Wednesday, March 11, 2026

ROHAN DAS: this professor explains [game theory] so simply that even a 15-year-old can understand it. Once you understand this, you start seeing hidden strategies everywhere - in markets, business, and life.

His name is Jiang Xueqin

EMM386: The US Government bought the weapon. Miniaturized pulsed microwave weapon. Carried by one person. Silent, generates no heat. Programmable for different scenarios. Remote controllable. Range of several hundred feet. Penetrates windows and drywall.

In a covert operation, American agents secretly purchased a miniaturized microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network for roughly $15 million as part of a Pentagon-backed effort to better understand the mysterious attacks, according to CBS.  --NY Post

"Tulsi Gabbard, CIA at war over bombshell Havana Syndrome evidence linking mystery illness to Russia," Caitlin Doombos, The New York Post, March 9, 2026.

JOURNAL NSBM: Types of stem cells present in human exfoliated deciduous teeth are Adipocytes, which can be used to treat various spine and orthopedic conditions, Crohn’s disease, cardiovascular diseases and may also be useful in plastic surgery

They contain stem cells that could repair your heart, bone, and even brain tissue. What was once considered medical waste may soon be a powerful tool in regenerative medicine. Scientists have discovered that wisdom teeth — often removed and discarded in adolescence or young adulthood — contain a rich supply of mesenchymal stem cells capable of transforming into bone, muscle, nerve, and other vital tissues. Dental stem cells have shown promise in preclinical studies for conditions ranging from arthritis and diabetes to cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. And unlike stem cell collection from bone marrow or blood, harvesting dental pulp during wisdom tooth removal involves no additional procedures or discomfort.

[Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine. "Current overview on dental stem cells applications in regenerative dentistry." Stem Save (2025). Current Clinical Applications for Stem Cells] 

NICHOLAS FABIANO: 2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: why would your body be working so damn hard to absorb fat if it didn't want the fat?

You got five organs all working in concert just to absorb fat.  

Stomach starts breaking things down.  

Your liver makes bile.

Your gallbladder stores that bile.  

Bile is used to break down and emulsify that fat. 

Pancreas makes lipase and other enzymes to break that down further, and then the bile gets absorbs that with the bile in your small intestine.  

So why would your body be working so damn hard to absorb fat if it didn't want the fat?  If that was bad for you, all it had to do was just turn one of those things off. Just don't make bile.  You're never absorbing fat.  If that were so bad for us, why wouldn't have nature taken care of that?  

REFORMED AND DANGEROUS: St. Patrick wasn’t a mascot for green beer. He was a missionary who returned to the people who enslaved him… to preach Christ. We turned him into a party. He gave his life to the gospel.

LEONARDA JONIE: I cannot describe the level of seething hatred coming off this AZTEC-AMERICAN

This is grim and true. Every experience easily confirms this.

I walked into a Walmart today in Texas and I asked the greeter where the nail clippers were. My first mistake was assuming that a Walmart greeter in Texas could speak English. He looked at me like a confused animal that didn't realize anyone could see him. So I headed in the direction of where I thought nail clippers were and found them, locked behind glass. My second mistake was assuming this was going to be an easy process. I looked around for the employee who could unlock the glass. Another employee, another Mexican, stocking the shelves pointed him out to me as I would never have figured out this person worked there. I walked over to him and POLITELY asked him if he could unlock the glass. I cannot describe the level of seething hatred coming off this AZTEC-AMERICAN. He stopped what he was doing and looked at me with pure, unadulturated hatred as if I had just interrupted his life by asking him to do LITERALLY HIS JOB. So great was his anger that he didn't even answer me. He just stopped what he was doing, looked at his phone to check the time and make sure he was still on the clock, and then walked over, opened the gate, allowed me to grab my nail clipper, closed the gate and walked back off without saying anything. Well, he didn't say anything OUT LOUD. But this man made his thoughts known very clearly on his face. The only thing keeping these people from openly murdering us is the SEMBLANCE of civilization that still exists. And the only reason he felt that way was because he clocked me as a WHITE WOMAN and therefore, his racial enemy.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

CHASE HUGHES: if you think the brain is going to win versus a trillion-dollar computer, you're an idiot. Human beings we don't have a firewall.

 
If anyone listening . . . if you think the brain is going to win versus a trillion-dollar computer, you're an idiot.  I'll just say that.  Human beings we don't have a firewall.  Like we can't download anti-malware for ourselves.  That's why I'm just on this massive campaign to say like you need to spend time on social media as you possibly can and as little time doom scrolling shorts.  And I say this as a guy who publishes.  I don't know how much money team puts out, but I think it's two or three shorts per day.  But they're at least they're educational. Really curate what gets your attention.  If anyone listening if you think your brain is going to win versus a $1-trillion dollar computer, you're an idiot. I'll just say that.  Pretending to have all of my stuff together and I've got an 8-ft pile of laundry back at home, so we'll kind of project a lot.  So confidence is never, ever, ever something that we do. It's something that we are. It's an internal state of safety, safety, non-performance . . . .  Just these three things: I feel safe, I'm not performing, and I have a generalized expectations that things are going to pretty much be okay no matter what.  Those are the three elements of confidence. 

DON'T F*CK WITH ME . . . BITCH

J. MICHAEL WALLER: The American founder of International Women's Day, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, joined the Communist Party USA in 1926, and remained a CPUSA member until her death in 1982. During that time she was loyal to every Soviet leader. from Stalin to Brezhnev.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson, 1886-1982.

GROK ON FREDDY'S CUSTARD & STEAKBURGERS: The high leanness, lean beef can taste less flavorful/juicy than fattier 80/20 blends

Wow.  When Grok acknowledges the bad taste and smell of Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers hamburger meat, you know you're not delusional or "it's only you."  You're getting confirmation from the "collective" or aggregate sites.  Grok explains, 

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers uses 100% lean ground beef for their "steakburgers" (which are their hamburgers/burgers).

Well, there's your fist mistake.  You don't want lean.  You want the fattier version, the 80%/20%, not the 90%/10%.  Yuk.   

They describe it as premium beef, pressed thin and cooked-to-order for crispy edges, but they don't publicly disclose a specific single supplier or brand name for the ground beef on their official site (freddys.com) or in most public info.

Okay, so we don't know what we're getting or where we're getting it from, or from what animal.  Do they partner with Bill Gates' Beyond Burger?  God help us. 

Their nutrition/allergen page notes that info is based on "average values for ingredients from Freddy's suppliers" (plural), suggesting they source from multiple or varying suppliers depending on location/region. 

No surprise here.  It'd obviously be better to have the meat sourced from a single farm, but I don't know how bad it is to have a hodge-podge of meats from different farms.  No rancher would address that, nor would any carnivore aficionado.  

Like many fast-casual chains [wait, what happened to the food?  Shouldn't it read "fast-food chain"?], they probably use large foodservice distributors (e.g., Sysco, US Foods, or similar) that provide ground beef from various packing houses. There's no indication it's from a premium branded source like some places use (e.g., no mentions of Angus or specific ranches).

For comparison: Their hot dogs are specifically Vienna Beef, but burgers aren't tied to one publicized beef brand.

Regarding the bad smell/taste you experienced (like "McDonald's bad" — often described as overly processed, off, or ammonia-like in some complaints):

Freddy's emphasizes fresh, cooked-to-order patties (not pre-frozen or pre-cooked like some fast food), and they market it as higher quality with lean beef.

However, there are scattered customer complaints online (e.g., on Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube reviews) about the meat tasting bland, dry, off, or low-quality at times — some call it "garbage" or note a weird smell/taste in specific locations. This could stem from:

The high leanness (lean beef can taste less flavorful/juicy than fattier 80/20 blends if not seasoned/cooked perfectly).

Batch-to-batch variation from suppliers. 

Okat, so Freddy's partners with platforms like ArrowStream, a supply chain management tool for foodservice operators, announced in 2023, . . . but doesn't name the beef source.  K2D Foods was also cited as a source of Freddy's burgers.

Location-specific issues (storage, freshness, or cooking).

Or just personal taste — some love the thin, crispy style; others find it underwhelming compared to juicier burgers.

If it's consistently bad at your local spot, it might be worth contacting that specific Freddy's (via their app/site contact form or in-person) or corporate through freddys.com/contact-us — they encourage feedback. Sometimes it's a one-off freshness issue.

If this isn't the Freddy's you meant (e.g., a local place or something else), give more details like the full name/location! Otherwise, their beef is standard premium lean ground from commercial suppliers, not a secret fancy source.

WALL ST. APES: Tax Penalty for Not having Insurance in CA

WHITE PAPERS POLICY INSTITUTE: The Communication Workers of America estimate that more than 500,000 America call center jobs have been outsourced. Many of these foreign call centers are scam hubs, using their real contracts with American companies to steal millions from Americans.

California had over 94,000 dead people getting federal benefits.  --Brendan Carr
California had over 94,000 dead people getting federal benefits.

J. MICHAEL WALLER: Chinese Communist Party infiltration of Western institutions far exceeds the counterintelligence capabilities of the entire world.

Ideology Behind Int'l Women's Day? Anti-Christ Leninists

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Monday, March 9, 2026

CHASE HUGHES: Prioritize respect over likeability

"Prioritize respect over likeability," Chase Hughes.

JIANG XUEQIN: Correlation does not = Causation. Just because things are correlated does not mean they cause each other.

The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control is the Engine of SuccessWalter Mischel, 2015.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, 2007.  Those who succeed in life have a growth mindset.  Resilience.  

K. Anders Ericsson, Deliberate Practice.  People who succeed practice strategically.  Self-reflection, constantly thinking about yourself as a student.

Instructor is Jiang Xueqin.

Dunning Kruger Effect. Hardest part of being a student is to assess yourself properly and know where you stand and how to improve. Those who are stupid are often the most confident in the world, what is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Often the people in power are stupid. They don't know they're stupid, they were confident, but they do stupid things . . . .

Correlation does not = Causation. Just because things are correlated does not mean they cause each other.

Just because you get up at 4am in the morning, doesn't mean you're going to succeed.

Just because you work hard, doesn't mean you're going to succeed.

Just because you're resilient, doesn't mean you're going to succeed.

Just because you have a growth mindset does not mean you succeed.

If you're successful in life, you'll have more self-control.

If you're successful, you'll have more resilience.

If you're successful, you're more humble in life.

If you're rich, you become successful, and therefore you will have a growth mindset, self-control, deliberate practice. But isolated, just because you have growth mindset, self-control, deliberate practice doesn't mean you'll be successful.

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN, AND ULTIMATELY WHO SUCCEEDS?

Rich people are more likely to succeed than poor people. From macroeconomic studies, we know that school doesn't really matter how well you do in school. If your parents are rich, you'll be successful in life. If your parents are poor, you will not be successful in life.

PARENTING STRATEGIES VS. RICH & POOR

From different parenting styles, we understand why rich kids perform differently from poor kids.

What is a marshmallow Test?  Marshmallow Test is not a test of control; it’s a test of your trust in others.  If you believe that the teacher who goes outside, if you believe that he comes back and will keep his promise, then you will not eat that marshmallow.  But if you think that the teacher lied to me, then you are going to eat that marshmallow. So it’s not about self-control; it’s about your belief and trust in authority figures. 

I can't align myself with his reductive point that rich parents determines success.

If you’re rich, you have stability.  But if you’re poor, you have no stability, so you’re actually better off eating that marshmallow rather than waiting for that second marshmallow, because, guess what?  Most of the time, you will not get that second marshmallow.  

THE KOBEISSI LETTER: Employee health insurance was the biggest driver, surging +14.2% for manufacturers and +12.9% for service firms, with some companies reporting increases of up to +50%.

Cost pressures across US businesses are accelerating: US manufacturers reported total operating costs jumped +8.5% in 2025, nearly double the +5.0% rise in the prior year. At the same time, service firms saw costs rise +7.0%, also accelerating from +5.0% in 2024. Employee health insurance was the biggest driver, surging +14.2% for manufacturers and +12.9% for service firms, with some companies reporting increases of up to +50%. Utilities costs rose +8.5% for both sectors, with ~20% of firms reporting increases of +20% or more. All while business insurance jumped +7.4% for manufacturers and +6.8% for service firms last year, with nearly 1 in 10 companies reporting spikes of at least +20%.

Inflationary pressures are building under the surface. 

SENSE RECEPTOR: overwhelming evidence that cancer research in the U.S. is actually research into how to give us all cancer rather than cure it

Dr. Suzanne Humphries, 

Humphries goes on to say, “Now, I don't know where any material went from there because we don't have these brave people that… stayed alive to be able to tell us any of this. But I know that by 1967… everyone within the original project, some 160 people, except for Judyth Vary Baker and Alton Ochsner, were gone. Okay? And, you know, like I said, something just makes me think there was more to this operation than just about getting Castro. There were absolutely unthinkable abuses of science that were taking place here.”

Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten HistorySuzanne Humphries MD and Roman Bystrianyk, 2013.