#  @Empty_America VB Knives VB Knives posts on X about in the, if you, the most, this is the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1318748914242158592/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +66% - [--] Month [----------] +73% - [--] Months [----------] +33% - [--] Year [-----------] -24% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1318748914242158592/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] +30% - [--] Month [---] +46% - [--] Months [-----] +23% - [--] Year [-----] -11% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1318748914242158592/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.38% - [--] Month [------] +0.94% - [--] Months [------] +5.10% - [--] Year [------] +24% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1318748914242158592/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 22.29% [finance](/list/finance) 8% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 5.14% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 2.29% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1.14% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.14% [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.57% [gaming](/list/gaming) 0.57% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 0.57% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.57% **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the) 9.14%, [if you](/topic/if-you) #5275, [the most](/topic/the-most) 4%, [this is](/topic/this-is) 3.43%, [mexico](/topic/mexico) #1145, [we are](/topic/we-are) 3.43%, [culture](/topic/culture) #2245, [the great](/topic/the-great) 3.43%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3.43%, [italy](/topic/italy) 3.43% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@gronreturns](/creator/undefined) [@dantejeffe14617](/creator/undefined) [@mistermacrobia](/creator/undefined) [@eliasb223](/creator/undefined) [@emptyamerica](/creator/undefined) [@neipate96](/creator/undefined) [@sandocmatt](/creator/undefined) [@ebguides](/creator/undefined) [@georgee33179](/creator/undefined) [@vgersht](/creator/undefined) [@sethlargo](/creator/undefined) [@atlanticesque](/creator/undefined) [@adesertdryad](/creator/undefined) [@cornu__copia](/creator/undefined) [@fettermans_iump](/creator/undefined) [@geringeradam](/creator/undefined) [@juddbaroff](/creator/undefined) [@avrilbradley23](/creator/undefined) [@wolfmanreid2022](/creator/undefined) [@aragoneselion](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "One of the things that they actually "took from you" is the realistic potential of career success leading to lengthy and deeply relaxing summer vacations by early mid life. Now this is mostly only possible by *not* earning. Today few wagies of any rank spend [--] weeks at Spa. The concept of the vacation has declined tremendously Ghibli movies really capture the more Aristocratic ideal of vacation. In the past you would just disappear for the summer to the same boutique resort you went to every year. Good company and drink real leisure https://t.co/C9crkGLIfV The concept of the vacation has" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022479051592733146) 2026-02-14T01:12Z 35.8K followers, 65.6K engagements "The "Favela" is simply the cultural memory of traditional S. European Urbanism but executed in the modern materials of our day. @Empty_America Mexico State north of Mexico City (the federal district). Doesnt take much more to beautify. https://t.co/0cfHi8pGhV @Empty_America Mexico State north of Mexico City (the federal district). Doesnt take much more to beautify. https://t.co/0cfHi8pGhV" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1813221839885263063) 2024-07-16T14:39Z 35.8K followers, 57K engagements "The USA is at something like 62% "white collar" employment literally more managers than workers. Only possible with free money printing and immense imports of everything. Any return to a "normal" economy will involve millions and millions returning to tangible work. Searing" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1828074001517707472) 2024-08-26T14:16Z 35.8K followers, 230.6K engagements "It's all over. When [--] year old married men have a "toy room" full of Legos. We are cooked on a level you don't even grasp. wife yells at husband for lego obsession now hes pulling away ghost of former self https://t.co/H86I7Fpbx3 wife yells at husband for lego obsession now hes pulling away ghost of former self https://t.co/H86I7Fpbx3" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1857506951489372198) 2024-11-15T19:32Z 35.8K followers, 2.6M engagements "This meme image conveys extreme wealth only because of the low BMI of the mother and the style of the clothes. Nothing in the photo is actually especially "expensive." Everyone has granite counters collared shirts are readily available etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1897852803113972017) 2025-03-07T03:32Z 35.8K followers, 63.8K engagements "I think generic white American culture is very real. The salary job the cars the HOA suburbs the youth sport "rituals." Very identifiable culture and very weird to outsiders. @IvyNadeska Individual Europeans have culture. Generic white Americans don't @IvyNadeska Individual Europeans have culture. Generic white Americans don't" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1929647995026657688) 2025-06-02T21:15Z 35.8K followers, 327.1K engagements "Do jobs even have "status" anymore I mean I guess wagies rank each other in some fashion but doesn't the real status ladder start when you aren't in employment anymore How can anyone have status if they have a boss No ones said it yet so I will: the job is low-status and many people in these situations come from middle class families who did white collar work so doing blue collar work feels or is literally falling down a rung on the status ladder No ones said it yet so I will: the job is low-status and many people in these situations come from middle class families who did white collar work" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1948227078173671463) 2025-07-24T03:41Z 35.8K followers, 28.5K engagements "Putting aside the polemic about Christianity the fact remains that the Hindus and to an extent Muslims are the major remaining redoubts of "civilization" in the classic sense. Still able to create signficant amounts of high labor architecture in traditional materials. Christianity is [----] years behind the Hindu aesthetic. https://t.co/AsHL695He0 Christianity is [----] years behind the Hindu aesthetic. https://t.co/AsHL695He0" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1983920356348875071) 2025-10-30T15:34Z 35.7K followers, 18.7K engagements "Yes Bar Soap (like taking Baths) is a class horseshoe thing only the poor and rich use it. The great middle uses gels and "body wash" and stuff like that. Doesn't really code Red or Blue. Is using bar soap when you bathe (as opposed to shower gel) one of those financial horseshoe things Because I feel like it is. Growing up we used bar soap and it felt cheap. Now when I use my organic/natural soaps in my little hand-crocheted soap cozy it feels so decadent. Is using bar soap when you bathe (as opposed to shower gel) one of those financial horseshoe things Because I feel like it is. Growing up" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2006136732828209370) 2025-12-30T22:54Z 35.8K followers, 171.7K engagements "Also if you knock someone out bystanders think you are cool. But if you drag them down and try to do BJJ stuff bystanders feel a strong desire to kick and stomp your head. I trained BJJ for a couple years in high school. Some boxing. Some MMA. Even some Jeet Kune Do. Heres the truth most people dont like: MMA-style boxing is by far the most useful for real situations. Being strong athletic fast and drilling the jab and cross endlessly = I trained BJJ for a couple years in high school. Some boxing. Some MMA. Even some Jeet Kune Do. Heres the truth most people dont like: MMA-style boxing is by" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2010408416645448001) 2026-01-11T17:48Z 35.8K followers, 85.7K engagements "If you want to be 100% sure that the climate is mild make sure there are olive trees. If you don't see olives something unpleasant will be occurring. Olives won't tolerate excessive tropical humid heat OR excessive cold so they give a signal both ways. https://t.co/PMi6MpgCO7 https://t.co/PMi6MpgCO7" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2014769546947883109) 2026-01-23T18:37Z 35.8K followers, 268.4K engagements "Is there a genetic link between poverty and athletic ability Despite the massive advantages enjoyed by MC and UMC youth (training diet equipment coaching) a high percent of professional athletes continue to come from poverty. In other words do athletic men who aren't quite good enough to go pro tend to have traits that lead to poor economic performance but often father children who do make it @P2WFantasy "Feeling bad" and suggesting an industry worth tens or hundreds of billions of $ provide training financial services and the most basic safety nets to young men often from challenged" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2015565792063238285) 2026-01-25T23:21Z 35.7K followers, 20.1K engagements "The great majority of voters do in fact own houses and would like the value of such to increase or at least stay the same. You are in an online bubble. Trump has said a lot of dumb shit but this one might cost him midterms Trump has said a lot of dumb shit but this one might cost him midterms" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2017089972357267815) 2026-01-30T04:18Z 35.7K followers, 13.1K engagements "Are you prepared for another American century It's programed according to all macro factors. One of the only things that might stop it would be the "declinist/isolation/multipolar" wing of the R party winning in [----]. Which is looking less likely all the time. Our friend @JoshuaSheats reframes expat planning It's not about moving to greener pastures (he says the 21st century will be another American century) - it's about staying liquid so that you can act decisively in a crisis https://t.co/lD9sThTZfg Our friend @JoshuaSheats reframes expat planning It's not about moving to greener pastures" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2017275178787447262) 2026-01-30T16:34Z 35.8K followers, 32.2K engagements "Looks like the "billionaires" really are just weird and hapless dorks on a human level. Epstein was the "cool bad boy" who sort of mentored them. It's all very pathetic really. Bill Gates emailing Jeffrey Epstein like Aww jeeze my weiners messed up. You got any STD medicine for my weiner Bill Gates emailing Jeffrey Epstein like Aww jeeze my weiners messed up. You got any STD medicine for my weiner" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2017446130427285563) 2026-01-31T03:53Z 35.7K followers, 223.1K engagements "The older fellow who sheers my sheep says that WWII ruined the New Mexico sheep industry because "everyone learned about electricity and running water." Hard to get them back to the sheep camp once they have experienced all that. The South disproportionately did not participate in World War [--] and suffered lower casualties per capita than any other region of the US https://t.co/95vdcV4uVL The South disproportionately did not participate in World War [--] and suffered lower casualties per capita than any other region of the US https://t.co/95vdcV4uVL" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2017671569686831268) 2026-01-31T18:49Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "It would be historically resonant if the Gold price ends up driving an asteroid mining mission and thus starts the space age for real" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2017677201101992131) 2026-01-31T19:11Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "The property tax enthusiasts try to gaslight you into think that that property tax abolition is some lunatic fringe thing. But almost nowhere on earth has property taxes anywhere near the worse USA states. Paying 3% of value annually is bizarre and shocking to foreigners. I was listening to Ron DeSantis talk about eliminating property tax in Florida and at first I thought Theres no way that works. Then I heard the detailsand it actually made a lot of sense. The idea isnt to eliminate property tax for everyone. It would only apply to https://t.co/JwZ09aJd4j I was listening to Ron DeSantis talk" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018429093138895190) 2026-02-02T20:59Z 35.7K followers, 24.9K engagements "@PatrickHeizer I'm not sure about that map I can tell you for 100% sure that once you add up city county and school district assessments property taxes in Upstate NY can easily hit 3% of the propery's real sale value" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018436216719352217) 2026-02-02T21:27Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "You may not be ready for this conversation but Kylie Jenner and Timothe Chalamet are the the logical casting choices for Paris and Helen in a modern Iliad film" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018482742661623854) 2026-02-03T00:32Z 35.7K followers, 13.1K engagements "A [--] Man limit of "Slob Perch" from Devil's Lake North Dakota" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018493923552092193) 2026-02-03T01:17Z 35.7K followers, 111.4K engagements "Claimed Chinese population numbers require there to be very large rural peasant population (100s of millions) who are living at "African" levels of per capita GDP in the hinterland. The Chinese population conspiracy posits that most of these people don't exist and that China is actually a much smaller country with a considerably higher per capita GDP. A cool thing you see from candid videos that slip past the great firewall is that a decent proportion of Chinese still live in places akin to African mud huts. Modern Chinese cities are incredibly impressive but theyre still far from being" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018716861395787906) 2026-02-03T16:03Z 35.8K followers, 71.2K engagements "You could do the Iliad in a certain way that allowed for entirely free casting it would be something like the [----] Romeo and Juliet movie. Tell the core story in a way where it's immediately legible to the viewer that the setting is non-historical. You're correct if one reads Homer for the bare bones of the plot line: Beautiful woman causes a war and context doesn't matter. If instead one reads Homer to imaginatively enter the world of the Trojan war and if one (historically accurately) has Caucasians in mind's eye (be You're correct if one reads Homer for the bare bones of the plot line:" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018724665708196215) 2026-02-03T16:34Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "Even in areas with cheap land and no regulatory issues building [----] sq ft low-end houses that sell for 250K is a risky and low margin business. It's not a thing that can be made much cheaper than it is now outside of a directly government subsidized building program. Why building and selling $250K homes is a brutal business for small developers: Lets walk through the numbers. Land + site work: $25000 (10% of the exit) Construction: [----] sq. ft. $100 psf = $150000 Total development cost: $175000 You finance the project at 85% LTC. Why building and selling $250K homes is a brutal business for" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018744909654810785) 2026-02-03T17:54Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "What happened to this actually based regulation Now you get 10K in damage to your "tough pickup truck" if you bump into a twig at 1mph. Bumper cars in real life. https://t.co/sEW3MiCX9B Bumper cars in real life. https://t.co/sEW3MiCX9B" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018760352977076713) 2026-02-03T18:55Z 35.8K followers, 130K engagements "In the 80s and 90s old "technicolor" movies were considered painfully square. Now they increasingly seem transgressive disturbingly racy. https://t.co/xlemsITDaE https://t.co/xlemsITDaE" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018772269615788139) 2026-02-03T19:43Z 35.7K followers, 17.8K engagements "In time the Favelas will probably become tourist attractions Hip districts like the French Quarter or the hill towns of Spain and Italy. Os morros cariocas tem potencial pra deixar positano📍no chinelo Paisagem mil vezes mais bonita S precisaria melhorar as casas e a qualidade de vida https://t.co/FVfxj9Nv3f Os morros cariocas tem potencial pra deixar positano📍no chinelo Paisagem mil vezes mais bonita S precisaria melhorar as casas e a qualidade de vida https://t.co/FVfxj9Nv3f" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018784858798227767) 2026-02-03T20:33Z 35.8K followers, 40.2K engagements "Yeah that was because our parents tent camped and cooked dinner on a Coleman stove. the complete failure mode of neoliberalism has destroyed vacationing. back in the 90's a married teacher and mailman could take their [--] children on vacation to the Grand Canyon for $400. the complete failure mode of neoliberalism has destroyed vacationing. back in the 90's a married teacher and mailman could take their [--] children on vacation to the Grand Canyon for $400" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018787689731100825) 2026-02-03T20:44Z 35.8K followers, 66.9K engagements "This is precisely why the Ivy league engaged in absurd and clearly illegal behavior to suppress the flood of Asian applicants. The Ivy prestige ultimately comes from graduating PRESIDENTS they are places future PRESIDENTS go. Lose that and it's just a tech school. Grind culture has its place. You want your ophthalmologist or whoever to have high test scores and to be diligent. Nothing wrong with that. But that obviously isnt what makes America great. What makes America great are visionary and creative people who can see things way Grind culture has its place. You want your ophthalmologist or" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019132196511170588) 2026-02-04T19:33Z 35.8K followers, 131.2K engagements "And it's not so much that E. Asians themselves aren't going to be POTUS the effect is greater. The next George W. Bush just isn't going to attend a school where seemingly everyone is a Asian STEM grinder. Just not like that he will go to Ole Miss or something" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019137026839441880) 2026-02-04T19:52Z 35.8K followers, 22.9K engagements "It's a very "real" place. In most of the developed world highly educated professionals medical doctors PhD scientists might make 60K. That is a normal rate of pay and personal consumption when you aren't born a citizen of the world military and monetary hegemon. The EU is not a real place. https://t.co/ASRtX2jZqK The EU is not a real place. https://t.co/ASRtX2jZqK" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019140826534948883) 2026-02-04T20:07Z 35.7K followers, 74.2K engagements "Has there ever been a study on the effects of Catholic School on adult practice of the religion I suspect it might be outright negative esepcially if you controlled for how reguarly a family attended mass. The cost is also a real discouragement for big families. Catholic schools are a mess because of this. A Catholic homeschool group is superior to 90% of Catholic schools. Catholic schools do a no better job of keeping your kids Catholic than public schools to be honest. Catholic schools are a mess because of this. A Catholic homeschool group is superior to 90% of Catholic schools. Catholic" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019151032618721459) 2026-02-04T20:48Z 35.7K followers, 26.3K engagements "A lot of the more elite Dutch/Huguenot lines of New Amsterdam stock died right out. Less elite branches and those branches who went West multiplied well but the richer ones who stayed on the Coast had incredibly bad fertility even in the 1800s few heirs remain now. The New England WASPs were not the only ruling class to just disappear. Before them the Delaware Valley Quakers long disappeared as a ruling class along with old Dutch families of New York. The only group that is still around in the background are the Southern elite families. The New England WASPs were not the only ruling class to" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019462664653566079) 2026-02-05T17:26Z 35.8K followers, 23.6K engagements "In cases of intense out-migration staying long enough often works well. Really both groups benefited a lot the out-migration to New Jersey relieved the eternal Malthusian poverty and made life much better in the old village. And so my ancestors who sailed and wanted to stay close to the sea saw this view and decided NOT to move to New Jersey So here I am living just half an hour away Feel free to join me 😉 Portofino Liguria Italy https://t.co/JIvjgnwhlF And so my ancestors who sailed and wanted to stay close to the sea saw this view and decided NOT to move to New Jersey So here I am living" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019463604743889373) 2026-02-05T17:30Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "It's funny how shocked we are when persons of a "trad" presentation have a scandal. I mean did wearing a necktie and ostentatiously practicing religion prevent vice at any other time Did people not drink and have affairs in 1880s America or in 1600s Italy" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019468947188269106) 2026-02-05T17:51Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "For someone who wants to leave the "Housing Cost Wheel of Pain" there is a lot to be said for Illinois. Prices are upstate NY tier but with less winter. Interesting option. Downstate Illinois is bizarro world. You can buy a whole victorian house a couple blocks out from downtown Quincy for $30K. https://t.co/duiERgP7f1 https://t.co/ketKEqMzfw Downstate Illinois is bizarro world. You can buy a whole victorian house a couple blocks out from downtown Quincy for $30K. https://t.co/duiERgP7f1 https://t.co/ketKEqMzfw" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019479661303284222) 2026-02-05T18:34Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "@dezgoldie "Looks dangerous I want a keyboard job"" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019480098244530322) 2026-02-05T18:35Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@AlanMCole Is it true that kids who get perfect verbal scores of [---] but start out with math scores of like [---] or [---] can be tutored way up and thus get an Ivy teir total score after tutoring I've been told this is the case but the opposite scenario is more difficult to "fix."" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019495826901667945) 2026-02-05T19:38Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "I think the issue is rather the opposite. "Grinders" may well be smart by any reasonable measure but they don't seem smart at all. Where as people who are witty well spoken and exude sprezzatura seem smart but might not actually be smart. There's essentially infinite demand for "yes the objective metrics show that those people SEEM smart but they are lacking in the ineffable REAL smartness that I have" and it's rarely-to-never true. There's essentially infinite demand for "yes the objective metrics show that those people SEEM smart but they are lacking in the ineffable REAL smartness that I" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019522707256410512) 2026-02-05T21:25Z 35.7K followers, 10.7K engagements "In post scarcity many are unable to understand that there wasn't always just "food in the food stores." People especially children were dying of long term chronic malnutrition well into the 20th century in Europe. It wasn't a joke you couldn't really get enough to eat. https://t.co/zbmTzCnTxB https://t.co/zbmTzCnTxB" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019817151084052677) 2026-02-06T16:55Z 35.7K followers, 64.6K engagements "That's a very nice and clever design for a tiny house. You always hear that Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room shack but did you know that his successor Andrew Johnson was also born in a shack https://t.co/8uTJEDduOR You always hear that Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room shack but did you know that his successor Andrew Johnson was also born in a shack https://t.co/8uTJEDduOR" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019848654983692550) 2026-02-06T19:00Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "Real security for these towns would require what amounted to public ownership state industry. Even setting aside offshoring the *core* logic of shareholder capitalism dictates possible closure on a moment's notice. No promises were ever actually made. I live in the Midwest. Ive seen entire factoriesemployers that kept a little cornfield town alivedisappear overnight after production was moved to Mexico or China. Complete devastation for an entire close-knit community. No tears no 4000-word eulogies in WaPo no I live in the Midwest. Ive seen entire factoriesemployers that kept a little" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019849503709475322) 2026-02-06T19:03Z 35.8K followers, 10.7K engagements "Crazy thing is that "no eating between meals" was an American cultural norm within living memory. Now parents are expected to have a 24/7 snack buffet available car snacks etc. But if you are over [--] your grandmother might have scolded you for sneaking food between meals. Unless you're having celery carrots or pickles are a growing child/teenage boy or laborer snacking is kinda dangerous. When my foreign family have visited they're stunned "You Americans never stop eating" We can change anytime we want to though Unless you're having celery carrots or pickles are a growing child/teenage boy or" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019853393607725098) 2026-02-06T19:19Z 35.7K followers, 111.5K engagements "@PatrolSquadron Yeah Lubbock is a little bigger than Amarillo. The SW Florida coast isn't really one city but it's probably the largest "Red" urbanization in the USA" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019891604329492527) 2026-02-06T21:51Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Strictly speaking you can make a 4-6 person car than can cruise at 55mph getting probably [--] mpg powered by an air-cooled lawnmower motor from Harbor Freight. It's all just regulatory stuff basic internal combustion transport at minimum cost is a solved issue. We can simplify this even more. There are ways. https://t.co/zRUJV5jCLB We can simplify this even more. There are ways. https://t.co/zRUJV5jCLB" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019910443230523801) 2026-02-06T23:05Z 35.7K followers, 27.7K engagements "@TheFoolishPig It's possible you didn't wish to apply to colleges. If you had applied they would have hastened to admit you and most would have give signficant aid etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019913581010252106) 2026-02-06T23:18Z 35.8K followers, 25.7K engagements "It's like how certain large predators at the top of the food chain are "indicator species." If the mountain can sustain Grizzly bears the entire mountain is "working." If the subway has open bathrooms the city is working. My politics in a nutshell: We should improve society specifically in the ways that will make it feasible to remove the chain from the subway bathroom doors My politics in a nutshell: We should improve society specifically in the ways that will make it feasible to remove the chain from the subway bathroom doors" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019920568926236941) 2026-02-06T23:46Z 35.7K followers, 38.6K engagements "Starting up the garden for the new year. If you want vegetables or flowers to actually grow west of the 100th meridian try a set up were you can flood standing water onto them. This is a garlic bed with some earth berms for that reason" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019921746879816113) 2026-02-06T23:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "There are these crazy deep structures in reality that we sometimes catch sight of. En todas las partes de Europa donde no haba via triunf el Protestantismo. Donde haba vino triunf la Contrarreforma. Esto no puede ser sual. Se volvieron herejea las naciones que beban gin y cerveza donde faltaba la materia del sacramento de la Sangre de Cristo. https://t.co/ao50Pjrh5X En todas las partes de Europa donde no haba via triunf el Protestantismo. Donde haba vino triunf la Contrarreforma. Esto no puede ser sual. Se volvieron herejea las naciones que beban gin y cerveza donde faltaba la materia del" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019936607051358366) 2026-02-07T00:49Z 35.7K followers, 10.7K engagements "Heavy move here by Bill. They want to play games with subpoenas he demands a live televised hearing. He is [--] they really don't know what he is going to say on camera. Maybe he hits the red button starts telling stories about trips with his old buddy Donald. I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers lets stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about. I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019974413266092295) 2026-02-07T03:20Z 35.8K followers, 89.1K engagements ""Surrogate Activity" What do you call this 😏 https://t.co/6tGDx5yth9 What do you call this 😏 https://t.co/6tGDx5yth9" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019994606608470128) 2026-02-07T04:40Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "@j3lqingt0n I suppose someone will soon take the "ultimate edition" fan edit and replace the bad the effects with AI. Result would be a fantastic film. Also take out a few inexplicable blunders like the witching module etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020703839561875920) 2026-02-09T03:38Z 35.7K followers, [---] engagements "A somewhat different type of person undergoes a basically similar process by visiting Italy or the south of France. Certain places do the whole "end of history" thing in particularly seductive ways. You simply cannot go to Japan without coming back and hating America. Its rather like being a Russian officer stationed in post-Napoleon France coming back and hating Russia and becoming a Decembrist. https://t.co/lNcdQj3T5C You simply cannot go to Japan without coming back and hating America. Its rather like being a Russian officer stationed in post-Napoleon France coming back and hating Russia" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020710346278027703) 2026-02-09T04:04Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "Exactly the same way that Egypt exists. The Colorado river supplies a massive amount of water which can be diverted by many ditches to irrigate a large area of desert. Gravity flow irrigation plus ultra UV and year round growing season is a wild combo. Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert https://t.co/kAT9HmbsJN Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert https://t.co/kAT9HmbsJN" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020713617109426517) 2026-02-09T04:17Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "Painting brick is 100% fine if you use a lime based paint that can tastefully weather off. But if you put latex paint over brick you have created a rod for your own back. Made an almost maintence free surface into something requireing a paint-scraping cycle. I know you guys get all upset about coatings on bricks but this is a nice place to be. https://t.co/pknpUH0f4C I know you guys get all upset about coatings on bricks but this is a nice place to be. https://t.co/pknpUH0f4C" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020714457346044363) 2026-02-09T04:20Z 35.8K followers, 74.3K engagements "Yes there are guys who are changed by visiting Japan those who are changed by visiting Italy and a third type who would be sort of disgusted by both and confirmed in their passion for American suburbia. @Empty_America One type of guy comes back from Italy insanely jealous of everything and longing to go back Another type of guy whines constantly about small houses small cars no HVAC narrow streets etc I fully view the latter type of guy as a lesser breed of human than me @Empty_America One type of guy comes back from Italy insanely jealous of everything and longing to go back Another type of" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020715678521868698) 2026-02-09T04:25Z 35.7K followers, 10.1K engagements "Since no one can predict what the economy will be like in [--] years there has never been a better time to do and study what you like. Taking Art and French might not get you a 200K office job but studying "hard boring shit that makes you cry" might not either" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020716769716105697) 2026-02-09T04:29Z 35.8K followers, 17K engagements "100% you must understand that the "W" in WASP stands for *Wealthy.* Wow my usage of WASP really upset some people but I believe my usage was correct. The word WASP was usually used to refer to the closest thing that America has to hereditary elites: Northeasterners who went Harvard & Yale just like father & grandfather who were born 1/ Wow my usage of WASP really upset some people but I believe my usage was correct. The word WASP was usually used to refer to the closest thing that America has to hereditary elites: Northeasterners who went Harvard & Yale just like father & grandfather who were" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020880756525195274) 2026-02-09T15:21Z 35.8K followers, 37.5K engagements "There is a lot of stolen valor on X regarding "youth." Your average poster who identifies as a "young man" is probably [--] perhaps even [--]. And their thought leaders are getting distinctly 40ish. Actual Gen A viewpoints haven't been heard much yet. You can't imagine how much Gen Alpha A kids looks down on stuff like right wingery and 4chan memes in general it's all "schizo uncslop" to them The ship has sailed for the "alt-right" it's had [--] years to win and it did win there will be no more winning for them New epoch You can't imagine how much Gen Alpha A kids looks down on stuff like right" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020883410823368850) 2026-02-09T15:32Z 35.8K followers, 30.2K engagements "Almost everyone wants socialism if you just ask them directly about socialist policies without using the "S word." "Should there be policies to prevent factories from leaving small towns that depend on them" "Should the Government ensure that no one dies from lack of health care" "Should the Government take action to provide appropriate employment for college graduates" "Should there be a Government program to construct affordable new houses in major metro areas" This is probably the most eye-opening chart you will see today. Why is socialist indoctrination at universities and in legacy media" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020884730078724212) 2026-02-09T15:37Z 35.8K followers, 13.9K engagements "@xwanyex The liberal rebuttal would be "well if our most highly esteemed and thriving metro areas are obviously multicultural and high immigrant what is your argument in favor of drastically limiting immigration to start with It seems to be creating these desirable conditions."" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020886402406514976) 2026-02-09T15:43Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Lib halftime show is Reggaeton whilst the Conservative option is Rap. This too is "Universal Progressivism." Kid Rock's audio was out of sync in the TPUSA halftime show stream LMAOOO What a complete disaster. https://t.co/sjOqn3QpfT Kid Rock's audio was out of sync in the TPUSA halftime show stream LMAOOO What a complete disaster. https://t.co/sjOqn3QpfT" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020898497231478909) 2026-02-09T16:32Z 35.8K followers, 30.1K engagements "The median Bad Bunny listener cannot understand the lyrics. But this makes no difference consider that much dance music has no lyrics at all. In fact I suspect the incomprehensible vocals are part of the allure create a more abstract and primal soundscape. theres a joke going around Spanish language internet: Americans are mad Bad Bunny is singing in Spanish at the super bowl and they cant understand him but neither can we (slurred/lispy Puerto Rican Spanish and Bah Bohnays accent in particular is famously impenetrable) https://t.co/gSHpPcbaK6 theres a joke going around Spanish language" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020907551043486148) 2026-02-09T17:08Z 35.8K followers, 11.4K engagements "It seems like the reformist voices within the D collation are being shouted down. Maga imploded too fast. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020948321830044146) 2026-02-09T19:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "At a certain level of sterile aging atomization people begin to idealize any setting where young humans are moving around on foot and interacting. I just dont get the favela fetishization. What spiritual sickness have we wrought that a good chunk of the country pines to live in tin-roofed shacks with intermittent electricity I just dont get the favela fetishization. What spiritual sickness have we wrought that a good chunk of the country pines to live in tin-roofed shacks with intermittent electricity" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020949450303352972) 2026-02-09T19:54Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "One cannot understand Miami or Houston by myopically focusing on "per capita" GDP like a midwit. These versions of Nu-America create high total GDP and a dynamic feeling partly *because* of a fast growing and younger population at a slightly lower per capita income. On the other hand Miami is one of the few places in the US (SF/Silicon Valley is the other) that has created genuinely new vibes the past [--] years You can feel the new civilization of America very intensely in Miami something that isnt true most other places (Charlotte for On the other hand Miami is one of the few places in the US" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020952490334879787) 2026-02-09T20:06Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "It seems like the reformist voices within the D coalition are being shouted down. Maga imploded too fast. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020957913771016257) 2026-02-09T20:28Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "I think this is the real importance of places like Thomas Aquinas college and the related "classical" education ecosystem. It fosters a higher education and materially modern version of trad life gives women the cultural capital to engage in an intellectual version of SAHM. What happens when a woman is intelligent enough to see the long-term value of being a SAHM but too intellectually restless to reduce that role to housework and washing the dishes alone What happens when a woman is intelligent enough to see the long-term value of being a SAHM but too intellectually restless to reduce that" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020972745706832081) 2026-02-09T21:27Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements "In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be in educated urban scenes but was excluded from them. 4th standard deviation kids are quite able to figure out and ace the well known sequence of tests needed. Im sure the constraints and incentives of university admission are more perverse than they were when I was young but simple math and every midwit interaction I have on here assure me the supply of overvalidated 120s far outstrips the supply of undiscovered 160s. Im sure the constraints and incentives of university admission are more perverse than" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021011722757448049) 2026-02-10T00:01Z 35.8K followers, 41.3K engagements "Even a kid raised by pillbillies can crush the ASVAB enlist in a military MOS like linguist go to state school on GI bill take LSAT score [---] go to top law school etc. It's almost impossible to avoid tests that identify the genius to himself and to others. In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be in educated urban scenes but was excluded from them. 4th standard deviation kids are quite able to figure out and ace the well known sequence of tests needed. In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021013000937934938) 2026-02-10T00:07Z 35.8K followers, 29.2K engagements "Correct except you will get a lot of argument on the Houston vs. Atlanta point. Reimagining The United States As Only [--] States With New Names & State Capitals Other combinations: https://t.co/DnL4hncf8X https://t.co/K6L5lwDjvq Reimagining The United States As Only [--] States With New Names & State Capitals Other combinations: https://t.co/DnL4hncf8X https://t.co/K6L5lwDjvq" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021070257541218402) 2026-02-10T03:54Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "I think the zoomers who were worst at school might be doing the best now. Out there hanging Christmas lights hauling trash harvesting that excess cash from aging home owners. Some of those bros will be in nice houses by [--]. I feel bad for my generation even with a skilled trade or degree its almost impossible to land a job having to explain to Fen X and Boomer relatives is like explaining a finances to a [--] year old I feel bad for my generation even with a skilled trade or degree its almost impossible to land a job having to explain to Fen X and Boomer relatives is like explaining a finances" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021077410016526585) 2026-02-10T04:22Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@GeringerAdam @FrenlyOfficer Too cold in N. Carolina. You see stuff like that in old New Orleans buildings however" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021077616242098457) 2026-02-10T04:23Z 35.7K followers, [---] engagements "The other thing is that Marijuana for unknown reasons lends itself to day use in a way alcohol doesn't. Many life long drinkers almost never take a drink before 5:00pm. But essentially 100% of weed users are routinely high during the day. Marijuana consumption remains bimodal: either people smoke a lot or they dont smoke at all. Obviously correct and Im not even sure how much of it is cultural. Its fun to frequently get a little tipsy but I dont know anyone who would want to regularly get slightly high Marijuana consumption remains bimodal: either people smoke a lot or they dont smoke at all." [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021251386998923421) 2026-02-10T15:54Z 35.8K followers, 198.9K engagements "It's possible that Somali will be a hot destination in [----]. I've been impressed with the intelligence of the young Somalis you see on X. Hope they keep it tasteful emulate Oman not Dubai. Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021252138664378757) 2026-02-10T15:57Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@GrapeTepid The rewards on the highest end of all that may make it worthwhile *if* you really have what it takes" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021285974324506785) 2026-02-10T18:11Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Very odd. Why don't people in Kentucky sleep What are they doing all night As a parent of [--] young kids never has a map spoken to me more. Map Showing Where Adults In The US Dont Get Enough Sleep https://t.co/SgzVEFOeyX https://t.co/L4hBC2qXtE As a parent of [--] young kids never has a map spoken to me more. Map Showing Where Adults In The US Dont Get Enough Sleep https://t.co/SgzVEFOeyX https://t.co/L4hBC2qXtE" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021293162795499884) 2026-02-10T18:40Z 35.8K followers, 15.1K engagements "I've been told that beer glasses in Germany are legally required to have a "fill line" marked on them to standardize the quantity served. But I don't know how they count foam. I suspect foam doesn't count in Germany. Back in [----] one Japanese guy was angry that a Tokyo beer hall served him a beer with too much foam. He called the police but they weren't sure if foam counted as beer. It eventually went to trial and in [----] it was ruled that foam counts as beer. https://t.co/znh3cLSQ2a Back in [----] one Japanese guy was angry that a Tokyo beer hall served him a beer with too much foam. He called" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021293996363182270) 2026-02-10T18:43Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@BrilliantMaps Same idea as "South Dakota." It's not all that hard to grasp" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021294588254966005) 2026-02-10T18:45Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "The general trend line from top left to bottom right is what I call the "Sweden-Sudan Axis" of social conservatism. Religiosity being linked to negative attitudes towards homosexuality will be forever disappointing to me. A modern day Jesus wouldnt hangout with a tax collector but with homosexuals liberals conservatives or whatever people you consider uncool. https://t.co/ioUU9kYNCp Religiosity being linked to negative attitudes towards homosexuality will be forever disappointing to me. A modern day Jesus wouldnt hangout with a tax collector but with homosexuals liberals conservatives or" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021295801646059794) 2026-02-10T18:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@PennMaxxing Could be the auto plants. I see that Georgia is the other state that stands out I think they also have Toyota plants and so forth there" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021297788542386233) 2026-02-10T18:58Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "Koreans were created for Space but we failed them. We didn't get the Moon Base and the Great Ships built in time. Thus they are expiring gracelessly. Incrvel a quantidade moggers que tinha na primeira gerao de Counter-Strike https://t.co/ycmXWwTPpW Incrvel a quantidade moggers que tinha na primeira gerao de Counter-Strike https://t.co/ycmXWwTPpW" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021299737056641075) 2026-02-10T19:06Z 35.8K followers, 19.8K engagements "I think that sub-lightspeed interstellar civilization would actually be cooler and perhaps that is why things are set up as they are. Moving between systems is possible but a one way trip scores of civilizations develop knowing others exist but crossing that gulf is epic. The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible." [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021336058005422096) 2026-02-10T21:30Z 35.8K followers, 12.8K engagements "There has historically been a lot of debate about whether USA red fox populations are native or represent introductions from Europe for fox hunting. I think the judgment is going towards "mostly native" in general but the Sierra Fox is a true native for sure. Check this out CDFW biologists captured & GPS-collared an elusive Sierra Nevada Red Fox in the southern Sierra for the first time ever Very little is known about this rare species & scientists are excited to learn more through tracking its movement. https://t.co/zqxzsq6OKN Check this out CDFW biologists captured & GPS-collared an elusive" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021346773382594851) 2026-02-10T22:13Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "It seems that GDP is always higher in regions of a country that transact sell insurance "head office" areas. This doesn't imply that everywhere can or should become a head office area. You need to produce things to transact. @Empty_America GDP is an entirely useless metric below the national level @Empty_America GDP is an entirely useless metric below the national level" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021353645070238068) 2026-02-10T22:40Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "The particular numbers in that post are wrong (see community note). However consider that in [----] 12% of American adults were college graduates. If only 12% (instead of 60%) of kids were allowed to go to college now the average starting salary for graduates would be high. In [----] people in their ***first year out of college*** who landed in any random office got paid $100 an hour in [----] dollars. I shit you not. $27500 was the standard annual offer for entry level office jobs in [----]. Thats $208000 a year today. In [----] people in their ***first year out of college*** who landed in any random" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021606276564762983) 2026-02-11T15:24Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Anglo-Dutch-French-Sephardic race formed in New Amsterdam is the most successful in the world. Core to the founding of the first entity that approaches real world Hegemony. The Dutch Race is the most successful race in the world. Before the British the men in black already ruled the world. https://t.co/b2Zn5AvWLe The Dutch Race is the most successful race in the world. Before the British the men in black already ruled the world. https://t.co/b2Zn5AvWLe" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021607950955987373) 2026-02-11T15:31Z 35.8K followers, 18.9K engagements "I was just thinking last night what would even change if this "permanent underclass" thing happens How would it be different Even if most jobs disappear how is collecting UBI more underclass than being a wage slave we like to think that we live vastly differently than the feudal serfs of the middle ages. but even the hooded tunics preferred by the working class remain essentially unchanged for a thousand years. we are all part of the permanent underclass. always have been always will be. https://t.co/qfmO7GBJQw we like to think that we live vastly differently than the feudal serfs of the" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021610176319480172) 2026-02-11T15:40Z 35.8K followers, 15.7K engagements "@PureLandNation @VGersht Also super old stock "Dutch" like Lee Van Cleef often looked like upper class Mexicans because they had a lot of Sephardic ancestry coming in through the female lines" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021653828798759259) 2026-02-11T18:33Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "@Hired_Sellout Well what else are they going to do Make everyone work at fake jobs and pay them Oh wait. . " [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021654038627201401) 2026-02-11T18:34Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "If the rich used AI and robots to eliminate all honest means of making a living I would become a bandit. As would many others. I think they would find this very inconvenient. @Empty_America You think the rich are gonna give you UBI 😂😂😂 @Empty_America You think the rich are gonna give you UBI 😂😂😂" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021654585946124414) 2026-02-11T18:36Z 35.8K followers, 15.5K engagements "@AlyxraVers Probably but the particular version formed in New Amsterdam/NYC with those other influences had more global impact that either New England or the South. NYC is the capital of the world not Boston or Richmond" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021657396117221423) 2026-02-11T18:47Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "I wonder if there will even be stuff like Proms in [--] years. It's all starting to feel kind of transgressive under the neo-morality. Seems out of step with the times that schools allow or encourage it. Were rapidly moving into a cultural space where its considered unacceptable for teens to be romantic. Becoming forbidden to even talk about it A new taboo is being born https://t.co/FddtyeNT0g Were rapidly moving into a cultural space where its considered unacceptable for teens to be romantic. Becoming forbidden to even talk about it A new taboo is being born https://t.co/FddtyeNT0g" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021663687388672184) 2026-02-11T19:12Z 35.8K followers, 15.8K engagements "It would be funny if the Ivy's ended up with egg on their face as a result of trying to imitate MIT. Meaning that they went all in on technical training just as technical training faded as a core route to great power and prestige due to AI taking over most of that work. The rise of MIT is fascinating. It was founded as a trade school to provide skills to workers in the industrialization of the American economy. Until WWII its finances resources prestige were very limited. The elites looked down on it. The great Richard Feynman went there for The rise of MIT is fascinating. It was founded as a" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021699459722236011) 2026-02-11T21:34Z 35.8K followers, 15.1K engagements "I feel as if there is probably some inscrutable social hierarchy that grants him the "right" to operate that bridge. Something hard to explain to an outsider like our concepts of intellectual property etc. He has a patent or franchise on operating a board at that site. My uncle owns a bridge 😭 https://t.co/Uwpx3Q3Aeo My uncle owns a bridge 😭 https://t.co/Uwpx3Q3Aeo" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021703196381700487) 2026-02-11T21:49Z 35.8K followers, 44.3K engagements "My personal observation of teen working is not at all like the "narrative." Wages are so high now and their desires if anything seem to cost less than ours used to. A kid around here might save $5000 in a summer then feel little urgency to work further. NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise and fall of teenage jobs: Why 72% of teens worked and now dont Back in [----] the year I was born having a summer job as a teenager was the norm. You were mowing lawns lifeguarding at the local pool working at Woolworths or staffing the https://t.co/KBfTP71yKP NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise and fall of teenage jobs:" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021988024813515173) 2026-02-12T16:41Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "When "you" lose your job due to AI innovation that is your problem. But when "everyone" loses their jobs to AI innovation that is the system's problem. If 50% of mortgages are in arrears it becomes impossible to actually evict anyone etc. It all stops being real" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021989187797615006) 2026-02-12T16:46Z 35.8K followers, 16.9K engagements "@GRONreturns Panic of the day I guess. Like how we were all going to die of climate change etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021990879591071937) 2026-02-12T16:52Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "If there was some nuclear war or big natural disaster Texas would end up with the world's most interesting fauna. If the fences came down it would eventually stabilize into some totally new ecosystem incorporating large mammals from every continent. When I lived in Texas (I just recently moved) I would often drive out to an area called Barksdale to hang out along the Nueces River. The first time I went through there I thought I saw a weirdly shaped feral hog. I took a picture of it and when I got home and zoomed in I https://t.co/IBQqffX70h When I lived in Texas (I just recently moved) I" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021993064781557834) 2026-02-12T17:01Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@neipate96 @dissidentgay When it was built and still growing the European town would have been if anything dirtier than the modern favela" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021996902146093148) 2026-02-12T17:16Z 35.8K followers, [--] engagements "Could excessive A/C also cause obesity You subject yourself to a year-round artificial winter body feels it must fatten hibernate blubber-max. And the fatter you get the lower you turn down the thermostat which makes you gain even more You must sweat One of the reasons why tons of Americans are sick 24/7 is because of their A/C. And Im not talking about the fact that theyre turning their house into a huge freezer But about the fact that TONS of homes have moldy A/Cs. And when you inhale that mold its making you https://t.co/yCBUo9jF3P One of the reasons why tons of Americans are sick 24/7 is" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022000326803595518) 2026-02-12T17:30Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "If you make the water perfectly clear few fish will be seen. You need to maintain some moss some weeds some lilly pads. Some degree of "homeopathic" violence disorder and crime is probably necessary. You need there to be some exceptions some red light districts etc. We can create societies that not only have access to abundant goods and energy but have homeopathic levels of violence coercion and conflict and that are highly stable. This makes everyone extremely mad because their pet ideologies from an early age insist on eternal struggle. We can create societies that not only have access to" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022007174088786372) 2026-02-12T17:57Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements ""Male Overproduction." Paglia says sperm are assault troops and the ovum is a citadel. And just like in history most of those soldiers die nameless in the mud while the lone survivor gets crowned king fathers a dynasty and then blames the next generation for being weak. Nature is a war bride. Paglia says sperm are assault troops and the ovum is a citadel. And just like in history most of those soldiers die nameless in the mud while the lone survivor gets crowned king fathers a dynasty and then blames the next generation for being weak. Nature is a war bride" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022019314459779459) 2026-02-12T18:45Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@valuedrift Well they also didn't wear clothes or do any work in Eden" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022024222319726771) 2026-02-12T19:05Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "The TPUSA halftime show was peak "Ghost Dance." You must banish that doomed spirit from your heart Shit like this really makes you understand why the Romans eventually got replaced by the barbarians and had their genetic legacy snuffed out. I've no idea who these two artist are but one of them clearly belongs to a people with some sort of vitality and the other. doesn't. Shit like this really makes you understand why the Romans eventually got replaced by the barbarians and had their genetic legacy snuffed out. I've no idea who these two artist are but one of them clearly belongs to a people" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022026296054923607) 2026-02-12T19:13Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "This is largely just an age effect (age effects are insanely overlooked in interpreting statistics). Median age of White is around [--] now while the median age of Hispanics is [--]. Logically Hispanics would be more likely to answer yes to any type of adventure. new hispanic stereotype just dropped https://t.co/ZIcP5clZhY new hispanic stereotype just dropped https://t.co/ZIcP5clZhY" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022027256970063978) 2026-02-12T19:17Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "There is a lot going on here. Just to start with no powerlines and no asphalt are visible driveway is gravel. The house is 100% natural materials and set low rambling you would probably walk in without going up any steps. Also house is well back into the lot. i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022030133918675203) 2026-02-12T19:28Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "Yes. Lots of flowers in general are blue coded but the "naturalized" nature of that daffodil planting is even more so. When daffodils are in grass you have to leave the tops up well into the spring it prevents "neat" styles of lawn care. @Empty_America Are the daffodils also blue-coded @Empty_America Are the daffodils also blue-coded" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022056952894022003) 2026-02-12T21:15Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements ""Africa begins at the Pyrenees." A map of population distribution in Europe (black = at least one inhabitant per square km) Always stuns me to see how empty swaths of Spain are https://t.co/BzK79WXUXb A map of population distribution in Europe (black = at least one inhabitant per square km) Always stuns me to see how empty swaths of Spain are https://t.co/BzK79WXUXb" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022057423364927921) 2026-02-12T21:17Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Polar opposite of the modern Spanish accounts on here who seek to relate Spain exclusively to N. Europe rather than seeing it as part of a larger culture zone including MENA and the Latin Americas. @Empty_America The Arch-3rd Worldist Degrowther perhaps spaniard Jose Ortega y Gasset [----] Let them invent https://t.co/9eL9LKVahr @Empty_America The Arch-3rd Worldist Degrowther perhaps spaniard Jose Ortega y Gasset [----] Let them invent https://t.co/9eL9LKVahr" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022064857588408767) 2026-02-12T21:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Seems like there are crazy opportunities in urban sheep flocks. Live on the outskirts keep sheep in a dry pen have a big gooseneck to haul them to weed/fuel reduction grazing. In the West hay is also sometimes cheaper right in metro areas. Before the 1970s the area near the Palisades fire was part of a large sheep/goat operation that went back to the 1870s. They kept the hills clean of wildfire fuel for [---] years. Urban zoning regulations drove this ranching operation out of business and contributed to wildfire. Before the 1970s the area near the Palisades fire was part of a large sheep/goat" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022077102330384702) 2026-02-12T22:35Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "It would be crazy if Epstein ends up being the missing link in the long term Russian effort to groom the US political discourse in a particular direction to foster a 5th column. Russia-handlers-Epstein-certain billionaires-certain online ecosystems-certain politicians. Two days before his reported death Epstein moved his entire estate in the Virgin Islands to someone else. We are talking about roughly [---] million dollars. He and his attorneys transferred everything to Karina Shulyak who has been described by some as https://t.co/VT5hFc1Yyo Two days before his reported death Epstein moved his" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022107277797544222) 2026-02-13T00:35Z 35.8K followers, 11.7K engagements "Open range laws are another big East vs. West thing although they are of reduced practical relevance. In most areas of the West the de facto custom is now to graze animals in fenced parcels you own or lease as in the east. I've really only seen true open range in the old sense down by the Mexican border you do see people with just a couple acres with pens and a water tank the cattle allowed to wander roadsides vacant parcels and anywhere else that isn't fenced off in the vicinity. It's like the old laws saying you can hunt without asking on any land that isn't actively posted on the books but" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022171680643403944) 2026-02-13T04:51Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Evola felt that the symbol of the Eagle with the snake in it's claws represented the supremacy of the solar principal over the telluric. It's absurd how many crazy esoteric fascist nuts have had the idea that Aztecs are the "Aryans of the New World". Here Julius Evola linking Toltec Tula to Ultima Thule. https://t.co/lxJV9PKdB2 It's absurd how many crazy esoteric fascist nuts have had the idea that Aztecs are the "Aryans of the New World". Here Julius Evola linking Toltec Tula to Ultima Thule. https://t.co/lxJV9PKdB2" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022174380726632707) 2026-02-13T05:01Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Being online as a kid doesn't even make you better at being online. Gen X and older Millennials seem to be way better at actually making money online. Tim Ferris types who grew up in the 80s and 90s. "Internet native" Zoomers are the pay pigs the fall guys" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019875654754287852) 2026-02-06T20:47Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@JuddBaroff Bezos isn't UMC or "Lower Rich." The Big Rich are a totally different thing and they do what they want" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022361710749978916) 2026-02-13T17:26Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "@ObtainerOf Dumb people want to live in a dumb way" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022482946838663551) 2026-02-14T01:28Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "I still buy "clunkers" even in the current year. My wife generally has a real car but I've never paid over 5K for any of my rides often much less. Almost no other Americans do this anymore those types of cars are sold to immigrants or often towed down to Guatemala now. Why dont you just buy a clunker like we did Why dont you buy a fixer upper in poorer area like we did Why are you sending me to a nursing home run by Haitians Why dont you just buy a clunker like we did Why dont you buy a fixer upper in poorer area like we did Why are you sending me to a nursing home run by Haitians" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1980460727975703015) 2025-10-21T02:26Z 35.8K followers, 18.6K engagements "Oddly younger workers don't really seem to go after the pensions that still exist. It's never been easier to become a school teacher military member cop border patrol etc. Those occupations tend to be short of people today not nearly as many applicants. French public school teachers after retiring at age [--] for 100% of their pay plus 13th and 14th pension https://t.co/bhhRqpF20N French public school teachers after retiring at age [--] for 100% of their pay plus 13th and 14th pension https://t.co/bhhRqpF20N" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018780882342215708) 2026-02-03T20:17Z 35.8K followers, 57.9K engagements "Many complaints come from the fact that the rising tide of mass affluence has allowed people of a low class position to afford entrance into spaces from which they used to be economically excluded. In some odd ways it's a very equitable society economically "flat." Compared to [----] there are now a lot more truly disgusting people staying at hotels. The damages are expensive and the well-behaved people pay for losses the hotel can't recoup Compared to [----] there are now a lot more truly disgusting people staying at hotels. The damages are expensive and the well-behaved people pay for losses" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020891618199683458) 2026-02-09T16:04Z 35.8K followers, 32.5K engagements "@C_Classiques No the WASP elite wants further north American integration. The resistance to this comes from non-elite "flyover" types who feel that they will not be able to compete in a larger economic zone and will experience deterioration of their relative consumption standard" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020892209470640310) 2026-02-09T16:07Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "One of the more interesting questions in IQ research is how places like China or Korea Vietnam would have scored prior to industrialization. Chinas IQ wouldve been [--] in the 1970s and everyone wouldve claimed its poverty was due to that. Nowadays everyone is lazy and stupid settles for tautologies like IQ while patting themselves on the back for being noticers. Chinas IQ wouldve been [--] in the 1970s and everyone wouldve claimed its poverty was due to that. Nowadays everyone is lazy and stupid settles for tautologies like IQ while patting themselves on the back for being noticers" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021014344633549295) 2026-02-10T00:12Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@matthrandir All of society will tell you to grind it out in year-round carceral type employment until [--]. The only interesting point is discussing means of escape. Otherwise just open up Linkedin" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021339132459634833) 2026-02-10T21:42Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Building like this generally requires a combination of low average wage AND a living craft tradition. You see stuff like this here and there in MENA in India a few other places. We build like that every day in Morocco. The buildings seen here date back to [----] and [----]. https://t.co/wrsJvgLkyz We build like that every day in Morocco. The buildings seen here date back to [----] and [----]. https://t.co/wrsJvgLkyz" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021381825495773593) 2026-02-11T00:32Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "The category of "Bike" was cleverly expanded beyond all recognition in order to get around an idiotic maze of regulations preventing transport innovation. Hard to explain but these things are so Dickensian. 19th century-coded. Porters and draymen busying about the streets of the Big Smoke. https://t.co/fzT1wTmqms Hard to explain but these things are so Dickensian. 19th century-coded. Porters and draymen busying about the streets of the Big Smoke. https://t.co/fzT1wTmqms" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021789474330648790) 2026-02-12T03:32Z 35.8K followers, 49.9K engagements "We have to ask is there some pressing reason for people to live there What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021990494306513063) 2026-02-12T16:51Z 35.8K followers, 13.9K engagements "Alcohol may not assist the scroller but it greatly assists the poster. My high number posts are overwhelmingly made in the evening after a few drinks. Hit "post" go to bed wake up to a million views I like this theory a lot. It says that people are drinking less because alcohol doesnt serve a screen-scrolling world. In order to doomscroll you need attention. Alcohol takes away that cognitive component. Kinda makes me wanna drink now ngl. Well done @PaulSkallas https://t.co/xhSeRlESg1 I like this theory a lot. It says that people are drinking less because alcohol doesnt serve a" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021995611743302021) 2026-02-12T17:11Z 35.8K followers, 10.6K engagements "@SethLargo New Mexico (as usual) seems to be an exception. We have an oddly high number of regionals for such a small population state. NMSU UNM ENMU Highlands Tech etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022108350570455301) 2026-02-13T00:39Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "@farm_smith @grok can you estimate the number of bales on that truck Sorry for this weird reply but I wanted to test grok at this duty" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022112407183843514) 2026-02-13T00:55Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "@MTabarrok Yeah it's really about 99% a question of the materials. There is no way to make a boat from trees that doesn't look good and the more you refine the design the better it looks same for houses of stone etc. We go down a totally wrong path when we forget this" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022474495379018145) 2026-02-14T00:54Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements "This is the single craziest Mass Affluence thing. Yes or no https://t.co/tQkM6NNMkU Yes or no https://t.co/tQkM6NNMkU" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1958973300039733434) 2025-08-22T19:23Z 35.8K followers, 103.5K engagements "American affluence is unlike any historically known form of human life combining the schedule and social constraints of actual slavery with wild material opulence" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2018727701033726218) 2026-02-03T16:46Z 35.8K followers, 929K engagements "Constructing homemade waste motor oil burners is a hobby unlikely to be taken over by women" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2020951142587629724) 2026-02-09T20:01Z 35.8K followers, 27.5K engagements "It is generally held that India and Egypt have the lowest costs of living/goods/food on earth if figured in USD. Things aren't necessarily cheap at all in least developed countries. Lowest costs come from very large dense and significantly industrialized places. Cairo Egypt honestly looks a lot like India https://t.co/TU7K059x9U Cairo Egypt honestly looks a lot like India https://t.co/TU7K059x9U" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021292053662191808) 2026-02-10T18:35Z 35.8K followers, 13.3K engagements "My son and I saw a wild Mexican wolf (smallish for a wolf) in the distance while elk hunting. It was so big we couldn't mentally process what we were seeing totally "out of scale" to what you expect. Photo is its track next to a .308 shell. Its a common mistake to think wolves are similar to Huskies. In reality gray wolves are the largest wild members of the canine family and can look massive next to humans or many domestic breeds. https://t.co/xyJT6ROXsJ Its a common mistake to think wolves are similar to Huskies. In reality gray wolves are the largest wild members of the canine family and" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021386931410698611) 2026-02-11T00:52Z 35.8K followers, 13.1K engagements "I suppose at some point mainland Americans are going to realize they can go live on a mostly vacant tropical island mostly populated by harmless old people with unique tax advantages. Puerto Rico is a great case study: What if a third-world nation enjoyed open borders with the United States Turns out the entire population more or less decamps and migrates to America. The vast majority of Puerto Ricans live in the states not in PR. Only the elderly remain. Puerto Rico is a great case study: What if a third-world nation enjoyed open borders with the United States Turns out the entire population" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021991862115201249) 2026-02-12T16:56Z 35.8K followers, 49.6K engagements "I believe that whatever is wrong with people physically is NOT caused by the basic groceries at Costco or Walmart. We are major buyers of pork butt and whole milk and see zero sign of fatness weird endocrine stuff or any other such thing in the kids. Might be fragrances IMO. Dryer sheets etc. I got crunchy homeschool mom shamed for buying chicken at costco. the raw whole chickens not the cooked rotisserie ones. I got crunchy homeschool mom shamed for buying chicken at costco. the raw whole chickens not the cooked rotisserie ones" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022073504313876738) 2026-02-12T22:21Z 35.8K followers, 13.1K engagements "One of the weirdest "past is a foreign country" things in Farmer Boy is the offhand mention that the local boys had beaten the prior teacher to death. Not a major plot point just a thing that seemingly happened sometimes in rural areas of the 1800s. Rough days. Maybe them rough schools just need a bull whip like that teacher man in Farmer Boy Maybe them rough schools just need a bull whip like that teacher man in Farmer Boy" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022490423206584746) 2026-02-14T01:57Z 35.8K followers, 38K engagements "Whatever "culture" this is deserves (and will recieve) replacement in some form. My daughter is [--] every wedding from extended family she's been excluded from (adults only). My last cousin is getting married. Asked if I could take her rather than my wife and was denied. She'll never have been to a wedding before her own. I don't get the kids these days. My daughter is [--] every wedding from extended family she's been excluded from (adults only). My last cousin is getting married. Asked if I could take her rather than my wife and was denied. She'll never have been to a wedding before her own. I" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022517514605924387) 2026-02-14T03:45Z 35.8K followers, 14.6K engagements "It's become fashionable to say that we lack geniuses that we are overlooking them. But consider the iPhone smart link Ai modern ag container shipping etc. In fact our biggest issue is dealing with the rapid social change caused by all their inventions We already have relative superintelligence. It's called highly-intelligent / smart people. No one listens to them. We already have relative superintelligence. It's called highly-intelligent / smart people. No one listens to them" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023256256228807091) 2026-02-16T04:40Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "The idea that there are untapped geniuses out there is mostly mythical. You take the PSAT in high school and if you score high enough things happen you get offers colleges contact you the school administration gets involved. If you didn't know this guess what . . . The premise of Good Will Hunting always makes me laugh because you mean to tell me a genius white guy in his early 20's somehow fell through the cracks of the educational system in 1990's Boston The premise of Good Will Hunting always makes me laugh because you mean to tell me a genius white guy in his early 20's somehow fell" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2019877175110058166) 2026-02-06T20:53Z 35.8K followers, 679.8K engagements "Before Big Soy and the Smoking Ban everyone used to have all night house parties. As with many things this survives only in the lowest and highest classes now. I know this one it's actually especially kids because trashy people *literally* have house parties with [--] year olds that run until the early morning and the kid cant go to bed. I used to stand outside smoking at 2AM literally watching neighbors have parties on their steps late I know this one it's actually especially kids because trashy people *literally* have house parties with [--] year olds that run until the early morning and the kid" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021074938262847918) 2026-02-10T04:13Z 35.8K followers, 77.8K engagements "My understanding is that at a Catholic funeral the priest isn't allowed to imply that the dead person is in heaven or even purgatory. It's a much different mentality from "once saved always saved and your actions don't really matter." No one is more fearful of dying than Catholics. 39% said they afraid or very afraid of dying. For Protestants it was 20%. For the non-religious it was 28% https://t.co/MMUtNAq4D4 No one is more fearful of dying than Catholics. 39% said they afraid or very afraid of dying. For Protestants it was 20%. For the non-religious it was 28% https://t.co/MMUtNAq4D4" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021249490607354139) 2026-02-10T15:46Z 35.8K followers, 34.7K engagements "It's possible that Somalia will be a hot destination in [----]. I've been impressed with the intelligence of the young Somalis you see on X. Hope they keep it tasteful emulate Oman not Dubai. Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021262632943042727) 2026-02-10T16:38Z 35.8K followers, 37.2K engagements "If I had to give generalized life advice to young men based on maximizing their individual outcome I would say: [--]. Go to [--] year college with lowest net cost of attendance (instate public or a "no loan" elite private). [--]. It's usually best to enter a career path in public service with an accelerated retirement schedule and/or extensive time off such as military police border patrol firefighter school teacher merchant mariner etc. [--]. In the *unlikely* event you are cut out for it true high paying professions such as Medical Doctor or Finance are of course options. Law also but be careful you" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2021281658729791543) 2026-02-10T17:54Z 35.8K followers, 144.3K engagements "American evangelicals are so intensely (albeit unconsciously) averse to visual art that they tend to use something called "word art" in place of pictures on the walls. Again this is mostly unconscious. It would never even occur to them to hang a classic art print. As an Italian in the UK the one thing I will never adopt is the British prudish attitude towards nude art. In Italy I grew up surrounded by Renaissance nude paintings. I truly believe the British fear of sensuality in art is at the root of all their emotional and sexual issues. As an Italian in the UK the one thing I will never" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022031182691787104) 2026-02-12T19:32Z 35.8K followers, 213K engagements "In American terms this house is INTENSELY Blue-Coded. Everything about it is very blue including the deliberate historical preservation lack of metal buildings for motorized toys lack of visible concrete and asphalt lack of intense lawn care the naturalized flowers etc. i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022033711022407756) 2026-02-12T19:42Z 35.8K followers, 128.9K engagements "Ask anyone who has ever been involved in house closings it's extremely routine today for parents to provide the down payment for their kids. It's just that the many who get this help don't talk about it but you hear a lot from the ones who don't. Something thats weird to me about the homeownership discussion is nobody is talking about generational wealth. My parents were given money for a downpayment on a home from my grandparents. This pull yourself up by your bootstraps is a relatively new phenomenon. Something thats weird to me about the homeownership discussion is nobody is talking about" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022037659296878896) 2026-02-12T19:58Z 35.8K followers, 28.3K engagements "UMC or lower rich men NEVER marry waitresses. However successful professional women will OFTEN marry interesting and attractive non-professional men. As is generally the case the "narrative" is completely wrong. Why do people keep posting this when it obviously isn't true Can we name a single high-profile example of a rich successful man marrying a waitress Or even an example of anyone we know doing this Why do people keep posting this when it obviously isn't true Can we name a single high-profile example of a rich successful man marrying a waitress Or even an example of anyone we know doing" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022152927138476247) 2026-02-13T03:36Z 35.8K followers, 31K engagements "Most boys have always disliked school. Historical HS graduation rates were 10-15%. Meaning the great majority dropped out were expelled or never really attended at all. Sent to the fields. Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls not boysand were paying a steep price. Little boys (ages 36) surge with testosterone. They need to run jump play burn energy. Instead we sit them in circle https://t.co/5OJnNy8LiJ Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls not" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022167184546697723) 2026-02-13T04:33Z 35.8K followers, 12.7K engagements "Landlines are like Hi-Fi systems. They were and are actually better but were replaced by cheaper more flexible and in some ways inferior systems. Better for actually talking on just as that wood cabinet stereo mogs your Bluetooth speaker. Kinda crazy when I entered the corporate world we still had desk phones. Which we used everyday Barely a decade ago. Kinda crazy when I entered the corporate world we still had desk phones. Which we used everyday Barely a decade ago" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022168236306182574) 2026-02-13T04:37Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Within my lifetime wild Turkeys were a rare/legendary species that had to be reintroduced. When they first came back people would see them and couldn't believe their eyes it was something you told others about. Good morning from Minneapolis where [--] male turkeys are competing for dominance of this block. Or they met on Grindr. I dunno https://t.co/VTs6Rarfcm Good morning from Minneapolis where [--] male turkeys are competing for dominance of this block. Or they met on Grindr. I dunno https://t.co/VTs6Rarfcm" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022169044267536523) 2026-02-13T04:40Z 35.8K followers, 10.2K engagements "Aristocrats still walk among us. $75K on Art $67K on Wine and Liquor in [--] months. That is a real one. Interesting look at how an ultra-wealthy family spends money- $72k on landscaping $67k in wine/liquor for [--] months $154M in cash earning nothing $484M loan against art at 1.43% interest https://t.co/St9jPFeNvI Interesting look at how an ultra-wealthy family spends money- $72k on landscaping $67k in wine/liquor for [--] months $154M in cash earning nothing $484M loan against art at 1.43% interest https://t.co/St9jPFeNvI" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022364711334089060) 2026-02-13T17:38Z 35.8K followers, 12.8K engagements "Many people don't understand that the Arabian peninsula underwent something like an outbreak of hyper-Calvinism quite recently. So the extreme puritainism that most assume to be traditional really is a "layer" over older traditions that are often quite different. Orwell said the fastest way to destroy a people is to erase their understanding of their own history. Thats why Emirati girls and boys performing traditional dances matter. Its not just a performance. Its memory in motion. Its lineage poetry resilience and pride carried https://t.co/Yk37ew7lPS Orwell said the fastest way to destroy a" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022365715811176499) 2026-02-13T17:42Z 35.8K followers, 235.8K engagements "Kudzu is really just a symptom of dysfunctional property ownership systems where the land owners don't care enough to fence and graze it but evidently no one else is allowed to either. Maybe turn kudzu into butter cheese and ribeyes Just a thought. https://t.co/tuuTrIocqI Maybe turn kudzu into butter cheese and ribeyes Just a thought. https://t.co/tuuTrIocqI" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022367183645610154) 2026-02-13T17:48Z 35.8K followers, 26.7K engagements "Some men can make fortunes in the Congo. Built different. He's Congo's richest and most powerful man. He owns Africa's largest resource empire spanning oil gas gold and cobalt even though his greatest love are blood diamonds. You can't understand Central African civil wars without talking about him. His name is Dan Gertler. https://t.co/7YlcWNDpNw He's Congo's richest and most powerful man. He owns Africa's largest resource empire spanning oil gas gold and cobalt even though his greatest love are blood diamonds. You can't understand Central African civil wars without talking about him. His" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022376326427218195) 2026-02-13T18:24Z 35.8K followers, 15.5K engagements "It's about perfect but please note that unless the vehicle is a [----] or earlier they were NOT that simple under the hood. If you start working on a [--] or [--] you are going to have a maze of non-functional emissions to strip out before they look like that. Is this the perfect daily driver No start stop garbage no TPS minimal electronics. https://t.co/OypvKudZDH Is this the perfect daily driver No start stop garbage no TPS minimal electronics. https://t.co/OypvKudZDH" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022487581511065692) 2026-02-14T01:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "That's unstamped lumber But in Alaska they let you do it. Somebody asked me how I chose the timber that holds up my loft. Well you see it was [--] feet away from the build site and looked strong enough. https://t.co/8c3bTNIgxH Somebody asked me how I chose the timber that holds up my loft. Well you see it was [--] feet away from the build site and looked strong enough. https://t.co/8c3bTNIgxH" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022508435565322347) 2026-02-14T03:09Z 35.8K followers, 146K engagements "Markets aren't really all that "efficient." There are always strange vacant or underserved niches. Like carbon steel knives with an acute grind sharp out of the box which you can order with pre-applied patina. Link in profile. girls want plates shaped like bowls https://t.co/1ndokYoPrw girls want plates shaped like bowls https://t.co/1ndokYoPrw" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022518777569587681) 2026-02-14T03:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "My neighbor growing up was one of the last old school Classics professors. Getting a Classics PhD under the old standards was far from "easy" but he lived an adult life that is extremely hard to obtain today no matter how hard you strive. Every summer was a Golden Summer. @Empty_America Only teachers and humanities Profs can live lives well at this point. @Empty_America Only teachers and humanities Profs can live lives well at this point" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022520107432661109) 2026-02-14T03:55Z 35.8K followers, 18K engagements "Ok but can they restore the Freshness of Spring to our hearts You will live to [---] if youre under [--] right now and living in the US or China. Plan accordingly. You will live to [---] if youre under [--] right now and living in the US or China. Plan accordingly" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022520380037140878) 2026-02-14T03:56Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Although I will note his salary (even adjusted for inflation) would be scoffed at today. My grandfather sold him our tenant house for under market value since they were best friends. He didn't really "consume" and probably couldn't have but had a family hardly worked" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022521871900774664) 2026-02-14T04:02Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "NYC has pretty much always been "NYC." The OG model for cosmopolitan economic zones. It's a uniquely poor venue for return nostalgia. The spirit of the thing hasn't really changed too much. Nonsense under the Dutch the city was already a barely governable city of warring ethnicities Nonsense under the Dutch the city was already a barely governable city of warring ethnicities" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022523510246248546) 2026-02-14T04:09Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "Fair enough. I mean 90% of NYC's existence was closer to "throngs of unregulated street vendors strange immigrants hyper-inequality and gangs" than to the Disney city of the late 90s. If anything the current reality is still a bit sterile. @Empty_America Well I think the 60s-90s were a genuinely novel era for the city but now a return to the mean @Empty_America Well I think the 60s-90s were a genuinely novel era for the city but now a return to the mean" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022527257013817373) 2026-02-14T04:24Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements "I think that Belarus has an even stronger version. Private property as we know it is limited to one's home and a small fenced curtilage around it basically the yard. 90% of the country is a commons with freedom to roam regulated hunting etc. Culture Shock 101: The Right to Roam What if I told you this: In Sweden you can: Walk across private land Camp for a night almost anywhere Pick wild berries and mushrooms Swim near someones shoreline Paddle between private islands Without asking permission. https://t.co/hok9KifmPv Culture Shock 101: The Right to Roam What if I told you this: In Sweden you" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022527982552912329) 2026-02-14T04:27Z 35.8K followers, 18.2K engagements "Strictly speaking it was not possible for most people to have had domestic help since the [--] servants didn't each have their own servants. But the line for having house servants was more like top 15% percent instead of top 1%+. Whenever I read biographies of people from [---] years ago most recently Dostoevsky I find out that most women even lower middle class ones had some form of domestic help. Dostoevskys family was so poor they lived in a tiny apartment but still had six servants to help with Whenever I read biographies of people from [---] years ago most recently Dostoevsky I find out that" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022529874053783685) 2026-02-14T04:34Z 35.8K followers, 31.8K engagements "Incorrect you only got the ball by defeating the current carrier and then everyone attacked you and tried to wrest the ball from you. It would have been an offense worthy of seppuku to voluntarily throw the ball away. Gen X had a game called smear the queer. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess Gen X had a game called smear the queer. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022530496656281616) 2026-02-14T04:37Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "They say that Texas is both the most American and the most Mexican state. It's generally impossible to tell which culture specific things (like blinged out Tahoes or Tex Mex foods) actually belong to. America has more in common with Mexico than Europe. The European mind cannot grasp the Chevy Tahoe. Juan from Oaxaca can though. America has more in common with Mexico than Europe. The European mind cannot grasp the Chevy Tahoe. Juan from Oaxaca can though" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2022531271440703954) 2026-02-14T04:40Z 35.8K followers, 18.6K engagements "I saw a Looksmaxxer in the Vaughn New Mexico Allsups convenience store I was conversing with the the face-tattooed cashier and she heralded his appearance by stating: "here comes the jawline guy again" I don't know if he was one of the famous ones or not" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023242479202603011) 2026-02-16T03:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "They already "pay you to have kids." Few are aware of this. Based on [----] guidelines for a family of [--] (2 adults + [--] kids) with $100k income in Raleigh NC: - SNAP: Likely eligible; est. $800-1500. - Medicaid: qualify (adults 138% FPL kids higher). - WIC: Eligible if pregnant or kids 5; $50/person/mo in food. - Section 8: Based on [----] guidelines for a family of [--] (2 adults + [--] kids) with $100k income in Raleigh NC: - SNAP: Likely eligible; est. $800-1500. - Medicaid: qualify (adults 138% FPL kids higher). - WIC: Eligible if pregnant or kids 5; $50/person/mo in food. - Section 8:" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023243108989968681) 2026-02-16T03:48Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "One of the biggest gaps between IRL and X narratives is that when you actually go into "travelball suburbs" *many* of the dads are blue-collar business owners in their 30s who probably started as laborers not that long ago. The USA can be a very open and high mobility place. Living in the burbs is weird. It's like 70% of my neighbors are roofers named Brad with F250s and two boys in travel ball Living in the burbs is weird. It's like 70% of my neighbors are roofers named Brad with F250s and two boys in travel ball" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023244060278845712) 2026-02-16T03:52Z 35.8K followers, 13.6K engagements "Some people feel that the most American parts of America are those most like Europe. Others feel that the areas *least* like Europe are the most intensely American. This is a fundamental difference of opinion" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023247109840114063) 2026-02-16T04:04Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements "The drunk hunter is some forgotten past that is probably best forgotten. Used to be very common the old hunter safety videos heavily feature "based on a true story" dramatizations of drunk hunters throwing down beer cans cutting fences shooting each other etc. Drinking on a Hunting Trip Okanagan BC. 1960's https://t.co/eVrEwXsG40 Drinking on a Hunting Trip Okanagan BC. 1960's https://t.co/eVrEwXsG40" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023248030401732847) 2026-02-16T04:08Z 35.8K followers, 16.3K engagements "I've had good luck so far with the solid brass and copper fixtures you can order from Morocco. If I ever build a house it will be entirely free of American faucets shower sets etc. Plumber told me if you need to replace a faucet just go to the store and pick whatever one you like. It doesnt matter theyre all trash. Spend a little or spend a lot just pick one you like that youll have for [--] years because theyre all junk no matter what. Liberating. Plumber told me if you need to replace a faucet just go to the store and pick whatever one you like. It doesnt matter theyre all trash. Spend a" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023254308595327009) 2026-02-16T04:33Z 35.8K followers, 17.9K engagements "This is beautiful but represents extremely low trust architecture. Those walls weren't for looks. Chateau de Meauce France. https://t.co/vSpPp3jDcp Chateau de Meauce France. https://t.co/vSpPp3jDcp" [X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/2023258600421065048) 2026-02-16T04:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"One of the things that they actually "took from you" is the realistic potential of career success leading to lengthy and deeply relaxing summer vacations by early mid life. Now this is mostly only possible by not earning. Today few wagies of any rank spend [--] weeks at Spa. The concept of the vacation has declined tremendously Ghibli movies really capture the more Aristocratic ideal of vacation. In the past you would just disappear for the summer to the same boutique resort you went to every year. Good company and drink real leisure https://t.co/C9crkGLIfV The concept of the vacation has"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:12Z 35.8K followers, 65.6K engagements
"The "Favela" is simply the cultural memory of traditional S. European Urbanism but executed in the modern materials of our day. @Empty_America Mexico State north of Mexico City (the federal district). Doesnt take much more to beautify. https://t.co/0cfHi8pGhV @Empty_America Mexico State north of Mexico City (the federal district). Doesnt take much more to beautify. https://t.co/0cfHi8pGhV"
X Link 2024-07-16T14:39Z 35.8K followers, 57K engagements
"The USA is at something like 62% "white collar" employment literally more managers than workers. Only possible with free money printing and immense imports of everything. Any return to a "normal" economy will involve millions and millions returning to tangible work. Searing"
X Link 2024-08-26T14:16Z 35.8K followers, 230.6K engagements
"It's all over. When [--] year old married men have a "toy room" full of Legos. We are cooked on a level you don't even grasp. wife yells at husband for lego obsession now hes pulling away ghost of former self https://t.co/H86I7Fpbx3 wife yells at husband for lego obsession now hes pulling away ghost of former self https://t.co/H86I7Fpbx3"
X Link 2024-11-15T19:32Z 35.8K followers, 2.6M engagements
"This meme image conveys extreme wealth only because of the low BMI of the mother and the style of the clothes. Nothing in the photo is actually especially "expensive." Everyone has granite counters collared shirts are readily available etc"
X Link 2025-03-07T03:32Z 35.8K followers, 63.8K engagements
"I think generic white American culture is very real. The salary job the cars the HOA suburbs the youth sport "rituals." Very identifiable culture and very weird to outsiders. @IvyNadeska Individual Europeans have culture. Generic white Americans don't @IvyNadeska Individual Europeans have culture. Generic white Americans don't"
X Link 2025-06-02T21:15Z 35.8K followers, 327.1K engagements
"Do jobs even have "status" anymore I mean I guess wagies rank each other in some fashion but doesn't the real status ladder start when you aren't in employment anymore How can anyone have status if they have a boss No ones said it yet so I will: the job is low-status and many people in these situations come from middle class families who did white collar work so doing blue collar work feels or is literally falling down a rung on the status ladder No ones said it yet so I will: the job is low-status and many people in these situations come from middle class families who did white collar work"
X Link 2025-07-24T03:41Z 35.8K followers, 28.5K engagements
"Putting aside the polemic about Christianity the fact remains that the Hindus and to an extent Muslims are the major remaining redoubts of "civilization" in the classic sense. Still able to create signficant amounts of high labor architecture in traditional materials. Christianity is [----] years behind the Hindu aesthetic. https://t.co/AsHL695He0 Christianity is [----] years behind the Hindu aesthetic. https://t.co/AsHL695He0"
X Link 2025-10-30T15:34Z 35.7K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Yes Bar Soap (like taking Baths) is a class horseshoe thing only the poor and rich use it. The great middle uses gels and "body wash" and stuff like that. Doesn't really code Red or Blue. Is using bar soap when you bathe (as opposed to shower gel) one of those financial horseshoe things Because I feel like it is. Growing up we used bar soap and it felt cheap. Now when I use my organic/natural soaps in my little hand-crocheted soap cozy it feels so decadent. Is using bar soap when you bathe (as opposed to shower gel) one of those financial horseshoe things Because I feel like it is. Growing up"
X Link 2025-12-30T22:54Z 35.8K followers, 171.7K engagements
"Also if you knock someone out bystanders think you are cool. But if you drag them down and try to do BJJ stuff bystanders feel a strong desire to kick and stomp your head. I trained BJJ for a couple years in high school. Some boxing. Some MMA. Even some Jeet Kune Do. Heres the truth most people dont like: MMA-style boxing is by far the most useful for real situations. Being strong athletic fast and drilling the jab and cross endlessly = I trained BJJ for a couple years in high school. Some boxing. Some MMA. Even some Jeet Kune Do. Heres the truth most people dont like: MMA-style boxing is by"
X Link 2026-01-11T17:48Z 35.8K followers, 85.7K engagements
"If you want to be 100% sure that the climate is mild make sure there are olive trees. If you don't see olives something unpleasant will be occurring. Olives won't tolerate excessive tropical humid heat OR excessive cold so they give a signal both ways. https://t.co/PMi6MpgCO7 https://t.co/PMi6MpgCO7"
X Link 2026-01-23T18:37Z 35.8K followers, 268.4K engagements
"Is there a genetic link between poverty and athletic ability Despite the massive advantages enjoyed by MC and UMC youth (training diet equipment coaching) a high percent of professional athletes continue to come from poverty. In other words do athletic men who aren't quite good enough to go pro tend to have traits that lead to poor economic performance but often father children who do make it @P2WFantasy "Feeling bad" and suggesting an industry worth tens or hundreds of billions of $ provide training financial services and the most basic safety nets to young men often from challenged"
X Link 2026-01-25T23:21Z 35.7K followers, 20.1K engagements
"The great majority of voters do in fact own houses and would like the value of such to increase or at least stay the same. You are in an online bubble. Trump has said a lot of dumb shit but this one might cost him midterms Trump has said a lot of dumb shit but this one might cost him midterms"
X Link 2026-01-30T04:18Z 35.7K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Are you prepared for another American century It's programed according to all macro factors. One of the only things that might stop it would be the "declinist/isolation/multipolar" wing of the R party winning in [----]. Which is looking less likely all the time. Our friend @JoshuaSheats reframes expat planning It's not about moving to greener pastures (he says the 21st century will be another American century) - it's about staying liquid so that you can act decisively in a crisis https://t.co/lD9sThTZfg Our friend @JoshuaSheats reframes expat planning It's not about moving to greener pastures"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:34Z 35.8K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Looks like the "billionaires" really are just weird and hapless dorks on a human level. Epstein was the "cool bad boy" who sort of mentored them. It's all very pathetic really. Bill Gates emailing Jeffrey Epstein like Aww jeeze my weiners messed up. You got any STD medicine for my weiner Bill Gates emailing Jeffrey Epstein like Aww jeeze my weiners messed up. You got any STD medicine for my weiner"
X Link 2026-01-31T03:53Z 35.7K followers, 223.1K engagements
"The older fellow who sheers my sheep says that WWII ruined the New Mexico sheep industry because "everyone learned about electricity and running water." Hard to get them back to the sheep camp once they have experienced all that. The South disproportionately did not participate in World War [--] and suffered lower casualties per capita than any other region of the US https://t.co/95vdcV4uVL The South disproportionately did not participate in World War [--] and suffered lower casualties per capita than any other region of the US https://t.co/95vdcV4uVL"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:49Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It would be historically resonant if the Gold price ends up driving an asteroid mining mission and thus starts the space age for real"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:11Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The property tax enthusiasts try to gaslight you into think that that property tax abolition is some lunatic fringe thing. But almost nowhere on earth has property taxes anywhere near the worse USA states. Paying 3% of value annually is bizarre and shocking to foreigners. I was listening to Ron DeSantis talk about eliminating property tax in Florida and at first I thought Theres no way that works. Then I heard the detailsand it actually made a lot of sense. The idea isnt to eliminate property tax for everyone. It would only apply to https://t.co/JwZ09aJd4j I was listening to Ron DeSantis talk"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:59Z 35.7K followers, 24.9K engagements
"@PatrickHeizer I'm not sure about that map I can tell you for 100% sure that once you add up city county and school district assessments property taxes in Upstate NY can easily hit 3% of the propery's real sale value"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:27Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"You may not be ready for this conversation but Kylie Jenner and Timothe Chalamet are the the logical casting choices for Paris and Helen in a modern Iliad film"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:32Z 35.7K followers, 13.1K engagements
"A [--] Man limit of "Slob Perch" from Devil's Lake North Dakota"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:17Z 35.7K followers, 111.4K engagements
"Claimed Chinese population numbers require there to be very large rural peasant population (100s of millions) who are living at "African" levels of per capita GDP in the hinterland. The Chinese population conspiracy posits that most of these people don't exist and that China is actually a much smaller country with a considerably higher per capita GDP. A cool thing you see from candid videos that slip past the great firewall is that a decent proportion of Chinese still live in places akin to African mud huts. Modern Chinese cities are incredibly impressive but theyre still far from being"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:03Z 35.8K followers, 71.2K engagements
"You could do the Iliad in a certain way that allowed for entirely free casting it would be something like the [----] Romeo and Juliet movie. Tell the core story in a way where it's immediately legible to the viewer that the setting is non-historical. You're correct if one reads Homer for the bare bones of the plot line: Beautiful woman causes a war and context doesn't matter. If instead one reads Homer to imaginatively enter the world of the Trojan war and if one (historically accurately) has Caucasians in mind's eye (be You're correct if one reads Homer for the bare bones of the plot line:"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:34Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Even in areas with cheap land and no regulatory issues building [----] sq ft low-end houses that sell for 250K is a risky and low margin business. It's not a thing that can be made much cheaper than it is now outside of a directly government subsidized building program. Why building and selling $250K homes is a brutal business for small developers: Lets walk through the numbers. Land + site work: $25000 (10% of the exit) Construction: [----] sq. ft. $100 psf = $150000 Total development cost: $175000 You finance the project at 85% LTC. Why building and selling $250K homes is a brutal business for"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:54Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What happened to this actually based regulation Now you get 10K in damage to your "tough pickup truck" if you bump into a twig at 1mph. Bumper cars in real life. https://t.co/sEW3MiCX9B Bumper cars in real life. https://t.co/sEW3MiCX9B"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:55Z 35.8K followers, 130K engagements
"In the 80s and 90s old "technicolor" movies were considered painfully square. Now they increasingly seem transgressive disturbingly racy. https://t.co/xlemsITDaE https://t.co/xlemsITDaE"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:43Z 35.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"In time the Favelas will probably become tourist attractions Hip districts like the French Quarter or the hill towns of Spain and Italy. Os morros cariocas tem potencial pra deixar positano📍no chinelo Paisagem mil vezes mais bonita S precisaria melhorar as casas e a qualidade de vida https://t.co/FVfxj9Nv3f Os morros cariocas tem potencial pra deixar positano📍no chinelo Paisagem mil vezes mais bonita S precisaria melhorar as casas e a qualidade de vida https://t.co/FVfxj9Nv3f"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:33Z 35.8K followers, 40.2K engagements
"Yeah that was because our parents tent camped and cooked dinner on a Coleman stove. the complete failure mode of neoliberalism has destroyed vacationing. back in the 90's a married teacher and mailman could take their [--] children on vacation to the Grand Canyon for $400. the complete failure mode of neoliberalism has destroyed vacationing. back in the 90's a married teacher and mailman could take their [--] children on vacation to the Grand Canyon for $400"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:44Z 35.8K followers, 66.9K engagements
"This is precisely why the Ivy league engaged in absurd and clearly illegal behavior to suppress the flood of Asian applicants. The Ivy prestige ultimately comes from graduating PRESIDENTS they are places future PRESIDENTS go. Lose that and it's just a tech school. Grind culture has its place. You want your ophthalmologist or whoever to have high test scores and to be diligent. Nothing wrong with that. But that obviously isnt what makes America great. What makes America great are visionary and creative people who can see things way Grind culture has its place. You want your ophthalmologist or"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:33Z 35.8K followers, 131.2K engagements
"And it's not so much that E. Asians themselves aren't going to be POTUS the effect is greater. The next George W. Bush just isn't going to attend a school where seemingly everyone is a Asian STEM grinder. Just not like that he will go to Ole Miss or something"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:52Z 35.8K followers, 22.9K engagements
"It's a very "real" place. In most of the developed world highly educated professionals medical doctors PhD scientists might make 60K. That is a normal rate of pay and personal consumption when you aren't born a citizen of the world military and monetary hegemon. The EU is not a real place. https://t.co/ASRtX2jZqK The EU is not a real place. https://t.co/ASRtX2jZqK"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:07Z 35.7K followers, 74.2K engagements
"Has there ever been a study on the effects of Catholic School on adult practice of the religion I suspect it might be outright negative esepcially if you controlled for how reguarly a family attended mass. The cost is also a real discouragement for big families. Catholic schools are a mess because of this. A Catholic homeschool group is superior to 90% of Catholic schools. Catholic schools do a no better job of keeping your kids Catholic than public schools to be honest. Catholic schools are a mess because of this. A Catholic homeschool group is superior to 90% of Catholic schools. Catholic"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:48Z 35.7K followers, 26.3K engagements
"A lot of the more elite Dutch/Huguenot lines of New Amsterdam stock died right out. Less elite branches and those branches who went West multiplied well but the richer ones who stayed on the Coast had incredibly bad fertility even in the 1800s few heirs remain now. The New England WASPs were not the only ruling class to just disappear. Before them the Delaware Valley Quakers long disappeared as a ruling class along with old Dutch families of New York. The only group that is still around in the background are the Southern elite families. The New England WASPs were not the only ruling class to"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:26Z 35.8K followers, 23.6K engagements
"In cases of intense out-migration staying long enough often works well. Really both groups benefited a lot the out-migration to New Jersey relieved the eternal Malthusian poverty and made life much better in the old village. And so my ancestors who sailed and wanted to stay close to the sea saw this view and decided NOT to move to New Jersey So here I am living just half an hour away Feel free to join me 😉 Portofino Liguria Italy https://t.co/JIvjgnwhlF And so my ancestors who sailed and wanted to stay close to the sea saw this view and decided NOT to move to New Jersey So here I am living"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:30Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's funny how shocked we are when persons of a "trad" presentation have a scandal. I mean did wearing a necktie and ostentatiously practicing religion prevent vice at any other time Did people not drink and have affairs in 1880s America or in 1600s Italy"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:51Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For someone who wants to leave the "Housing Cost Wheel of Pain" there is a lot to be said for Illinois. Prices are upstate NY tier but with less winter. Interesting option. Downstate Illinois is bizarro world. You can buy a whole victorian house a couple blocks out from downtown Quincy for $30K. https://t.co/duiERgP7f1 https://t.co/ketKEqMzfw Downstate Illinois is bizarro world. You can buy a whole victorian house a couple blocks out from downtown Quincy for $30K. https://t.co/duiERgP7f1 https://t.co/ketKEqMzfw"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:34Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"@dezgoldie "Looks dangerous I want a keyboard job""
X Link 2026-02-05T18:35Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@AlanMCole Is it true that kids who get perfect verbal scores of [---] but start out with math scores of like [---] or [---] can be tutored way up and thus get an Ivy teir total score after tutoring I've been told this is the case but the opposite scenario is more difficult to "fix.""
X Link 2026-02-05T19:38Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I think the issue is rather the opposite. "Grinders" may well be smart by any reasonable measure but they don't seem smart at all. Where as people who are witty well spoken and exude sprezzatura seem smart but might not actually be smart. There's essentially infinite demand for "yes the objective metrics show that those people SEEM smart but they are lacking in the ineffable REAL smartness that I have" and it's rarely-to-never true. There's essentially infinite demand for "yes the objective metrics show that those people SEEM smart but they are lacking in the ineffable REAL smartness that I"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:25Z 35.7K followers, 10.7K engagements
"In post scarcity many are unable to understand that there wasn't always just "food in the food stores." People especially children were dying of long term chronic malnutrition well into the 20th century in Europe. It wasn't a joke you couldn't really get enough to eat. https://t.co/zbmTzCnTxB https://t.co/zbmTzCnTxB"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:55Z 35.7K followers, 64.6K engagements
"That's a very nice and clever design for a tiny house. You always hear that Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room shack but did you know that his successor Andrew Johnson was also born in a shack https://t.co/8uTJEDduOR You always hear that Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room shack but did you know that his successor Andrew Johnson was also born in a shack https://t.co/8uTJEDduOR"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:00Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Real security for these towns would require what amounted to public ownership state industry. Even setting aside offshoring the core logic of shareholder capitalism dictates possible closure on a moment's notice. No promises were ever actually made. I live in the Midwest. Ive seen entire factoriesemployers that kept a little cornfield town alivedisappear overnight after production was moved to Mexico or China. Complete devastation for an entire close-knit community. No tears no 4000-word eulogies in WaPo no I live in the Midwest. Ive seen entire factoriesemployers that kept a little"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:03Z 35.8K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Crazy thing is that "no eating between meals" was an American cultural norm within living memory. Now parents are expected to have a 24/7 snack buffet available car snacks etc. But if you are over [--] your grandmother might have scolded you for sneaking food between meals. Unless you're having celery carrots or pickles are a growing child/teenage boy or laborer snacking is kinda dangerous. When my foreign family have visited they're stunned "You Americans never stop eating" We can change anytime we want to though Unless you're having celery carrots or pickles are a growing child/teenage boy or"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:19Z 35.7K followers, 111.5K engagements
"@PatrolSquadron Yeah Lubbock is a little bigger than Amarillo. The SW Florida coast isn't really one city but it's probably the largest "Red" urbanization in the USA"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:51Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Strictly speaking you can make a 4-6 person car than can cruise at 55mph getting probably [--] mpg powered by an air-cooled lawnmower motor from Harbor Freight. It's all just regulatory stuff basic internal combustion transport at minimum cost is a solved issue. We can simplify this even more. There are ways. https://t.co/zRUJV5jCLB We can simplify this even more. There are ways. https://t.co/zRUJV5jCLB"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:05Z 35.7K followers, 27.7K engagements
"@TheFoolishPig It's possible you didn't wish to apply to colleges. If you had applied they would have hastened to admit you and most would have give signficant aid etc"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:18Z 35.8K followers, 25.7K engagements
"It's like how certain large predators at the top of the food chain are "indicator species." If the mountain can sustain Grizzly bears the entire mountain is "working." If the subway has open bathrooms the city is working. My politics in a nutshell: We should improve society specifically in the ways that will make it feasible to remove the chain from the subway bathroom doors My politics in a nutshell: We should improve society specifically in the ways that will make it feasible to remove the chain from the subway bathroom doors"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:46Z 35.7K followers, 38.6K engagements
"Starting up the garden for the new year. If you want vegetables or flowers to actually grow west of the 100th meridian try a set up were you can flood standing water onto them. This is a garlic bed with some earth berms for that reason"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There are these crazy deep structures in reality that we sometimes catch sight of. En todas las partes de Europa donde no haba via triunf el Protestantismo. Donde haba vino triunf la Contrarreforma. Esto no puede ser sual. Se volvieron herejea las naciones que beban gin y cerveza donde faltaba la materia del sacramento de la Sangre de Cristo. https://t.co/ao50Pjrh5X En todas las partes de Europa donde no haba via triunf el Protestantismo. Donde haba vino triunf la Contrarreforma. Esto no puede ser sual. Se volvieron herejea las naciones que beban gin y cerveza donde faltaba la materia del"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:49Z 35.7K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Heavy move here by Bill. They want to play games with subpoenas he demands a live televised hearing. He is [--] they really don't know what he is going to say on camera. Maybe he hits the red button starts telling stories about trips with his old buddy Donald. I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared. If they want answers lets stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about. I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:20Z 35.8K followers, 89.1K engagements
""Surrogate Activity" What do you call this 😏 https://t.co/6tGDx5yth9 What do you call this 😏 https://t.co/6tGDx5yth9"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:40Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@j3lqingt0n I suppose someone will soon take the "ultimate edition" fan edit and replace the bad the effects with AI. Result would be a fantastic film. Also take out a few inexplicable blunders like the witching module etc"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:38Z 35.7K followers, [---] engagements
"A somewhat different type of person undergoes a basically similar process by visiting Italy or the south of France. Certain places do the whole "end of history" thing in particularly seductive ways. You simply cannot go to Japan without coming back and hating America. Its rather like being a Russian officer stationed in post-Napoleon France coming back and hating Russia and becoming a Decembrist. https://t.co/lNcdQj3T5C You simply cannot go to Japan without coming back and hating America. Its rather like being a Russian officer stationed in post-Napoleon France coming back and hating Russia"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:04Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Exactly the same way that Egypt exists. The Colorado river supplies a massive amount of water which can be diverted by many ditches to irrigate a large area of desert. Gravity flow irrigation plus ultra UV and year round growing season is a wild combo. Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert https://t.co/kAT9HmbsJN Can someone explain how this patch of fertile land is existing in the middle of the desert https://t.co/kAT9HmbsJN"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:17Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Painting brick is 100% fine if you use a lime based paint that can tastefully weather off. But if you put latex paint over brick you have created a rod for your own back. Made an almost maintence free surface into something requireing a paint-scraping cycle. I know you guys get all upset about coatings on bricks but this is a nice place to be. https://t.co/pknpUH0f4C I know you guys get all upset about coatings on bricks but this is a nice place to be. https://t.co/pknpUH0f4C"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:20Z 35.8K followers, 74.3K engagements
"Yes there are guys who are changed by visiting Japan those who are changed by visiting Italy and a third type who would be sort of disgusted by both and confirmed in their passion for American suburbia. @Empty_America One type of guy comes back from Italy insanely jealous of everything and longing to go back Another type of guy whines constantly about small houses small cars no HVAC narrow streets etc I fully view the latter type of guy as a lesser breed of human than me @Empty_America One type of guy comes back from Italy insanely jealous of everything and longing to go back Another type of"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:25Z 35.7K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Since no one can predict what the economy will be like in [--] years there has never been a better time to do and study what you like. Taking Art and French might not get you a 200K office job but studying "hard boring shit that makes you cry" might not either"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:29Z 35.8K followers, 17K engagements
"100% you must understand that the "W" in WASP stands for Wealthy. Wow my usage of WASP really upset some people but I believe my usage was correct. The word WASP was usually used to refer to the closest thing that America has to hereditary elites: Northeasterners who went Harvard & Yale just like father & grandfather who were born 1/ Wow my usage of WASP really upset some people but I believe my usage was correct. The word WASP was usually used to refer to the closest thing that America has to hereditary elites: Northeasterners who went Harvard & Yale just like father & grandfather who were"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:21Z 35.8K followers, 37.5K engagements
"There is a lot of stolen valor on X regarding "youth." Your average poster who identifies as a "young man" is probably [--] perhaps even [--]. And their thought leaders are getting distinctly 40ish. Actual Gen A viewpoints haven't been heard much yet. You can't imagine how much Gen Alpha A kids looks down on stuff like right wingery and 4chan memes in general it's all "schizo uncslop" to them The ship has sailed for the "alt-right" it's had [--] years to win and it did win there will be no more winning for them New epoch You can't imagine how much Gen Alpha A kids looks down on stuff like right"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:32Z 35.8K followers, 30.2K engagements
"Almost everyone wants socialism if you just ask them directly about socialist policies without using the "S word." "Should there be policies to prevent factories from leaving small towns that depend on them" "Should the Government ensure that no one dies from lack of health care" "Should the Government take action to provide appropriate employment for college graduates" "Should there be a Government program to construct affordable new houses in major metro areas" This is probably the most eye-opening chart you will see today. Why is socialist indoctrination at universities and in legacy media"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:37Z 35.8K followers, 13.9K engagements
"@xwanyex The liberal rebuttal would be "well if our most highly esteemed and thriving metro areas are obviously multicultural and high immigrant what is your argument in favor of drastically limiting immigration to start with It seems to be creating these desirable conditions.""
X Link 2026-02-09T15:43Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Lib halftime show is Reggaeton whilst the Conservative option is Rap. This too is "Universal Progressivism." Kid Rock's audio was out of sync in the TPUSA halftime show stream LMAOOO What a complete disaster. https://t.co/sjOqn3QpfT Kid Rock's audio was out of sync in the TPUSA halftime show stream LMAOOO What a complete disaster. https://t.co/sjOqn3QpfT"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:32Z 35.8K followers, 30.1K engagements
"The median Bad Bunny listener cannot understand the lyrics. But this makes no difference consider that much dance music has no lyrics at all. In fact I suspect the incomprehensible vocals are part of the allure create a more abstract and primal soundscape. theres a joke going around Spanish language internet: Americans are mad Bad Bunny is singing in Spanish at the super bowl and they cant understand him but neither can we (slurred/lispy Puerto Rican Spanish and Bah Bohnays accent in particular is famously impenetrable) https://t.co/gSHpPcbaK6 theres a joke going around Spanish language"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:08Z 35.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"It seems like the reformist voices within the D collation are being shouted down. Maga imploded too fast. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"At a certain level of sterile aging atomization people begin to idealize any setting where young humans are moving around on foot and interacting. I just dont get the favela fetishization. What spiritual sickness have we wrought that a good chunk of the country pines to live in tin-roofed shacks with intermittent electricity I just dont get the favela fetishization. What spiritual sickness have we wrought that a good chunk of the country pines to live in tin-roofed shacks with intermittent electricity"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:54Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"One cannot understand Miami or Houston by myopically focusing on "per capita" GDP like a midwit. These versions of Nu-America create high total GDP and a dynamic feeling partly because of a fast growing and younger population at a slightly lower per capita income. On the other hand Miami is one of the few places in the US (SF/Silicon Valley is the other) that has created genuinely new vibes the past [--] years You can feel the new civilization of America very intensely in Miami something that isnt true most other places (Charlotte for On the other hand Miami is one of the few places in the US"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:06Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It seems like the reformist voices within the D coalition are being shouted down. Maga imploded too fast. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again. there will never be an honest reckoning of the last decade's degeneracy because none of the degenerates have changed their opinion. you will simply be gaslit until the left has enough power to do it all again"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:28Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I think this is the real importance of places like Thomas Aquinas college and the related "classical" education ecosystem. It fosters a higher education and materially modern version of trad life gives women the cultural capital to engage in an intellectual version of SAHM. What happens when a woman is intelligent enough to see the long-term value of being a SAHM but too intellectually restless to reduce that role to housework and washing the dishes alone What happens when a woman is intelligent enough to see the long-term value of being a SAHM but too intellectually restless to reduce that"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:27Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements
"In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be in educated urban scenes but was excluded from them. 4th standard deviation kids are quite able to figure out and ace the well known sequence of tests needed. Im sure the constraints and incentives of university admission are more perverse than they were when I was young but simple math and every midwit interaction I have on here assure me the supply of overvalidated 120s far outstrips the supply of undiscovered 160s. Im sure the constraints and incentives of university admission are more perverse than"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:01Z 35.8K followers, 41.3K engagements
"Even a kid raised by pillbillies can crush the ASVAB enlist in a military MOS like linguist go to state school on GI bill take LSAT score [---] go to top law school etc. It's almost impossible to avoid tests that identify the genius to himself and to others. In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be in educated urban scenes but was excluded from them. 4th standard deviation kids are quite able to figure out and ace the well known sequence of tests needed. In my entire existence as a ruralite I have never met an overlooked genius who wanted to be"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:07Z 35.8K followers, 29.2K engagements
"Correct except you will get a lot of argument on the Houston vs. Atlanta point. Reimagining The United States As Only [--] States With New Names & State Capitals Other combinations: https://t.co/DnL4hncf8X https://t.co/K6L5lwDjvq Reimagining The United States As Only [--] States With New Names & State Capitals Other combinations: https://t.co/DnL4hncf8X https://t.co/K6L5lwDjvq"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:54Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I think the zoomers who were worst at school might be doing the best now. Out there hanging Christmas lights hauling trash harvesting that excess cash from aging home owners. Some of those bros will be in nice houses by [--]. I feel bad for my generation even with a skilled trade or degree its almost impossible to land a job having to explain to Fen X and Boomer relatives is like explaining a finances to a [--] year old I feel bad for my generation even with a skilled trade or degree its almost impossible to land a job having to explain to Fen X and Boomer relatives is like explaining a finances"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:22Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@GeringerAdam @FrenlyOfficer Too cold in N. Carolina. You see stuff like that in old New Orleans buildings however"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:23Z 35.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The other thing is that Marijuana for unknown reasons lends itself to day use in a way alcohol doesn't. Many life long drinkers almost never take a drink before 5:00pm. But essentially 100% of weed users are routinely high during the day. Marijuana consumption remains bimodal: either people smoke a lot or they dont smoke at all. Obviously correct and Im not even sure how much of it is cultural. Its fun to frequently get a little tipsy but I dont know anyone who would want to regularly get slightly high Marijuana consumption remains bimodal: either people smoke a lot or they dont smoke at all."
X Link 2026-02-10T15:54Z 35.8K followers, 198.9K engagements
"It's possible that Somali will be a hot destination in [----]. I've been impressed with the intelligence of the young Somalis you see on X. Hope they keep it tasteful emulate Oman not Dubai. Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:57Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@GrapeTepid The rewards on the highest end of all that may make it worthwhile if you really have what it takes"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:11Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Very odd. Why don't people in Kentucky sleep What are they doing all night As a parent of [--] young kids never has a map spoken to me more. Map Showing Where Adults In The US Dont Get Enough Sleep https://t.co/SgzVEFOeyX https://t.co/L4hBC2qXtE As a parent of [--] young kids never has a map spoken to me more. Map Showing Where Adults In The US Dont Get Enough Sleep https://t.co/SgzVEFOeyX https://t.co/L4hBC2qXtE"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:40Z 35.8K followers, 15.1K engagements
"I've been told that beer glasses in Germany are legally required to have a "fill line" marked on them to standardize the quantity served. But I don't know how they count foam. I suspect foam doesn't count in Germany. Back in [----] one Japanese guy was angry that a Tokyo beer hall served him a beer with too much foam. He called the police but they weren't sure if foam counted as beer. It eventually went to trial and in [----] it was ruled that foam counts as beer. https://t.co/znh3cLSQ2a Back in [----] one Japanese guy was angry that a Tokyo beer hall served him a beer with too much foam. He called"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:43Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@BrilliantMaps Same idea as "South Dakota." It's not all that hard to grasp"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:45Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The general trend line from top left to bottom right is what I call the "Sweden-Sudan Axis" of social conservatism. Religiosity being linked to negative attitudes towards homosexuality will be forever disappointing to me. A modern day Jesus wouldnt hangout with a tax collector but with homosexuals liberals conservatives or whatever people you consider uncool. https://t.co/ioUU9kYNCp Religiosity being linked to negative attitudes towards homosexuality will be forever disappointing to me. A modern day Jesus wouldnt hangout with a tax collector but with homosexuals liberals conservatives or"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@PennMaxxing Could be the auto plants. I see that Georgia is the other state that stands out I think they also have Toyota plants and so forth there"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:58Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Koreans were created for Space but we failed them. We didn't get the Moon Base and the Great Ships built in time. Thus they are expiring gracelessly. Incrvel a quantidade moggers que tinha na primeira gerao de Counter-Strike https://t.co/ycmXWwTPpW Incrvel a quantidade moggers que tinha na primeira gerao de Counter-Strike https://t.co/ycmXWwTPpW"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:06Z 35.8K followers, 19.8K engagements
"I think that sub-lightspeed interstellar civilization would actually be cooler and perhaps that is why things are set up as they are. Moving between systems is possible but a one way trip scores of civilizations develop knowing others exist but crossing that gulf is epic. The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible."
X Link 2026-02-10T21:30Z 35.8K followers, 12.8K engagements
"There has historically been a lot of debate about whether USA red fox populations are native or represent introductions from Europe for fox hunting. I think the judgment is going towards "mostly native" in general but the Sierra Fox is a true native for sure. Check this out CDFW biologists captured & GPS-collared an elusive Sierra Nevada Red Fox in the southern Sierra for the first time ever Very little is known about this rare species & scientists are excited to learn more through tracking its movement. https://t.co/zqxzsq6OKN Check this out CDFW biologists captured & GPS-collared an elusive"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:13Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It seems that GDP is always higher in regions of a country that transact sell insurance "head office" areas. This doesn't imply that everywhere can or should become a head office area. You need to produce things to transact. @Empty_America GDP is an entirely useless metric below the national level @Empty_America GDP is an entirely useless metric below the national level"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:40Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The particular numbers in that post are wrong (see community note). However consider that in [----] 12% of American adults were college graduates. If only 12% (instead of 60%) of kids were allowed to go to college now the average starting salary for graduates would be high. In [----] people in their first year out of college who landed in any random office got paid $100 an hour in [----] dollars. I shit you not. $27500 was the standard annual offer for entry level office jobs in [----]. Thats $208000 a year today. In [----] people in their first year out of college who landed in any random"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:24Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Anglo-Dutch-French-Sephardic race formed in New Amsterdam is the most successful in the world. Core to the founding of the first entity that approaches real world Hegemony. The Dutch Race is the most successful race in the world. Before the British the men in black already ruled the world. https://t.co/b2Zn5AvWLe The Dutch Race is the most successful race in the world. Before the British the men in black already ruled the world. https://t.co/b2Zn5AvWLe"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:31Z 35.8K followers, 18.9K engagements
"I was just thinking last night what would even change if this "permanent underclass" thing happens How would it be different Even if most jobs disappear how is collecting UBI more underclass than being a wage slave we like to think that we live vastly differently than the feudal serfs of the middle ages. but even the hooded tunics preferred by the working class remain essentially unchanged for a thousand years. we are all part of the permanent underclass. always have been always will be. https://t.co/qfmO7GBJQw we like to think that we live vastly differently than the feudal serfs of the"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:40Z 35.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"@PureLandNation @VGersht Also super old stock "Dutch" like Lee Van Cleef often looked like upper class Mexicans because they had a lot of Sephardic ancestry coming in through the female lines"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:33Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Hired_Sellout Well what else are they going to do Make everyone work at fake jobs and pay them Oh wait. . "
X Link 2026-02-11T18:34Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If the rich used AI and robots to eliminate all honest means of making a living I would become a bandit. As would many others. I think they would find this very inconvenient. @Empty_America You think the rich are gonna give you UBI 😂😂😂 @Empty_America You think the rich are gonna give you UBI 😂😂😂"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:36Z 35.8K followers, 15.5K engagements
"@AlyxraVers Probably but the particular version formed in New Amsterdam/NYC with those other influences had more global impact that either New England or the South. NYC is the capital of the world not Boston or Richmond"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:47Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I wonder if there will even be stuff like Proms in [--] years. It's all starting to feel kind of transgressive under the neo-morality. Seems out of step with the times that schools allow or encourage it. Were rapidly moving into a cultural space where its considered unacceptable for teens to be romantic. Becoming forbidden to even talk about it A new taboo is being born https://t.co/FddtyeNT0g Were rapidly moving into a cultural space where its considered unacceptable for teens to be romantic. Becoming forbidden to even talk about it A new taboo is being born https://t.co/FddtyeNT0g"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:12Z 35.8K followers, 15.8K engagements
"It would be funny if the Ivy's ended up with egg on their face as a result of trying to imitate MIT. Meaning that they went all in on technical training just as technical training faded as a core route to great power and prestige due to AI taking over most of that work. The rise of MIT is fascinating. It was founded as a trade school to provide skills to workers in the industrialization of the American economy. Until WWII its finances resources prestige were very limited. The elites looked down on it. The great Richard Feynman went there for The rise of MIT is fascinating. It was founded as a"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:34Z 35.8K followers, 15.1K engagements
"I feel as if there is probably some inscrutable social hierarchy that grants him the "right" to operate that bridge. Something hard to explain to an outsider like our concepts of intellectual property etc. He has a patent or franchise on operating a board at that site. My uncle owns a bridge 😭 https://t.co/Uwpx3Q3Aeo My uncle owns a bridge 😭 https://t.co/Uwpx3Q3Aeo"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:49Z 35.8K followers, 44.3K engagements
"My personal observation of teen working is not at all like the "narrative." Wages are so high now and their desires if anything seem to cost less than ours used to. A kid around here might save $5000 in a summer then feel little urgency to work further. NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise and fall of teenage jobs: Why 72% of teens worked and now dont Back in [----] the year I was born having a summer job as a teenager was the norm. You were mowing lawns lifeguarding at the local pool working at Woolworths or staffing the https://t.co/KBfTP71yKP NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: The rise and fall of teenage jobs:"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:41Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When "you" lose your job due to AI innovation that is your problem. But when "everyone" loses their jobs to AI innovation that is the system's problem. If 50% of mortgages are in arrears it becomes impossible to actually evict anyone etc. It all stops being real"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:46Z 35.8K followers, 16.9K engagements
"@GRONreturns Panic of the day I guess. Like how we were all going to die of climate change etc"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:52Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If there was some nuclear war or big natural disaster Texas would end up with the world's most interesting fauna. If the fences came down it would eventually stabilize into some totally new ecosystem incorporating large mammals from every continent. When I lived in Texas (I just recently moved) I would often drive out to an area called Barksdale to hang out along the Nueces River. The first time I went through there I thought I saw a weirdly shaped feral hog. I took a picture of it and when I got home and zoomed in I https://t.co/IBQqffX70h When I lived in Texas (I just recently moved) I"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:01Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@neipate96 @dissidentgay When it was built and still growing the European town would have been if anything dirtier than the modern favela"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:16Z 35.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Could excessive A/C also cause obesity You subject yourself to a year-round artificial winter body feels it must fatten hibernate blubber-max. And the fatter you get the lower you turn down the thermostat which makes you gain even more You must sweat One of the reasons why tons of Americans are sick 24/7 is because of their A/C. And Im not talking about the fact that theyre turning their house into a huge freezer But about the fact that TONS of homes have moldy A/Cs. And when you inhale that mold its making you https://t.co/yCBUo9jF3P One of the reasons why tons of Americans are sick 24/7 is"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:30Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If you make the water perfectly clear few fish will be seen. You need to maintain some moss some weeds some lilly pads. Some degree of "homeopathic" violence disorder and crime is probably necessary. You need there to be some exceptions some red light districts etc. We can create societies that not only have access to abundant goods and energy but have homeopathic levels of violence coercion and conflict and that are highly stable. This makes everyone extremely mad because their pet ideologies from an early age insist on eternal struggle. We can create societies that not only have access to"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:57Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
""Male Overproduction." Paglia says sperm are assault troops and the ovum is a citadel. And just like in history most of those soldiers die nameless in the mud while the lone survivor gets crowned king fathers a dynasty and then blames the next generation for being weak. Nature is a war bride. Paglia says sperm are assault troops and the ovum is a citadel. And just like in history most of those soldiers die nameless in the mud while the lone survivor gets crowned king fathers a dynasty and then blames the next generation for being weak. Nature is a war bride"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:45Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@valuedrift Well they also didn't wear clothes or do any work in Eden"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:05Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The TPUSA halftime show was peak "Ghost Dance." You must banish that doomed spirit from your heart Shit like this really makes you understand why the Romans eventually got replaced by the barbarians and had their genetic legacy snuffed out. I've no idea who these two artist are but one of them clearly belongs to a people with some sort of vitality and the other. doesn't. Shit like this really makes you understand why the Romans eventually got replaced by the barbarians and had their genetic legacy snuffed out. I've no idea who these two artist are but one of them clearly belongs to a people"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:13Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"This is largely just an age effect (age effects are insanely overlooked in interpreting statistics). Median age of White is around [--] now while the median age of Hispanics is [--]. Logically Hispanics would be more likely to answer yes to any type of adventure. new hispanic stereotype just dropped https://t.co/ZIcP5clZhY new hispanic stereotype just dropped https://t.co/ZIcP5clZhY"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:17Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"There is a lot going on here. Just to start with no powerlines and no asphalt are visible driveway is gravel. The house is 100% natural materials and set low rambling you would probably walk in without going up any steps. Also house is well back into the lot. i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:28Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Yes. Lots of flowers in general are blue coded but the "naturalized" nature of that daffodil planting is even more so. When daffodils are in grass you have to leave the tops up well into the spring it prevents "neat" styles of lawn care. @Empty_America Are the daffodils also blue-coded @Empty_America Are the daffodils also blue-coded"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:15Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
""Africa begins at the Pyrenees." A map of population distribution in Europe (black = at least one inhabitant per square km) Always stuns me to see how empty swaths of Spain are https://t.co/BzK79WXUXb A map of population distribution in Europe (black = at least one inhabitant per square km) Always stuns me to see how empty swaths of Spain are https://t.co/BzK79WXUXb"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:17Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Polar opposite of the modern Spanish accounts on here who seek to relate Spain exclusively to N. Europe rather than seeing it as part of a larger culture zone including MENA and the Latin Americas. @Empty_America The Arch-3rd Worldist Degrowther perhaps spaniard Jose Ortega y Gasset [----] Let them invent https://t.co/9eL9LKVahr @Empty_America The Arch-3rd Worldist Degrowther perhaps spaniard Jose Ortega y Gasset [----] Let them invent https://t.co/9eL9LKVahr"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Seems like there are crazy opportunities in urban sheep flocks. Live on the outskirts keep sheep in a dry pen have a big gooseneck to haul them to weed/fuel reduction grazing. In the West hay is also sometimes cheaper right in metro areas. Before the 1970s the area near the Palisades fire was part of a large sheep/goat operation that went back to the 1870s. They kept the hills clean of wildfire fuel for [---] years. Urban zoning regulations drove this ranching operation out of business and contributed to wildfire. Before the 1970s the area near the Palisades fire was part of a large sheep/goat"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:35Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It would be crazy if Epstein ends up being the missing link in the long term Russian effort to groom the US political discourse in a particular direction to foster a 5th column. Russia-handlers-Epstein-certain billionaires-certain online ecosystems-certain politicians. Two days before his reported death Epstein moved his entire estate in the Virgin Islands to someone else. We are talking about roughly [---] million dollars. He and his attorneys transferred everything to Karina Shulyak who has been described by some as https://t.co/VT5hFc1Yyo Two days before his reported death Epstein moved his"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:35Z 35.8K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Open range laws are another big East vs. West thing although they are of reduced practical relevance. In most areas of the West the de facto custom is now to graze animals in fenced parcels you own or lease as in the east. I've really only seen true open range in the old sense down by the Mexican border you do see people with just a couple acres with pens and a water tank the cattle allowed to wander roadsides vacant parcels and anywhere else that isn't fenced off in the vicinity. It's like the old laws saying you can hunt without asking on any land that isn't actively posted on the books but"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:51Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Evola felt that the symbol of the Eagle with the snake in it's claws represented the supremacy of the solar principal over the telluric. It's absurd how many crazy esoteric fascist nuts have had the idea that Aztecs are the "Aryans of the New World". Here Julius Evola linking Toltec Tula to Ultima Thule. https://t.co/lxJV9PKdB2 It's absurd how many crazy esoteric fascist nuts have had the idea that Aztecs are the "Aryans of the New World". Here Julius Evola linking Toltec Tula to Ultima Thule. https://t.co/lxJV9PKdB2"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:01Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Being online as a kid doesn't even make you better at being online. Gen X and older Millennials seem to be way better at actually making money online. Tim Ferris types who grew up in the 80s and 90s. "Internet native" Zoomers are the pay pigs the fall guys"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:47Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@JuddBaroff Bezos isn't UMC or "Lower Rich." The Big Rich are a totally different thing and they do what they want"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:26Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@ObtainerOf Dumb people want to live in a dumb way"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:28Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I still buy "clunkers" even in the current year. My wife generally has a real car but I've never paid over 5K for any of my rides often much less. Almost no other Americans do this anymore those types of cars are sold to immigrants or often towed down to Guatemala now. Why dont you just buy a clunker like we did Why dont you buy a fixer upper in poorer area like we did Why are you sending me to a nursing home run by Haitians Why dont you just buy a clunker like we did Why dont you buy a fixer upper in poorer area like we did Why are you sending me to a nursing home run by Haitians"
X Link 2025-10-21T02:26Z 35.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Oddly younger workers don't really seem to go after the pensions that still exist. It's never been easier to become a school teacher military member cop border patrol etc. Those occupations tend to be short of people today not nearly as many applicants. French public school teachers after retiring at age [--] for 100% of their pay plus 13th and 14th pension https://t.co/bhhRqpF20N French public school teachers after retiring at age [--] for 100% of their pay plus 13th and 14th pension https://t.co/bhhRqpF20N"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:17Z 35.8K followers, 57.9K engagements
"Many complaints come from the fact that the rising tide of mass affluence has allowed people of a low class position to afford entrance into spaces from which they used to be economically excluded. In some odd ways it's a very equitable society economically "flat." Compared to [----] there are now a lot more truly disgusting people staying at hotels. The damages are expensive and the well-behaved people pay for losses the hotel can't recoup Compared to [----] there are now a lot more truly disgusting people staying at hotels. The damages are expensive and the well-behaved people pay for losses"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:04Z 35.8K followers, 32.5K engagements
"@C_Classiques No the WASP elite wants further north American integration. The resistance to this comes from non-elite "flyover" types who feel that they will not be able to compete in a larger economic zone and will experience deterioration of their relative consumption standard"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:07Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the more interesting questions in IQ research is how places like China or Korea Vietnam would have scored prior to industrialization. Chinas IQ wouldve been [--] in the 1970s and everyone wouldve claimed its poverty was due to that. Nowadays everyone is lazy and stupid settles for tautologies like IQ while patting themselves on the back for being noticers. Chinas IQ wouldve been [--] in the 1970s and everyone wouldve claimed its poverty was due to that. Nowadays everyone is lazy and stupid settles for tautologies like IQ while patting themselves on the back for being noticers"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:12Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@matthrandir All of society will tell you to grind it out in year-round carceral type employment until [--]. The only interesting point is discussing means of escape. Otherwise just open up Linkedin"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:42Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Building like this generally requires a combination of low average wage AND a living craft tradition. You see stuff like this here and there in MENA in India a few other places. We build like that every day in Morocco. The buildings seen here date back to [----] and [----]. https://t.co/wrsJvgLkyz We build like that every day in Morocco. The buildings seen here date back to [----] and [----]. https://t.co/wrsJvgLkyz"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:32Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The category of "Bike" was cleverly expanded beyond all recognition in order to get around an idiotic maze of regulations preventing transport innovation. Hard to explain but these things are so Dickensian. 19th century-coded. Porters and draymen busying about the streets of the Big Smoke. https://t.co/fzT1wTmqms Hard to explain but these things are so Dickensian. 19th century-coded. Porters and draymen busying about the streets of the Big Smoke. https://t.co/fzT1wTmqms"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:32Z 35.8K followers, 49.9K engagements
"We have to ask is there some pressing reason for people to live there What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R What is the future of urban neighborhoods like this one It is genuinely hard to imagine. The population just keeps dropping until no one is left Brightmoor Detroit https://t.co/LPYC5AxP8R"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:51Z 35.8K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Alcohol may not assist the scroller but it greatly assists the poster. My high number posts are overwhelmingly made in the evening after a few drinks. Hit "post" go to bed wake up to a million views I like this theory a lot. It says that people are drinking less because alcohol doesnt serve a screen-scrolling world. In order to doomscroll you need attention. Alcohol takes away that cognitive component. Kinda makes me wanna drink now ngl. Well done @PaulSkallas https://t.co/xhSeRlESg1 I like this theory a lot. It says that people are drinking less because alcohol doesnt serve a"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:11Z 35.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@SethLargo New Mexico (as usual) seems to be an exception. We have an oddly high number of regionals for such a small population state. NMSU UNM ENMU Highlands Tech etc"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:39Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@farm_smith @grok can you estimate the number of bales on that truck Sorry for this weird reply but I wanted to test grok at this duty"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:55Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@MTabarrok Yeah it's really about 99% a question of the materials. There is no way to make a boat from trees that doesn't look good and the more you refine the design the better it looks same for houses of stone etc. We go down a totally wrong path when we forget this"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:54Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This is the single craziest Mass Affluence thing. Yes or no https://t.co/tQkM6NNMkU Yes or no https://t.co/tQkM6NNMkU"
X Link 2025-08-22T19:23Z 35.8K followers, 103.5K engagements
"American affluence is unlike any historically known form of human life combining the schedule and social constraints of actual slavery with wild material opulence"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:46Z 35.8K followers, 929K engagements
"Constructing homemade waste motor oil burners is a hobby unlikely to be taken over by women"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:01Z 35.8K followers, 27.5K engagements
"It is generally held that India and Egypt have the lowest costs of living/goods/food on earth if figured in USD. Things aren't necessarily cheap at all in least developed countries. Lowest costs come from very large dense and significantly industrialized places. Cairo Egypt honestly looks a lot like India https://t.co/TU7K059x9U Cairo Egypt honestly looks a lot like India https://t.co/TU7K059x9U"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:35Z 35.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"My son and I saw a wild Mexican wolf (smallish for a wolf) in the distance while elk hunting. It was so big we couldn't mentally process what we were seeing totally "out of scale" to what you expect. Photo is its track next to a .308 shell. Its a common mistake to think wolves are similar to Huskies. In reality gray wolves are the largest wild members of the canine family and can look massive next to humans or many domestic breeds. https://t.co/xyJT6ROXsJ Its a common mistake to think wolves are similar to Huskies. In reality gray wolves are the largest wild members of the canine family and"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:52Z 35.8K followers, 13.1K engagements
"I suppose at some point mainland Americans are going to realize they can go live on a mostly vacant tropical island mostly populated by harmless old people with unique tax advantages. Puerto Rico is a great case study: What if a third-world nation enjoyed open borders with the United States Turns out the entire population more or less decamps and migrates to America. The vast majority of Puerto Ricans live in the states not in PR. Only the elderly remain. Puerto Rico is a great case study: What if a third-world nation enjoyed open borders with the United States Turns out the entire population"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:56Z 35.8K followers, 49.6K engagements
"I believe that whatever is wrong with people physically is NOT caused by the basic groceries at Costco or Walmart. We are major buyers of pork butt and whole milk and see zero sign of fatness weird endocrine stuff or any other such thing in the kids. Might be fragrances IMO. Dryer sheets etc. I got crunchy homeschool mom shamed for buying chicken at costco. the raw whole chickens not the cooked rotisserie ones. I got crunchy homeschool mom shamed for buying chicken at costco. the raw whole chickens not the cooked rotisserie ones"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:21Z 35.8K followers, 13.1K engagements
"One of the weirdest "past is a foreign country" things in Farmer Boy is the offhand mention that the local boys had beaten the prior teacher to death. Not a major plot point just a thing that seemingly happened sometimes in rural areas of the 1800s. Rough days. Maybe them rough schools just need a bull whip like that teacher man in Farmer Boy Maybe them rough schools just need a bull whip like that teacher man in Farmer Boy"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:57Z 35.8K followers, 38K engagements
"Whatever "culture" this is deserves (and will recieve) replacement in some form. My daughter is [--] every wedding from extended family she's been excluded from (adults only). My last cousin is getting married. Asked if I could take her rather than my wife and was denied. She'll never have been to a wedding before her own. I don't get the kids these days. My daughter is [--] every wedding from extended family she's been excluded from (adults only). My last cousin is getting married. Asked if I could take her rather than my wife and was denied. She'll never have been to a wedding before her own. I"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:45Z 35.8K followers, 14.6K engagements
"It's become fashionable to say that we lack geniuses that we are overlooking them. But consider the iPhone smart link Ai modern ag container shipping etc. In fact our biggest issue is dealing with the rapid social change caused by all their inventions We already have relative superintelligence. It's called highly-intelligent / smart people. No one listens to them. We already have relative superintelligence. It's called highly-intelligent / smart people. No one listens to them"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:40Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The idea that there are untapped geniuses out there is mostly mythical. You take the PSAT in high school and if you score high enough things happen you get offers colleges contact you the school administration gets involved. If you didn't know this guess what . . . The premise of Good Will Hunting always makes me laugh because you mean to tell me a genius white guy in his early 20's somehow fell through the cracks of the educational system in 1990's Boston The premise of Good Will Hunting always makes me laugh because you mean to tell me a genius white guy in his early 20's somehow fell"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:53Z 35.8K followers, 679.8K engagements
"Before Big Soy and the Smoking Ban everyone used to have all night house parties. As with many things this survives only in the lowest and highest classes now. I know this one it's actually especially kids because trashy people literally have house parties with [--] year olds that run until the early morning and the kid cant go to bed. I used to stand outside smoking at 2AM literally watching neighbors have parties on their steps late I know this one it's actually especially kids because trashy people literally have house parties with [--] year olds that run until the early morning and the kid"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:13Z 35.8K followers, 77.8K engagements
"My understanding is that at a Catholic funeral the priest isn't allowed to imply that the dead person is in heaven or even purgatory. It's a much different mentality from "once saved always saved and your actions don't really matter." No one is more fearful of dying than Catholics. 39% said they afraid or very afraid of dying. For Protestants it was 20%. For the non-religious it was 28% https://t.co/MMUtNAq4D4 No one is more fearful of dying than Catholics. 39% said they afraid or very afraid of dying. For Protestants it was 20%. For the non-religious it was 28% https://t.co/MMUtNAq4D4"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:46Z 35.8K followers, 34.7K engagements
"It's possible that Somalia will be a hot destination in [----]. I've been impressed with the intelligence of the young Somalis you see on X. Hope they keep it tasteful emulate Oman not Dubai. Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd Hafun #Somalia The last tip of East Africa. https://t.co/f8wcwyRYTd"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:38Z 35.8K followers, 37.2K engagements
"If I had to give generalized life advice to young men based on maximizing their individual outcome I would say: [--]. Go to [--] year college with lowest net cost of attendance (instate public or a "no loan" elite private). [--]. It's usually best to enter a career path in public service with an accelerated retirement schedule and/or extensive time off such as military police border patrol firefighter school teacher merchant mariner etc. [--]. In the unlikely event you are cut out for it true high paying professions such as Medical Doctor or Finance are of course options. Law also but be careful you"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:54Z 35.8K followers, 144.3K engagements
"American evangelicals are so intensely (albeit unconsciously) averse to visual art that they tend to use something called "word art" in place of pictures on the walls. Again this is mostly unconscious. It would never even occur to them to hang a classic art print. As an Italian in the UK the one thing I will never adopt is the British prudish attitude towards nude art. In Italy I grew up surrounded by Renaissance nude paintings. I truly believe the British fear of sensuality in art is at the root of all their emotional and sexual issues. As an Italian in the UK the one thing I will never"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:32Z 35.8K followers, 213K engagements
"In American terms this house is INTENSELY Blue-Coded. Everything about it is very blue including the deliberate historical preservation lack of metal buildings for motorized toys lack of visible concrete and asphalt lack of intense lawn care the naturalized flowers etc. i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q i want to see the world like this again https://t.co/37ILdHVc3q"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:42Z 35.8K followers, 128.9K engagements
"Ask anyone who has ever been involved in house closings it's extremely routine today for parents to provide the down payment for their kids. It's just that the many who get this help don't talk about it but you hear a lot from the ones who don't. Something thats weird to me about the homeownership discussion is nobody is talking about generational wealth. My parents were given money for a downpayment on a home from my grandparents. This pull yourself up by your bootstraps is a relatively new phenomenon. Something thats weird to me about the homeownership discussion is nobody is talking about"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:58Z 35.8K followers, 28.3K engagements
"UMC or lower rich men NEVER marry waitresses. However successful professional women will OFTEN marry interesting and attractive non-professional men. As is generally the case the "narrative" is completely wrong. Why do people keep posting this when it obviously isn't true Can we name a single high-profile example of a rich successful man marrying a waitress Or even an example of anyone we know doing this Why do people keep posting this when it obviously isn't true Can we name a single high-profile example of a rich successful man marrying a waitress Or even an example of anyone we know doing"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:36Z 35.8K followers, 31K engagements
"Most boys have always disliked school. Historical HS graduation rates were 10-15%. Meaning the great majority dropped out were expelled or never really attended at all. Sent to the fields. Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls not boysand were paying a steep price. Little boys (ages 36) surge with testosterone. They need to run jump play burn energy. Instead we sit them in circle https://t.co/5OJnNy8LiJ Dr. Erica Komisar just said what many parents whisper but few say out loud: Modern schools are built for girls not"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:33Z 35.8K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Landlines are like Hi-Fi systems. They were and are actually better but were replaced by cheaper more flexible and in some ways inferior systems. Better for actually talking on just as that wood cabinet stereo mogs your Bluetooth speaker. Kinda crazy when I entered the corporate world we still had desk phones. Which we used everyday Barely a decade ago. Kinda crazy when I entered the corporate world we still had desk phones. Which we used everyday Barely a decade ago"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:37Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Within my lifetime wild Turkeys were a rare/legendary species that had to be reintroduced. When they first came back people would see them and couldn't believe their eyes it was something you told others about. Good morning from Minneapolis where [--] male turkeys are competing for dominance of this block. Or they met on Grindr. I dunno https://t.co/VTs6Rarfcm Good morning from Minneapolis where [--] male turkeys are competing for dominance of this block. Or they met on Grindr. I dunno https://t.co/VTs6Rarfcm"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:40Z 35.8K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Aristocrats still walk among us. $75K on Art $67K on Wine and Liquor in [--] months. That is a real one. Interesting look at how an ultra-wealthy family spends money- $72k on landscaping $67k in wine/liquor for [--] months $154M in cash earning nothing $484M loan against art at 1.43% interest https://t.co/St9jPFeNvI Interesting look at how an ultra-wealthy family spends money- $72k on landscaping $67k in wine/liquor for [--] months $154M in cash earning nothing $484M loan against art at 1.43% interest https://t.co/St9jPFeNvI"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:38Z 35.8K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Many people don't understand that the Arabian peninsula underwent something like an outbreak of hyper-Calvinism quite recently. So the extreme puritainism that most assume to be traditional really is a "layer" over older traditions that are often quite different. Orwell said the fastest way to destroy a people is to erase their understanding of their own history. Thats why Emirati girls and boys performing traditional dances matter. Its not just a performance. Its memory in motion. Its lineage poetry resilience and pride carried https://t.co/Yk37ew7lPS Orwell said the fastest way to destroy a"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:42Z 35.8K followers, 235.8K engagements
"Kudzu is really just a symptom of dysfunctional property ownership systems where the land owners don't care enough to fence and graze it but evidently no one else is allowed to either. Maybe turn kudzu into butter cheese and ribeyes Just a thought. https://t.co/tuuTrIocqI Maybe turn kudzu into butter cheese and ribeyes Just a thought. https://t.co/tuuTrIocqI"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:48Z 35.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Some men can make fortunes in the Congo. Built different. He's Congo's richest and most powerful man. He owns Africa's largest resource empire spanning oil gas gold and cobalt even though his greatest love are blood diamonds. You can't understand Central African civil wars without talking about him. His name is Dan Gertler. https://t.co/7YlcWNDpNw He's Congo's richest and most powerful man. He owns Africa's largest resource empire spanning oil gas gold and cobalt even though his greatest love are blood diamonds. You can't understand Central African civil wars without talking about him. His"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:24Z 35.8K followers, 15.5K engagements
"It's about perfect but please note that unless the vehicle is a [----] or earlier they were NOT that simple under the hood. If you start working on a [--] or [--] you are going to have a maze of non-functional emissions to strip out before they look like that. Is this the perfect daily driver No start stop garbage no TPS minimal electronics. https://t.co/OypvKudZDH Is this the perfect daily driver No start stop garbage no TPS minimal electronics. https://t.co/OypvKudZDH"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"That's unstamped lumber But in Alaska they let you do it. Somebody asked me how I chose the timber that holds up my loft. Well you see it was [--] feet away from the build site and looked strong enough. https://t.co/8c3bTNIgxH Somebody asked me how I chose the timber that holds up my loft. Well you see it was [--] feet away from the build site and looked strong enough. https://t.co/8c3bTNIgxH"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:09Z 35.8K followers, 146K engagements
"Markets aren't really all that "efficient." There are always strange vacant or underserved niches. Like carbon steel knives with an acute grind sharp out of the box which you can order with pre-applied patina. Link in profile. girls want plates shaped like bowls https://t.co/1ndokYoPrw girls want plates shaped like bowls https://t.co/1ndokYoPrw"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"My neighbor growing up was one of the last old school Classics professors. Getting a Classics PhD under the old standards was far from "easy" but he lived an adult life that is extremely hard to obtain today no matter how hard you strive. Every summer was a Golden Summer. @Empty_America Only teachers and humanities Profs can live lives well at this point. @Empty_America Only teachers and humanities Profs can live lives well at this point"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:55Z 35.8K followers, 18K engagements
"Ok but can they restore the Freshness of Spring to our hearts You will live to [---] if youre under [--] right now and living in the US or China. Plan accordingly. You will live to [---] if youre under [--] right now and living in the US or China. Plan accordingly"
X Link 2026-02-14T03:56Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Although I will note his salary (even adjusted for inflation) would be scoffed at today. My grandfather sold him our tenant house for under market value since they were best friends. He didn't really "consume" and probably couldn't have but had a family hardly worked"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:02Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"NYC has pretty much always been "NYC." The OG model for cosmopolitan economic zones. It's a uniquely poor venue for return nostalgia. The spirit of the thing hasn't really changed too much. Nonsense under the Dutch the city was already a barely governable city of warring ethnicities Nonsense under the Dutch the city was already a barely governable city of warring ethnicities"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:09Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Fair enough. I mean 90% of NYC's existence was closer to "throngs of unregulated street vendors strange immigrants hyper-inequality and gangs" than to the Disney city of the late 90s. If anything the current reality is still a bit sterile. @Empty_America Well I think the 60s-90s were a genuinely novel era for the city but now a return to the mean @Empty_America Well I think the 60s-90s were a genuinely novel era for the city but now a return to the mean"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:24Z 35.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"I think that Belarus has an even stronger version. Private property as we know it is limited to one's home and a small fenced curtilage around it basically the yard. 90% of the country is a commons with freedom to roam regulated hunting etc. Culture Shock 101: The Right to Roam What if I told you this: In Sweden you can: Walk across private land Camp for a night almost anywhere Pick wild berries and mushrooms Swim near someones shoreline Paddle between private islands Without asking permission. https://t.co/hok9KifmPv Culture Shock 101: The Right to Roam What if I told you this: In Sweden you"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:27Z 35.8K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Strictly speaking it was not possible for most people to have had domestic help since the [--] servants didn't each have their own servants. But the line for having house servants was more like top 15% percent instead of top 1%+. Whenever I read biographies of people from [---] years ago most recently Dostoevsky I find out that most women even lower middle class ones had some form of domestic help. Dostoevskys family was so poor they lived in a tiny apartment but still had six servants to help with Whenever I read biographies of people from [---] years ago most recently Dostoevsky I find out that"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:34Z 35.8K followers, 31.8K engagements
"Incorrect you only got the ball by defeating the current carrier and then everyone attacked you and tried to wrest the ball from you. It would have been an offense worthy of seppuku to voluntarily throw the ball away. Gen X had a game called smear the queer. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess Gen X had a game called smear the queer. We would throw the ball to the smallest/weakest person and then go beat the shit out of them until they threw it to someone else. That was recess"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:37Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"They say that Texas is both the most American and the most Mexican state. It's generally impossible to tell which culture specific things (like blinged out Tahoes or Tex Mex foods) actually belong to. America has more in common with Mexico than Europe. The European mind cannot grasp the Chevy Tahoe. Juan from Oaxaca can though. America has more in common with Mexico than Europe. The European mind cannot grasp the Chevy Tahoe. Juan from Oaxaca can though"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:40Z 35.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"I saw a Looksmaxxer in the Vaughn New Mexico Allsups convenience store I was conversing with the the face-tattooed cashier and she heralded his appearance by stating: "here comes the jawline guy again" I don't know if he was one of the famous ones or not"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:46Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"They already "pay you to have kids." Few are aware of this. Based on [----] guidelines for a family of [--] (2 adults + [--] kids) with $100k income in Raleigh NC: - SNAP: Likely eligible; est. $800-1500. - Medicaid: qualify (adults 138% FPL kids higher). - WIC: Eligible if pregnant or kids 5; $50/person/mo in food. - Section 8: Based on [----] guidelines for a family of [--] (2 adults + [--] kids) with $100k income in Raleigh NC: - SNAP: Likely eligible; est. $800-1500. - Medicaid: qualify (adults 138% FPL kids higher). - WIC: Eligible if pregnant or kids 5; $50/person/mo in food. - Section 8:"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:48Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the biggest gaps between IRL and X narratives is that when you actually go into "travelball suburbs" many of the dads are blue-collar business owners in their 30s who probably started as laborers not that long ago. The USA can be a very open and high mobility place. Living in the burbs is weird. It's like 70% of my neighbors are roofers named Brad with F250s and two boys in travel ball Living in the burbs is weird. It's like 70% of my neighbors are roofers named Brad with F250s and two boys in travel ball"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:52Z 35.8K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Some people feel that the most American parts of America are those most like Europe. Others feel that the areas least like Europe are the most intensely American. This is a fundamental difference of opinion"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:04Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The drunk hunter is some forgotten past that is probably best forgotten. Used to be very common the old hunter safety videos heavily feature "based on a true story" dramatizations of drunk hunters throwing down beer cans cutting fences shooting each other etc. Drinking on a Hunting Trip Okanagan BC. 1960's https://t.co/eVrEwXsG40 Drinking on a Hunting Trip Okanagan BC. 1960's https://t.co/eVrEwXsG40"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:08Z 35.8K followers, 16.3K engagements
"I've had good luck so far with the solid brass and copper fixtures you can order from Morocco. If I ever build a house it will be entirely free of American faucets shower sets etc. Plumber told me if you need to replace a faucet just go to the store and pick whatever one you like. It doesnt matter theyre all trash. Spend a little or spend a lot just pick one you like that youll have for [--] years because theyre all junk no matter what. Liberating. Plumber told me if you need to replace a faucet just go to the store and pick whatever one you like. It doesnt matter theyre all trash. Spend a"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:33Z 35.8K followers, 17.9K engagements
"This is beautiful but represents extremely low trust architecture. Those walls weren't for looks. Chateau de Meauce France. https://t.co/vSpPp3jDcp Chateau de Meauce France. https://t.co/vSpPp3jDcp"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:50Z 35.8K followers, [----] engagements
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