Breaking: The Illinois Senate votes 37-17 to approve a bill that'd enable certain Cook County municipalities to create local stadium authorities. This would allow the construction of a Chicago Bears stadium in which the team wouldn't have to pay property taxes. Goes to the House.
To be truly fluent in English,
you must know your shits
Dogshit: Very poor quality
Bullshit: Not true
Horseshit: Nonsense
Apeshit: Rambunctious
Batshit: Insane
Chickenshit: Cowards
Ratshit: Poor quality
No shit: Obviously
Holy shit: Unbelievable
Hot shit: Very good
Dipshit: Total dumbass
Tuff shit: Take it or leave it.
Jack shit: Nothing
The shit: Perfection
A lot of people say they really value honesty, but as soon as someone tells them the truth, they get defensive or angry. Over time this simply teaches everyone close to them to lie politely to avoid upsetting them.
Double-Henge. The Vernal Equinox is this Friday and with that is the phenomena known as Chicagohenge. The alignment of sunrise and sunset with the Chicago east-west grid system. The weather will be warmer fortunately! High of 60 is coming!
This old lady handed her bank card to the teller and said "I would like to withdraw $10". The teller told her "For withdrawals less than $100, Please use the ATM." The old lady wanted to know why...
The teller returned her bank card and irritably told her "These are the rules, please leave if there is no further matter. There is a line of customers behind you."
The old lady remained silent for a few seconds and handed her card back to the teller and said "Please help me withdraw all the money I have." The teller was astonished when she checked the account balance. She nodded her head, leaned down and respectfully told her "You have $300,000 in your account but the bank doesn't have that much cash currently. Could you make an appointment and come back again tomorrow.?"
The old lady then asked how much she could withdraw immediately. The teller told her any amount up to $3000. "Well please let me have $3000 now." The teller kindly handed $3000 very friendly and with a smile to her.
The old lady put $10 in her purse and asked the teller to deposit $2990 back into her account.
The moral of this story is,
Don't be difficult with old people, they spent a lifetime learning the skill.!!
🚨 JUST IN: One of the American airmen who lost his life in the KC-135 crash in Iraq has been identified as Maj. Alex Klinner
Klinner leaves behind a wife, a 2-year-old, and 7 month old twins
Absolutely heartbreaking. Pray for the Klinner family 💔🙏🏻
debt collectors bought your $10,000 debt for $300 and they're suing you for the full amount
even though the statute of limitations expired 2 years ago
it's called zombie debt. an entire industry built on suing people who don't show up to court
every state has a statute of limitations on debt.
3-10 years depending on where you live. after that window closes, the debt is legally unenforceable. a collector can call you, mail you, beg. but they CANNOT sue you and win
except they file anyway. because 95% of people who get served in debt collection lawsuits never respond.
the collector files. nobody shows up. the judge grants a default judgment. now they can garnish your wages on a debt they legally couldn't collect
the entire business model runs on one bet: that you won't know the law
the defense takes 5 minutes: show up, tell the judge "this debt is past the statute of
limitations in my state," bring the dates. case dismissed. the collector paid their lawyers for nothing
but there's a trap most people fall for: collectors try to restart the clock on expired debt by getting you to make one small payment or even just say "yes that's my debt" on a recorded call.
in many states, a single $5 payment or a verbal acknowledgment resets the entire statute of limitations and gives them full legal power to sue again
the rules:
NEVER acknowledge a debt on a phone call. "i don't know what you're talking about" is the safest response
NEVER make a partial payment on old debt without checking your state's SOL first
if you get served with a lawsuit, ALWAYS respond. check the statute of limitations at your state attorney general's website
if the debt is past the SOL, file your answer with the court raising the statute of limitations as a defense. the case dies
if a collector sues on expired debt, that's an FDCPA violation. you can counter-sue for $1,000 per violation plus attorney's fees
collectors buy debt portfolios for pennies. your $10,000 balance costs them $200-$400. they file hundreds of cases at once. they only need a few defaults to profit massively
the entire industry collapses the second people start showing up to court. be the person who shows up
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In Medellín, Colombia, there is a corner of the Manrique neighborhood where, every night at exactly 3 a.m., sandwiches used to appear.
Always the same way: wrapped in aluminum foil, inside a plastic bag, hanging from a lamppost.
No one knew who left them.
The unhoused people in the area waited for them. If you arrived at 3:15, there were none left.
It happened every single night. For six years. From 2016 to 2022.
Never a single absence. Not in the rain. Not on Christmas. Not on New Year’s Eve.
Then, in 2022, suddenly, the sandwiches stopped appearing.
“What happened to the sandwich man?” people asked.
A social worker named Carolina began to investigate. After weeks of asking around, a night security guard told her, “I saw him. He was an elderly man, came on a motorcycle. He hung up the bag and left. Without saying a word.”
Carolina posted an appeal on Facebook, looking for the man who, for six years, had left sandwiches every night for those who had nothing. In two days, it was shared more than 8,000 times.
Then a comment appeared:
“I think it was my father. But he died five months ago.”
The woman was named Lucía. Her father, Hernán, was 68 years old. He worked in construction. He didn’t have much money. But every night he prepared eight sandwiches. And he left them on that corner.
Why?
In 2015, Hernán lost his son, Sebastián, who died on the street, right there in Manrique. He was 19 years old. A fragile boy, struggling with addiction. Hernán had searched for him for years. But he hadn’t been able to save him.
“If someone had given him food… maybe he’d still be alive today.”
So, two weeks after the funeral, Hernán began. Every night. Without ever missing one. Sometimes with just bread and butter, when the money wasn’t enough.
In six years, he made 17,520 sandwiches.
He never wanted to know who ate them. He used to say, “If I know them, I’ll start choosing who to give them to. This way, they’re for anyone who needs them.”
When the story went viral, many people wrote:
“I ate those sandwiches for four years. They saved me.”
“They were the only thing I ate on some days.”
“Today I have a home, a job. But I might not be here without those sandwiches.”
One month later, at dawn, 43 people gathered at that corner. All of them had eaten Hernán’s sandwiches. They lit candles. Brought flowers. Lucía was there, in tears.
“My father couldn’t save my brother. But he saved so many others.”
One of them said, “Those sandwiches kept me alive. Waiting for them every night gave me a reason to hold on. Today I’ve been clean for two years. I exist because of him.”
That’s how a group was born: “Hernán’s Sandwiches.”
Forty-seven people take turns. Each one prepares sandwiches one night a month. They leave them in the same place. At the same hour.
Two years have passed. And the sandwiches have never stopped appearing.
On the lamppost there is a plaque: “Here, for six years, a father left 17,520 sandwiches for children who were not his. Because he could not save his own. Hernán, your son would be proud of you.”
Lucía comes back every month. Always at 3 a.m. To check. And she always finds a bag.
Because true love, even in silence, leaves a trace that never disappears.
And you… what would you be willing to do, every night for six years, to honor someone you couldn’t save?
spent a few nights at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore last week and it completely broke my brain about what customer service actually means
30 minutes after we checked in, a hotel worker accidentally opened our suite door for different guests. She saw me on the sofa, apologised, closed the door.
Five minutes later: WhatsApp message from my hotel rep apologising, confirming it was our room, their error.
They later refunded 50% of the night. Waived all our extras- food, drinks, amenities. Sent gifts to the room.
Not because we complained. We didn't even mention it. They just handled it.
I haven't experienced anything like that in years. Not in the UK, not anywhere in Europe or America. The bar has dropped so low that basic proactivity feels like magic.
All the little details. Just... showing up. Being responsive. Caring that they made a tiny mistake.
anyway I'm staying there again next time I'm in Singapore
The thing that gets me is how rare this is now. It shouldn't be remarkable that a luxury hotel actually delivers on the luxury part. But here we are.
"I would not be standing here today, if not for her always being there."
President & CEO Kevin Warren gives flowers to his longtime executive assistant Mai Davis, who announced her retirement after 36 years of the pair working together 🧡
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