george presnell

Work for AT&T. Play poker, avid reader, ect.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch 1) agreed
2) they can, its in the WSOP Tournament rules.
3) when action gets to them, they have 1 or 2 minutes max.
4) agreed
5) 100% YES!
6) logistically, this could be a nightmare. Theoretically, that is the most fair way to do it.
7) hasn't that been tried before?

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@aakashgupta I do have a horrible memory; forgetting names, places, conversations, and events quickly. And your mechanism #2, lack of sleep, is probably the culprit. I average 4-5hrs sleep through the week, then 10hrs+ on the weekend nights. Sounds like I really need to address this.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@RDb6qj @berkey11 Heard he filed bankruptcy to avoid a $100k+ debt (which seems crazy considering his HendonMob reported income)? And is he still playing? Did a quick search but didnt see him listed anywhere. Met & played against him once years ago.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@mathovermyth @WSOP @martin_zamani @martinkabrhell Cheating? While I don't like the man, i've never heard of any cheating allegations. Can you point me in the direction where I can read about this?

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@WestLoopTom @HawleyMO As a person who doesnt see sponsorship tags/stickers/cloths, I completely missed this. I don't remember warnings being given out for Black/Blue Lives Matter patches or arm/wrist bands baseball & football had, or the warm up tee shirts the NBA players wore. I mean, does it matter?

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch @Karen_Russell Andy, I'm so tired of hearing about this ball room. It's a complete waste of money, time, and human energy. I mean, seriously, what is the point of this to begin with???

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@BuckKodiak @BlockClubCHI Or....he knew exactly what he was doing and got you to look 🤷‍♂️

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@WestLoopTom @BlockClubCHI @btpanko @AnitaPadilla32 @DanProft @publicpolicyman @InPortCharles @dforan5 @minc798 @PekalaLaw @culturecanceler Tom, am I missing something? Ive heard this bar used to be great and the remodel should help get it back up there? I was planning to head there (I live in Elkhart IN) after the opening, but if you're saying its bad place....

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch All paid for by tax dollars.
Dude, relax. You're looking like clickbait-religious gatherings paid for by tax dollars, a trigger for agnostics/atheists. Hate to break it to you, but the USofA has been donating/paying for gatherings like this, of every denomination, for decades.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch So? What about the other rally's/gatherings that are part of the 250 Celebrations? There's been gatherings across the country since mid Jan, different ethnic & religious groups, celebrating the 250 birthday of this nation. Some passive protests, others...just cake & ice cream lol

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@EliteMan091 If you bring back public executions and punishments, you'll see a dramatic drop in these crimes. And mental illness? Na. While I realize a very small percentage of these crimes can be attributed to that, that's an excuse that also needs to be taken away.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch Is this assuming that all stacks were equal and there's no side pot?

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@elonmusk California has threatened for years to secede from the United States. I say let them. But the moment that they do all federal funding needs to be cut off.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch @FBILasVegas @FBIDirectorKash You are having WAAAAY to much fun with this lol.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch @FBIDirectorKash In the military, to "86" someone meant taking them off the board. Commanders would use this term to put a communications buffer layer between them and the people executing the orders. It was easy for them to say "that's not what I meant." Also why soldiers demand clarification.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@TheBradOwen @shipit757 Hopefully what you have shown the TABC in regards to how the Lodge operates we'll make them pause before they decide to do this against another card room.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your hippocampus doesn't encode days that feel identical. If this Tuesday looks like last Tuesday, your brain files them as a single compressed memory. The second day never gets its own folder.

This is why decades feel like they disappeared. The hippocampus uses novelty as its filter for "worth storing." Repetitive routines trigger temporal compression. Same commute, same desk, same dinner, same bedtime: the brain deduplicates the whole sequence into one entry. You lived 365 days. You filed 40.

Research from Jeffrey Zacks at Washington University has tracked this with fMRI. As people move through continuous experience, the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex fire in discrete bursts at moments the brain flags as "something changed." Each burst becomes a retrievable memory later. In stretches with no boundaries, the bursts flatten. Participants with more boundaries in a given period remembered more of it afterward. Segmentation literally builds memory.

Sleep is the second mechanism. During slow-wave sleep, the hippocampus replays the day's episodes and transfers them to the neocortex for long-term storage. This is when memory actually gets filed. Cut sleep short and encoding efficiency drops. Chronic sleep debt means experiences you had never complete the transfer. The memory existed. It just never made it to disk.

The third mechanism is where dopamine meets attention. Novel stimuli trigger the ventral tegmental area to release dopamine into the hippocampus, which gates what gets encoded. Mind-wandering does the opposite. When your default mode network takes over (phone scrolling, rumination, email during dinner), the hippocampus stops tagging the present. You were at the wedding. Your hippocampus was in your inbox.

Three independent systems working against you. Novelty collapse compressing repetitive days into single entries. Sleep debt blocking consolidation. Default mode network swallowing attention before encoding completes.

The fix comes straight out of the mechanism. New locations, new food, new people, new routes home. The brain needs boundaries to build memories. Go to bed earlier so replay actually runs. Put the phone down when something is happening so the dopamine signal can fire.

The more forgettable the day, the shorter the decade.

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@TrumpsHurricane Dirty Waters

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@hvdm1987 @Farah_Galfond @DougPolkVids Where can I watch this docuseries?

[george presnell @georgepresnell]

@Andy_Bloch @elonmusk You have to be on fiber with that kind of down & upload speeds. There's no copper tech out there that does that except T1 lines, a 20yr+ old dedicated line (signal to one router). What is your service on?