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Tacoma, WA Katılım Haziran 2008
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@Devon_Eriksen_ If you don't have internet service, how are you posting to X?
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Dear Habitual CNBC Viewers:
This is all 100% correct. For your own sake, please stay away from Tennessee.
Don't even drive through. You're liable to be stopped at a KKK checkpoint, where anyone with dark skin will be enslaved and put to work in the cotton fields, and all teenage girls will be forcibly married off to redneck hillbillies who can only communicate by firing shotguns in the air and yelling "yeee-haw!"
Also, weed and abortions are illegal here, and church attendance is mandatory, as is machine-gun ownership.
Contrary to popular belief, we don't beat homosexuals to death here, but that is only because we have run out of homosexuals. Conjugal relationships with farm animals, however, are a normal and accepted practice.
Also, we don't have any electricity, running water, or internet service.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
10 worst states to live in for 2026, per CNBC: 1. Tennessee 2. Texas 3. Indiana 4. Louisiana 5. Georgia 6. Utah 7. Missouri 8. Alabama 9. Oklahoma 10.Arkansas
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The "why" is great, the "how" is what I’m more concerned with
Department of State@StateDept
Op-Ed from @SecRubio: Why We’re Dismantling the ICC wsj.com/opinion/why-we…
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Lindsey Graham was personally kind to everyone, and so now he is being remembered well by people across political and ideological lines. A lesson there. (Including for me!)
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@Afinetheorem @asymmetricinfo One of the best things you can do for your kids is make them work a service-sector job in their teens.
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And this is good! And also good for the rich to dress and talk in a way that is no different than the middle class. And for servers to be socially of the same respect as those serve. The more one meets these norms, the better.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The true spirit of American democracy is that the norm is for people to paint an exaggeratedly humble picture of their class and family background.
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The bravest man in the prison camp did not carry a rifle. He carried a Mass kit and a stolen sack of food, and the Communists were more afraid of him than of any soldier there.
Father Emil Kapaun was a Catholic priest from a tiny farm town in Kansas. Soft spoken, humble, the kind of man who probably should have spent his life doing quiet parish work. Instead he put on an Army uniform and became a chaplain, and he ended up on the front line in Korea in the fall of 1950.
At the battle of Unsan his unit got overrun by a massive Chinese assault. Men were told to pull out and save themselves. Kapaun refused to leave. He walked back and forth through the incoming fire, unarmed, dragging wounded soldiers out of the open, giving last rites to the dying, carrying men on his back. When the position finally fell he could have slipped away. He stayed with the wounded who could not move, knowing it meant capture.
Then came the moment people never forgot. A Chinese soldier stood over a wounded American sergeant named Herbert Miller, about to execute him where he lay. Kapaun walked straight up, pushed the enemy soldier aside, picked the wounded man up off the ground, and carried him away. The enemy was so startled by the sheer nerve of it that they let it happen. Miller lived the rest of his life because a priest refused to let him be shot.
What he did in the prison camp over the next seven months might be the most incredible part. In a filthy, freezing camp where men were dying of starvation and dysentery every day, Kapaun became the heart of the place. He snuck out at night to steal food for the sick. He boiled water in secret to keep men from dying of disease. He gave away his own tiny rations. He washed the filth off dying soldiers with his own hands, and he led prayers out loud in defiance of guards who beat him for it, keeping hope alive in men who had every reason to quit.
The Communists hated him for it, because faith was the one thing they could not take from those prisoners as long as he was breathing. Eventually the beatings and the starvation and a blood clot broke his body. When he got too sick, the guards hauled him off to the death house, a filthy room where they dumped men to die alone. He forgave his guards on the way out. He died there in May 1951 at just thirty five years old.
Sixty two years later they gave him the Medal of Honor. His fellow prisoners, the ones who lived because of him, spent their whole lives telling the world what he did. His body, long lost in an unmarked grave, was finally identified and brought home in 2021. And the Catholic Church is now on the road to declaring the humble priest from Kansas a saint.
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In every great success story you'll ever read or watch, there's always a worst moment.
A dark night of the soul.
It's that moment when you want to give up, not because you can't bear the pain, but because the pain feels meaningless. Because you think there's nothing but more pain ahead, and failure on the other side of it.
And every person you ever heard this kind of story about ... kept going. If he hadn't, there would be no story to tell.
The most rare and precious commodity in that great success story isn't intelligence or talent. Yes, you need them. But they aren't the neck of the bottle. They aren't the rarest thing.
The rarest thing is what kept those men going.
People call it courage, or will, or persistence, or discipline.
And you've heard it called all these things in feel-good stories, that people find uplifting because they tell a nice little story about how anyone can choose to be successful. You've heard it called these things in motivational speeches from guys who make you feel like you could charge through a wall, until a week passes and they realize they haven't told you step one in how to develop any of these character traits.
So I don't like to call it courage. Or will. Or persistence. Or discipline.
I don't think of it that way.
I call it hope.
Hope isn't a habit, or a character trait, or a skill. It's a belief. A belief that if you keep going, there's a good chance that all work will pay off, and all the pain will be worth something. A belief in a light somewhere at the end of that tunnel.
And beliefs, unlike character traits, can be instilled.
Hope comes from a lot of different places. A track record of success. A father who always believed in you. A mother who will love you no matter what. Faith that somewhere, there's a god who is looking out for you. A team or a tribe or an entire society that has your back.
Doesn't matter where that belief comes from. Doesn't matter if it's rational or silly. Doesn't even matter if it's true.
What matters is that it sustains you. It keeps you working and struggling and enduring, because you don't think your suffering is meaningless.
This is what you have to teach your children. Hope.
You can't make them smarter. Or prettier. Or more charismatic. Maybe you can't even make them tougher.
But you can make them believe in the possibility of success.
Because if there's one thing our civilization and species needs, it's more stories like this one to tell. As many as we can get.
Race 🕊️@multiplanet1
Elon Musk once admitted that during the worst year of his life he would wake up every morning and immediately vomit from stress before he could even get out of bed. This wasn't when he was broke. This wasn't before he made his money. This was while he was running Tesla and SpaceX simultaneously, sleeping on the factory floor, and watching both companies almost die in real time. He described the feeling as "chewing glass while staring into the abyss." Reporters asked him why he didn't just sell everything and retire. He had already made $180 million from PayPal. He could have bought a house on an island and never worked again. His answer was quiet. He said he couldn't. Not because of ego. Because if SpaceX failed, nobody else was going to try to make humanity multiplanetary for another 20 years. And 20 years might be too late. He chose the vomiting. He chose the abyss. Not because he wanted to suffer. Because he didn't trust anyone else to care enough to do it.
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My sense from both discussions and surveys is that this is true of a majority of women, but some minority (20%??) really does care quite a bit.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
When I poll or just talk to female friends, this is almost universally true. "I'm a young LADY, not the Holland Tunnel," as a twitter mutual charmingly put it.
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@iowahawkblog Platner has no incentive to get out of the race. No one can threaten a credible punishment if he stays in.
What does he care?
They're going to have to pay him to go away. And I'm not sure what they can offer that he will accept.
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The European mind simply cannot comprehend a random citizen playing the national anthem with a semi automatic rifle in their backyard shooting range
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@AuronMacintyre @pegobry_en You know what a statesman is, don't you? He's a dead politician.
Lord knows this country could use more statesmen.
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The statesman is not ideological
He knows the theory, but he is not a slave to it
He makes prudent decisions for the good of his people, not to serve an abstract system of belief
He is above all a man of decision, he does not outsource his beliefs or attempt to blame others
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@ELuttwak @pegobry_en It isn't going to change until motherhood becomes high status again. When we idolize the mother of six more than the girlboss, then fertility will return.
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To reverse the decline in the fertility of American women & restore the normality of families w at least three children ,will require a combination of ideological changes and policy changes. Hard to do ? Not really, because the alternative is extinction
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@pegobry_en Bailey's:
Whisk 2 eggs until frothy. Continue whisking and add 3/4 c sugar a little at a time. Whisk in 2 c heavy cream, 1 c milk.
Put ice cream mix in machine. Mix until almost completely frozen. Add 1/4 c Bailey's at the very end. Immediately freeze overnight.
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@robbbbbb We haven’t actually received the ice cream machine yet
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