for all is ending.
@jpattueyi Considering that ladies can be in control of their cycle, morning after pill, birth control, a vasectomy is not extreme given the present legal consequences
@jpattueyi At this point, the birds and the bees conversation should include a vasectomy clause for the sons as well as the downsides of marriage to him in later years because the packaging of marriage contrasted to the actual experience and legal reality are worlds apart
The people with the most unstable glucose levels stabbed the voodoo doll the most.
Not the ones in bad marriages, or under the most stress, or the most naturally irritable people.
The ones whose blood sugar was spiking and crashing throughout the day.
Here's why...
Scientists gave 200 married couples a voodoo doll of their spouse.
They were told to add a pin every time their spouse annoyed them.
After 6 weeks, one measurement predicted who stabbed it the most.
And it had nothing to do with their relationship... (thread):
Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.
Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.
Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.
Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.
Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.
Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?
Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.