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[Tyroneous @thetyrone99]

NC State fans annoy Duke and Carolina fans more than Duke and Carolina fans annoy each other because NC State just wants to be relevant in something so bad.

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@AngelaH171717 @unlimited_ls No way Humpty Dumpty’s top speed exceeds 6 mph

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@theMakarioz Clearly AI 🤖 😂😂

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@Coinvo The phenotype crowd is going to love this one

[George Mack @george__mack]

The high agency triangle

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Cavs vs Warriors ➡️ Spurs vs OKC

A new era emerges

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@FearedBuck Seems unfit to stand trial if you ask me

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

For the record:

I love black people. I want them to come to Christ, reduce their crime rates, and for black fathers to stay married.

I love Jewish people. I want them to come to Christ, to call their people out of usury, pornography, and political manipulation.

I love Muslims. I want them to come to Christ, to reject Mohammad, stop colonizing Christian lands, and to reject polygamy and child marriage.

I love Hindus. I want them to come to Christ, to tear down their demon temples, and to stop destroying God’s earth, rivers, and lakes.

I love homosexuals. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their sexual perversion, and to stop adopting and grooming children.

I love feminists. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their rebellion and disorder, and joyfully submit to male leadership.

I love white people. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their liberalism, abortion, and cowardice and to restore their Christian lands by raising their children in Christ.

[Tyroneous @thetyrone99]

@RepNancyMace We vote red
The sky is blue
Lindsey Graham is gay
We have potholes too

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@yzyupdates @kanyewest Like if you could DJ better than
@djnasty305

yelling “oh oh oh” and shout outs over an all time track/artist’s moment like it’s about you 🤡🤡🤡

[Tyroneous @thetyrone99]

The death penalty achieves the greatest degree of justice for heinous crimes.

Cost savings, deterrence, and the rest are just benefits.

Keep your eye on the ball. Justice.

Importantly, when certain, dispense justice swiftly.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The death penalty could absolutely save money and be a strong deterrent if the penalty was carried out shortly after conviction instead of keeping them on death row for decades while they file endless appeals. Executing someone is cheap and obviously more cost efficient than providing them meals and housing for their entire life. All you’re doing here is making an argument for carrying out the death penalty more quickly and efficiently. And I agree.

You also aren’t addressing the number one reason for the death penalty, which has nothing to do with cost or even deterrence. The primary reason is justice. Justice is giving to a person what they are due. A man who brutally murders a young girl is due the ultimate penalty. We should execute child killers because execution is the most proper and right and just response to such a crime.

Keeping such a person alive and forcing society to feed and house and clothe them until their natural death is unjust, improper. He deserves to die. Even you admit this. And so he should. It’s really that simple.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

A young man sees someone drive by in a Ferrari with a blonde.

He thinks: that guy has everything.

Jordan Peterson says look closer.

"The woman in the car is a prostitute with a cocaine addiction. Her life is one catastrophe after another."

"He's had to lie and cheat his way into this position. He's afraid everything's going to come crashing down on him."

"And that's what you're jealous of."

He spent 15 minutes explaining what we're actually built for:

"We view ourselves as built for pleasure. For consumption. For safety. For egotistical self-aggrandizement and fame."

"What are we actually built for? Maximal challenge."

"We're built to walk uphill. When you reach the pinnacle, you want to stop and appreciate the vision. But the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance."

"It's from the uphill climb that we derive our value."

This is why young men disappear into video games.

"That's all acted out in the video game. The active warrior moving uphill with sword in hand. That's dynamic. That's exciting."

"They have to act that out in their own life. Video games are not a substitute for life."

Start where you are. Even if it's embarrassing.

"Humility is starting where you are. If your life is a mess, you have to see that you're the person in that mess."

"Your first attempt to fix it might not be something you're particularly proud of."

"I saw this in my clinical practice. The first steps people had to take were pretty embarrassing. They'd think: really? That's all I can do?"

"Hey, man. Uphill is better than downhill."

Here's what most people don't understand about momentum:

"You accrue success exponentially. You accrue defeat exponentially too."

"Start going downhill, you go downhill faster and faster. Start going uphill, you go uphill faster and faster."

"Even if you have to start painfully small, it doesn't matter."

Everyone wants confidence. But self-esteem is a lie.

"Self-esteem doesn't even exist. It's a pathological concept altogether."

"You want confidence that's based in competence. Otherwise it's narcissistic."

"How do you develop that? You watch yourself exceed your limits."

"And then you think: there's something in me that can exceed my limits. That's your true self."

You want a goal you can never fully attain.

"Almost all the positive emotion we feel, especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm, is experienced in relationship to a goal."

"You want a horizon of ever-expanding possibility."

"People stake their soul on attaining an instrumental goal. Then they get there and think: now what?"

"The answer can't be: I'm going to live in the lap of luxury and never have to do anything."

"What do you want to be? A giant infant with a gold bottle? You never have to do anything but lay on your back and suck."

"No. You want to be an active warrior moving uphill with your sword in hand."

Now here's the dark part:

"You need to contemplate your own malevolence. Because you're not only who you are. You're who you could be. For better or worse."

"I think it's easier to understand who you could be if you were better once you deeply understand who you could be if you were worse."

"You think: I'm way deeper on the negative end than I thought. Much more closely aligned with the forces of hell than I presumed."

"That's easy to swallow factually. Not so easy to swallow emotionally. It's a bitter pill."

"I don't think you can contemplate the good without contemplating the evil first. It doesn't have the depth."

"Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."

Many of his clients are too agreeable. They let everyone else win.

"They're resentful and don't know how to stand up for themselves. They're very compassionate by nature. If you're negotiating with them, they'll let you win."

"That's not good. You need to win too."

"You cannot negotiate unless you can say no. And it causes conflict to say no."

The solution sounds counterintuitive.

"You have to develop your inner monster a little bit. And that makes you a better person, not a worse person."

"It's weird. But that's just how it is."

On privilege and how to pay for it:

"Some cards are privilege. Maybe you're born intelligent. Symmetrical. Healthy. Into a culture where it's easier not to be deprived. Maybe your parents are rich."

"All of that is unearned."

"The way you pay for your privilege is with your virtue."

"You expiate and atone by doing your best to live the best possible life you can manage. To speak the truth. To treat people with respect. To put your house in order."

On envy:

"Don't be so sure your position in your room is so damn trivial. It might be your attitude towards it that's trivial."

"If you're in dire circumstances, look at how much opportunity you have to make things better."

"You don't even want it to be easy."

[Tyroneous @thetyrone99]

Gold

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@VigilantFox Maybe that’s why Reps aren’t serious about doing what they were voted in to do.

Does anyone seriously believe most of the figures on the right are sacrificing whatever it takes to create a better future for Americans?

Are they without temptation? Don’t give them a pass. Think.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In the 1920s, a Stanford psychologist tracked genius children for 50 years.

Malcolm Gladwell breaks down what he discovered:

Rich families → successful. Poor families → failures.

Not average. Failures. Genius-level IQs that produced nothing.

He spent 60 minutes at Microsoft explaining why we're wrong about success:

The psychologist was named Terman. He gave IQ tests to 250,000 California schoolchildren.

He identified the top 0.1%. Kids with IQs of 140 and above.

His hypothesis: these children would become the leaders of academia, industry, and politics.

He tracked them. And tracked them. For decades.

The results split into three groups.

The top 15% achieved real prominence. The middle group had average, moderately successful professional lives.

And the bottom group? By any measure, failures.

The difference wasn't personality. Wasn't habits. Wasn't work ethic.

It was simple: the successful geniuses came from wealthy households. The failures came from poor families.

Poverty is such a powerful constraint that it can reduce a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity.

There's a concept called "capitalization rate."

It asks a simple question: what percentage of people who are capable of doing something actually end up doing that thing?

In inner city Memphis, only 1 in 6 kids with athletic scholarships actually go to college.

If our capitalization rate for sports in the inner city is 16%, imagine how low it must be for everything else.

Here's something stranger.

Gladwell read the birth dates of the 2007 Czech Junior Hockey Team:

January 3rd. January 3rd. January 12th. February 8th. February 10th. February 17th. February 20th. February 24th. March 5th. March 10th. March 26th...

11 of the 20 players were born in January, February, or March.

This isn't unique to the Czechs. Every elite hockey team in the world shows the same pattern. Every elite soccer team too.

Why?

The eligibility cutoff for youth leagues is January 1st.

When you're 10 years old, a kid born in January has 10 months of maturity on a kid born in October. That's 3 or 4 inches of height. The difference between clumsy and coordinated.

So we look at a group of 10 year olds, pick the "best" ones, give them special coaching, extra practice, more games.

We think we're identifying talent. We're just identifying the oldest.

Then we give the oldest more opportunities, and 10 years later they really are the best.

Self-fulfilling prophecy.

The capitalization rate for hockey talent born in the second half of the year? Close to zero.

We're leaving half of all potential hockey players on the table because of an arbitrary date on a calendar.

Kids born in the youngest cohort of their school class are 11% less likely to go to college.

11% of human potential squandered because we organize elementary school without reference to biological maturity.

Now here's the part about math.

Asian kids dramatically outperform Western kids in mathematics. The gap is enormous and consistent across decades of testing.

Some people say it's genetic. It's not.

It's attitudinal.

When Asian kids face a math problem, they believe effort will solve it.

When Western kids face a math problem, they believe the answer depends on innate ability they either have or don't.

Here's the proof.

The international math tests include a 120-question survey. It asks about study habits, parental support, attitudes.

It's so long most kids don't finish it.

A researcher named Erling Boe decided to rank countries by what percentage of survey questions their kids completed.

Then he compared it to the ranking of countries by math performance.

The correlation was 0.98.

In the history of social science, there has never been a correlation that high.

If you want to know how good a country is at math, you don't need to ask any math questions. Just make kids sit down and focus on a task for an extended period of time.

If they can do it, they're good at math.

Why do Asian cultures have this attitude?

Gladwell's theory: rice farming.

His European ancestors in medieval England worked about 1,000 hours a year. Dawn to noon, five days a week. Winters off. Lots of holidays.

A peasant in South China or Japan in the same period worked 3,000 hours a year.

Rice farming isn't just harder than wheat farming. It's a completely different relationship with work.

There's a Chinese proverb: "A man who works dawn to dusk 360 days a year will not go hungry."

His English ancestors would have said: "A man who works 175 days a year, dawn to 11, may or may not be hungry."

If your culture does that for a thousand years, it becomes part of your makeup.

When your kids sit down to face a calculus problem, that legacy of persistence translates perfectly.

Now consider distance running.

In Kenya, there are roughly a million schoolboys between 10 and 17 running 10 to 12 miles a day.

In the United States, that number is probably 5,000.

Our capitalization rate for distance running is less than 1%.

Kenya's is probably 95%.

The difference isn't genetic. The difference is what the culture values and where it spends its attention.

Here's the most fascinating finding.

30% of American entrepreneurs have been diagnosed with a profound learning disability.

Richard Branson is dyslexic. Charles Schwab is dyslexic. John Chambers can barely read his own email.

This isn't coincidence. Their entrepreneurialism is a direct function of their disability.

How do you succeed if you can't read or write from early childhood?

You learn to delegate. You become a great oral communicator. You become a problem solver because your entire life is one big problem. You learn to lead.

80% of dyslexic entrepreneurs were captain of a high school sports team. Versus 30% of non-dyslexic entrepreneurs.

By the time they enter the real world, they've spent their whole life practicing the four skills at the core of entrepreneurial success: delegation, oral communication, problem solving, and leadership.

Ask them what role dyslexia played in their success and they don't say it was an obstacle.

They say it's the reason they succeeded.

A disadvantage that became an advantage.

Here's what Gladwell wants you to understand:

When we see differences in success, our default explanation is differences in ability.

We forget how much poverty, stupidity, and attitude constrain what people can become.

We refuse to admit that our own arbitrary rules are leaving talent on the table.

We cling to naive beliefs that our meritocracies are fair.

The capitalization argument is liberating.

It says you don't look at a struggling group and conclude they're incapable. It says problems that look genetic or innate are often just failures of exploitation.

It says we can make a profound difference in how well people turn out.

If we choose to pay attention.

This 60 minute Microsoft talk will teach you more about success than every self-help book you've ever read combined.

Bookmark this & give it an hour today, no matter what.

[Tyroneous @thetyrone99]

@Azariel91 @grok what’s the story here

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Write it on your heart
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Once men realize that nobody gives a fuck… shit gets fucking interesting and not in the way you think:

[AnarchistFrodo @anarchist_frodo]

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