Jim

a good New Year’s resolution goes in one year and out the other

@BeckyQuick hey! my sources say “slap your coworker day” isn’t until Oct 23!!.. you almost got me in trouble!!!@SquawkCNBC

Without question, the greatest invention of all time is beer. The wheel’s also fine but the wheel doesn’t go nearly as well with pizza. - unknown

hum bird in the sky. biomimicry to life. all spokes are golden. #haiku #baiku

Bring Adam Thielen back to the @Vikings !!

can you stop moving can you let the mud settle can you just be here #haiku #baiku

@InsightTimer have you been getting feedback on the new app layout? I’m baffled by it. The live classes seem buried somewhere??

God bless South Park

@edhauschild Strongly disagree @edhauschild and I’d offer a long rebuttal but I’m trying not to take things so seriously this summer. Peace.

Because the business that employs that barista is, most likely, avoiding paying him/her a fair wage; if they did, the cost of your coffee would go up. So, without a tip, the barista has been defrauded of their just wages in order to give you cheaper goods. Morally, that means you have had a share in defrauding them of their wage, which is a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance (cf. James 5:4). It is reasonable to be angry about this, because the barista's employers ought to be paying them a fair wage. It shouldn't be your problem, but it is. So your choices are (a) boycott any business that doesn't pay employees properly without tips, or (b) pay the tip. Either way your coffee is likely to cost more. Hope this helps!

Why am I expected to tip a barista at Starbucks for simply handing me a coffee? I don’t understand why I’m asked to tip for something that’s already part of the job. It’s not table service, it’s counter service. Why has this become the norm?

@EquityZen do you offer Open Evidence on your platform? What’s the minimum investment?

@egggman did you get hacked or something???

@PrizePicks @grok how many is Joey expected to eat?

Heading to the Hot Dog board to sweat some Joey Chestnut glizzys for 4OJ

@egggman hey!. you riding my bike Red!??

This is how I felt racing this weekend 🤣 #bikeschool

@catturd2 Who appointed him?

I love this. Only Trump.

quoting my smarty pants son who is home from college: “Dad every time I drive with you I realize I’m just one day closer from having to ask for your license”

@KariLake Curious, what part of the ad text do you disagree with?

Do you shop at Walmart?⤵️

@PawlowskiMario Mario I come from a small town too and am still at Facebook friends with many from home. The Facebook posts, the barn signs, the MAGA flags on their trucks.. you describe it well.

I live in a small MAGA town. I know MAGA people. I drink with them. I talk to them. I study them. They’re not the loud Twitter yappers, at least most of them. They’re quieter. Slower. But the delusion runs deep, just bottled up in passive smiles and soft voices. A few weeks ago, one of them tried to convert me at a bar. He knew I wasn’t into the Trump cult, but he started soft. Calm voice. Friendly tone. “Mario, you’re white. You can drink a lot, you eat meat, “he was just surprised that I was eating rare burger” and drinking vodka chasing it with Guinness. He also said, “You’re one of us. You should feel proud.” That’s their seduction tactic. Not facts. Not logic. Just subtle tribal grooming. “You’re white. You drink. You belong.” It was almost sweet, in a sad, culty way. Like a Jehovah’s Witness trying to sell you eternal life with a shaky brochure and cheap suit. But let’s talk about the whole ecosystem. The truth. MAGA men? Most are not warriors. They’re out-of-shape, insecure, jealous small-town boys who peaked in high school, still clinging to stories from when they “almost went pro” or “should’ve been in the military.” They’re proud of being able to drink a case of light beer, drive a truck, and scream about freedom while their knees buckle from sugar and rage. They’re easy to manipulate because they don’t ask questions. They don’t read. They react. They memorize memes like scripture and repeat them like gospel. They think being loud equals being right. They think the world is laughing with them. It’s not. The world’s laughing at them, when it’s not just ignoring them entirely. MAGA women? They’re caught in a brutal paradox, constantly screaming about how proud and strong they are, while reshaping every inch of their body to meet a fake beauty standard pushed by the very system they claim to hate. Plastic lips. Inflated cheeks. Eyelashes thick as windshield wipers. Trying to look rich while shopping clearance at Walmart. They scream about “natural family values” while injecting Botox and collapsing into MLM scams that promise empowerment through overpriced lipstick. They mock liberals for being “gender confused” while wearing more synthetic parts than a Barbie made in a Russian factory. Here’s the thing: MAGA America isn’t just backward. It’s boring. MAGA folks are simply subsimple. There’s nothing imaginative about it. No new culture. No innovation. No ideas. They don’t invent, they imitate. They don’t challenge, they chant. It’s the same five phrases over and over. The same flag. The same truck. The same outfit. Patriot cosplay. And that’s why the world doesn’t just hate MAGA. It forgets it. Because once the shouting stops, there’s nothing under the hood. Just cheap beer breath, fake smiles, and a belief that whiteness and loudness are still enough to matter. You want the brutal truth? Even without Trump, even without the cult, most of them would still be irrelevant. Not because they’re evil. But because they chose comfort over growth. Tribalism over truth. Imitation over imagination. They don’t want to understand the world. They want the world to stay small enough to understand them. And that’s the saddest, most humiliating part.

@KEZI9 @grok is this hate speech?

President Donald Trump called protesters in Los Angeles “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday as he defended deploying the military on demonstrators opposed to his immigration enforcement raids. kezi.com/trump-says-he-…

@EastEndJoe Seriously. Another one I’ve heard is #PeeOTUS. Name calling ain’t cool.

Seriously. We need to stop!! 😂

this morning I have the pleasure of making sure my son doesn’t oversleep his alarm.. he throws an empty milk bottle at me from bed and says “dude go” lol