@jeremyct My mom’s money is hers. She and my dad worked their asses off to get it. I’ve told her many times to enjoy the rest of her life.
I have my own money.
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a friend’s parents bought their house in 1993 for $67,000
same house is worth $1,200,000 today
he’s their only son
spent years quietly knowing that house was coming to him someday
they sold it last week
to fund their retirement
he found out over dinner
just sat there
nodded
said “that’s great mom”
went home and did the math
$1,200,000
gone before he ever touched it
boomers didn’t just win the housing market once
they won it twice
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@samuelmoyn Yes! I, too, wish other countries would quit expecting us to give them tons of money at the expense of our own citizens while they look down their noses at us. That'd be great!
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Another excellent piece. “One could be forgiven, these days, for wishing that the United States were a little less central in world affairs. That its inhabitants were one people among many, just like everyone else.” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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@WillCainShow @KayceSmith @willcain Will is 100% correct, especially when they are young. You have to train them on how to act, what to do (and not do), how to clean themselves, etc.
Toddlers are really cute, untrained beasts.
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Will Cain and Kayce Smith’s Hilarious Potty Training Debate
@KayceSmith joins @willcain to vent about the absolute struggle of potty training a three-year-old boy, calling it one of the worst experiences of her life. The conversation takes a hilarious turn when the debate shifts to whether raising children is essentially the same as training dogs. While one side argues for treats and discipline, Kayce points out the obvious flaw: you can’t exactly tell your son to just go poop in the backyard. From the "ridicule and shame" method to the high cost of professional help, this is a relatable look at the chaos of parenting.
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@GigglingGanon Fellas, I think the key takeaway from all this is NEVER. STICK. YOUR. DICK. IN. CRAZY.
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Keeping it in the family when the whole family gets arrested. 🤦
The confrontation began when O'Fallon Police responded to a domestic battery report involving a daughter and her boyfriend. Tensions boiled over in the driveway as the parents physically intervened, refusing to allow officers access to the daughter inside the home.
As officers attempted to conduct their investigation, the situation shifted from a verbal disagreement to physical obstruction. Bodycam footage captures the moments the scene fractured, leading to a "hands-on" encounter in the garage.
Instead of a single citation, the entire family now faces serious legal consequences:
🔹 The Daughter: Facing Domestic Battery charges.
🔹 The Parents: Both facing felony charges of Aggravated Battery to a Peace Officer and Obstructing Justice.
The lead officer summarizes the grim reality at the end: “They decided to deny us entry, they decided to hit us... now they’re all going to jail.”
What started as a simple domestic call ended with a family in handcuffs. Know your rights, but know the line.
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@MS2PZ So lots of ways I didn’t think about, but mine was
(60*60)/60
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@TheLucyShow1 lol wut?
(4+3)^2 = 7^2 = 49.
Who the Hell does that 'US' method?
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@RocketPulpHack @3YearLetterman Allegedly all the corporations that replaced humans with AI
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@3YearLetterman If robots are doing all the work, who’s paying the taxes to fund the welfare?
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@mgrissom @CollegeBaseCNT Are RPI, SOS, and Q1-4 metrics useful at this point in the season?
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Blind Résumé... Who is the better college baseball team right now?
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@clarionledger @Jakewim Can I declare my income as NIL?
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Mississippi House passes no tax on NIL money bill, helping Ole Miss and Miss. State clarionledger.com/story/news/pol…
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@11point7 Well I'd say your simulator needs a biiiiiiiiit more work.
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Playing around with creating a Field of 64 simulator for our website and it spit out this beauty
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The men of Team USA went from heroes to villains in record time. They win the gold medal, they honor their teammate’s wife & children, they shout out Megan Keller... and that all went right out the window after they drank with Kash Patel & laughed with Trump
Heroes for 7 mins!
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@cabsav456 Because actually solving shit doesn’t get donations in the party coffers.
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Republicans aren’t wrong to want secure elections and to make sure only citizens vote.
Democrats aren’t wrong to worry that the SAVE Act could create barriers for eligible voters.
Republicans are wrong to claim we have fraudulent elections. We don’t.
Democrats are wrong to compare the SAVE Act to Jim Crow. It’s not.
Both sides have legitimate concerns. Both sides are also running a propaganda war.
Why does it seem like our government is straight up dysfunctional? We elect people in Congress to go to DC and figure shit out. So maybe talk to each other and figure it out rather than posting rage bait on X all day. @GOP @TheDemocrats
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@katee_K1 I don’t know her at all and I’m proud of her too.
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The girl they went to fight has years of MMA and strength training because of her dad, he's the one that posted this saying how proud he is of her, the girl that went to jump her got an orbital fracture and all 4 got charged with gang assault, the owners were also proud of her.
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@currentiyke First season was great. It went downhill quick when it moved to the CW.
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@brollAmerican @StarWarsDaily_ Because the trench was much less defended than the surface.
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@StarWarsDaily_ And if the vent is flush with the surface why would the x-wings need to navigate down the trench? They could launch the torpedoes straight into the vent from a perpendicular approach angle.
And why does the Death Star have so many turbo laser placements within the trench???
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@macabaret_17 @StarWarsDaily_ @14e_ther I think the explanation was that the trench was much more lightly defended than the surface.
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@StarWarsDaily_ @14e_ther Why did Luke just not fly straight at the exhaust port instead of running the tench?
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@heitner God forbid we attempt to have academic integration at *checks notes* a university.
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Greg Sankey's emphasis on the need for consistent application of eligibility rules to avoid disruption in college sports is contradicted by the NCAA's own recent practices.
As evidenced by multiple eligibility grants, the NCAA has waived similar rules for former professional athletes, including Thierry Darlan, Abdullah Ahmed, James Nnaji, and Fedor Zugic.
These waivers demonstrate selective enforcement, undermining Sankey's assertion that inconsistent application fuels disruption.
Courts in similar cases have highlighted such inconsistencies as evidence of arbitrary decision-making.
Also, Sankey's reliance on outdated principles of amateurism and academic integration is not aligned with the current realities of college athletes and the proliferation of #NIL deals.
Furthermore, Sankey is a lay witness who can offer opinions based on personal knowledge, but this affidavit is littered with conclusory statements that are not tied to specific facts or data.
Finally, Sankey is not only biased but has a conflict of interest while serving in the role of SEC Commissioner.
Ross Dellenger@RossDellenger
In a groundbreaking affidavit, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey urges a court to uphold NCAA eligibility standards and prevent Alabama’s Charles Bediako from playing, citing policies that are “essential to the integrity of college sports.” Full story - bit.ly/4qfYj0n
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An officer is on a routine traffic stop, standing beside a car, when a man suddenly comes up from behind. As the officer turns, he’s hit in the face with pepper spray. A struggle breaks out. In the chaos, the man pulls a knife.
In a split second, the situation shifts from routine to life-threatening.
When an officer is blinded, under attack, and facing an edged weapon at close range, is drawing a firearm and firing a justified response?
Where do you think the line is between necessary force and excessive force in moments like this?
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@HMBohemond No - the prequels have issues. Mainly terrible dialogue and the questionable choice of introducing Anakin as a child in Episode 1. Not to mention the off-putting CGI.
It also confirmed to many that Lucas had lost his way after making the Special Edition releases. Han shot first.
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The issue here is it's that it's not the Prequels being made to look good "in comparison." It's that the Sequels shocked a large portion of the Star Wars fandom out of a collective hysteria that convinced them the Prequels were bad. A proverbial slap across the face to bring them to their senses.
What you have are three good but flawed films histrionically flandarized by amateur and professional critics who honestly shouldn't be in that field into the worst things committed to celluloid. Their opinions reinforced by people seeking upvotes and the related dopamine rush. Years of compounded circlejerking about it leading to a lot of people still set in their views, unwilling to accept opinions to the contrary.
Prequel hate was pure Reddit. Pushed by Reddit film criticism darlings, gargled and swallowed by Reddit, and held up by Reddit's popularity during those dark ages before it lost relevance as a platform. Reddit's hate then leaked elsewhere, even if vehemently anti-Reddit sites like 4chan would never want to admit it.
Seeing actually bad Star Wars films, the Sequels, made many realize they were wrong.
The Prequels were always good. The conditioning was just broken.
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander
In 2015, shortly after spending $4.5B to acquire LucasFilm, Disney invested several tens of millions more into brand awareness and rehabilitation. Coincidentally, at the same time, thousands of articles, videos, video essays, and meme pages appeared all at once with a single thesis: The Prequels were actually misunderstood masterpieces. I mean it genuinely as just a statement of historical fact, that the only reason the Prequels are even spoken about today is this marketing agenda from Disney. And this turned out to be even better for Disney than they ever could've hoped, because this rehabilitation of the Prequels basically pulled a retroactive Empire Strikes Back Effect. Let me explain a little... I have long been of the opinion that Empire was the fulcrum of Star Wars—if it had not been the greatest sequel ever produced, Star Wars would have been an 80s fad that would have faded from most of memory by now. Maybe as big as Back to the Future is today; which isn't much. If not for Disney's rehabilitation of the Prequels, the Disney Sequels would have had the same effect on Star Wars that Season 8 had on Game of Thrones: killing all conversation of it overnight. The Disney Sequels were so bad that they made the Prequels look good in comparison. Combined with their 2015 marketing plan and the fact Gen Z and Gen A have been starved of quality film their entire lives, the Prequels now have a genuinely loving fanbase.
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