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My Op-Ed: Protecting your intellectual property in America is harder than ever lnkd.in/dXf3A7J

The person who came up with lefty loosey righty tighty absolutely cranked it out of the park on that one

If you see a fox in your neighborhood, be glad. A red fox eats roughly 2,000 mice, rats, and voles a year. They help keep tick-carrying rodent populations in check, which reduces local Lyme disease risk. Don't call animal control. Just watch.

Swinging bulb creates a pulsing mandala with amazing color

Marcus Aurelius was right when he said that you will be forgotten either way so live in a manner, that while you remain, you belong to yourself.

A great way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting. Why Starry Night was so famous: bit.ly/49VNzyl

Ladies and gentlemens, The Warren buffet indicator sits at 233 the highest number ever recorded. Thanks for listening.

🚨US stocks have rarely been this expensive in 145 years of data: The Shiller Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-Earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has risen to 40.8. This means investors are paying $40.80 for every $1 of average earnings generated over the last 10 years. The only other time this ratio has exceeded 40 in 145 years of data was in the years surrounding the peak of the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble, when it briefly touched 44. In other words, at current valuations, it would take ~41 years to recover the investment purely through earnings alone. This ratio is now more than 2 times the long-run historical average of ~17, a divergence that has rarely been seen before. US stocks are pricing in perfection, and history suggests perfection rarely lasts for long.

In the 1990s, passengers flying coach from Hong Kong to New York sometimes noticed an older man in wrinkled clothes carrying papers in a plastic grocery bag. Cheap watch. No luxury luggage. No first-class seat. Most people assumed he was struggling financially. In reality, he was a billionaire. And he had already secretly given most of his fortune away. His name was Chuck Feeney. He co-founded Duty Free Shoppers in 1960 and helped build it into one of the most successful luxury retail businesses in the world. By the 1980s, he was worth billions. But unlike most billionaires, Chuck lived almost like an ordinary middle-class traveler. He flew economy. Rented modest apartments. Owned no mansion. Wore a $15 Casio watch. Carried reading papers in plastic bags. Even some business associates thought he might secretly be broke. What nobody realized was that Chuck had quietly transferred nearly all of his wealth into a private foundation years earlier. Then he began giving it away anonymously. Hospitals. Universities. AIDS treatment programs. Human rights groups. Medical research. Peace initiatives in Northern Ireland. For years, institutions received enormous donations without knowing who funded them. Chuck wanted it that way. He believed philanthropy should focus on the work not the ego of the donor. And he didn’t want to spend his life attending galas and rejecting endless requests for money. So he disappeared behind the scenes while billions quietly changed lives around the world. The truth only became public in 1997 after a major business sale exposed financial documents revealing what he had done. By then, he had already given away hundreds of millions. Eventually it became billions. In total, Chuck Feeney donated roughly $8 billion during his lifetime. Warren Buffett called him: “My hero.” Bill Gates studied his approach. When Buffett and Gates launched the Giving Pledge encouraging billionaires to donate their fortunes, Chuck had already done it decades earlier. But what made Chuck different was not just how much he gave away. It was when. He didn’t wait until death. He didn’t build a foundation designed to exist forever. He believed wealth should be used while the giver was still alive to see the impact. “Dead people don’t give money,” he often said. In 2020, at age 89, Chuck officially closed his foundation after successfully giving away virtually everything. Then he said something simple: “Try giving while living. You’ll like it.” Chuck Feeney died in 2023 at age 92. No giant estate. No palace. No massive inheritance battle. Just hospitals built. Students educated. Lives saved. And billions of dollars already out in the world doing what he believed money was meant to do.

Ebola in Italy not yet confirmed but symptoms are consistent and they just got back from Uganda. the-sun.com/health/1640949…

the first commercial bank in the world, The Medici Bank, opened in this building in 1397 there's a zara store now

The best thing you can do for fallen soldiers on Memorial Day is to stop voting for politicians who make more of them.

Memorial Day 2026 vs last year: ⛽ Gas: +28% ✈️ Flights: +20.7% 🐄 Beef: +16% 🍅 Tomatoes: +40% ☕ Coffee: +18% 🌭 Hot dogs: +11% 🏨 Hotels: +4.3%

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Terrifying reality check. Hacker Ryan Montgomery leaves Tucker Carlson completely stunned by revealing his social security number, driver's license, and exact property deeds. He exposes how the massive digital surveillance state has completely destroyed all American privacy.

Footage from the Mariana Trench. 10,792 meters (36,000 feet) below the ocean surface

Judging by the comments, Uber & Lyft are effectively high yield payday loan companies as drivers are aware of the high depreciation rates of their driving but still drive because they need cash today

BREAKING 🚨: Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A is now underperforming the S&P 500 by the same margin it was during the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis 🤯👀

In 1894, a hungover Wall Street stockbroker walked into the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan and ordered something that was not on the menu. The maître d' liked it so much he put it on the menu immediately. One hundred and thirty years later, it is on every brunch menu in the Western world. Lemuel Benedict was, by every account, a man who knew how to have a good time and was occasionally required to deal with the consequences the following morning. A retired stockbroker, heavy partier and generous tipper, he walked into the Waldorf Hotel one morning in 1894 in urgent need of a hangover cure and ordered something that did not exist yet: buttered toast, crisp bacon, two poached eggs and what he called a hooker of hollandaise sauce. A hooker in 1894 American slang meant a generous pour or a slug, not whatever you are thinking. The maître d' Oscar Tschirky, the same man credited with inventing the Waldorf salad and popularising Thousand Islands dressing, was so taken with the combination that he immediately put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus, substituting ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the plain toast. He named it after the hungover banker who had improvised it at the table. We know this because Lemuel Benedict told a reporter from The New Yorker in 1942, less than a year before he died, and the Talk of the Town piece that resulted is the primary documented source for the story. There are competing claims. There always are with origin stories this good. A Mr and Mrs LeGrand Benedict, completely unrelated to Lemuel, reportedly requested something similar at Delmonico's restaurant sometime in the 1860s and chef Charles Ranhofer published a recipe called Eggs à la Benedick in his 1894 cookbook The Epicurean. A Commodore E.C. Benedict claimed his mother had the recipe before anyone else. The American Egg Board, which apparently has opinions on this, backs the Lemuel version. © Eats History

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Breaking: Iran cancels deal with USA.