Baby Ellis Ross

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

Crying about my full time 80K job because its really not enough

its just not

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?

That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.

What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.

And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”

But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”

And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?

That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

go further.

arrive at 9, start at 10
stop everything at 4, leave at 5
take your FULL lunch break in-between

[💫𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸💫🪐 @Demo4fhs]

The real work-life balance is closing the laptop at 5 and refusing to read a single work message until tomorrow.

[Maryland Politics & News @AMinerDetail]

MARYLAND DATA CENTERS!

There are 52 data centers in Maryland.

- Frederick has 18, more than any county.

- Baltimore has 14.

- Residential electricity is up 44 percent since 2020, & the grid operator’s own monitor blames the centers first.

Bipartisan calls for a moratorium.

[Rodger @TheRodged]

The "you instantly die if you quit your job" economy.

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

@brwnbttwn PRETTY PLEASE!

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

dreamt I went to a house party with @brwnbttwn

I have never before done this

but damn do I feel good this morning 😂

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

tbh, if it has a flyer, ticket, ig page, etc...

I am no longer interested in going

[EarthtoGazelle @EarthToGazelle]

People only talk down on Aldi’s as a way to status signal btw.

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

@PinKIYSensei that was fun 😂

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

you see how i barely talk to people? very reserved, very antisocial, very to myself

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

@DejahNoVu Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we call "healing in real time" "pain to power" and "learn from your mistakes"

she did that 😍

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

as a rule of thumb I don't eat at restaurants with a "kids" section of the menu

you also won't catch me there if there's more than one location

these two things usually skip you over the sysco foolishness

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

MY Doc Holliday

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

When someone at a convention asked if Val Kilmer was difficult to work with, Michael Biehn said, “I don’t know.” Then paused and added, “I never met Val Kilmer while filming Tombstone (1993). I only met Doc Holliday.”

That’s how perfectly cast he was.

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

whoever said allergy pills for PMDD was onto something.

I haven't wanted to kill myself for like three days 😂

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

@25YearsAgoLive Teamsters is the most unserious union.

[Baby Ellis Ross @chelsearedd_]

This is why when 🥷🏾say they have a brand and its just t-shirts I explode internally

[Remington @CollectPanda33]

People poke fun at “oh they’re working with a fashion brand on space suits” whenever the Prada partnership is brought up. No, they’re not working with Prada the fashion brand. They’re working with Prada, the advanced textile manufacturer.