RMossack
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@55SweetThing Pick up the front wheels....roll right over their heads.
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@MurrayHillGuy1 Conference expansion, NIL, transfer portal. Take your pick
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@KurtSupeCPA I hung it up 6 years ago, after 32 years at a particular university, and 35 years in higher ed. Sort of my choice; I took a buyout/early retirement offer. No regrets—-but my work wasn’t my life. I looked at it in a utilitarian sense as something to provide funding to live.
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Client was a VP at a large company.
62 years old. Was going to work until 65.
January: called into HR.
Severance package. Sign by Friday.
He called me that afternoon.
"I think I just got retired."
No transition. No goodbye lunch. No plan.
His whole identity was that job.
His social life was those people.
His purpose showed up every morning at 7:45am.
The money was fine. We figured out the money in two meetings.
The identity took a few years.
He told me recently: "The hardest part wasn't losing the job. It was realizing I'd built my whole life inside someone else's building."
Retirement that happens to you hits completely differently than retirement you choose.
Millions of people in their 60s are navigating this right now and nobody is talking about it.
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We do not talk enough about how many women stop enjoying their birthdays while they’re married. Not because they “don’t care about getting older,” but because the day becomes one more emotional obstacle course to manage. She is not waking up wondering what cake she wants or how she wants to feel; she is scanning the room, reading his mood, lowering her expectations before breakfast. By the time the candles come out, she has already spent the day protecting herself from disappointment
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Genuine question on a restaurant situation:
You walk up to a counter to order.
You find your own table and seat yourself.
If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself.
If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself.
The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected.
What’s your move?
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@CrazyVibes_1 Good grief. Just do the work or quit. What a lazy generation.
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Just started a job at Chipotle and today was my first real shift. They sent me to the back to wash dishes and I walked in to a mountain of them piled up. I’m talking sinks full, racks full, everything. I literally said ‘there’s no way you expect one person to wash all of this.’
Manager basically told me if I didn’t finish them all I’d be sent home and probably fired. I didn’t sign up to be the entire dish crew by myself. I get doing your part, but dumping an entire shift’s worth of dishes on someone who just started feels completely crqzy.
I honestly don’t understand how places think this is okay.”

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@genxlife77 @AmericanVsGov Heaven help us when millennials gain any significant level of influence. And it will time for the world to end once Gen Z moves into that position.
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@AmericanVsGov This is literally the topic of my Tuesday night book club as we read “Generations” by Strauss and Howe. We are also trying to figure out what things will look like in five to ten years when all the boomers bow out of public life. Will Gen X step up? Millennials?
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Would America look different today if Boomers had stepped aside for Gen X earlier?
I think about this a lot.
Gen X grew up with no trophies, no safety nets, no handouts. Latchkey kids who figured it out alone.
We were ready to lead.
And we got passed over.
They still haven't let go of the wheel.
Look at Congress. Look at the boardrooms. Still the same generation holding the door shut.
Gen X didn't get bitter. We just kept working.
But the question deserves an honest answer. What did we lose in those years of waiting?
Drop your take below.
Rise and Lead.
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@AmericanVsGov Absolutely and I despise them for it and they owe me 30 years as far as I'm concerned, AND they lied about Social Security!
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@CallThisAgent @AmericanVsGov You're describing millennials, dude. And Gen Z is even worse.
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Gen X is the wokest, laziest and least accomplished generation ever in history. They vote mostly democrat because they are bitter, hatters of their parents success.
They are waiting on the boomers to die to inherit the money to then start to enjoy their unaccomplished life.
Boomers built, Gen X destroys, millennials rebuilds.
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@Redhead4645 Except that she's incredibly talented and an admirable person.
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Hmmm 🤨 she fell down and went BOOM⛸️
You lose because you are a loser.
That’ll teach you to “shut your pie hole” now we will never watch you again. You’re disrespectful comments were not welcomed. x.com/WEFdysfunction…
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@missmommymolly @MrPitbull07 Nobody was punished. The server got $25 for what would amount to about 15 total minutes of work.
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@MrPitbull07 If you can’t afford to tip, then don’t go out to eat. Tipping culture sucks, but stop punishing hard working individuals to make a point.
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Ran up a $1500 dinner tab and when the receipt came back they had those cute little “suggested tips” printed like I’m supposed to casually drop another $300 just because someone carried plates from kitchen to table. I left $25 which honestly felt generous considering I already paid restaurant-level prices for the food itself.
Server immediately got weird about it, attitude switched, barely a thank you, just that tight smile people do when they think you violated some unspoken rule. I told her straight up tipping isn’t a percentage subscription service and I’m not funding someone’s rent just because the bill happened to be high.
Manager wandered over trying to smooth it out, hinting about “industry standards” like that magically obligates me. That only made me dig in harder because nowhere else do you get charged more for the exact same task just because the total went up.
So I signed it exactly how it was, stood up, and walked out while they all stared like I committed financial treason, and if they think I’m coming back there to play along with that system again they’re seriously confused.
Credit: Annie Perkins

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@Shoebox25886844 @TheTNHoller @yarbro @GovBillLee My wife taught in public schools. I understand the system, and it needs to be torn down and totally rebuilt.
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@RobMossack @TheTNHoller @yarbro @GovBillLee You turned out ok Rob. When was the last time you were even inside a public school? You don't know what you don't know. Sit this one out.
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WATCH: “IT’S A SMASH & GRAB JOB.”
Sen. @yarbro says @GovBillLee’s vouchers are a redistribution of wealth from TN taxpayers to wealthy families with kids already in private schools
Lee wants to double the program while the public schools don’t even keep up with inflation🤔
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The bigger tragedy is the fact that this young man will now spend his life in a cage. No chance to become a doctor or a lawyer…no wedding or birth of his children. It’s sad someone died but as a culture we should look to move past just incarcerating these young men and have them do community service and empathetic counseling. If anyone knows his name I would be happy to put some money on his jail account.
Rick
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A 14-year-old boy, speeding in a car with friends, decides to show off. Catching up to a woman on the road, he yells, curses, and pulls out a gun firing into her car. When police arrive, she’s dead. The boy is arrested, tried, and sentenced to life in prison.
One life was tragically taken, and another is effectively ended before it had a chance to fully begin. This is a heartbreaking case that raises so many questions about accountability, judgment, and development. On one hand, justice demands consequences. On the other, a child’s brain isn’t fully developed, especially when it comes to impulse control and understanding long-term consequences. Shouldn’t there be more focus on rehabilitation for teenagers, even in cases this severe? How do we balance justice with the chance for redemption? What do you think? Is 14 old enough to face a life sentence? Can someone so young truly understand the gravity of their actions, or the weight of spending their life in prison?
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@GreggC_CC @libertard_ @inhumandept_vp Dude, it's a great policy. Might rein in some of these Z's and millennials who think they deserve top pay for less than stellar work/performance. You want a "digital nomad" lifestyle? Have at it.
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@libertard_ @inhumandept_vp I think it says more about how its actually believable than it does people falling for it.
Cos some bastards will see this and propose it as company policy.
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An employee requested to work remotely from Bali for six months.
He wanted to live the 'digital nomad' lifestyle.
I told him absolutely. We believe in work-life integration.
I approved his 'Global Mobility' application immediately.
He was thrilled to trade his apartment for a villa with a pool.
He signed the location addendum without reading the appendix on 'Purchasing Power Parity.'
When his first paycheck landed, he called me in a panic.
It was for $650.
I explained that under our 'Geographic Equity Model,' salaries are algorithmically adjusted to the local cost of living of the employee's current GPS location.
Since a bowl of noodles in Ubud costs $2, we simply cannot justify paying San Francisco rates.
We are helping him live like a local.
It’s the authentic experience he asked for.
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