Tim Michael @tbmichael

@Ikkuss45 @AWRHawkins My daughter is new to guns, and clearing 1911 FTFs is not as much fun as punching targets with a new S&W belly gun. Baby steps. Her next piece will likely be a 1911 in 45

@AWRHawkins If it’s quality, yes. Simple point and shoot. Hammerless DA is even better. Get a .357 and shoot .38 in it. I’m buying my daughter a gun for her new apartment in a new town. My wife won’t shoot a revolver, but she said that the kid needs a 38

You will be shocked -- SHOCKED -- to know that French intentionally failed to mention the prosecutor accused of misconduct in the Broadview 6 case is a longtime DOJ employee who left Chicago US Atty office earlier this year and was assigned to Senate Judiciary Committee (Dem side.) She was FIRED by Dem committee after allegations of her misconduct in this case went public. French is piling on with others to brand this controversy as a Trump-appointee created one, which it is not. In fact, Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed US Atty, essentially authorized an internal investigation into other instances of possible misconduct before grand juries and ordered a series of reforms in response. French in his sleezy, dishonest way, avoids all of that. You also will be SHOCKED to read French's full throated defense of individuals ON VIDEO harassing and interfering with federal officers executing immigration laws. The bad guys in the Broadview 6 case are not the ones involved in the planned obstruction of Operation Midway Blitz but with what French described as "rogue federal officers." He is cheering the jury nullification of federal cases in Chicago because Trump. French also failed to note Judge Perry is a Biden appointee.

David French @DavidAFrench

2 days ago

When I’m in my more optimistic moments, I think we’ll look back at last year as the high-water mark of Trumpism, when the combination of arrogance after Trump’s victory and the inherent authoritarianism of the Trumpist project led to a unique period of state violence and legal

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@wil_da_beast630 I would instead argue that the most lethal ideas on the right are anti-semitism. Though this idea is also common on the left. Creationism, while dumb, doesn't hurt anyone. Anti-semitism and prison abolition can and will get folks killed.

@SandyofCthulhu @wil_da_beast630 I can remember when The Creation was taught as allegorical in my Southern Baptist Convention church They didn’t give us the ‘6000 years’ BS

Except there have been arrests. There is video footage of people entering or damaging the Reflecting Pool area, and authorities have made arrests in connection with those incidents. If your argument begins with “nobody is doing it,” and there are documented cases showing otherwise, the argument falls apart before the debate even starts. Facts should come before politics. #AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

Stephen King @StephenKing

2 days ago

Nobody is vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and Trump knows it. This is a visible example of his corruption--a no-bid contract to some crony followed by sky-high cost overruns, and shoddy construction to boot. Classic Trump: I didn't fuck up, it was my enemies.

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@elonmusk @philoebedoe1 @nypost

@nypost Time to sue this liar

@thisguyknowsai Rewriting my notes within one day of lecture. I included things I hadn't had time to write. Better organized. Better penmanship. And better recall! It worked for me. I didn't need 100 yo research to tell me. But I'm not surprised.

A German psychologist proved in 1885 that cramming erases what you learned within 48 hours. He published the fix in the same book. Almost no school on Earth has adopted it in 140 years. His name was Hermann Ebbinghaus. He had no lab. No funding. No colleagues. He worked alone in a room in Berlin and ran every experiment on himself. He spent years memorizing thousands of nonsense syllables — made-up combinations like DAX and BUP, strings with no meaning — so that prior knowledge could not contaminate the results. Then he tested his own recall at intervals. Twenty minutes. One hour. Nine hours. One day. Six days. Thirty-one days. What he found became one of the most replicated findings in the history of psychology. Two-thirds of everything you learn is gone within 24 hours if you do not return to it. Within a week, the curve flattens near zero. The brain does not store what it does not revisit. It treats unused information the way it treats everything else it does not need. It discards it. He drew this curve in 1885 and called it the forgetting curve. Then he found something else in the same data. Students who spread their study sessions over multiple days retained far more than students who spent the same total hours studying in one block. Not slightly more. Dramatically more. The brain needed time between exposures to consolidate the material into something durable. He called this the spacing effect. Same information. Same total hours. Completely different outcome depending on when you spread the hours out. The finding has been replicated over 250 times. A 2006 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin covered 254 studies across every age group and every subject. The effect held every time. A German journalist named Sebastian Leitner built a physical flashcard system around it in 1972. An open source app called Anki turned that system into software in 2006. Medical students who use Anki to pass board exams are not working harder than everyone else. They are working in the only pattern the brain actually responds to. The most uncomfortable part of all of this is what happened after Ebbinghaus published. Educators read the research. They understood what it showed. They kept the cramming. The school calendar was already built around it. Semester exams. Finals week. One concentrated block of review before the test and then nothing. The entire architecture of how most schools schedule learning is optimized for the forgetting curve, not against it. The lesson is not that you need more time to study. It is that the same time, distributed differently, produces a completely different brain. Ebbinghaus proved this in 1885 with no budget and no institution. He ran the experiment on himself because no one would run it for him. The fix has been available for 140 years. Almost nobody who designs schools has used it.

Calling you a racist has always been a tool the left uses to shut down debate. They can't tell us why importing millions of people from cultures incompatible with our own is a good thing for America. They just call you a racist and hope you'll shut up. Well, I never will.

Fucking pardon him now. This is ridiculous, even the ATF Director has now admitted that at minimum, the sentence given to him for this "crime" was way more than he should have gotten. If the judge won't let him be resentenced, then Trump needs to issue a pardon. He should have done so already, given the far less worthy people he has granted pardons and commutations to.

Lee Williams @HT_GunWriter

a day ago

Federal judge cancels Adamiak’s resentencing hearing. Adamiak's family does not know what will happen next. Patrick “Tate” Adamiak will not get a new hearing, during which he would finally have had the opportunity to introduce evidence as to his innocence. Arenda L. Wright

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Where are the lady orcs? It is my opinion that orc females are as flat-chested as chimp females, and that they are the same size and toughness as the males. When clothed, they would look almost identical. We know orcs breed rapidly, which means a short gestation. I think orcs give birth to a smallish litter (3-6) of precocious orc children, who are left to fend for themselves in a warren. Some guards are left to provide food and keep the orc babies from killing each other too much. The mom leaves after birth. She might stay a few months as one of the guards. In other words, orc females are common - we just don't know it when we see them. 1/4

A judge has ruled that the DOJ must release 70 hours of audio recordings of Biden's conversations with his ghostwriter. Biden's lawyers are already trying to appeal and stop the release. There is a reason they are fighting this so hard. When the people hear Biden on those tapes they are going to realize just how far gone he was — and how many people covered for him. The fake news. The ghostwriter. The classified documents investigator. The entire apparatus knew. And they covered it up anyway.

Fun fact to start your week! In Illinois, you need a valid ID to visit the Obama Library. In Illinois, you don’t need one to vote. Let that sink in. You have to prove who you are to walk into a building, but not to help decide who runs the country. We’re supposed to pretend that’s logical? Its not.

RE: NeverTrumpers I have always found it very difficult to understood the philosophical underpinnings of self-proclaimed "conservative" NeverTrumpers. No President in the history of the USA has done more to reduce the size, scope and power of the federal administrative state than Donald Trump. Other than Ronald Reagan, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote capital investment, industrial growth, and improved economic standards for the average American than Donald Trump. Other than Ronald Reagan and JFK, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote American patriotism and pride in America than Donald Trump. No President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote freedom of speech and freedom of religion than Donald Trump. Last time I checked, the bedrock principles of American conservatism are limited government, capitalism, patriotism and liberty. Donald Trump's policies are the very essence of conservatism. So why are these people "NeverTrumpers"? My theory is that they see conservatism as a club: a club whose entry credentials consist of elite prep schools, Ivy League universities, the "prestige" of being part of old-line institutions and media, and well-manicured pinkies in the air at afternoon tea. And they don’t want Donald Trump in their club. Donald Trump is none of what they are. He is from Queens. He has the wrong accent. He went to the wrong schools. He is crass and loud and bombastic. Although wealthy by birth, nothing pleases him more than getting down in the dirt with the workers who built his buildings. Despite his wealth, he is the everyman at heart. There is only one logical conclusion: NeverTrumpers do not care the slightest about actual political conservatism. They care about being elite snobs, which is why they sacrifice whatever values they once proclaimed to hold so they could hate on someone who crashed the gate at their posh, private club. They are Judge Smails and Trump is Al Czervik. This is about social class and nothing else. Treat those people with the righteous disdain they have so completely earned.

1. "Gun deaths" is *all* gun-related deaths, and is mostly made up of suicides. The US suicide rate is not abnormally high, suicides here just involve guns more because we have guns. 2. While Norway definitely has a lower murder rate than us, going off of raw numbers is silly. We have over 330 million people, Norway has under 6 million. So ya they do better than us, but not 50,000 vs 73 lol.

VANCANCAN @priored

3 days ago

@JAL1988196662 @BlackLabelAdvsr Dude the USA had almost 50000 gun deaths in 2023 ,Norway had 73. Go smoke some more!!

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Well they've suspended one of the best informed, best written, and intellectually thorough accounts on X: Charles Pezeshki, actual rocket scientist, student of semiotics, traveled adult thinker etc. As distinctive and enlightening an account as there was. Free the prisoner.

⚡️Marriage is one of the highest-leverage decisions in life because it controls the household operating system. The person you marry affects your ambition, spending, risk tolerance, emotional stability, sleep, health, focus, social circle, children, legal exposure, time horizon, and daily energy. That is the machinery underneath wealth, happiness, and destiny. A good spouse compounds you. They make life more stable, your judgment cleaner, your home calmer, your ambition safer to pursue, your risks more intelligent, your recovery faster, your children stronger, and your wealth harder to destroy. They do not merely “support” you. They reduce entropy. That is the word. Entropy. The wrong spouse increases entropy everywhere. More drama. More spending. More insecurity. More emotional tax. More distraction. More status games. More resentment. More legal risk. More instability. More bad decisions made from stress. More years lost trying to manage a household that never becomes a base of power. People underestimate that because they think marriage wealth destruction means divorce. Divorce is only the visible explosion. The deeper destruction happens before that: years of muted ambition, bad sleep, financial leakage, emotional chaos, compromised decisions, loss of confidence, loss of sexual polarity, loss of momentum, and a home that drains the person who is supposed to be building. The right marriage is a private civilization. The wrong marriage is a slow civil war. Treating marriage like a cold spreadsheet is stupid and spiritually dead. But pretending marriage has no economic or strategic dimension is even dumber. Love matters. Attraction matters. Loyalty matters. Character matters. But character and alignment are what make love durable under pressure. A person can be beautiful, exciting, and emotionally intoxicating while still being a terrible partner for the life you are trying to build. The real question is not “does this person make me feel something?” The real question is: does this person multiply the life force, or consume it? A great partner makes your whole field stronger. Money grows because the household has trust, discipline, shared direction, lower chaos, and a longer time horizon. Happiness grows because your nervous system has a real home. Children grow better because the foundation is coherent. Marriage is leverage. With the right person, leverage builds the kingdom. With the wrong person, leverage magnifies the flaw until it owns the whole house.

Boring_Business @BoringBiz_

2 days ago

Marriage is an incredible wealth building machine if you marry the right person But it is also a terrible wealth destruction machine if you marry the wrong person Probably the single highest leverage decision you make for your net worth and happiness is the person you marry

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This is fair, but I'm a little kinder in my opinion of the man. In our discussions at our New Orleans Conference, when essentially asked why and how he went to the dark side, Greenspan shared his view that his job was to finance the government's spending. And that if he refused to do it, somebody else would be quickly put in the chair to do so. So he rationalized (my word, not his) that it was better to have someone who would try to reform the system from within. Except he didn't. He fell for the same siren song of power and influence that traps almost everyone. I'm kinder in my estimation of him because I recognize that few, perhaps including myself, would have resisted that siren song if put in the same position. It's easy to judge if we've never been put to the test ourselves.

Handre @Handre

a day ago

Alan Greenspan died today, and the man who spent two decades inflating bubbles will be eulogized as a maestro. Fitting, because he understood exactly what he was doing. In 1966 a younger Greenspan wrote an essay called "Gold and Economic Freedom." He laid out the case with

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