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For real heart protection, the weekly exercise number climbs far beyond current advice https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-real-heart-weekly-climbs-current.html

Take a moment to appreciate the irony and then get off your phone....

*Even apart from our diminishing propensity to have children, the task of bringing together a fractured and frustrated generation is the challenge of our times.* https://stacker.news/items/1491154/r/halalmoney

*Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. ..the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making. The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process.* https://stacker.news/items/1488330/r/halalmoney

*paper money is not a savings vehicle, it's a managed loss* View quoted note →

*One does not simply walk into Bitcoiners' corner of social media, mention the unholy word starting with 's' (and not ending in 'aylor'), and expect sudden bouts of logic to ensue.* https://stacker.news/items/1485116/r/halalmoney?commentId=1485149

*Each crisis produces legislative architecture that concentrates power in institutions accountable to no voter.* View quoted note →

*Find the lie and you find the front line* View quoted note →

*There is no shortcut to finding intelligent or ethical people* View quoted note →

*even if [tax] revenues do grow, what assurance is there that the political system will not respond by just ramping up spending and deficits even more? After all, the advanced economies are already very rich. In principle, they could have easily managed their finances better if their leaders had found it politically expedient to do so. But being rich has never been an obstacle to going bankrupt. Voters have hardly begun to adjust to the realities of a higher interest rate world, where demographic decline and vastly increased needs for defense spending have introduced major new costs. As the median voter grows older, systems already biased against young people will only become more so.*

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