Sam S

Operates Express Car Washes in Southern CA. ✌🏽USC MBA, Avid Hiker, Tea Aficionado, Chicken Fiend, Preacher of Mindfulness, DJ 🎵, Lover not a fighter

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@dosinaga2 everything but the police and gunfire

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

First Cybercab with @Starlink integration

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This is pure cosmic poetry in motion 🔥🌌
Watch the Hirajoshi Wave — a mesmerizing polyrhythmic pendulum where gravity-defying spheres trace the exact frequencies of the ancient C Hirajoshi pentatonic scale (C, D, Eb, G, Ab). Each ball swings at its own precise speed, creating chaotic rainbow trails and hypnotic geometry… until everything perfectly realigns in a breathtaking visual AND musical climax.
It’s not just pretty — it’s the universe showing off.
Music is mathematics you can feel. The same harmonic laws that govern planetary orbits, gravitational resonances, and the fabric of spacetime are playing out right here in sound and motion. Ancient Japanese scale meets modern physics, proving once again: the cosmos doesn’t just make music… it is music.

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@BSAT_Properties Imagine if this applied in the US.

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Aariv Khanna @AarivKhanna]

How to understand ADHD overwhelm in 35 seconds.

[KTLA @KTLA]

California is marking Earth Day with a plan to open three new state parks and expand several others, a move officials say represents the largest growth of the state parks system in decades. https://t.co/bN9P8gMJo7

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@keithkman @BrianNorgard Have you been to SJC?

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@WallStreetApes

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

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[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Me drinking from a paper straw to save the planet.

The government:

[Kian 🇮🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 @MikePython42]

My family in Tehran a few minutes ago:

Aunt: "Every loud sound makes us think it has started, and we get excited"

Niece: "Even a fart gets us going now."

So, yes, yes I do.

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@0x_Andron @defense_civil25 these prediction markets disgust me

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Abigail Shrier: "The number one symptom of depression is rumination, pathologically obsessing over your pain. Getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you, sitting around, talking and thinking about your problems is a bad habit."

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan: "What is the effect of say you have three nights a week where you sleep 8 hours, and then the next nights 2 hours, and then the next night 8 hours, how much of a bump or a dip does that two hours give you in your overall health?"

Matthew Walker: "It's bad."

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

This is how Iran was.

And this is how Iran will be once again.

Make Iran Great Again 🇮🇷

[Sam S @sams_p4]

@joeroganhq 7, and then try and ask Taylor to swap seats

[Sam S @sams_p4]

Loving this rollout of @Spotify’s lyric translations. Can’t wait for La Chona… gracias!