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Bud
@I_KyleThompson
Electrical engineer and Dad that’s into #bitcoin
Beigetreten Eylül 2010
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"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.
Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.
One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.
Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.
Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"
"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."
He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."
The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."
Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.
But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,
"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."
So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.
Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."
Let this story reach more hearts....
Credit: Mary Nelson

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If you're wondering what in the hell happened to our country and why everything is so completely screwed up...
Why it's so hard to make a living...
Impossible to save money...
And why every year everything seems to get a little bit worse every year...
Just think about this: There are 132 million households in the United States. And total government (federal, state, local) spending is now $12.7 trillion.
That's $96k per household.
The reason we're all going broke is because we've given the government all of our money.
Time to take it back.
I'm launching a national taxpayers strike.
Stop paying taxes.
They can't put all of us in jail.
We have three demands:
#1. No more deficits, ever.
#2. No more taxes on property or income. Once I own something, the government can't take it from me, ever.
#3. Everyone pays the same rate -- no exceptions.
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In honor of the man returning to Twitter… if you’ve never listened to this podcast episode take the time. Can’t tell you how many times I have listened to this. @NickSzabo4 youtube.com/watch?v=3FA3Uj…

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“Everything goes to zero against Bitcoin”
Arthur ₿@ArthurSXAI
“Everything goes to zero against Bitcoin” - Max Keiser #Btc
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@maddox00000 @MustStopMurad @ClemonCrum ‘Trillions’ (2 trillion marketcap) is like a 1500x; that’s $2220 a coin.. hellova a gamble.
If bitcoin 1500x’s from here, that would make it over $176 million/coin, and it has use cases.
Why not just DCA into bitcoin?
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This is why #SPX6900 is going to Trillions
The only other coin that ever had people like this was Bitcoin.
Thank you @ClemonCrum for your contributions to the Cognispehere.
Persist Forever 💹🧲
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The market absorbing 80,000 BTC (~$10B) in days with barely a blip is a big deal. Bitcoin isn’t fragile.
Armchair analysts warning about treasury selloffs crashing Bitcoin might want to think again.
Going to take orders of magnitude more than 80k BTC to stop what’s coming 📈
Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine
JUST IN: Galaxy Digital announced it executed one of the largest notional bitcoin transactions in history, selling over 80,000 bitcoin worth more than $9 billion 🤯
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Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger says California Democrats have been stealing money for 20 years, they’re completely unaccountable
When asked about the $24 billion dollars Gavin Newsom “lost” meant for the homeless, he says “$24 billion is missing because it's wasted. They cannot even show it. They cannot even have any accountability. But this has been going on for 20 years now”
No accountability = stolen
He explains how California Democrats created the cost of living crisis, and says they created the circumstances that made an apartment that used to cost $600 now cost $3,000
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@BernieSanders We should all run the 8 minute mile, we should all have the same caloric intake, we should all do the same amount of work, we should all put in the same amount of effort, should all get the same rewards.
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