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@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar All the while being an ignorant * * * *.

"As a visionary, I know success is not born overnight. Often alone at the top, I follow my passion, listen to my instinct, and always maintain a laser focus." - Melania Trump publicly frames herself as a “visionary.” @atrupar (2026)

@MulhollandL0ver The Great Migration.

It’s still pretty perplexing how many freed slaves didn’t migrate North after slavery. And if not then, then definitely during Jim Crow. I would’ve been on the first smoking train to Chicago

@CoachDanGo Question: Is oatmeal and good-quality multi-grain bread considered fiber?

You need to be fibermaxxing. Get 25-35 grams a day through potatoes, broccoli, fruits. Supplement with psyllium husk or chia seeds. Fiber keeps you full, improves blood sugar, digestion, and keeps you regular. Colon cancer is the #1 killer of men and women under 50. Fiber protects you against that. Please for the love of God eat more fiber.

@TonyLaneNV Assuming this is a real video and not something staged for our amusement, then yes, he has gotten exactly what he deserves.

FROM MILLIONS… TO TEARS IN COURT A real estate attorney just got hit with up to 6 years in prison after stealing $4.4 MILLION in COVID funds… Now he’s sitting in court crying. Prosecutors say the money didn’t go where it was supposed to - instead it was blown on personal expenses tied to his circle. All that money… gone. And now reality hits. Do you feel bad for him… or is this exactly how it should end? ⬇️ 🇺🇸

@LangmanVince Do William Shatner and Dick Van Dyke share anything alike, such a trainer, genes, family doctor, diet, favorite place to eat? Because there could be a secret to longevity there ...

I can't believe William Shatner is 95 years old! He doesn't look or act like he's a day over 70!

@TukiFromKL That's humbling for mankind in general. Seems like for the money Radvinksky had he could have paid for the world's first body transplant. "Here, take this, this one's been damaged. Let me have that one over there."

🚨 Do you understand what just happened.. the owner of OnlyFans just died at 43.. Leonid Radvinsky.. the man made $3 billion off a platform where other people sell themselves.. he took 20% of every transaction.. every video.. every message.. every tip.. while creators fought algorithms and chargebacks and deplatforming threats just to make rent.. he sat at the top collecting a cut of their bodies.. and everyone called him a "tech founder".. the man wasn't a tech founder.. he was the most successful middleman in history.. and the wildest part.. OnlyFans was profitable from day one.. no VC money.. no IPO.. because when your business model is taking a fifth of what someone earns from their own skin.. you don't need investors.. you need creators desperate enough to not ask questions.. he had $3 billion and still couldn't beat cancer at 43.. what exactly are we all racing toward.

@aakashgupta That settles it. No flying for me unless someone fixes all this. I don't want to be mangled and incinerated because an exhausted, distracted air traffic controller -- who gets no backup, no relief thanks to a Republican Congress -- misses a blip on a radar.

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

@maximumpain333 Uhhh ... whut?

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@aakashgupta It's comforting to many fans, I'm sure, that two acting icons, Dick Van Dyke and William Shatner, are still with us.

The math on William Shatner’s existence is hard to process. He was born closer to the Civil War than to today. Montreal, 1931. His father manufactured clothes. His first acting role came in 1951, the same year color TV was introduced to the American public. Star Trek premiered in 1966. It lasted 3 seasons and got cancelled. The first rerun aired before humans had walked on the Moon. Those reruns are still generating licensing revenue 57 years later. He’s been famous for 60 consecutive years. He survived being typecast so severely in the 1970s that he did convention appearances for grocery money. He survived his third wife’s death. He survived Hollywood writing him off as a joke. Then he weaponized the joke. Priceline commercials. The roast. Spoken-word albums where he recites Elton John lyrics as dramatic monologue. Every project that should have ended his career somehow added to it. At 73, back-to-back Emmys for Boston Legal. At 90, oldest person to fly to space. At 94, a Super Bowl ad. At 95, 4.3 million people watching him smoke a cigar on X. His career has now outlasted the Soviet Union, the Space Shuttle program, Blockbuster Video, MySpace, and the first three generations of AI models. He’s been working since Truman and he’s posting through the Claude era. The compounding is the point. 75 years of showing up created a distribution moat that no amount of talent alone could replicate.

@StatisticUrban If the clothes are all-cotton, and designed to be as lightweight as possible and still serve their function, they would not be that great of a burden. Warm, yes, but without petrochemicals in the fabric, still comfortable.

It feels truly insane to me that people used to wear full-length cotton suit jackets and dress pants at all times. This is Manhattan in the height of summer, late June 1936! And these are factory workers!

@Camp4 I second your contrarian take. The '90s were a mixed bag, would you agree? Or not?

One of my contrarian takes: Society peaked in the 80s, and it’s been in slow decline ever since. It was the last era of widespread optimism. You can feel it in the music and movies. “Excess meets innocence.” The 80s also mark the end of the analog world—local economies, in-person everything, and a certain forced simplicity. Malls, movie theaters, magazines, and BMX. Then, beginning in the 90s, came the tidal wave of tech: Mobile phones The internet Social media AI All incredible innovations, with lots of positives. But on the whole I think they’re *net negatives* for society. We replaced a finite, real-world experience with an infinite, digital one. Infinite information. Infinite comparison. Infinite distraction. Human’s aren’t wired for that, and you can see the consequences all around us.

@Handre I thought the whole rationale for adopting the CoN system was that medical facilities are such a unique, expensive commodity that allowing the profit-driven free market to determine where a hospital or free-standing specialty clinic should go would bring even more problems.

So you know how hospitals cost a fucking fortune, right? Well, back in 1964, New York basically invented this brilliant idea called "certificate of need" laws. The state said hospitals couldn't expand or build new facilities without government permission - you know, to control costs and prevent "wasteful duplication." (Because nothing says efficiency like bureaucrats deciding where sick people can get treatment.) The feds loved this shit so much that by 1974, they were bribing states with Medicare dollars to adopt these laws nationwide. By 1982, almost every state had jumped on board. Then something hilarious happened - the federal government looked around in the '80s, realized these laws were actually making healthcare MORE expensive (shocking!), and repealed the federal requirements in 1987. But here's where it gets really good. Thirty-five states just kept their certificate of need laws anyway, because why give up power once you've got it? Today, if you want to open a hospital in North Carolina or build an MRI center in Virginia, you've got to prove to some panel of bureaucrats that your community "needs" it. Meanwhile, the 15 states that ditched these laws? They've got more hospitals, lower prices, and better access to care. You're literally sitting in a state where the government decides whether you deserve a nearby hospital based on their fucking spreadsheets. And we wonder why an ambulance ride costs more than a used car.

@saylordocs But that applies ONLY to people who have a compulsion to eat and drink during a movie. Eat & drink at home. The movie is only 2 hours or so (OK, 3 hours with all the garbage advertising they throw on at the beginning).

Netflix didn’t kill movie theaters. $20 popcorn 🍿 and $12 water sealed the coffin.

@Raindropsmedia1 I expect someone is using this isolated situation (which sounds like it's her fault, her problem) to make the absurd generalization that all teachers make too much money and we should cut those salaries so that they all buy Corollas and dine on mac n cheese.

Texas teacher who gets paid $7,500 per month says she’s completely broke and in debt after her monthly expenses—which include her G-Wagon, condo, and more. 👀💔💰

@sweet_nector1 It's a vacuum cleaner, duh. The best, most durable mass-market vacuum cleaner made at the time.

People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?

@DistressDark Is that highway literally part of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System? Because a private driveway opening onto that would seem to be not just stupid, but also illegal.

This is a horrifying idea

@Eric_Erins And in small towns we had boarding houses. Also an excellent concept for an increasingly singlehood society. They had shared bathrooms, probably, but you also got home cooking.

We used to have these. They were called Apartment Hotels. They’d consist of a single room with a bathroom, housecleaning, a cafeteria and lounges. Imagine being able to rent month to month and not need to furnish an apartment. It was ideal. Nuts we got rid of these.

@NotHoodlum In 15 years, he'll be eligible by age to be president of the United States. Pleasant dreams, kids.

What do you get for the kid in The Omen when he turns 20? Happy Birthday, Damien.

@stepfanie The unhinged part is that people feel a need to eat and drink at the movie theater, and then complain about the price. Have your snack/meal at home, then hit the cinema.

I haven’t been to a movie in 5 years. This is unhinged.

@woofknight When did you sneak into my house???