Djhogness

Happy Warrior. Dying mix of old world and old school. GOT meets Suits and Friends. Contrarian conservative living in China!

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This is the Parody of Vanilla ICE by Jim Carrey 🤣😂. The REAL VANILLA ICE MAN is Going Rock the White House so hard people are Gonna Self Deport! 😂🤣

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

Joe Biden meets Charlie Kirk at the gates of Heaven.

[Djhogness @djhogness]

@TJStats Please get your politics out of the sport!

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

-Companies realizing a lot of entry-level white-collar work can be automated or reduced with AI.

-Companies offshoring labor to cheaper countries.

-Millions of students graduating with degrees that don’t map cleanly to actual market demand

[Djhogness @djhogness]

@BestMovieMom Two characters I’d love to see Nolan take a crack at are Gambit and Green Lantern

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

This is what men really want

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary says social media buried the 20 people in your life who actually matter...

He repeats the line on television. He says it to his MBA students. He says it to anyone who asks why he doesn't soften his answers.

"Most people only have 20 people in their lives that mean anything to them. Their family, maybe an extended family, some close friends. There's not 200 people you spend every day with."

He calls it your 20. Everyone else is the audience.

His operating rule for the audience is colder than most parents would say out loud:

"If you try to live your life pleasing everybody, you're going to fail. You cannot make everybody happy."

O'Leary built three companies. He fires people on national television. The only respect he guards is the respect of the 20. The other twenty thousand can dislike him. They do.

He upset Billie Eilish on a stage. He upset half of CNN's audience on air. He says he hasn't lost a minute of sleep over either.

"I think people dislike me. Many do. But I believe that most of them respect me, even though they don't like me. That's because I never lie about anything. Sometimes that causes a lot of problems."

Then the feed redrew the map.

We started spending emotional bandwidth on strangers whose names we don't know. We answered family texts on a 3-day delay. We optimized for the 20,000. We outsourced the 20.

The 20 didn't change. We just stopped looking at them.

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— Kevin O'Leary ( @kevinolearytv ), chairman of O'Leary Ventures and Shark Tank investor, on Graham Stephan's ( @GrahamStephan ) and Jack Selby's ( @jackselby27 ) Iced Coffee Hour podcast

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This 1969 “Impossible Pie” is made entirely in a blender.

You just add butter, sugar, milk, eggs, shredded coconut, flour, and vanilla, blend it all together, pour it into a pie pan, bake and refrigerate. That’s it. No mixing bowls, no complicated steps.

The guy in the video was pretty skeptical at first, but once it came out of the oven and he saw how it turned out, he was genuinely surprised.

Would you try this retro blender pie?

[🚫👁️Drinks on Saturday🇺🇸 @drinkonsaturday]

The hotel room theory:

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

You spend $27.40 a day without thinking twice. David Bach showed Mel Robbins what that money becomes if you invest it instead: $4.4 million by retirement. Same dollars, opposite outcome:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

For years, Europe’s economy was about the size of America’s. Not today.

Today, the U.S. is 50% RICHER--despite the EU having 100 million MORE people.

What changed?

[Djhogness @djhogness]

@HotStoveintel It’s been awhile but seems like the Astros should go all in on a rebuild. Y Alvarez for Seth Hernandez and a top 200 prospect get it done?

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

Baby and Chimp baby can’t stop smiling at each other! 😍❤️ Separated by glass, united by pure joy.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

The traditional gavage practice of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a custom that forcibly fattens girls aged 5-15 for marriage.

They are force-fed milk and high-calorie foods several times a day. If they refuse, they are subjected to torture and having their toes crushed.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

The Invisible Glass Experiment

Scientists once conducted a fascinating experiment with a pike and an aquarium.

They placed a transparent glass barrier in the middle of the tank. On one side was a large, hungry pike. On the other side swam several small fish.

As soon as the pike spotted the smaller fish, it launched itself forward to attack.

Bang! It crashed headfirst into the invisible glass and was thrown backward.

Undeterred, the pike tried again... and again. Each attempt ended the same way a painful collision. After repeated failures , its head became bruised and some of its scales were knocked loose.

Eventually, the pike gave up. It retreated to a corner of the tank, clearly frightened and defeated.

Then, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier.

The small fish now swam freely around the entire aquarium some even passing right in front of the pike’s mouth.

But the pike never attacked again.

Even though it was starving, it refused to strike. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there.

A few days later, the pike died of starvation surrounded by abundant food it could no longer bring itself to eat.

This phenomenon is known as the Pike Effect (or Pike Syndrome).

It serves as a powerful metaphor for how repeated failures and setbacks can create invisible mental barriers that limit us long after the real obstacles have disappeared.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Florida - 11 million ballots one day

Texas - 11.4 million ballots one day

India - 640 million ballots one day

Brazil - 125 million ballots 3 hours

UK - 28 million ballots 7 hours

France - 35 million ballots one day

California - 16 million ballots 38 DAYS

[Djhogness @djhogness]

@fantasybbhero Who to promote Sirota or de Paula?

[Djhogness @djhogness]

@Dukeswasmyguy If the Astros go full rebuild at the trade line, would it make sense to the Pirates to Seth and a top 200 prospect?for Alvarez

[ADA @Uc_heyy02]

The downfall of Game of Thrones started years before the final season.

It started when HBO removed some of the most important characters from the books and hoped nobody would notice.

Most viewers still have no idea how different the real story actually is and how well the show would have done if we had these characters:

👑 Aegon VI Targaryen (Young Griff), a charismatic young prince raised in secret and backed by powerful allies. In the books, he’s already invading Westeros and may be Daenerys’ biggest rival for the Iron Throne.

🩸 Lady Stoneheart, the resurrected Catelyn Stark. She leads the Brotherhood Without Banners and wages a ruthless campaign of vengeance against everyone connected to the Red Wedding.

🦅 Jon Connington, Rhaegar Targaryen’s closest friend and former Hand of the King. Exiled for years, he returns to Westeros determined to put Aegon on the throne before time runs out.

Removing these characters changed the entire board.

Which cut character hurt the show the most?
Aegon VI? Lady Stoneheart? Jon Connington?

Or is there someone even more important HBO left out?
I still think Aegon VI’s removal had the biggest impact on the ending.