bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

He was just a guy trying to help someone He lived a simple life and had a heart of gold Then a 3rd world, migrant, savage, barbarian, scumbag stole everything from him I hate what has happened to my country They all must go I do not care Thousands of them will be executed for what they did And millions more will be deported from our country Stephen did nothing wrong And tomorrow it could be you or your friend or your family Mass Deportations It is the only way

A psychologist ran an experiment where one group studied a passage four times and another group read it once then took three tests on it, and a week later the group that studied four times had forgotten almost everything while the tested group remembered most of it. I read the original 2006 paper at 1am and could not stop thinking about how badly it breaks the way almost everyone studies. His name is Henry Roediger, and the paper is called Test-Enhanced Learning, published in Psychological Science in 2006 with his student Jeffrey Karpicke. Here is the experiment that should be taught in every school and almost never is. They took 180 college students and split them into three groups. All three learned the same short science passage. The first group studied it four times in a row. The second group studied it three times and took one test. The third group studied it once and then took three tests on it, writing down everything they could remember each time with no notes in front of them. Then everyone went home. Five minutes after learning, the result looked obvious. The group that studied four times scored highest. The group that took three tests scored lowest. Cramming won. This is exactly what your brain tells you when you reread your notes and feel like you know the material. Then they waited a week. When the students came back, the entire result had flipped. The group that studied the passage four times remembered 40% of it. The group that studied once and tested three times remembered 61%. The tested group held onto half again as much, and they had read the passage barely three times while the study group read it more than fourteen. Read that again. The students who reread the material the most forgot the most. The students who were forced to dig it out of their own heads kept the most. The number that haunts me is the forgetting rate. Over that week, the study-four-times group lost 52% of what they originally knew. The test-three-times group lost only 14%. Same passage. Same students. The only difference was whether they reread it or were forced to recall it. Here is the part that explains why nobody does this. The students who studied four times were the most confident they would remember. They felt fluent. The words looked familiar, so their brain reported back that the job was done. The tested group felt worse during the process because recall is uncomfortable and you keep hitting blanks. They were less confident and they performed far better. That gap between how learning feels and what actually sticks is where almost everyone loses. Rereading feels like progress because familiarity is pleasant. It is also nearly useless after a few days. The reason testing works is that pulling a memory out is a stronger event than putting it back in. Every time you force yourself to recall something with the book closed, you physically strengthen the path back to it. Rereading does not do this. It just lets you recognize the words on the page, which is a completely different thing from being able to produce them later. So the rule is simple and almost nobody follows it. Stop rereading. Close the book and try to write down what you just learned, even when it feels like you remember nothing. The struggle is not a sign that it failed. The struggle is the actual learning happening. The test was never just measuring what you knew. The test was building it. If reading something twice felt like learning to you, what does that say about everything you studied last year and cannot remember now?

“You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough people, they stop fighting.” - General Curtis LeMay U.S. Air Force.

This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match. Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong. Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️

2,400 years ago Aristotle warned us about multiculturalism

Colonialism is bad, right? Wrong. The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule. India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours. India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out. Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests. The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894. Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone. Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed. Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it. Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains. Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of. If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

Fifty-nine years ago today, an American Naval vessel, the USS Liberty, was attacked by air and sea by the State of Israel. Of the 234 men on the ship, 34 Americans were killed. 171 were wounded. Today, Thomas Massie will take to the House floor to memorialize the worst interpretation of the event, an interpretation that suggests Israel attacked the American ship on purpose and that our own government either coordinated with them to do, or is complicit in the cover up. The USS Liberty has become a rallying cry for many of the worst voices in public life. From the Groyper Wars against Charlie Kirk, to Tucker Carlson’s blackpill-and-despair political project, to Candace Owens’ global jihad of grift and Jew hared, the Conspiracy Theories surrounding the USS Liberty have become one of the most respectable ways to advance anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment. But what really happened on that terrible day in 1967? How can we know what’s true? And what does it mean for us six decades later? Conspiracy Theorists love to overwhelm you with the sheer volume of their claims, but there are 8 claims which makeup the core of the argument. We thoroughly address those eight in this episode, and shine a light on the phenomena that undergird these Conspiracy Theories in the first place. Here's an honest accounting of what happened on June 8, 1967, and how — and why — bad actors are lying to you about it: