Johan

A person’s grief is his own to bear,
Not from life, it treats him fair.
He sees an enemy in those outside,
Yet in himself, his foes reside.

[Johan @Johan__511]

"In the refusal to ascend beyond one's limitations lies the epitome of pitiful existence. Embrace the pursuit of excellence, for stagnation is the hallmark of mediocrity."
- Dr Doom.

[Ulfcytel the Platonist @ulfcytel]

Every passion conquered is a stone added to the inner temple

[Ulfcytel the Platonist @ulfcytel]

Keep watch over your thoughts for they become your character. A single thought may seem insignificant, yet repeated thoughts become habits, habits become actions,and actions shape the destiny of the soul.

[𖤓 @unconquered_sol]

Odin: Solstice
— Anton Marussig (1914)

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read:

Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading.

Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it.

That’s how information actually becomes part of you.

What’s your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?

[Johan @Johan__511]

@blauwvalk Hello my fellow boomer

[Johan @Johan__511]

@blauwvalk Gimme the link mate I wanna give it a try

[Johan @Johan__511]

@cfcvintage_ Naaa, club isn't going for him although he's a great talent. They're salivating all over Wharton.

[Thorfinn🕊️ @DavidKairoT]

I am begging you to read some fiction bro.

→ Not because it makes you look smart.

→ Because fiction teaches things that bullet points can’t.

→ A self-help book tells you to be resilient.

→ The Count of Monte Cristo makes you live through resilience for 1,000+ pages.

→ A self-help book tells you to understand people.

→ Dostoevsky puts you inside minds you’d never otherwise understand.

→ Information is easy to forget.

→ Experience isn’t.

Read fiction.
Your attention span, empathy, vocabulary, and understanding of human nature will improve.

[Philosway @philosway]

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

— Blaise Pascal

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Famous gothic-style dragon lantern made from wrought, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[magnetize 💰🟨⬛️💲🏴☭⃠ 🚁 @magnetizedepose]

"Windowaffen"

[Aristotle 🏛️ @Aristotle7777]

You can either listen to women or you can have a civilization but you can’t have both.

[Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ @NoahRevoy]

Gentlemen, do not let your wife's mood control your mood.

You can choose to be happy even when your wife is having an off day or is in a bad mood. You can choose to be joyful when she is miserable.

It is one of the best things you can do for yourself and for her.

Do not share in her down moods.

Go out and do things you enjoy. Have fun without her. Take the kids if it makes sense. Do not let her shame you out of it or convince you that it is wrong.

She needs to understand that you can have a wonderful life without her if you choose to, but that you would rather share that life with her.

[PT Zoomer @ChristisKing123]

It's the predominant correlation. The more that individual women depend on individual men to survive, the more babies they have. That's because babies are women's main bargaining mechanism for access to men's money, resources and security. Equality removes the need for babies.

[Johan @Johan__511]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Please keep in mind that every single civilisation has imposed strict limits on women, in every concevable way and this woman is a prime example why.

[Lou Perez @LouPerez]

The truth about socialism.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils.

What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder.

What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw.

The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things.

No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence.

And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is.

And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it.

You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce.

And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games.

Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses.

And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes.

Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice?

Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time.

The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

1% of people account for 63% of all violent crimes.

0.2% of people ever commit murder, and **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests

You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society.

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

A man's ability to throw projectiles overhead leaves telltale traces on his face.
Humans have a remarkable and unique capacity to throw projectile weapons. The ability to throw overhand with power and accuracy, to wound and kill from afar, is a derived adaptation within the genus Homo that undoubtedly had a profound effect on the success of our ancestor, by offering advantages in fighting and hunting. As a result, the capacity to quickly infer this trait in others could have also been adaptive for the purposes of assessing coalitional partners, rivals and potential mates.
The current research investigates whether people can accurately infer the overhand throwing ability of others based on facial appearance.
We demonstrated that face-based inferences of overhand throwing ability are accurate, predicting an analogue of ancestral projectile weaponry, the javelin, among male track and field athletes. Moreover, we found that javelin throwers have distinctive facial shapes, which may be driving these perceptions. Facial morphometric analyses showed that javelin throwers could be distinguished from the other track and field athletes by more prominent brows, a narrower interorbital distance, a broader mid-face and a more elongated chin.
Finally, we replicate these effects and demonstrate that face-based inferences of overhand throwing ability can be decoupled from perceptions of physical strength and formidability. Overall, the ratings from male and female participants were highly similar across all three studies, which is consistent with the view that face-based inferences of overhand throwing could have been adaptive both in terms of assessing potential rivals and coalitional partners (male–male competition) as well as identifying mating partners that can provide, protect and provision (female choice).

[Ray Peat Quotes @RayPeatQuotes]

On fish oil:

"When you ingest highly polyunsaturated oil, it's like the problem with taking in a large amount of synthetic ascorbic acid. Any reducing and oxidizing catalysts that are present are going to cause an explosive degrading oxidation of these highly oxidizable molecules.

Studies have found that by the time fish oil gets into your bloodstream it's already highly oxidized and that these oxidized free radical breakdown products of the fish oil that suppress the white blood cells and knock down your immune reactions.

So for the first six months usually, you get these anti-inflammatory effects that seem very beneficial. But you've probably heard of the radon baths causing immediate relief from arthritis and they used to give x-ray treatments actually to a sore knee joint and you'd get immediate knockdown of the inflammation in an arthritic joint from the ionizing radiation, but the anti-inflammatory effects of a big dose of highly oxidizable fish oil is working by the same mechanism, knocking out the inflammatory white blood cells.

But the effect, six months later, the process starts showing up the harmful effects. The radiation damage continues for 20 or 30 or 40 years later. And there haven't been such studies with the polyunsaturated oil overdoses, but the same kind of damage occurs. And so you would expect the long-range damage. What they see is that immune deficiency begins setting in after about six months of continuous supplementation of things such as fish oil.

And part of the argument in relation to the brain is that the brain contains a lot of these highly polyunsaturated fats. But when you look at either humans over a period of several decades, or in animal studies during a few years of an animal's development, when a cow or a person or a dog or rat is newborn, the brain has been highly protected against fatty acid absorption.

The brain makes its own polyunsaturated fats as needed from sugar. The brain first produces saturated fatty acids and then creates an omega minus nine glycolic acid. And then that can be further unsaturated, desaturated to produce the highly unsaturated omega nine series which are used in the brain.

So those are the only PUFAs that the newborn brain contains. They're defined as deficient in essential fatty acids, but really that's the state in which the brain has its greatest metabolic energy and its greatest capacity to learn.

With aging, the brain gradually accumulates more and more polyunsaturated fats from the environment. And as it does that, its metabolic rate slows down exactly in proportion with its ability to learn."

[Radio one network, 17 August 2020]