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@reddit_lies And then there are no chairs left for people who actually have trouble getting around.

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@TXMCtrades Hire commie professors, get commie graduates.

Holy shit guys

@Capt_Patavius @JimmyThomist That's exactly what I said.

@ProsectorPath @JimmyThomist Quite the opposite. Evaporative cooling works well in extremely dry environments. It's completely useless in humid places

Most people dont realise how to properly use a pith helmet. They’re made out of cork, and you’re supposed to swoak them in water overnight. The evaporation throughout the day acts like a mini air conditioner. Now armed with this knowledge go conquer vast lands and name them after Queen Victora.

@GlennMeder It is dangerous for her to see content that goes against the Party narrative.

1/ Your daughter is 16. She reads about a protest happening downtown. Police brutality. Government overreach. She does not know what to believe. The news says one thing. Social media says another. She wants to investigate. She wants to find the truth herself. So she opens her phone. Tries to access independent journalist accounts. Citizen reporters who were actually there. Raw footage. Unfiltered perspective. Access denied. Reason: Age verification required. Content flagged as potentially harmful to minors. Online child safety laws prohibit access without parental consent and identity verification. Your daughter cannot search for truth. The system decides what she is allowed to know.

@mansebanjaran That makes sense, too. I haven't seen bats yet this year.

@ProsectorPath I think it was baby bat, many of them live in the trees around us so I guess it’s that only

@JuliaBramble I'm caregiving now, and have been for years - first for Dad, now for Mom. My goal is simply to keep her at home for as long as is feasible.

Nothing prepares you for the decline in health of your parents. This time last year I was visiting mine regularly, more often than before as we'd lost my sister the year before. But on the surface, everything was OK (for a couple in their late 80s.) December last year my Dad ended up in hospital and we realised just how much he'd been covering up for my Mum - she couldn't remember enough to be able to look after herself for a day. I had to scramble to get carers and all the agencies involved - for 3 weeks I was on the phone just about all day. Since Christmas they've both been in & out of hospital & we now know Mum may only have months - she has vascular dementia, kidney disease and heart failure. Dad has dementia and heart issues. Every time the phone rings I jump. Today I had a call from the pulmonary embolism consultant who had just seen Mum (they found a clot last time Mum was in hospital). My brother and I both have the LPA for health but they always ring me. The consultant wanted to run the final decision about her medication past me. She's very frail now and at risk of falls. If she stays on the medication, she risks massive internal bleeding if she falls. If she stops the medication, she's at risk of another clot. And the consultant wanted my decision. Mum and Dad don't know the consultants and GP always call me. Usually it's OK. But today it felt like I was signing a death warrant. If your parents are doing OK and you get on with them - make the most of them. It can change so quickly.

@MastrXYZ This is the hard part. They never seem to stay long enough. Also, your feelings about losing your buddy are legitimate and do not need to be explained.

Some of you will probably laugh at this, and many will not understand it. My 17 year old cat is not doing well, and we will probably have to let her go. Kidney failure, almost from 1 day to the next. 2 days ago she was still running around like a young cat. I am a grown man, and this is breaking my heart. At the same time I have to find a way to explain to my children that this is part of life, even when it feels brutally unfair. 17 years. She has been with me for almost half my life. Through 4 different homes, different chapters, different versions of myself, from having no children to having 3 children. She was always there. Every day she came to me, wanted to be close, climbed onto my arm like it was the most normal thing in the world. She never scratched 1 of my children. Never hurt anyone. A proper little lady. Call me soft if you want. I do not care. There are things in life you only understand once they are suddenly standing right in front of you. The quiet loyalty of an animal is one of them. No words, no demands, no drama. Just presence. For 17 years she simply existed next to me, through stress, change, exhaustion, bad days, good days, moving boxes, new rooms, crying babies, growing children and all the silent moments. And now I have to watch her become weak almost overnight. I have to look at her and somehow decide what kindness means when every part of me wants more time. Love makes you want to hold on. Responsibility forces you to let go before suffering becomes the price of your own selfishness. So yes, I am devastated over a cat. A 17 year old little soul who followed me through almost half my life, never asked for anything except closeness and food, and gave my family nothing but gentleness. Laugh if you want. I will grieve her properly. This picture is 17 years old, from the day I picked her up.

@MichelleMaxwell This is brilliant.

How come no other Administration thought to do this for Foster Kids? MELANIA TRUMP UNVEILS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS FOR FOSTER CHILDREN First Lady Melania Trump announced a new initiative to help foster children build a stronger financial future. “For the first time, children in foster care will have access to a dedicated savings and investment vehicle: Fostering the Future Accounts,” she said. “Fostering the Future Accounts give foster children the same chance for asset ownership and long-term wealth building as every other American child. By investing in our foster youth now, we help strengthen America’s workforce, communities, and economic future.” This is exactly the kind of thing that can change lives. Foster children deserve stability, opportunity, support, and a real path toward independence. And one thing is clear: Melania Trump has consistently used her platform to help America’s youth, especially foster children, have a better chance to succeed and flourish in life. God bless every child in foster care. May they know they are seen, valued, loved, and never forgotten.

@SamaHoole Our teeth and guts more closely resemble those of pigs than dogs.

There is a spectrum that runs from pure carnivore to pure herbivore, and the only honest question is where humans land on it. At one end sits the obligate carnivore. The domestic cat. It cannot make certain nutrients itself and will go blind and die without meat. No flexibility, no debate, no salad days. Next, the facultative carnivore. The dog, descended from the wolf. Built to run on meat, equipped to scrape by on scraps when meat is short. It thrives on animal food and merely survives on the rest. Then the true omnivore. The bear, the pig, the raccoon. Equipped for both, with the gut and the chemistry to swing between a forest of berries and a stream of fish and do well on either. Then the herbivore. The cow, the horse, the gorilla. A vast fermenting system for turning leaves into life, and little interest in anything else. Now place the human. Stomach acid like a scavenger. A gut too short to ferment bulk plants. A hard requirement for vitamin B12, which only animals supply. A brain that demands animal fat to build itself. We tolerate plants. We are optimised for animals. Place us on that line and we land beside the dog. Built for meat, getting by on the rest, looking faintly embarrassed about the company.

@clennonvalley Super interesting find. Ethologists may be interested in this.

For the second day a single tufted duck duckling with no sign of an adult tufted duck nearby being looked after & fed by a pair of Eurasian Coots. I've never read or heard of coots 'adopting' another sp chick - but this pair are doing a better job than the normal female tufties!

@HelmerVA Style. Appearance. You're an idiot.

As a gun owner and Army veteran, I know military-style weapons don't belong in our communities. That's why I spent the last seven years fighting to pass Virginia's Assault Weapons Ban. This law will save lives and make our families and communities safer.

@SamaHoole And all the quotas and limits are arbitrarily set by bureaucrats who simply want to control your life (and your death).

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels. Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller. The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review. To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd. The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making. Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago. This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

@MarcWeinbergWX That glowing edge makes for a great picture.

Another beautiful picture of the pancake, tiered shelf cloud from this morning. This picture came to me from Leitchfield, KY. These shelf clouds look mean, but normally don't produce a lot of severe weather. This one only had about 30 mph winds when it moved through Grayson county, KY. 📸 sent to me by Josh Meredith.

@wilson_dunham_f @ThomasEWoods Is there any amount of labor theft that you're not comfortable with?

@ThomasEWoods Just curious, is there ANY level of wealth concentration your not comfortable with?

John thinks Elon has a trillion one-dollar bills in his house, and if only he'd spend it on philanthropy, we'd solve lots of problems. In fact, what Elon has is lots of capital, which is used to improve the general standard of living. Liquidating that capital so everyone can get a one-time check for $50 would be destructive and idiotic. John has also managed to think, despite all the evidence everywhere he looks, that social problems are a matter of not enough money spent, that homelessness (for example) is a simple matter of people not having physical houses, and all we have to do is hand them some houses. The more you like mankind, the more capital accumulation you should want, because that is the only way real incomes are increased for everyone, as opposed to the loot-and-redistribute model that eats the seed corn. ("Why do we have all this seed corn! I could feed so many people with it," poor John would be saying.)

@FOX59 Yes, they shouldn't be getting into the left lane under the speed limit unless all traffic is going slow due to construction, etc. We don't have left-lane exits here (thankfully), so no excuses.

A driver was recently cited by Indiana State Police for traveling below the speed limit in the left lane. Do you think it is the correct decision to issue citations to slow-moving drivers occupying the passing lane? fox59.com/news/this-is-m…

@jamesonhaslam That actually looks like a great white.

Yooooo

@Pandrew_Wx Yeah, that was a monster.

Career day yesterday. Still can’t believe it #ilwx Streator Illinois

@Notwokenow @LauraLoomer I just mute people most of the time now.

@LauraLoomer I start texting a response to someone’s stupid comment and just quit because I know they’re too stupid to get it. I don’t even bother talking to them anymore. It’s just exhausting.

Politics has become so exhausting. Everywhere you look, it’s pure stupidity.

@Diegoranchinc I don't know. I haven't enabled my DMs, even though I have a few messages sitting there.

Just to let everyone know, I'm not in the running to co host a major podcast. So please don't vote for me. 👍👍👍 Who else gets these stupid DMs every day?

@tanpukunokami Accurate.

The first time I ate American mac and cheese, I made a mistake. I thought it was pasta. No. It was cheese wearing pasta as a disguise. In Japan, cheese is a topping. In America, cheese is a decision-maker. I took one bite. My mouth said, “Delicious.” My stomach said, “We need a meeting.” My friend smiled and said, “You don’t have to finish it.” I looked at the plate. The cheese looked back. At that moment, I understood America. This was not dinner. This was a yellow negotiation with my future. A samurai does not run from melted cheese. He signs the peace treaty with a fork.