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NBA Youngboy enthusiast 💚 professional chair

[Wabi Sabi @TheWabiSabiLife]

"The Light Within" by American artist Karl J. Kuerner 1996

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

Markus Matthias Krüger - "Poplar Avenue in the Storm" (2010)

[🖤 @fooledhermit]

@lognostwin @Luhgeekkk But this taught means that nobody is immune to propaganda, even myself

[Luquita @Urbiet4]

Un ser humano angelado que tuvo que crearse sus propios demonios para poder afrontar el peso de ser un Dios.

[Marvel Rivals Intel @RivalsAssembled]

Remember who the real enemies are! The power creep is unreal.

Via/ForeignExchangeHere

[Bostero @Volve10Riquelme]

Montiel cuando tenga que marcar a Lamine Yamal

[sea @neverlie]

This is obviously a lesbian couple right?

[Maurício Mendes @mauriciojornal_]

O cara fez o vídeo mais depressivo da história e foi dormir.

Olha essa transição.

[sea @neverlie]

Neymar doesn’t deserve this 💔

[sea @neverlie]

Brazil failed Neymar but he never failed them.
What a beautiful end to his career.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

G.K. Chesterton, what a line

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The Mailbox Test, like the breakfast test, is an excellent way to tell who you can allow to wield power in your society.

Goes like this:

If someone is hurt trying to destroy someone else's stuff in order to take pleasure from their pain, do you sympathize with...

The aggressor because he got hurt?

Or with the guy who owns the stuff, because he wasn't the aggressor?

You can have people in your society who fail the Mailbox Test. That's okay... they can work at hospices, or shelters for orphaned kittens, or something.

But you cannot allow them to vote, or otherwise wield political power. Because if you do, they will open the gates of the city to the enemy.

I am personally tired of everyone pretending that people who enjoy ruining things for random strangers are just kewt smol beans who are only aggressive because of all the complex socioeconomic factors and lack of resources.

They knew someone would be hurt by what they did. They knew that someone had done literally nothing harmful to them. And those two ideas, in combination made them feel pleasure. And they went and did it.

That is the sign of a rotten soul.

Defending ourselves and our property is not just a right, it's a moral obligation. Otherwise, we just kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with, someone who may not be able to defend herself.

I don't care if a vandal breaks his arms trying to destroy my stuff. Because I value my stuff more than a vandal's arms. And the fact that he tried to destroy somebody else's stuff shows that he, too, values his arms less than the opportunity to hurt somebody.

We cannot allow such people inside the city, and we cannot give the keys to those who would open the gates for them.

[Nino @Dat_boy_nino]

My biggest joy is we watched these two go head to head not one's but twice in a freaking ucl finals, because if we didn't the English media would have done everything within their power to tell us pep wouldn't have stood a chance against Fergie and most People would have believed it... Thank God 2009 & 2011 finals happened.

[Troy Frasier AKA Revived Studios @RevivedThoughts]

The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.

They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.

Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.

Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.

We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.

[Callum @AkkadSecretary]

Adjusting for inflation we can see what life should be:

Average income ~$40,500
New House ~$91,300
New car ~$20,100
Average rent ~$630 per month
Harvard ~$9,800 per year
Movie ticket: ~$5.85
Gas ~$2.34
Postage stamp ~$0.70

Doesn't even account increased productivity from tech

[alien @alienincrisis]

theres a reason why you dont remember half of your life

[Lluís Gibert @lluisgibert]

No havia vist que Sorloth li fot un cop de braç a la cara. Avui en dia no es pot ser un jugador honrat. Sorloth es llença i Eric no. Això és el futbol dels fons d'inversió.

[fooo @bitcoinpanda69]

As a stay at home husband, I spend most of my days and weeks lifting, tanning, training martial arts, and reading philosophy

when my haggard, hedge fund manager wife gets home from her 110 hour a week j*b to fund my lifestyle, I gotta say I am so pissed off she has been neglecting me

And she is always forgetting to pick up the milk at the store (I told her multiple times)

I know it's bad, but if she's tired maybe she should work less? Also if she even gave a shit about me at all, she would find a way make the time for me

and she's barely ever "in the mood"

Anyway that's why I'm cheating on her, which she deserves