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[♒️ Tasha♒️ @Tasha_HTX]

Women begging for money ruined dating as well

[The bat from ferngully™️ @Thurgood_stubbz]

When a woman asks me for money

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My dad retired at 59

I will not

He had a pension. I have a 401k I can barely fund.

He bought his house at 28.
I can't touch a down payment at 30.
He paid $90 a month for health insurance. I pay $430.

At dinner he told me I need to be smarter with money.
I nodded.

Didn't tell him his entire life was built on an economy that no longer exists.

Didn't tell him my generation is paying for his Social Security while ours gets gutted.

Didn't tell him the ladder he climbed got pulled up right after him.

Just passed the potatoes.

Make it make sense

[Ⓜ️ayana @billiongjgly]

Someone said women trade like the British during colonialism

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.

It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.

In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.

The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.

This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.

Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.

Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

[v! @Vullety]

Makeup hides your beauty, haircuts reveal ours. Big difference

[Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt]

The constitution has, by and large, lost its meaning

[𝓡𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓲💋 @ohyessratii]

Late for a seat she paid for on a flight that hasn't taken off? Yeah get your ass tf up IMMEDIATELY wtf

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Rapper Kuttem Reese got pulled over, police found $60,000 in cash and a legal gun, and one officer was caught on bodycam saying "please be stolen" while counting the stacks.

"Please be stolen," on camera, in uniform. Not too smart

[sirhighbreed @sirhighbreed]

And go where? You can't even afford half the rent.😂😂

[MRS CANT BE FW. @_MiaaDior]

Not even on no pick me shit but I just feel like this a very bad character flaw ngl 😭 that is not cute at all.

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

Fellas never settle 😭🤞🏾

[вlαnc @dqveed]

How healthy it was to want to dress like that at 13 and not with lingerie or a thong half out of the jeans

[DJ Akademiks @Akademiks]

I ain’t gon lie.. ain’t no more infuriating feeling than seeing a nigga who owe u money.. makin it rain in the club flexing and not giving af.

[Maybe: Papi Women Neglecter vol 5 @JuicegawdinPriv]

This shit be killing me because why did that nigga pull a sack of coins out of his pants and wind it up like that 😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Iceberg Slime 🥶 @ForeverFlyMike]

Literally? Or figuratively? Cuz I’ve seen them do both

[Babalola Esq.⚖️ @Owiggy_]

The difference is that a fat man knows that he’s fat. When we call our fat male friend names like biggie, opom, they answer, they also joke with it.

A fat man will write “young biggie” at the back of his newly purchased jersey. Most fat men know it’s time to hit the gym. Fat men know the reality, they embrace it, they live with it.

Now you see fat women, they create different phrases to keep being delusional. Names like, body positivity, plus-size, chubby. When in reality we all know that there’s nothing positive about being fat, we all know how dangerous it is to the health.

Hit the gym today, Fatty

[Lions Superfan Carl McJenkins @CarlMcJenkins]

Absolutely. I saw this. Took advantage of it. Drove 130 on 96 back and forth. It was sick.

[NNEOMA 🇮🇹 @sparkliin]

Dumping her after you make it, because she’s no longer your type, is completely valid.