If Pizza Hut can return, then we can resurrect Blockbuster.
And we should.
While Netflix made things more “convenient” we lost something irreplaceable:
The ritual of going to a place with your family or friends to choose a story together.
That experience was special.
seja Michael Jackson»
> nascer como o garoto mais pobre de Gary, Indiana»
> subir no palco aos 5 anos
> virar vocalista dos Jackson 5 aos 6»
> ensaiar até sangrar
enquanto outras crianças brincavam»
> lançar Thriller aos 24
> transformar o álbum mais vendido da história
> em um evento cultural global
> ganhar 8 Grammys em uma única noite
> fazer o moonwalk na TV ao vivo
e mudar a cultura pop para sempre
> vender mais de 500 milhões de discos
> lotar estádios em países
que nem falavam inglês
> doar mais de $500 milhões para caridade
> quase sempre longe das câmeras
> comprar metade do catálogo dos Beatles
> ter um chimpanzé chamado Bubbles
> tentar comprar o esqueleto do Homem Elefante
> viver como a pessoa mais famosa do planeta
> não conseguir andar na rua
> sem causar caos absoluto
> morrer aos 50 anos
> com 50 shows esgotados planejados
> nas 24h após sua morte
> a Amazon vende mais álbuns dele
> do que nos 11 anos anteriores combinados
> em 2024
> a Sony compra metade do catálogo dele
> por $600 milhões
Décadas depois…
> ninguém recriou o moonwalk
> ninguém recriou o impacto
> ninguém recriou o fenômeno
$4 bilhões em talento.
$600 milhões em legado.
E até hoje…
o mundo ainda procura
o próximo Michael Jackson.
Sem encontrar.
"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something."
Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste.
Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor.
College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured.
Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built.
Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family.
Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free.
Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have.
Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches.
"But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up.
"But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love.
There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost.
You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent.
You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.
Johann Hari dropped a mind-blowing reframing of addiction:
Classic experiment: Rat in an empty cage chooses heroin water and overdoses.
Rat Park experiment: Same rat in paradise (friends, sex, toys, good food) → almost completely ignores the drugs. Zero overdoses.
Same thing happened with Vietnam troops: 20% hooked on heroin overseas… 95% quit cold turkey when they came home.
His core idea: Addiction isn’t primarily about chemical hooks.
It’s about your cage.
Later studies confirmed that enriched social environments dramatically reduce drug-seeking behavior by activating natural reward pathways in the brain, showing connection itself acts as a powerful buffer against addiction.
This flips how we view not just drugs, but phones, porn, gambling, overeating — everything we use to escape disconnection and loneliness.
This one really stuck with me. It explains so much about why some environments breed addiction while others don’t. Real connection might be the best antidote we have.
Do you think addiction is more about the substance itself, or about the environment and lack of human connection?
Matthew Walker dropped some brutal sleep truth on Joe Rogan:
Most adults need 7–9 hours.
Anything under 7 is “bullshit” for the vast majority of people.
There’s a rare gene that lets a tiny fraction of people (<1%) survive on ~5 hours. The odds of you having it are lower than getting struck by lightning. Yet almost everyone who claims “I only need 5-6 hours” thinks they’re special.
Walker also noted that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan both bragged about sleeping just 4–5 hours… and both later developed Alzheimer’s. Deep sleep is when your brain clears toxic beta-amyloid proteins linked to the disease.
We glorify “hustle” and minimal sleep, but the science says we’re slowly damaging our brains night after night.
This one actually made me set a stricter bedtime. I used to pride myself on running on 6 hours. Turns out I was probably just slowly cooking my brain. The “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” mentality is starting to look a lot dumber.
How many hours do you actually sleep most nights — and do you feel rested?
@anishmoonka@grok what were the four songs Quincy Jones pulled from the thriller album that went on to become hits for other artists? What were they and who sang them and what number on the charts did they go to?
BORAX PULLS OUT FLUORIDE
“Borax was swiftly banned in 32 countries after it was found to remove fluoride from the body.
Funny how that works...”
Borax = kills fleas & ticks in your pet areas outside.
🐚BORAX THE SUPER CURE
👉🏻Arthritis
👉🏻Osteoporosis
👉🏻Osteoarthritis
👉🏻Spurs
👉🏻Calcium Deposits
👉🏻Lupus
👉🏻Autoimmune
👉🏻Hormones
👉🏻Fungus/Fluoride
👉🏻Candida
👉🏻Ringworm
👉🏻Tinea Versicolor
👉🏻Insomnia
👉🏻Skin
👉🏻Impotence
👉🏻Morgellons
👉🏻Chemtrails
“I have been using borax for many years. I started using it as a tool against my arthritis & learned that it was helpful in de-calcifying my pineal thereafter. I have not used any floride toothpaste or other products in at least 15 years & did a 'crash pineal cleanse' in 2012 that was quite a shock to me. The borax helps keep it from getting clogged up again.”
- @Calderonbb
🐚BORAX INSTRUCTIONS FOR HAIR
👉🏻Dissolve 1 cup of borax into 1 gallon of pure water to use borax for your hair
👉🏻Keep this solution in the shower
👉🏻Pour 1-2 cups of this solution over your hair (instead of shampoo), ensuring the solution gets to your scalp
👉🏻Allow solution to sit on your scalp & hair for a few minutes, rinse
👉🏻If you find the borax method dries out your hair, take a small amount of coconut oil & massage it into your hair. You may not need to use the borax solution more than once or twice a week
“I have been doing borax 1/8 tsp 3 days on 2 days off for 2 years now. Arthritis is gone, my gums for some reason are healthier & stronger, no more knee pain, skin is clear - I look much younger. I also put a cup or two in a hot bath at least once a week. No more aches & pains!”
- @MareBear01
🐚DR KAYALI, Borax Expert & Medical Doctor Suggestsh
👉🏻2x a day 1/2 TSP dilluted in warm water, you can add cold water on top & some lemon for taste
👉🏻For indivuduals with cancer, make a paste, 1 TSP borax, 1 TSP honey 2x a day
👉🏻As your body is detoxing you can feel some itching in the skin so if u like you can start with 1/4 TSP a day & build up
👉🏻The more detox effect you have the more your body needs it
“Borax is even better to use than baking soda.
I started drinking my distilled water with 1/2 TSP of borax, to a gallon of water, now I am adding more.
Borax, read the article the borax conspiracy, very enlightening.
It clears your pineal of 😉heavy metals as well as the rest of your body.
When taken with magnesium, it pulls calcium out of soft tissues and other places it doesn't belong & puts it back into your bones where the calcium does belong.
Borax gets rid of candida in the body as well as other fungus.
It reverses arthritis, over time. I know because my constant back & hip pain is gone now. My hands are no longer swollen at every joint.
I also have lost 10 lbs of toxic fluid & fat around my abdomen area & I did nothing but change to adding 1/2 TSP of borax to all the water I ingest.”
- @Katleen_BlueCosmicEagle
🟪DETOX BATH
👉🏻1 cup baking soda
👉🏻1 cup epson salt
👉🏻1 cup borax
👉🏻1 cup Himalayan salt
👉🏻mineral salt or sea salt
👉🏻Soak as long as u can
RDA: 1/4 tsp of borax in 1L of water for men & 1/8 tsp of borax in 1L