Bits & Bytes

CALIFORNICATION: [9:42] – Many people believe that Pratt had the 2026 mayoral election in Los Angeles stolen from him. Pratt points out the obvious, which is that it’s totally valid to question the obviously questionable results.

DEMOCRAT PARTY: The only thing they have in common is a hatred for the true God.

EDUCATION: Audrey van der Meer, a Norwegian neuroscientist, hooked 36 university students up to a scalp cap that had 256 sensors. Then, she flashed words on to a screen. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information all fired in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. But when the same students typed the same word, most of their brains went quiet.

Another study done at Princeton compared meaningful recall of information among hundreds of students. While watching lectures, half took typed their notes, while the other half wrote by hand. The handwriting group scored far higher on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

FLORIDA: Palm Beach International airport has been renamed the President Donald J. Trump International Airport. The airport’s three-letter identifier has changed from PBI to DJT.

IRAN: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1004790318830141 to hear Trump explain why he changed his mind about them. CLICK the link below to read about our renewed air strikes.

LGBTQ: CLICK https://x.com/PNWConservative/status/2074759443359867019 [:15] to hear what Senator Jamie Pedersen, the man who leads the Democrat’s LGBTQ Caucus, believes about young girls. Keep in mind that most girls will get their first period sometime between the ages of 10 and 15, but it can happen as young as 8.

MAINE: Platner has dropped out of the Maine Senate race, giving Democrats until July 27 to name a nominee to face Sen. Susan Collins. So once again, the party that lectures us about dictatorships and fascism is going to ignore the results of their own primary and install an unelected nominee.

MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/RealBrittHughes/status/2075185169640706298 [1:56] to hear Episode Umpteen of “Why you don’t hate the media enough.”

MILITARY: Tho ensure we have the “strongest and most lethal fighting force on the planet,” the War Department is requiring all soldiers to undergo a waist-to-height ratio assessment twice per year. The assessment will measure each soldier’s waistline in inches at the belly button and divide the measurement by his height in inches to produce the waist-to-height ratio which must be .55 or less.

NEW YORK: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1570599884769190 [:53] to hear an AI Gov. Hochul tell the truth about her administration.

PURRFECT PALS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a_LFRmtqVpo to learn about a Michigan prison program that has had astonishing results.

RIGHT TO REPAIR: Like many companies (especially car manufacturers), John Deere has used software to monopolize repairs, which drives up prices. The Federal Trade Commission, along with five states, just settled an antitrust lawsuit against Deere & Company requiring the company give farmers and independent repair shops access to the equipment and software needed to do repairs.

STARS and STRIPES: [4:09] – The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 is a law that prohibits condominium and cooperative associations from restricting homeowners from displaying the U.S. flag on their property. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 24, 2006.

TEXAS: James Talarico is the the Democrat’s candidate for the U.S. Senate; his opponent is Ken Paxton, the current Attorney General of Texas.

CLICK https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/2074918453866090692 [:23] to hear dismiss opposition to abortion and transing minors as “christofascism.”

CLICK https://x.com/LoneStar_PAC/status/2074926996291825775 [56] to hear him throw John 14:6 into his theological waste basket.

GRAMMY NOTES: My mom told me, “Blame it on me. I don’t care if your friends think I’m a bitch.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2156577854907446 [2:09] and marvel. I didn’t know this was at thing! Wow!!

Grab a happy tears tissue and CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2188328185039486 [1:57].

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  1. Typing v handwriting: ‘Way back in 2011, when winter storms kept the power going out and the battery backup didn’t, I just left the computer off. Instead, I started on what I intended to be a “graphic novel” (comic-book type story). I had a shirtpocket-sized blank booklet and did some initial sketches.

    It was a story idea I’d had many years previously, but the plot of which I just couldn’t get to work right. It was about a kind of passive super-power that seemingly kept people safe from harm, invulnerable I set the notes in a file and forgot about the story until that computerless winter day.

    After several pages of sketches, the story started quickly percolating in my mind. I picked up a legal pad and started writing out the story. Several legal pads later, I got through the whole story, which worked just as I’d originally wanted. Almost seemed to write itself. Characters and events manifested practically unbidden. I realized that handwriting really opened up the creative doors, compared to keyboarding. Studies on left and right brain with split brains (corpus collosum severed) seem related.

    Couldn’t get to illustrating the whole thing, so the story went online with little editing. Starts with the original comic sketches, then transitions to text, just as it came to me. Not a great work, but I re-read it about once a year and it seems okay.

    Sad to relate, my hands don’t work well anymore for handwriting, and so other stories hidden in my brain may just never get written.

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