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Purest ride from tunnel to tunnel

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[King @Shatillac]

@HalfwayPost I call bullshit! Unless you name names this is just Democrat fan-fiction! I’m tired of the “top GOP ….” anonymous quotes! Just stop, no one said this. #trump #gop

[King @Shatillac]

@leachfortexas Holy smokes @KenPaxtonTX is this you?

[Courier-Post @cpsj]

Chase, an 8-year-old golden retriever in North Carolina, had been helping himself to food from the fridge while his owner was out. https://t.co/eKTYiqwFf8

[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.

[King @Shatillac]

@KarlTowns The biggest #bitches are the ones being all loud about NOT being a bitch! This clown the biggest bitch of them all. What a #clown

[King @Shatillac]

@DavidShafer You’re not a real person, you cannot be. To be this oblivious to the hatred and people of hatred around you is just as bad as being a member of the kkk, therefore, you cannot be a real person

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

One of my favourite Ichiro Suzuki tales. As told by Joe Posnanski

[Mike Mulraney @mullrainee]

George W Bush and Anthony Fauci saved an entire continent with PEPFAR

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week.

Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist.

[King @Shatillac]

@honeyxbree Damn, could watch that bounce for hours

[Maxou Rona 🎸🇫🇷 💙💛 #TAEM #PFM @Madximilian]

The White House says Barron Trump is "too tall" at 6'9" to serve in the military.
David Robinson was 7'0" and put his NBA career on hold to serve in the Navy. If Robinson could do it, Barron can too.
#amandaagerd

[Adnene Nasri @TheOther_9]

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

This video was deleted from Twitter, you know what to do !!

[King @Shatillac]

@Franklin_Graham @realDonaldTrump You must be in the #EpsteinTrumpFiles

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is so powerful.

This NJ resident breaks down in tears talking about why he’s protesting against ICE.

“I’ve never protested before in my entire life, but i’ve watched fourth and fifth grade kids run away from her own government. I don’t ever want to see that again. And I’m not going to stand away and watch my neighbors run away scared.”

[King @Shatillac]

Making that poor bear drink @pepsi is animal abuse! #ASPCA should be coming for you! #Pepsi #terrible #no

[Pepsi @pepsi]

Challenge over, winner decided: The choice is PEPSI

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

My God if this is true.

So one of the stupid ICE officers discharged his own weapon and the other stupid ICE officers...

JESUS.

[Talkin' Twins @TalkinTwins]

"I want to be careful not to take sides, so to speak."
Tom Pohlad, Minnesota Twins owner, in reaction to Minnesotans being attacked & murdered by ICE.

How do you "both sides" residents being killed?

The #MNTwins might have the worst PR / communications in all of baseball.

[King @Shatillac]

It’s shit like this that makes me stop watching @NFL @NBA and @MLB no more money for these billionaire babies. Nothing changes till the rich suffer

[Talkin' Twins @TalkinTwins]

"I want to be careful not to take sides, so to speak."
Tom Pohlad, Minnesota Twins owner, in reaction to Minnesotans being attacked & murdered by ICE.

How do you "both sides" residents being killed?

The #MNTwins might have the worst PR / communications in all of baseball.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

To @AOC’s point, here’s what JD Vance had to say about Kyle Rittenhouse: