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[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@TJandCasper I think people are worried about the government taxing us workers more when your trust fund runs out. We just didn't want to be taxed more

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@jimiuorio What does that even mean though? When the trust fund runs out, where are you going to get the money from? We already spend 2 trillion more than we take in, in good times even.

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@mbalis_bakery So that's where Pepto bismal comes from

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@JackPosobiec Gen Y is millennial though. It goes Gen X, Gen Y (millennial), Gen Z (kids of Gen X), Gen Alpha (kids of millennials)

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@MattWallace888 Watching these scenes, remember that Mexico has some of the most restrictive gun controls on Earth for its law-abiding citizens

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@MikeBeauvais Not accurate. The Nazis at least got the Ark in the end

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

THE SILVER SINGULARITY

One thousand tonnes.

That is all it took.

A single order from India in October 2025 sent silver lease rates from 0.3% to 39.2% overnight. The London Bullion Market Association, backbone of global precious metals settlement, watched free-floating inventory collapse to 155 million ounces. Six weeks of supply. For the entire planet.

Silver entered backwardation for the first time in 45 years. Spot prices exceeded futures by $2.88. Swiss refiner METALOR exited the market entirely. The infrastructure that settles trillions in paper claims was stress-tested against physical reality.

Physical reality won.

The numbers tell a story the financial establishment refused to hear:

Five consecutive years of structural deficit. 796 million ounces consumed beyond production since 2021. Ten months of global mine supply, gone. Not recycled. Not recovered. Consumed into solar cells, electronics, medical devices. Dissipated into applications from which silver never returns.

Here is what they never explained: 72% of silver emerges as byproduct from copper, lead, zinc, and gold mining. When silver prices doubled, supply did not respond. It cannot respond. The decision to produce silver is made by executives optimizing for other metals entirely.

Price cannot solve a problem price cannot reach.

The consequences arrived in 2025. Silver shattered its 1980 record, surging 120% to $64.65. India announced silver as bank loan collateral. The first formal remonetization since 1873. The United States added silver to its Critical Minerals List. First time in history.

The metal dismissed for decades as gold's volatile sibling has become the chokepoint of the energy transition, the constraint on solar deployment, the shortage no substitution can solve within the timeline that matters.

You were told silver was a relic.

The vaults emptying across London, New York, and Shanghai suggest otherwise.

The repricing has begun.

Read the full article here - https://t.co/MrIQPKGL80

[Stu thats all you get🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Boldyboy1975]

This is the reason why I pay for internet 🤣

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@KtBird9 @WallStreetApes The poster is 100% correct. I know a USDA agent that investigates this fraud day in and day out. Cards do nothing to cut out fraud, but at least helps keep a paper trail to investigate.

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@MarkRea33935465 @CynicalPublius I feel like your last sentence threw off your whole post

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@JCRyle Yes and yes. It was like Easter or Christmas, couldn't get a seat.

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@danieljgoeddel @GigaBasedDad Some Protestants understand the concept, while others don't. On Billy Graham's tomb: "Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address.

[Based Bandita @BasedBandita]

😂😂😂 I love these Yeti videos

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@KimiGoatanelli Man, if only there was some objective way of measuring temperature across different regions. Alas, one can only dream

[Thomas Edwards @Ttwin85]

@AmericaPapaBear I'm confused. Is GenX supposed to be the most badass generation of kids, but the gentlest, least effective generation of parents?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American shows the parking garage of the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon

“These are the stairs you're required to walk up to get to the Barnes and Noble — Lots of graffiti, lots of gross stuff on the ground, lot of rotting food, feces. It's hard to describe the smell, but it's horrific.”

This is a huge mall with over 100 retail stores. This is Democrat leadership

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

I can’t stop laughing at this… a classic by @ChingoBling!

😂😂😂

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

...This is a fundamental fight over the right of parents to instill moral values in their children. As on earlier controversies over parental rights, Democrats may find that this is not partisan; it is primal for parents. https://t.co/BRH3AmjeDf

[Tosca Austen @ToscaAusten]

Become unrecognizable. Do the opposite of what government recommends for your health.❤️