Dan Hinde

Dan is the former judge of the 269th Dist. Court of Harris County, Texas. He now mediates & arbitrates cases and serves as a visiting judge and special master.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

@SeanTrende But did Odysseus and his men really encounter giants, a cyclops, a witch, or monsters? Those scenes are shown in flashback as he tries to remember what happened before Calypso found him. And she was pushing him to eat a hallucinogenic flower to remember. Unreliable narrator?

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

“And as a symbol of our independence, we will say the month first instead of the date. March 12th instead of the 12th of March, October 3rd instead of the 3rd of October, etc.”

“And July 4th instead of 4th of July, sir?”

“No. That one stays.”

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."

"When is a player offsides?"

"Whenever anything exciting happens."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Heatherheather007 @LibertyValkyrie]

A Coast Guard vessel makes contact with Kelsey Pfendler about 500mi off the coast of Hawaii, and the entire ship sings her HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and offers her words of encouragement as she finishes her row.

Pfendler is on track to be the first American Woman to row solo & unsupported from CA to Hawaii.

She’s less than 500mi from her destination, and has been rowing for over 30 days.

She’s gone VIRAL, as she’s posted periodic updates, documenting how she’s surviving in the middle of the ocean, alone.

Loved this very honest moment, of men and women who’ve been as sea for their entire career, saluting this woman’s accomplishments.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

When Einstein supposedly quipped that man’s greatest invention was compound interest, he was pointing to a much deeper, more serious point. Compound interest led to the discovery of e, which then helped scientists and mathematicians unlock profound new theories.

[Math Files @Math_files]

In 1683, the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli made an important discovery while thinking about money and interest.

He was studying what happens when interest is added not just once a year, but again and again in smaller and smaller steps. As he followed this idea further, he came across a special number.

That number was later called e.

At first, it appeared in problems about compound interest. But over time, mathematicians realized that this number was far more powerful. It shows up whenever something grows or changes continuously—like populations, radioactive decay, or even the way heat spreads.

Today, e is known as one of the most important numbers in mathematics, standing proudly beside 0, 1, π, and i. What began as a question about money turned into a discovery that shapes much of modern science.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

@BridgetMaryMc @JudgeDillard Hinde, J., concurring.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Military experts later confirmed that Chuck Norris and Walter Payton together on the same boat was temporarily the world’s fourth-strongest navy.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

I have a son going through this now. Just completing the lengthy, detailed applications causes him immense stress.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Have a child going through the selective college admissions process for the first time and the system seems designed specifically to maximize stress for student and parents alike. The process has gotten worse in recent years and will will keep getting worse until it breaks.
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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"I'm Big Joe. 58. Long-haul trucker.
Been driving 18-wheelers for 34 years. Sleep in my cab. Eat at truck stops. Talk on CB radio to stay awake.
Lonely job. But someone's gotta move America's stuff.
Two years ago, I'm driving through Nebraska. 2 a.m. See a car pulled over. Hazards on.
Woman standing outside. Looking scared.
I pulled over. She backed away when she saw me. I'm 6'4", 280 pounds, covered in tattoos. I get it.
"Ma'am, I'm not stopping to hurt you. I'm stopping to help. What's wrong?"
Her car died. Phone dead. She'd been there three hours. Nobody stopped.
"Where you headed?"
"Hospital. Omaha. My daughter's in emergency surgery. I have to get there."
No hesitation. "Get in. I'll take you."
"In your truck?"
"Safest vehicle on this highway."
She hesitated. Then got in.
Drove her 60 miles out of my way. Got her there in time. She hugged me hard.
"Nobody stops anymore," she cried. "Thank you for seeing me."
Got back on the road. Couldn't stop thinking about it.
Got on the CB. Told other truckers. "We see everything out here. We should do something."
Started a code. "Code Angel" we call it. When truckers see someone broken down, stranded, in trouble, we stop. We help.
Word spread. Truckers across the country joined.
Last year, we helped 1,200 people. Dead batteries. Out of gas. Medical emergencies. Domestic violence victims escaping. Runaways needing safe transport to shelters.
We've got a network now. Truckers, CB radio, truck stops. Someone needs help? We mobilize.
Saved six lives last year. People broken down in dangerous spots. Diabetics in crisis. A kidnapping victim we spotted and reported.
But here's my favorite story.
Last month, I'm at a truck stop. Young kid approaches me. Maybe 19. Scared.
"Are you Big Joe?"
"Yeah."
"You know how to ride in a truck?"
His eyes filled. "You'd help me?"
"That's what we do."
I didn't go to San Francisco. But I got him to a trucker who was. She took him the rest of the way.
He made it. Safe.
Now there's 4,000 truckers in Code Angel. We've got an app. Dispatchers. Resources.
News called us "Guardian Angels of the Highway."
But we're just truckers. Doing what's right.
That woman in Nebraska? Her daughter survived surgery. She sends me Christmas cards every year.
The kid I helped? He's in college now. Studying social work. Says he wants to help invisible people like truckers helped him.
I'm Big Joe. I drive a truck. Sleep in parking lots. Smell like diesel.
But I learned something.
The loneliest roads are where people need help most. And the scariest-looking people are sometimes the ones who stop.
So tomorrow, if you break down, if you're stranded, if you're running from something bad,
Look for the trucks. We're watching. We're listening.
We might look rough. But we'll get you home.
Because the highway doesn't have to be lonely.
Not when 4,000 truckers refuse to drive past people in trouble."
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Let this story reach more hearts....
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By Grace Jenkins

[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

Who did this? 😂

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

You're a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .

Its November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.

God bless our vets!

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

Saw this in the office of my daughter’s oral surgeon. I didn’t know he moonlighted as the Captain-General of the Golden Company! IYKYK. #ASOIAF #GameofThrones #Bittersteal

[Just Bill @WilliamAder]

We didn't have all these problems back when Pluto was a planet.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

To be fair, I couldn’t have done any better . . .

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

One of the best free kick ever!!

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

About twelve years ago, I arrested a kid for shoplifting. There was a mall in the area that had a heavy shoplifting problem, so my precinct had a no tolerance policy towards it.

As I was sitting with him to fill out the juvenile arrest packet, he and I started talking. He wasn’t a bad kid; just made a dumb decision. We started talking about cologne and he said he always wanted a good cologne. I told him I had a few used bottles and to see me in a week. I told him if he went a month without getting into trouble, I’d give him another one of my old bottles.

He went a month without getting into anything and we talked some more and I gave him a bottle.

I’d see him from time to time while patrolling and we’d talk more. I wound up giving him my personal cell number and told him to call me when he needed to talk.

He called every now and again and after I left that particular precinct, we’d check in with each other.

Eventually, we stopped talking. Happens…

I got a random text a few days ago from him, letting me know he’d moved to Virginia, had a family, and was continuing to stay out of trouble. He’s a mechanic now. It’s been heavy on my mind ever since, especially since I struggle with wondering if I’m making an impact to anyone.

For my cops out there, not every person you arrest is a horrible person. Sometimes, they just need someone to talk to.

For my cops haters out there, not every cop is one of the “bad ones” you see on tv. We’re people, too.

We all have more in common than we think. Don’t let the ruling class divide us.

[Adam Spolane @AdamSpolane]

30 years ago today David Robinson was awarded the NBA MVP before game two of the Western Conference Finals against the Rockets. Hakeem Olajuwon, who finished fifth, scored 41 points and led the Rockets to a 106-96 win. Here are all 18 of Olajuwon's made baskets from that game

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

Secretariat has become the Edward III of American thoroughbred horses.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The craziest stat I’ve seen about this year’s Kentucky Derby is that every single horse in this year’s race is a descendant of Secretariat.

[Dan Hinde @JudgeDanHinde]

@jodyssanders Don’t bury the lede. State your best point or highlight the other side’s weakest argument in the first sentence.