Steve L
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Scioto County Ohio. On the border with Kentucky and West Virginia. Google is preparing to build 5 monstrous data centers there, and they're putting in a huge natural gas power plant.
Real estate is about as cheap as you'll find anywhere in the nation, and as soon as people start moving there for work in the data centers, real estate will be rising quickly.
Winters are fairly mild and there aren't many people of color living there.
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Currently live in Florida, looking to move. Anybody know of a very small town with a colder climate that’s White Christian conservative? I have had enough of Black, Muslim, & illegal fatigue. I believe in segregation, and I know that will bring me true peace & happiness i always dreamed of 🩷
I need to live around my own kind
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@NicoleA18060980 I wish they would have shown what happened to his eyes after he rubbed them with those fingers that were just in his mouth full of pepper.
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I'm familiar with it because I was an insurance broker for 30+ years and sold it. Dental insurance pays a small portion of orthodontics, and your dental insurance costs more than what it covers. You literally would have been better off not buying the insurance and just paying for the braces out of pocket.
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@cmspet @end3of6days9 YES there is Insurance that pays for them, its called DENTAL INSURANCE.
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This mom gets the estimate for her teenage son's braces and her reaction is pure, relatable shock.
She sits there staring at the paper: over $6,000 for full top-and-bottom braces. "What? Like who can afford over $6,000 for braces?" she says, voice cracking with disbelief.
Her son needs them for an overbite and just one or two crooked teeth—"his teeth aren't even that crooked"—but it's still full treatment. She thought maybe it was $1,900 or something (perhaps a down payment), but nope, the numbers are real.
He's got two insurances (one through mom, one through dad), yet the estimate only factors in dad's. She hopes hers kicks in more, especially since her daughter only needed top braces before. But even so, she's floored: "Oh my god, this can't be real. This can't be real. Parents, is this real?"
This is the everyday reality hitting so many families right now. A basic need like fixing your kid's teeth turns into a massive financial gut punch—thousands out of pocket, even with insurance, while you're already dealing with life’s other curveballs.
Kids shouldn't have to go without straight teeth and confidence because orthodontics costs more than a used car. Parents shouldn't have to choose between braces and bills.
Who's been hit with a braces quote that made you do a double-take? Or is this just what we Americans have to deal with in 2026?
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@Isabella_700 The amount of absolute morons on here clutching their pearls over the father's actions is exactly why we have an entire generation of young social retards in the world today who can't decide what gender they are, and panic at the thought of working a 9-5 job.
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@TrumpGirlLove I have to give the Cubans credit. They've put up with complete poverty for over 65 years and those who stayed have survived it for the most part.
Regardless of how bad it looks there, it looks a lot worse in Pakistan and India, supposed democratic republics.
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@historyrock_ Me at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Oakland California July 1977. This is a screen shot from the video below.
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@GB4108 @GunloverClub1 Everything about warfare is heartless. It doesn't matter if the weapon is a drone or a tank. Drones just allow us to see the faces of those who are being killed seconds before death, and that makes what was already bad look even worse.
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@cmspet @GunloverClub1 Yes, you’re right; I was not picking a side, just observing the “heartless” increased lethality of drone warfare.
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The three decades of the 70's through the 90's saw the peak of human existence. Those of us who were lucky enough to live through those years as teens and young adults got to experience the world at it's pinnacle. Nothing better had come before that time, and it's gone downhill ever since.
Technology isn't making humans better, it's stealing our humanity.
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@SEALspouse @_rockytop_biker @NobodymrRobert I think their point was that the kids in that picture were "born" in the 60's.
I was born in 1960 and the girls of my teens and 20's looked just like that.
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@_rockytop_biker @NobodymrRobert This photo is not from the 60’s! Good try
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One of my earliest memories from over 60 years ago is my brother and I taking dried milkweed seed pods and floating them down a small creek like little boats.
Then dad bought a small farm and we grew up in the country and always played outside. Being inside was only for eating dinner and sleeping.
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@GB4108 @GunloverClub1 There are literally dozens of videos from both sides on Youtube.
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@cmspet @GunloverClub1 Steve, this is the first successful “surrender” video I’ve ever seen from Ukraine. I have seen perhaps hundreds (including 8-12 in compilation form) where the soldiers are blown up.
One surrender accepted, but hundreds killed.
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@TheMonologist The little northern California town I live (Petaluma) has served as the backdrop for a number of movies. One of my favorites was American Graffiti.




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I guessed every one of the ladies ages within 2 years.
It's more than just wrinkles and makeup that gives away a woman's age. Women older than 30 almost always have capped and very white teeth, and their eyes can give away their age with or without plastic surgery. It's also their attitude and the way they talk.
I'm 65 and look every year of that age, but I worked hard for it, and I don't try to hide it.
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The only thing that has changed is that most women's vanity has greatly increased. There will always be women (and men) who look many years or decades younger than their actual age. For the rest of women, they're left will overdone makeup, plastic surgery, drugs and clothing that all look ridiculous on them.
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@HistorylandHQ The tree could easily still be there after 200 years, but the fact that it is the same size and has the same general appearance and shape is pretty solid evidence that the modern photo is AI.
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