HILARIOUS: This high school football team has its OFFENSIVE LINEMEN make their entrance by literally coming out of a HOG TRAILER before the game
The trailer gets pulled alongside the field, the gate opens and the big guys come charging out.
THIS IS EPIC.
This guy built over 1,000 homes for squirrels and fitted some of them with cameras so he could see how they live
Welcome to the cutest reality TV show out there
Writer: Ian
So ultimately James Pearce gets no jail time, 12 months of therapy, 5 apology letters, and 8 missed games for scaring his girlfriend to the point she was driving to the police, ramming his car into hers, driving away, and resisting arrest.
A Pennsylvania farmer has rejected a $15 million offer from data center developers, choosing instead to permanently protect his family's land.
Mervin Raudabaugh has lived and worked his farmland in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for more than 51 years. He milked cows there for decades, and the property holds deep personal meaning—his mother passed away in his arms inside the family barn.
To developers eyeing the land for a high-tech data center, it represented prime real estate near major infrastructure corridors. To Raudabaugh, every acre is an irreplaceable piece of family history.
Last month, he made a decision that surprised the local market: rather than accept the $15 million+ offer, he sold the development rights to his 261-acre property for about $2 million through a conservation easement held by the Lancaster Farmland Trust (with funding and support from Silver Spring Township's preservation program).
This legal agreement permanently restricts the land to agricultural use only—no data centers, no industrial development. The easement binds future owners as well, ensuring the farmland remains green forever.
The developers' pressure was intense; township officials reported aggressive approaches that led Raudabaugh's attorney to consider seeking a court injunction against harassment.
Silver Spring Township has long prioritized preservation. Since a 2013 voter-approved referendum dedicating a portion of earned income tax to farmland, open space, and forest protection (costing the average household roughly $120 per year), the community has preserved 21 properties totaling hundreds of acres.
Raudabaugh can still sell the land someday, but only as farmland—likely fetching far less than the data center deal would have paid. In total, his compensation will be a fraction of the $15 million on the table.
In an era when farmland is increasingly swallowed by digital infrastructure to power AI and cloud computing, his choice stands out as a deliberate stand for heritage, legacy, and community over maximum profit.
For Raudabaugh, the quiet certainty that his family barn and fields will endure outweighs any fortune a tech giant could provide—a powerful reminder that some values transcend dollars.
["Man turns down $15M to prevent farmland from becoming data center." WFLA, 2026]
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.
Never leave the gas pump in America until the screen resets
More and more people are finding a screw where you take and return the nozzle
If you pay with your card, this stops the gas pump from resetting
Someone is watching and waiting. When you leave they’ll quickly pull in and pump as much gas as they want into their car or gas cans
This is happening everywhere in America so you need to be very careful
Typically someone can pump about $175 bucks worth of gas from one purchase
If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says he’s spoken with Savannah Guthrie, and that she has ALL FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT at their disposal “immediately”
“The prayers of our Nation are with her and her family. GOD BLESS AND PROTECT NANCY!”
47 has taken politics out of this completely. Find Nancy! 🙏🏻
CORRUPTION: Some SNAP recipients have homes in five states and receive SNAP benefits in all five. Not only that, 200K DEAD people are receiving food benefits, and 500K people getting DOUBLE servings of food benefits. Democrats are suing to cover it up.