There's a lot of things I would like to say online about some things that go on in Australia, but I would probably be arrested, silenced by other means, or physically attacked if I did. Seriously, it might look like a free country, but looks can be deceiving.

These guys look like the men in the two minor assaults I had in the last 3 weeks (both cases tried to knock me over, just minor, but still...). This is why defamation campaigns are not a joke: people ACT on them, when they start physical attacks, you never know what will happen.

Well done!

Grok Imagine.

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

I grew up hating white people, and the scary part is that millions of young Black men are being brainwashed into that exact same mindset today. The education system feeds Black kids a steady diet of historical resentment until their undeveloped brains start picturing every single white person as the enemy. Blaming the white man for modern community struggles is a trap that keeps people broke and angry.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

Elon Musk: "People should have optimism and hope for the future." "We shouldn't be complacent… There absolutely is [hope]."

“People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.” ― Jeff Bezos

If you're black and were born in America you've never been a slave. If you're white and you were born in America you've never owned slaves. Time to stop playing victim. We are so tired of this shit.

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.” - John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

Pride isn’t the word I’d use when it comes to my skin color. But I AM proud of my Irish, Scottish & Greek heritage. Everything my ancestors did to afford me to be born in the greatest nation on the planet.

Grok is lowkey the most emotionally intelligent model right now.

雪の中に隠れているのは…

Physics doesn't always have to be boring; here's a small example of this.

True Story 🎯

“What multiculturalism boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture. And you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.” — Thomas Sowell

Musk said buying X was the most painful thing he's ever done. He kept it open with his own money while every advertiser bailed. Without him, Japan's media monopoly would have lasted another 100 years. From Tokyo: thank you.