John baker

we all are meatbags!!

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

@bordeauxyoutube U the man!

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

Micro transactions have ruined platform games period. I will no longer pay for this garbage! It is insane to think this is a good business model. #CFB27PlayDontPay

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

@bennyyinzer I will not buy game till micro transactions go away! I thought they were bad last year. This year is unacceptable!! Fuck ea

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

@nicksortor Happy birthday USA! I watched on TV like an old person

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

Best of times!

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Spanish broadcast of Malik Tillman’s free kick

MAJESTIC 🇺🇸

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I could not possibly agree more with this Article. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

I'm pretty unique career-wise, so I think I speak from a unique perspective. I retired as a very young full colonel and went to law school and became a corporate lawyer. I worked in Silicon Valley in the start-up world, representing companies and venture capitalists.

When I was in the Army I was CONVINCED I had all the tools I needed to succeed in business. I was a good leader. I was a good manager. I was an adept planner. I wrote well. I kept up with technology. All I needed was a community college Accounting 101 course, and I was ready to run my own business!

Right?

WRONG.

I was smugly stupid and clueless on the following:

-Profit and loss. Don't run a profit? The business dies. That's a totally alien concept to the military.

-Marketing.

-Accounting.

-The regulatory nightmare of HR laws.

-The regulatory nightmare of basically all laws governing civilian business (going to law school did help on that one of course, but most military retirees are not going to law school).

-Dealing with employees who will break down and boo-hoo cry if you tell them they did something wrong. (And you can't make them drop and give you 20.)

-The LANGUAGE of business. It's just alien to the military mind.

-The speed and efficiency of business. (Yes, the military is very speedy and efficient when it comes to killing enemies and blowing things up, but all of the administrative processes are incredibly unwieldy, slow, stupid and inefficient. Many large corporations share that problem to varying degrees, but in the small business world slowness and inefficiency = failure.)

The Sergeant Major of the Army thinks senior leaders don't need civilian skills training? WRONG. In fact, they need it MORE than junior soldiers because junior soldiers are not locked into 30 years of military thinking.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

When I was a kid, the Bronx was burning. My dad was a fireman who happened to be an Ivy League graduate.

He told me it wasn’t the crackheads torching the city, whatever the news said. It was fraud.

Let me explain how it worked…. John Doe buys a rundown apartment building for $100k. He pockets the redevelopment tax break, then sells it to Joe Doe for $250k. Joe pockets the tax break, then sells it to Jerry Doe for $500k. Rinse and repeat until the building is worth $5 million.

The tax breaks are real. The money is not.

Because the buyers are all family, the cash flows out of Swiss bank account 27852 and right back into 27852 after every sale. There’s a transaction cost, sure, but the tax breaks more than cover it.

Then comes the payoff: they insure the building for $5 million and burn it down.

The name for this was “Jewish Lightning.” The phrase stuck around not because the landlords were all Jewish, but because the stereotype hit a nerve in a city run by Jewish mayors from 1974 to 1989, the peak of the burning. Fair or not, the term stuck.

So why was none of this investigated? NGO funding, of course.

The NYPD union was powerful, and NYC detectives had sweeping investigative authority over almost everything. Except arson. Arson belonged to FDNY detectives. NGOs, routing money through union donations, stoked the rivalry between cops and firemen.

Long story short, arson investigators got no funding and zero cooperation from the NYPD.

No money for investigations means no arrests.

Eventually the Bronx ran out of buildings to burn, and Giuliani drove the final nail into arson fraud’s coffin.

But the lesson survived, and it’s the foundation of today’s fraud. The lesson was this: the actual value of the asset doesn’t matter.

👉What matters is the movement of money.

Destruction is still very profitable. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the cleanup and rebuild were estimated at $1.7 billion, with the bridge reopening in 2028. The cost has since ballooned to $5.2 billion, and the wreckage still isn’t fully cleared.

Money pours into demolition,, engineering, environmental review, project management, waste removal.

But if the work doesn’t actually get done, the real expenses stay low. The money moves; the bridge doesn’t.

And here’s the leap: you don’t have to destroy anything at all. You just have to not build it.

Democrats allocate money to a government body, which hands it to a project manager, who hires consultants, who hire subcontractors, who hire more subcontractors, who funnel it back to Democrats, who allocate more money.

The fewer the actual costs (labor, materials, equipment) the more of the flow you can capture.

And if a taxpayer complains, you hire a PR firm and a few consultants to explain why costs keep exploding while nothing gets built. The easiest thing to blame is red tape.

So why does red tape exist?

Because destroying valuable property, while profitable, is too obviously unethical.

Burning buildings gets you arrested, eventually. Not building gets you a ribbon-cutting and a press release.

Here’s the deeper trap. Because our most valuable assets are fixed (houses, cars, index funds) we think of money as static. You have what you have. It grows over time, but it doesn’t flow.

That’s exactly where the fraud lives: in the flow.

The light bulb moment was realizing you don’t need to destroy physical property. You only need to destroy productivity.

If labor and materials are never purchased while money pours in, the fraud works.

You don’t have to build or destroy anything of value, just productivity. You just announce a project and start writing checks while throwing up enough red tape to block any real spending on labor and materials.

This is basically why Congress handed @PeteButtigieg $1.2 trillion and our roads and bridges still suck five years later. They put up signs, traffic cones, and red tape, and little else.

But there are a few residual problems. 1/2

[Alexandrovich Unleashed @ImAlexandrovich]

Gaethje walkout is better than any tracking cam movie shots. No reshots. One take. Real time. Most badass shit I've ever seen. Documentary renegade live film making.

[Jed I. Goodman © @jedigoodman]

Dana White on the event not being political: I did all the media. We went to New York, I did far left. I did far right. I did down the middle. I did it all. I believe if you are an American, no matter where you sit politically, tonight was a proud night to just sit around and enjoy the 250th birthday of America.

[Spage Enthusiast @SpageEnthusiast]

I’ve been pronouncing Omaha like this since Friday

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

Quotes From British Military Annual Personnel Reports.

1. His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity.

2. I would not breed from this Officer.

3. This man is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot.

4. This officer can be likened to a small puppy - he runs around excitedly, leaving little messes for other people to clean up.

5. This Officer is really not so much of a has-been, more of a definitely won't-be.

6. When she opens her mouth, it seems only to change whichever foot was previously in there.

7. Couldn't organise 50% leave in a 2 man submarine.

8. He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction.

9. He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.

10. Technically sound, but socially impossible.

11. The occasional flashes of adequacy are marred by an attitude of apathy and indifference.

12. When he joined my ship, this Officer was something of a granny; since then he has aged considerably.

13. This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port, and my officers to carry him from bar to bar.

14. This Officer reminds me very much of a gyroscope, always spinning around at a frantic pace, but not really going anywhere.

15. Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig.

16. She sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.

17. He has the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.

18. This Officer should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better.

19. In my opinion this pilot should not be authorised to fly below 250 feet.

20. The only ship I would recommend for this man is citizenship.

21. Couldn't organise a woodpecker's picnic in Sherwood Forest.

22. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.

23. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

24. Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.

25. Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.

26. If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.

27. Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching.

28. If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.

29. It's hard to believe that he beat 1,000,000 other sperm.

30. A room temperature IQ.

31. Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.

32. A gross ignoramus, 143 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.

33. He has a photographic memory but has the lens cover glued on.

34. He has been working with glue too long.

35. When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.

36. This man hasn't got enough grey matter to sole the flip-flop of a one legged budgie.

37. If two people are talking, and one looks bored, he's the other one.

38. One-celled organisms would out score him in an IQ test.

39. He donated his body to science before he was done using it.

40. Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

41. He's so dense, light bends around him.

42. If brains were taxed, he'd get a rebate.

43. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.

44. Takes him 1.1/2 hours to watch 60 minutes.

45. Wheel is turning, but the hamster is long gone.

😁😁

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

Favorite era

[Pitch Yarns @pitch_yarns]

Goalie kits in the 90s 🔥

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

When Diego Maradona delivered the most ICONIC warm-up in football history to the tune of 'Live is life'. 🇦🇷🚬

They don't make footballers like him anymore. 🔥👏

[л @yetoshi24]

Alexander The Great lionhead helmet on display at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

Lego art installation inside the wall 😮

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

@joelampton_ I like this statement :The key is to remain retarded forever and to refuse to die - no matter what happens.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The Woodpecker is the only proof that God really exists.

And I'm going to prove it to you right NOW:🧵

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Elon Musk says five-year deadlines gut every project before the work starts.

Project schedules grow.

Musk doesn't let them.

He named the law nobody else does.

"There is a law of gas expansion that applies to schedules."

Then the consequence.

"If you said we're going to do something in five years, which to me is like infinity time, it will expand to fill the available schedule and it'll take five years."

Five years is infinity time.

The fix is the deadline you'd never agree to.

"I generally actually try to aim for a deadline that I at least think is at the 50th percentile."

A deadline missed half the time on purpose.

Musk, on what 50th percentile means:

"It's the most aggressive deadline I can think of that could be achieved with 50% probability."

Half the schedule slips.
The other half ships impossible.

Musk's whole operating system runs on it.

"I have a maniacal sense of urgency. So that maniacal sense of urgency projects through the rest of the company."

The urgency is not pressure.
It is gas pressure.

Without it, the project fills the room you give it.

Musk, on what he's actually optimizing:

"I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor."

The limiting factor is rarely the work.

It is the schedule.

If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content.

— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

[John baker @PrayForMojo2016]

@Super70sSports I 100% agree with this take!