I am a Catholic, mom, and wife. I find biology interesting, love nature, and enjoy learning. Texas really is the greatest state and most Texans know this.
@kolbyshea82@ThePatriotOasis The $1000 seed money from the government is only for those born from 2025-2028. Any kid under 18 can open an account and get either gifts from relatives or these corporations contributing to their account.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@Tusk_4Real Personally I’m not against them. My kids have all had them, but there’s a lot of discussion about safety and I have an open line with the parents and have to know them. I know that’s not a guarantee, but I had so much fun at sleepovers and we didn’t cause mischief either.
@Tusk_4Real They happen but not near as much. Many parents of young kids don’t want to risk any sort of predation on their kids. I have talked to so many who say their kids will NEVER have a sleepover. They will happily pick up late.
@end3of6days9 I have both for different reasons. I also have a large family. Once my kids are grown I will most likely cancel both memberships but could see Walmart being more beneficial if they don’t keep going up in price.
@UcheMaryOkoli I feel you 100%. Although this may have been me today to someone else bc we sat in to our normal spot but at an earlier mass than normal….🥴
The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.
It hasn’t.
When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.
Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.
Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.
And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.
The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.
The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.
Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.
The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.
Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.
Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.
@financedystop Yeah it is crazy. We added my son when he was 18 and it was $300 a month on a 20 year old car with liability only. He is supposed to pay for his portion. Now that he has his good student discount it went down to $230.
@MarcLCosta@cwebbonline Remember, the congressmen had to pass it in order to see what was in it….Red flag to me but I guess not the majority of these lawmakers.