The Rob Hillis

The world bores you when you are cool.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

I believe the turning point in society when we started to be ok with everything being more expensive was when we started buying $20 Yeti mugs and $200 ice chests in droves. Both of which have since skyrocketed and our cabinets and garages are full of them. #blameourselves

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

Stop saying "I'm looking for a such-and-such at a 'reasonable' price..."

You don't mean 'reasonable price'.

You mean cheap.
Just say 'cheap'.

Just say "I'm looking for a 'cheap' such-and-such..."

In truth, you just don't like the price and just want it cheap.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

Reacher Season 4 is the best one yet. #brutal

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨STOP SCROLLING: Everyone Should Bear Witness To This Savage TAKEDOWN of Dr. Fauci by Senator Josh Hawley.

Watch as he DECIMATES Fauci and makes him SQUIRM in his seat.

This is how all of our Representatives and Senators in Congress should act.

Total MASTERCLASS

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

The amount of flooding due to construction and poor drainage on the FM 471 Culebra in front of Harlan High School is concerning. I sincerely hope that once construction is complete, this won't be a problem any longer. 2 stranded cars today because water cant get off the road.

[Rose Smith @itsrosesm]

Donald Trump is a tough man. He can be brash, outspoken, and unapologetic. But no one has fought harder for the heart and soul of America in my lifetime.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

Can we normalize tipping by dollar amount and not by percentage? Especially when the guy at the counter just punched my order into a machine and then asked for a tip....

[David Adeniyi @DOlaAdeniyi]

@luxemiaa @CertifiedJarvis I get her point.

Tip should reflect the service, not just the price of the food. Same service, same effort, why should the amount triple just because the meal is more expensive?

At the end of the day, appreciation should be about value, not the bill size.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Went to the doctor yesterday

My wife made the appointment

She also filled out the pre-visit forms online

All of them

She said "did you go alone"

I said "yes"

My analyst drove separately

When I arrived the receptionist handed me a clipboard

With a Bic pen

Attached to a string

Like I was going to steal it

The form asked for everything my wife already submitted online

Name

Date of birth

Address

Insurance

I filled it out again

Handed it back

My analyst was already at the counter

He leaned over the receptionist's screen

Looked at it for three seconds

Then looked at me

He said "boss man, the headers have gridlines on"

She minimized the window

He sat down

She said "have a seat, we'll call you shortly"

I sat down at 2:14pm

At 2:31 she handed my clipboard to another woman

Who sat down at a computer eight feet away

And typed everything I just wrote into the screen

At 2:38 she came back

Said she couldn't read one letter of my address

An address they've had on file since 2022

An address my wife typed into their portal three days ago

I spelled it out loud

In a waiting room full of strangers

Then sat back down

My analyst had his laptop open

I glanced at his screen

He was on Zillow

Looking up my home address

The one I just spelled out loud

He closed the laptop

At 2:51 a nurse called my name

Mispronounced it

Four years

She walked us to a room

She looked at my analyst

She said "family member?"

I said "closest thing I have"

She didn't ask follow-up questions

She took my blood pressure

Wrote it on a piece of paper

Then typed it into a computer

Then wrote it on another piece of paper

Three records of the same number

My analyst looked at me

I looked at him

We didn't say anything

We didn't have to

She said "the doctor will be right in"

She left at 2:54

My analyst opened his laptop

Built a model

I said "for what"

He said "the wait time"

He projected the doctor would arrive at 3:38

The doctor came in at 3:41

Three minutes off

He was disappointed in himself

87 minutes total in the building

He said "so what brings you in today"

I told him

He looked at his chart

My analyst said "you have his date of birth wrong"

The doctor looked at him

Then looked at me

I said "he's right"

The doctor corrected it

My analyst said "the insurance ID is also off by one digit"

The doctor put his pen down

He said "and you are?"

I said "he's with me"

The doctor continued

He said "let's keep an eye on it"

That's what he said last year

He said "alright, now the fun part"

He said "I'm going to need you to drop the cargo shorts"

I looked at my analyst

My analyst looked at me

He covered his eyes

The appointment lasted four minutes

I waited 87 minutes for a four-minute appointment

It's 2026

We can launch a rocket into space and land it vertically on the exact square foot it left from

But my doctor's office is using a string to protect a Bic pen

I texted my wife from the parking lot

She said "how'd it go"

I said "they lost my address again"

She said "I submitted it online three days ago"

I said "I know"

She said "did you bring him"

I didn't answer

She said "I'm switching doctors"

First time we've agreed on anything all week

Make common sense common again

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and you make bad decisions.

[Sakshi @Sakshi50038]

Driving the same car for over 10 years is normal.

Using the same phone until it breaks and packs up is normal.

Taking food to work everyday is absolutely normal.

Repeating the same clothes and shoes is very normal.

Saying no to things you can't afford is very normal.

Be normal.

[rabbitholebot @rabbitholebot]

Hey US Government, can you fix the roads you taxed me to build, so I won't fuck up my car you tax me annually to drive, that I payed for with the income you also tax, that I park at my home that's highly taxed?

Thanks,
-Every US citizen

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Only 2% of the oil used in U.S. domestic gas supplies comes through the Strait of Hormuz.

There is no reason we should be paying higher gas prices. It’s all a scam.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

#Truth

[Nuclear Caudillo🇺🇸🇩🇴 @CaudilloNuclear]

I understand why my father spoke less and less as he aged.

No one listens, and you just get tired of explaining the same things over and over.

[I am kerubo🇰🇪 @KeruboAnyega315]

Paying taxes at this point feels like funding criminals

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

So basically, companies pay Youtube to show ads and we pay Youtube to not show ads

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

Amen

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I don't love it. I'm actually considerably less tolerant of loud kids in public now than I was before I had my own. Your children should not be allowed to disrupt a church service, or any other public gathering. If they're being unruly, remove them. If they're old enough to know better, take them out and discipline them. If they're too young to control themselves, then again remove them. I've had to do this many times in many situations. It blows my mind when parents just sit there and let their kids totally disrupt and irritate an entire room full of strangers.

[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

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[The Rob Hillis @therobhillis]

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[RODEOHOUSTON @RODEOHOUSTON]

Lone Star state of mind. Happy Texas Independence Day 🧡