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high IQ minds tend to have one trait: intellectual promiscuity.
they practice mental polyamory. they can read Marx and Nietzsche in the same afternoon, study ancient philosophy and modern neuroscience, quote brainrot and quantum physics in the same sentence. contradiction doesn’t scare them. they can hold competing models in their head without immediately needing to choose a side.
true intelligence isn’t loyal to ideas. it betrays beliefs the moment better evidence appears. the rigid mind needs certainty, so it picks an ideology and becomes monogamous with it. the agile mind does the opposite: it loves many ideas, tests all of them, steals what works, discards what doesn’t, and marries none.
My wife is a nurse. She was pregnant during the pandemic. Her best friend is also nurse and she too was pregnant during the pandemic. She and her husband had been trying for a long time and this was their first.
They were both well into their pregnancies when the hospital that they work for started mandating full time employees get vaccinated. The hospital was pushing the vaccine so hard and the rhetoric was so crazy that they were both worried if it would even deliver their babies if they were not vaccinated. That's how scared they made people.
My wife and I decided immediately that there was no chance she was getting vaccinated while carrying our baby. She was only a couple months from giving birth so she tried to stall. She filed for an exemption, it was denied. She used whatever PTO she had. Then she quit full time and went part time. She made it through and gave birth to our beautiful, healthy, love of my life baby boy, vaccine free.
My wife's friend was just a couple months away from giving birth when she succumbed to the pressure to get vaccinated. She and her husband had already set up their daughter's room. They named her Penelope.
She was full term when she started having stomach pains. She thought she was in labor so she went to the hospital. The doctor told her that her baby was no longer alive. They induced labor and she delivered a dead little girl. Afterwards the doctor told her that a blood clot caused the death of her baby.
When my wife's friend sees our son she still gets emotional because her daughter would have been the same age as him. It breaks our hearts to see her still so heartbroken. What happened during the pandemic was just pure evil.
@bennyjohnson WRONG. You are looking dollar value, this is not consistent. You just look at time value. How many hours does it take to afford ‘X’. Things are cheaper than ever
Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife
Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed."
Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures."
Before the seal, there was a shark.
Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark."
He asked for the data to calculate the odds. They refused, in case shark hunters got hold of it.
Elon: "Then they said, well, there's another part of Fish and Wildlife that can do this analysis. I'm like, well, why don't you give them the data? They don't, we don't trust them. Like, excuse me, but they're literally in your department."
Then a second agency raised whales.
Elon: "If our rocket does hit a whale, which is extremely unlikely beyond all belief, that whale has some seriously bad luck. It's the least lucky whale ever."
The seal test was for launches out of Vandenberg, where the seal population has been rising for years.
Elon: "So if anything, rocket booms are an aphrodisiac based on the evidence."
Elon: "The amazing part is how calm the seal was. Because if I was a seal, I'd be like, this is the end. They're definitely gonna eat me."
Elon: "Its seal buddies are never gonna believe him that he got strapped to a board and they put headphones on his ears."
They did it twice.
Elon: "I don't think the public is quite aware of the madness that goes on."
I was added to a group chat.
Nobody asked. My phone made a sound and I was in a room with nine Americans and a name at the top that said "THE BOYS 🏈🔥."
I did not know four of them.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CONSCRIPTED INTO A COUNCIL WHOSE PURPOSE AND MEMBERSHIP HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED TO ME.
The first message I received was a photograph of a lawnmower with no caption.
Eleven replies. Nobody asked what the lawnmower was. Everyone understood immediately. One man replied "LMAOOO" with four O's, and another replied "no way he did it again."
He did it again. Somebody had done something again. With a lawnmower. Previously.
I have never learned what happened. There is no way to ask. To ask would reveal that I am new, and I have been in this chat for fourteen months.
Then I learned the rules.
You do not say hello. There is no greeting. You simply begin, mid-thought, as though continuing a conversation that has been running since 2019, because it has.
You do not answer questions directed at the group. Someone else will. If nobody does, the question dies, and nobody mourns it, and the man who asked it will bring it up again in six weeks with no reference to the first attempt.
You do not leave. Leaving generates a system message. The system message is visible to all. There is no discreet exit. The only way out is death, and even then someone will post in it.
Inside I said: THERE IS NO GATE OUT. THE WALLS FACE INWARD.
I said nothing for four months.
Then one night at 11 PM, a man posted "anybody up."
Two words. No question mark.
Three people replied within a minute. Then a fourth. Then they talked for two hours about nothing.
I understood then what the chat is for.
It is not for information. It has never carried information. It is a light left on in a window so that a man who cannot sleep can see that the house is still there.
Last month my father was ill.
I did not say so. I would not say so.
At 1 AM I typed "anybody up."
Four replies in ninety seconds. Nobody asked why. Nobody asked if I was alright. They simply began talking about a football game from 2011 and an argument they have been having about it for a decade.
They talked until 3 AM.
Then one of them wrote, "night, brother."
Just that. To me. Singular.
He knew.
They all knew.
Nobody said a word about it and nobody ever will and I have never in my life been held so carefully by people who refused to admit they were doing it.
Our son turns two tomorrow
Here are 24 things I've learned about being a dad
1. Children need deliberate training to become independent, it doesn't just happen
2. Understanding the neuroscience and psychology of habits helps to more effectively shape routines and character
3. You're raising adults, not children
3. If you get angry, you waited too long to discipline
4. Children learn way faster than you think
5. Children know way more than you think
6. Children pay attention way more closely thank you think
7. A child’s internal locus of control (response > stimulus) is one of the most protective things a father can help build
8. It's easier to prepare your child for the world than it is to prepare the world for your child
9. Overprotection is more harmful to kids than the risks we’re trying to avoid
10. Mom knows best
11. Infants don't have the ability to regulate their emotions so they mimic yours
12. A carnivore diet promotes incredible development, is way cheaper and regulates emotions very well
13. Vaccines are bullsh!t
14. Being strong multiples the time and events that are enjoyable
15. In the first 10 months, it's mom's job to take care of the baby and it's dad's job to take care of mom
16. Kids are truly a gift from God
17. The days are long and the years are short
18. Moms are the strongest people in the world
19. It's not your job to be their friend, it's your job to be their dad. They will have many friends but only one dad
20. Deliver on your threats
21. Their memory is unbelievable, use this to their advantage
22. Don't do anything for them that they can do for themselves
23. Kids are pretty much indestructible
24. Reward valid negotiation
🚨 ¡ESTO VA A ROMPER INTERNET!
Elon Musk acaba de soltar la bomba más loca de Neuralink:
“En los próximos 6 a 12 meses vamos a poner los primeros implantes de visión. Aunque estés 100% ciego de nacimiento, vamos a escribir directamente en tu corteza visual… y vas a ver.”
“Y eso es solo el comienzo. A largo plazo tendrás resolución ultra HD y superpoderes reales: verás en infrarrojo, ultravioleta y hasta radar. Literalmente como un superhéroe.”
El futuro ya no es ciencia ficción. Es Neuralink.