Eric Aasen

[Dawid Pałka @Dawid_Palka_]

Po 20 latach małżeństwa muszę w końcu powiedzieć to głośno...

Z moją żoną nie łączy mnie już nic.

Poznaliśmy się na egzaminie na filozofię ponad 20 lat temu. Byliśmy młodzi i głupi, nie słuchając rozsądnych opinii szybko wzięliśmy ślub.

A potem życie zrobiło swoje i dziś żyjemy w dwóch różnych światach.

Ona: dzieci, szkoła, dydaktyka, nauka, góry, natura, koty, dramaty.
Ja: firmy, fundusze, inwestycje, biznes, miasto, beton, psy, komedie.

Ona: kreatywna, empatyczna, marzycielska.
Ja: analityczny, rzeczowy, osadzony w faktach.

Zero wspólnych pasji.
Zero wspólnych zainteresowań.
Nie śmieszą nas te same rolki na Instagramie.

Każdy terapeuta ze śniadaniowej telewizji wystawiłby naszemu małżeństwu akt zgonu. Znajomi pewnie się zastanawiają, kiedy ogłoszę rozwód.

No to ogłaszam...

Kocham tę kobietę bardziej niż 20 lat temu!

I kiedy wieczorem opowiada mi o rzeczach, które kompletnie mnie nie interesują, słucham jej z przyjemnością, której nie tłumaczy żaden poradnik.

Bo przez te 20 lat zrozumiałem coś, co przeczy wszystkiemu, co wciskają nam media.

Wspólne pasje to nie budulec związku. To dekoracja. Ludzie po latach idą różnymi drogami, w różnym tempie i to nie jest awaria. Tak wygląda życie.

Prawdziwy budulec jest inny. Chcesz dla drugiej osoby lepiej niż dla siebie. Jej potrzeby stawiasz nad swoje. Wolisz dawać, niż brać. Jeśli tego nie ma, nie uratują was nawet identyczne playlisty.

Więc jeśli twoja druga połówka to twoje przeciwieństwo, przestań to naprawiać. Może właśnie tam mieszka wasz sekret.

Nie musicie kochać tych samych rzeczy.
Wystarczą te same wartości, ten sam kierunek, szacunek do różnic i troska o drugą połowę większa niż o siebie.

I na koniec coś, co zrozumiałem dopiero niedawno...

Przez 20 lat moja żona każdego dnia miała powody, żeby wybrać inaczej. Innego człowieka, inne życie, inny świat; bliższy jej gór niż mojego betonu.
Mimo to każdego dnia wybierała to samo... mnie.

Miłość to nie jest coś, co się czuje. To coś, co się codziennie wybiera.
Od 21 lat jestem czyimś wyborem i jestem z tego naprawdę dumny...

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"In other words, when people choose their occupations according to what the public wants and is willing to pay for. that is ‘greed,’ but when the public is forced to pay for what the anointed want done, that is ‘public service.’"

— Thomas Sowell

[Eric Aasen @AasenEric]

@HiltonHotels @Home2Suites If anyone replies, I won’t see it as I have to save battery on my phone. Monday of this week the power outage lasted from midnight to 7 am

[Eric Aasen @AasenEric]

@HiltonHotels @Hilton @Home2Suites I am in my dark room at the Home2Suites Ormond Beach FL. there is no power in my room.Twice in three days this has happened. I’m with a group of about 50 kids with 6 other adults. Something must be done….a comp request will be forthcoming

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

If you are convinced that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that humans are destroying the planet, why not just, oh, I don’t know, off yourself? I mean, that’s a very reasonable thing to ask. That’s how you quit contributing to the problem you describe. It’s a win-win for all of us.

[Eric Aasen @AasenEric]

@Super70sSports Wrigley Field, SRO

[Eric Aasen @AasenEric]

@pmarca It was a glorious time

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Motherfucker was listening to a cassette.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Eric Aasen @AasenEric]

@KELOSports @kelostormcenter Move your weather crawl down to the bottom of the screen, you’re covering up the clock on the game.

[MN House GOP Rapid Response @MNHRCWarRoom]

BREAKING: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson exposes the true level of fraud in Minnesota. "Every day we look under a rock and find a new $50 million fraud scheme."

"[Minnesota] is an outlier in a bad way. You don't see fraud on this scale in other states."

"Traditional Medicare/Medicaid fraud is people overbilling. Upcoding. Instead of billing for a service with a relatively modest reimbursement, you claim you're providing a higher dollar value service. You're maybe making 20% more - padding your bills."

"What I think is unique to Minnesota is that's not what we're looking at. What we're seeing is programs that are just entirely fraudulent. These aren't companies that are providing some services but overbilling Medicare and Medicaid, these are companies that are providing NO services. They're essentially shell companies created to defraud the program. That's unique to Minnesota."

[John Rain @johnthenoticer]

Being “far-right” in 2025 just means having the same views as 99.9% of all humans who ever lived up until the 21st century…

You’re not far-right, you’re just normal.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

You can punish all White people for something a White dude did hundreds of years ago but DON’T you DARE punish the Somalis for something tons of Somalis do every day

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

@Oilfield_Rando

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

If you think that doing this to our natural landscape is going to make the environment better, you aren’t a serious person and should be ignored.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Is CO2 the climate control knob?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Naturally occurring warming over several hundred years were fully responsible for higher CO₂ not human society, a new study has found. Warmer temperatures & CO₂ increases were caused by geological & biological processes not industrialisation. The report demolishes the UN's 40 years climate crisis narrative, which led to the west dismantling cheap, affordable energy for costly, inefficient wind & solar alternatives. One estimate of the cost of renewables is $178 trillion by 2030. Most western nations are in economic collapse. The study said human society emitted only 3% of all global CO₂ & it was warmer temperatures causing CO₂ increases not the other way round.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Capitalism has been so successful at eradicating poverty, hunger, and hardship that it gave rise to a generation utterly detached from the realities of production, trade, and effort. They’ve grown up in comfort, surrounded by abundance, and instead of gratitude, they respond with resentment, as if wealth is the natural state of things and capitalism is just getting in the way of even more.

In any other era, these people would be forced to confront the consequences of their delusions. But capitalism, in its brilliance, has created so much surplus that even the most useless ideologues can eat well, live long, and tweet their hatred for markets from devices built by free enterprise.

It’s the spoiled child biting the hand that feeds him, not out of hunger, but because he’s been fed too well for too long.

They hate capitalism not because it failed, but because it succeeded so thoroughly that it protected them from ever having to grow up.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"When you consider what an enormous windfall gain it is to be born in America, it is painful to hear some people complain bitterly that someone else got a bigger windfall gain than they did."

— Thomas Sowell