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Stress in pre-modern times was a “biological superpower”
that helped humans hunt for food and survive in harsh environments and situations.
But our bodies can’t easily tell the difference between the stress of encountering a lion in the jungle and a worrying email from your boss
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Stress Is an Ancient Superpower That Is Slowly Killing You
Stress in pre-modern times was a “biological superpower” that helped humans hunt for food and survive in harsh envir

Jerry Jones delivers harsh assessment of Cowboys' struggling defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-delivers-harsh-assessment-dallas-cowboys-struggling-defense

Here’s an interesting little curio. Was hanging at a friend's place and the conversation wandered to ancient times; when she was 16, an upstate-New-York girl, she took off with a carload of friends and went to Woodstock. She pulled out an original program, dropped from a helicopter near stage-front, and her ticket, uncanceled because by the time they got there the systems had broken down.

Capitol agenda: GOP dreams face harsh legislative reality (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/trump-gop-reconciliation-megabill-policy-agenda-unity-00658619
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p38#a251119p38

"Aggressor, not peacemaker" – harsh reaction from the EU in the UN Security Council #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/quotaggressor-not-peacemakerquo…

"60 Minutes” on Sunday plans to air a story about Trump administration deportations that was abruptly pulled from the newsmagazine’s lineup a month ago,
sparking an internal battle about political pressure that spilled out into the open.
In the story, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notoriously harsh CECOT prison.
When the segment critical of the administration was struck from the Dec. 21 episode on order of new CBS New…

Special shout out to Kerkez, whose only wrong step was the yellow card (which i thought pretty harsh). He’s been really good, patient instead of flinging crosses to nobody. But when he has made the cross, it’s been dangerous.
Ekitike is a star. What an absolute gem he is. Even in the play where his diagonal run was covered, his continuing possession pulls two players out of position. ❤️
Wirtz, goal a beauty, but his passing has been superb. Sees angles before they happen.
S…

Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine

Climate amnesia: in the Netherlands, we had some winter weather since New Year. Nothing special a few decades ago, but now in the news as "1.5 week of harsh winter weather".
I just looked it up: the period of 1-12 January (average 0.6°C) would rank as #32 coldest in the 126-year record. 25% was colder.

Bijzonder veel sneeuw en -11,6 graden: streng winterweer na 1,5 week ten einde
Kort na de jaarwisseling raakte Nederland in de ban van sneeuw en strenge vorst. De afgelopen anderhalve week werd vijf keer code oranje uitgegeven, viel er meer sneeuw dan in jaren is gevallen en daalde de temperatuur plaatselijk tot -11,6 graden.

Geno Smith Dealt Harsh Reality About Raiders Future: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-future-contract-rumors/

Dak Prescott gets unfairly harsh grade following Cowboys' Week 14 loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-unfairly-harsh-grade-dallas-cowboys-week-14-loss

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115544961958324665
"While the UK faces a harsh season, the US couldn’t be in a worse position to prepare. The Trump administration has severely weakened the country’s public health infrastructure, significa…

Without LIGHT and HEAT in the midst of a HARSH WINTER: Russia’s WAR strategy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/without-light-and-heat-in.html

Harsh bowl https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106/

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78
Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.

Favorite landscape and time of year.
(Upper glacial valleys are often so colorful and especially in autumn, when the colors of the many different types of rocks are complemented by those of the tundra vegetation up there... it's a harsh climate/environment, at the same time so peaceful/friendly [if the weather is right] — a feast for the eyes and good for the soul... yet, each time also a bittersweet experience, seeing how fast glaciers are disappearing)

Harsh realm, brother

I wrote off Linkin Park in high school as cynically packaged, manufactured angst with cringey lyrics, on top of musically uninteresting riffs and progressions, even for popular music (lots of boring consonance and repetitive drones on perfect intervals, the Halloween theme called and wants its gimmick back, etc.).
With 25 years of hindsight I think I was a little too harsh. It's still mostly not my bag but I see now what other people see in Chester Bennington's vocals, and &quo…

Cowboys playoff chances spiral further as new odds paint harsh reality https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-chances-spiral-further-new-odds-paint-harsh-reality

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

The harsh truth about J.J. McCarthy's first six starts -- and whether the Vikings can still fix him

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jj-mccarthy-first-six-starts-vikings-qb-futu…

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, why the long face?
Horse says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Bartender says, solution is simple. I have a marvelous Amontillado in my cellar—
#humor

Transcript: Jamie Raskin's Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202212/transcript-jamie-raskin-harsh-new-takedown-trump-lays-maga-bare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p40#a251024p40

Thanks, Trump!
#ThanksTrump

MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start #nutrition

MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start
A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty foods can push liver cells into a survival mode that quietly raises the risk of cancer. Faced with ongoing metabolic stress, these cells abandon their normal roles and revert to a more primitive state that helps them endure harsh conditions. Over time, that shift leaves the liver less functional and far more vulnerable to tumor formation, helping explain why fatty liver disea…

Raiders’ Wake-Up Call: The Harsh Reality They Must Face Now to Save the 2026 Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-wake-up-call-harsh-reality-they-must-face-now-save-the-2026-season

Just Get Out! #i18nfails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/just-get-out

Just Get Out! | i18n fails
Don’t be so harsh, okay?

Moody Urbanity - Old & New V 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 V 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The trick of course, and what you'll have to do to not be miserable, is to figure out that you must be your true authentic self and just to live among and alongside the bores and squares and normies and not to let those fools harsh your vibe

Dak Prescott reflects on heartbreaking reality of Cowboys' NFL playoff hopes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-reflects-heartbreaking-reality-dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-hopes

It is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.

Three people were found dead on Mt. Baldy on Monday,
days after a winter storm blanketed the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains with snow.
At around 11:30 a.m., search and rescue teams responded to a request to find an injured man, 19,
who had fallen 500 feet while hiking near Devil’s Backbone,
a sharp ridge flanked by steep drops that leads to the summit,
the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
A friend who had been traveli…

Three hikers found dead on Mt. Baldy. Harsh weather blocks recovery
Three people died on Mt. Baldy, and powerful Santa Ana winds have prevented helicopters from recovering their bodies, authorities said Tuesday.

Dak Prescott reflects on heartbreaking reality of Cowboys' NFL playoff hopes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-reflects-heartbreaking-reality-dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-hopes

Completely taken by the 2025 Local Deprivation maps on gov.uk:
https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/maps
These maps are painting such a sad & harsh picture of the country (well, at least of England)! Been spending the past hour or so checking out various places I've be…

Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes offers harsh thoughts on season after Cowboys loss https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-offers-harsh-quote-seas…

Dak Prescott gives harsh truth on Cowboys 'unacceptable' identity after Week 8 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-harsh-truth-dallas-cowboys-unacceptable-identity-week-8

Dak Prescott gives harsh truth on Cowboys 'unacceptable' identity after Week 8 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-harsh-truth-dallas-cowboys-unacceptable-identity-week-8

Dave Portnoy faces blowback for out-of-bounds attack on Raiders coach https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/08/dave-portnoy-faces-blowback-for-out-of-bounds-attack-on-raiders-coach/

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
h…

An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.

NFL Delivers Harsh Punishment for Hit That Injured Cowboys WR https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-delivers-harsh-punishment-ryan-flournoy/

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Demoted Cowboys Rookie Gets Harsh Reality Before Week 16 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/demoted-rookie-harsh-reality-week-16/

Fundamentalist Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey
doesn’t see empathy as a failure of evolution (like Elon Musk does).
As a creationist who denies the scientific reality of prehistoric dinosaurs,
she doesn’t even believe in evolution.
Stuckey has made it her mission to rewrite the teachings of Jesus so that her savior is a harsh disciplinarian
whose “love” has little to do with empathy.
Stuckey’s book
“Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit C…

MAGA's war on empathy was started by a woman
Allie Beth Stuckey weaponizes her gender to sell the idea of a cold-hearted Jesus

Dr. Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns.
Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisi…

Controversial Louisiana surgeon general tapped for CDC leadership role
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham — a vocal supporter of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement and a harsh critic of Covid shots — has been named principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Sent Harsh Message By 4 x NBA Champion https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-called-bum-draymond-green/?adt_ei=[email]

Former Cowboys defensive star painfully reminds Dallas fans what team let walk https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/former-cowboys-defensive-star-painfully-reminds-dallas-fans-what-team-let-walk

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

Cowboys' George Pickens fires back at Richard Sherman in since-deleted post https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-george-pickens-fires-back-richard-sherman-since-deleted-post

Known Cowboys critic sees the light, praises Dak Prescott for MVP-caliber season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/known-cowboys-critic-sees-the-light-praises-dak-prescott-for-mvp-caliber-season