excelonman
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🚨 WE ARE AT WAR — U.S. ENERGY TARGET HIT — MASSIVE EXPLOSION ERUPTS AT ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST REFINERIES — BOOMS HEARD MILES AWAY
A Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas just erupted into flames after a reported explosion, and the footage is unreal.
• One of the largest refineries in the U.S. (~335,000 barrels/day)
• Massive fireball and thick black smoke pouring into the sky
• Residents say the blast shook homes and rattled windows
• Shelter-in-place warnings issued as the situation unfolds
This isn’t some small facility… this is critical U.S. energy infrastructure going up in flames.
If this isn’t an accident… what does that mean for what comes next?
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@latterdaylaura That is an incorrect assumption. It’s a balance but you definitely not come last or be first.
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My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last.
No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe.
Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5.
In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.
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@nickimoraa Wait until you retire, still renting and at the mercy of a landlord…. Good luck
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@FootballFunnnys Consoling themselves after the Quad Dream ended. More to lose coming right up (although winning the league is more than likely).
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@YazzLFC The kid is magic. Needs to have the team around and attackers that can finish
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@drterrysimpson The cause of obesity is the food supply. Stop eating processed food as your main source of nutrition. This is the root of the issue for weight in a majority of people.
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Treatment of a disease is not a shortcut. And we see forty percent of Americans need this treatment. It is like saying “relax” instead of taking blood pressure medication. Yes, big Pharma is gouging us - that is a problem our politicians cannot fix as long as Pharma is allowed to plow money into elections.
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The most predictable reaction to GLP-1s isn’t from patients—it’s from parts of the fitness industry.
Because GLP-1s don’t just change weight.
They change the business model.
If your entire brand is built on “just cut carbs harder,” “just grind more,” or selling willpower as a subscription service—then a medication that quiets hunger and improves metabolic signaling is… disruptive.
So instead of adapting, some mock.
They call patients “lazy.”
They call physicians “drug dealers.”
They pretend biology is a moral issue.
But here’s the reality:
Obesity isn’t a failure of effort.
It’s a dysregulation of appetite, satiety, and energy balance.
And medications like Ozempic don’t replace lifestyle—they make it possible.
They quiet the noise so patients can finally:
Train consistently
Recover appropriately
Choose food instead of fighting it
The smart coaches already see this.
They’re not fighting GLP-1s—they’re working with them:
Building strength to preserve lean mass
Programming exercise patients can sustain
Supporting nutrition that actually nourishes
Those are the professionals who will win.
Because the future isn’t “meds vs lifestyle.”
It’s physiology plus training plus nutrition.
And yes—if you want a foundation that actually has decades of outcome data?
The Mediterranean diet still wins.
Less noise.
More life.
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@YazzLFC We are lacking passion and emotion which we had in droves until we lost Nunez and Diaz with existing players. Need some Latin American players
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How I miss the passion, the drive, and the relentless running this man gave every single game 💪🏼
Too often judged as “not good enough,” but football isn’t just what you do on the ball it’s the pressing, the movement, the chaos you create, the space you open for others.
Today more than ever, we’re reminded that off-the-ball work is just as important as magic on it.
Darwin Nunez 😢⚽

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@Prominent_Bryan Quite happy with a quality hybrid. I will have one more vehicle purchase in about 10yrs. Not convinced EV is the way yet, we’ll see.
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People who think EVs won't win are delusional
They are the same people who initially wanted to keep their BlackBerry instead of using the iPhone
Jonathan Cohn@CitizenCohn
BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…
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@elevatereport Things that never happened. The Conservatives Party of Canada will not win a GE until they clean house of all the losers in the party from leader and party officials. They need someone with a personality, leadership, experience, accomplishments and a vision for Canada.
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I spoke to 13 Liberals that have watched the Joe Rogan interview with Poilievre and have all decided to vote Conservative now.
Jiggly News 🇨🇦@JigglyPants44
I know 6 conservatives that have watched the Joe Rogan interview with Pierre Poilievre and have all decided to vote Liberal now
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@NXT4EU 100% this. For example, all UK environmental laws should be reinstated for water. Many other examples of this
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@mark_slapinski Could care less how she looks, she isn’t very bright
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@freedombill3 A balanced approach is the most sensible, not all eggs in one basket.
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You make a very fair point about risk aversion. Seeing a portfolio drop by 7% in a fortnight because of global news is uncomfortable for any investor.
But it all comes down to how you define risk over a twenty or thirty year timeline.
Short-term volatility is simply the mathematical price of admission for long-term growth. A dip only becomes an loss of capital if you panic and sell at the bottom.
The much bigger, guaranteed risk is locking your money into a Cash ISA for decades and letting inflation quietly destroy your purchasing power.
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Millions of people log into their banking app and transfer their savings into a shiny Cash ISA paying 4%.
They close the app feeling incredibly sensible, thinking they have done the right thing for their future.
However, that return is an absolute illusion.
Why are millions of hardworking British people still letting high street banks quietly build wealth using their wages?
As the Bank of England continues to lower the base rate, your return is going to shrink even further.
The bank takes your hard earned cash and immediately deploys it into the global markets to generate massive returns.
They hand you back your tiny cut, and they pocket the difference as pure profit.
Let us run the actual math on putting £500 a month away for twenty five years.
If you lock that into a Cash ISA at 4%, your pot grows to roughly £258,000.
However, you could completely cut out the middleman.
You could put that exact same £500 into a Stocks and Shares ISA and buy the S&P 500 $VUSA.
Historically returning 10% a year, that exact same cash turns into roughly £660,000 over the same timeframe.
You physically sacrificed the same amount of your own wages.
But the bank system kept the £400,000 difference for themselves.
Even the government knows hoarding cash is a trap, which is exactly why they are officially slashing the Cash ISA limit down to £12,000 a year.
Stop renting your money to billionaires for absolute pennies.
Open a Stocks and Shares ISA.
Force your cash to compound for your own freedom.
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