This strange brain reaction to pain is called ‘muscle guarding’ The more we clench our muscles, the more the body becomes locked, washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

The Book You’re Reading Might Be Wrong - The Atlantic. “People might be a little less likely to do that if they understood that the publisher is basically just publishing whatever the author said was correct,” apple.news/AMyLrjgkmSLSlF…

My father believed that the number one lesson I needed to learn in life was that Jesus Christ was my personal savior. This is one lesson I never learned. However, I did embrace God and Judaism in my 20s, but found that this solved almost nothing beyond my need for meaning.

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When you you love people, you subjugate your desires for the good of others.

If you feel no connection for the people you work for, you have a purely transactional relationship where employers try to extract as much from employees while paying as little as possible while

29:00 WSJ: Rising Crime Rates Are a Policy Choice: Progressives can’t solve the problem because they won’t abandon the practices that cause it. wsj.com/articles/safe-…

34:00 TNR: Can We Become a Country of “Joiners”? A new documentary explores Robert Putnam’s life and work., newrepublic.com/article/180516…

We need more ethical monotheism.

Chat: Safety is the first rung on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Decoding The Violence Problem In LA Public Transport (5-9-24) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Stephen Holmes: Cold War Liberalism “liberal universalism disguised their ethnic particularism, since they opposed violent nationalism in the decolonising world but not in the case of Israel.” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Stephen Holmes: Cold War Liberalism Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans were being ‘hysterical’ when they saw Trump as a danger to democracy, since democracy barely exists in America anyway. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Will AI Be a Job Killer? Call Us Skeptical. - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AtPx8eEsqQx-dY…

via @NYTimes Dr. Lee said they tend to work best if there is a “shared identity” among the people involved. nytimes.com/2024/05/09/wel…

Is it actionable to sue somebody for violation of an oral contract wherein you blew Kevin Spacey hoping he'll look at your script and then he lets you down? Seems like you have a tort for pain and suffering.

What kind of world are we living in where a straight guy can blow Kevin Spacey and the Hollywood actor won't even look at the blower's script? Cruel. Independent: 'Another man, Jesse, claims to have briefly had oral sex with Spacey even though he was straight – because he felt it

What are your favorite poses for staying safe in a scary world? I like fair dinkum Aussie bloke from the outback trying to make his way in the big city by relying on the kindness of strangers.

I feel super-healed. How about you? nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/…

Chat: What’s your favorite mindset? 1. Gorilla 2. Bronze Age?

Chat: Always easy to self-righteously condemn; delude oneself about one's own virtue, principle, from distance of the temptations; of the /opportunities/ to succumb.