Jon Basalyga

[Jon Basalyga @jonbasalyga]

@DrJonathanChase @TonySeruga Politician seeks religious counsel, takes some of their advice, The Washington Post says "Insane"
Politician takes millions and marching orders from big pharma. Votes with them 100% of the time. The Washington Post says "He follows the science"

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why the most boring parts of your day are actually the most important:

1. The reason to improve yourself is not some casual self-help aspiration. It is to stop suffering more stupidly than you have to. And to stop making the people around you suffer more stupidly than they have to. Peterson's framing: if you do not organize yourself properly you will pay for it in a big way. And so will everyone near you. That is not a motivational poster. It is a warning.

2. Start by looking around for something that bothers you and fixing it. Sit in your room and ask genuinely: if i had ten minutes to make this place better, what would i do. not as a command. as a real question. Things will pop out. The stack of papers that has been bugging you. The cables behind the monitor you have ignored for six months. the dust. fix those things. Fix a hundred things like that and your life will look completely different.

3. Fix the things you repeat every day first. People treat their daily routines as trivial. getting up, brushing teeth, breakfast, the same small habits. Peterson says those routines probably constitute fifty percent of your life. The things you do every day are the most important things you do. The arithmetic is obvious once you do it. Neglecting them because they feel mundane is exactly backwards.

4. Do not try to fix things outside your domain of competence. If you are walking down the street and see a man who is alcoholic, schizophrenic, and has been homeless for ten years, that is a problem. But mucking around in it will not help him and will very likely hurt you. You have to have humility. You do not walk up to a broken helicopter and start tinkering. Find what you can actually fix and fix that.

5. As soon as you give your mind a genuine aim, it reconfigures the world around that aim. This is not metaphor. It is how perception works. The famous gorilla experiment: people watching basketball players pass a ball, miss a gorilla walking through the middle of the frame because they were told to count passes. You see what you aim at. The world manifests itself differently depending on what you are looking for. If the world is manifesting itself negatively the first question to ask is whether you are aiming at the right thing.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

7 Latin American elections since USAID was defunded:

🇨🇱 Chile: "far-right" Kast won
🇧🇴 Bolivia: "far-right" Paz won
🇵🇪 Peru: "far-right" Fujimori won
🇪🇨 Ecuador: "far-right" Noboa won
🇭🇳 Honduras: "far-right" Asfura won
🇨🇴 Colombia: "far-right" Espriella won
🇨🇷 Costa Rica: "far-right" Fernandez won

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Imagine Hillary without Bill's charm and with Obama's condescending cadence. https://t.co/VAeLwomeTS

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Grandma may have been a spy in her youth.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Muslims gang raped 250k+ British girls.

Evidence that Fauci funded gain-of-function research with tax dollars was made public.

Illegal aliens tried to blow up White House UFC event.

Media: OMG did you see the algae in the Reflecting Pool???

[Alexa Henning @alexahenning]

Legacy media outlets won’t cover anything that ODNI released over the past year and a half because they’d have to admit their complicity in covering for the democrats lies.

Ie the truth about biolabs, that Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about GoF research and his ties to the IC, the Biden admin covered up whistleblower complaints about him, the list goes on.

But continently another hit piece drops with some of the dumbest reporters parroting the bigoted smears about Tulsi’s (who served over two decades in the Army) loyalty.

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

I've been making 6 figures with my own businesses for 6 years now

I went from broke in Spain, making 1200€/month as a corporate web developer...

To running multiple businesses across 60+ countries, all from my laptop

During this time, I've learned A LOT about what it takes to get to 6 figures

Here's the actual playbook, with 6 things that actually move the needle 🧵👇

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Why Isn’t Fauci In Jail?

—Sam Faddis is a former clandestine CIA operations officer in Latin America and the Middle East

On her way out the door as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released a number of declassified documents related to COVID-19 and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role in covering up its origins. It is worth quoting the first part of the official DNI statement in its entirety.

https://t.co/nWCs0Kji5C

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Conor Neill on why luck is not random and how to deliberately get more of it:

1. Luck flows through people and travels by conversation. James Clear's framing: keep talking to the same people, keep finding the same opportunities. start talking to new people, start finding new opportunities. If you want different luck, start walking into different rooms. The people you have access to determine the opportunities that reach you. This is not a metaphor. It is mechanics.

2. What separates successful people from unsuccessful ones is not the amount of luck they receive. It is return on luck. Jim Collins's idea: when a luck event presents itself, what do you do with it. Most people get roughly similar amounts of lucky moments. The difference is who is prepared and paying attention when they arrive.

3. A careers advisor in Spain gave one piece of advice that changed everything: meet one new person every week. For 25 years, the speaker kept a slot in his calendar every single week for a coffee with someone new. almost every significant opportunity in his life, his teaching role, his business, came through a single individual and a conversation. The math on one new person per week over 25 years is staggering.

4. When you meet someone new, you are starting at number 21 on their list of priorities. Dan Sullivan's framework: they have at least 20 things more important than talking to you. If you spend the conversation talking about yourself, your goals, what you want, you drop from 21 to 30 to 50 and fall off the list entirely. If you ask about them, their goals, what brought them there, you move up. Most good people, if you explore who they are, will then explore who you are. That is how a real conversation opens.

5. Luck surface area is a size you can control. The more people you meet and the more genuine conversations you have, the larger the surface through which luck can reach you. same people, same conversations, same luck. new people, new conversations, new luck. It is that simple, and most people never deliberately expand it.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

are you having an italian man summer?

[Ed Latimore @EdLatimore]

The Devil went down to the projects, he was looking for some crack to buy

Cause he was feelin' real low and didn't wanna snort blow, but he wanted to get super high

When he came across a young boy with some bakin' soda cookin up rocks...

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad

[Jon Basalyga @jonbasalyga]

@sciencegirl Street Three Card Monte

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1832 a young naturalist named Charles Darwin rode out across the Argentine pampas and watched grown men live on almost nothing but cattle. He expected the diet to break them. It did the opposite.

The men were the gauchos, the horsemen of the grasslands, and they ate beef. Beef in the morning, beef at midday, beef again at night, roasted on a spit or thrown straight onto the embers. No bread. No vegetables to speak of. A gourd of bitter mate tea passed from hand to hand, and that was the whole of it. Darwin, raised on the careful mixed diet of the English table, could scarcely credit that a man could live this way, yet he watched them do it for months on end, in the saddle from dawn till dark, and flourish.

One detail he recorded matters more than the rest. The gauchos did not eat their beef lean. They went for the fat, ate a great proportion of it, and turned up their noses at any meat too dry to satisfy. Darwin set down the old observation alongside it, that a man kept long on lean flesh alone will crave fat so fiercely he can swallow it by the mouthful without disgust. The gauchos had landed on the same truth with not a book between them. Lean meat alone is a trap. The fat is what turns a pile of beef into a diet a man can ride all day on.

He left one scene that says everything. Darwin passed a night at the house of a wealthy landowner who held square miles of ground rich enough to grow any crop on earth. Supper was two great heaps of beef, one roasted and one boiled, a jug of water for the whole table, a little pumpkin, and not so much as a crumb of bread. The man could have grown wheat to the horizon. He saw no reason to. He had cattle.

That was the gaucho mind entire. Grass and grain were food for animals, for the horse and the steer. A man ate the animal. To live on what cattle eat, they reckoned, was to end up labouring like cattle and faring little better.

William Henry Hudson, who grew up among them on the pampas, recorded the same flesh diet a generation later. These were hard, lean, formidable men, half horse, who could ride through a day and a night and fight at the end of it, and who lived on the steer and the fire and not much else.

Then the wheat came, with the railways and the ships full of European settlers, and the old way was bred out of them. Today more than a quarter of Argentine adults are obese, roughly one in ten is diabetic, and heart disease kills more of them than anything else. The beef never left. It simply arrived now beside the bread, the sugar, the refined oil and the rest of the modern larder.

Here is the part worth sitting with. The gaucho was no superman, and his life was brutally hard, lived almost wholly on horseback with no sugar, no flour and no factory food within a thousand miles. Strip all that away and the conclusion is hard to dodge. The beef was never the thing making the modern Argentine sick. The trouble rode in with everything we started serving beside it.

Same animal. Same red meat their great-great-grandfathers thrived on. The only thing that changed was what we put on the plate next to it.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“We are not governed by the people—that’s a myth that carries over from Abraham Lincoln’s day. We don’t have government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

“We have government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.”

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

How long has the US 🇺🇸 been meddling with other countries for profit?

I visited the Panama Canal 🇵🇦 yesterday and learned something that isn't on the tour brochure

Panama only exists because the US wanted this canal

Turns out, in 1903, Colombia 🇨🇴 refused to make a deal with them. So Washington backed Panama's "independence," parked warships to block Colombian troops from landing, and recognized the new country within days

The canal treaty was signed two weeks later. Crazy sh*t

It wasn't the first time, and it wasn't (and won't be!) the last:

🌺 Hawaii, 1893: US businessmen overthrew the Queen with Marine backing. Annexed a few years later
🇮🇷 Iran, 1953: Iranians elected a PM who nationalized their own oil. The CIA and British removed him and handed power to the Shah
🇬🇹 Guatemala, 1954: A president redistributed unused land held by a US fruit company. The CIA overthrew him too

And you have so many more, from the promotion of the Spanish Black Legend to the invasion of Puerto Rico

The pattern never changes. A country tries to act in its own interest, and suddenly there's a "crisis" that requires interventio

Once you see it, you can't unsee it

Which one did your history class conveniently skip?

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

We choose to build.
To create rather than take.
To encourage others rather than be envious.
To cheer for civilizational progress rather than aim to rule over a pile of dirt.

Here's to the builders, the makers, the innovators.
May we keep the takers at bay.

[Lindy Li @lindyli]

A decade ago, a Congresswoman flew across the country on her break just to spend the day with Princeton students

Simply because I asked

No cameras. No staff. Just pure generosity

That woman? @TulsiGabbard who served America as DNI

She has rare integrity. Thank you, Tulsi 🇺🇸♥️