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just matt
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just matt
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illinois irredentist | currently reading : absalom absalom | it’s still there
- at what point does someone intervene man⚠ TRUMP: WILL SHORTLY BE DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ON ELECTRICITY
- the united states is the only developed nation without universal healthcare and today we did something no developed nation has ever done before: we moved further away from universal coverage
- i think you should buy your own groceriesI think Instacart should give you the option of what shopper you want. I also think that people should rate them and if you get too many requests wrong maybe you should Idunno. Not be picked to shop for groceries. Like get pushed to the bottom of the queue.
00:00 - when you’re the dean of a community college and you have good news and bad newsFound a Barbieheimer guy in the wild
- like a month ago one of my friends convinced me to switch from men’s body wash to women’s and no joke it has been the single largest increase in my quality of life of the last 3 months
- while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves
- just had a crazy revelation: you can eat in the airport after your flight too
- at a party this weekend a girl who i just met, after talking to me for 20 minutes told me “i think we’re close enough now that i can say this but i think you’re on the same trajectory as anthony bourdain” and it’s been rattling around my brain like tinfoil in an mri
- okay but carmel, indiana is an obscenely wealthy inner circle suburb of a major midwest city. the average household income is $181k, which is similar to zurich. it’s one of the wealthiest places on earthmost Europeans have no idea how poor they are vs the Average Midwestern American
00:00Readers added contextImportant Context: Carmel, Indiana, is an outlier when comparing wealth across America. Carmel's average household income (AHI) is $181,667, significantly higher than the American AHI of $80,610 and Indiana's AHI of $76,910. census.gov/library/public…. worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/indi… - by the age of 26 you should be able to have a pleasant conversation with any person of any age and if you can’t that’s a skill issue
- 26k likes. we’re so cooked. antisocial behavior wonThe older u get the more u need to realize that u must remove organ donor from your id
- 3 most famous chicagoans: 1) barack obama 2) oprah winfrey 3) the literal freakin pope 3 most famous philadelphians 1) rocky balboa (fictional) 2) benjamin franklin (dead) 3) benajamin netanyahu (evil)Which is more culturally relevant Chicago or Philadelphia? (There’s a right answer)
- this makes it sound like they have extra hearts to go around and just didn’t give her one but there are substantially fewer hearts than patients! we prioritize those likeliest to survive the procedure & its grueling aftermath—susceptibility to disease is one factor in ‘surviving’JD Vance’s 12-year-old relative denied heart transplant because she is unvaccinated trib.al/Q8zH7go
