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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

“Mormons turned a swamp into a metropolis. Then they turned a desert into an empire. It’s the most American story.”

Their religious beliefs take them to Missouri. Neighbors learn they are anti-slavery and violently drive them out.

They go to Illinois and turn a swamp into a city that rivals Chicago. Only to have violent mobs run them out.

They walk toward Utah. Hoping to find a safe place to gather.

Jim Bridger mocks them. He bets $1,000 they can’t grow crops in Utah. They continue anyway.

The Utah soil is so hard it breaks their plows. So they engineer a way to water a desert.

Their crops grow. Salt Lake City sprawls. They expand. Latter-day Saints settle 500 towns across the West. A network of farms, commerce, and faith.

Their women become the first women to vote. They elect America’s first female state senator.

Their women organize themselves. With very little training, they create a system that lowers infant mortality to among the lowest rates in the country.

When the Depression hits, Latter-day Saints implement the most effective welfare program in the country. Decades later, Ronald Reagan studies it and calls it a model for the country. Its impact is seen today as Utah has the lowest usage of federal food assistance in the country.

The pursuit of knowledge and science becomes a hallmark. They start universities. They send their smartest men and women back east to learn the latest ideas and bring them back.

They are innovative. Technology that changes the world emerges from their culture. The television. The artificial heart. The weapons that won WWII. The beginnings of the internet.

The work ethic and cooperation that propelled them to develop the American West continues today. Their outsized influence on the world is famous.

They know religious persecution better than most. So they champion religious freedom for all, even those they disagree with.

Sociologists are obsessed with their outcomes. A Princeton researcher studied teens in America. She concluded that “Mormon teens are faring best.” Harvard data recently found that kids who grow up in Latter-day Saint homes are the most likely to say they feel loved by both parents. Other national studies consistently find them to be the happiest people in the country.

Gallup finds they are the most observant Christians in the country, a dedication to their faith that is unrivaled. Pew Research finds they know many Bible stories better than any other Christians.

A swamp became a metropolis. A desert became an empire. A persecuted people became the happiest in America. That’s the most American story ever told.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@spencerpratt Not merely “ok”.

Anyone who doesn’t love America is a traitor and beneath contempt.

Those who don’t love America, those who are disloyal should be exiled immediately.

[Luke Belmar 👽 @lukebelmar]

The seed of patience is bitter but it's fruit is sweet. Great things take time. Keep going!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Size does matter

[Techartist @techartist_]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life.

For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist.

Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun.

Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist.

The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death.

Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.”

Not automated. Not replaced.

Named.

You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were.

If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you.

Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.”

People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment.

It’s not. It’s about identity.

The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around.

You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing.

When the label disappears, what’s left of you?

Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.”

Stop being a noun. Start being a verb.

But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy.

It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone.

In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being?

Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.”

For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output.

How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day.

We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet.

Now they do.

And they will be better than us at every measurable thing.

Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief.

When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens.

You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title.

Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone.

It just lives. And you love it anyway.

That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it.

Now we can.

We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines.

The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

you just woke up in 2046

- bryan johnson is sec of health
- peptides are a routine part of breakfast
- psilocybin is prescribed like ibuprofen
- testosterone levels are up 200%
- aging is a billing error your doctor can fix
- metabolism runs on a subscription model
- life expectancy is 150
- average IQ 140
- you pick your biological age at 35 and stay there
- vibes are permanently turned up

we're getting there sooner than you know, just don't quit yet

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

― Nikola Tesla

[Alexander the Great @lIALEXANDERll]

@lukebelmar Gay

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Matter,
Energy &
Intelligence

[Kevin R. Duncan @KevinRDuncan]

God teaches His children in deeply personal ways.

Through scripture, living prophets, and the quiet voice of the Holy Ghost, He communicates truth in language we can understand.

Open your ears and look steadfastly towards heaven (See 3 Nephi 11:5-6).

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Every retweet of this post will equal a dollar given to children with Leukemia.

[Kevin R. Duncan @KevinRDuncan]

"As the world grows more wicked, we need to grow increasingly pure… As we diligently seek to have charity and virtue fill our lives, our confidence in approaching God will increase." @NelsonRussellM

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.

There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The future is going to be AMAZING with AI and robots enabling sustainable ABUNDANCE for all!