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[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

it’s crazy that i was so used to popes being like 372-year-old tiny italian men who just wear the little hat and bless things. now the pope likes baseball and gives out advice like uncle jessie it’s so sick

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

His 3 day weekend is over. Stop the rain and make it sunny for the work week

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

REMINDER: MEDITATION LITERALLY SHRINKS THE AMYGDALA, WHICH IS THE PART OF THE BRAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR FEELING STRESS, ANXIETY, PANIC, AND FEAR.

THE MORE YOU MEDITATE, THE HEALTHIER YOUR BRAIN AND EMOTIONS BECOME.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

and if you check yourself & you see that you come from a family that deep down is average, that your dad and mom aren't rich

pay solid attention;

if you know within yourself that in 24 hrs, if your entire family comes together, you can't raise $10k... bro, stay out of trouble. i will tell you that for free. you don't have any business with enjoyment or la vida loca. you have to get into the battlefield and work on yourself.

i will always tell the younger generation the truth, poverty is more damaging than most people understand.

& if you are in a situation where maybe a sibling of yours is in critical medical condition and if the entire family comes together but still can't raise money for treatment, surgery or maybe even an opportunity when it comes

i've heard of situations where someone got a free visa for a life-changing contract but the flight ticket was the issue cos the family couldn't support, they didn't have it. if deep down you know this could be your fate, put yourself in a position where every day of your life you are grinding to break that yoke. some days, go offline, switch off your phone and focus on becoming a better person every single day.

the consequences of being a young man without money or a supportive family are often brutal at the end of the day. as a young person coming up, you need to be paying attention to sir chris.

buena suerte as you do so 👍

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Zero out taxes for the bottom half of earners. A nurse in Queens shouldn’t be sending money to Washington. Washington should be sending her an apology.

[j 🍊 @jonarredo]

Life be sad sometimes 😕

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

*JEFF BEZOS : BOTTOM HALF OF WORKERS SHOULD PAY ZERO TAXES

[Paul Millerd @p_millerd]

john d rockefeller had a chill work life:

"By his mid-thirties, Rockefeller realized that burning the midnight oil at Standard Oil was unsustainable. To protect his energy, he installed a telegraph wire between his home and office. This allowed him to work from home three or four afternoons a week, spending his time gardening, planting trees, and moving at what his biographer Ron Chernow described as an "aggressively leisurely" pace"

[j 🍊 @jonarredo]

Be calm

[j 🍊 @jonarredo]

@chasedownleads @Cobratate 🤣

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

Just added another stream of passive income

(My wife got a 3rd job)

[j 🍊 @jonarredo]

I just found out that people could be addicted to stress

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that freight brokers can be held liable for negligently hiring unsafe trucking companies, including carriers using unqualified or illegal drivers who violate CDL regulations and cause crashes.

[Jackson @Jacksonsrule]

Call it a millennial crisis if you want.
But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.

[Vaibhav @vhxp0ni]

run 5k with your partner, get hydrated, go home and fuck

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

James K. Polk took office in 1845 with four goals:

Rebuild the Treasury. Settle Oregon. Take California. Cut tariffs.

He did it all in one term, added a million square miles, and stretched the country to the Pacific.

Then he went home. Didn't need to run again.

[dan nolan @dannolan]

I’m not dying from some fucking hentai virus

[j 🍊 @jonarredo]

Getting older is a crash course in stress management. Calm tf out or crash tf out.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.