Stephen Bird

@AbelDuck @BeaverBaseball Yes, the Duckies got us last year! A tip of the cap. I imagine we will hear about this for years since it will be unlikely to happen again.

@stephenvbird @BeaverBaseball Which would be half of last years Oregon sweep of lil bro

Tonight's game against Oregon in Hillsboro has been postponed. osubeavers.com/news/2026/4/14…

@Outtolunch237 @wil_da_beast630 I would agree. Who would keep the record? The colonists who did not know who they bought it from?

@stephenvbird @wil_da_beast630 There is no record of what indian or group of indians sold Manhattan. Indians very much had the concept of ownership and if you bought it from someone who didnt own it, you then had to fight for it or buy it again

This is the issue with "land back." What Native tribes sold for arms and the equivalent of a few hundred thousand was raw, un-serviced land - never been plowed, heavy tree cover, obviously no utilities. You can buy that sort of thing for $2k per acre in New York today...albeit upstate. There is no argument we owe some random group of Indians "Brooklyn."

@charliebilello Where is the graph for salary for the two groups? How many over 65 earn 150k? To put net worth into perspective - 400k @ 9% growth provides 36k income to add to a typical SS check of 2500/mth = 66k per year. Does not allow for inflation.

A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax for 2025 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income (note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit). This is a fair tax policy?

@AriFleischer Good news for the state of VA. They could get their government back.

This is one of the great untold stories of Trump’s second term. A huge victory for taxpayers and those who believe in smaller government.

@theficouple You can do this mathematically or you can do it emotionally. I did it emotionally. I never have to worry about mortgage payments in the future, I can take a second for major purchases and it is not taxable, I can invest more money in the future because my cost of living is less.

Let’s say you had $132,000 in the bank. But you also have a $132,000 mortgage at 4.8%. Would you invest the money in the stock market or pay off the house?

@frozenaesthetic Your assumption that left-handed people are inferior is incorrect. Evolutionary theory states that selection occurs favoring superior traits. If we were all first basemen your theory would work!

Left handed people existing breaks a rule in evolution that nobody can explain Only about 10% of the population is left handed and that number has stayed the same for 10,000 years It never goes up and never goes down Evolution isn't meant to work like that, traits spread because they are useful or die off because they aren't Left handedness doesn't do either and stays the same percentage across every culture, country and population They process fear differently and react faster to danger than right handed people They are different neurologically and slightly overrepresented in certain criminal populations and significantly overrepresented among US presidents The trait seems to produce extremes Ancient cultures were afraid of them, the word "sinister" originates from the Latin word "sinistra" which means "left" or "on the left side" 10% There's always 10% Never more It was decided that was the exact number needed in the population

@SamaHoole In CA a large % of the land used to be grazing land primarily for sheep. Australia dumped lamb and undercut the local growers and now the land is fallow. You are right, grazing is low impact and provides nutrition from land that is not presently being used.

Can someone please explain, in very simple language, how growing almonds in a Californian desert, draining the local aquifer until the ground subsides, spraying the entire crop with fungicides because almonds can't survive without them, killing off the commercial bee population in the process, then refrigerating the harvest and shipping it six thousand miles to Britain is environmentally friendly, but buying a piece of beef from a farmer twelve miles down the road, whose cattle eat the grass that grows in the rain that falls on the hills that have been there since before anyone had opinions about this, is a planetary emergency? Asking for the cow.

@ThePhysicsMemes When I was a kid the answer was three. The question should be rephrased to "Name the states of matter we are aware of presently."

They’re not not wrong. Should they have gotten the points? #ITeachPhysics

@OneManLBO We moved to AZ and bought a 1400 sq.ft. home in a gated community. There are green belts and wildlife. There are just two of us. We can go for walks or enjoy the patio. Plenty of room! The money we saved goes into our retirement portfolio. A home is not an investment!

“Downgraded” to a 2,500 square foot home last year when we moved to Boise But it’s been a life upgrade Have never been happier CANNOT recommend a smaller, functional living footprint highly enough We’ve done the suburban 5 bedroom, massive zoysia grass front yard thing previously, and it just eats away at your time and mental energy Give me a view, light, and location over a McMansion with mulched flowerbeds any day It simplifies life and unclutters the mind

@GunloverClub1 So if I am understanding you the primary concern for your soldiers is not that they hit the target but that they do not litter! Good luck with that!!!

The ultimate "No Brass Left Behind" policy. 🇯🇵 The Japan Self-Defense Forces has a strict 1-to-1 return policy. If a soldier is issued 30 rounds, they must return 30 spent casings or 30 live rounds. If even one casing is missing, the entire range shuts down. Every soldier stays until that single piece of brass is found. Those nets and bags aren't just for show, they are "efficiency tools" to avoid a 5-hour crawling through the grass!

@Michaelfiore Looks like my neighbor's hedge in Utah!

Person in Michigan is asking what happened to her arborvitae hedge. They looked perfect last year. This will be obvious to anyone who has dealt with it before. I’ll put the answer below.

@midwestern_ope This is what happens when you do not teach geography! In the west water is not from the ocean. It is from spring run-off of the snow pack. The east side of CA has a 8k elevation Mtn. range between it and the ocean.

@TheMattViera You have to understand the statistics your are presenting. You do not reference them but I am guessing these are national medians. How are national averages different? How do specific regions compare with higher cost of living?

The latest salary data was released Here's the median salary by age: 20-24: $41,392 25-34: $59,800 35-44: $72,020 45-54: $71,604 55-64: $68,744 65+: $62,036 Funny how most people believe $100k is the equivalent of poverty… ...when most people aren't even close.

@HistoryBoomer Somebody does not understand social security! It is not welfare. It is the money that they paid in to the program compounding interest at about 0.5%.

I'm eligible for Social Security, and this is dumb. A well-off couple SHOULD be paying taxes on their Social Security income (and a poor couple should not). It's young people who need help these days. Stop offering bribes to older Americans.

@r0ck3t23 Elon's premise is a bit off track because of the failure of colleges to achieve goals. At CAL I got to take classes from professors who had cutting edge info. I worked in study groups of students who were top 5%. We had access to elite labs. When 60% go to college it is a mill!

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the ones who never needed the assignment.

@Oceanbreeze473 I do not think you could give that one away! In many parts of the country homes were abandoned when family farms were no longer viable. Many midwestern towns had their peak population in the 1930s.

I’ve often wondered about abandoned houses - why don’t they just give them away if they’re only going to rot?

@Noahpinion At present about 25% of the jobs require a college degree. We have way too many in college!!

College enrollment is falling in America. It's not just the fact that we have fewer young people. In 2016, 70% of American high school grads went to college; by 2022, it was only 62%. The higher education sector is in big trouble. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

@RogerBernards He was in my morning prayers and will be again tomorrow! Godspeed!!!

America! Please join Beaver Nation in prayer for Tyler Bellerose, his family, and his Team. He is a freshman pitcher for Oregon State who was seriously injured in an accident this week. God knows the details, all we need to do is ask!

@rpondiscio My grandson is in HS and he does not know his times tables.

Your occasional reminder that high school graduation rates are pure and unadulterated bullshit.

@Hitchslap1 The premise is wrong. They are the poorest in resources. The most important resource is agriculture. They have desert and rain leached soils over most of the continent.

I hear this question often but no one can agree on the answer.