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@j_debkowski @ocelotltx @BRICSinfo Look up The French and Indian War. See also, the 7 Years War. American History, pretty cool shit really if you give it a whirl

@ocelotltx @BRICSinfo Yeah the comparison is stupid. How would the US end up speaking French? France has essentially been a US ally for all the time we’ve existed as a nation. While Germany was actively attempting to invade and conquer England. How does that comparison even make sense?

🇬🇧🇺🇸 King Charles to President Trump: "You recently commented…if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German." "If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French."

@iamcalm @not_robo0 @nickcoachin1 Idk why you guys are confused. His talent is comparable becuz he can sing and dance, rather than having the talent to perhaps cook and weld? It’s not that fucking hard. He is Dollar Store offbrand MJ. What you get when you can’t afford real MJ. Keep up

@sefferson23 @not_robo0 @nickcoachin1 Comparable talent ???? 🥴What is Cb’s Thriller then??? All his music is just wash, rinse and repeat

I love everyone revisiting MJ music and realizing cant nobody hold a candle to him. Talking bout some fucking Chris Brown

@austin_rhl @not_robo0 @nickcoachin1 Bro by comparable I mean he can dance his ass of and he can sing chill tfo im the one saying he ain’t on the same goddamn level. Literacy is a lost fucking art

@sefferson23 @not_robo0 @nickcoachin1 Comparable talent is crazy , this man don’t even got a album as good as thriller and that’s one album 💀

@not_robo0 @nickcoachin1 Comparing Chris Brown to MJ is like comparing Sugar Ray Richardson to Magic Johnson. Comparable talent, entirely different results. Takes more than talent to become a legend.

@nickcoachin1 Chris Brown is exactly who you think he is thats why you had to make this tweet

@JonesOnTheNBA Identical really, especially if SGA were a zero effort dogshit defender, routinely was out of shape, stood and watched the game off ball, and disappeared every time the lights got bright. Uncanny.

People aren’t gonna like this…But Shai is prime Harden if Harden didn’t sell out completely on his mid-range game for Morey ball.

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones listened to 800 songs to find 9. Then Quincy threw out 4 of those 9 and went back into the studio. Beat It, Human Nature, P.Y.T., and The Lady in My Life were emergency replacements for songs that were not good enough. They spent four months just listening. Quincy and Rod Temperton sat in a Los Angeles studio in 1982, going through song after song after song from every songwriter they could pull a favor from. Most got cut after a few seconds. Of the 800, they only ended up recording around 30 with Michael actually singing. Of those 30, only 9 made the final list. And then Quincy listened to the finished album, decided 4 of his own picks were not strong enough, and pulled them. The four songs he replaced them with became some of the most famous in pop music history. The four he cut went on to become hits for other artists. Recording those replacements almost broke the team. During the Beat It sessions, Quincy had three studios running at the same time. Eddie Van Halen was in one of them laying down his guitar solo for free. He had thought the call from Quincy was a prank his friends were pulling on him. Michael was in the next room, singing a vocal part through a cardboard tube. Engineers were mixing in the third studio. They worked five days and five nights with no sleep. At one point the speakers overloaded and caught fire. Quincy later told the BBC they had to carry engineers out of the studio on stretchers. Musicians too. Greg Phillinganes, the keyboard player on the album, said there was a moment where everyone thought it was finished, that they had nothing left to give, and Quincy was still standing there saying "It is not there yet" while Michael, almost falling apart, kept asking what they were supposed to do now. They finally finished mixing in early November. Then they sat down to play the master back, and the album sounded weak. They had crammed too much music onto a normal vinyl record, and the grooves had to be cut so narrow that the punch was gone. So they cut a verse from "The Lady in My Life," shortened the famous 29-second intro of "Billie Jean" that Quincy had been trying to drop the entire time, and remixed almost the whole album from scratch. One song a day. Eight straight days. The only track they left alone was "The Girl Is Mine" because it was already on the radio. The final mix wrapped on November 8, 1982. The album came out 21 days later. The wolves you hear at the start of the song "Thriller" are Michael. The engineer set up tape recorders in a barn overnight to catch his own dog howling, and the dog never made a sound. So Michael did the howls in the booth himself. Some of the background vocals on the same track were sung in the studio's shower stall. Vincent Price did his entire spoken-word horror section in three takes, and the verses he was reading had been written by Rod Temperton in a taxi on the way to the studio that same morning. Michael never wrote his songs on paper. He recorded them on a small handheld tape recorder and then sang them back from memory in the studio. The album ended up selling around 70 million copies. It won 8 Grammys, sat at number one for 37 weeks, and produced 7 Top 10 hits out of 9 songs. At its peak it was moving a million copies a week. But all of that came after the work was done. The work itself was 800 demos, 30 recordings, 4 last-minute saves, three studios running until the speakers caught fire, and a producer who refused to put out something he did not believe in even when it meant pulling his own album apart twice. Nine tracks because they could not find more that were good enough.

North Carolina produces the best hoopers in America

@Lovandfear The Alchemist

Recommend a book that changed your life??

@maximumpain333 @MarkCranfield_ I’ve never felt more seen.

Carl Jung wrote: "The more intelligent and self-aware a person is, the more they suffer from the general unconsciousness of society." This is not a badge of honor. It is a recognition of the weight carried by those who cannot unsee what they have already seen. This is the psychology of the deep thinker and if you recognize yourself here, this one is for you: The architecture of alienation. It starts early. The child who asks why adults say one thing and do another. The one whose questions are always labeled as "overthinking." Nietzsche described these people as "free spirits" — essential for progress, but wandering in a wilderness everyone else refuses to enter. Research by Dr. Elaine Aron suggests approximately 20% of the population processes information more deeply and notices subtleties others completely miss. In a world that rewards speed, this depth can feel like a disability. The frequency of truth. Deep thinkers operate on a different wavelength, the frequency of truth rather than the frequency of comfort. Most people live without ever questioning the fundamental assumptions of their own existence. But the deep thinker has glimpsed behind the veil. Like Plato's prisoner who escapes the cave and returns to share what he saw only to be rejected and called a troublemaker—the deep thinker carries the burden of the witness. They see the masks, the exploitation, and the pain that everyone else has agreed to ignore. The emotional sponge. Deep thinkers do not just observe emotions, they absorb them. They feel the anxiety of a stranger as if it were their own. They perform enormous amounts of invisible emotional labor — checking in on people, listening, supporting, acting as the unofficial therapist of every room they enter. And yet the relationship is almost always asymmetric. They give at a depth most people cannot match. They live with the quiet loneliness of being the strong one, the one everyone leans on, but no one thinks to ask: "Are you okay?" The mask of normalcy. To survive, many deep thinkers learn to wear a mask, laughing at jokes they do not find funny, feigning interest in conversations that feel hollow, modulating their intensity to avoid being too much. This is not deception. It is survival. But the cost is enormous. Maintaining the split between the complex private self and the simple public self is exhausting. And the mask, while protective, makes true connection nearly impossible. You cannot be fully known while hiding. The wounded healer. Jung wrote about this archetype; the person who transforms their own brokenness into a source of healing for others. The wounds of rejection and misunderstanding become sources of deep compassion. The person who has felt most unseen becomes the most gifted at seeing others. But the challenge is learning to give without emptying yourself completely, to love others without losing yourself in the process. The alchemy of solitude. For deep thinkers, there is a crucial distinction between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is the pain of disconnection from others. Solitude is the joy of connection with yourself. In solitude, the deep thinker finally breathes. The noise of the world falls away. The internal landscape becomes clear. Isolation transforms into introspection and that is where the real work happens. The revolutionary act of authenticity. In a world that profits from insecurity, choosing to be genuinely yourself is a radical act. When a deep thinker chooses authenticity over performance, it creates space for others to do the same. It gives people permission to be real in a culture that rewards shallow. If you recognize yourself in any of this, stop apologizing for your depth. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too sensitive. You are awake in a world that prefers to stay asleep. Your sensitivity is a superpower. Your intensity is a strength. ✨🙌🏾💫

@minarchist9 @MattZeitlin Fair 🤜🤛

@sefferson23 @MattZeitlin I literally just spoke of my own experience

old people: what was michael jackson's public image in the 90s before the child abuse allegations. was he considered werid but in a kind of harmless eccentric way?

@minarchist9 @MattZeitlin lol this is laughably small sample size. I’m an Appalachian raised white who was a teen in the 90s. I loved Michael and so did many of my friends, and apparently most of the world, since 500 million ppl in 27 countries watched premier of Black or White in 91.

@MattZeitlin as someone in my 20s in the 90s, michael jackson had no penetration into my world and i never met a white person who liked michael jackson unless it was specifically thriller when they were a kid. he was considered weird and gay and also almost nonexistent (to us)

@allkanyewest The distance between this and whatever we’d call second…

f*ck it here’s the greatest outro in music history.

@kimbrownnfl32 @realDonaldTrump @JimBrownNFL32 Yes, he was.

I wonder if @realDonaldTrump was racist when he was the President-Elect & called my dad @JimBrownNFL32 to find out what was going on with the Black Community and how he could help❓

We don’t have $736 million for our National Parks but we have $500 million to bail out Spirit Airlines?

@kylecorwintakes Great take fr. Prolly the reason why it was the hottest shit in America pre-tv was how good that shit is on the radio. Boxing and horse racing over here nodding silently 😂

idc if this is a boomer take: Listening to the radio broadcast of a baseball game is WILDLY underrated

People who are good at running and lifting don't look like powerlifters or marathon runners. They look like athletes.

@omgsidewalks Yes, right after I put my paper weight through their temple. Proportional response.

If someone spits on you at work, you going to HR ??

@SimpPolice911 Just say you’re gay. It’s fine. Really. We accept you!!

There is nothing attractive about this