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I’ve paid $107,000 towards my mortgage since I bought my house in 2020.
My principal has gone down by only $27,000.
Interest and taxes SUCK
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I had a massive reality check last night about how Instagram is actively destroying long-term relationships by convincing us that love is supposed to be a 24/7 "soft life" aesthetic.
It was late, the apartment was stifling, and the power had randomly tripped. I was lying in the dark, scrolling through IG, watching a reel of some influencer getting surprised with a Cartier bracelet and a baecation. The caption was: “Never settle for less.”
Honestly, I let the internet poison my mind for a second. That familiar, creeping panic started settling in. I started wondering if my own relationship had lost the "spark" because we hadn’t done any grand romantic gestures lately. We were basically just splitting the crushing weight of adulthood.
Then I looked over at my man. There was no curated aesthetic. No cinematic background music. He was completely exhausted from his own day, but there he was, sitting on the bare floor in the dark, using his phone flashlight to help me count and sort out my ID Vogue orders so my morning deliveries wouldn't be delayed.
The entire Instagram illusion just shattered for me.
Social media has gaslit us into believing that if a relationship isn’t actively triggering your anxiety with constant highs and butterflies, it’s "dead." We mistake peace for boredom. We want a burning fire, completely forgetting that fires eventually burn the house down.
The harsh truth? Most long-term relationships aren't held together by overwhelming passion. They are held together by a VOW to look at each other in the middle of a brutal economy and say, "I am not going to let you drown today."
The internet will call that "settling." But the internet doesn't know a damn thing about what it actually takes to keep the water out and the house warm when things get dark. Stop letting a 60-second PR campaign ruin your real life.
Kaze 🇳🇬@8Kyle
unpopular relationships opinions that would get you in this position???
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elon musk been quiet as a church mouse about this war
where you at big dog
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me trying to find the HDMI port on my TV
arman@SURVlVALHORROR
this is one of the best posters i’ve seen in a very long time btw
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I hate that I had to grow up in the generation that got to see what life was like before the internet and then have to watch as it single-handedly destroys every single social entertainment space. Video rental stores, movie theaters, malls, arcades, bowling alleys, etc. The infinite access to at-home entertainment is turning us all into lazy, antisocial, depressed hermits and we’re just willingly allowing this to happen to us. The long term ramifications of this are so dire.
Nick@nicksterwixter
My hometown movie theater that I’ve seen almost every major blockbuster from the last two decades at and used to go with giant groups of friends to to line up for midnight premieres just suddenly closed this past week and I’m absolutely devastated 😭😭😭
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Smart phones really just ruined everything. People don’t even know how to sit still and think anymore, let alone pick up a book and read. Everyone is constantly overstimulated, addicted to the passive consumption of random bits of content streamed into their eyeballs at light speed. Kids are raised this way from birth. It’s unhuman. Disastrous for the mind and soul.
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The real ones know. Young Khalifa man, flyer than a ceiling fan
DatPiff@DatPiff
You’re a real Khalifa fan if you remember this freestyle, this era..
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I don't know about you guys, but these Epstein files are making me lose faith in humanity
So many people have been working to keep these covered up for years
Pathetic. Gross. Disheartening.
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To the folks in the comments who didn’t like the post so much - here’s what weekends with you 5-year-old can look like, and I’d highly recommend it:
The US Open
The Yankees
The Giants
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent
This morning was an absolute punch in the gut. My 5-year-old son is my best friend. I do everything I can to be home by 6pm every day so that I can spend an hour with him before he goes to bed. We play any and all sports together every weekend. We horseplay and crack each other up on a daily basis. We travel to sporting events in different cities across the country multiple times a year. We’re basically the same person, and I take pride in how close we are and how much time we spend together. I took him to school this morning like I do on many days, while I’m vaguely aware that the school invites parents to join the class for a half hour periodically - but I’m always in a rush to get the work day going after I drop him off, and I know my wife attends here and there. This morning on the ride to school, he looked at me and said softly, “I know your work is really important so you don’t need to stay for the parents coffee today.” Yikes. The parent mornings are a much bigger deal than I realized, and I learned in that moment he was bothered I’d never attended. What an unbelievable oversight on my part. You try to balance everything and keep up with so many demands from all directions. You think you’re a really good parent and take pride in it - and sometimes you miss the small things that make such a huge difference. At one point a teacher asked the kids what they were thankful for. He raised his hand: “I’m thankful that my dad is here.” No seven words have ever stung this much, and I’m going to make changes.
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Excellent advice
Leaders 𝕏 Junction@LeadersJunction
Watch your life change when you start doing this one thing
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Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.
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Mike Posner sang a “healed” version of his hit song “I Took A Pill In Ibiza”
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