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we really live in a nation full of chuds. fantastic article
The N.B.A. player Jontay Porter got deep into FanDuel, and in debt to the wrong people. The only way out, it seemed, was to gamble on himself. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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This makes so much sense. You’d meet people in college who completed the equivalent of 2 years of coursework w/ AP credits and they were dumb as rocks
Most people do not realize just how easy the AP exams have gotten. They are not college level.
Why/how have they become so easy? What's going on?
This might shock you... A brutal new piece in Education Next just dropped, saying the decline in rigor of the AP in the last two decades is, in large part, because the content has been GUTTED. For example:
— AP Biology cut 40% of its material
— Required lines from the Aeneid in AP Latin halved
— Spanish Lit reading list cut from 56 works to 38
Then the questions themselves have become absurdly easier. Readability measures show English passages have fallen multiple grade levels, and some now include footnotes defining basic words...
A 2025 AP English prompt included footnote definitions for words like "optimism" and "pessimism."
At the same time, scoring was recalibrated so that more students pass: guessing penalties disappeared, rubrics grew more generous, readers were told to give students the benefit of the doubt, etc. — "no one at College Board had any incentive to maintain rigor."
College professors are now seeing students arrive with AP credit who lack basic content knowledge and writing ability. The College Board insists the exams have not become easier, but everybody familiar with them knows they've become an absolute joke.
Advanced Placement is no longer advanced. This is not college level.
It must be replaced.
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shut the fuck up
most men running cognitive optimization protocols have never had their hormones tested.
they spend $400/month on nootropics while their free testosterone is 380 and their estradiol is 38 and they're wondering why nothing makes them feel sharp.
cognition runs on hormones more than it runs on compounds. testosterone, thyroid, cortisol, growth hormone, insulin sensitivity — these are the substrate that determines whether any cognitive enhancement actually works.
you can't supplement your way out of suboptimal hormones.
here's the order:
1. get the panel.
bare minimum: total testosterone, free testosterone, SHBG, estradiol (sensitive assay), LH, FSH, prolactin, full thyroid (TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, thyroid antibodies), DHEA-S, IGF-1, fasting insulin, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1c, comprehensive metabolic panel, lipid panel with apolipoprotein B, hsCRP, homocysteine, vitamin D, ferritin, b12, folate.
this costs $300-500 through marketplace labs without a doctor's order if your state allows it. it's the highest-leverage spend in your stack.
2. address what's actually low.
low vitamin D — most men in the northern hemisphere, especially in winter. 4000-5000 IU daily for most.
low ferritin — surprisingly common in men who train hard. supplemental iron if below 50.
low magnesium / zinc / b12 — common, easy fix, foundation supplementation handles it.
suboptimal thyroid — TSH above 2.0 is suboptimal regardless of "reference range." reverse T3 elevated indicates conversion problems. work with a physician who actually treats thyroid rather than just screens for hashimoto's.
low testosterone — if free T is below 15 ng/dL or total below 500, you have a problem. fix what's fixable through lifestyle first (sleep, body composition, alcohol, training, stress) before considering exogenous testosterone. if you've fixed the lifestyle factors and free T is still low, TRT is a legitimate conversation with a physician who specializes in it.
3. retest at 90 days.
protocols you're running need to produce measurable changes. if you've adjusted something for 90 days and the bloodwork hasn't improved, what you're doing isn't working. change it.
4. then optimize cognition.
once hormones are in range, cognitive enhancement compounds produce dramatically different results than they did before. the same alpha-GPC that produced nothing on a depleted hormonal substrate becomes useful when the substrate is correct.
most men skip step one entirely. they buy compounds while running suppressed testosterone and elevated cortisol and wonder why the protocols don't work. the protocols work fine. their hormonal status is the problem.
bloodwork before compounds. always.
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if you have low energy or suspect you have some sort of endocrine disorder (hypo/hyperthyroid) then get bloodwork but cognition enhancement is like not really at all related to hormonal profile within normal distribution
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