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Dec 10
Really felt guilty about including this video in DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES - it's the first step on a slippery slope. And, now that there's one ugly gray backsplash, Carmen thinks she can convince me to add a glamour photo with a gray couch. A gray couch! Sorry, but no way Jose.
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Learn more about why it's so important to be sexy around the house in the "How To Initiate" section of DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES. Link below.

jsanilac.com/dispelling-beaโ€ฆ
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Dec 10
๐Ÿงต(1/) Every time someone talks about eliminating property taxes, the political class asks:

โ€œBuT hOw WiLl We FuNd GoVeRnMeNt?โ€

That question starts from the wrong premise. It assumes the size of government today is automatically the โ€œcorrectโ€ size. It isnโ€™t. #txlege
(2/) Before we ask how to fund the government, we should ask:

โžก๏ธ How big should government be in the first place?

Right now, Texas property tax levies have grown far faster than population + inflation. That is not โ€œfunding government.โ€ That is feeding bloat.
(3/) From the late 90s to today, total property tax levies have more than tripled while population + inflation rose about half that.

That gap is not โ€œneeds.โ€ Itโ€™s choices. Cities, counties, schools, & special districts chose to grow government much faster than Texans grew their paychecks.
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Dec 10
Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's eighteenth-century epic, premiered fifty years ago this week (December 11).

In celebration, I am doing a watchthrough thread on the film. I'll link my previous threads on Barry Lyndon below.

Here we go.

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People complain that this movie is slow but six minutes in Redmond Barry's (Ryan O'Neal) dad has been killed a gunfight and he has been seduced by his cousin (stay classy, eighteenth-century Ireland). 2/ Image
Alright and we are already onto the first military scene, which let's be honest, is why you are reading this thread.

I have lingering questions about the maneuvering going on here: supposedly it is a company, but they have two colours. 3/ Image
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Dec 10
๐ŸงตThe Policy Mix That Ignites Silver
1/
When you combine all three signals, the picture becomes very clear:

โ€ข $40B/month in T-bill purchases
โ€ข a fresh โ€“0.25% rate cut
โ€ข and an economy already in stagflation

โ€ฆyou donโ€™t get a โ€œsoft landing.โ€
You get the start of a new inflation wave.
2/
T-bill purchases = stealth liquidity.
Rate cuts in stagflation = negative real rates.

Negative real rates = the oldest monetary accelerant in history.

This is how a central bank weakens its own currency without admitting it.
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Dec 10
Science just did the unthinkable:

Researchers genetically modified the world's deadliest virus to trace how psilocybin physically repairs the brain...

๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ.

We've finally figured out why one trip can change your entire life ๐Ÿงต
Here's the problem scientists had:

Since 2021, we've known that psilocybin grows new connections between brain cells. Thousands of them. And they last for weeks.

๐—•๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ '๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ' ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด. Which brain regions were wiring to which ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ regions?
That question just got answered by a team at Cornell.

They needed a way to trace connections backward through the brain - to light up every neuron sending signals into a specific area.

The solution?
๐—” ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜€. Image
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Dec 10
@SylDeLaMer @HairyAngus @TartanSeer @theSNP @JohnSwinney A key flaw in your argument is assuming Brexit and Scottish independence are directly comparable. They arenโ€™tโ€ฆ (1)
@SylDeLaMer @HairyAngus @TartanSeer @theSNP @JohnSwinney Brexit was a hard, abrupt withdrawal from the worldโ€™s largest single market, negotiated with no clear plan and driven by a UK Government that prioritised political symbolism over economic continuity. (2)
@SylDeLaMer @HairyAngus @TartanSeer @theSNP @JohnSwinney An independent Scotland, on the other hand, would have the opportunity to negotiate its arrangements before leaving, with a clear transition period and with democratic consent for the direction it chooses - whether thatโ€™s rejoining the EU or forming a closer alignment withโ€ฆ (3)
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Dec 10
Variance is generous!
You donโ€™t need an edge to beat the prop-firm game. You donโ€™t even need a strategy that makes money in the long run. All you need is something that can stay alive long enough for one of those inevitable hot streaks that random variance hands out to everyone eventually.
Even a coin-flip approach, or a mildly losing system, will still deliver runs of +20%, +30%, sometimes +50% or more. Those runs donโ€™t care whether you have alpha; they just show up.
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Dec 10
To make sure to have the right 'setting' and mood for the forthcoming, factual and understandable texts about the incidents in #Vienna between August 1st and around August 20th (not even remember the exact date I left, bcs the relevant events had been long over by then already๐Ÿ˜†)
I wanna have a bit of fun, and point out the things I consider relevant, not caring if anyone else gives a damn or understands it. BUT for those trying to get close to the full picture, it might be interesting. ๐Ÿ™‚ Until I am done with at least the first part covering the events
during my stay in the SO/Vienna from Aug 1st until Aug 4th, I'm gonna ignore all the direct messages I might or might not get, simply because those can wait. So don't bother. Because it always causes a lot of confusion. The relevant "chaos magick" part: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magโ€ฆCut-up technique  The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged, often at random, to create a new text. The technique can also be applied to other media such as film, photography, and audio recordings. It was pioneered by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs.[49]  Burroughs โ€“ who practiced chaos magic, and was inducted into the Illuminates of Thanateros in the early 1990s โ€“ was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating, "the cut-ups are not for artistic purposes".[50] Burroughs used his cut-ups for "po...
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Dec 10
We're releasing more upgrades to Claude Code CLI:

- Async subagents
- Instant compact
- Customer session names
- Usage stats Image
Tasks can now spawn async subagents that move to the background and continue working independently, even if the main agent finishes its task and becomes inactive.

This lets subagents handle long-running tasks, great for monitoring logs or waiting for builds.
Claude now compacts context exponentially faster.

Compacting takes only seconds so you donโ€™t get interrupted.
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Dec 10
0.09% of Italians in America were in the mafia at its PEAK, yet this is still being used by some as โ€œsufficient reasonโ€ to deem Italians as non Whites or โ€œlesser Whitesโ€ by people who reject actual race science/statistics. Image
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Similar to the Irish using figures provided of around 4.5 million ethnic Irish in America during the PEAK of the Irish mob, I chose to assume they were 50% the size of the Italian mafia based on whatโ€™s known, only 0.05 % of Irish would have been in the mob. Image
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The reality is MASS immigration as a whole is often an issue with any people (although sevenfold higher among the non-Whites), the reason these Afrikaners for example arenโ€™t an issue is because there were only around 60, if we took in 59K+ lets say, assimilation would be slower. Image
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Dec 10
1/11

Trumpโ€™s admission here PROVES he is lying about his mental state.

And it looks like his doctors are hiding a *FORMAL* diagnosis of cognitive impairment.

Itโ€™s easy to miss the evidence in his rambling, but itโ€™s BAD!

Letโ€™s look at the evidence:
2/11

Trump has been given the โ€œMontreal Cognitive Assessmentโ€ (MOCA) which is the standard evaluation used by doctors, including the US Navy at Walter Reed, to test for dementia.

Even though the MoCA is NOT part of the standard annual Presidential physical.

We know this as it is the only US accepted adult cognitive test that requires identifying 3 animals.Image
3/11

BUT, now we know he has had 3 of these cognitive tests since the start of the year by his own admission!

If someone fails a MOCA they are tested twice more with a 3 month delay between each test version. Image
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Dec 10
@MoonCake1738 @Nero Fuentes Incredibly Gay Evidence [1]
@MoonCake1738 @Nero Fuentes Incredibly Gay Evidence [2]
@MoonCake1738 @Nero Fuentes Incredibly Gay Evidence [3]
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