Physical Therapist, DPT, OCS, CSCS
Joined September 2010
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This is a formal request for Susie Wiles and James Blair to stop harassing me with texts and calls.
If there is a factual inaccuracy in what I said, send it to me in writing and I will vigorously correct and apologize for any misstatements. I will note that everything I said is substantiated by other senior officials.
If you want to file a lawsuit and get into discovery of whether it’s provably true that Ballard and Continental had an undue influence on the White House policy process, do it.
I believe we are in an existential moment for the country, and Americans were owed an honest accounting of the past two years so we identify the problems we need to move on from.
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Me being in prison serves absolutely nobody.
The USA could easily let me go through my extradition hearing from house arrest.
It is insane a foreign country can make demands to the USA “We heard he harmed somebody 16 years ago lock him up!”.
“Also, we won’t tell you who said it”.
IF they need a hostage they should keep me and let my brother go so he can spend Thanksgiving and his birthday with his children.
This is a REAL request @TheJusticeDept. Free Andrew and keep me in prison.
I am tired of watching psychopaths do this to him.
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“Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion.”
-Alice Cooper
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I asked ChatGPT to come up with an aphorism to determine whether or not someone is acting through ego
It returned with:
"Would I still want this outcome if it offered no validation of who I believe myself to be?"
Another L for Ai.
Ego is nothing to do with who we ‘believe’ ourselves to be
Ego defends an identity we need others to believe we possess.
Ego protects the image we feel compelled to defend when reality threatens to expose the distance between our idealised image and our internal experience
Consequently, the ego is most fiercely defended where it is least believed.
Masculine ego is the most powerful tool on the face of the planet
Stoics look at the concept of ego through a singular (negative) lens treating it as something to be suppressed or ‘overcome’.
Ego can be directed (and sourced) in different ways
If it comes from a place of lack, it shows up through compensatory behaviours
These compensatory behaviours can either be inwardly beneficial eg. Insecurity leading to the development of an extraordinary physique
Or they can be outwardly beneficial (expansive), the need to imprint your self upon reality -creation, innovation - physical manifestations outside of the self.
The majority of what you see around you is a direct consequence of another mans refusal to accept what is, in favour of what could be
Of course, ego can be destructive.
Anything powerful enough to transform reality is powerful enough to destroy it.
The highest expression of power = conquering the world without becoming enslaved by the part of yourself that demanded its conquest.
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You, after getting spiritually and biochemically optimized.
If you have ADHD, one of the worst things you can do is goon (a kabbalistic weapon that makes you depressed and retarded).
"So it's not weird that gooning dysregulates me and turns me into a rude ahole?"
Maybe not.
Anything that suddenly drops, depletes, or disrupts baseline dopamine will rapidly lower an ADHD individual's threshold for frustration, directly triggering severe irritability, mood slumps, and emotional volatility
Biochemically speaking, irritability in individuals with ADHD is not a personality flaw.
It is a direct byproduct of your neurotransmitter dysregulation and altered brain connectivity.
"I thought that ADHD was just about attention/focus".
No.
The exact same biochemical pathways that govern focus also manage our "emotional brakes".
For example, the ADHD brain is characterized by a baseline deficiency or rapid reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine.
But besides focus and alertness, these also act as chemical stabilizers for frustration.
When dopamine levels are chronically low or fluctuating wildly, the brain's threshold for frustration drops significantly for example.
So minor inconveniences, like a sudden interruption, a delayed task, or sensory overload, cause a rapid chemical crash, triggering an immediate, irritable "fight-or-flight" response.
This is why you can be mislabeled as rude, an a-hole etc while your reactions are not targeting the person you have in front you.
"So it's just about dopamine?"
I wish it was that simple.
In individuals with ADHD, there is an altered structural and functional connectivity between the PFC and the limbic system.
The prefrontal cortex is the executive command center of the brain, responsible for self-control, logical reasoning, and overriding impulsive reactions.
So without strong, catecholamine-driven signals from the PFC to dampen down an overactive amygdala, emotions surge rapidly and cool down slowly.
While ADHD is most famously linked to the prefrontal cortex, abnormalities in the limbic system are also heavily linked to core symptoms like emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and attention deficits.
Think of the limbic system as our survival software.
-The amygdala scans the environment for danger and processes emotional responses.
-The hippocampus helps store long-term memories so the brain can remember past dangers or safe spaces
-The hypothalamus manages basic needs like hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
So it's crucial for homeostasis overall, reward and threat detection, memory and learning.
Now in many individuals with ADHD, the amygdala shows structural differences or atypical connectivity with the rest of the brain.
This can lead to "bottom-up" emotional hijacking, where feelings like frustration, impatience, or boredom are felt with extreme intensity, driving impulsive actions before the prefrontal cortex can step in to modulate them.
The hippocampus is essential for contextual memory.
In ADHD, alterations in this area can cause struggles with working memory (forgetting what you were doing mid-task) and "time blindness" (difficulty using past experiences to judge how long a future task will take)
The limbic system is a major pathway for dopamine.
In ADHD brains, a deficit in dopamine signaling makes it difficult for the thalamus to filter out irrelevant sensory data, resulting in chronic distractibility, fatigue, or low motivation.
"How to fix?"
There is no simple way to “fix” the limbic system.
It is not a single broken part that can be repaired.
It is a network of structures whose activity and connectivity can become dysregulated by chronic stress, trauma, sleep deprivation, inflammation, or other factors.
Recovery and better regulation are possible because these circuits are plastic, but the process is gradual.
There is a long list of things that can help.
For example:
-Exposure-based therapies and CBT help extinguish exaggerated fear responses by repeatedly pairing threat cues with safety in a controlled way.
This strengthens prefrontal inhibition over the amygdala and builds new extinction memories.
-Regular physical activity is one of the most reliable ways to support hippocampal neurogenesis.
-Optimizing sleep.
Chronic short or fragmented sleep amplifies amygdala reactivity and weakens prefrontal regulation.
-Trauma-focused therapies (including EMDR and prolonged exposure) are particularly relevant when past trauma has left the amygdala hyper-reactive and the hippocampus less able to contextualize threats.
-Regular meditation is associated with increased prefrontal and anterior cingulate thickness/activity and reduced amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli.
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Explaining to a woman what she did wrong is like trying to have a serious conversation with a 6 year old.
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I think about this clip a lot...
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
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It's 2026.
You are paying $6 for gas. Your dollar stretches less every year. You cannot afford a home in the town you grew up in. You were told to go to college, make 100k, invest in your 401(k), and everything will fall into place for you by the time you're 65.
But we are living in a new time. The playbook we were given growing up is outdated.
You SHOULD be upset.
But it's up to you if you choose to REMAIN upset.
Your ticket to break free from this perpetual state of financial stress is simple - you need to sell something.
I don't care if it's Pokemon cards, handmade goods at a craft show, sourdough bread, feet pics - ANYTHING.
And yes, here's a harsh truth - you are going to need to work more than the typical 40 hour week for a few years if you really want to be financially free.
We don't get to make the rules, but we do get to make the choice to either remain a slave to this system or break free.
Stop being upset, start grinding.
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Seeking Alpha
Alpha isn't fighting, or being a good fighter, or having a six pack, or benching 405, or owning a watch worth more than your vehicle. Smug and aloof isn't Alpha either. That's just insecurity hiding behind a thin and screamingly obvious veneer. Nothing says bitter, misogynistic, basement dwelling incelibacy like smug and aloof. We see you and women can smell it for miles.
You won't find Alpha in a vial, a pill, or at a $5,000 bootcamp run by dudes who used to teach negging and sleazy PUA tricks and now sell "confidence transformation" to the same men they never actually helped get laid in the first place.
Alpha is showing up exactly who you are and without any apology. It's saying what you're going to do, and then doing it relentlessly.
And it's taking full responsibility, not just for your own choices and outcomes, but for anyone who has handed you the wheel and trusted you to decide for both of you.
Take the lead. Own what happens next. That's it. That's Alpha.
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The reason the ambitious man is so ambitious is because he is terrified of what surfaces when he stops.
Work is motion
motion suppresses internal noise
the moment you sit still, the thing you have been outrunning soon catches up.
Escapism comes in many forms
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Andrew Tate on A man must financially and physically protect his woman.
But a woman must spiritually protect her man.
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Nick Fuentes warns that Israel may be preparing to аѕѕаѕѕіոаtе President Trump to destroy Iran
“I find this to be incredibly disturbing—all the intelligence about these Iranian аѕѕаѕѕіոаtіоո plots come from Israel. Sometimes you get this predictive programming..."
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A father doesn’t stop teaching once he dies.
The memories of his lessons are amplified by absence.
He gives you the lessons with his life, but you only understand what he said with his death.
The ultimate sacrifice.
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You can mock.
You can laugh.
You can pretend.
But this is why @NickJFuentes will win… everything.
It’s only a matter of time.