Bro is having the time of his life, bought a restaurant and a $200k home which is pretty palatial for Laos youtu.be/S_DHIRUoqcQ?si=HJ0F…

Parents should know - Scammers go after teens BIG TIME now too. My daughter (now in her 20’s) got an E-check sent to her a few yrs ago as an “advance” to promote a product on her Instagram page. She was excited. Deposited it. But then they needed her to send them some back. That’s when she got scared and told her mom and me what was going on. We called bank. Bank said it was a fraudulent check and they see more and more people in their late teens getting scammed by this type of stuff now. Recently my daughter’s friend joined a Facebook group of “Atlanta moms looking for babysitters”. Legit large group. A lady in the group set up a babysitting with her. First babysitting gig was going to be at the kids’ birthday party. But the “mom” was out of the country and needed my daughter’s friend (who is 18 and naive) to buy some party gifts and presents. Sent my daughter’s friend an electronic check. She deposits it and then they also needed her to go buy some gift cards with that money for the party. They needed “verification” that the gift cards were purchased and asked for a photo of the cards. The little girl obliges the request (again, teens are naive and most don’t know about these scams like we adults do), sends a photo of gift cards, e-check is fraudulent check, girl gets parents involved, gift cards balances wiped out (prob within 2 minutes of her sending a photo of them a couple of days prior). Talk to your teens about e-check scams as soon as you can. The scammers aren’t just targeting adults. In fact, the biggest markets for them I would guess are the elderly and now teenagers.

I have been thinking something similar about how goodness begins with sensitivity. You will observe in the worst people the general lack of emotional sensitivity. They are bulls in the China shop, harming people and worse, less out of malice and more out of insensitivity.

Traditional clay plastered wall is made by mixing microbial rich field clay and chopped rice straw which is then fermented, dissolving part of the straw lignin. The result is strong, adhesive, flexible, anti-microbial, inoculated (with Bacillis subtilis), hygroscopic, fungicidal.

I’ll buy anything from the Chinese they’re so damn good at this.

What CS Lewis intended as a reducto ad absurdum, showing hunger misdirected from its proper end, is increasingly the way people interact with food (recipe videos you’ll never cook, watching people eat at restaurants you’ll never go to, and the below) nytimes.com/2026/09/11/world…

Wait I had no idea - this is huge!

This doesn't happen at Costco. Costco will just revoke your membership. Target should do the same - you can be a jerk once, then you can never go to Target again.

In the 60s and 70s Americans spent around 13-17% of income on food. Today they spend less than 10%.

If a system cannot tell the difference between effort and improvement, it will eventually reward theater.

In 2023 I was contacted by a frightened-sounding anonymous caller who identified herself as a pharma insider and who spent 90 minutes on the phone explaining that a new pandemic was being prepared and would be launched in "a couple of years," possibly before an election. She did not know the specific pathogen involved but said it would have a high mortality rate and be spread through human contact, though it was not known in the past to spread easily through human contact. It would cause a terrible panic. She knew all this, she said, by reading various signals available to insiders in the vaccine development world. She said these sort of signals had allowed her to know that Covid was coming years before it did. I asked her why whistleblowers had not alerted us first, "You don't understand this business," she said. "It would be the end of your career. Or worse." I could not verify her claims, of course, though various facts in her presentation did check out, and she called on a randomly generated number. I feared I was being punked and did not know what to do afterwards to pursue the matter.

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

money flows from places with capital surplus to places with talent surplus & gets capitalized into local land values.

what i learned about hvac repair after dealing with 4 companies across 5 weeks and thousands of dollars is that they are all perpetrating fraud all the time and there’s no way to avoid it