a wrangler and a rounder and I guess I always will
Georgia, US
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Mark S. retweeted
The economic ignorance here is staggering.
These people genuinely believe wealth is a zero-sum game. That if someone gets richer, everyone else must get poorer.
Take Elon Musk. He didn't steal a fixed pile of wealth. He helped create companies worth hundreds of billions, generated thousands of high-paying jobs, and made countless employees and investors wealthy. Even some SpaceX welders have reportedly become millionaires through stock compensation.
Wealth isn't a pie with a fixed number of slices. Wealth is CREATED.
Entrepreneurs create products, jobs, opportunities, and entire industries that didn't exist before.
The people who take enormous risks and create enormous value deserve to share in the rewards.
The real economic tragedy is teaching people to resent wealth creation instead of aspiring to participate in it.
Mark S. retweeted
> gets a job coding for NASA
> builds Mcafee antivirus from his living room
> hits the forbes list
> becomes a suspect when his neighbor's found dead in belize after killing his 4 dogs
> changes his whole look to slip out of belize with his 20 year old girlfriend
> tricks the police by hiring a body double to cross the border with his passport
> meanwhile he goes the opposite direction to guatemala
> fakes a heart attack to dodge capture there
> the hitwoman sent to kill him becomes his wife
> behind snowden's leak that exposed the US surveillance state
> stops paying taxes by blackmailing the gov
> runs for US president (twice)
> bugs Hillary Clinton's campaign staff by mailing them "free" laptops
> moves to a boat in the caribbean with armed guards
> most wanted in 3 different countries
> judge approves his extradition to the US
> found dead in a Spanish prison cell
> spanish judge ruled his death a suicide
> previously said if he's ever found dead it wasn't suicide
> may still be alive
The very definition of "You can just do things"
Mark S. retweeted
Psilocybin made human cells live 50% longer.
A new study has uncovered surprising anti-aging potential in psilocin—the active metabolite produced when the body breaks down psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms.
In laboratory experiments, researchers exposed two human cell lines (skin fibroblasts and fetal lung fibroblasts) to a 100 μM concentration of psilocin. The results were striking: lung cells took 57% longer to reach replicative senescence (the point at which cells permanently stop dividing and accumulate damage), while skin fibroblasts extended their replicative lifespan by 51%.
These findings suggest psilocin may slow fundamental cellular aging processes, possibly by lowering oxidative stress, enhancing DNA-repair pathways, supporting mitochondrial health, or dampening chronic inflammation—mechanisms that overlap with those targeted by leading experimental longevity drugs.
The benefits extended beyond cell culture. In aged female mice (19 months old at the start, equivalent to approximately 60–65 human years), a single monthly dose of psilocybin dramatically improved outcomes. After 10 months of treatment, 80% of the psilocybin-treated animals remained alive, compared with only 50% of untreated controls. Treated mice also displayed markedly fewer visible signs of aging, including reduced fur loss and graying.
This research marks the first direct demonstration that psilocybin/psilocin can influence biological aging itself, rather than solely producing psychological effects. The authors emphasize that the study used relatively conservative dosing and are now advocating for follow-up work with higher or more frequent administration, detailed assessments of immune, metabolic, and cognitive function, and investigations into whether the extended lifespan corresponds to genuine improvements in healthspan and quality of life.
["Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice." npj Aging, 2025]
Mark S. retweeted
5'6 balding Phil Collins strolling around in an office shirt singing and drumming one of the greatest songs ever is the definition of AURA.
Mark S. retweeted
“Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” - Warren Buffett.
Mark S. retweeted
America is 250 years old.
9/11 was 25 years ago.
Ten percent of our history has come and gone since that terrible day.
A generation.
90 million Americans have been born since. Twenty-five percent of our people weren’t even alive when the world stopped turning.
They do not remember because they cannot.
So today we remember, those of us who can. We tell the story so those born too late to remember may know.
We call to mind the lessons, many of which have already been lost to time and decay, to conspiracy theories and cynicism peddled for money and fame and power:
That ignoring the world does not mean the world ignores us.
That competition between civilizations does not end simply because we claim the board is settled.
That peace is not the norm, but the exception, and is purchased only by strength and will.
And that a nation that sneers at its own mission and mythology will not long remain a nation at all.
That the barbarians are always at the gate—and inside it.
We mourn the unimaginable loss of that day, when our sleeping nation was jolted awake for a moment, only to doze again.
We pray that our eyes might one day remain open.
Mark S. retweeted
The anniversary of that breathtakingly awful day always leaves me in a numb, grief-stricken daze, similar to how I & no doubt many Americans felt as noon approached. We didn't know if more was coming--not all planes would be confirmed grounded until after noon.
I miss that "we".
Mark S. retweeted
If you're wondering where the generational split we have today comes from, it's largely because of 9/11.
There is a sharp dividing line between those of us who heard the news of a first plane hitting the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46am and thinking it was a small Cessna that crashed, then heard the news of a second plane hitting the south tower at 9:03am and understanding that we were under attack, then hearing the Pentagon was struck at 9:37am and understanding we were at war, and then watched with total shock as the towers collapsed live on TV.
Those of us who experienced that day and were old enough to understand the symbolism of what had happened also understood that the world would never be the same – and it hasn’t.
Those of us who spent the next week glued to the TV with tears in our eyes watching desperate family members walking like zombies around New York holding up signs of their loved ones searching for any drop of information about the people who had vanished into thin air will never forget the horror of the day that changed the world forever.
Those of you for whom 9/11 is a history lesson that you watch on YouTube will never understand what was truly lost on that day – starting with the innocence of the greatest country in history – which is why so many of you are willing to tear it all down in the hopes of building a failed utopia that every time has been tried has taken down millions of people with it.
That’s why those who see 9/11 through the eyes of its attackers because they experienced it as a TikTok trend after reading Bin Laden’s letter are so willing to give the reins of power to those who sympathize with Bin Laden.
The world is divided between those who experienced the apocalyptic horror of 9/11 and those who were too young to have any sympathy for the victims, so they blame their government instead of the perpetrators who committed mass murder.
Those of us who were there and watched the horror unfold in front of our eyes will never forget what was lost on that day, or the pain of tens of thousands of Americans and nationalities from all over the world.
Those of us who grew up in the 90s felt it was boring at the time. It was full of angst, had no meaning and was considered “the end of history.” If only we knew what a blessed decade it was.
May the memories of all those lost 25 years ago today forever be a blessing.
We will never forget them.
Mark S. retweeted
COVID and our response to it was the most expensive, emotional and financial mistake we have made as a society and the ramifications are still destroying society.
I feel like it’s finally safe to say this out loud: The COVID era was a time of staggering overreach and repeated, official betrayal. They took our freedom, our livelihoods, and our trust, and no one has answered for it.
We were forced into isolation, fueling a massive psychological crisis. Beaches, parks, and trails where transmission was virtually impossible were closed, ignoring the crucial role of sunlight and Vitamin D for immune function.
The government and employers forced vaccine mandates, making millions choose between a medical treatment lacking long-term safety data and their ability to feed their families. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from liability.
If you had a severe vaccine reaction, you were on your own. When people tried to share these stories of big tech silenced them and deleted their accounts.
The architects of these policies, like Dr. Fauci, shifted goalposts constantly. He received a preemptive presidential pardon from Joe Biden, and when recently questioned by Congress, pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times.
The biggest failure? We knew early on that metabolic dysfunction was a massive risk factor for severe COVID. Yet public health officials stayed completely silent on the importance of quality food, exercise, and true metabolic resilience.
Instagram deleted my account in 2021 for pointing all of these things out. YouTube deleted multiple videos on these topics.
We all lost something during those years. Whether it was someone you loved, your job, your sovereignty, or your health... I am truly sorry for your loss.
If all of this makes you angry, you’re my kind of people.
Let's make sure this never happens again.
Mark S. retweeted
His immigration reform was also prescient. Had it passed we’d be living in a very different (better) political landscape
Mark S. retweeted
In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.
People rejected this.
We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.
The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.
Mark S. retweeted
Dude catches an absolute laser of a foul ball and immediately hands it to a kid, casually creating a core memory he’ll remember for the rest of his life
Mark S. retweeted
We knew by early June 2020 that "asymptomatic spread"was not a thing.
This WHO press conference is one of the most important inflection points in the entire covid response.
The media not only ignored it… they attacked her for saying it:
Mark S. retweeted
Bill Maher ends his show with a brutal minute-long takedown of Anthony Fauci and the liberal elites who turned him into a self-aggrandizing celebrity.
The last line of the entire thing was pure cinema.
His audience burst out into a massive applause the moment they heard it.
MAHER: “But you have to try awfully hard not to notice how much Fauci is energized by being embraced by one particular cultural tribe.”
“It was Julia Roberts who was telling Fauci he was Jesus with a petri dish. Not Randy Quaid.”
“And that side likes to think of themselves as the purely ‘Science’ people, even though keeping kids out of school that long and traumatizing two-year-olds with masks wasn’t good science.”
“Fauci supported some strange policies for such an esteemed epidemiologist.”
“Natural immunity doesn’t count now? Meaning, even if you’ve had the disease, you still had to get the shot?”
“That sounds more like what Pfizer and Fauci’s celebrity friends wanted to hear.”
“He let this shit go to his head.”
“Turns out the really dangerous ‘intimate contact’ wasn’t shaking hands, it was kissing ass!”
[Laughter and applause]