Boomer, concerned citizen, patriot, centrist,champion of children everywhere. Pls, no DMs
Los Angeles, USA
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¿Qué es la felicidad?
Aristóteles: Es un hábito, no un sentimiento.
Buda: Es querer lo que ya tienes.
Nietzsche: Es sentir que tu poder aumenta.
Schopenhauer: Es simplemente la ausencia del dolor.
Freud: Es un deseo de la infancia finalmente cumplido.
Séneca: Es no necesitar nada de mañana.
Tolstói: Es ser útil para alguien.
Kant: Es tener la conciencia tranquila y mala memoria.
Epicuro: Es pan, agua y un amigo.
Confucio: Es querer menos, no tener más.
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i was having dinner with someone recently who asked why i spend so much time reading & posting on x. she had a pretty negative perception of the platform mostly shaped by the mainstream narrative around it.
my answer was simple. x is where the future gets beta tested.
you basically get to watch ppl build things, talk through ideas, show off stuff, & argue about where everything is going, way way before it reaches anyone else.
there really isn’t another surface on the internet quite like it.
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Amazon driver is seen delivering packages with the new Amazon peddle vehicles
The temperate was 104 degrees and humid. These new vehicles do not come equipped with air conditioning so the driver is likely extremely hot
The vehicles launched in Culver City, Los Angeles and have expanded to Burbank with more cities planned
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I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.
A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants
who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the
children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.
There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who
would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to
bundle them into carriers and strollers.
Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they
needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran
back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well,
here we are, on our own."
About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.
Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up
toddlers.
The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of
the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .
Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped
in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the
cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the
Old West.
Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from
wandering off. Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter
around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until
the parents could be notified and come get their children.
The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on
any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men
there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.
The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted;
could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories
from the Pentagon.
It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's the military who salutes the
flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.
If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for
the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have
served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those
who have given the ultimate sacrifice!
God Bless The USA!
Never forget!!!
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The widely circulated story of 40 Marines evacuating and forming a protective crib circle around Pentagon daycare children on 9/11 is false.
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This is insane
A foreign man rented a town home in Hermosa Beach, California on Airbnb
After 30 days he stopped paying and now the owner can’t evict home because California gives him tenant rights if he’s there more than 30 days, he can even change the locks
So he’s just squatting in the home as the owners is expected to lose about $70,000 in lost income and attorney fees to remove him
This is way living in a Democrat socialist state looks like
In Los Angeles it can take 6 months if the eviction is contested to remove a squatter like this or even longer. If there is a jury demand and a police backlog it can take well over a year to remove someone
Meanwhile the property owner must keep making payments, paying property taxes and will have to pay for all the damages they are causing in the home
This unit under this woman started having a leaking ceiling because this foreign man was flooding the rental property. He even used tools to try and break into her room and closet. Because this is an actual crime the man fled
What an absolute nightmare
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A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
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I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.
Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.
This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.
To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.
Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.
Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.
Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.
Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.
You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.
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Marguerite Yourcenar disait un jour :
« Je ne pense pas tant à la vieillesse. Je n’ai jamais cru que l’âge soit un critère valable.
Il y a cinquante ans, je ne me sentais pas particulièrement jeune,
et aujourd’hui, je ne me sens pas vieille.
Mon âge change d’heure en heure.
Dans les instants de fatigue, j’ai mille ans.
Quand je travaille, j’en ai quarante.
Et dans le jardin, aux côtés de mon chien,
je me sens toute petite… j’ai quatre ans.
L’âge n’est pas un chiffre.
C’est un état de l’âme,
un souffle qui varie à chaque battement de vie. »
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.
Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.
They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.
At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.
In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.
A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.
Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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🇺🇸 Google wants to buy a dead airline's internal messages for $10 million.
Spirit Airlines stopped flying in May, and now Google wants roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and millions of employee records going back decades.
Customer data is excluded, but employee data isn't. A third party would strip identifying information before Google gets it, while keeping the links between records intact.
Why does Google want all of this? It says the data could help improve its products and AI models.
A bankruptcy judge decides tomorrow whether the $10 million sale can go ahead. The other bidder offered $7.5 million.
Turns out even a dead airline's inbox can be worth millions in the AI age.
Source: Axios / Writer: Daniyal
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Sen. John Fetterman tells Zohran Mamdani to "fix a pothole," blasting the NYC mayoral candidate for weighing in on foreign policy:
“Now you have the mayor of a city. You’re a mayor, dude. You’re a mayor. You can fix a pothole. You can take out the trash. But you can’t order people to arrest anybody any more than I could. I couldn’t have him arrested if he came to Pennsylvania. It’s a joke, and he’s a clown. He also said that Netanyahu is not welcome in New York. You can’t say that any more than I can say, ‘Mayor, you’re not welcome in Pennsylvania.’ So sit down. I know you’re a clown, and you’re just going to pander to the fringe because that’s part of your base. I know you’re angry at Netanyahu because he killed a lot of people you admire, whether it’s Sinwar, Nasrallah, or Qaani in Iran. He’ll only criticize the prime minister of Israel, but he never criticizes Hamas. He never criticizes Hezbollah or Iran. I’ve never heard the mayor condemn Iran for killing 30,000 or 40,000 of its own young people who were simply asking for democracy in their country.”
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When you take a nap so good that you wake up thinking you're late for school but it's Sunday and you're 59.
