Silver Queen

@gotrice2024 Obviously they want her out

This woman’s lease was up and when the management sent her the renewal paperwork, she ignored it to the last minute and was over 2 hours late to her lease signing. They told her she needed to reapply for the apartment. She woke up the next day and had over 20 showings for the apartment. She feels that since she’s already there they should just let her stay even though her lease is currently up. Is she just being entitled at this point because she didn’t take her renewal seriously, is this karma for her irresponsibility?

@elonmusk I guess as a history major this isn't news to me

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

@SamaHoole Bread was essential part of diet as well

>be Spartan warrior >raised on black broth (pork, blood, vinegar, salt) >start training at age 7 >diet is meat, cheese, olives, wine, fish from the Aegean >zero processed food, zero seed oils, zero soy >fight in bronze armour in Mediterranean heat >hold Thermopylae with 300 men against 100,000 Persians >grain-fed Persian conscripts collapse from exhaustion before lunch >you're still fighting on day three >still standing when the arrows blot out the sun >fast forward 2,500 years >modern doctor says your cholesterol would be dangerous >modern doctor cannot do one pull-up >modern doctor recommends statins and a Mediterranean diet of pasta >you could march 40 miles in armour carrying 60 pounds and then fight a battle >clearly what you needed was more wholegrain toast

@gothburz The bottles were already open and would have gone to waste

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

@zerohedge You can get cups of water for free at any quick serve restaurant and they have bottle filler stations

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@gotrice2024 Considering my fridge is constantly covered in kids artwork I'd say he'll yead. Just let a little white board to put there and call it a day

This ma ordered a new fridge for $1000 from Lowe’s. When it was delivered, the delivery men accidentally dented the right stainless steel panel on the door. The fridge still works great, but there are three unsightly dents. He reached out to Lowe’s and they took $500 off of the total price, so he ended up getting it for only $500. Would you have taken that deal and saved $500 or would you have taken the fridge back and had the give you a new one that was not damaged?

@HazelAppleyard He should be worried you won't accept and rushing to put the ring before another man get you. Men should do the chasing. Women shouldn't do the begging. If he is making you beg, save your self respect and leave. Goes both ways really, but man should at least act like he wants you

@HazelAppleyard Break up with him. Life with someone who plays psychological games with you is miserable. He may never give it to you

This is messed up

@AllanonD99 @HazelAppleyard My now husband and I did it, because we already discussed in detail getting married. He was worried ring would be big enough. So we shopped together and I wore it out of the store. It was only 1/3 carat but we were buying house same time and we had a nice wedding

@HazelAppleyard Sounds manipulative. Is it normal for people to go engagement ring shopping together? I find that weird. Like taking someone shopping for a birthday gift before their birthday.

@rahsh33m Better for one of them to sleep on a deck chair somewhere

5 people sharing a room on a cruise is insaneeee

@rahsh33m Not 5 of that size

@ZOrtiz99 These outfits only look cute if your size 4. Get something that fits and provides more coverage if your average weight

I'll never understand why people dress up for a concert in the dusty desert.

@ThoughtCrimes80 At some point you would think gym would have responsibility to not let person with obvious ED in class. Similar to not serving a drunk at a bar.

Girl, how many classes you taking? 😬

@wino911 @gotrice2024 @RickD_GK Yeah I never got stockpiling frozen milk. I just put them on boob unless at work. So I on work days I usually had a 4 oz bottle in fridge from day before. That's it. What I did freeze ended up getting tossed eventually. Fresh is best.

@gotrice2024 @RickD_GK Is there a reason she couldn’t breastfeed her baby on the plane? She literally has the milk on her 🤔

During a trip this woman decided to carry frozen breast milk with her to feed her baby. But the way she packaged it was very suspicious. She had it in a tote and had them taped and wrapped in foil. Naturally the agent saw this and immediately thought it was something else. The woman was upset and felt targeted by them, obviously the way she did it this time wasn’t the best option. How would you have done it?

@gotrice2024 100 ounces!! Just breastfeed the baby on the trip and bring a few frozen for flight. I bf 2. You never need more than a couple ounces frozen. You only need to pump when away from baby like for work. Actually nursing best for keeping up production. I never understood stockpiles

@Notwokenow The Cinderella one is pretty cool. The first one straight up trashy

What kind of budget do you have to have for prom these days??? This is insane.

@RealJessica Skim milk and fake butter. This children headed for diabetes

Pregnant mom of 5 shows the groceries she got with her $415 in food stamps. Why are people having all these kids while relying on government assistance?? Makes no sense to me.

@felixprehn I'm find it opposite. Before ZB I had to eat perfectly clean and skip breakfast or I would gain weight. I'm perimenopause, I fasting until lunch to stop gaining. Now on ZB. I actually can eat Cheerios for breakfast and I'm still losing. I have cookies, at tea. Still losing.

A single class of drugs is about to erase $30-55 billion in annual revenue from the food and beverage industry. And most retail investors are positioned on the wrong side of it. GLP-1 weight loss drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) are projected to grow from a $70 billion market in 2025 to over $200 billion by 2033. An estimated 30 million Americans will be on GLP-1 treatment by 2030. JP Morgan projects consumers on these drugs take in 21% fewer calories and spend 31% less on groceries. The FDA approved the Wegovy pill in December 2025. No more weekly injections. A daily pill with the same active ingredient and similar weight loss results. That removes the biggest barrier to adoption and opens the market to millions of people who wouldn't stick a needle in their stomach. When 30 million people eat 21% less food, the companies that sell food lose revenue. That's not speculation. Early earnings calls from snack and restaurant companies are already showing the effect. But the real money is on both sides of this. On the pharma side: Eli Lilly (LLY) and Novo Nordisk (NVO) currently own this market. Lilly's Mounjaro and Zepbound are projected to generate $30 billion+ in annual revenue by 2027. Novo's Ozempic and Wegovy are doing similar numbers. These are two of the highest-margin pharmaceutical businesses in history and the TAM (total addressable market) keeps expanding as new indications get approved. They're already showing benefits for cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, and early signals on neurodegenerative conditions. On the disruption side: the oral GLP-1 pill changes the competitive landscape. Companies developing next-generation obesity drugs (oral, longer-acting, fewer side effects) are attracting massive M&A premiums. Pfizer paid $10 billion for Metsera in 2025 after its internal GLP-1 failed. That tells you what big pharma will pay for a viable obesity drug pipeline. On the loser side (and this is where most people aren't looking): food and beverage companies facing structural demand decline. If GLP-1 adoption hits 30 million users by 2030 and each user consumes 21% fewer calories, that's a permanent headwind for companies selling high-calorie processed food. The smart move isn't necessarily to short these companies but to understand which ones are pivoting toward protein-focused and health-adjacent products versus which ones are still selling sugar and hoping the trend reverses. Medical device companies that support GLP-1 treatment are the other play. Insulin Delivery Systems (tandem, insulet) and continuous glucose monitors (Dextera, Abbott) benefit from the expansion of metabolic health monitoring that goes alongside GLP-1 use. The market is always changing and you don't have the time to track it. I run a 100% FREE webinar every week to break down market moves and how to adapt and make money from real world events. Link is in comments.

@xzr56 @ABC Zepbound basically puts you in ketosis, because you don't eat, but you don't feel deprived Either

@ABC Eat keto. It's cheaper and tastier and it works.

Use of blockbuster anti-obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound is growing, with about 1 in 8 adults in the U.S. saying they currently take the medications. abcnews.link/252WeCC

@TheProphetLen @nerdylilpeach You should be having your period until 50. If you lose it in early 40s that's early menopause. Probably weight loss fixed pcos

@nerdylilpeach yep. people think it's just a simple cure but it messes with your body - hair loss, eyesight issues, people I know (in their 40s) started getting their periods again...

there is a fundamental misunderstanding in how medications like ozempic and zepbound work and how it actually feels to take one