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@randoguy_1 @russellhbrooks @schitzobabel @SandyofCthulhu You could use the Internet to do the price comparisons. And if you live in a town, the actual cost of the gas to a different store would probably be less than a dollar or two even at current elevated prices.

@david_miretti @russellhbrooks @schitzobabel @SandyofCthulhu So now spending even more money on gas and wear and tear on your car, or multiple delivers….. You aren’t very bright are you?

You can do it. Get dried beans & rice with cheap staples like cabbage, onions, and potatoes. Add peanut butter and canned tuna. You’ll eat like prisoners but you’ll survive. I doubt that’s what OPs dad envisions. He may think prices are the same as the 80s.

@runaway_vol I appreciate her hustle

I am sourcing a husband for a close friend of mine. She’s: - Palo Alto (formerly) - Stanford dropout - High IQ (lost >=$900M of other people’s money) - Family oriented (currently has two children she conceived before sentencing) - 39 + wants marriage/kids within 36 months of release - Gorgeous blonde with tiny black turtleneck and aristocratic baritone - Perverted, but in a disruptive healthcare way Who’s on the market?

@russellhbrooks @schitzobabel @SandyofCthulhu It definitely wouldn't be easy and would require some knowledge of cheaper places to buy some things. Plus you'd have to do some shopping around and get used to the somewhat boring nutritious meals and get creative

@david_miretti @schitzobabel @SandyofCthulhu

@schitzobabel @SandyofCthulhu You could probably add eggs and chicken drumsticks and still do it for around that $150 mark. Add in a pack of ramen for a treat now and then. People don't like to wash, chop, and have to cook.

@SandyofCthulhu Rice and beans for a family of 4 might legitimately cost more than $150 a month at this point

@justice_Tyr22 Would you look at that? Someone parked a cop car in there and I just discovered it after selling the place

@marcuslemonis @BedBathBeyond It's a great vision. You'll be a boutique Home Depot.

Reminder for $bbby @BedBathBeyond with today’s announcement

We built Guardian Bikes into a vertically integrated factory doing $100M+ in revenue - tube lasers, robotic welding, CNC, powder coating, assembly - all under one roof in Indiana with 500,000+ sq ft of production space. Here’s what I’ve realized: we’re sitting on one of the rarest assets in robotics and physical AI, a real, high-volume American factory with full operational control and the willingness to let you break things. Most robotics companies are building incredible technology but struggling to find real deployment environments. Demo cells and lab setups only get you so far. You need messy, high-mix, real-world production to actually train and validate. We have that. And we’re building an AI-native MES from the ground up with full sensor instrumentation and computer vision baked in. So here’s an open invitation: if you’re building robotics or physical AI for manufacturing - humanoids, manipulation, autonomous mobile robots, vision systems, whatever - and you need a real factory to develop and prove your technology, let’s talk. We’ll give you the environment. You bring the technology. We’ll build the future of American manufacturing together. DMs open.

@mom_of_littles That's good eating. Robustify the bread, add some thin sliced meat.

What are we adding to grilled cheese so my husband doesn’t feel like he’s eating girl dinner

@mom_of_littles Slices of ham, maybe some soup, maybe a side of sauteed or fried onions. Or make croque monsieur's by dipping in egg\crumbs...

@WassonWatch I would also add that the New testament shows the church doing social work (e.g.taking care of the widows)and sharing resources communally (early Acts) and even donating property to the church to take care of others. It was always based on those who could work, working.

Christianity is not socialism at its core, and the suggestion that it is socialism is wildly offensive. 1. God specifically endorses individual property rights throughout both the New and Old Testaments. 2. When Christians share their money and belongings in the New Testament, it is descriptive (not prescriptive) and the sharing is voluntary (not compulsory) between individuals. It is not an explicit or implicit endorsement of a system of government. 3. The root origin of the idea of socialism is from godless, authoritarian, humanism. It's water from a poison well. Don't ever say that the Bible endorses socialism. It doesn't.

@WassonWatch theologyofwork.com has some great resources that show how work is part of God's plan and that it was implemented before the fall. Called good. "He who does not work will not eat"

@iWomansplainer It's situation specific for us. Depends on the trust we have with that person and sometimes (for me) whether I want to revisit the pain in that moment. Sometimes I do, but sometimes I enjoy the potential for not ugly crying on the spot. It might change over time-8 yrs ago for us

Met someone at church today who, upon learning we lost a child, asked, “what happened?” I’ve found I really appreciate being asked this. It gives me permission to talk about it. It’s like, “I’m interested. I want to know. I’m not going to try to immediately change the topic.”

@wrowclif Appears they already have joined the permaleisure class.

How much of this is just the children realizing that daddy has enough money they don't actually need to work? Why not join the permanent leisure class?

@SenWarren Senator, you could create the next Amazon (or anything similarly useful to hundreds of millions of people) and donate the money. Why should people be given free insulin, and why is that a valid role of the government? Who funds that in a few decades when billionaires are gone?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@saltysquidswife Surprise, son. The correct age is this year.

My youngest, who is a 19-yo college freshman, is really bummed that I didn't put together an Easter basket for him. At what age is it okay for me to stop? 😂

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon. He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in. I laughed. I feel a little bad about that. Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen. I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.” Be prepared to duck. Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop. My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence. Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it: “I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.” That always broke the ice. PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out. They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman. The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey? What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest. Have you deployed? Have you seen combat? In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio. “Medic.” Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights. That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ. He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that. And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven. The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in. This is the quiet math underneath American violence. Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot. Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.

I wish everyone, including the haters and losers, a very happy Easter!

@IshrionA This will also impact the cruise lines and their customers

Delta Air Lines to cancel Los Angeles (LAX) to Anchorage (ANC) route amid high oil prices. The summer flight will not resume.

@billiongjgly The early church was going through intense persecution. Paul admonished them to stay as they were in this verse, as it might make their own impending murders easier is how I've understood it.

Can someone pls explain this Bible verse to me 😩😩