@castlehillmom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This lady is cuckoo for coco puffs. Feeding 9 people for $90 is wayyyyy cheaper than eating out. Period. She just miserable and wants to complain.
Continuing the WTF are people doing to feed themselves and their families discourse, I have no idea how this woman could spend $90 to make cheeseburgers at home. It costs less per person the more people you feed. Just bizarre commentary.
Mostly she just sounds burnt out. This would take me 30 min and $30 (less with sales).
@Nazumejud Just try to explain to her that you both have not gotten to that phase of life yet- it’s impossible to understand the difficulties that parents face in the older yrs. Similar to the unknowns prior to having kids. Her feelings aren’t wrong, but its rude to express them that way.
@Nazumejud Your mother sounds like an amazing woman!! My husband and I each have a delinquent sibling. When I was younger the enabling “help” pissed me off too. I think the topic of conversation to discuss is that what seems so simple from the outside looking in is NOT reality. @Nazumejud
AM I WRONG FOR CHOOSING MY MOTHER OVER MY WIFE?
My wife and I have a son who is about to turn five. For years, my parents, mostly my mother, have provided full time childcare at no cost. She follows every rule we set, no screens, no sweets, routines exactly as asked, and our son adores her. We genuinely could not afford daycare, and even if we could, it would not compare. Recently, we learned my parents have been quietly paying my older brother’s rent.
He has a long history of poor choices, and my wife made a sharp comment about favoritism and how the problem child always gets rewarded. My mother snapped back hard, saying she spends forty hours a week caring for our child and can do whatever she wants with her money, even waste it entirely. The language was intense and shocked everyone. My wife demanded an apology. My mother apologized for the wording but doubled down on the message, saying her finances are not up for debate……..
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@OCpatriot_ Hahaha!!! That’s great you know how to install your own, but the reason it died in the first place prematurely is because you bought it at Home Cheapo instead of a supply house. You get what you pay for.
Water heater died last night. 5 yrs old, still under warranty.
Called Manufacturer, they said they'd send parts, but that'd be 4-6 days. Couldn't leave my family without hot water that long.
So I called local repair company, they'd been there 5 minutes when they quoted me $1,100 to fix it. Wouldn't break it down to parts and labor until I leaned on them hard.
- $300 parts
- $800 labor
For 30-40 minutes of work. For a water heater that cost me $700 with sales tax.
I called the manufacturer back and told them the situation and that I planned on buying a new unit at The Home Depot and install it myself (I'd installed my current one).
Rheem said no problem, take your old one with you and we'll give you full credit towards your new one.
With the military discount from my buddy that was helping me, I was out of pocket a whole $65 when it was all said and done, and even traded up a model with a longer warranty.
Thank you Rheem, thank you Home Depot.
Fuck off predatory appliance repair companies.
@Triciahend23@alt_w_v_g Shareholders don’t usually have a salary. They get a percentage of the profit of the company. Do you mean deduct those payments they get from the profit?
@GuntherEagleman I may never be able to afford a house, meanwhile "seniors on fixed income" have $500k+ equity in their houses. I don't give two shits about them anymore.
🚨 DR. PHIL GOES BALLISTIC ON GOVERNMENT DOUBLE TAXING SOCIAL SECURITY
“Workers pay their 6.2% with after-tax dollars, then are TAXED AGAIN, patently unfair!”
Seniors on fixed incomes getting screwed by broken promises.
Dr. Phil says Trump is the ONLY one fighting for them so they don’t have to!
@splittaskull@RealRyanPK@patrickbetdavid I agree, it’s impossible to know what they are missing. However to be fair, I didn’t know how hard it was going to be either and how much I would endure. Had I known, I would have been scared also. I think his opinion is somewhat valid even tho he has nothing to compare to
@RealRyanPK@patrickbetdavid The most someone could say that doesn't have a child is that it doesn't seem like something that would be for me..but since the birth of a child invokes a level of love that is impossible to experience without actually having one they simply cannot have an educated opinion on it
Seth Rogan on why he doesn’t want kids.
To each his own but the greatest gift God ever gave us is the gift of having kids.
All the money, fame and accolades in the world can replace having kids.
If you’re able to, have kids.
A ton of them.
Spent the last six weeks shadowing an MBA searcher who bought an HVAC business with no industry experience and a personal guarantee
On Day 1 he showed up at 6:11am in a new company vest, carrying a spiral-bound "Value Creation Roadmap" deck
The techs stared like he was a new species
He sipped from a mug that said "EBITDA" and called everyone into the conference room
No one knew what EBITDA meant
On the whiteboard: "quick wins"
On the projector: a three-month model forecasting 22% margin expansion
By 9am, he was outlining his plan to reduce SG&A as a percentage of revenue
Someone asked if that meant fewer donuts
He didn't answer
By 9:07, the lead tech slid his keys across the counter and quit
By noon, half the crew left with him
"Unexpected headwind," he said
By Day 5, revenue was down 41%
He called it "short-term demand softness" and pushed the ramp to Q3 to "better reflect seasonality"
He said it with the tone of someone presenting to an investment committee
On Day 10, he ran a meeting on "operational excellence"
Attendance: two
Engagement: zero
By Day 14, he rolled out a plug-and-play Excel pricing model (no gridlines) with detailed instructions that no one read
It took him two weeks to realize the techs were entering every input into the wrong cells
The vast majority of jobs had been completed at negative gross margins
By Day 18, dispatch had imploded
A tech drove 90 minutes to a job that didn't exist, then called asking if he'd been fired
At this point, he wondered if he should have taken the $225K consulting job aligning objects horizontally and vertically in PowerPoint and removing gridlines from Excel
On Day 22, he spent the entire morning refinancing the business in his head
The interest rate made him physically ill
He whispered "personal guarantee" like it was both a prayer and a threat
By Day 24 (a Saturday), he was responding to customer calls himself
At 2:14pm, he climbed into an attic during a heat advisory, sweat pouring, cell service flickering, his kid's soccer game starting without him
He opened Claude:
"How do I replace a capacitor? Please explain like I am 5. Make no mistakes."
At 3pm, he misdiagnosed a blower motor
At 3:04, the customer asked for a refund and demanded to speak to his supervisor
On Day 27, he tried to train the remaining crew on a new CRM
A tech raised his hand and asked, "Can I just keep writing it down on paper?"
By Day 29, he was alone in the office recalculating debt service
The numbers didn't tie
The P&L refused to cooperate with his LBO model
The forecast still looked beautiful
Reality did not
On Day 30, he stood in the doorway, lights off, holding the vest he once thought made him look like a CEO
He didn't buy a business
He bought a job no one else wanted
@valuetainment I don’t understand I thought they always had control of the straight of hormuz? Hence the reason they shut it down for everyone else? I hope there is no way in hell Trump would agree to reparations!!??
🚨 BREAKING: Iran has rejected the 45-day ceasefire proposal, demanding a permanent end to the war instead.
Tehran’s counter-offer includes:
1) Full war reparations for infrastructure.
2) Complete control of the Strait of Hormuz.
3) Guarantees against targeted strikes on leadership.
Asmongold reacts to Ben Shapiro dropping from 170k average views in 2023 to now 18k in 2026 📉
“He’s at a net loss of 160,000 subscribers over the year.”
@Pro2A_Mama@AutisticClip Dana Loesch covered this well last week: it is very obvious which personalities had their team of producers doing all the research and writing when they were at Fox, and which ones did their own homework.
@ZacKaizen@AutisticClip With Tucker yes, I’ll take your word for it that’s accurate. I hadn’t heard that but seems believable. I don’t know what happened to Tucker. He was great on Fox. Always has softball interviews, and just wild takes.
The issue with Megyn is easy to explain: Candace had been trashing everyone around Charlie Kirk since his death, including his widow, and Megyn said nothing. Worse than nothing, her justification for saying nothing was "She is a mother to young kids".
The issue with Tucker is a more long term rift, and it is the same rift that Tucker has with people like Glenn Beck and Dana Loesch: he has come out with some insane ideas over the last year (especially in the last 8 months). Ben tried to discuss them with Tucker and Tucker has not been returning anyone's calls lately.
@ZacKaizen@AutisticClip (2) doesn’t matter the position she goes out of her way to find an argument to battle from the opposite side of the subject. That’s solely for clicks.
@ZacKaizen@AutisticClip My theory for why he’s been going on the offense calling others out is so that he can capture some of the audience he lost and make a splash and become relevant again.
@Pro2A_Mama@AutisticClip It is pretty common with the political commentary ratings. When Democrats were in power, Fox had amazing ratings. When Republicans were in power, not so much. ABC and NBC were the inverse.
@ZacKaizen@AutisticClip This checks out… I was a frequent listener. I loved hearing him shit all over the dems. Once he was in lockstep w/ Trump (he swore he doesn’t “endorse” anyone) his show became boring. It seemed he didn’t have ANY pushback of the admin. I highly doubt he really held that view
First, it isn't 170k, it is 170M.
In 2023, he was in opposition to the administration. 2024 was an election year. 2025, he was in sync with the administration. His views follow the common pattern of all political commentators. This is why you see people like Tucker, Megyn, and Candace putting themselves in opposition to the administration: they are trying to keep their views up.
And when you are a political commentator with 7M subscribers on YT, losing 40k over a couple months is nothing - especially when the ones you lost are going to the tabloid shows (Candace, Tucker, Megyn).
@HereCommonSense@PBDsPodcast I’ve seen many podcast and listened for years. I’ve watched, listened and taken clues from body language. This is my assessment of Adam based on those factors. PBD has actually flipped on Adam before, bro never learns. I think that’s a fair criticism of PBD even tho I disagree.
@Pro2A_Mama@PBDsPodcast We aren’t Adam so we can’t definitely say how he takes reasonable criticism.
Agreed that PBD tried, which is why I gave Adam the L as well.
You can have a tense convo publicly, but it was poorly delivered.