Classical Liberal, Partly Paleo, No Solicitors. I write stuff.
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Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
The 2 million Israeli Arabs are the descendants of the ones that didn’t try to slaughter their Jewish neighbors in 1948.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Headed into an HR meeting to discuss terminating an employee who texted the company group chat that the guy from Star Wars had died.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Interesting to see how different European states voted.
Macron's France and Sanchez's Spain are in the pro-Havana camp. Authoritarians stick together.
Today, the Czech Republic joined the United States and others in voting against Cuba’s resolution at the United Nations. The facts are incontrovertible. The regime in Havana bears sole responsibility for the suffering of its people. @StateDept @SecRubio @CZinWashington @UN
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
It isn't hard to see why the culture of truth telling eroded in the military.
The first time an officer doesn't turn the box on a slide green is when the transformation starts. Maybe he turned it amber, or god forbid... red.
That's when he got yelled at. "How come your unit isn't green but everyone else is? What's wrong with you? Why are you worse than these other commanders?"
Nobody likes to get yelled at. And most young officers don't want to rock the boat and hurt their career chances, so they play the game. The unit may not really be green, but by god, they are now on the slide.
The commander is now happy in the lie. And the subordinates are happy too. But now, since the first lie has been told, now it's a competition over who can tell the BEST lie.
This is where the officer transitions into a human LinkedIn post. Adding flowery language to terrible reports to make everything sound amazing.
Fast forward even further, and now you're a General. You've learned nothing but how to be a professional at perpetuating this folly. But the entire scheme is built on one load bearing attribute: hope.
Hope that the units they are reporting on won't get tested. Hope that America is strong enough to deter any would-be adversaries. And hope that even if our units are bad, that the enemy's are worse.
Hope has worked out from time to time. Unless you're a poor soul standing at Abbey Gate on 26 August 2021. Then hope straight up failed.
What you're seeing in the military is just a microcosm of the nation at large though. Maybe even western civilization itself. Look at who the majority of people love. The leader who can deliver bad news in the best way. The one who can twist the truth to make a horrible thing feel not so bad.
Conversely, look at how society responds to the blunt truth teller. They just want him to stop talking. Because living in a lie is more comfortable than facing the truth. It always is.
In order to fix the military, it must be radically transformed at the top. Not with civilians, with uniformed members. All it takes is one senior general infected with radical candor to force the rest of the uniforms in his image. Like a George Marshall.
But George Marshall would never ascend the military hierarchy in 2026. He didn't have the right "credentials". And therein lies the main issue.
You can skip a SECWAR from O4 to the top in a suit. But you can't take an O7 and turn him into an O10 like Marshall.
If we want radical candor back in uniform, the only thing left is to do something radical to achieve it.
An active-duty infantry lieutenant colonel says the officer corps' inability to tell the truth is the biggest threat to readiness. The Army War College found the same in 2015: 'filling a box on a slide.' #Army #Readiness
See article link in the comments
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
I am old enough to remember that nobody actually cared about the suit, and you guys made that up the same way the SPLC funded Charlottesville and blamed the right to call them racist.
I remember when the Democrats called W a Nazi who hated Black people and 'literally' caused Hurricane Katrina. Even milquetoast Mitt Romney was a racist who was 'going to put y'all back in chains,' and he was a sexual predator for having the nerve to want to hire a woman for a position and research the candidates (binder full of women) ....
The Democrats still do not understand how we ended up with Trump. It is insane. The right did not start out to elect him. They were PUSHED into it. But the stupid words you spew and the names you call anyone who is not participating in your mass delusion that socialism and communism are better than freedom and capitalism, they have no meaning anymore.
Literally, even those of us who are not even big Trump fans do not care what he says or does, as long as he is holding back your stupid socialist / commie policies. Accept it. You started it, and there is no going back.
.@BarackObama: I am old enough to remember when a president wearing a tan suit was a major national controversy. They were very upset. And I know I looked good in that suit.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
No surprise. Young Americans can’t recognize antisemitism—especially the modern kind that targets Israel and Zionists—because they were raised on TikTok algorithms and school curricula that teach them Jews are the oppressors in the colonial binary.
Curriculum is destiny. Brainwashing works.
This will not be reversed quickly.
jewishinsider.com/2026/10/yo…
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
The most decorated sailor on Captain Cook's first voyage round the world was a goat, and she had already been round once before he set off.
She sailed first with Wallis on the Dolphin in 1766, and she was on deck at Tahiti the day the first islander ever to see a goat came aboard to inspect her. She walked up and butted him clean off his feet. The canoe party went over the side as one. First contact between Europe and Tahiti was made by a dairy animal, and she won.
Two years later she was walked straight onto the Endeavour for Cook. Three more years. Tahiti again, New Zealand, the whole uncharted coast of Australia, a night on the reef with the water coming in, and then Batavia, where the fever got into the ship and a third of the men went over the side in canvas. A goat is supposed to dry off within a year unless she has a kid. This one never stopped. Officers were taking her milk in their tea on the mornings they buried their friends.
She came home in 1771 and the papers wrote her up by name, or would have done if anybody had thought to give her one. The crew wanted her put out to a good English pasture for life. The Lords of the Admiralty went further and voted her the privileges of a pensioner of Greenwich Hospital, the home for the navy's broken old sailors, with board. Joseph Banks had a silver collar made and asked Samuel Johnson, the man who wrote the dictionary, to compose the inscription. Johnson wrote it in Latin: twice round the globe, second only to the goat that nursed Jupiter, for milk that never failed.
She died at Mile End in April 1772, a few weeks into her pension, which is longer than most of the men who sailed with her got to enjoy theirs.
Two circumnavigations, a knockdown of the first Tahitian she met, a naval pension and an epitaph by Dr Johnson. The men got scurvy and a mention in the log.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Cheesecake Factory implies the existence of Cheesecake Industrial Revolution implies the existence of cheesecake alienation implies the existence of Cheesecake Romanticism
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
DHS Agents Seize Ilhan Omar's Phone But Decide To Let Her Keep Pager buff.ly/lDpQuuJ
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
For years I asked two questions nobody could answer.
If my cholesterol was 110 when I had my cardiac event at 52, why did my arteries fill with plaque.
And why do some people smoke and eat garbage and live to 90 while I ate clean and exercised and ended up in Stamford Hospital fighting for my life.
I spent six years reading the studies they never cited. Testing the markers they never ordered. Mapping my own genetics. Tracking two hundred biomarkers across twelve readings.
What I found was a complete mechanism of heart disease that has nothing to do with your LDL number. A mechanism that starts with a shield your doctor has never measured. That is driven by insulin resistance nobody tested. Fueled by seed oils nobody questioned. Enabled by a defense system that was sabotaged. Sustained by chronic inflammation nobody connected to the arterial wall. And accelerated by genetics that determine who breaks first.
The science was there the entire time. It was silenced.
This thread is the full story. Every step. Every study. Every image. And at the end I will show you how the body heals.
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Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Visitor: Who shears all these?
Farmer: Lads from New Zealand. Every summer, since before I was born.
Visitor: Why not British lads?
Farmer: Two hundred sheep a day, bent double, for six weeks. We stopped raising boys who'd do it.
Visitor: So they fly in.
Farmer: They did. The Home Office turned them down this year.
Visitor: Why?
Farmer: Visas.
Visitor: So who shears them?
Farmer: Whoever's left.
Visitor: And if nobody's left?
Farmer: The flies.
Visitor: The flies shear them?
Farmer: Blowflies lay in the fleece. The maggots hatch and eat her alive from the skin in. That's what an unshorn ewe is by July.
Visitor: And if that happens?
Farmer: I'm prosecuted. Neglect. Same government.
Visitor: They stop the shearer and charge you for the sheep.
Farmer: And the lamb from his farm lands at Dover tariff-free under the trade deal. The New Zealand sheep's welcome. The New Zealand man who'd save mine from the maggots isn't.
Visitor: Who signed that?
Farmer: The same hand that'll sign my summons.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
You know why I hate early voting? Late breaking news. Suppose the guy I vote for three weeks early turned out to be a serial killer. I would be unable to change my vote. Except for out of state or physically unable to get to the polls absentee ballots, people should go to the polls on election day. And yes, I realize I'm yelling at clouds right now.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Robert Downey Jr. asked to spend time with Elon Musk before filming the first Iron Man movie because the director, Jon Favreau, had modeled Tony Stark partially on Elon. Downey wanted to understand the man he was playing. What he described seeing during those meetings says more about Elon than any biography.
Favreau has confirmed that Elon was one of the primary inspirations for the cinematic version of Tony Stark. Not the comic book version, which had been around since 1963, but the film version: the billionaire engineer who builds things with his own hands in his own workshop, whose personal relationships collapse under the weight of his obsession, and whose genius is inseparable from his self destruction.
Downey visited the SpaceX factory. He watched Elon walk the floor. He observed the way Elon interacted with engineers, not as a CEO delegating from above but as an engineer arguing about valve specifications and weld geometries from the middle of the room. Downey later described Elon's energy as "the most focused and simultaneously the most scattered person I've ever been around. The focus is total when it's on you. Then it leaves. And you realize you were one of 40 things being processed simultaneously."
The detail that Downey brought into the performance: the way Tony Stark interacts with objects rather than people. Picking things up. Manipulating screens. Building while talking. The physical restlessness that masks the emotional unavailability. Downey has said that observation came directly from watching Elon during those sessions. The man was never still. The hands were always doing something. The mouth was talking about something else. The brain was somewhere else entirely.
In exchange for the research access, Elon was given a cameo in Iron Man 2. He appears briefly at a party scene. The man who inspired the character appears inside the story the character inhabits. The fiction and the reality met on a film set in 2009 and neither has fully separated since.
Iron Man became the most popular superhero of the 21st century. The performance that launched a $30 billion franchise was built on observations made in a rocket factory by an actor watching a man who couldn't sit still, couldn't maintain eye contact for more than 8 seconds, and couldn't stop building long enough to have a conversation that wasn't about the thing he was building.
The character is fictional. The man who inspired it is not. And the thing that made Tony Stark believable to a global audience, the obsessive genius who cannot connect with the people around him, is the thing that every person in Elon's life has described as both his greatest asset and his deepest cost.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Surgeon: "Gallstones. Until we take it out, I want you on a low fat diet. Nothing fried, no cheese, no cream, skimmed milk."
Patient: "What does the gallbladder do?"
Surgeon: "Stores bile. Squirts it out to digest fat."
Patient: "When?"
Surgeon: "When fat arrives."
Patient: "And if no fat arrives?"
Surgeon: "It sits."
Patient: "Full of bile. Not emptying. For months."
Surgeon: "That's the idea. Rest it."
Patient: "What do stones form from?"
Surgeon: "Bile that sits too long and thickens."
Patient: "So the treatment for a bag that's gone solid from not emptying is to stop emptying it."
Surgeon: "The fat triggers the pain."
Patient: "The fat triggers the squeeze. The pain is the stone in the door."
Surgeon: "Which is why we're removing it."
Patient: "What was I eating when the stones formed?"
Surgeon: "I'd have to look."
Patient: "Low fat. Since 2019. The slimming club."
Surgeon: [does not look]
Patient: "I've been resting it for six years. It's the best rested organ I own."
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Seven people nobody will name… and that is the entire foundation of this story. Seven anonymous voices whispering to Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian at MS NOW, one week before Election Day, that some FBI agent somewhere might get handed a warrant and told to pick up a voting machine and actually look at it.
Think about what they are afraid of here. Not that the counts are wrong, not that a single vote got flipped, not that anybody broke the law… they are afraid somebody with a badge and a warrant signed by a federal judge might hold the evidence in their hands. If these machines are so clean, why does the idea of anyone opening one make these people break out in hives? Honest systems do not need a panic story on the front page the week of the vote.
Here is what the article actually says once you get past the headline. The FBI took ballots in Fulton County in January on a warrant. The FBI got electronic voting records and equipment out of the Maricopa review in March after grand jury subpoenas. Neither one has produced charges yet, and yet somehow the FBI is the scandal. A state attorney general, who would not even let them print which state, has already written to the federal judges asking for a chance to object before any warrant gets signed for ballots or machines. And so called advocates for free and fair elections are lining up ways to coach FBI agents on when to say no. Activists coaching federal agents on how to refuse a lawful warrant, and they wrote it up as the heroes of the story.
Then they quote a current FBI official who says they expect "at least one U.S. attorney and one FBI agent to be willing to sign on to such actions." Sign on to what… a warrant? Reviewed and approved by a judge? That is the nightmare they are selling you, an investigation that actually reaches the boxes.
I have been saying for years that these machines are a black box nobody is allowed to open, and the people who tried to look got raided, sued, and in Tina Peters' case locked in a cell. The same crowd that cheered when the FBI searched Tina's home over a forensic image now wants you terrified that the FBI might look at a machine. Funny how the rule only ever runs one direction, right?
Kash, Todd… the evidence is the machine. Get the warrants, follow the law, and do not let a story built on seven people who will not give their names scare you off the one thing that settles this for every American who votes next week.
Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT.
🚨🚨NEWWWWW --- @FBI agents are privately sharing a grave concern in recent days: that they'll be ordered to seize voting machines or take other legally questionable steps to disrupt the mid-term elections.
@KDilanianMSNOW & me
ms.now/news/white-house-acti…
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
In January 1961 Time put Ancel Keys on its cover, took its readers to dinner at his house, and let him tell America to cut its fat by almost two thirds before his own great study had produced a single result.
The dinner was the sales pitch. Brahms on the record player, candles on the table, a meal that could run two hours, martinis or negronis to start. Veal scallopine in Marsala with fresh green beans. A thousand calories, the magazine reported, and only 20% of them from fat.
That was how Keys wanted the country to eat. Fat down from about 40% of America's calories to 15%, and saturated fat from 17% to 4%. "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products," he said, and more fish, chicken, Canadian bacon, and Italian and Chinese food.
"People should know the facts," he told Time. "Then if they want to eat themselves to death, let them."
The facts that winter were thin. The study of seven countries that was meant to prove him right had only started its surveys in 1958 and had years left to run. What he had was a chart of six countries, picked from the 22 he could have used, and a seat on the American Heart Association committee that had just turned his idea into its first official advice on fat.
The cover did the rest. A physiologist's hunch went into American homes with a playlist and a cocktail menu attached, and it went in as settled science.
In 1965 his own equation for predicting blood cholesterol gained a term for the cholesterol in food. In 1968 the Heart Association told Americans to eat no more than three whole eggs a week. In 1984 Time ran another cover, two fried eggs and a rasher of bacon arranged into a frowning face. For decades American dietary advice held the country to 300mg of cholesterol a day, less than two eggs, until the government's advisers recommended dropping the limit in 2015.
In 1997, aged 93, Keys gave an interview to a food magazine.
"There's no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in blood," he said. "And we've known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn't matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken or a rabbit."
We've known that all along.
Thirty-six years earlier he had told Time to tell America to eat fewer eggs, by candlelight, with a negroni in reach.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
"Nationalize Starlink." Three words, 142K views. And the entire economic history of the 20th century screaming in the room.
Let me explain what would actually happen.
Start in 1920. Ludwig von Mises publishes an essay that will haunt every central planner: without private property, there are no market prices. Without prices, there is no way to calculate. A bureaucrat cannot know whether a ton of steel is more useful in a satellite or in a bridge. He guesses. He guesses wrong. And nobody pays when he's wrong.
In 1945, Hayek drives the point home. The knowledge needed to run an economy doesn't exist in any single brain or any ministry. It's scattered across millions of people, and prices are the only mechanism that can aggregate it in real time. Centralize the decision and you destroy the information.
This isn't theory. Look at the numbers.
In the US, from 2000 to 2025, overall inflation was about +90%. Now look at the sectors where government subsidizes, regulates, and protects the most: hospital services +271%. College tuition +194%. Textbooks +181%. Childcare +152%. Medical care +144%.
And the sectors exposed to competition? TVs: -97%. Software, toys, cell phone plans: all down in nominal terms over 25 years.
The more the state is involved, the more expensive and scarce things get. The less it's involved, the more abundant they become.
Space is the perfect example. NASA's Space Shuttle cost about $54,500 per kilo to low Earth orbit. Falcon 9: about $2,700. Twenty times cheaper. That's not my number, that's NASA's own study. A private company did in fifteen years what a government agency couldn't do in forty.
Starlink is the logical next step. Thousands of satellites launched on reusable rockets. High-speed internet for a remote village, a ship in the middle of the Pacific, a soldier on the front line. No government built that.
So you nationalize it. What happens?
First, you have to pay. SpaceX is worth somewhere around $1.75 to $2 trillion, and seizing it requires just compensation. That's more than a full year of the US defense budget, to buy something that already works.
Then the machine changes its objective function. Today it optimizes for cost, speed, iteration. Tomorrow it optimizes for budgets, procurement cycles, and subcontractors spread across as many states as possible to lock in congressional votes. We know how that ends: look at SLS, years late and billions over budget. When Starship blows up in a test, SpaceX learns and flies again. When a government agency loses a rocket, you get a commission of inquiry and years of paralysis.
And the power? The argument is "no private individual should have this much power." But nationalization doesn't eliminate power. It hands it to whoever sits in the Oval Office. And one day, that will be the person you hate most.
Here's what I deeply believe: humanity is figuring it out. The 20th century tested the state as the engine of value creation. The result: waiting lines, rents, and debt. The model that works is entrepreneurs with the people. Create value, offer it to people who are free to say no. And tear down everything that protects incumbents: rents, regulations that work as moats, patents that freeze innovation instead of rewarding it.
Elon understood this before anyone else. Tesla opened up its patents in 2014. SpaceX broke ULA's near-monopoly (Boeing + Lockheed) on launches. Starlink is making decades of telecom rents obsolete.
He isn't competing with the old system. He's setting a new standard. And when the new standard is twenty times cheaper, the old system doesn't reform. It disappears.
That's exactly why some people want to nationalize it. When you can't compete, you confiscate.
Nationalizing Starlink isn't taking back control. It's handing the future back to the system that already missed it.
Not-So-OK Boomer retweeted
Republicans are learning that the law is a door that only swings in one direction. Democrats can do illegal and unconstitutional things — like enacting DACA, or putting noncitizens on voting rolls — but when Republicans try to undo these things, judges prevent them from doing so.