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What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

@FarmingUK @WAPFLondon Yes. Will drink raw milk over and over again

@CaryKelly11 Switzerland

Doing my best to allow my taste buds to travel by sampling the butters of the world. I've visited Belgium, France, England, Ireland, Italy and now New Zealand. This kiwi butter is the first I've ever seen in a can and to be honest, it should have stayed in the can. It tastes waxy and lacks salt. Where should I visit next?

@AlpacaAurelius Agreed. This stuff killed my parents, and has made me suffer from digestive issues.

ill never forgive them for convincing my mom to feed me this garbage

Nobody could figure out why the abandoned Hendricks apple orchard suddenly bloomed in April 2019. The trees hadn't produced fruit in eleven years. County agriculture office sent two inspectors. They found sixty thousand honeybees working the property - a massive colony that had escaped from Tomás Vega's apiary three miles south. Tomás had reported the swarm missing in March. He expected them dead. Instead they'd colonized the hollow barn on the Hendricks lot and cross-pollinated every surviving tree. That October, the orchard produced twenty-two tons of Cortland apples. The Hendricks family offered Tomás a permanent lease. He moved his entire operation there the following spring.

@wiselad1863 @ProudofusUK @WilliamClouston There are a large group of people who would remove Louis Pasteur and replace him with Antoine Bechamp. Dr. Tim Cowan is the modern day Dr Snow asserting the Germ Theory is built on a sand foundation.

@ProudofusUK @WilliamClouston Men like him ,Edward Jenner ,Alexander Fleming,Louis Pasteur etc have done more to improve the well being of people than any politician who ever lived

He gave Queen Victoria chloroform. Then he saved billions of lives with a map. 🇬🇧 In 1853 a London doctor named John Snow was summoned to Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria was in labour with Prince Leopold, her eighth child. Snow administered chloroform. The Church of England had preached against pain relief in childbirth. They taught that the pain of labour was ordained by God. Women were supposed to suffer. The Queen called it "delightful beyond measure." Overnight, one London doctor had made painless childbirth socially acceptable across the Empire and beyond. But his greatest discovery came a year later. In September 1854 cholera hit the Soho area of London. 616 people died in days. Every doctor in Britain believed the same thing. Cholera was spread by bad air. "Miasma." Every medical textbook said so. Snow did not believe it. He walked door to door across Soho. He asked every grieving family the same question. Where did you get your water? He drew a map of the neighbourhood and marked every cholera death as a black bar at the address where it happened. The bars stacked up like bodies in the street. One street glowed with death. Broad Street. And at the centre of the cluster stood a single public water pump. He took his map to the Board of Health. They refused to believe him. Everyone knew cholera was airborne. The bodies kept coming. On 7 September 1854 he went back. This time they listened. The handle was removed from the Broad Street pump. The outbreak stopped. The pump had been contaminated by a nearby cesspit. One soiled nappy from a cholera victim had seeped into the groundwater. 616 dead. Snow had been right. The establishment still refused to accept it for the rest of his life. He died in 1858 aged 45, a stroke, believing he had not been believed. Twenty years later the world caught up. Every sewer system on earth. Every water treatment plant. Every clean tap in every home. Every public health department. The entire science of epidemiology. All of it is built on one English doctor's map. The Broad Street pump still stands today on Broadwick Street in Soho. The handle has been permanently removed. A memorial to the doctor who walked the streets of London and changed the world. This is your history. Your tap is his memorial. Help us find the next John Snow. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Is this the way you do multiplication?

@Beef A good ribeye steak that is started in the sous vide

Whether you’re going out or staying in, nothing says “love” like a quality meal. What’s your go-to beef dish to make for loved ones? Happy Valentine’s Day! #BeefFarmersAndRanchers

@LloydsBank terrible service as I waited over an hour to tell of an incident with my account only to be cut off. Still no resolution. The message service is a joke. Bring back people!

I delivered pizza for 5 years. You learn a lot about people by how they open their front door. It was Christmas Eve. I was bitter. I wanted to be with my friends, but I needed the tips. My last run was to a motel on the edge of town. Not a nice place. I knocked on Room 104. The door opened, and a little girl, maybe 6, stood there in pajamas. Behind her, her dad was sitting on the edge of the bed, head in his hands. The room was empty except for a few bags. “Pizza!” the girl squealed. The dad looked up. He forced a smile. He came to the door and counted out exact change. crumpled ones and quarters. “Keep the change,” he said. It was 50 cents. I handed over the box. It was just a small cheese pizza. “Merry Christmas,” he said quietly. I walked back to my car. I sat there for a minute. I looked at the $80 in tips I’d made that night. I thought about that little girl. I drove to the 24-hour grocery store. I bought a precooked ham, a pie, a gallon of milk, and a cheap stuffed bear. I went back to Room 104. I knocked. The dad opened it, looking confused. “delivery mistake,” I said. “Manager said this goes with the order. Bonus for the holiday.” He looked at the bags. He looked at me. He knew it wasn’t a mistake. His chin started to quiver. He didn’t say a word. He just reached out and shook my hand, gripping it hard. I drove home with $0 in my pocket. Best Christmas I ever had. The world is hard. Be soft. Anonymous

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later. In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow. At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action. Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last. The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure. What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable? It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

What Being Broke Taught Me: Poor people pay twice. - Cheap shoes that break quickly - Cheap cars that constantly need expensive repairs - Cheap food that leads to health problems down the road You can't afford to buy in bulk. You can't wait for sales or better deals. Poverty charges interest on everything. Being poor is expensive.

@KsBru62 Praying in London for your dad x

My parents got the terrible influenza that’s going around. My Dad ended up in the hospital because of other complications he has along with the flu. He’s been in the hospital for this will be the 8th day. I’m spending the night here with him. The next time I complain about having to be out during calving time in the cold or fixing fence in the heat I’m going to remind myself of how lucky I am to not be in a hospital room fighting for my life, looking at the same four walls and having to wait for a nurse to come take care of even my most basic needs. Maybe sometimes we need a reminder of how blessed we are. Prayers for my Dad would be ever so appreciated. Thanks friends and be blessed.🙏♥️

@ClarksonsFarm1 Absolutely!

Would you buy directly from farms?

Your dementia diagnosis may not be accurate. Some other memory loss reasons include: - Hypothyroidism - Vitamin B12 deficiency (not enough meat) - Sleep Apnea - Alcohol issues - Medication side effects Rule these out before accepting dementia. Some are reversible.

I wish people would stop "verifying" shit with AI. "Well, ChatGPT said..." 🙄 AI, as people generally use it, is nothing more than a search engine that provides results using language rather than links. That's it. AI can only present the "establishment" view on any given subject because it operates based on percentages. If 99% of the information it finds online is factually wrong, and the 1% is true, it will present you with, as truth, what the 99% says. AI doesn't engage in critical thinking because AI does not think.

@zimazebra @coookwithchris Agreed! 👍🏻

@coookwithchris I’ve got to disagree. I respect the pour-over method, but making coffee with a moka pot is the best.

@joeroganhq @DrReality5 Dave Champion!

Name someone who you'd want to see on the Joe Rogan podcast next.

@cftaser52 @James0671680942 @epochhealth Putting Lugol’s iodine on your feet is effective, too.

@James0671680942 @epochhealth I am allergic to iodine so that is not an option for me to treat my thyroid issues.

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