Robert Moraghan

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Soft on crime policies actually increase racism, xenophobia, anti-immigration sentiment, and other things that 'progressives' claim to worry about.

Nobody wants 'diversity' if they associate it with potentially getting stabbed, robbed, or raped.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

One thing about the 4HL is that it teaches you how to do things you dislike doing very well. It exercises that muscle. If you ever meet artists who never worked a real job, or people who grew up wealthy, or people in acdemia all their lives, they struggle with mundane admin tasks. It devastates them. Simple things like doing taxes or getting their license renewed.

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Who amongst us hasn’t wanted to throw a trashcan at a douche needlessly throwing revs on his crotch rocket as he rides through a peaceful street fair?

But you just can’t for dozens of reasons a judge will inevitably be reading off for you.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

40 years of age is midlife in absolute terms based on actuarial tables.

Because of how we experience time, it’s more like 60-70% of life is gone.

Each year moves faster.

That’s why I keep reminding people. You’re not young. You don’t have time. Gotta getting moving.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 A tragic theory is now emerging after inspections by the Finnish rescue team mapping the cave: the Italian divers in the Maldives may have gotten lost inside the underwater tunnels 🇮🇹🇫🇮

What remains certain is that this was an extremely dangerous activity

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

The vibes in NJ feel pretty great right now. The convergence in outcomes is the best I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - guys who own paving companies, guys who own marinas, ShopRite deli managers, Wawa shift leads, and a guy named Sal - have quietly become millionaires and nobody knows because they still drive a Silverado from 2008. Back of the envelope Taylor ham estimation.

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job their whole life and easily get there. My cousin works at PSE&G. He has a boat.
Better yet, hiring is in full swing. Many tradesmen feel like their life's skill is more useful than ever. The day to day role of most jobs has stayed exactly the same for 40 years.

As a result,

1) Everyone's settled into a tried and true set of career paths: take over my uncle's HVAC, get my CDL, get into landscaping, marry into a pizza place. People are switching diners less and less. You can't betray your home diner.

2) There's a deep contentment about work (and its future). Why chase "tech" when you can own three rentals in Hoboken and complain about your tenants at a barbecue. Will my job exist in a few years? This is Jersey. The job is paving things. You hear the "I'm never leaving" conversation a lot, especially from people who tried Brooklyn for a year. They come back saying the energy was off. The energy was fine. They missed their mom.

3) The mid to late middle managers feel energized. Many have families and plenty of energy to open a pizzeria with their cousin Anthony. Not that Anthony. The other one. They don't particularly have any AI skills and they don't need any. Middle management is alive and well at PSE&G and you get a pension. My uncle retired at 58. He's been on a boat since 2019.

4) The rich aren't particularly humble either.
They're at the shore house. They've been at the shore house since 1987. Some have gone from <$150k to >$5M slowly, through a paving company, or by buying a duplex in Jersey City in 2003 and just kinda holding it. For some, they escape to LBI to live life, which means sitting on a deck. For others, they buy a boat just cuz, use it four times, and describe it as the best decision they ever made at every party for the rest of their life. I asked a contractor friend why he didn't retire. He said "and do what, Donna does NOT want me home all day."

I understand many reading this scoff at the simple pleasures of the Garden State. They live in places where the bagels are bad and they've made peace with it.

But the truth is, you can surf Belmar in the morning, skate the Asbury bowls in the afternoon, hike the Delaware Water Gap, and camp the Pine Barrens by nightfall. You can drive an hour and be anywhere. You can see Bruce at the Stone Pony for what feels like the 400th time and cry about it. The slice somehow tastes better than every slice in every other state. It's the water. It's always the water.

Unlike many other places, knowing a guy, having a guy, and being a guy is tightly correlated with outcomes in NJ. Need a permit? Tony's brother. Need a kidney? Probably still Tony's brother. Call him.
Ironically, a frequent side effect of this clarity is to spin up the very pork roll egg and cheese making everyone happy in hopes that you too can SPK your way to economic enlightenment. Salt pepper ketchup. Hard roll. Don't ask for it on a bagel. That's how civilizations fall.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

94 year old Philip Springer plays Moonlight Sonata He played beautifully. What an amazing man. ❤

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

Fat women*

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

The relationship domain is enjoyable for a man. You only need to make sure one person cares. You develop your'e own culture, language and world together. You have a lot of freedom.

In the single domain you have to keep up to date with society. You have to impress many others. Your freedom is constrained. You need to be part of the game.

This is why people coming off of long relationships prefer to jump back into another long one, instead of sitting in the single domain.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

Remember the Roman army rule: action removes fear.

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

Marco Rubio finding out he has to run Spirit Airlines now too.

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

I’m going to repeat this until you all mute me:

The key issue of our time is the conflict between the equality that liberal democracy promises, and the extreme inequality that technocapitalism ultimately delivers.

It is the ur-conflict: everything else is but a manifestation.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

You may not eliminate microplastics entirely, but you can reduce your exposure.

Ditch:
-Plastic cutting boards
-Plastic water bottles
-Plastic food containers
-Nonstick cookware
-Plastic utensils

Choose glass, steel, cast iron, &amp; wood instead.

Have you started?

MAHA

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

Hey anyone wanna chat about the new record today I'll be here 6p EST!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

There's a Charlie Kirk message for everything being uncovered.

The man was wise beyond his years.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Friend was a juror in an eviction case in Los Angeles. Said he couldn’t believe. The tenant had no case. But “non-profits” funded by the state provide free representation, so why not live rent free is how they see it.

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

@farrxy Sand Castles

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

It’s Meat Machines! Which tells me most of y’all haven’t checked out our latest single, so here it is! Go listen to it and send it to your weirdest Uncle! @cl_delirium

https://t.co/Retfqx9yl0

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Old age is when memories and regrets start to outnumber dreams and ambitions.