Richard Persan

@secretsqrl123 300 million for a filter? Lol

trump is a fucking idiot, this is going to end badly. a pool with no chemicals (not allowed), no filter (thats what the 300 million was for). with a bright blue background. in summer..... its going to be a green soup in a matter of days. anyone with a pool knows this. i cant wait

i used to buy into the idea that kids are expensive. then i sat with a friend who said he needed $2 million in liquidity before he could have kids. didn't think much of it at the time. a few months later i was sitting with a man who made 60% less than me. big family. happy kids. no stress about it. started paying attention after that. met business owners with families. met guys working regular jobs with families. all making it work. kids aren't expensive. your choice of woman is. if she needs the kids in designer clothes and the latest everything, yeah it's going to cost you. if she's a down to earth woman who actually wants to be a mother. who comes from a family that doesn't chase trends. who sees the joy in raising kids and not in showing them off. it's not expensive. loads of people with far less money than you are raising great kids right now. if you actually want to improve the world, the move isn't posting another youtube video. it's having children and raising them well.

The research behind this is wild. Your kitchen sponge has the same density of bacteria as human stool. German scientists found 54 billion bacterial cells per cubic centimeter inside used sponges in 2017. Yours is sitting right next to your sink. Sponges are the perfect home for bacteria. They are wet, warm, full of food bits, and never fully dry between washes. Across all 14 sponges, the team found 362 different types of bacteria. The most common species include strains that can make people sick. In 2011, the public health group NSF International swabbed 30 things in 22 American homes. The dirtiest object in the entire house was the kitchen sponge. It was dirtier than the toilet seat. 75% of the sponges tested positive for the kind of bacteria that includes Salmonella and E. coli. Microwaving does not clean the sponge. The 2017 study found microwaved sponges had higher amounts of the smelliest, most harmful bacteria. Heat kills the weak strains. The strong ones survive and refill the sponge with no competition for space. A 2021 Norwegian study compared kitchen sponges to dish brushes. In brushes, Salmonella was wiped out within three days because the bristles dry out between uses. In sponges, bacteria climbed to about a billion cells per sponge. The lead researcher told CNN that one kitchen sponge can hold more bacteria than there are people on Earth. Three things actually work. Switch to a dish brush, because brushes dry fully between uses while sponges stay wet for hours. Replace your sponge every one to two weeks. Never leave it sitting wet in the sink. Norway and Denmark already do this by default, but most other countries don't. The detergent is fine. Your sponge is the problem.

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In 1944, a Swiss engineer named Hans Hilfiker designed a clock for train stations. Sixty-eight years later, Apple put it on the iPad without asking. Switzerland sent them a $22 million bill. Apple paid. The clock has a red second hand that sweeps the dial in 58.5 seconds, then pauses for a beat at the top of the minute. It waits for an electric signal from one master clock somewhere in the country before jumping forward. Every clock at every station shows the same second. This kind of obsession runs through every Swiss train ride. Two crews drilled through 35 miles of solid Alps from opposite ends to build the Gotthard Base Tunnel. After 17 years and $12 billion, they met in the middle, 3 inches off. Vertically, the misalignment was under half an inch. It is the longest train tunnel on Earth, and the deepest, with up to 1.4 miles of rock overhead. Nine workers died building it. Switzerland has more train track per square mile than any country in Europe. Nearly three times more than the European average. The Swiss ride more trains per person than anyone in the world except Japan. The average is 1,500 miles a year. Punctuality runs on its own scale. Last year, 94 out of every 100 Swiss trains arrived on time. And in Switzerland, "on time" means "within 3 minutes of the schedule." Germany gives trains 6 minutes. France and Italy give 5. Use Germany's gentler rule, and 99 out of 100 Swiss long-distance trains arrived on time. Germany itself manages 62. The trains have been fully electric for decades. Since January 2025, all of that electricity comes from clean energy, mostly from eight hydroelectric plants the railway owns. A long-distance Swiss train carries one passenger 60 miles on about half the electricity an electric car would use. Scenery like that takes work. It takes a country that spends $18 billion on its trains in four years, powers them with Alpine water, drills 35 miles through solid mountain, and treats a 3-minute delay as a national failure. The view out the window is what's left over.

Red Sox fan a dad just learned the real meaning of parenting in public. One son gets handed a foul ball pure childhood magic. Then the younger one immediately yeets it like he’s making roster cuts in the World Series. Now Dad’s got one kid heartbroken, one kid confused, and 30,000 strangers watching him try to explain consequences, generosity, baseball, and gravity all before the next pitch. Parenting: still undefeated.

@1realFormula Cattle.

You get $75M and 30 minutes to spend it… No cars, no houses, no stocks. What are you panic-buying?

Why is the chicken still frozen?! 😆

"Viver e não ter a vergonha de ser feliz...." A potência da voz de Maria Bethânia na hora que ela entra. QUE ARREPIO MEU DEUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ShakiranaGlobo

Bueno, con esto voy a finalizar esta discusión absurda sobre la arepa, de nada.

That cacio e pepe in Italy is about 80 grams of pasta, served as a first course. The American version is several times the pasta as the whole meal, with bread and a Coke beside it. The portion gap is the easy half. The harder half is what's inside the food. In Italy, around 10% of an adult's daily calories come from ultra-processed food, the kind manufactured in factories with ingredients you wouldn't keep in your kitchen. In the US, the number is 58%. The American grocery aisle is mostly chemistry that calls itself food. Wheat Thins, Stove Top stuffing, and Rice Krispies all contain preservatives, like BHA and BHT, that EU food has banned. The US's own National Toxicology Program has classified BHA as likely to cause cancer in humans since 1991. The US still allows both. The FDA lets companies declare their own additives "Generally Recognized as Safe" without sending them to a regulator first. More than 10,000 chemicals are now legally allowed in American food. About 99% of the ones added since 2000 were cleared by the manufacturer instead of the FDA, according to the Environmental Working Group. That same loophole keeps potassium bromate in American flour. The EU banned that dough strengthener decades ago after rat studies showed it caused tumors. Titanium dioxide, banned by the EU in 2022 over DNA damage concerns, still colors American candy and salad dressing. Even the wheat is grown differently. In December 2023, the EU banned spraying glyphosate weed killer directly on a crop right before harvest, a practice used to dry it out faster. The US still allows it, and trace residues end up in the flour your bread comes from. Italy's adult obesity rate is around 20%. America's, at 42%, is more than double. The US calorie supply per person hit roughly 3,900 a day in 2025 per the USDA, near the top of every developed country. An Italian eats a smaller plate, and the food on it is cleaner. Both differences show up on the scale.

@israel_ajoje Now, he's clearly getting help from chemistry to be able to have this current physique in the video (IYKYK) which is perfectly okay because he's in an age where testosterone starts decreasing on men and he doesn't need to stay clean because he's not a profesional athlete anymore.

@israel_ajoje Anybody who has been into fitness would know why this comparison (his physique now vs then) does not make sense, because you don't need, actually you don't want to be very muscular if you are a footbal player. Lot of muscle does not equal endurance and crazy cardio...

When I say Football players are not mere mortals, this should give you an insight into what I mean. Henry looks very much in shape and I can bet he was fitter and in better shape when he retired from active football over 10 years ago. But he wasn’t fit enough to play back then, and he is not fit enough to play now. Football is not for mere mortals

His 11 year old nephew delivers a funny best man speech and won everyone’s heart ♥️

🚨URGENTE! Jornalista perguntou ao Trump sobre a NASA. Trump: o melhor para te responder é o diretor da NASA, que com certeza ouviu a pergunta, com essas orelhas que ele tem Zoom da câmera nas orelhas do diretor da NASA

Just look at the control, the feint, and the finish.🤯🥶 Can’t believe we sold him to keep Gakpo💔

@shagbark_hick This is very utopian, in today's world, having good quality of life with mom not working and dad just barely working as you described would simply not work for normal people(people without any previous generational wealth). It is ideal, but not realistic. No wife should work tho.

During early childhood, not only should the mother not work -- the dad should really try not to work very much either. Families should go to great lengths to maximize time spent with mother, father, and child. This is a lot of why I've ever been into extreme frugality, anti-9-to-5, etc. Because I had an absent father, and it sucked. I noticed that many of my childhood friends whose fathers worked "real jobs" suffered similar problems as I did. Nobody was teaching the boys to be men; dads were too busy working to protect their daughters. Even if mom was home and didn't work, they missed out on their father's presence in the home. The kids that turned out the best seemed to have grown up in households where mom never worked, dad only occasionally worked (part-time, self-employed, various "hustles"), both parents spent tons of time with the kids, and usually, this lifestyle was made possible by the fact that the family owned their home outright, with no mortgage. "Jobs" as we know them are a novel product of the industrial revolution. Nothing about them is really anthropologically normal. And so far as family formation is concerned, a father who works a full-time job is almost as much of as hazard as a mother who works at all. The true key is a dirt-cheap, sub-$50k house, zero debt, and an ultra-low-cost lifestyle, so that dad can work very casually, occasionally, etc.

Een Lamborghini kopen met een Italiaanse tolk. 😅

Team USA just turned the pool into a stage. Smooth Criminal hits. Every move lands. This isn’t swimming… it’s a performance. Did that give you chills?