Suboptimal Jim @SuboptimalJim

@MattWalshBlog Conservatives don't want to see this movie because John Leguizamo told us he doesn't want us to.

Your failure may become part of your testimony. But it never has to become your identity. - Ryan Miller

Superintendent of @SpotsySchools in Virginia says he’s against drug testing teachers because it will make people not want to work there What an odd thing to say… 🤔

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America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived. Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change. The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time. There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January. Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am. Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

Polymarket @Polymarket

3 weeks ago

BREAKING: House votes 308-117 to make daylight saving time permanent, sending the bill to the Senate.

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Jordan Peterson exposed the business model behind your outrage. Peterson: “People will choose false adventures if they don’t choose real adventures. And being a martyr and being angry and having enemies when they’re unnecessary, those are forms of false adventure.” That is not social commentary. That is a vulnerability disclosure for the human operating system. Two million years of evolution built every circuit in your brain for one job. Survival. Predators. Famine. Plagues that erased bloodlines before anyone could name them. That world is gone. The hardware is not. Remove real threats and the brain doesn’t power down. It hallucinates new ones. Invented enemies. Imagined oppressors. Moral crusades that feel like survival because they run on survival firmware. The institutions found the exploit before you did. They didn’t warn you. They monetized it. Media doesn’t report danger. It manufactures demand for it. Universities don’t cure false adventures. They sell the most expensive ones on the market. Six figures to teach you the system is rigged. The tuition is the proof. Political machines don’t solve crises. They breed them. Then campaign on the antidote. Nobody is suppressing your outrage. They are farming it. Your anger is not a threat to the system. It is the system. The false adventure runs on the same neurochemistry as the real one. Same adrenaline. Same moral certainty. Same tribal belonging. Your body cannot tell the difference between a real threat and a manufactured one. That is the exploit. And every institution feeding you false enemies has a financial incentive to make sure you never patch it. Every civilization that reached peak comfort ran the same program. Not by coincidence. By wiring. Pressure forges people. People build systems. Systems create comfort. Comfort erases the pressure. The cycle has never once been broken from the inside. Rome didn’t fall to barbarians. It fell to Romans who outsourced everything that made them Roman. War to mercenaries. Labor to slaves. Purpose to spectacle. The empire didn’t run out of resources. It ran out of people who remembered what the resources were for. Now drop AI into this. The most powerful technology ever built is arriving in the exact window when the species is most psychologically unmoored. Within a decade AI drives the cost of intelligence toward zero. The machines will not starve us. They will hand us everything. And leave us standing in the most comfortable world ever built with nothing real left to fight for. The false adventures will not slow down. They will become the entire economy. But here is where the pattern breaks. Every civilization before this one ran the program blind. We are the first that can read the code. The question was never whether comfort would arrive. It was whether the false wars would keep you too busy to ever start the real one.

A John MacArthur clip is going around right now where he says nothing political or social "has anything to do with the advancement of the kingdom of God." Thousands of Christians are bookmarking it. Reposting it. Treating it like settled doctrine because a famous man said it in a confident voice at a Q&A. Let me show you what your Bible actually says. Joseph of Arimathea used his political standing to retrieve the body of Christ. Without his seat on the Sanhedrin, that body stays on the cross and the burial never happens. That was political standing used for the kingdom. Daniel served in the government of Babylon. He governed as a believer inside a pagan empire, and God used that position to preserve an entire people. Esther used her political position in a foreign court to stop a genocide. She walked into the throne room and risked her life because the kingdom of God was operating through that system. Nehemiah had a political office under a pagan king. He used that office to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Actual stone and mortar. A political act that directly advanced the purposes of God. Moses walked straight into Pharaoh's court. Ten plagues targeted the political and religious systems of Egypt simultaneously. Jesus Himself was executed by a political system. The crucifixion was a Roman political act. And the resurrection was God's answer to it. The idea that the kingdom of God operates in some separate lane from politics and culture is not in your Bible. The entire Old Testament is the story of God working through nations, governments, judges, and kings. And the theology is only half of why that clip matters. The other half is how fast Christians adopted it as their own position without ever opening the text to check. A famous man says something with authority and a clip goes viral. Thousands of believers treat it as settled. I used to stitch my faith together from pieces of other men. A little of this pastor, a little of that podcast, whatever sounded smart that week. Then my kid asked me a question about the Bible and I realized I was quoting everyone except the Book. That's the disease. We have been trained to follow personalities instead of Scripture. Trained to let a man's reputation do the work our own study was supposed to do. You can respect a man and still hold his words up against the text. You should. That's what the Bereans did in Acts 17:11. They heard Paul preach and then searched the scriptures daily to see whether those things were so. The apostle Paul himself, and they still checked him. If the Bereans checked Paul, you can check anyone. Read your Bible.

Driving a manual transmission improves the brain’s cognitive functions, possibly reducing risk of dementia, new study shows source: Tohoku University

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I love following people like Larry.

Larry Welnowski Jr. @plasticboss

2 months ago

25 years ago I started a plastic resin reselling business. Previously, I worked for 6 years at a W2 learning the ropes. I was making them hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit every year while pulling my $38,000 salary. A customer of mine was trying to convince me to go

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@RealCalvin1 You've watched the intro to Idiocracy, right? All spelled out right there.

For those who want to change their lives: Give your life to Jesus and know that nothing is impossible through Him Talk to God and thank Him often, trusting in His plan for you. Eat real food Subtract toxic people from your life Place your health/healing into the center of your universe Learn how to appreciate solitude Change one small thing at a time Understand that you will fail several times but continue working at each goal until you learn how not to fail Let go of those who hold you back, including friends and family members Set boundaries Work every day at becoming a better person than you were the day before Encourage others and lead by example Be consistent Read 2 Timothy 3 and as Paul warns, "Have nothing to do with such people"

Rural Virginians aren’t goofy characters from TV shows. These comments are ignorant and insulting but typical Democrat sentiments.

Nick Minock @NickMinock

3 months ago

NEW: During a floor debate on gerrymandering, Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby (D) says he knows a little bit about rural America because he watched Dukes of Hazzard.

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Just voted NO this morning. Hope a lot of others do the same.

@VividProwess @davidjmcwalter Hey

I need to put the following sign on my front door: "Unless you have Tagalongs or Thin Mints, the answer is NO."

Can we just have traffic lights that are AI smart?

Sometimes it do be like that

@CENTCOM 🙏

Government will scour every corner of the country looking for more revenue. Strangely, it can never locate the redundant programs it already funds.

There is a version of this story that is easy to romanticize. A famous man stays loyal to his wife. People applaud. The end. But the real version is much harder, much quieter, and far more honest than that. Jay Leno, 75, spent more than two decades as one of the most recognized faces on American television, hosting The Tonight Show night after night for millions of viewers. His wife, Mavis, stood beside him throughout all of it — not as a background figure, but as a woman of genuine accomplishment in her own right. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for her advocacy work supporting women living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. She was fiercely independent, deeply curious, and someone who loved to travel and explore the world. Then, in 2024, Jay filed for conservatorship over her estate. The reason was that Mavis had been diagnosed with advanced dementia and was progressively losing capacity and orientation. Their life changed completely. The restaurants they once visited together are now off the menu. The travel Mavis always loved is no longer possible. The conversations they used to have in the evenings have narrowed and shifted in ways that are hard to fully explain to someone who has not lived it. Dementia does not just take memory. It slowly changes the shape of every moment two people share. Jay has spoken publicly about the hardest part of the journey, and it is not what most people would expect. For years, every single morning, Mavis would wake up believing she had just received news that her mother had died. She experienced that grief fresh, as if hearing it for the first time, every day. Her mother went through that process of dying over and over again, for about three years. Each time, Mavis cried. Each time, Jay held her through it. He described it as truly tricky, and genuinely hard. But he did not leave. He rearranged his life around her needs. He only takes work that allows him to be home the same day or at most one night away. He comes home every evening and cooks her dinner. They watch television together, animal shows and travel documentaries on YouTube since real travel is no longer an option. When he carries her to the bathroom, he has a name for it. He calls it Jay and Mavis at the prom, the two of them dancing back and forth down the hallway, and she thinks it is funny. She still laughs. He still makes her laugh on purpose, every single day. She still knows who he is. She looks at him and smiles. She tells him she loves him. When someone asked Jay if he was going to get a girlfriend now, he was genuinely surprised by the question. He told them he already had one. He was married. Forty-five years. That was not something he considered walking away from. What he said next is the part that has stayed with people. He said that when you get married, you take vows. You say for better or worse. And most people, he noted, never really expect to be called upon to actually act on those words. They say them and hope the worse never arrives. For Jay, it arrived. And he is passing the test. He has said he hopes his situation draws attention not just to his own story, but to the 50 or 60 million people in America who are quietly doing the same thing for a parent, a spouse, a sibling, and doing it completely without recognition. Nobody sees them. Nobody is interviewing them. They are just showing up every single day for someone who needs them, because that is what love actually looks like when it is no longer a feeling but a choice you make again every morning. Jay Leno still makes his wife laugh. She still has the fire, he says. She still growls at the television when something offends her. She still smiles when he walks into the room. For better or worse is not a promise you make on a beautiful day in a beautiful place with everyone watching. It is what you do on a Tuesday evening when you carry the person you love to the bathroom and call it the prom, just to make her smile. That is the whole story.