Randall Switz

Situs Appraisal, LLC

[Scott Brooks @scotti_brooks]

WHAT YOUR BODY CAN DO IN SECONDS - THAT NO ONE EVER TOLD YOU...

[Minister Of Information @RAISRAEL2]

Hmmm art imitating life?

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸 RabbiHoles 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Read_the_Talmud]

@RAISRAEL2 Heres an even older one warning about the Jews...

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.

My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley.  Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky.

My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.  Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.

My side of history is freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and spirited debate.  Your side of history is ThoughtCrime, Speech Codes, religious persecution and Cancel Culture.

My side of history is Brown v. Board of Ed., Loving v. VA, Gitlow v. NY, and Heller v. DC.  Your side of history is Dred Scott, Korematsu and Roe v. Wade.

My side of history is Jackie Robinson.  Your side of history is Colin Kaepernick.

My side of history is head held high, standing straight, hand over heart.  Your side of history is sullen glances at the ground, kneeling.

My side of history is the family as the foundation of society. Your side of history is mutilating confused children.

My side of history is the rockets’ red glare.  Your side of history is imagine no religion.

My side of history is firefighters going up the stairs into the Twin Towers.  Your side of history is 28-year-old men playing Call of Duty in their mothers’ basements.

My side of history is smoked brisket.  Your side of history is a no-foam, no-sugar, soy latte.

My side of history is Lincoln freeing the slaves and General Patton liberating Buchenwald.  Your side of history is Fort Sumter, the Gulag and Pol Pot’s killing fields.

My side of history is Mel Brooks.  Your side of history is Amy Schumer.

My side of history is all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.  Your side of history is critical theory and only some lives matter.

My side of history is 20-year-olds storming Omaha Beach. Your side of history is 20-year-olds in their safe spaces with adult coloring books.

My side of history is American men and women disabled by an IED.  Your side of history is American men and women disabled by anxiety.

My side of history is the Kentucky Rifle, the Springfield 1861, the M1911, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15.  Your side of history is whimpering submission.

My side of history is Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Apollo 11 and Jonas Salk.  Your side of history is “global warming,” 100+ genders and porous cloth masks stopping viruses.

My side is of history is laughing babies.  Your side of history is selling aborted baby parts on the open market.

My side of history is the Sistine Chapel and Monet’s water lilies.  Your side of history is an inverted crucifix in a bottle of urine.

My side of history is construction.  Your side of history is deconstruction.

My side of history is civilization.  Your side of history is nihilism.

And, MOST OF ALL:

My side of history is liberty.  Your side of history is tyranny.

*finis*

[TheUnquirer @unquirer]

"Low-barrier shelters" are the final piece in the Progressive puzzle in creating a full circle of enabling addiction within a city.

Mark my words - it will not help the city. You don't need a crystal ball - just look at others who built these drug shelters.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Texas overtakes both California and New York in the number of Fortune 500 companies. Victory for capitalism.
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[🇺🇸 The FJC 🇺🇸 @The_FJC]

HE raped and murdered a 2 year old baby.

SHE is trying to protect him from ICE.

Both of these individuals personified evil.

[KATSU @katsudev]

Si solo pudieras ver UNA clase de negocios en toda tu vida…

que sea esta.

41 minutos de Peter Thiel en Stanford que destrozan cualquier curso de miles de dólares.

Olvídate de los consejos reciclados que repiten todos los “gurús”.

Aquí Thiel habla sin filtros y sin anestesia:

→ Cómo construir un monopolio desde cero
→ Por qué competir es la forma más rápida de matar tu empresa
→ Qué hicieron realmente Google, PayPal y Facebook para dominar sus mercados
He leído libros enteros de estrategia que no concentran ni la mitad del valor que dan los primeros 15 minutos de esta charla.
Y lo mejor: es completamente gratis.

No importa si estás creando una startup, escalando un negocio o solo quieres pensar como los que realmente ganan…

Después de verla vas a mirar cualquier empresa con otros ojos.

Guárdala.
Vas a volver a ella más de una vez.

[Shiloh Marx @Shilohmarx]

24 senators are from states with more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens.

[Pepe Deluxe 🐸 @deluxe_pepe]

He's fine

[John O'Connor @RTDjohnoconnor]

"He was all of that, all of it."
Barry Redden's 51 carries in one game 45 years ago set a @URSpidersFB record unlikely to be broken. https://t.co/8vlzkXMq9g via @RTDSports

[Seth Klarman @robertl1989]

I’ll say this one last time: these 10 companies will mint millionaires by 2030.
My top picks for May:

1. $SATL(Satellogic) — $10 → $16 2.
2. $IREN(Iren) — $64 → $120 3.
3. $ASTS(AST Spacemobile) — $126 → $320 4.
4. $RKLB(Rocket Lab) — $146 → $210 5.
5. $NBIS(NEBIUS) — $226 → $375 6.
6. $NOK(Nokia) — $15 → $24 7.
7. $USAR(USA Rare Earth) — $27 → $43 8.
8. $LUNR(Intuitive Machines) — $42 → $74 9.
9. $BKSY(BlackSky) — $51 → $78 10.
10. $NOW(ServiceNow) — $100 → $180 Come back to this post at the end of 2026, & you’ll thank yourself that you listened…

[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

Oh my God, I have found a video THAT IS UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME🫨! They should play this video TO EVERY STUDENT IN AMERICA EVERY YEAR STARTING IN KINDERGARTEN😲! If the Demonrats didn’t lie , cheat and steal, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE A PARTY🤬! Seriously, I despise liberals🇺🇸

[Randall Switz @rdsitus]

@SpiderMLAX Does the goalie always ignore the game? It was unconventional during the Duke battle.

[Randall Switz @rdsitus]

@StoolGreenie Brown is -27

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐍𝐎, 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐈. 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.

I see it constantly now. Someone reads a post or an article and spots an em dash — that long horizontal line — and immediately declares it was written by AI. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓. You know who else uses em dashes? People who actually learned how English punctuation works.

I don't normally step on this particular soapbox — and I commit authorial malpractice by never trying to sell you my books — but I've authored over 30 of them. Many have been international bestsellers. Well over 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬 in print, translated into 7+ languages, sold around the world. I am, amongst many other things, an actual author. So let me give you a quick education your grammar teachers apparently skipped.

The em dash — this thing right here — is one of the most versatile punctuation marks in the English language. It's called an "em dash" because in traditional typesetting, it was the width of the capital letter M in whatever typeface you were using. It serves three primary functions. First, it sets off a parenthetical statement within a sentence — like this one — when you want more emphasis than commas provide but less formality than parentheses. Second, it signals an abrupt break in thought or a dramatic pivot. Third, it introduces an explanation or amplification of what came before it. Writers have been using it for centuries. Emily Dickinson used em dashes so obsessively her manuscripts look like they were attacked by a horizontal line. Mark Twain used them constantly in dialogue. So did F. Scott Fitzgerald. None of them had access to ChatGPT.

Now for a bit of trivia most people never learn. There's also an 𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 — slightly shorter, the width of the letter N. The en dash has a narrower purpose: it connects ranges. Pages 12–44. The years 1941–1945. The New York–London flight. It's the dash between two things that are connected but distinct. Most people have never heard of it, and most fonts render it just barely shorter than an em dash, which is why almost nobody notices the difference.

Both have been part of formal typography since the invention of movable type in the 15th century. Gutenberg's typesetters used varying dash lengths to organize text. By the 18th century, printers had standardized the em and en dash as distinct glyphs with distinct grammatical functions. This isn't some modern AI invention — it's older than the United States.

And if you use Microsoft Word, they're trivially easy to type. An en dash is Ctrl + Minus on the numeric keypad. An em dash is Ctrl + Alt + Minus on the numeric keypad. Word also auto-converts two hyphens (--) into an em dash if you have autocorrect enabled. That's why you see me use them in my books and in my posts — because I know they exist and I know the keyboard shortcut.

The reason AI chatbots use em dashes frequently is because they were trained on well-written text — books, journalism, academic papers — written by people who knew the rules. The AI learned proper punctuation from proper writers. That doesn't make proper punctuation a sign of AI. It makes it a sign of 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲.

For the record, the only things I use AI for are conjuring up a quick graphic — like the image on this post — or as a shortcut for preliminary research. Think of it as a Google accelerator. The writing? That's all me. It has been for 30+ books and countless social media posts such as this one.

If you've reached the end of this post, you now know more about dashes than most people who graduated with an English degree. And the next time you see an em dash and your first instinct is to scream "AI" — maybe consider that what you're actually looking at is someone who paid attention in class. Or someone whose grammar teachers didn't fail them quite as badly as yours failed you.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬.

[Randall Switz @rdsitus]

Air Force One just flew over the house.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Her face at the end 😂