Tim krick

Dairy and cash crop farmer. Trying to figure out how to do my job better and to grow better soya beans and corn, the constant search for knowledge is exciting!

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

I didn’t mind if you were gay. Until you paraded in the streets in chaps and with dildos in front of families.

I didn’t care if you were trans. Until you wanted access to my kids in school and wanted them to question their own sexuality and gender.

I didn’t care if you were black or white or brown. Until you wanted to pull down statues, destroy our history, re-write our novels and pay you reparations.

I didn’t care if you wanted to cross borders. Until you decided to do so illegally and then started criminal enterprises in the country you entered or lived off the welfare system.

I even didn’t mind if you wanted an abortion, until you started celebrating them and calling the fœtus a “clump of cells”.

I am not the only one. There are millions of people just like me. And we are angry now and will fight back.

The line must be drawn here.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy.

That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks.

She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed.

She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed.

The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality.

It doesn’t add up.

Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication.

Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson shared one of the most sobering statistics I’ve heard in a long time.

The U.S. Armed Forces — after over a century of careful psychometric research driven by life-and-death necessity — will not induct anyone with an IQ below 83. They concluded that there is simply nothing in the military (at any level) that such a person can be trained to do without being counterproductive.

Peterson noted that this threshold captures roughly one in ten people. And if the military’s complexity is even roughly comparable to broader society, that means about 10% of the population has no viable place in our cognitively demanding world.

He emphasized that this isn’t about lack of money or short-term training. The data shows it’s extremely difficult to turn low cognitive ability into the kind of adaptive, creative problem-solving that modern society requires.

It’s a raw, uncomfortable truth about human variation that most people prefer not to discuss openly.

What do you think — is this statistic something society needs to confront honestly, or is there a better way to think about it?

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

The single LARGEST vaccine–dementia study ever conducted (n=13.3 million) found that adult vaccines (flu, pneumococcal, shingles, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) increase risk of DEMENTIA (+38%) and ALZHEIMER’S (+50%) for a DECADE.

The more doses, the higher the dementia risk.

[K-State Agronomy @KStateAgron]

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[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

You asked for the greatest lap in F1 history.

Enjoy 🔥

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

He understands the power of President Trump in regards to global and economic stability and isn’t afraid to say so!!

[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

SPA 2012, when F1 cars had real engines and not batteries.

Wait for it and sound on 🔊🔊

https://t.co/FPcQa7IT3m

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Mark Carney: "[Trump] is very sharp...He’s decisive, and he has an ability to change the dynamic very quickly, whether it’s with respect to Ukraine, peace in the Middle East, global trade, and beyond..."

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

When Niki Lauda delivered one of the most brutal and inspiring speeches in sports history

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Mainstream media will never televise this to Canadians.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

In case you missed it, Chevrolet released a Christmas ad this season that will give you chills from start to finish.

An absolute must-watch.

Every second reminds you why family is everything…

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Throwback to Chevrolet’s first non-woke, deeply emotional Christmas ad.

I mean it when I say it’s impossible to watch without tearing up.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone 🎄
https://t.co/ZMNceHEfv1

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

https://t.co/jI5PAhplYg

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.

Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?

Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.

And still became one of the greatest of all time.

Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.

So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.

That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”

Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”

Save this post.

The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.

You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.

Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)

[Dale Cowan CCA.On 4R NMS @SCSAgronomy]

#agrisagronomy GDD accumulation on wheat tracking slightly behind a year ago . If wheat planted Sept 25 it should have 3 to 4 leaves on main stem. 130 GDD to emerge and 90 GDD for each leaf.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

https://t.co/pr6ENvzB2S

[The Hermanator! (Paul Hermans) @phhermans]

First fungicide corn plot off. Eight hybrids in total . 7 out of 8 had a yield response to Veltyma fungicide averaging 9.7 bushels more and .25 percent drier. Note no tar spot in this plot. Thanks to J&H Nixon Farms for the continual agronomy learning support. #ontag

[Precision Planting @PrecisionPlant]

When your corn dries in the field, some yield disappears with it. But how much, exactly? 🤔

We ran a two-year study at the PTI Farm in Illinois to measure phantom yield loss, and the results might surprise you. Dive into the full results with us ↓↓

https://t.co/qpPbxxj8n3