@lauren_w67 The key is to remember that the card dealer (or game show host) knows where the ace of hearts (or grand prize) is and will not accidentally reveal it.
@lauren_w67 Imagine a deck of cards. You are asked to pick 1. The dealer knows all of the cards, and says if you picked the ace of hearts you win, and then turns over every card except yours and one other. The dealer will not flip over the ace of hearts. You are offered a chance to switch.
During a July 24, 2026 White House event President Trump celebrated four companies—Antares Nuclear, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics—whose advanced microreactors achieved zero-power criticality under a DOE Reactor Pilot Program launched via executive order.
These privately developed designs, using TRISO fuel and non-light-water cooling like sodium heat pipes or helium, represent the first new U.S. advanced reactor criticalities in decades, with timelines targeting initial electricity output in 2027 and deployments for data centers and military use in 2028.
The milestone accelerates small reactor tech to meet surging power demand from AI infrastructure, though the reactors have not yet produced grid electricity and full commercialization depends on further licensing and scaling.
Yesterday afternoon at 3 pm something happened which will go down as one of the most important events ever. The destructive economic model built on natural oil and gas was overturned in favor of the next scientific revolution with receipts in 2027-2028. Watch it here. https://t.co/RghSLTsfft Somehow the media has completely blacked it out.
@WallStreetApes Tire pressure monitoring devices in your tires send signals that can be read from devices along the side of the road. Each tpms sensor has a unique id. Your 4 tired car has 4 unique ids being broadcast as it’s being driven by you so you know your tire pressure.
@AmericaPapaBear We don’t see the beginning. We are all capable of IMAGINING a situation where the dude invaded her space and has faked hitting her - scaring her, causing her to react and then doing it a second time, causing a second reaction and then hitting her much harder.
Did that happen?
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.
Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
@benonwine Drivers are spending time from their lives traveling—spending extra time traveling equals fractions of life lost. Seriously, Is it moral for protesters to steal other souls life-time? Doesn’t matter why they are traveling, drivers lives are being stolen by misguided protesters.
@CRRJA5 Consider: if the people who broke the Mn laws with fraud had Sharia law imposed on them? Full restitutions by their tribe, right hand lost…. Possibly worse?
@Gentleman_Ways It’s a very interesting read, learning of how the term “a gentleman” has evolved through the years. “Bringing back” the standards of old, might not mean what you intend - better assign a time period, who’s culture, who’s etiquette, who’s fashion. It’s certainly not timeless.