Redeemed Child of the Most High.

There is a marble quarry in the Italian Alps that has been working since 1387, but in 639 years it has had only one customer... The quarry is at Candoglia, at the mouth of the Ossola valley. On 24 October 1387, Gian Galeazzo Visconti decided that the cathedral going up in his city should be built of marble rather than brick, and handed the quarry over to the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, the body established to build it. He also granted the stone free passage down the waterways to Milan. The blocks went by raft from the river Toce into Lake Maggiore, down the Ticino, along the Naviglio Grande, then through a system of locks into a small lake in the centre of the city, a few hundred metres from the site. The bargemen carried the letters AUF, for "ad usum fabricae", for the use of the works, which cleared the cargo through customs without charge. People in Lombardy still say "a ufo" for something got for nothing, and the phrase is traditionally traced back to those barges... Mark Twain came in 1867 and noticed something most visitors walk past: "We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years." It has never stopped: around a thousand tonnes of Candoglia marble still comes out of the mountain every year, and all of it goes to the same building. In a workshop in the Certosa district, sculptors cut replacements for whatever the weather has eaten away, from the same stone, for the same institution, founded in 1387. The cathedral was declared finished in 1965 but the quarry never stopped, because a cathedral like this is not something you complete... it is inherited, kept, and handed on. As John Ruskin wrote in The Seven Lamps of Architecture: "When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them: ‘See! This our fathers did for us.’"

@washghost1 When your a young man you can do so many very hard things. As we age our desire to do these things didn't leave. Our bodies stopped being able to perform them. It gives us a sense of productivity that we lose as we age.

Let that man have his peace

@HealthRanger Dvorak is good, but I like colmak better. I found the transition much easier to achieve. But yes I can type strait very easily with it.

Does anyone else find the finger typing of the word "strait" particularly annoying? All the letters except one are left-handed keys. Did you know that the modern qwerty keyboard was intentionally designed to slow down typing? Because it's a throwback to mechanical typewriters, which suffered from jamming of the key hammers if people typed too quickly. So they designed the qwerty layout to make typing as slow as possible. And that's what we still have today. That's why some people re-map their keyboards to use the Dvorak keyboard layout, which is MUCH faster. But of course it's a whole new layout, so it will fry your brain when you try to learn it. Anybody out there using the Dvorak mapping?

Luckily, we are using paper straws to save the environment

@mattvanswol @HistoryBoutique The best choice you will make for your child.

Well, I have some news that's going to make some people uncomfortable... My wife and I are pulling our youngest out of North Carolina public schools and my wife will be homeschooling him. And no, we're not sorry about it. We didn't come to this decision lightly. We prayed on it, argued about it, ran the numbers, lost sleep over it. But every road led back to the same common theme: nobody on God's green earth loves that boy more than his mother and I do, and nobody is more responsible for who he becomes than us. Yet, rather ironically, despite believing this somewhere along the way, we handed that responsibility to strangers and... trusted them with it. His mind. His values. His time. His education. His TRUTH. ...and this past year, for the first time, we stopped and asked whether they'd earned that trust. We don't think they did. So we're taking it back. Yeah, we're scared. Scared we'll get something wrong. Scared of the workload. Nervous about what people will say. But I'll take the fear of us doing it ourselves over the quiet horror of watching our son be indoctrinated in utter BS woke nonsense and be laughed at for believing in God and mocked for liking President Trump (all of which occurred this year. So yeah, he's going to read the hard books. The ones they'd rather he didn't. He's going to learn history that hasn't been run through an anti-White woke filter. He's going to know exactly where he comes from and what he believes. Most importantly, he's going to grow up watching his mother choose him, to spend every day, all day with him, over what was easy. They had their shot. They blew it. We've got him from here. 🇺🇸

@unsullied713 Customer service is no longer part of corporate America. It's run by the legal department and HR. Providing value to a customer is the last priority of the C-suite in the corporate world.

My $TSLA Model Y basically just got bricked when I used a supercharger today. Still under warranty so they are going to tow it. Cool story till you realize that because of this I can’t get in the car, have all my possessions still in the car and I’m 100 miles from home. But don’t worry, they can’t do anything till Monday. Worst customer experience ever. @elonmusk this can’t be the customer support or experience $TSLA offers.

@j00ny369T Yeah once a team has this issue once they are very careful not to have it happen again it's so costly to fix.

Costly error on the construction work. These are the moments that make everyone double-check their work.

@WallStreetApes There is no point eating at a restaurant. It doesn't matter if it's cheap of expensive. The ingredients come from the same 2 or 3 Giga-corps.

This is the Italian vinaigrette made from Sysco seasoning packets Sysco supplies the food for roughly 500,000 restaurants and chains throughout America Instead of sending buckets of salad dressing, Sysco can send seasoning packets for the restaurants to mix themselves, which is much easier to ship Many people believe eating out at restaurants in America is all the same now, and with giants like Sysco it’s kinda true We need to bring back small suppliers and not have mega corporations control and supply everything

@VladTheInflator Quality of a house from 40 years ago is better the 90 percent of homes today

Why would I buy your 35 year old house with 35 years of wear on the pipes, structure, etc. When I can build a brand new one for the same price per SF AND ICF?

@ObviousRises They don't want you to know how much info they have on you

This person submitted a FOIA request to his City for HIS OWN LICENSE PLATE (Flock Data) and was DENIED due to "privacy concerns." I REPEAT: When a man requested FLOCK FOOTAGE of HIS OWN CAR, the CITY claimed it was a PRIVACY VIOLATION and DENIED his request. So Flock can SPY on you in a mass surveillance state but YOU cannot even see YOUR OWN data or surveillance footage of YOU YOURSELF. Make it make sense.

Anti-nuclear people 🚫☢️: Nuclear waste is dangerous for thousands of years and we still have no safe way to dispose of it! Canada 🇨🇦☢️: ok “Spent fuel stays dangerous for a long time because of transuranics: elements heavier than uranium, like plutonium and americium, that form when a uranium atom captures a neutron instead of splitting. They stay radioactive for thousands of years, and they’re the main reason a burial site has to be designed to hold for geological timescales. WATSS, short for Waste To Stable Salt, goes after those specifically. It’s a chemical process that pulls the transuranics out of used oxide fuel and concentrates them into a molten salt, leaving the bulk of the material behind. Moltex says it recovered 90 percent of that transuranic content in 24 hours in the lab tests, with more coming out over longer runs.” Source ☢️: autonocion.com/us/canadian-la…

@ChiefEngineerCE Good start, but it should also open up any company abusing H1-B to massive lawsuits by any American citizen who lost their job during the time of hiring H-1B workers.

One Simple Law That Protects American Labor. If a company is found to have favored H-1B workers over qualified Americans, it loses the right to hire any new H-1B workers for five full years. No exceptions. No appeals. No “we promise we’ll do better.” Break the rules, replace Americans, fake shortages, preferential treatment - and the visa pipeline shuts down for five years. Right now companies face almost zero real consequences. A small fine, a slap on the wrist, then right back to the same game. This law changes the math. Get caught and you lose the cheap compliant labor you wanted so badly. Should a company caught replacing Americans with H-1B lose the ability to sponsor new visas for five years?

@vogel_loui4659 @scotti_brooks Android - use Eye Comfort Shield or Night Light in your display settings. Apple - then set up Night Shift. I think both allow you to toggle it off and on or set up schedules.

@Amalgamour @scotti_brooks How do you remove the blue light to turn on the gray scale? Thks.

A Child Psychiatrist Stopped Fighting Phones. Instead, Parents Were Told To Show Their Kids These 6 Documentaries. Many children started seeing social media differently. Here's what they watched:

@gofishh77 I won't fit.

This is the mandatory test before wild caving at Jewel Cave National Monument. You must be able to crawl through a 8.5” x 24” opening before embarking on the 4 hour tour. This is the moment I turn around and go TF home!

@TheEXECUTlONER_ I'm glad your safe.

This oil tanker truck was traveling down the highway loaded with 53,000 pounds/26.5 tons of 300 degree hot oil. Why the driver of this crop sprayer would decide to turn left right in front of it is beyond me. 🤯 Those people’s lives flashed before their very eyes when they saw that truck cross over their lane. 💯 That could have been a disaster. That is some top notch driving skills right there.

@HealthRanger We are very close to the world burning to ash from over population. The collapse is going to be biblical.

One of my new infographics explains how the global population of humans will shrink to match the available food supply. I compare it to "deer corn" and deer populations. Read and share:

@RifeTechnology Thank you for preserving our past.

Most of Royal Rife's original record was written off as lost — destroyed, scattered, or buried over the last 90 years. It survived. I've been the curator of record for years now and have been diligently organizing and getting everything put in the proper order. The transcribing had its own issues from bad hand writing to faded out inks and pencil. Now that I have AI it has made it so much easier to decipher everything at a decent speed — starting with THE RIFE CLINIC PAPERS: the 1934 cancer clinic, in the words of the people who were actually there. Not the believer version. Not the debunker version. The documents. Every notebook, every letter, every method and result — the compelling parts and the inconvenient ones. Read it and decide for yourself. I'm a scientist and I work in objective facts. Its time that this information gets distributed to the world. And this is just the start. I'm sitting on crates of family material I haven't been through in 25+ years. I'm having all of it digitized — there's history in there nobody's seen in decades. Coming soon. Follow for the drop.

@ChiefEngineerCE I miss this version of life.

We used to wait for the Sears catalog to come out like it was Christmas morning. Thick pages full of tools, clothes, toys, and appliances. Families would sit together circling what they wanted. Kids dreamed over the toy section for weeks. Nothing felt more American than that. One catalog reaching millions of homes. Shared dreams. Shared economy. Shared culture. Now everything is instant, scattered across apps, and nothing feels quite as real. That old catalog was more than paper. It was a reminder that we were all part of the same country. We didn't know if we had the latest phone book but we knew if we had the latest Sears catalog. What everyday thing from your childhood felt the most American to you?

Divorce attorney James Sexton said something that hit hard: our society distracts us from the fact that we’re all going to die, because if we really internalized it, we’d stop chasing a lot of the meaningless stuff that keeps the machine running. After spending time in hospice, he realized the dying don’t talk about their stuff. They talk about the people they loved, the connections, the beautiful and painful moments. Everything else falls away. There’s a finite number of times you’ll kiss your wife, hug your kids, or tell someone you love them. You don’t know the number, until it’s passed. That finiteness is what makes it so precious.