My father in law is an animator. So I asked him why didn't they keep the old animation style of Shrek. I will never forget his answer.....
âWe canât, we donât know how to do it.â
THE ELITES WON'T TELL YOU THISâbut the science is clear.
The University of Nebraska just proved raising MORE COWS & eating MORE BEEF saves the planet.
Cows are carbon negativeâthey produce more oxygen than the methane & carbon they emit.
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
American bought his home and the monthly mortgage payment has been $3,741.72
His property tax just got reassessed and has been sent his new monthly bill in the mail
His payment is now $4,536 per month because of the property tax increase
âThis is how people aren't able to stay in their houses forever and lose their houses. Crazyâ
This should be federally illegally. Property tax increases are such a scam and straight extortion
Abolish property taxes
The Billionaires donât wake up at 5am. Teachers, nurses, bus drivers, etc., wake up at 5am. Billionaires wake up whenever they want because their wealth doesnât come from their own labor.
It comes from the labor of people who will never be billionaires.
đ âMy 87-year-old neighbor just dropped potato wisdom that saved me $200 this yearâŠâ
She pulled out a plain cardboard box, sprinkled a handful of baking soda like it was gold dust, and whispered, âThis is how we kept potatoes through the whole winter back home â no fridge, no chemicals, no sprouting.â
I thought she was joking⊠until I tried it.
Old-world potato preservation hack:
1. Place your potatoes in a cardboard box (breathable = key)
2. Generously dust them with baking soda
3. Tuck the box away in a cool, dark place (closet, pantry, under the bed)
4. Watch them stay firm and sprout-free for months
No more mushy potatoes. No more throwing away half the bag. Just simple, forgotten knowledge from a generation that didnât waste a single thing.
Who else is bringing back grandmaâs tricks in 2026? Drop a đ„ if youâre trying this!
Save this before your next grocery run. Your wallet (and your potatoes) will thank you. â€ïž