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Shack retweeted
Every catch is a 20-yard spear to the defense, and he's a crazed blocker in an offense that demands it. Vital piece of a terrifying offense. It's crazy to think he's not a good player. teapawt.net/FantasyKash/status/211…
Shack retweeted
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went.”
– Cherokee,
This is a fantastic, wonderful book. Well done @peter_king
You mean Vampirism
Longevity is coming. I’m talking about the human lifespan reaching 300 plus years, and I’m talking about what that does to the world.
We can keep a person at a biological age of 25 to 35. At that age you almost never die of a health condition. You die of an accident. We are seeing this in animal studies from mice through dogs and primates, and I don’t think there is a limit.
A person who is 200 years old and biologically 35 is still working. That solves the falling birth rates and shrinking workforces every country is worried about. Scientists will take on the hundred year projects they never would have started. People will have time to achieve their goals.
Health care becomes injury care. Most of what people see a doctor for today goes away. Governments will want their citizens on these treatments because keeping people young is cheaper than treating them old. The drugs are expensive now. They will come down, and the people who benefit first will be the ones who know to ask their doctor for them.
In the future we will live long, healthy lives as long as we maintain our immune systems. I believe this is real.
Shack retweeted
Sal Frelick is playing in the World Series for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Some of his best friends in the world are people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and he has been showing up for them since high school.
Here is how he describes them.
"I really do think they're angels."
Here is the whole thing.
Frelick grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. In high school he was already friends with a lot of the students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Not as a project. Just friends in the hallway.
Then someone told him about Best Buddies, a nonprofit that pairs students with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
"I had just been friends with these kids in the hallways, so I was like, 'Sounds fun.'"
He joined. He went to their events. He went to their prom.
One of the friends he made back then is still one of his best friends today. Every offseason, back home near Boston, they go out to dinner.
His hometown runs a Unified Basketball league, where athletes with and without disabilities play on the same team. Frelick shows up to the big end of season event and brings shoes and sweatshirts for the players.
Then the Brewers made him a big leaguer, and he moved to Milwaukee. He said something felt off.
"When I was out here, it was almost like something was missing from my life in that aspect."
So he sent a message on Instagram to the local Best Buddies chapter and asked how he could help.
He started going to their events. Their Friendship Walk drew more than 1,000 people.
One of the chapter directors said this about him.
"He has a huge heart and compassion for the community we serve."
Then he found Inclusion Coffee Company in Hartland, Wisconsin, a shop where most of the staff are people with disabilities.
The owner explained why she opened it.
"My idea was to give our friends with disabilities a place to work after high school."
Frelick came in one Saturday morning before a game. Anybody could come get a coffee and take a picture with him. The money went to Best Buddies and the staff.
The owner asked fans for one thing. No autographs, please. Just come in, buy a coffee from the staff, and take a picture.
Here is the honest part. This was not a huge foundation or a million dollar check. It was an hour on a Saturday, a lot of dinners, and a lot of showing up.
But that is exactly the point, and he will tell you so himself.
"If you're around people with special needs or they're in the same environment as you, go up and talk to them."
Tonight he has a chance to win a World Series. Win or lose, he has already been showing up where it counts.
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And he was always there to remind me “maybe you just need to have a snack, go on a walk, and lay in the sun”.
Dogs constantly remind us how much we ridiculously over complicate the best things in life.
There’s a lot of pit bull discourse on this website.
And to be honest, I understand it, and for years I was in board with it. I’ve heard the statistics, I know the memes, and I’ve agreed with a lot of them. This post won’t change any minds on pit bulls, but this dog right here changed mine.
Meet Odie.
If a strange pitbull came up to you on the street with no tags, you’d probably either call 911 or animal control and that would be the end of it. That’s why I’d do at least, and I think most sane people would do the same.
But not my fiancé. A few years before we met, he found his way to the one person who would take the chance on him. She took him to the shelter, and after a number of days and weeks without being claimed, she took him in.
I will be honest, I did question her judgement when I heard the story. “Pitbulls are dangerous, they’re unpredictable, you don’t know their history”….
But the most unpredictable thing was the best friend I found when I met my fiancé. Not her, him.
We became such a team, in every way man and dog can be a team.
In the last year or so, there has been some turbulence in my life. I finished my masters and wasn’t sure what comes next, I stared a WFH job which was a world different than the ER, and I had a lot to navigate.
And he was always there to remind me “maybe you just need to have a snack, go on a walk, and lay in the sun”.
And he did just that right up until the end. So much so that he developed lung cancer and hid it from us right up until the end.
Fortunately, we were able to negotiate one more day last night. So today, we attempted to repay the favor for all the he did and was for us.
Eggs, a whole bag of snacks, ice cream, Wendy’s baconator, a LOT of time in the sun… and last, a LOT of Reeces.
I said this morning, I want him to get up to heaven and not talk about how bad he felt on his last day, but all the treats he ate and love he left.
Pit bulls get a bad rap. And a lot of the time it’s deserved, but this one touched my heart in ways I’ll forever be thankful for.
I’ll miss way more than the character limit will let me list, but thank you God for the “Odie” chapter of my life. Make sure you make him the coziest Odie up there.
See you later buddy.
Shack retweeted
Yesterday was Elon’s greatest magic trick.
It got everybody believe an amazing technological gap had just been made.
I got fooled too.
At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was so excited.
And don’t get me wrong , the technology, the precision at which the car did what it did, was fabulous.
However, it was not a car doing it.
And that is the true, Machiavellic genius of Elon.
There is no flying car.
There is no car at all.
It was an empty shell. As light as possible. No seats. Nothing.
Full of gas tanks.
With a maximum of 2 secs of thrust usage.
In other words, it was a drone.
A drone with a shell that looked like a car.
Imagine if it had been a square piece of metal instead.
You would have said “nice”.
The truth is, it is nothing more than that.
It was not the car that you will see in the street. It was just a piece of light metal, that had the same body as the one you wil buy.
The technology exists since a long time.
If nobody did it, it’s not that they didn’t think about it’s it’s because it is not sustainable.
It is not achievable.
So why were we fooled ?
Because most people can’t imagine the biggest entrepreneur and genius of our century would have put millions into a show and be ruthless enough to put a fake car in a demonstration with the goal of selling something that will have nothing to do with what he is showing.
It was a show. A spectacle. Pure manipulation. Ruthless, immoral marketing.
The whole “ socialism vs capitalism” or “Europe vs America” we are seeing is the result of a fabulously done propaganda.
The car doesn’t fly.
It never will.
Most importantly,
there wasn’t any car on that show.
But the brainwashed idiots that we are will rush to buy it, waiting for another two years ( 9 have passed already since the preorders), only to receive something that has nothing to do with what we have seen.
Expect the shell.
But in 2026, it seems it is what we are. Empty shells for which entertainment and lies are enough to make us dance like apes.
Porsche maybe didn’t do a flying demonstration.
But at least they will deliver exactly what they have shown. And it will drive better than any Tesla ever will ( especially if it weights two fugging tons).
Shack retweeted
You are smoking crack if you really think that the flying Tesla that never sees the road actually roasted the gas powered piece of fine art that Porsche is putting out.
Porsche Gets Roasted As Flying Tesla Makes Its New Supercar Look Stone-Age zerohedge.com/technology/not…
Shack retweeted
Caleb Williams just reposted this to TikTok 👀 #IcemanReturn 🥶 – at Chicago, IL
