ConnieB85

I know what it means to miss New Orleans, to miss it both night and day. Geaux Tigers!

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@CourtAnne1225 @FreddyLA7 @MyBamaBelle528 Focus, Freddy!🤣 You want to remember today and tonight. Skip the Hand Grenade, lol!

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@RaccoonCharm @FreddyLA7 I also vote for R&O’s and Parkway!! I’d do the beignets out in City Park. Cafe du Monde in the Quarter is too crowded and take up too much of your time. Ride the streetcar to Uptown and have a drink on the porch at The Columns Hotel on St. Charles Avenue if you have time.

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@realFishchaser @FreddyLA7 As Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast…” Geaux Tigers! 😁

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[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small piece of life advice for those who need it…

Never confuse forgiveness with granting somebody unrestricted access to your life again.

Forgiveness is about freeing yourself from anger, not volunteering for a second round of disappointment simply because somebody muttered the word “sorry” with the emotional depth of a parking fine appeal.

You are allowed to forgive people and still keep your distance.

You are allowed to wish them well whilst also preferring they do so somewhere far beyond your immediate atmosphere.

You are allowed to remember exactly what somebody revealed about themselves without carrying bitterness about it. That is not cruelty, it is wisdom acquired the expensive way.

Far too many people believe forgiveness should automatically restore their previous position in your life. It does not.

Trust is earned.
Access is earned.
Proximity is earned.

And if somebody is offended that you forgave them but did not hand them the keys back to the kingdom, what they wanted was not reconciliation. They wanted convenience without accountability.

Protect your peace accordingly.

The drawbridge exists for a reason.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

Why do they keep pushing mammograms when safer options exist?

Mammograms are a multi-billion-dollar industry that does more harm than good. They crush the breast under massive pressure and deliver ionizing radiation 1,000× stronger than a chest X-ray — which can stimulate tumor growth, spread cancer cells, and cause new cancers, heart disease, and lung cancer.

False-positive rate is 50-70%. For every 1 life possibly saved out of 2,000 women screened, 50 get unnecessary surgery/chemo/radiation, hundreds more endure extra radiation and biopsies, and 70-80% of “tumors” found aren’t even cancer.

Ultrasound and QT thermography use zero radiation, have far fewer false positives, 40× higher resolution than MRI, and detect abnormalities 8–10 years earlier. They’re already standard in countries that ditched harmful 3D mammograms. Yet insurance refuses to cover the better options.

Mammograms need to be a thing of the past.

[Noctara @rumilyrics]

Your entire life can really change in a year. You just gotta love yourself enough to know you deserve more, be brave enough to demand more, and be disciplined enough to actually work for more. You can do it. You got this.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Seed oils account for roughly 30% of global agricultural land use.

They take up about a third of the calories in the Western diet.

They provide approximately 0.01% of the world's vital micronutrients.

They deliver, in exchange, more oxidation, more inflammation, and more cytotoxic aldehydes than any human population has ever before been asked to metabolise.

Soybean, rapeseed and sunflower together occupy 191 million hectares of cropland to produce 121 million tonnes of oil. That is an area larger than the country of Mexico, growing seeds, to press out a substance that nobody ate before 1910.

The same hectare of land could grow 30 to 50 kilograms of actual vegetables, which contain actual vitamins, in place of one kilogram of refined oil that contains essentially nothing except energy and oxidative damage.

Forty football fields of native ecosystem are cleared every minute to make room for more of it.

And then people look you in the face and tell you that cattle farming is a terrible use of resources.

Cattle farming runs on grass that grows on land where nothing else can. It builds topsoil. It produces complete protein and the entire fat-soluble vitamin profile in one parcel.

The seed oil sector flattens forests to fill bottles with industrial lubricant.

Pick which one is the problem. Take your time.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Gatlin Didier @gatlin_didier]

When a tornado hits in 2027…👀

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@alittleleader He’s on my side! 😂😂😂

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Automobile kill-switches are coming soon to car dealerships near you.

I teamed up w/ Scott Perry & Chip Roy to defund this Orwellian mandate, but too many colleagues (Republican & Democrat) voted against us, so the federal mandate for every new car after 2026 is still in place.

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

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[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

This. Is. Terrifying.

This technology should NEVER be allowed to be used.

Ford can fvck right off and so can the Congress members who voted to put this tech in vehicles starting in 2027.

[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@ElkinsCattleCo @CaryKelly11 I love tenderloin; but, I had beef cheek several years ago in a restaurant and it was amazing. Working to incorporate more varieties of beef into my diet.

[ElkinsCattleCo @ElkinsCattleCo]

X family: We’re GIVING AWAY a full beef box this weekend!!!

USDA prime, grass-fed & finished, dry-aged beef— raised right here in Lampasas, Texas

What’s included:
– 2 ribeyes
– 2 flat irons
– 8 wagyu burger patties
– 2 lb ground beef
– king sized picanha
– cross cut bone-in short ribs

We’ll ship it straight to your door!!

to enter:
• follow @ElkinsCattleCo
• repost this
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must be in the U.S. (AK/HI not included)

Winner announced monday 04/27 at noon CT
ships out Tuesday 04/28

1 winner will be announced + DM’d from this account only. Good luck! 🙏🥩🇺🇸

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Was walking this morning, coffee in hand, just staring at these cherry blossoms.

The whites. The deep pinks. Perfect.

And it hit me…

Why can’t it always be like this?

If you’re into landscaping like I’ve become, you start thinking this way. Ever since my mother in law passed, I took her plants, started building something of my own, and now I’m always chasing that next bloom. April, May, June, July… something always flowering.

Trying to create constant beauty.

But standing there today, I caught myself.

If this lasted all year… would it even be special?

Or would it just become normal… something we stop noticing?

There’s a reason these trees explode like this and then fade. There’s a reason beauty comes in moments.

In our faith, we’re reminded that nothing here is permanent. Not the highs, not the lows, not even the beauty we try to hold onto.

As St. Isaac the Syrian said:
“A person who has not experienced sorrow will never know joy.”

That’s life.

You don’t get the blossom without the bare tree.

You don’t get the light without the darkness.

So maybe the goal isn’t to hold onto beauty forever.

Maybe it’s to recognize it when it’s right in front of you… and be grateful it showed up at all.

Just some thoughts while walking with a coffee this morning, and taking the time to write this watching the cherry blossoms..

[Bob Loukas 🗽 @BobLoukas]

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[ConnieB85 @ConnieB85]

@JustinRose99 @McIlroyRory Really hoped you’d get it this year. You’re one of the good guys.

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.