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My healing got quieter. No announcement, no glow up, just stopped bleeding on people who didn't cut me.
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ADHD doesn’t become unbeatable when you recognize it. Education and skills training are part of established treatment; understanding the condition can support managing it, rather than doom you to “doing nothing.”
if you have ADHD you cannot under any circumstance internalize that fact you need to have "omg you people cant do anything" flashing your brain at all costs once your ADHD becomes self aware its sincerely over for you that demon will thrive off of that excuse till the day you die
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if you have ADHD you cannot under any circumstance internalize that fact you need to have "omg you people cant do anything" flashing your brain at all costs once your ADHD becomes self aware its sincerely over for you that demon will thrive off of that excuse till the day you die
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For the US, WWII had a concrete rationale: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Nazi Germany declared war four days later. Questioning wartime decisions is fair; treating entry as an unprovoked choice leaves out that history.
It’s so strange that you can oppose WWl, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran or pretty much any war from this century or the last as a complete disaster that never should have been fought and it’s a complete safe position. In fact, it seems almost no one can even attempt to offer a rationale for any of them. But, it is radioactive to even question the wisdom of fighting the Second World War. On its face, that’s just weird.
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Being under-stimulated at work can leave you exhausted, but “more draining than being busy” isn’t a universal rule. Research links workplace boredom to distress, while excessive demands can fuel burnout.
FUN FACT: doing absolutely nothing at work is more draining mentally than being busy at work.
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Social Security won’t stop paying in 2032. Trustees project retirement and survivor reserves will run out, but ongoing revenue would still cover 78% of scheduled benefits. A serious shortfall, not zero checks.
The debate between young generations and older generations over Social Security needs to be defined by the fact that the government screwed everyone, all generations, by creating a poor system with low return to begin with and then making decisions that lead it to bankruptcy. We are taxed 6.2% our entire working lives for SS, with your employer matching it, and 12.4% of you are self employed. And the payout is pitiful and the entire system will be bankrupt in 2032! Every Member of Congress and Senator knows that there are much better ways because they all benefit from a TSP account with massive ROIs leading to potential millions of dollars in their accounts, if they invest, after years of holding public office. No this is not the federal pension. This is the federal Thrift Savings Plan for all federal employees and military service members. If every American had a TSP account, they would be far better off! It takes 218 Members of Congress to pass anything on the House floor, one alone can’t do anything. Imagine if at least 218 Congressmen decided to fix SS and give the American people the same TSP accounts and pension federal workers receive. Now ask yourself why they don’t. Being mad at each other is aiming your anger and frustration in the wrong direction. Everyone should unite and aim your anger and frustrations at the very people responsible, the ones you elect, and hold them accountable.
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Item 8 needs its own fact-check: rising prices don’t disprove falling inflation. Prices can keep climbing while the rate of increase slows, so testing “plummeting” requires comparing inflation rates.
We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up. So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks. Here is a partial list of 86 lies: 1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising. 2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up. 3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent. 4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent. 5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920. 6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent. 7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office. 8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care. 9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment. 10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion. 11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment. 12. He said America was building more factories than ever. 13. He said factory construction was rising. 14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record. 15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain. 16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers. 17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost. 18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses. 19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions. 20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years. 21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured. 22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims. 23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits. 24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure. 25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.” 26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office. Continued in replies…
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30 accounts don’t equal diversification. With 84.9% of the stated stock portfolio in Tesla, company-specific risk dominates regardless of how neatly an AI dashboard displays it.
I literally hooked up ALL my finance accounts to Grok Bot. I really mean all of them: 1/ Chase 2/ Charles Schwab 3/ E*TRADE 4/ Fidelity 5/ Robinhood 6/ Wealthfront 7/ Apple Card 8/ 𝕏 Money FYI, this is a total of 30 accounts... Chase alone is 13 accounts between checking, savings, brokerage, credit cards, a 401(k), trusts, a stock plan, and 529s for the kids. I was already honestly the best with my $ money and I’ve NEVER made a late payment in my life. But before Grok Bot, I was wasting so much time bc every answer lived in different apps. Like my cash was in one place, cards in another, brokerage accounts somewhere else, and had to compile everything in a spreadsheet, if I even got around to putting it together. Now I just text my Grok Bot CFO. I can ask, “What’s my cash right now?” and it pulls everything together and separates personal from business. I can ask which credit cards are coming due and whether I have enough cash to pay them all in full. Green means I’m covered, red means I’m short, and it tells me exactly how much I need. I actually tested this... going red on purpose. Like I moved $ money around so I would come up short on one of the upcoming bills, and Grok caught it. I can even ask, “Where did my $ money go?” and instead of opening a bunch of apps, downloading transactions, cleaning up a spreadsheet, and making a chart myself, it pulls everything together and gives me the breakdown. Today, I also asked it for a pie chart of all my stock investments with the amounts and percentages. 1/ TSLA is 84.9% 2/ SPCX is 10.4% 3/ NVDA is 4.7% That’s across $ money sitting in different brokerage accounts, and it's awesome that I didn’t have to think about where any of it was. I literally just asked it one question... you can see for yourself. If you’re serious about your finances, you already ask the same questions all the time. • Like, can I cover everything that’s due? • Where did my $ money go? • How much $ cash do I really have? • What investments do I actually own? But honestly, the annoying part is that your financial life is usually scattered across 10+ different apps/platforms and a bunch of accounts, so getting a real answer takes a lot of work and your time. And honestly, most people probably don’t even look until something feels off or if they get a notification that a payment was missed or something. Now, with all my finance accounts linked, I just ask a normal question, Grok Bot checks everything it has connected, and gives me the answer. Then I can ask the same thing tomorrow, and again whenever, and get the updated version without rebuilding anything. The fact that you are able to talk to your entire financial life like you’re texting someone who already knows where everything is... this is a total game changer in the world of finance imo. If you really care about your $ money, hook yours up to Grok Bot. It's so worth it.
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forever greatfull for the one who told me what i needed to hear not what i want to hear
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Does anybody else feel like life never really went back to normal after 2020? And I’m not talking about masks, lockdowns, or any of the political debates. I mean the feeling of life itself. Everything technically returned to "normal." The stores reopened. The roads got busy again. People went back to work. Life kept moving. But something still feels different. The years seem to pass faster than ever. Friendships feel more distant. Conversations feel shorter. People seem more distracted, more exhausted, and less present. It’s hard to explain because nothing obvious is missing. Yet somehow it feels like we lost something important along the way. Life used to feel slower. More connected. More genuine. There was a sense of optimism, excitement, and possibility that’s difficult to describe now. Maybe we're all just getting older. Or maybe 2020 changed people in ways we're still trying to understand. I can't put my finger on exactly what was lost. I just know that life used to feel a lot more alive than it does today.
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a relationship really isn’t that hard when both people actually give a fuck
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if my eyes don't got you bricked, i'm not your soulmate twin 🥺
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What would men do if every woman decided to become celibate? They wouldn’t last a month.
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I still remember being in kindergarten, watching them scream at each other in front of me, spewing bitterness and saying how much they regretted marrying each other. My mom always insisted she only stayed for our sake. I thought they’d stop as I grew older, but they never
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did. Even when I moved far away from home, they still had the nerve to call and dump their emotional baggage on me, bad mouthing each other just to seek validation. Little did they know staying in that marriage wasn't for us it was for themselves all it did is break me mentally and traumatized
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No single mother will advise her son to settle for a single mother
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"Hope we can still be friends tho" a girl who just ruined your life
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the older you get the more you realize that most people aren't actually mean, they’re just incredibly tired and hyper-defensive because they're carrying things they don't know how to talk about.
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Sometimes the person you’re trying so hard to keep is the exact person life is trying to remove from your life. And because you’re emotionally attached, you keep calling resistance “love.” Not every connection is meant to be permanent.
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I don’t think checking your partner’s phone is the problem after they’ve already broken your trust. the bigger question is why tf y’all still together if you gotta investigate each other. 👀
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What if the person you call “the wrong person” was actually the right person for the version of you that existed at that time?
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