That Black Catholic Chic

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[That Black Catholic Chic @Rizzyb11]

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[St. Padre Pio Quotes @PadrepioSaint]

"Keep close to the Catholic Church at all times, for the Church alone can give you true peace ~•~ Since She alone possesses Jesus, the true Prince of Peace, in the Blessed Sacrament."

My Lord and my God!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kini, P., Wong, J., McInnis, S., Gabana, N., & Brown, J. W. (2016), «The effects of gratitude expression on neural activity», NeuroImage, 128, 1–10. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.12.040

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

In Yemen, 90% of men and 50% of women chew khat daily. A quarter of all their household income is spent on this plant.

Alcohol is haram, but they are all drug addicts. Make it make sense.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Just as bones are given us to support the weakness of the flesh, so in the Church there are some whose functions it is by their fortitude to strengthen the weaker brethren.

-St. Basil

[H-1B Abuse Tracker @H1BExpose]

Oracle cut 10,000+ workers by email and kept filing H-1Bs the entire time.

The jobs didn’t disappear.

The Americans did.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

This guy makes $82,000 a day selling honey.

He started at 12 years old with $300 and one beehive. By the time he graduated high school he was doing six figures a year.

Now, he owns 30,000 hives and over a billion bees…. and makes $35M/year in revenue.

I met with Blake last year.

Here's how his biz model works:

He has six revenue lines…

• Retail
• Wholesale
• Pollination services
• Beekeeping supplies
• Food manufacturing
• Hot honey

Retail and wholesale is the core. He bottles the honey himself and sells it direct to stores and consumers. His facility runs 1,000 jars an hour. One tote of raw honey (about 275 gallons) is worth $15k and takes half a million bees to fill it.

Pollination services runs on top of that. Farmers pay him to park his hives on their land so his bees can pollinate their crops. This brings in extra recurring revenue that’s separate from selling honey.

Hot honey is one of the fastest growing food trends right now. It’s honey infused with chili pepper - either sweet or spicy. Blake sells them at a premium and in smaller batches. So they have better margins than straight honey and cost less to produce.

Beekeeping supplies and food manufacturing round out the rest. Supplies means gear hives, suits, or smokers sold to other beekeepers. Food manufacturing covers other honey-based products that have higher margins than just raw honey.

The numbers:

• Revenue: $35M/year
• Margins: 15%
• Employees: 125
• Bee cost: $2M/year (just to keep them alive)
• Facility output: 1,000 jars/hour (at $5 wholesale, $9 on the shelf)
• Processing facility cost: $3M to build ($1M of honey sitting in it at any given time)

One of the coolest businesses I've seen.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Glyphosate is so TOXIC that a recent study found living within a one-mile radius of a golf course increases your risk of Parkinson's disease by 126%.

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

This guy made $252,000 last year selling lemonade at farmers markets.

Meet Don.

He started this three years ago with his kids at a farmers market in Frisco. Last year they did $252k in 8 months.

His cost per lemonade? $1.25. He sells it for $7.

He's at two markets now.
Dallas Farmers Market pulls $2,500 a day.
Frisco does $1,200 to $1,500.

That's a $5,000 weekend just in Dallas alone.

But Don is my kind of guy. He added catering and rentals and this is what happened:

One corporate event: $2,900 for four hours serving 300 lemonades.

Another event: $19,000 serving frozen bananas.
Twelve grand profit.

He doesn't pay for ads. Just Facebook Marketplace for rentals, SEO for catering, and word of mouth at the markets.

He also rents out his custom cart for $500 a day. Weddings, office parties, classic car shows. Drop it off, pick it up, done.

In this episode Don:

- Walks through the unit economics of a $7 lemonade
- Shows how he scales with a couple running one market while he runs the other
- Tells me why he's not worried about competition even though anyone could copy this
- Breaks down the $19k frozen banana catering order he landed from a video I posted
- Gives me his advice for anyone wanting to start: stop overthinking it and just post up

This one blew my mind. Check it out.

[Anttsinc @anttsinc]

So many people try to sell knowing their foreclosure it’s either upside down or not price right!

Yet they knew to move out, they also didn’t contact the bank!

Over 41,000 foreclosures in May, it’s not slowing down!

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

Boomers are basically living in a completely different country from you

Free healthcare paid for by you, fat retirement account juiced up by private equity that is parasiting off of your labor, fat net worth due to insane housing costs paid by you, free money every month from social security paid for by you.

My father constantly lectures me on how I should move away from NYC to somewhere cheaper "like Alabama" whenever I complain about housing costs. I reply "I need to be here because the jobs are here, and I have friends and family here", he says why not work remote and move to Alabama? Ok dad let me just find a good paying remote job and move to Alabama so I can keep my head above water. Let me just nuke my social life and any future networking opportunities or potential so that I can afford housing.

An entire generation of people who have their fingers in their ears even when their own children are suffering. Mind you, my father can easily help if he wants to, he owns multiple apartments but wants me to "earn it" like he "earned it".

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

“they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them…”

—Revelation 17:14

[Rosary Quotes @RosaryQuotes123]

“The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.”

St. John Paul II

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The Rio Grand River is extremely dry

A combination of drought and heavy water use is now resulting in entire stretches of the river being bone dry

87% of the water goes to agriculture. META’s data center is using 75 million gallons per year. There are also 21 operating or planned data centers

Mexico uses the water for their agriculture as well

No foreign country should get water when its this dry

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is the garden Carolyn and I are growing this year. She wanted to plant flowers and herbs in my vegetables. Rather than argue about how many vegetables that would displace, I expanded the garden by building another terrace with stones I found on the farm.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

NINETY. hours. every. week.

[Kush @kushika_twt]

My frontal lobe fully developed, and I realized that working a 9 to 5 job five days a week until I am 60 just so I can “enjoy” a few years when I am close to death is the worst idea I have ever seriously considered.

[Patrick Coffin @CoffinMedia]

Since I got some pushback from trad chads on my body count message: chastity is a virtue to be practiced now, not a score to be counted retroactively. The question for Catholic dating is not what you did before, but who you're becoming and how you serious about getting there.

[Montaraz Católico @Perfecttsh14153]

“Toda civilización que destruye la familia está cavando su propia tumba.”

Papa León XIII

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

25% of US doctors are foreigners.
28,000+ US medical students graduate per year - 1000+ don't get a residency spot.
Of the 44,000+ US residency spots per year, 16,000+ are filled by foreigners!
TMB president Sherif Zaafran is a strong advocate for foreign doctors and led the state to pass the DOCTOR Act last session, easing licensing requirements for foreign doctors.

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Catholics are still building beautiful churches.

Completed in 2017.