Cultivating the virtue of purity is indispensable in a genuinely Catholic home. Without it, the family enters a downward spiral that could lead to its ultimate moral and material decay. To read more, go to: https://t.co/0V4QVWI3wt
You pay property tax on land you already own.
Miss a payment and the county sells it out from under you.
You're renting from the government. They just call it property tax.
Across this country, those bills add up to roughly 860 billion dollars a year. In 11 months of this fiscal year, the federal government spent 1.96 trillion dollars it doesn't have.
The Real Estate Mindset crew put those two numbers next to each other, and the gap is the story. The deficit is more than double what every property owner in America hands over, and 40 trillion in national debt sits behind it.
The money comes from people who own land and earn a paycheck. The people spending it send the invoice after the fact.
The land is in my name. The tax bill doesn't care.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
"How do I start posting online"
- Pick a fucking idea
- Stop trying to find the perfect one
- Write the first thing that comes to mind
- Rewrite it slightly better, then post
Just get in the habit of writing out interesting ideas and trust that you'll get better over time (you know, how everything else in life works).
🗂️ Ever seen those tiny images of old documents on sheets of film? That’s microfiche! So, how do those go from film to the Internet Archive? See how these records are digitized at the Physical Archive tour!
It's a once-a-year opportunity to witness preservation processes up close.
📆 Tues, Oct 20
🕕 6–8 PM
📍 IN-PERSON: Richmond, CA
🎟️ https://t.co/su4ZvrreUV
Every inch of these walls was made to lift your eyes to heaven. Tens of millions of tiny mosaic tiles, all put in place by hand. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
Lord, let beauty draw us closer to You. 🙏
“Coyote vs. Acme,” the live-action/animation hybrid that was dumped by Warner Bros. and rescued by Ketchup Entertainment, crossed the $100 million mark at the global box office this weekend.
The success of the movie cannot be overstated. We look at how the movie, dumped by Warner Bros., made a miraculous return thanks to efforts from Maximum Effort and 42West that leaned on its death and resurrection.
More: https://t.co/FDVJeal0Le
Watch the historic beatification of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen live from St. Louis on Sept. 24, as the pioneering 20th-century Catholic media evangelist is raised to the altars.
https://t.co/YSTmNOjeQV
@Catholicizm1 The USCCB is likely ashamed and embarrassed that this snuck through. The surge in comparisons between Sheen and present-day bishops in the US will only make the ideological and theological divide more obvious, going forward.
“The chalice became too heavy to hold as I felt it pulled down to rest upon the altar,”...
Priest describes tearful ‘spiritual experience’ during consecration after video goes viral online https://t.co/XNinYSRqAv
Fred Kummerow told America in 1957 that the fat in margarine was turning up in the arteries of the dead. The government acted on it in 2015. He was 100.
He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, and what he had done was simple and slightly grim. He got hold of tissue from people who had died of heart disease and looked at what their arteries were made of. They were full of trans fats, a kind of fat that barely exists in nature and came, in 1957, from one place: the hydrogenated vegetable shortening and margarine the country had just been told to eat in place of butter.
He published it in Science. He was 43.
What followed was a career spent being ignored by experts. The oil industry had friends on every committee. His funding grew thin. In 1968 he talked a panel of the American Heart Association into warning about trans fats, and the warning was pulped and reprinted without it after the shortening makers saw a draft.
Kummerow kept working. He kept his laboratory into his nineties. And he kept eating, quite deliberately and in front of journalists, the diet he had been told would kill him. Eggs cooked in butter. Whole milk. Red meat. He had looked inside the arteries himself and he had not found breakfast in there.
In 2009, aged 94, he filed a formal petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to ban artificial trans fats. The law gave the agency 180 days to answer. Four years later it had not, so in 2013, at 98, he sued the United States government.
Three months after that the FDA announced it agreed with him. The ban was confirmed in 2015. The gap between his paper and the decision was 58 years, which is longer than most of the people who ate the margarine got.
He died in 2017, at 102.
And he spent those last years on a second warning, which has been received exactly as the first one was. The problem, he said, was never the cholesterol in the egg. It is the vegetable oil in the fryer, heated and reheated until it oxidises, and then eaten.
On the record so far, that one is due to be acted upon in about 2070.
Just to be clear about where we are with open source code these days. In 2026, developers are asking COURTS for permission to publish software. Asking for protection from future prosecution, and still not getting it.
@LewellenMichael is doing exactly that. After watching Roman Storm v. USA, he does not feel safe shipping his code.
Case: https://t.co/aOm4XUEn0j
5th Circuit Appeal: https://t.co/mfJtkhx3bF
Researchers gave office workers who lived under LEDs a 60W incandescent desk lamp. Two weeks later, every one of them had their color vision improve by 25%.
The government banned those bulbs in 2022 for "wasting" energy as infrared.
But that "waste" is actually one of the most important nutrients our bodies depend upon, and the improvement lasted for weeks after the lamps were taken away (while nothing changed in the controls).
Decades of forgotten research show the artificial light we replaced it with is a root cause of many inexplicable illnesses (e.g., insomnia, obesity, cancer, and hyperactivity in children). Here I show what that research found and how a bill now before the Senate can bring these bulbs back.🧵 https://t.co/lyYVvZrtnS
Trads used to celebrate nature
Why Ember Days matter more than you think — Tradition Explained with Dr. Mike Foley
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Those who know who Jesus Christ is...SEE Him in others...and in SEEING him in others...They respond in kind.....I can teach you the meaning of the entire Gospel in five words
YOU - DID - IT - TO - ME
"Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking off every yoke? Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry, bringing the afflicted and the homeless into your house; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; Your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: “Here I am!” If you remove the yoke from among you, the accusing finger, and malicious speech; If you lavish your food on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your gloom shall become like midday"
- Isaiah 58 (6 - 10)
https://t.co/ftycDXpjg8
Hackers ripped a Flock camera off a pole, dumped what was stored on it, and handed the files to WIRED and 404 Media.
One camera. 21 days.
~50,000 vehicles. 1.6 million images. About 3,300 cars a day. Peak day: 4,454.
Flock sold this as “license plate readers” with on-device encryption. The software on that box wasn’t just reading plates. It was tagging vehicles, bikes, and people. Dozens of shots of a single car. Bumper stickers. Even an American flag patch on a motorcycle bag.
They put the encryption key on the camera. Then acted shocked when somebody opened it.