Barry Jones

Almost 20 years ago, God changed my life in a very direct way. I considered myself agnostic at the time. I was at my lowest point. I was angrier than I knew I was capable of being and was like this for months. I kept trying to find ways to fix it myself but nothing worked. My chest physically hurt all the time from it. My wife asked me if I’d asked God for help and I had not. I didn’t think it would do any good. I didn’t know. So I quickly bowed my head and simply said, “God, please help me forgive.” Then I went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and the pain was gone. The anger was gone. I felt like a completely different person. It was as if a switch flipped inside me and it was permanent. At that moment, my doubts were erased. That was the moment that I went from acting like a Christian, knowing what to say to fit in…to being one. I will always have work to do to get better and things that I will discover I cannot change without the help of God. I have said things today for which I’m deeply ashamed and hope to earn forgiveness. What I have discovered is that God often answers prayers when those prayers align with what God would want for you. I also believe that I needed to reach my low point and to realize that I could not get out alone to truly appreciate what God had done for me. I don’t know why I feel compelled to share this testimony tonight, but I hope that it provides comfort to someone who reads it. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, be pleasing and acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

🚨: Research suggest that just 3 days of camping in the forest can increase the production of cells that kill cancer by more than 50%.

Her face when the turtle pops out. Too precious!

Someone built a Google translate for Linkedin 😭

🚨Breaking: The internet just quietly preserved 30 years of gaming history in one searchable database. 1,000+ open source clones. Zero piracy. 276 contributors. Here's what OSGameClones actually contains (this got wild fast):

Two indie devs made a game where you run your own video store in the early 90s. It’s currently the #5 top-selling game on Steam. - Rent out VHS tapes & manage customers - Charge Late & Broken Fees - Upgrade & customise your store It’s called Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator

@aakashgupta @zerohedge I wonder if any futurist ever thought, “And we will develop AI’s to guide humanity trained on the worst advice we can find on Reddit!”

50% of all relationship advice on Reddit is “leave.” 15 years of data, 52 million comments, and the trend line only goes one direction. A researcher filtered r/relationship_advice down to 1,166,592 quality comments and tracked what people actually recommend. In 2010, “End Relationship” sat around 30%. By 2025, it’s approaching 50%. “Communicate” dropped from 22% to 14%. “Compromise” collapsed from 7% to 3%. “Give Space” fell from 25% to 13%. Every category that requires patience lost ground every single year. The one category growing faster than “leave” is “Seek Therapy,” which went from 1% to 6%. The subreddit is slowly learning to say “this is above my pay grade.” Train a model on this dataset and it would absolutely tell people to break up. The training data is 50% “leave” and climbing. The model wouldn’t be broken. It would be accurately reflecting what 52 million commenters actually believe about your relationship. A 50% prior that you should leave, a 14% prior that you should talk about it, and a 6% prior that you need a professional. That’s not LLM psychosis. That’s the median human opinion on your relationship, backed by the largest advice dataset ever assembled.

@TukiFromKL @XRPtothemoonXRP Real estate agents and their brokerages are insured. If you are lied to or misled during the process their insurance is what gets sued during the process IIRC.

🚨 Do you understand what just happened? A guy in Florida asked ChatGPT to sell his house. Not help him sell it. SELL IT. Pricing, Marketing, Showings, Contract.. Everything. Sold in 5 days. The average real estate agent takes 6% commission. On a $400K house that's $24,000. For what? Putting it on Zillow and sending you emails? This man paid $20 a month for ChatGPT and did the whole thing from his couch. Real estate agents spent 20 years telling you the process is too complicated for normal people. That you need a professional. That the paperwork is too risky without them. It was gatekept. And a chatbot just kicked the gate open.. Lawyers are next, Accountants are next, Financial advisors are next.. Every profession that made you feel stupid so you'd pay them is about to get the same treatment. The middleman economy is dying. And it's not dying because AI is smarter than them.. It's dying because AI proved you were always smart enough to do it yourself. You just weren't allowed to..

Design of a laundry room [🎞️ havenhaus_1]

Understanding Cover 3 will instantly make you watch football differently. Quick 3-minute breakdown ⬇️

@MatthewRideout @migueldeicaza They should be measuring queues. brightball.com/articles/story…

They're doing drone strikes with a KANBAN board and story points

@CFBPlayoff 3 of these guys went in the first round. We lost so many DL from that year to the next we had to switch to a 3-4. 2019-20 LSU scores 14, maybe, just like the Bama team that was averaging a 30 point margin of victory until they had to play them. This game ain’t close.

@CFBPlayoff 2019 Clemson wins this game by 3 TDs. The remnants of that team had a single TD game going into the 4th against 2020 LSU after losing almost every critical defensive contributor and their best WRs. This isn’t close, regardless of the vote.

2020 LSU vs 2019 Clemson🏆 VOTE NOW on Facebook, Instagram, IG Story, Threads, TikTok, and X. #CFBPlayoff #UltimateCFP

Someone built Startups.RIP a directory of 5,700+ failed YC startups with post mortems, deep analysis, and rebuild plans so you can revive dead ideas and turn them into new projects.

If you are longing for a simpler time that is now gone forever, this video will likely hit HARD… 🥲

If you are just starting your faith journey and learning to read the Bible, please start in the gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. The Old Testament is amazing but get to Jesus as fast as possible.

This is a truly phenomenal read

On this day in ACC Tournament history, Greg Buckner hit a last second dunk to beat No. 3 North Carolina @ClemsonMBB | @ClemsonTigers | #ClemsonGRIT

Clemson took no prisoners in their 5 games this week 😳 The Tigers outscored Michigan State and La Salle by a combined score of 64-13 with 4 run-rules.

Great walk through of everything new in Omarchy 3.4 by @stevenharms. youtube.com/watch?v=kHLIuv…

@Charlygotyou Yes

Stranger Things has me wondering.. in the 80s did most kids have this freedom to just run around at all hours of the day and night?