I will tweet on this thread a list of my (current) favorite products and keep adding to it over time:

The last thing you see before they add electrolytes to the water supply

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JUST IN: Japan now has more than 100,000 people aged 100 or older for the first time in history.

JUST IN: Seattle police are now referring to shooters as “trigger pullers” to avoid stigmatizing language, as the city responds to a recent surge in shootings.

Russian officials have biologically evolved to be harder to push out of windows.

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” - Bill Watterson

2026 is 67% complete.

Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.

Lamine Yamal's parents won a competition to do a photoshoot with Messi when Yamal was 5 months old. On Sunday they'll face each other in the World Cup final, aged 39 and 19.

Folks (guys and gals), don't be psyopped by this article. You don't have unlimited time. You need to be moving. Don't put off life. Don't look at Anne Hathaway getting pregnant at 43 and think "Oh, ok I'll be fine." It's a psyop. You'll have massive regret if you squander your youth with hedonism and selfish BS and then try to scramble to have a real life later. Don't be deceived by lies.

majority if creating is synthetically made in China Creapure is made in Germany

BREAKING: The EU just mandated that every new car registered in Europe starting today must have a camera filming the driver’s face. It’s called Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) under their General Safety Regulation. Tracks your gaze, head movements and attention from 20 km/h and up. Stricter the faster you go. They say it’s not recording for the authorities… yet. Engineers warned this is the perfect hardware for future surveillance once the cameras and software are already in every vehicle. Why do you think they want all those big AI data centres? Live and let live? Not in Europe. People are literally cheering for technology that will eliminate their jobs and give government absolute control over their lives. Why?

"On 11/20/24, Rep. Debbie Schultz filed a buy of Viasat with ticker VSAT. It was flagged as suspicious... because she sat on a committee that oversees part of Viasat's revenue business. Since that filing, even with the delay, it's up over 1,000%." disgusting

The Cancer Episode > My diagnosis and prognosis > What this means for How to Take Over the World > A few thoughts on death > See below for links to GoFundMe, etc.

Will Guidara gave me his rules for criticizing someone on your team: - in private (praise in public, criticize in private) - the behavior, not the person - consistently, so people know what right looks like - never with sarcasm, never with emotion - and praise more than you criticize His line: if praise is affirmation, criticism is investment.

JUST IN: FAA moves to legalize civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land for the first time in 53 years.

"i have allergies, eczema and low T and I dont know why"

A month ago, I published a 13,000-word essay on IVF and egg freezing. The core argument is that the American fertility funnel pushes women toward far higher drug doses than the rest of the world, defaulting to the most aggressive protocol for nearly every woman — usually without telling her that gentler options exist and get comparable results. This thread is the short version and should take 5 minutes, compared to the essay's 1 hour. It also clears up the mischaracterisations I keep hearing — some of them honest, given how long the piece is, and some from people with a vested interest in my being wrong. The straw man goes like this: Riva said egg freezing and IVF are bad, exaggerated how many days American women take stims, and then told them to copy Japan, where IVF outcomes are notoriously worse. Don't bother reading it! Egg freezing and IVF are incredible technologies. What I'm critical of is the methods and the advice young women are given. Three approaches exist, but the US system defaults to the most aggressive one for nearly every woman:

A dear friend of mine, and someone many of you know, was recently diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer. He is being seen at Sloan, which is great. I've been reading about new treatments, particularly with AI. I know nothing about this stuff. But I desperately want to help a buddy and know I have a bunch of smart, powerful people in my audience. If there's anyone out there that thinks they can point him into a helpful directly, please email me: samparr@samparr.com.