Coffee Hound

Co-founder of 4 small tech companies full of wonderful people. Liberty, birds, & coffee. I save spiders & enjoy guns. Son of an immigrant.

[Coffee Hound @coffeelance]

This held a 6-pack of Pepsi.

Please be sure to cut all of the enclosed circles before you throw these away.

A tiny bit of effort can help an animal later.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

I sure would love to be a librarian in this library.

What about you?

Welcome to the Admont Abbey Library.

[Cheryl Anne @TruthNetwork24]

Well Good evening @TractorSupply @hallawton

We are disappointed and actually darned mad.

There is zero reason any of these positions cannot be filled with American workers.

NONE.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In a hotel room, half your brain never actually sleeps. Researchers at Brown University found in 2016 that your left hemisphere stays measurably more alert in unfamiliar environments, running a background surveillance process while your right hemisphere rests. Their paper in Current Biology compared this to how dolphins sleep with one eye open and one brain half awake. Humans run a weaker version every time they sleep somewhere new.

They called it the First Night Effect. The team measured it with high-density EEG (brain-activity sensors placed across the scalp) and found the left brain acts as a night watchman, sampling sounds and potential threats while you sleep. You're technically unconscious, but part of you isn't.

Deep sleep is where the body actually repairs itself. Growth hormone is released almost exclusively during this stage, which is when muscle tissue gets rebuilt and the immune system resets. In an unfamiliar bed, you get measurably less of this, even when total hours stay the same.

The brain also runs a waste-clearance system called the glymphatic network. Maiken Nedergaard's lab at the University of Rochester showed in 2013 that during sleep, brain cells physically shrink by 60%, expanding the space between them and flushing metabolic waste out at roughly twice the waking rate. The waste includes amyloid beta, the same protein that accumulates in Alzheimer's disease. When sleep is disrupted, this clearing process slows, and metabolic waste stays in the brain longer than it should.

Your own bed sends a different set of signals to your amygdala (your brain's threat-detection center): familiar smell, familiar temperature, familiar sounds. The night watchman finally stands down, and for the first time in days, both hemispheres actually sleep.

Walker called it an underrated reset. The science says it's a biological one.

[9mmSMG @9mmsmg]

Most black people are not murderers, but statistically, a black male is tremendously more likely to commit murder than any group on the planet. It's not a slight increase in odds, the number is staggering.

If you took a random sampling of black men and White men of 1000. Statistically 45 of the black men will commit murder in their life and only three of the White men will.

Breaking it down into a simple analogy may help to better understand. There are two bowls of M&Ms on a table, each bowl contains 1000 M&Ms. In the first bowl, you've been informed that in those 1000, there are three that are poisoned and if you choose them, you will die. In the second bowl, there are 45 M&Ms that are poisoned. While any poisoned M&Ms is too many, which bowl would you be more nervous eating from?

Most black people are not murderers, but we have to do something about not understanding per capita statistics. It's getting silly.

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

Imagine telling a New Yorker after 9/11 that in not even 25 years the mayor of their city would be sending out messages in Arabic.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

He has been in America for less than four years, and he is already emerged as a leader in disruptive campus riots. Just imagine what he’d be capable of if he were a full citizen.

Mahmoud Khalil is not here to contribute to American society, he is part of a broader effort to infiltrate and undermine it from within.
His activism aligns with Islamic extremist movements fundamentally opposed to Western values and sympathetic to terrorist groups.
He is not building America up; he is working to tear it down.

[Virgil Bierschwale @VBierschwale]

The Program for Americans Who Lost Jobs to Offshoring Has Been Dead for Four Years

Trade Adjustment Assistance certified 5.5 million American workers over 47 years as having lost their jobs to imports and offshoring.

The program's authorization lapsed in mid-2022.

Nobody reauthorized it.

In its final years, the single largest destination for offshored jobs was India — the same country at the center of the H-1B debate.

https://t.co/csZdPguMpQ

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “Do not deny the evidence of your eyes and ears — even if they call you an election denier. I personally don’t care. I deny it.”

“Spencer Pratt should be in the runoff. I deny that Raman won legitimately.”

[UFC on Paramount+ @UFConParamount]

WE HAVE A BALD EAGLE MAKING AN ENTRANCE AT THE UFC FREEDOM 250 WEIGH INS

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[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Alex Kazanowski was killed 3 months ago in Chicago. Still no arrests made.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

My simple rule for data center articles is you should expect to be talked to as if you're a local planner. Someone comes into your office and gives you two identical stats on a new project. One says:

"It uses 200 swimming pools of water per day."

And the other says:

"It uses 1% of the city's municipal water draw."

Which gives you footing in how you should think? If you read something and it wouldn't give you enough useful context as a planner, it's a bad way of presenting the relatively simple info.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.

didn't even know what SpaceX was.

they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.

that stake is now worth $880,000.

and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.

This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.

In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.

The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.

Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.

The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

The Scotland fans got an American cop in Boston to show off the skills 😭😭

[Alicia @alicianieves__]

Since roughly 2010 a large migration of predominately white, middle class, suburban college educated types have descended into urban cities that were cleaned up btw 1994-2010 by reform moderates like Giuliani. Without knowing it, they inherited a safer and more prosperous city. Many from this cohort use their DSA/lefty politics and canvass for these POC candidates as a way to rationalize their presence in the cities and believe that this kind of politics can correct the inherent asymmetry between their smart little NPR life and the Puerto Rican teens selling weed and pressed pills down the street. Alas, their savior politics actually makes things worse for these people.

[Coffee Hound @coffeelance]

“peer” just means “community member” or “fellow citizen”.

I was on a jury that was 1/2 white, 1/4 brown, and 1/4 black people. We convicted a white guy who shot a brown guy. The evidence & testimony guided our decision… not skin color.

The scary thing is that black people considered for the Anthony trial said they “weren’t sure they could put a brother in jail”. That’s a scary revelation, and it’s why there were no black jurors.

Imagine the mess that will be created if we start demanding jury of our color/tribe/clan, and then those juries base their decision on color/tribe/clan. That is *not* justice.

All it would have taken was one of the white jurors on my jury to rule based on shared skin color with the defendant… but we didn’t because that would be wrong. We convicted him.

[Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 @pippaisright]

Two PEACEFUL Muslim Migrant employees of @harrow_council showing why diversity and inclusion works..

“Call a police man and he will f*ck you up , we work with them”

They turn their body worn cameras off and then make serious threats to an Englishman..

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

‘Stand your ground’ laws allow a person to use ‘reasonable force’ in ‘self-defense.’ You cannot use ‘deadly force’ unless you’re threatened with deadly force. Meaning - you can’t stab someone in the heart if he shoves you at a high school track event.

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed