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The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.

Travelers at Houston Airport have reportedly reacted positively to ICE officers’ presence, with agents handing out water and holding spots in security lines so passengers can use the restroom.

I'm probably one of the few people who is happy to see people steadily have their jobs replaced by AI like this. Some days I salivate shamelessly if I think of it too much. Most jobs are filler & LARP. Made up and unnecessary. If you watch people work, you realise hardly anybody does anything and often they do it poorly anyway. I don't blame them. Why pour your blood, sweat, and tears into companies that don't value you, harvest your creative energy, and drain your life force? Many people reading this secretly know they're getting paid to do nothing for more than 85% of their 'working' day. Great civilisations of the past such as Ancient Greece could advance fields like geometry, philosophy, art, music, and engineering so immensely because people had idle time to think –– they didn't waste their entire day and peak consciousness pretending to be busy, doing mundane non-life affirming tasks. It'll look much worse until it gets better, but we may see an intellectual boom in our lifetime. An entire new economic landscape that rewards creativity and up-skilling. I am so bullish it's unreal.

🚨 The 30-year mortgage rate just hit 7% again. The timing couldn’t be worse.

🚨NEW FULL FOOTAGE of Alan Ritchson (Reacher) in a street fight with his neighbor Ronnie Taylor in Tennessee. It captures exactly what caused Ritchson to snap and beat the crap out of Taylor.

Anthropic CEO: “50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years." grad students and junior hires are cooked.

Pulling down a half-million and still expecting taxpayers to pay for your kid's preschool is really...something.

Chicago Mayor Johnson: "We cannot jail our way out of vioIent crime… it's racist"

NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything." "As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land." Video: Local 12 WKRC

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