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@BTCBreadMan Go for it- the sooner they switch schools and establish friend groups, the better. If you are looking at houses now, the one you are in now will seem very tight/inadequate in 5-10 years.

Wife and I found an amazing house today on 2 acres of land in a very nice neighborhood. Significant upgrade from our current home/yard/hood. The kiddos want to veto it because they would have to switch elementary schools. They are in 2nd grade and kindergarten. Dad advice?

@elonmusk Sounds like my lifetime (GenX) in a nutshell. Sad!

Accurate

@Downtownfairy @Moonlight_myths I was thinking the same thing.

@Moonlight_myths If one test did not satisfy him 10 tests won't satisfy him. The problem is not the child's hair color.

My sister gave birth to a red-haired daughter. But she and her husband are both dark-haired. No one in our family has red hair. My sister insists that her husband's great-grandfather was red-haired, and that's how it was passed down. Her husband didn't believe her, especially since she has this one red-haired colleague at work. Anyway, he insisted on a DNA test, which they did after huge fights and screaming matches. My sister threw the paper in his face. It showed 99.9% he's the father. But he still doesn't believe it, says the test could have been faked or someone paid off the lab. He wants to do another one at a different lab, but my sister is afraid this will definitely lead them to divorce He's not even talking to my sister right now. But he says it's better to find out the truth and live with a clear conscience. He doesn't want to raise someone else's child. I believe my sister 100%, but I have to admit the situation is pretty bizarre. Does anyone know anything about genetics?

@Moonlight_myths My husband is blonde with green eyes. I am brunette with brown eyes. Our first daughter is copper colored redhead with bright denim blue eyes. The red is recessive and must come from both parents, but it doesn’t turn up in each generation.

@Amelia558rs Painting it white may seem like a nice idea TODAY, but this piece is timeless. Painting it white would be a travesty.

@lawyer_memes This is just silly. For most normal humans, 11AM IS morning. It’s lawyers like this that give the rest of us a bad rap.

A junior said "Good morning" to me in the elevator. I checked my watch. It was 11:00 AM. I looked at him. "It's almost lunch," I said. "You're three hours late to the concept of morning." He tried to explain he'd been at his desk since 7. I interrupted and told him accuracy matters more than intent. I emailed his reviewer suggesting he take a CLE on time management. He apologized later. I didn't reply. I forwarded the apology to HR as proof of his inefficiency. Greetings are risky. He learned an important lesson. Never speak to a partner in the elevator. Unless spoken to.

@DonnyDeutsch 💯

What exactly are you protesting?

@ImMeme0 I’m crying, too…

I’m crying. “Thank you, President Trump. I’ve believed in you from the start. I had the faith, I knew you could do it. Never in my lifetime did I think I’d see a free Iran, even with all the fighting. And now I get to take my paralyzed father home, to his true home, the home he recognizes, before those terrorists took over.”

@thatsKAIZEN Brilliant take.

It’s not the start of World War 3. It’s not Iraq 2.0. It’s about the Islamic Republic and our chessmatch against China.

@AlinejadMasih @khamenei_ir May God bless you and the Iranian people!!!

Finally, you’re dead finally, you’re gone @khamenei_ir 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🌻🌻🌻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

@Milajoy 1000% this- I have had many of these same thoughts, even today. Even shared a few out loud. He said it much more articulately than I could have.

This guy is spot on. Its like we are speaking two different languages. Facts don't matter. Truth doesn't matter.

@Rebecca285075 @libsoftiktok I live nearby, too. The previous place wasn’t great. I think I’ll sit this one out.

@libsoftiktok I live not far from here. This place just opened up not all that long ago and I’m absolutely disgusted to see this in my community. I hope they’re forced to close their doors.

Coffee shop in Mentor, Ohio is offering free coffee to anti-ICE protesters and demands ICE stop arresting illegals Trump won this county by 15 points. Would love to see how this turns out for them…

@libsoftiktok I’d argue that they are geographically misplaced….this would go over way better in Cleveland Heights 😂.

@gothburz Been there, done that. Our performance targets were also impossibly high, which added to the fun. I probably took less than two weeks off for PTO in almost four years. I also had pneumonia four times, which hasn’t happened once in the 22 years since I left. Never again.

Last year I eliminated our PTO policy. I called it "unlimited." The board loved it. HR loved it. Finance really loved it. Let me explain why Finance loved it. Under the old policy, employees accrued 18 days per year. Unused days carried over. When employees quit, we owed them money. Cash. For days they earned but didn't take. That's a liability. On the books. $4.7 million in accrued PTO across 2,300 employees. I made it disappear. With one policy change. "Unlimited PTO." You can't accrue what's infinite. You can't owe what was never counted. The liability vanished. $4.7 million. Gone. The CFO sent me a bottle of wine. I told employees it was about "trust and flexibility." It was about the balance sheet. But "balance sheet optimization" doesn't fit on a careers page. "Unlimited PTO" does. We updated the job postings. Applications increased 23%. People love unlimited. Until they try to use it. Under the old policy, employees took an average of 17 days per year. Under unlimited, they take 11. That's not a bug. That's the design. When PTO is a number, people take the number. It's theirs. They earned it. Managers can't argue with a number. When PTO is "unlimited," people take nothing. Because unlimited comes with questions. "Is this a good time?" "Who's covering?" "What will people think?" The guilt does the enforcement. I don't have to say no. The culture says no. I just built the culture. We track time-off requests in Workday. I see everything. A senior engineer requested two weeks in July. His manager approved it. Officially. Then sent a Slack message. "Totally fine. Just wanted to flag that the Erikson deliverable overlaps. Probably fine. Just flagging." The engineer took four days. Unlimited means whatever your anxiety allows. For most people, that's less than before. Some employees don't take any PTO. We call them "high performers." They get promoted. Then they manage others. They don't approve much PTO either. The system self-replicates. A recruiter asked how we "stay competitive." I said, "Unlimited PTO." She asked how much people actually take. I said, "That's not tracked." It is tracked. I have a dashboard. I don't share the dashboard. We did an employee survey. 84% said they "appreciated the flexibility of unlimited PTO." 12% said they "wished they felt more comfortable taking time off." We published the 84%. The 12% went in a folder. The folder is called "Noted." I don't open that folder. Someone in engineering asked if we could go back to accrued PTO. I said, "That would limit your flexibility." He said he wanted limits. I said, "That's not aligned with our culture of trust." He stopped asking. Trust is a funny word. I trust employees to feel too guilty to use their benefits. They trust me to frame that guilt as freedom. That's the deal. I'm presenting at an HR conference next month. The session is called "Unlimited PTO: Building a Culture of Ownership." Ownership means employees own their guilt. I own the savings. The policy costs us nothing. Because employees take nothing. And call it a benefit. I'll be VP of People by Q2. Unlimited upside.

@Thefactsdude Shoot. I grew up in that neighborhood… it was a good neighborhood. Breaks my heart. That Dunkin used to be a gas station in the day.

New: Drunk Customer Flees on Scooter After KFC Refuses His Rally’s Order South Euclid, Ohio — A 34-year-old man, Lysander Mosely, was arrested after leading police on a chase when KFC staff refused to sell him Rally’s menu items. Mosely is now charged with disorderly conduct, OVI, no motorcycle license, reckless operation, and helmet violation. Additional felony counts for failure to comply with a police signal and OVI evidence charges may be added pending blood-test results.

@timecaptales So, after she lists those whom she doesn’t like for political reasons and would like to send on a rocket ship to an undiscovered planet, she gives an impassioned speech on how everyone matters? Make it make sense.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

@HustleBitch_ I feel the same way 😞.

President Trump and First Lady Melania look different today. What do you see when you look at their faces?

@matt_vanswol @EndWokeness Totally agree. Beyond heartbreaking.

@EndWokeness I’ve never seen a stronger case for evil ever laid out in my life. One side seems to side with evil while the other wants to rid the country of evil. This is sick and horrifying to watch.

This sums up why the Democrat Party has a 21% approval rating

@BuckSexton And, this woman ensured that politics ruined her last relationship. Dude dodged a bullet.

America’s plummeting marriage rate explained in one brutally annoying rant

@BuckSexton #nailedit.