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[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I’ve now spent half my life communicating online like George Jetson after spending the first half opening and closing car windows by cranking handles like a fucking caveman.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

This wire sculpture is titled "Shake" and was created by Australian artist Annie Glass.

[David Shafer @DavidShafer]

Prince Harry feels his family is safer in America because he and his private bodyguards can carry firearms. They cannot in the United Kingdom. A very powerful if unintended endorsement of the Second Amendment.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Mitch McConnell’s health update takes a bizarre turn after a neighbor says the ambulance that responded had “no urgency” as Mitch’s lifeless feet were not covered by a blanket.

McConnell had been in the hospital for over a month. This is now a coverup.

[Khaylee @RealKhaylee]

Well, since the last deposition tip did so well...

Let's talk about what I like to call: "The Pause"

You may come to a point in a deposition where you are asked a question, you provide the answer, and the attorney taking your deposition does not immediately go on to the next question. He or she just stops talking for a moment.

The attorney might just be looking at notes for the next question, or processing what you said.

However, many attorneys (like me), pause on purpose now and then to intentionally create a gap of silence.

As humans, we have a tendency to fill silence with talking. Especially when we're nervous. And I think we can all agree a deposition is nerve-wracking.

During that pause, you might start to ask yourself if the answer you provided was satisfactory. If there is something else more you can say.

And that's the trap.

Because you start to doubt your previous answer and open your mouth to elaborate.

Your attorney probably grits his teeth, cringes when he hears your voice again- unprompted by a question.

I make a little smiley face on my notes, to remind me of where you blundered.

It goes back to the point I raised earlier: Listen to the question. Answer ONLY the question.

You are not there to educate the other side.

You are there to say as little as possible and to get the hell out!

No charge for this advice.

But don't tell my firm.

[It's 🇺🇸 Tiff 🇺🇸 @TiffMoodNukes]

If they could humiliate 100yr old Jimmy Carter on a gurney to vote for Kamala, they can damn well roll out Mitch McConnell to prove he can handle a 20-minute phone call instead of this séance bullshit

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

I’d agree 💯

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Dave Ramsey explains why the government stopped making you pay your taxes by hand, and what would happen if it started again.

RAMSEY: “If we brought this back, there would be a revolution. People would burn Washington, DC, down.

“If the tax person from the IRS had to stand in the lobby of your company, and you got paid in cash, and you had to take your cash and hand it to the tax collector and count it out every time you got paid, people would realize how big a tick on your butt the government is, how big a parasite the government is.

“And they would, I’m telling you, there’d be pitchforks and torches.

“If you actually saw and physically had to take possession of the money and then give it back in cash to the government when you got paid, people’s faces would melt off.”

KAMEL: “Just the amount of $100 bills you’re just giving to the IRS for doing nothing. That hurts. It would be a Tea Party round two.”

RAMSEY: “So it was a really brilliant idea to do income tax withholding.”

KAMEL: “Just make it all behind the scenes.”

RAMSEY: “Brilliant psychological trick.”

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@Be_like_legend Did you go outside and get some sun? No sunglasses or sunscreen. Soak up the sun with your bare feet on the ground. You can’t help but feel lighter in spirit.

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@StephenFleming My nephew’s son was that way. They made him get his license so he could drive to college.

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@HistorianUSA1 Jerk it out with a pair of pliers

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@LadyCurmudgeon @Tironianae There is a whole process to getting approved to have them build you a home. And it happens on FEMA’s and insurance company’s timeline.

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@Tironianae They built 4 homes in my town after an F4 tornado. Nice homes, with just the essentials. And built solid! Hurricane straps on wall stud to rafters and sill plates. 3/4 plywood subfloors. Smart siding and 30 year shingles. The way a house should be constructed.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

Before the Swifties descend on me, and honestly, are there Swifties on X, or did they all migrate to Instagram and Bluesky, let me say this clearly.

This is not a shot at Taylor.

The woman is a billionaire. She spent an estimated $20 million on a wedding at Madison Square Garden, which sounds insane until you realize it is about 1% of her net worth. That is the equivalent of you or me spending a few hundred bucks on a nice dinner. And then she quietly handed $26 million to food banks on her way out the door. Whatever you think of her music, that is a woman who can afford the party and paid it forward. Good for her. No notes.

My problem is not the billionaire. My problem is the rest of us.

Because somewhere along the way, normal weddings got completely unhinged. The average American wedding now runs around $36,000. Thirty six thousand dollars. For one day. For a lot of couples that is the single biggest check they will ever write before a mortgage, and they write it before they own a single thing.

And I want to gently grab those young couples by the shoulders.

You are not Taylor Swift. That is not an insult. It is a gift.

That same $36,000 is a real down payment on a real house. It is a fully funded emergency account. It is the seed of a college fund for a kid you have not had yet. It is a foundation instead of a photo album.

You can get married at the courthouse and mean every word. You can do a backyard with string lights and your aunt’s potato salad and cry just as hard. You can run to Vegas and laugh about it for fifty years. The marriage is the point. The wedding is just the invoice.

Nobody at your fifteenth anniversary remembers the chair covers. They remember that you built a life.

Spend like the billionaire only if you are the billionaire. The rest of us should throw a beautiful, joyful, sensible party, and put the house money on the house.

That is not being cheap. That is being in love with your future instead of your Instagram.

🦋

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

A Canadian who lived their “universal healthcare” system for 32 years just gave Americans the reality check everyone pushing “Medicare for All” needs to hear.

She didn’t rant. She showed the receipts:

• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48+ hours for a hospital bed last year alone.
• Almost 1 million Canadians now leave the ER without care because the wait is too long (up fivefold in some reports).
• ER doctors warn these delays are lethal.
• 5.9 million adults still have no regular family doctor.
• Specialist waitlists are exploding — median 28.6 weeks from GP referral to treatment. Some doctors are closing practices to new patients.
• Only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people — well below the OECD average. Hallway medicine is routine. Patients die on stretchers.

Her line hits hard:

“We want universal healthcare… until we learn.”

She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.

America’s system is also broken: crushing costs, administrative bloat, and real gaps for the uninsured or underinsured. We spend nearly twice as much per person and still have problems.

The solution isn’t importing Canada’s waiting rooms. It’s fixing supply (train more doctors/nurses, cut red tape), adding real competition and price transparency, expanding HSAs/direct primary care, and protecting innovation.

Be informed before you trade one set of problems for another.

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@ronsterd89 63

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@BasedGuitars @mattvanswol Nah. They deserve the same type of cruelty they inflicted up that poor baby. Except the should be alive for the acid bath.

[hellokitty @ymdub58]

@CrazyVibes_1 Tell everyone else to go pound sand. As long as you are able to care for pets, a senior cat or two would be great companions for you, and they will love having a human to care for in return.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

In Germany liberals glued their hands to the floor of a Porsche dealership in protest...

-Staff largely ignored the protest
-The activists started complaining the glue irritated their hands, they were cold/hungry, needed the bathroom bucket
-At the end of the day the staff turned off the lights and heating and went home, leaving the glued protesters there overnight

THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD HANDLE PROTESTORS!!😂