sonic

tech, health, econ, dogs

[sonic @smysore]

@altcap @profgalloway Incredible that you came up with this idea and then gave it away to make it happen 🙏🏽❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

[Zak Kukoff @zck]

In 1953, George and Barbara Bush lost their daughter Robin to leukemia. She was three years old. Barbara's hair turned white that year — she was 28. By anyone's expectation, mine included, their grief should have defined the rest of their lives.

Instead they made a decision: they would wake up every morning and be happy. It's an almost astounding level of mental discipline. The ability not to ignore your horrible loss but to say life is not over. I can choose how I feel.

It's not a coincidence that he became president and she raised one. More importantly, they stayed married 73 years. "You have two choices," she said decades later. "You can be happy or you can be unhappy. Just choose to be happy." This is what's key: that mindset wasn't influencing the outcome. The mindset was the outcome.

We tend to think of resilience as a trait people have, but it looks more like a series of small decisions, made unglamorously, that become habitual. Eventually, you'll even forget you're making them. The Bushes figured this out 70 years before the placebo sleep researchers did. Worth taking seriously.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Believe that things will work out for you. Not blindly, but through effort. When you expect good things and pair it with action, you start noticing opportunities others miss. Optimism paired with effort is a powerful force.

[sonic @smysore]

@imPenny2x What if the stuff that's needed to make the robots is scarce?

[Moms Across America @momsacross]

The company behind POM juice, a juice marketed as a superfood antioxidant-rich drink, was just named California’s 2nd-largest user of paraquat — one of the most toxic herbicides still allowed in the U.S.

Over 56,000 pounds sprayed in a single year… on crops used to make this so called health drink.

Paraquat has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, cancer, and neurological damage. It drifts into nearby communities and lingers in soil for years.

More than 60 countries have already banned it.

So why is it still being used here?

Help us continue the work to get these chemicals out of our food supply.

[https://t.co/s4BLFmKoxU]

[sonic @smysore]

@IterIntellectus @DukeMukem So inspiring! Sounds like what $HIMS is aiming to do with their custom, personalized peptides 🤔 @AndrewDudum @himshouse

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Be optimistic.

The way you choose to perceive the world impacts every single area of your life. Choose wisely.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Focus on what you can control. Build something, anything. A product, yourself, a family, your community, a team, a company or organization, relationships. Or help someone else do it. Don't complain or be a victim, ever. #PlayNiceButWin

[blue @bluewmist]

the gap between where you are and where you want to be is called work.

it's not magic. it's not luck. it's not talent. it's work.

boring, repetitive, uncomfortable work done consistently over time.

[sonic @smysore]

@JustinShubow @USDOT @SecDuffy That's really wonderful! Can't wait to see some of your ideas, which I hope you share here on X!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

The most successful people I know are violently allergic to pessimistic people.

[sonic @smysore]

@RoKhanna What about your district and local area? Are these issues that affect Silicon Valley or are there higher priority issues that your constituents here care about even more?

[sonic @smysore]

@varrock @rohindhar 30-50% of homes sold in Palo Alto and Los Altos cost >$5M this past year. @rohindhar curious what that number is for SF and which areas are actually more affordable than SF?

[sonic @smysore]

@MattMahanSJ They're planning to spend $3B more on statewide expenditures and govt operations. Any more detail on what exactly that is?

[sonic @smysore]

@marcjoffe Google employs hundreds of thousands of workers, many taxed at ~53%, and is among the largest business taxpayers in existence. Why exactly are we taunting the verified geniuses who are creating good, high-paying jobs for so many people? 🤦🏽

[sonic @smysore]

@joepohlen This sounds great—love that you're employing a college student for this. Curious what "set up breakfast" means?

[sonic @smysore]

Fantastic new dietary guidance from RFK and team, love the beautiful artwork for the new food pyramid, too! 🥑🥕🍓🍇🍒🍌🍎🍋 @RobertKennedyJr

[HHS @HHSGov]

Introducing: The New Pyramid

[sonic @smysore]

@JDVance What people hate is protracted wars, wasting trillions of taxpayer dollars, and the meat grinder. Avoid those things and do what's best for US interests and it's a win!

[sonic @smysore]

What parts of the CA high speed rail are actually completed? Can your point to a link or document that details the 50+ completed projects (all govt projects, especially ones with this one of funding should have some accounting)? Please link to any legitimate source otherwise it looks totally made up—exactly like the fraudulent spending of $17B that Newsom and the CA Dems are being accused of...