@newstart_2024 Happiness is an emotion, it is suppose to ebb and flow with the rhythm life. Joy you learn to carry with you through this rhythm and learn its presence by learning from life’s lessons and moving forward anyway. 💃💃💃
Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.
We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.
He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.
As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
For thousands of years, humanity somehow managed to survive using six simple words: Mother. Father. Boy. Girl. Man. Woman.
Now we’re told those words are outdated.
We’re told “mother” should become “gestating parent.”
We’re told “father” should become “non-gestating parent.”
We’re told new labels create clarity.
But if that’s true… Why does everything feel more confusing than ever?
While New Yorkers struggle with rent, groceries, crime, and affordability, Albany is spending time rewriting words that nobody was confused about.
And here’s the question nobody seems willing to answer:
If our leaders can’t agree on what a woman is…
Why are lawmakers rewriting the definition of mother?
Maybe I’m missing something.
Or maybe common sense isn’t as common in politics anymore.
What’s your opinion?
👇👇👇
#nyc #ny #fyp
I built a YouTube channel for 13 years. 93,000 subscribers. Zero strikes. Zero warnings. An educational channel on personal development and psychology. On May 20, it was gone.
When my team logged into YouTube Studio, a message on screen said the channel had been removed for violating the Harmful and Dangerous Content policy. Around the same time, YouTube sent us an email saying my channel "may have been hijacked." Both. From YouTube. Telling us two different things.
@TeamYouTube@YouTube@YouTubeCreators
Hochul has now hiked your utility bills 48 times, and only 30% of what you pay actually goes to energy.
The rest is taxes, fees, and her green energy scam.
We will cut your utility bills in half on Day 1.
While Kathy Hochul turned her back on the men and women of labor, I will always stand with you.
When I am Governor, we will clean up the subway, make it safer, and put New York workers before illegal migrants.
Zohran Mamdani watered down the definition of anti-Semitism, speaks out against Israel constantly, and even boycotted the NYC Israel Day Parade.
I called Mamdani’s hate out for what it is: antisemitism.
New Yorkers deserve leaders who stand against hate, not excuse it.
Kathy Hochul is proud. Proud to let violent criminals walk free.
Proud to put illegal immigrants ahead of you.
New Yorkers are paying the price for her pride. Higher bills.
More crime. Less safety.
When I am Governor, New York works for New Yorkers again. Not for Kathy Hochul’s agenda.
🚨 JUST NOW: Trump-endorsed New York governor candidate Bruce Blakeman STORMS the stage and GOES OFF
"The greatest president in my lifetime! We will save New York as President Trump has saved America! Because we will fight, fight, fight!"
Scientists mapped a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice.
One-millionth the size of the human brain.
It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it.
They found over 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and even some new structures they didn't know existed.
Mapping the entire human brain in this level of detail would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year + a 140-acre data center.
But the human brain itself can hold up to ~2.5 million gigabytes of information - enough for ~3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing.
It can process roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second - enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability.
And it only runs on the amount of power needed for a single dim light bulb.
No technology even comes close to doing what the brain can do.
The more we learn about biology, the more complex it becomes.
This is God's Glory on display.
“You only need ONE thing to know you're standing in the middle of a PSYOP.”
Chase Hughes (world-renowned behavior expert & interrogation trainer) breaks down the simplest red flag to spot psychological operations in real time.
If the opinion requires people to be silenced, cancelled, or publicly shamed, If you’re not allowed to question it, If you’re expected to just shut up and go along, It’s a PSYOP.
Watch until the end. This will open your eyes.
When you push your hands into soil, your brain receives a chemical signal it has been primed for across hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. Not a metaphor. A bacterium. 🌱
Mycobacterium vaccae is a naturally occurring soil microorganism found in garden soil, forest floors, and woodland worldwide. Research published by scientists at the University of Bristol found that it activates specific serotonin-producing neurons in the brainstem via the vagus nerve and immune pathways — the same neurons that modern antidepressant medications target indirectly.
Separate Dutch research measured salivary cortisol in gardeners and readers following a stressful task. The reduction in cortisol was measurably greater in those who had spent time gardening. Thirty minutes of hands-in-soil contact produced a neurochemical response that reading — itself well-evidenced as beneficial — did not replicate to the same degree.
The cycle is layered: M. vaccae contact is associated with serotonin stimulation. Harvest — even a modest one — is linked to dopamine release. Natural light amplifies both. The garden is not a hobby. It is, in the most literal sense, a biochemical environment that our nervous systems spent millennia being shaped by.
Our ancestors spent several hours a day with their hands in the ground. The research is still developing, and correlation does not establish cause. But the mechanism is not metaphorical — it is microbial. 🌿
Your hands may need soil more than they need a screen.
#GardenTherapy #SoilScience #GardenWellbeing #AllotmentLife
Prestigious doctor exposes the horror and normalization of euthanizing disabled newborn babies
“These are patients — babies — who cannot speak, cannot consent, and cannot ask for help. If we cannot draw the line here, I’m not sure where medical professionals imagine the line to be.”
Bruce Blakeman fully supports medical freedom!
@Bruce_Blakeman is running as the Republican candidate for NY Governor. I asked him his position on 3 critical issues 👇
1. Fired unvaccinated workers
2. Religious and medical exemptions to vaccination
3. The Democrats' bill to ban unvaccinated kids from all summer camps
He went 3-for-3!
#TeachersforChoice approves!!
🚨 MAN BUYS 80 PIZZA HUTS TO BRING BACK THE ICONIC VERSION AMERICA MISSED — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, owns more than 80 Pizza Hut franchises across the country, and he’s now turning many of them back into the old-school Pizza Huts millions of Americans grew up with.
While most restaurant chains keep replacing everything with self-checkout screens, gray walls, and sterile modern redesigns… Sparks is bringing back the version people actually remember:
• red plastic cups
• Pac-Man machines
• packed salad bars
• giant family booths
• Tiffany-style lamps hanging over the tables
And people are getting unexpectedly emotional over it.
Some of these restored “classic” Pizza Huts are now becoming top-performing locations because customers say it doesn’t just feel like pizza anymore…
It feels like stepping back into a completely different era of life.
Sparks says the mission is bigger than nostalgia. He wants to rebuild places where families actually sit together again, put their phones down, and talk the way they used to.
Now the internet is flooding the comments:
• “This feels more human than modern restaurants”
• “We didn’t realize how good we had it”
• “This is what childhood felt like”
• “Why does this make me emotional?”
Some customers are reportedly driving HOURS just to eat inside one because they say modern restaurants lost the feeling that made people love them in the first place.
Now people are asking:
Did corporations deliberately turn restaurants into cold, forgettable spaces... because real human connection was never the priority anymore?
📹: CBS19
There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.
And honestly, it explains a lot.
We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.
We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.
That is not a small thing.
People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.
Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.
We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.
We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.
We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.
We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.
And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.
That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.
A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.
We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.
That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.
But we exist.
We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.
And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.