10 years ago I herniated a disc in my back.
- Pain
- Sciatica
- Inability to train
But now I deadlift over 220kgs.
Here are the 4 Simple Exercises I used to get my back strong and pain free:
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Quoi qu'on en dise, s'il y a bien un mec qui a carry ces 30 dernières années, c'est Peter Thiel.
Remontez en 1987. Stanford. Une foule scande "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Culture's got to go." Jesse Jackson est dans le cortège. Résultat : l'université supprime son cours obligatoire de culture occidentale et le remplace par un programme baptisé "Cultures, Ideas, and Values" — recentré sur la race, le genre et la classe. Un gamin assiste à ça. Il a 19 ans. Il fonde un journal contrarian, le Stanford Review, pour documenter le délire. Ce gamin, c'est Thiel.
Huit ans plus tard, en 1995, il sort The Diversity Myth avec David Sacks. Et ce livre, c'est pas une tribune d'humeur.
C'est un dossier.
Des centaines de sources primaires — le Stanford Daily, les syllabus, les publications officielles.
Une autopsie clinique de la capture idéologique d'une des plus grandes universités du monde.
Ce qu'ils y documentent, lisez bien, parce qu'on est en 1995 :
La grande thèse d'abord : l'attaque ne portait pas sur la qualité des grands textes, mais sur leurs auteurs — coupables d'être du mauvais sexe, de la mauvaise race, de la mauvaise classe.
Le basculement d'un universalisme (les Lumières sont accessibles à tous) vers un particularisme identitaire. Anti-occidental, pas non-occidental.
Une guerre contre la civilisation occidentale elle-même.
Puis le concret, l'absurde, le documenté :
Shakespeare remplacé par Une Tempête d'Aimé Césaire, où Caliban devient un héros révolutionnaire. Les Confessions de saint Augustin relues comme une étude du "corps et du moi intérieur profond." La République de Platon convoquée pour illustrer les "mouvements anti-assimilationnistes."
La Déclaration des droits américaine mise sur le même plan qu'un "Car Buyer Bill of Rights" de Lee Iacocca.
Des cours intitulés "Enjeux de l'auto-défense pour les femmes." Un cours sur "la culture américaine de la drogue et de l'alcool" qui se terminait par une soirée de fin de semestre où on encourageait les étudiants à… boire et se droguer.
Un cours de gender studies au titre que je vous laisse traduire vous-mêmes.
Un "concours de notation de préservatifs" noté sur des critères comme le "goût" et le "sentiment de sécurité." L'administration qui refuse de boucher les glory holes percés dans les toilettes de la bibliothèque.
Un speech code interdisant les "mots qui blessent" — jusqu'à ce qu'il soit jugé anticonstitutionnel en 1995.
À l'époque, le président de Stanford les traite de démagogues et qualifie leur tribune au Wall Street Journal de "caricature." On en fait des pestiférés.
Trente ans plus tard, Thiel résume : presque chaque point qu'on a fait était juste.
Et c'est vrai. Ce qu'ils décrivaient en 95, on l'appelle aujourd'hui le wokisme.
Ils avaient juste vingt ans d'avance.
Cette grille, il la tient de René Girard, dont il a suivi le cours à Stanford. Théorie mimétique, désir copié, bouc émissaire. La clé de lecture de toute sa vie — Zero to One en est imbibé. Amitié à vie, il parlera à sa cérémonie d'hommage.
Et Girard, en retour, signe la préface du Diversity Myth : dénoncer le totalitarisme naissant, dit-il, est le plus haut devoir d'un intellectuel.
Voilà le pattern Thiel. Voir avant. Et prendre le max de risque pour contrer.
Toute la Silicon Valley vote Hillary. Lui monte seul sur la scène de la convention républicaine, défend Trump — "un bâtisseur" —, claque 1,25M$.
On le traite de paria, on fait pression sur YC pour qu'il le lâche.
Il s'en fout. Il avait raison là aussi.
Et aujourd'hui ? Il continue de clean le délire pièce par pièce.
Son protégé JD Vance est vice-président. Son écosystème irrigue le pouvoir.
Vingt ans d'avance. À chaque fois seul. À chaque fois raison.
Ahora sí, oficialmente quiero felicitar a mi amigo, empresario y presidente electo de #Colombia, @ABDELAESPRIELLA, por su contundente triunfo en las elecciones del pasado domingo. Los colombianos han hablado y han decidido apostar por un mejor rumbo para su país, lejos del #NarcoRégimen.
En Colombia, el tigre va para adelante… y en México también. ¡Nos vemos pronto!
The open society and its enemy, Soros.
While he named his Open Society Foundations after Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” his project stands as a philosophical inversion of everything Popper defended.
Popper’s open society rested on critical rationalism, the recognition that no one possesses final truth, that institutions must remain open to criticism and piecemeal reform, and that democracy functions as a method for removing rulers without bloodshed.
He rejected historicism, the belief in iron laws of history that justify sacrificing present generations for a utopian future, and warned that such thinking inevitably produces closed, authoritarian societies.
Soros has repurposed the label to advance a grand project of engineered demographic transformation.
Through mass immigration, multiculturalism as official policy, and diversity mandates that prioritize group identity over individual merit and assimilation, his foundations actively dissolve the cultural continuity and social trust that make rational criticism and incremental change possible.
Popper understood that openness requires a stable framework, a shared language of reason, basic cohesion, and institutions citizens feel they collectively own.
Soros treats those foundations as obstacles to be overcome in the name of an abstract, borderless openness.
The concrete results are visible. Parallel societies that operate under different norms, public spaces where debate on the scale and selection of immigration is treated as illegitimate, and the rise of identity based hierarchies that close off dissent in the name of equity.
These are certainly not expansions of the open society, but new forms of closure, tribal in character, enforced through institutional capture rather than overt dictatorship, yet hostile to the very critical spirit Popper placed at the center of civilized life.
Philosophically, Soros replaces Popper’s falsification and humility before reality with a new historicism, the conviction that global multiculturalism and open borders represent inevitable moral progress, and that resistance from actual existing communities constitutes the new enemy.
The machinery funded in the name of openness does not test its own assumptions against evidence, it suppresses the questions.
Those who still value the ideal of an open society should read Popper on their own terms.
They will find that Soros has not extended the open society, but has supplied its most sophisticated contemporary enemies.
“We should take Elon’s $1 trillion and use it to solve world hunger!”
👉 Except Africa’s already received $2.6 trillion in foreign aid since 1960.
“What if we use it to fix the education system?”
👉 The U.S. already spends $1.3 trillion a year on it.
“Let’s end poverty then!”
👉 America’s already spent over $22 trillion fighting poverty.
Not to mention… it’s theft. Brilliant video, @marktilbury.
Writer: Michael
¿Qué opinan ustedes de tener en México un gobierno que se haga responsable de dar seguridad a sus gobernados, luchar por la vida, respetar la propiedad, garantizar la igualdad ante la ley pero sobre todo que se asegure que quien la haga, la pague?
BREAKING: Elon Musk calls for the arrest of Ro 'the Robber' Khanna.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a USAID official and several executives pleaded guilty in a bribery scheme involving more than $550 million in contracts.
Yet Ro Khanna is claiming Elon should be investigated over DOGE spending cuts.
The standard applied by DOGE was very simple: if taxpayer money is being sent as aid, there should be a way to verify who received it and make sure the money isn’t being stolen or misused.
The DOJ is uncovering corruption connected to USAID contracts, Ro Khanna is attacking the person who pushed for transparency.
Elon simply asked where taxpayer money was going and whether it was actually reaching the people it was meant to help.
Ro “the Robber” Khanna should be in prison.
Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.
Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”
Think about what property tax actually means.
You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.
Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.
You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.
Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.
The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.
That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.
Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.
Now stack all three.
Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.
At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.
Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.
Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.
The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.
And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.
The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.
SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.
The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.
The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.
The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.
The future belongs to the people who build it.