Ordinary guy trying to do extraordinary things. Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret #DEATHSQUAD 92335
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DADBODhisattva retweeted
First time Aladdin lights have been on in almost 7 years.
I could cry tears of joy
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My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
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NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.
The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly.
1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting.
No fertilizer. No crops. No food.
Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025.
160,000 farms closed since 2017.
Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year.
They're not struggling. They're being wiped out.
And the media is busy covering everything else.
The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨
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Mientras en Europa dejan que les quemen iglesias y catedrales, en Argentina una chica decidió renovar y salvar una capilla de campo. Uno de los mejores planes que se pueden tener, la verdad.
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Doing it all 😎
For the first time since 1999, @UCLAFootball, @UCLAMBB, and @UCLAWBB are all ranked in the top 10.
#GoBruins
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La interpretación de “La Vie en Rose” por la cantante italiana Giulia Falcone se ha convertido en un fenómeno viral en redes sociales, acumulando millones de reproducciones y elogios por devolverle la frescura a este icónico himno de París.
Con una voz sumamente dulce, elegante y un dominio técnico impecable, Falcone logra capturar la profunda melancolía y el romance de la obra original de Édith Piaf sin perder su propio estilo contemporáneo.
A diferencia de otras adaptaciones modernas que alteran demasiado el ritmo, la versión de Giulia Falcone en su canal de YouTube mantiene la instrumentación acústica y un tono íntimo que evoca las calles parisinas.
Su interpretación ha sido compartida masivamente en plataformas como Instagram y Facebook, donde amantes de la chanson française destacan su perfecta pronunciación y su emotividad.
Lanzada originalmente en 1947 por "El Gorrión de París", esta canción sigue siendo el símbolo definitivo del optimismo amoroso ("ver la vida en rosa"), y voces jóvenes como la de Giulia aseguran que siga conquistando a nuevas generaciones.
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55 years ago today, Led Zeppelin released their untitled fourth album, featuring "Stairway to Heaven" and "Black Dog." Here are 5 wild facts about this rock classic: zurl.co/tUyY3
Gas station employee probably in
her mid 50’s
“That will be $2.09”
Me
“It’s a refill. Shouldn’t it be cheaper than that?”
Employee
“Yes but that’s not our cup.”
Just kill me now.
Please.
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I run a corporate consulting firm that specializes in small businesses, and I've dealt with more dysfunctional owners like this than I care to remember. I can tell you EXACTLY what's going on here.
This guy had HALF his competent workforce walk off the job, can’t retain new hires even after doubling wages, and the workers who do stick around can’t even clean a fish tank without causing thousands of dollars in damages.
And his conclusion is that an entire generation is unemployable?! Complete and utter nonsense.
I can practically guarantee that if I sat down with the employees who quit, it wouldn't even take five minutes to figure out why they all left:
An arrogant, insufferable, Boomer tyrant who treats his employees like garbage, blames everyone else for his own failures, and has created such a miserable working environment that anyone with two functioning brain cells and another employment opportunity immediately slams the eject button.
Which, incidentally, explains why the only employees he can retain are apparently too stupid to tie their own shoes.
The most incredible part is that this guy thinks offering $35 an hour somehow vindicates him.
Do you have any idea how thoroughly you have to screw up as an employer to make $73,000 a year CLEANING FISH TANKS sound like a bad deal?
And rather than engage in even a moment of self-reflection, he takes to X, publicly announcing that everyone who has ever worked for him is a lazy, incompetent moron.
I cannot imagine why people don’t want to work for this man.
I've got news for you, pal, and you might want to pay attention because I normally charge $400 an hour for this:
When everyone who has the ability to leave your business does so, and the only people left are the ones nobody else will hire, it isn’t an employee problem. It’s a YOU problem.
And the fact that you apparently had to shut down an otherwise profitable business before figuring that out tells me everything I need to know about why you had no business running one in the first place.
The newer generations are unemployable, so I shut down a business yesterday.
I have many small businesses I got involved in, one is a Saltwater fish store. It sells fish, corals, aquariums etc.
The most profitable part of one of these stores is outside Maintenance. Going to peoples houses, changing the fish tanks water, cleaning glass etc.
This is a very simple job, you run a hose in from the truck, suck water out, pump water in (nothing manual), and use a magnetic razor blade to clean the glass. Take a water sample and leave.
We had 4 trucks and 6 guys doing this... then 5, 4, 3... each person that quit put more work on the ones left.
We tried to hire, it's a very low skill job. Most maintenance guys make $15-18 an hour. We went upto $35 an hour to try and get people. Beyond that we cannot be profitable.
The job is easy, you have to have a license (actually hard as hell apparently), and pass a background check (youre in peoples homes, also hard as hell). Pass a drug test.
At $35 an hour we got the following.
Someone that caused almost 8k of damage when they started pumping in water, went out "for a smoke" and the tank overflowed.
At least 5 hires that went through background tests, drug tests etc then didn't show for work the 1st day and never called us again.
Someone that intentionally pulled the guard off the water pumping hose, and sucked someones fish into the pump.
Someone that scratched the District Attourney of las vegas, Steve Wolfson's tank by deciding to not use the magnetic razor, and "do it by hand"... fo no fucking reason. (4k bill)
A wrecked van
Someone who stole our water tester (1500 dollar machine).
I have no empathy, at least in Las Vegas, for people complaining about no work, no jobs blah blah blah.
$6000 a month to put hoses in and out of a tank and look at pretty fish.
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Paraguayans dragging politicians out of Congress as anger mounts in Paraguay.
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My advice on land in general if you’re looking to get away from any area you no longer like:
- There are still great deals out there if you’re willing to be about a couple of hours away from a big city. Keep in mind, even the rural towns still have grocery stores, hardware stores, small cafes, so it’s not like you’re living in the jungle.
- Find something you enjoy visiting yourself or with your family or living on, not something that you’re looking to make a buck on. Look for it to make memories, not money.
- Look for a smaller piece to start. 50+ acres is A LOT to maintain. 300 = full time job. You don’t need a ton of acreage to be secluded. There are good quality vacant land tracts and tracts with homes/cabins that sit on 10-20 acres with neighboring properties of untouched 1,000+ acres. Those super large tracts next to small parcels rarely get sold, touched or visited. So if a big tract isn’t in your budget you can find a small tract next to large tracts and you’ll “feel” like you own it all.
- My BIGGEST advice - visit the land before you buy it. Don’t just hop on the GIS Map and land topography maps and make you decision. You need to make sure there is a road that leads to your tract. If not, guess who gets to pay an excavator $300/hr to cut an access road in. It’s much easier to find a piece that has road access than to pay someone to cut one in.
- If a cabin/house is present, electric is already run there and you’re golden. But if it’s a vacant piece, see how far the nearest electricity lines are. Guess who gets to pay to run electricity to it…you.
- If it’s vacant and you want to build a homestead or house, call the county health dept to see if the land has ever been “perced” (Percolation test). If it has, how big of a structure can you build? If you have 8 kids and it perced for a 2 Bedroom max, guess what…you’re screwed.
- Pay for a soil map by a soil scientist. That will be required for above step usually if land has never had a perc test. I’ve bought small parcels/lots in East TN that looked GREAT as you walk it, only to find out 28 inches below that great looking TN soil was pure rock and wouldn’t perc. See attached video
for how rocky some places are. Your site prep cost just doubled if not tripled.
- If surrounded by other land tracts, have a realtor or someone check on easements.
- As you walk it, ask yourself if there is any loggable timber that can be trimmed to help pay for your purchase. Has a forestry study ever been done on it? Ask the realtor/seller “When was last time it had a selective cut done?”
- It’s an adjustment. The spouse may love the idea at the kitchen table while she’s 25 minutes from the action of a hopping downtown scene, but how will she adjust when she’s in the middle of the woods, in a very rural place with lots of bugs in the summer and no weekly Bunco friends to hang out with? Land can be easy to buy but hard to sell if someone gets there and decides “This isn’t for me”.
To sum it up though: Biggest 3 questions about buying semi-large to large land tracts - Road access? How far are the nearest electrical poles? What does the soil percolation allow me to build (and where)?
I am going to sell my construction business in the next 2 years and check the fuck out of Nashville and move to the East Tennessee hills with about 300 acres and a beautiful home right smack dab in the middle.
I cannot subject my family to the bullshit that is coming. My entire family made the decision tonight during dinner. The plan is now set in motion. I have the means and the methods. We will hopefully become a part of a very small conservative community and put Nashville in the rear view mirror. Nashville is the next Austin, TX.
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I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.
I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.
In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.
Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.
There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.
California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.
It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.
