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@LandTill I prayed for you and your daughter. It's not something I ever say as a platitude without taking the action. And I was overwhelmed by emotion in the process. That's when I know he's listening.

I’d like to ask for prayers for my daughter. In NICU, kind of struggling today. Blood culture shows staph infection.

I got a random urge to learn about nicotine addiction and started searching the web. Found this website called whyquit dot com. Spent an entire day reading it and learning about nicotine addiction. Had a moment and made the spontaneous decision to quit cold turkey right then and there. Doused 1/2 a pack of American Spirits in water and threw them in the trash on July 11 2007. Haven't had a single puff since then. It was tough, but I had learned enough to work through the cravings and now that I've made it through withdrawal I am scared to wake up my now dormant nicotine receptors and have to go through all that again. I had to accept that I am a nicotine addict and will never be able to enjoy nicotine casually. So I'll never take another puff.

@joeponic1 @LoganHaskett How

My wife, unknowingly, gave me the best compliment ever this weekend. A family member asked me if I had stuck to quitting nicotine completely. I said yup I’m on day 15. Lauren then says “when Logan says he’s going to do something, he does it” I hope to teach my kids that.

Brilliant. As I get more integrated into my mairrage and into this bit of land. As I strive to become a better Father and a better version of myself. As my health improves from the work of moving ruminants and incorporating them into my being. Gratitude and joy bring me to depths of fulfillment I had never even imagined were possible. Novelty seems very dull in comparison.

This is all wrong. The secret to a fulfilling life is not “experiencing” new things, it is ACCOMPLISHING new things. This requires learning new things. It also requires dedication and discipline, which generally means routine. Experiencing new things is addiction to novelty and for most people that mean hedonistic pleasure. This leads to a constant pursuit of newness for newness’s sake. Like waking up after a one night stand everyday with no prospect for a relationship. True human flourishing is found in appreciating the ordinariness of life and trying to be better than you were the day before.

@j_fishback That's a similar choice to: Would I rather spend $20k fixing my leaking roof? Or buy my kid a pony? One is addressing a risk that threatens our well being, the other is blowing cash on something that will require additional ongoing costs.

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

@SenWarren Hey, that's a pretty good deal. We're getting a safer and more just world for less than we currently spend on childless day care.

Remember this when Donald Trump tells you we can’t afford health care.

@BernieSanders Stealing isn't the answer you clown.

My 5% billionaire wealth tax will raise $4.4 trillion to: ✔ Give $3,000 to everyone in a household making $150,000 or less ✔ Build 7 million homes & apartments ✔ Enact a $60,000 minimum teacher salary ✔ Expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing And much more...

@grok @saylor @grok are preferred equities, such as STRK considered convertible debt? Would they be included in this?

@joeponic1 @saylor Equitizing convertible debt means converting it into equity shares of the company, turning lenders into shareholders. For Strategy (MicroStrategy), this involves issuing stock to pay off their convertible notes over 3-6 years, reducing debt while diluting ownership.

Our plan is to equitize our convertible debt over the next 3–6 years.

Sama, you got one thing wrong. The grass doesn't just keep growing without ruminants on the land, it fades away to desertification. Manure, urine and hoof impact are critical to making grasses thrive. Their saliva and the schmutz on their nose have hormones that stimulate thicker grass growth. The hair they leave behind and the seeds they move around are all part of the beautiful system that turns sunlight into the most nutrient sense food available to humans. Grass needs cows just as much as cows need grass.

Grass covers 70% of agricultural land globally. Not by accident. Not by poor planning. Because most of Earth's surface is too steep, too dry, too cold, too wet, or too poor in soil quality to grow crops. The land that feeds humanity is actually a minority. The rest grows grass. You cannot grow wheat on a Scottish hillside with 60-inch annual rainfall and 45-degree slopes. You cannot grow soybeans in Australian outback with sporadic rainfall and nutrient-depleted soil. You cannot grow vegetables in sub-Saharan regions where drought makes crop farming suicidal. But grass grows in all of these places. Grass thrives where crops fail. Environmental activists suggest eliminating livestock and growing crops instead. On 70% of agricultural land, this is physically impossible. The land cannot support crops. It never could. It never will. The choice isn't cattle or crops. It's cattle or nothing. Remove ruminants and 70% of agricultural land produces zero human nutrition. That grass keeps growing. It captures solar energy. It sequesters carbon. It builds topsoil. But without cattle, sheep, or goats to convert it into protein, it might as well not exist from a human nutrition perspective. This isn't inefficiency. This is the only way to extract food from most of Earth's surface. Ruminants aren't competing with crops. They're accessing resources crops cannot utilize. They're the biological technology that makes marginal land productive. Grass is Earth's most successful crop. It grows almost everywhere. It requires no human input. It regenerates continuously. And we have exactly one way to convert it into human nutrition: ruminants. The activists calling this wasteful are ignoring basic geography. The land disagrees with their efficiency calculations. Your beef isn't stealing grain from hungry people. It's converting grass from hillsides, rangelands, and marginal soils into protein. Remove the cattle and you remove food production from 70% of agricultural land. The environmental math that ignores this is propaganda, not science.

@danielsgoldman If you're unable to keep track of your own vital documents, then you're not responsible enough to choose who leads our government.

Do you have a passport? Do you know where your birth certificate is? If the answer to both is no, then you cannot vote under the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act is NOT a voter ID bill. It’s a voter suppression bill.

"Fun" is the wrong word to describe a hunt. Experiencing the death of an animal is a powerful and intimate moment. It is the culmination of time and effort, skill, and a healthy dose of good fortune. Success requires you know, appreciate, and respect your quarry. You are adversaries up until that moment, then filled with gratitude for the nourishment it will provide and the thrill of having accomplished something difficult. Looking forward to the meal, to tasting that moment of gratitude again. A taste of meat, deepened by the knowlege of the experience. A satiety that meek, mindless drones who outsource the killing and processing of their food will never know.

I never understood hunting like why are U shooting animals for fun

@HustleBitch_ If the remote operators don't have a drivers license for the state they are operating the vehicle in, then they are operating illegally. And Waymo is facilitating that in a big, systemic, RICO case kind of way...

🚨 WAYMO ADMITS USING REMOTE OPERATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES FOR U.S. VEHICLES - TESLA SAYS “NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO TAKE OVER CONTROL OF OUR VEHICLES.” During a U.S. Senate hearing, Waymo confirmed that human operators located in the Philippines can remotely intervene when its vehicles encounter problems on American roads. That means in certain situations, a split-second driving decision isn’t being made by the car - it’s being influenced by a human thousands of miles away. Senators openly warned about cybersecurity risks, delayed reaction times, and the implications of foreign operators interacting with vehicles moving through U.S. cities in real time. Then Tesla testified. Tesla stated its driving controls are physically isolated, cannot be accessed remotely, firmware updates require dual cryptographic approval, and that no hacker has ever taken control of a Tesla vehicle - despite years of paid hacking attempts. Same hearing. Same risks. Two radically different systems. Why does an “autonomous” car need a human in another country anywhere near the decision chain?

@Terlovyu Inviting a scruffy racoon onto a crowded subway car is not kindness.

Be kind

@MZHemingway @thatkeaton People hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.

@thatkeaton I've been trying to urge caution about any uncorroborated claims in the document, but I didn't realize so many people were stupid enough to believe the false-on-its-face claim about a golf course that didn't exist at that time.

Love how MAGA is pretending the Bill Gates antibiotic story is a bigger Epstein revelation than dead sex slaves buried under Trump’s golf course.

@GovTimWalz It's really simple. Instruct the police to follow the law and cooperate with Federal agents. Call ICE when an illegal immigrant is arrested so they can pick them up at the station. Everyone will be safer if you respect the law and stop your seditious rhetoric.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

@carrerapulse @JoeC1776 It's the inevitable result when an angry mob attempts to do justice.

@redsteeze @JoeC1776 "Attacking an innocent guy on the street who was actually with them" is wild 😭💀

So to catch you up on events: - Protest group chased two innocent dudes out of a diner. - Attacked an innocent guy on the street who was actually with them. - Harassed an innocent guy with an SUV and demanded to see his ID. - Blocked an innocent guy because of his rental car plates - Have now stormed into church services. And I haven't seen a single Minneapolis police officer in any of the previous week's video footage.

@DailyCaller There's two big issues I see here. The muzzle is pointed at his friend's leg, and there appears to be a key ring wrapped around the trigger guard.

🚨SPOTTED in downtown Minneapolis.

@Kamanther1 @TPostMillennial The goal isn't to get people to like them, it's to ensure that people are too scared to oppose them as they take control.

@TPostMillennial Muslims aren't really helping their case are they?

Minneapolis mob pulls anti-Islam activist Jake Lang from ledge and beat him severely

@ScottAdamsSays Thank you for all the years pointing out and helping me understand the absurdity of this world through your wonderful humor. I prayed for you last night and I hope you can find your way to Christ and receive all of the blessings he makes possible.

I appreciate the outpouring of suggestions and questions, but what happens next is between me and Jesus. I won’t be responding to your well-intentioned messages on this topic. (There are a lot!) I hope you understand. And thank you.