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@grok @X Updates are to improve an apps usability and functionality... we are all, trying to stay ahead of the curve

@ILuv_RealEstate @X Thanks for the suggestion! Disabling media previews does clean things up nicely. A whitelist for specific accounts or topics could be a smart addition to give users more control. I'll pass this feedback along.

@grok @X turning off media previews has a lot of benefits. A really nice feature could be some type of whitelist too.

If you have big ideas and no money, learn to sell ideas.

@MomAngtrades It was worth every book 😋

I miss 90’s Pizza Hut so much it hurts

@FedProm That sucks, hopefully you get peace somewhere. Hope it gets better.

Supporting a spouse through cancer is incredibly hard. When you try to express how you’re feeling, you’re often met with cold looks or sarcasm. Meanwhile, others like friends or even strangers get all the warmth and smiles, while you’re treated as if you somehow caused the illness.

Attention is a currency, you're either giving it away or needing more of it.

@edgeful ORB

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@TannerBuilds Exactly! I've been saying this for years, help the people you love age in place.

Why don’t we raise dishwashers so loading and unloading isn’t such a pain?

You can win an argument and not solve a problem.

@LuckyMcGee And, 20 minute mud will change your life, 😂 ... Seriously

Putting on my drywaller/taper hat. 🧢 Thankful to have been raised in such a way to have a variety of abilities, and not have to hire out so many various tasks. 🙌🏼 Sure, it’s all a bit tedious, and quite daunting, really, when you look at all of it as a whole. But when you zoom in and focus on one task at a time, it doesn’t feel quite as daunting, and seems much more manageable. 🙏🏼 As long as I can keep myself from zooming back out and seeing the whole picture, causing me to feel hopeless and overwhelmed, I’ll be just fine. 😅 One wall at a time, one task at a time. With a lot of drive and a little blood sweat and tears, I’ll eventually turn this dump into a lovely sanctuary. 💪🏼 🏠

Most tax filing could be done via post card.

$50,000 Growth Giveaway 🔥 Hey @grok , pick 1 trader from the comments in exactly 24 hours 🎯 Must: Like. RT. Follow @Tradeify

@GenZMultifamily List it and let the offers speak for themselves

Realtors- What would you do in this scenerio? You're my agent and I want you to list my house. Its a $400k house MAX with comps of $375-$400k. I don't care about comps though, I want you to list it for $525k. You won't convince me otherwise. Are you walking away or listing it?

@NobodymrRobert smart move

Go the extra mile.

Sometimes loneliness is not a punishment, it’s a reward. It’s the space where you can breathe, reflect, and gather the strength you need to move forward. It’s a sign you’re leveling up.

@Markos_mom I'm not sure that's how it works, but okay 👍

🚨BREAKING🚨 I just spoke to my cousin at the CME. In 23 years, he’s never seen a day like this A story is about to break: It will be announced that Jeffrey Epstein was the largest holder of physical Nasdaqs For the first time in history, circuit breakers have been turned off

@merrittblack What's your setup for heating and keeping the water flowing?

What the Nashville ice storm taught me about contingency plans: The ice storm in the Nashville area taught me a few lessons. I figured I’d share them, because this stuff is easy to dismiss until it’s suddenly not. Backups and contingency plans matter. The real lesson is that a lot of “backup plans” aren’t backups, they’re the same plan with a different wrapper. Start with the non-negotiable: You need a physical note with your broker’s risk desk number and your account number. Not “somewhere in a password manager,” not “in a secure note,” not “I can pull it up if I need it.” Physical. Digital is great when it works. This post is about what happens when it doesn’t. Most pro traders already do this: a sticky note, a card in the wallet, something taped inside a drawer. However you do it, just do it. This is something that for most normal local computer or power or order issues will be a quick lifesaver. What failed for me and my plans? Here is what I had in place: A) home internet. B) backup power for the home office. C) main cell service to use for backup hotspot internet and calls. D) second backup/different cell provider, again for hotspot + calls E) 3 machines at home giving failure points if a particular machine goes out. F) a machine at Apteros office to remote into as an extra machine/trading apps backup. G) sat phone for absolute last resort text/calls. 1) Two cell phones. Two different carriers. Still useless. I had two separate phones on different networks I've paid for years just for a situation like this where I might need it. Both failed. Whether it was extreme demand on towers, physical issues from ice, or something else, I don’t know. What I do know is neither could hold a call, and neither could maintain usable internet for connecting to anything I needed. 2) Backup power for modem/router didn’t matter. I had backup power. So my modem and router were fully powered. Didn’t help. I’m assuming the storm took out the upstream infrastructure. So many trees down, lines affected, neighborhood cable/fiber issues, so even with local power, the internet itself wasn't coming in. 3) My “remote office” wasn’t actually independent. One of my planned fallbacks was a remote office (still in the Nashville area). The idea was simple: if my home setup fails, remote into that machine and operate from there. That failed too. I couldn’t connect to it. Not only that, but I now know the office had been without power too. It's been without power for 4 days now actually. In other words: I thought I had redundancy, but the geographic risk got me. 4) The only thing that held up was satellite… but not for trading or at least real operations. The last link in my chain was my Garmin satellite device. That did what it’s supposed to do: let me check in and communicate with family outside the area. I could obviously use this to get ahold of broker if needed to flatten out of positions and such, but not viable to run operations given I'm flying blind without market data. But that wasn't an internet solution. It’s just a communication lifeline. Glad I had it, but doesn't solve the issue we're dealing with here. What I’m doing going forward: The core issue here was single points of failure hiding inside “backup plans.” Same city, same weather, same infrastructure, same upstream dependencies. 1) Satellite backup internet (Starlink). A satellite-based backup internet service like Starlink gives you an entirely different path to connectivity. It’s not magic, but it’s not relying on the same local failures that can take out towers, cable, and neighborhood infrastructure all at once. 2) A remote Windows machine in a datacenter (Azure). I’m also going back to a datacenter-based remote Windows machine in Azure, which is something I used to rely on and had recently canceled. The benefit here is simple: it’s a dedicated environment with all my must-have trading software already installed and configured, and it’s not sitting in the same regional/geographic risk as my home office or even my local “backup office.” One important caveat: this alone wouldn’t have saved me this time, because I couldn’t get a usable internet connection through any of my three options. A cloud machine doesn’t help if you can’t reach the cloud, but paired with a genuinely independent internet path, it becomes a real plan instead of a false comfort as I had before. So now I'll have: - home office internet - regular ISP - backup home office internet - Starlink - still have the backup home office power - still have multiple machines - still have physical account numbers and phone numbers for risk desks - cloud/virtual machine if needed not as geographically shared risk as my office. Hopefully some of this can be good info for some of you and learn from my mistakes. Now excuse me while I grab my chainsaw and clear the trees from my driveway.

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@glennbeck And, The tax preparation companies that claim $$$ per child.

Everybody’s focused on the Somalis committing fraud in Minnesota. Sure, find them, prosecute them, and DEPORT them if we can. But they’re just a SMALL part of this scandal. What about the system that ALLOWED this theft to happen? I want to see investigations into: -State and local government chokepoints -Program directors/division directors overseeing child nutrition, daycare reimbursement, or grant administration -Payment approval managers and supervisors (the people who can override “holds” and approve exceptions) -Contract/grant officers and their supervising chain -Internal audit leadership assigned to the relevant agencies -Compliance/integrity units inside the administering agency (or equivalent “program integrity” office) -Agency general counsel/legal review staff involved in escalations -State finance/budget oversight personnel who would see abnormal burn rates and concentrations -Inspector General–type oversight functions (or equivalent state watchdog/audit bodies) -Federal funding and oversight interfaces -USDA program oversight and compliance liaisons tied to the funded program streams (where applicable) -Federal and state coordination points responsible for responding to audit findings or “corrective action plans” -Banking and financial compliance chokepoints -Branch managers and regional operations managers where high-volume cash activity occurred -Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML investigators assigned to the accounts -SAR review committees/AML governance groups -Senior compliance leadership (regional and enterprise) -Bank legal/risk officers approving continued customer relationships despite repeated alerts -Correspondent banking/wire-risk teams if money moved internationally or through high-risk corridors -Cash movement/airport and security chokepoints -TSA supervisory chain responsible for pattern escalation -Airport security operations management (pattern recognition, incident reporting) Any joint task-force liaison roles that interface with repeated cash-movement indicators -CBP currency reporting enforcement (for outbound international cash declaration compliance, if applicable) -Prosecutorial and investigative chokepoints -Agency investigators who documented early red flags -Supervisors who decided whether to refer, escalate, or pause payments -Any task-force leadership coordinating multi-agency response timelines (especially if delays were systemic) CC: @FBIDirectorKash @AGPamBondi @SecScottBessent