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@MikeBales Definitely worth a belly laugh

Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student aide, Sam found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet. The man insisted he didn’t need Sam’s help to leave. After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let Sam wheel him to the elevator. On the way down, Sam asked if his wife was meeting him. “I don’t know,” he said. “She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”

@ericjames_x @JeremyTate41 Wrestling with the BIG issues is important, but waiting until 30 postpones kids (& grandkids) too long I think. I married at 26.

@JeremyTate41 That's what 20 year olds do. Men shouldn't even thjink about marriage until at least 30.

I’ve never shared this publicly, but it’s central to my story. In 2001, the love of my life broke up with me over a theological disagreement. So I did what any reasonable 20-year-old would do, I drove to Alaska to sulk for the summer. The previous spring she had been deeply impacted by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I figured if I read it and talked with her about it, maybe she’d be impressed and we’d get back together. So I spent the summer living in a tent, reading that book. And to my great surprise it absolutely gripped my soul. Dostoevsky showed me how sin disfigures our hearts and minds, destroys relationships, and makes us miserable. Through fiction, through the classics, my spiritual life was reawakened and refocused on Jesus Christ. That summer in Alaska was my pathway into the classics.

@ajlamesa Buttigieg polls at ZERO with black voters. Hard to see how he wins the Dem nomination.

A presidential candidate like Pete Buttigieg or Jon Ossoff would restore a lot of confidence in the American system -- Gavin Newsom, not so much.

@DominicJPino FDR wanted to maintain a link between SS taxes paid & benefits received to “immunize” SS against claims that it was “welfare” rather than an “earned” benefit. That has largely worked, so retirees now consider SS to be earned - tho the math never made sense.

Once you start to understand how Social Security actually works, instead of how lying politicians say it works, you realize it's completely insane:

@caroljsroth Demonstrating the ability to calculate the monthly payment on a loan balance at a given interest rate & loan term should be a prerequisite for qualifying for a school loan. If one is too uneducable to learn that, very unlikely the person is smart enough to benefit from college.

Yeah, kids can't drink alcohol until they are 21 and can't buy cough syrup until they are 18, but they can *definitely* make great decisions about taking on 5-6 figures in debt. Great point. They government should definitely continue to lean into that.

@VeniGnoskils @judgeglock People have been getting degrees in Art History for decades, so that’s not really new.

@judgeglock Those replacements happened over decades, not 5> years. Also, those jobs didnt require a college degree. What happens when someone studies their entire life for a job that no longer exists

I completely understand the fear of AI replacing most white-collar jobs. The thing that makes me more optimistic is that people forget just how many such jobs the rise of the computer and internet have already destroyed. Much of white collar work already disappeared, and recently! See... -File clerks. I was one of them! We had to punch holes in paper, put things in three-ring binders, and find the right place to put stuff on a shelf. There was a whole division doing this in the REIT I worked in. - Mail Room. This was the proverbial "from the bottom" job in 20th century movies about office life. Look at the movies and these things were packed with people, they pushed memos up and down the office food chain. Largely gone. -Copyists. Largely before my time, so pre-computer, but a huge number of people just copying and recopying memos and papers on typewriters for different folders. One of the most significant jobs in America. - Have you ever heard of a typing pool? A variation on copyists, but people who just took everything handwritten and typed it on a typewriter and typed new versions out for other people. Every big company had one. --Computer, yes, the human kind. All of those "hidden figures" in movies and books came from a massive number of people just typing and retyping numbers into adding machines. This actually includes most of what old fashioned "accountants" did too. -Data Entry. Later, but many people including me, spent months taking numbers people wrote on pieces of paper and typing them into a physical computer. Now much rarer. -There were weird jobs too like newspaper clipper. Whole firms just looked through newspapers and clipped relevant stories for people who paid them to do so. I know AI is different in so many ways, and it really could destroy millions of jobs without any substitute. But if you had told anybody, say, from the 1980s, that most of the above jobs would be gone in 40 years, they would rightfully have told you that was most of the white-collar workforce. The truth is it's really hard to imagine what new things come along or which existing things grow. That doesn't mean those things will come along this time (as the investor slogan says, past performance does not guarantee future results), but it is good reminder.

@SwipeWright @eva_kurilova Try Shel Silverstein’s “Where the sidewalk ends.” My kids loved that.

There have been poems I've liked, but I can't bring myself to read any poetry. 99.9% of it is just torturous to read, and I never understand how I'm even supposed to read them. The pauses and sudden skipping to a new line. It's just tedious and come across as silly to me. But yeah, I love some good prose!

I wish I enjoyed poetry. I think it's good to enjoy poetry. But I can't do it. It's prose all the way for my brain.

@Rainmaker1973 Daddy is home.

Only 3 words

@DOGE__news She seems like a thoroughly unpleasant person.

What's this world coming to?

@AJamesMcCarthy Really incredible that a giant pressurized sphere of hydrogen undergoing fusion puts off a pretty steady rate of heat and light - and has done so for millions of years.

I modified my backyard telescope to capture the sun for 6 hours yesterday, to watch how this giant sunspot is behaving. Our star doing star things will never not be fascinating.

@ZaidJilani At least one of the reasons that Elon bought twitter was so that actual news liks the Hunter Biden Laptop story couldn't be suppressed by twiiter flunkies. Post-election polling showed that enough 2020 Biden voters would have voted differently had they known to re-elect Trump.

Elon didn’t buy Twitter to make money, Jeff Bezos didn’t buy the Post to make money, and Bari Weiss wasn’t installed to make money. Think of these media platforms as Super PACs for billionaires instead.

@jackmirkinson For how long should Bezos have continued to dump $$$ on this charity project? If someone else wanted to underwrite the operations, I'm sure Bezos would have been happy to sell the paper.

always bears repeating that this is NOT ultimately a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

@arcticmother @EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost @JeffBezos Bezos subsidized the paper for more than a decade. Really hard to paint him as the bad guy for not wanting to continue to do so.

@EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost @JeffBezos 👺 The Destroyer quickly joining Trump as one of the most despised.

The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.

@AriannaEditrix @EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost Regardless of whatever else is true, if your salary & benefits cost your employer more than the revenue you generate, you're a prime candidate to be let go.

@EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost They fired a war correspondent in ukraine , a woman

@Streamstraw @EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost "greedy tech boss"? If Bezos hadn't bought the paper & subsidized for more than a decade, the WaPo would have been out of business a long time ago.

@EvanFeigenbaum @WashPost Honestly, this is because of the crooked, vile, greedy tech boss behind it. And like its bros embrancing fascism with arms wide open. May he remember the French, the German and the Italian businessmen that supported fascism.

@TaraBull I thought the captain was supposed to go down with the ship.

It seemed like a good idea

@luckystrike_44 @DJL06824 @KurtSupeCPA Moving isn't easy at any age. It can be especially hard for people who are 65+. You have more stuff that has to be moved, and less strength & endurace to move it yourself - so moving requires more of your capacity & money.

I'm just saying if they can't afford the house they should sell it. Isn't that the point of building equity in the first place, so you can cash out when you're older to support your needs. There is no shame in downsizing. My grandparents had 9 kids, after the kids moved out they sold the 12 passenger van, they got a Camry and moved to Gilbert AZ in a +55 condo community. They loved it, I don't see why people are so against this.

So a 77-year-old who bought a home decades ago should be penalized for... what exactly? Making a smart decision with the opportunities available to them? Here's what you're missing: Every generation inherits advantages the previous one didn't have. You have access to: Technology that creates wealth faster than any point in history Remote work opportunities that didn't exist 10 years ago Investment platforms with zero fees Information that would've cost thousands to access They had affordable housing. You have tools to build wealth they couldn't have imagined. Different advantages. Different challenges. Should they lose their home because they played the hand they were dealt well? I spend my career trying to bring generations together, helping parents and grandparents pass wealth to their kids and grandkids, teaching both sides to understand each other's financial realities. Because here's the thing: These "Boomers" you're mocking? They're YOUR parents. YOUR grandparents. And posts like this make it impossible to have the real conversations families need to have about money, legacy, and building wealth together.

@IMAO_ @jarvis_best I don't really know about AI using water directly, but of course it uses electricity - & generating electicity requires turning water into steam for almost all power sources.

@jarvis_best No, when your computer gets hot, you need to pour water on it to cool it down and make it run faster. And you have to toss that water out afterward as it could have computer viruses in it.

I don’t get this rumor that AI uses water. AI is computer. I have a computer - it doesn’t use water. Just electricity. In fact you want to keep it as far away from water as you can.

@Jennus1234 @TaraBull Regardless of how the marriage disintegrated & who is what % at fault, this is atrocious behavior by both parents.

@TaraBull Both these parents are low IQ idiots. They way they are acting in front of their kids is despicable.

Ex-husband shows up to find his daughters left home alone, mom loses it when he tries to enter her home.

@ZeekArkham There was a video of a guy walking around Harlem asking people if they had ID. They all said "yes". He also asked if they knew where to get an ID if they didn't have one - & they also all said yes, giving the address of the DMV.

I love how black folks have been saying for years that we’ve all got ID. We buy stuff with ID, we get on planes with ID, and we’re all well aware that it’s 2026. White leftists have been trying to pull the biggest psyop on us by saying we don’t, but I’m so glad no one is falling for it. Stop voting for people who think you’re dumb and incapable.