I’ve lived in both states, multiple times. The taxes and free income parts are false. The rest of it is true.
The biggest difference for me, Texas never felt like a free state, as much as a police surveillance state.
In Texas, despite the propaganda, you pay more in taxes, you have less free income, gun related deaths are higher, maternal mortality rates are higher, food insecurity is higher, and you can't even legally have a weed gummy. All of that pew pew freedom just to live a worse life
The huntsmen, jumping, wolf spiders I leave alone.
The widows that suck dry whole ass frogs, and leave them like a hollow paper mâché toy for me to pick up. Those go. They get so big here, they sometimes turn a little purple from the cuticle(?) stretching.
That little papery sac in the corner of the garage is dozens to hundreds of free pest controllers waiting to hatch. Before you crush it, hear me out.
A single spider eats roughly 2,000 insects a year: flies, mosquitoes, roaches, gnats, earwigs. The eggs in that sac are the next round of that, and nature already keeps the count in check, since only a small fraction of spiderlings ever survive to adulthood. One sac is not an infestation. It's a burst of pest control about to scatter.
So if the sac is somewhere you can tolerate, leave it. If it's genuinely in the way, you still don't have to destroy it. Slide a piece of paper behind it, lift it gently, and move it to a shed, a garage corner, or a sheltered outdoor nook.
The one real caution: leave black widow and brown recluse sacs alone and call a pro if those are what you've got.
Nearly every other spider in a typical house or yard is harmless and working for you.
Yes please!!!!
Most teacher pensions suck, and many have been told to believe the opposite.
Of 4 states I have pensions in, none of them earn or are able to. Just stale money sitting around losing value, which we’re forced to contribute to.
Earning power changes everything.
Why do we give teachers pensions instead of just putting $500 a month into an S&P ETF on their behalf?
They’d get a higher income in retirement than they made as a teacher, it would cost the district less, and if they quit early it’s already theirs to keep and continues to grow.
EVERY country runs on two sources…
Economy and leverage.
If one reason doesn’t make sense, the other will.
The answer is economy. More bodies, more jobs, more taxes.
If you can’t breed to the level of economic growth a country wants, they will import help to do so.
Why are they forcing diversity/multiculturalism on us?
If we can answer that question then we might be able to solve the problem
Something big is happening and I'm sure we can all feel it
They’re not frightened, they see the huge self defense bubble women have put around themselves, and rightfully so.
Internet dating brought out the fuckboi’s in men, making women more cautious and stand off-ish. Which helped create this situation.
I agree. The system as well as its players working in it don’t care about consistency or justice. It should have been a second degree charge.
That said Derek Chauvin should have gotten no more than a 3rd degree charge, but here we are.
What bothers me most about Karmelo Anthony’s verdict? First-degree murder means the jury feels Karmelo viciously attacked Austin, a total stranger to him, in an intentional, deliberate rage. They’re saying that he set out to purposefully kill someone he didn’t know, over a bleacher seat, in the middle of a chaperoned high school event.
Even if the jury decided Karmelo still needed to accept some level of guilt in a life being lost — a 35-year prison sentence and a first degree murder-conviction means the jury doesn’t see this as the tragic, tragic mistake between two young teens that it is.
They’re telling us Karmelo set out to end Austin’s life on purpose and with full intent.
When in reality, I think this is a regret and heartbreak Karmelo will carry for the rest of his life
Logistics would be impossible.
Who’s willing to give up the Carolinas?
Or have Florida cut off from access by interstate travel because it has to go through “Black USA”?
Imagine all the resources the left would steal to give to them?
It simply wouldn’t work without war first
Can someone explain to me like i am 5yo why segregation is/was bad?
We clearly don’t get along….Why do we have to live around eachother?
Instead of more violence, why can’t be just separate?
Legitimate question.
Not very often does an athlete come around like this man. What makes him so special is how he holds himself off the ice, as well as on it.
Honestly, should be the most beloved player in all of Colorado sport history.
You know what these assholes are going to do, right?
They’re going to keep raising the payroll tax to delay the inevitable.
Essentially you’ll be paying in more to receive less.
It’s time to eliminate this, and figure out a new way before it gets worse for all of us.
Concert tickets up until maybe the mid 1990’s had been one of the best values for the dollar in America.
That was bound to change eventually with the corporate gougemaxxing phenomenon we’ve seen over the past 30 years now.
A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/3lGn15PndO
I wish I could do everything perfectly the first time through, but I rarely do.
Here’s the thing, you followed though, learned, completed the job, plants are growing, they will produce, and you found success.
This was successful, you were successful. I’d be proud.
First time I’ve ever started a garden. I know it’s all fucked up, and the boxes are crooked and I’m probably doing everything wrong but I did it. I was afraid I’d fail and disappoint myself (again) but I did it anyway.
For years, hospitals kept Americans in the dark about the true cost of care. Families made medical decisions without knowing the price—and too often got hit with bills that drained their savings.
That ends now.
Under President Trump’s leadership, HHS is enforcing hospital price transparency with real consequences. @DrOzCMS and I have a simple message for hospitals: Post your actual prices. Come into compliance immediately—or face serious consequences.
No, They can all go broke and fuck themselves.
I’m not washing my fruit and veggies to that extent. If you can’t make safe food, I’ll simply buy organic, or grow it myself.
Blackberries and strawberries, along with the ever-popular blueberries, are listed in the "Dirty Dozen" as some of the most pesticide-laden produce grown in the United States, according to the annual 2026 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce.
Here are the best ways to wash them off: https://t.co/4FZoLSHY3V