No matter how stupid a narrative is, I will root for it so the rest of you make money But some of these narratives are quite retarded

$xpl looks not bad here Laggards like ltc moving, it might as well too People seem to like the card anyway

Attention is magic - pay attention to the worry and you write a tragedy, pay attention to the hidden magic in life and you write a faerie-tale.

Watching short-form videos deactivates key brain regions for cognitive control. Your “stop” button goes offline.

normalize not bringing up a similar story about yourself when someone is telling you something about themselves, just listen

so "companion humanoids" are starting to become a thing in China. one of them just pulled in 13,000 orders on its first day of sales. (for context Unitree, the biggest humanoid robot maker in the world, shipped around 5,500 humanoids in all of 2025. this robot just booked more than double that in 24 hours.) it's called the U1, built by UBTech in Shenzhen, the first humanoid robot company to ever go public. most humanoids are built for factories and warehouses, but this one was built for keeping people company. and the whole design follows from that job. it comes as a 6-foot man or a 5'6" woman. the skin is silicone, stretched over 88 motorized joints, enough to reproduce about 90% of human movement. the speed matters as much as the range. when you talk, the face reacts in under 20 milliseconds, faster than a blink. any slower and the reactions would start to feel fake. the AI underneath was trained to read emotion. UBTech says it recognizes more than 20 emotional states with over 90% accuracy, so it adjusts to how you're actually feeling. there's no wake word either. you talk, it answers, the same way a conversation with a person works. and it remembers. your routines, your stories, how your week went. the longer you live with it, the better it knows you. everything it learns stays stored on the robot, nothing gets sent to the cloud. the demand comes from a real problem. China has 118 million empty-nest seniors, parents whose kids grew up and moved away. another 90 million adults live completely alone. for a huge share of the country, there's nobody home to talk to. the U1 was built to fill exactly that gap. a presence in the house that talks back, reads your mood, remembers your life. and the custom orders push it further. UBTech will scan a real person's face, clone their voice, build the robot to match. so a family can order one that looks and sounds like someone who died (remember that black mirror episode btw??) however, none of it is fully there yet... > top models cost over $135,000. > the battery only runs 2 to 4 hours, which UBTech admits is just where full-size humanoids are today. they're also donating 100 units this year to seniors living alone and kids separated from their parents. loneliness is becoming a market. and the Chinese are buying like crazy. i'm curious to see if this would catch on as easily in the West?

It is sad to see people actually thinking that Steve Hilton can win the governorship, or Spencer Pratt can win the mayoral election in Los Angeles. They don't understand California politics. Let me tell you two sad facts: neither thing can happen. Joseph Stalin once said words to the effect that the people who vote don't determine elections. The people that count the votes determine elections. But there's more than that in California, and Stalin would have been amazed if he had seen how this state has rigged elections. If everyone in the state voted for Hilton, and everyone in LA voted for Pratt, both would still lose. You think I'm exaggerating? Here's how Democrats have rigged the system. In California, every registered voter, alive or dead, legal or illegal, still in district or not, gets a ballot mailed to them. Every single one. In CA, ballot harvesting is legal. Which means the massive Democrat machine sends operatives out to collect those ballots that were sent to people who aren't there, or senile citizens in old folk's homes, or anywhere else they can, and votes them for Democrats. Then, they dump those ballots into the conveniently placed collection boxes that are all around the state, so the scammers don't have to go very far to drop them off. No need to actually pay for postage. Nope. Just drop them off. Then there's the fact that any ballot received within seven days after an election gets counted. If the Democrats need a little push, they just put those pre-postmarked ballots into the post office box, and they get sent to arrive in time to change the election results. The real problem is that there is no low-level Republican effort to rebuild Republican presence from the bottom up. The CA Republican party is a bunch of elite do-nothings who ask for money and then use that money for 'election events' like dinners, flights around everywhere, and pontifications. They're as big a bunch of grifters as Democrats are. They just have less power. So before you all go "Rah Rah!!! We're going to win!!!" Realize that not only is the deck stacked against Republicans, but the order of the cards in the deck are already determined. The winner of the California gubernatorial race will be whichever Democrat gets on the general election ballot. And the winner of the LA Mayor's race will be Karen Bass. Not because the people voted for them. But because it's the Democrat machine that "counts the votes."

JUST IN: Billionaire Lakers owner Jeanie Buss donates the maximum amount to reality TV star Spencer Pratt’s LA mayoral campaign.

Attention folks!!! This is DC in a NUTSHELL: While I was involved with politics and in Congress these are some of the whispers that ran rampant in DC: Rep. Max Miller of OH remains accused by more than one woman of hitting them. Rep. Nancy Mace was rumored to have an affair with her female chief of staff, the caveat here is that her own staff made those allegations. Former Rep. Anthony D’ Esposito hired his mistress onto the payroll violating ethics rules. Former Rep. Brandon Williams verbally assaulted and threatened his staff on video. Former Rep. Rosendale was rumored to have an affair with one of his staffers. Then Rep. Ruben Gallego cheated on his pregnant wife and divorced her while having several rumored allegations of him having inappropriate relationships with staffers, lobbyists and reporters. Former Rep. Katie Hill had an affair that formed a truple with a staffer amongst many other rumors. Rep. Thomas Suozzi is rumored to have had an affair with a lobbyist. Former Rep. Cawthorn had a reputation of sleeping around the hill and using his office like a bachelor pad. 1 reporter told me he lured her in to his office, one night, promising an exclusive on a subject, and then proceeded to make aggressive insinuations onto her. Former Rep. Tom Reed allegedly had to resign in disgrace due to his sexual misconduct. Former Rep. Eric Swalwell had a nasty reputation that was ignored and swept under the rug. Rep. Ritchie Torres has rumors alleging he is always hitting on male staff on the hill. Rep. Brad Sherman has rumors and allegations of improper sexual behavior. Rep. Jimmy Gomez has allegations of him cheating on his wife with younger women staffers. Rep. Jared Golden has had rumors about his aggressiveness towards women in the press core. Former Rep. Anthony Weiner went to prison for sexual misconduct involving a minor. Rep. John Rose married a woman that was a recipient of his education scholarship. A woman 22 years younger her than him that he met when she was a minor. This list goes on and on but the pattern remains the same… we have a SEX problem in Washington DC. With all this out there the ethic committee focused on 1 man, Matt Gaetz even though he beat every allegation against him investigated by both the Trump and Biden DOJ an FBI and not a single charge was bought forward. DC is not a Swamp it’s a cesspool.

There is an abundance of oil. There is an abundance of coal. There is an abundance of gas. There is an abundance of food. There is an abundance of water. Scarcity is being fabricated by psychopaths.

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More Americans were killed this month in Chicago than were killed in three weeks of combat in Iran.