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For Friday's job report, it is estimated that Average hourly earnings will have increased more than inflation YoY, 188k new jobs were added to the economy for the month of October and the unemployment rate stayed at a low 3.8%.

American wheat is high in gluten (relative to wheat from other continents), minimize its consumption

Patrick says

Very Zen. I am often the Gloomy Gus as depicted.

BeneTiberCato says

I am often the Gloomy Gus as depicted.

No need to be gloomy. In most instances. And for most people. We live in a great country, imo.

https://annecantstandit.substack.com/p/downpour

A former co-worker died yesterday - 5 yrs into retirement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGfET6hkiM
Please read the comments in this video.
Food for thought.

https://tritorch.substack.com/p/the-gathering-light-merry-christmas

Makes me think. I smell wood burning, or is it neurons burning. I'm confused.

gabbar says

A former co-worker died yesterday - 5 yrs into retirement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGfET6hkiM
Please read the comments in this video.
Food for thought.

Bubba got harvested? Two pensions back to the mother ship.

Patrick says

Means to earn a living to support family and lifestyle.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

Means to earn a living to support family and lifestyle.

Yeah, that's a stealth Blue Pill meme, or at best Purple Pill. Freedom should show him talking a break from his OLTR to bang a plate or twosome.

Sure, men have to earn a living. That's part of life.

If it said "Go work for MegaCorp, Inc." then that would be blue pill, but there are many ways to earn a living, and lot of them let you retain your independence from BlackRock and Larry Fink.

P.S. I this one doesn't get enough likes to propel it into the Best Comments thread, then this site is pretty fucked up. :)

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley in the (circa 1946) Preface to his 1931 novel Brave New World

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ― Howard Zinn

gabbar says

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ― Howard Zinn

No, they will always need the stormtroopers. It is just that with the domination of ideas the public will condone a swat raid on an anti-vaxxer in the same manner the public would condone a raid on child sex traffickers.

What you must do is not hard – Croatian proverb

gabbar says

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. — Aldous Huxley in the (circa 1946) Preface to his 1931 novel Brave New World

gabbar says

BeneTiberCato says

I am often the Gloomy Gus as depicted.

No need to be gloomy. In most instances. And for most people. We live in a great country, imo.

We live in a country where 99% of people don't even know what nations our government is killing people in, and where 1/2 the population thinks the propaganda box has "news" on it.

How many people has our nation murdered in the last 20 years, and for what? You have no idea. Ignorance is bliss. I know. I wanted to know, 20 years ago, I wanted to know how the world works, I wanted to understand it. Well I do. Ignorance is bliss, but it relegates you to being farm animal, a human resource, a thing to be used and controlled.

Ignorance is a false happiness.

richwicks says

We live in a country where 99% of people don't even know what nations our government is killing people in, and where 1/2 the population thinks the propaganda box has "news" on it.

How many people has our nation murdered in the last 20 years, and for what? You have no idea. Ignorance is bliss. I know. I wanted to know, 20 years ago, I wanted to know how the world works, I wanted to understand it. Well I do. Ignorance is bliss, but it relegates you to being farm animal, a human resource, a thing to be used and controlled.

Ignorance is a false happiness.

I hear you. There is unimaginable cruelty in the world. There have been wars where women and children have been killed and politicians (Bill Richardson and Madeleine Albright etc.) supported the killings. Ukraine and Gaza wars don't make sense either. This is how the world is and it will be going forward and we are likely better off because of it and this does sound awful but there is cruelty or more cruelty (Sharia?). There is nothing you, I or anyone else can do anything about the matrix. Sorry. But while I am alive, I will do the best I can to the people I meet before my time is over.

Yeah, we live in a great country within the context of my experience/ignorance/suffering.

https://notthebee.com/article/this-is-a-tiktok-trend-that-i-can-100-endorse

Many people have fond memories of sleeping over at their grandparent's house as kids. Whether you lived nearby and would have grandparents babysit overnight, or if you and all your cousins would come in from out of town over the holidays and fill their house to the brim with fun and laughter on rare occasions, cousin sleepovers are a core memory for a lot of us.

One TikTokker whose surprise sleepover has amassed more than a million views was Emily Sindoni, who gathered her 10 cousins over the holidays to surprise their Pop Pop and Mum Mum.

Emily said:

"We really spent a lot of time growing up together. My cousins and I, we tell our grandparents everything. They were always there for holidays, dance recitals, you name it - so we all have a really special relationship with our grandparents. I sent [my cousins] the video and immediately everyone jumped on the idea."

Another family who had a surprise grandparent sleepover was the Armstrong family who surprised their Mimi and Papa with 8 adult cousins joining in on the fun.

Jess Armstrong, who organized the sleepover, said some of her cousins traveled from out of state to make it happen, but that it was especially meaningful after their grandfather had a difficult year with his health.

Armstrong told GMA,

All night long, if the room got silent for a minute, he [Papa] would tear up and he would just say, 'I just can't believe you guys did this. This is so exciting. This is the best present I could have ever asked for and I want you all to know I love each and every one of you so much,'"