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[@Empty_America](/creator/twitter/Empty_America)
""One thing I still cant comprehend is that many other UMC whites apparently don't use a washcloth just their hand & soap. wow" Many are shocked to learn that UMC+ people often just use the bar of unscented castile soap or whatever. No washcloths no aggressive scrubbing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1960092415030681600) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-08-25T21:30Z 34.6K followers, 28.5K engagements


"I have endured terrible ordeals with *both* Speed-queen and Maytag Commercial Toploader. Bought a Speed Queen maybe XX years ago they had "updated the old design" and it was a lemon. Just got the Maytag back from "control board failure" after X years of ownership. Store said this failure is almost universal they had a row of them needing control boards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1970655637764796711) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-09-24T01:04Z 34.6K followers, 6629 engagements


"As a pumpkin breeder I regret to inform you that pumpkins have no "pumpkin" flavor at all nor is the flavor American. It results from Cinnamon (Ceylon) Nutmeg (Banda Islands) Ginger Cloves (Moluccas) and Allspice (Caribbean). Pumpkin Spice is a homage to World Trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976472021510070497) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-10T02:17Z 34.6K followers, 376.2K engagements


"It's dumb since too much time spent together in childhood impairs forming a later romantic relationship. In really small schools kids tend to seek out someone from a *different* school who they first meet as a teen via sports or activities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977041625000845675) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-11T16:00Z 34.6K followers, 26.1K engagements


"Property taxes tend to reduce buy-in cost but impose a high permanent carrying cost. They also tend to make property turn over faster making it more accessible to newcomers. At the cost of discouraging multi-generational holdings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977463675964313810) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-12T19:57Z 34.6K followers, 6519 engagements


"So as many have pointed out there *are* R voting areas of New England. But consistently picking the single *most* Blue part of the entire country for your conservative aesthetics is odd and legitimately draws dunks. Why don't they show Oklahoma or Mississippi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977527557919801385) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T00:11Z 34.6K followers, 42.5K engagements


"To a large extent this is a map of Baptists and Evangelicals. Notice that places like WV E. Kentucky Oklahoma are exactly the same as the deep south. The sweet tea lifestyle isn't good for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977934994849820824) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T03:10Z 34.6K followers, 559.7K engagements


"I've looked into Mexican real estate but it seems like the epitome of an opaque market guarded by legal uncertainty linguistic barriers insecure title and possession rights etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978163165985661207) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T18:17Z 34.6K followers, 16K engagements


"When country of origin labeling comes out on X accounts someone in the Republic of Chad should figure out a simple way to rout accounts through a Chadian ISP address. You could charge $X per month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978250625985966096) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-15T00:04Z 34.6K followers, 4896 engagements


"Is there a "Burberry League" Private colleges of great *legacy* and considerable *endowment* but perhaps slightly faded reputation. Perhaps willing to extend rather gracious financial considerations to a promising but pecunious youth with certain scores. . "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978624475932377357) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T00:50Z 34.6K followers, 9141 engagements


"I'm sorry but you simply are not any kind of elite if you have to worry about "keeping the Microsoft Teams circle green." I just can't recognize that we have to be real here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978860242742943952) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T16:27Z 34.6K followers, 360.6K engagements


"You could say that George Soros is the prototypical top elite. Combination of "boss-lessness" high financial resources and political power. Lesser elites have these same characteristics but in less powerful or complete forms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978866278719697372) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T16:51Z 34.6K followers, 11.7K engagements


"I'm about half way through this job now heavy re-pointing just putting literal tons of mortar into the cracks and cavities. Mortar Repointing is the core activity of saving structures. If you look on the internet you might get the impression that stone work is all about precisely cutting stones artistic finish type work etc. But that is the icing on the cake sort of the equivalent of a finish carpenter or cabinetmaker. The actual "cake" is built or saved by gaining the sheer audacity and fitness to move many tons of material like the equivalent of a house framer. Sure I cut stones as needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979350026968043840) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T00:53Z 34.6K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Do New Yorkers have an instinct to periodically vote for the worst possible candidate in hopes of inducing another "wild period" in NYC Sort of a reset on the gentrification cycle maybe get prices down for a while etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979397689931387322) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T04:02Z 34.6K followers, 13.7K engagements


"I want you all to focus on how much better you feel that first Monday when Standard Time returns. That good feeling = Standard Time. The bad tired feeling you have now as the mornings get darker and darker and it gets harder to get up = DST. So you DON'T WANT year round DST"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979671994640843073) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T22:12Z 34.6K followers, 20.3K engagements


"@dj_soubise Yeah I can't get into that either. I mean I don't claim to be working 24/7 and I will certainly take a casual hike and so forth but getting seriously "into" and investing money in stuff like Skiing or Surfing or birdwatching just isn't happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979736130850292187) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-19T02:27Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements


"You can really see the lack of daily showers in old pictures. You woke up with "bed head" tried to tame it with vigorous brushing and went about your day. Might have shampooed once a week or less"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979750201960387001) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-19T03:23Z 34.6K followers, 14.3K engagements


"I have contemplated the rarified pleasure of living in in Lordsburg NM along the majestic line of the Sunset Limited. Walk down to the station jump on the train. Glide westward towards Los Angeles in Summer towards the Gulf Coast in Winter . . "  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1950028353819316334) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-07-29T02:59Z 34.6K followers, 2898 engagements


"The "Suicide Line" in California is crazy. Lines up exactly with where you start to feel that heavy darker "woodsy" vibe. Similar thing in New England as you go North"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1961454597303578812) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-08-29T15:43Z 34.6K followers, 38.7K engagements


"The Argentine Peso has been collapsing for my entire life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1970533485757755675) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-09-23T16:59Z 34.6K followers, 7156 engagements


"@silvopasturist Yeah I would say you can basically predict provider ability from teenage work history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1974872092685599023) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-05T16:19Z 34.6K followers, 4575 engagements


"I'm fascinated by masonry roofing techniques. Using a dome or vault as the exterior roof. A big part of "forever building" that we often are totally unfamiliar with in this country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975399906941583528) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-07T03:16Z 34.6K followers, 8082 engagements


"Interesting take and quite accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975591513863172481) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-07T15:58Z 34.6K followers, 5378 engagements


"At a certain point you begin to suspect that Rustbelters have just internalized suffering as an identity and don't actually want "jobs." They are blocking the factories of our day (Data Centers) from being built and using their over-abundant water resources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975597823015203321) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-07T16:23Z 34.6K followers, 31.9K engagements


"You can tell that RFK Jr. is a Democrat at heart because he didn't remove the moss from that real wood shingle siding. Ultra-Blue coded. Whereas Red-coded would be power washed vinyl or composite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975967134972096723) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-08T16:50Z 34.6K followers, 59.3K engagements


"True but let's not forget the extensive Pitbull culture that survives among real Peckerwoods either They are very popular in lots of rural areas both South and North. Most of the serious breeders of game dogs are backwoods types Okies hog hunters etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975984225863205185) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-08T17:58Z 34.6K followers, 5862 engagements


"It's really quite interesting that beyond a certain point of material development humans start preserving things like crocodiles. Saltwater crocs almost went extinct in Aus around 1970 but now there might be as many as 200K"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976119624652685499) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-09T02:56Z 34.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@harold_bracy Yeah you might be surprised how many of those guys would take a deal where they get US residency and some type of annuity where they can live in a really nice suburb forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976765830689177633) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-10T21:44Z 34.6K followers, 1255 engagements


"@gaulicsmith There is a weird social pressure among middle class + people to NOT get married right after or during college. Which is odd because college is as you note the absolute ideal setting to find a spouse and marry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976800012186362111) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-11T00:00Z 34.6K followers, 1737 engagements


"I don't know whether or not immigrant motel owners get some type of special loan. But I'm rather skeptical that large numbers of natives really wish to run marginal motels in Buffalo Wallow ND but are prevented from achieving this dream by lack of financing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977468449405260096) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-12T20:16Z 34.6K followers, 29.5K engagements


"Weird question: why does Anglo-American cookery have no tradition of yeasted wheat flatbreads We like them very well once we are introduced to them and many prefer Naan or Pita to a slice of loaf-bread. But as far as I know the concept did not exist before cultural exchange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977502485926510631) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-12T22:31Z 34.6K followers, 18K engagements


"Ultra-red coded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977932614599074221) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T03:00Z 34.6K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Husband should hide the stove somewhere like a buddy's garage. When the new stove breaks in XXX years he can triumphantly re-install the old one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978269558193455128) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-15T01:19Z 34.6K followers, 22K engagements


"@neipate96 More like upper slave class if we are going to be entirely honest about it. Rome also had rich slaves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978866735416496277) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T16:52Z 34.6K followers, 11.6K engagements


"This is the single craziest Mass Affluence thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1958973300039733434) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-08-22T19:23Z 34.6K followers, 103.4K engagements


"This too reflects the aging society. Early bedtimes desire for quiet less drinking etc. In the aged society even the young act old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1970855713976287585) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-09-24T14:19Z 34.6K followers, 49.4K engagements


"This really isn't true. There are huge numbers of people at that IQ level who are entirely unable to perform/qualify for a stressful high comp job for various personality reasons. In fact only a small minority can do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976109054792757682) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-09T02:14Z 34.6K followers, 57.8K engagements


"@OttokarHochman Same way that public school history treats Jamestown as a sort of addendum to Plymouth although in reality it was quite the opposite the founding group was VA centered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977533787782209775) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T00:36Z 34.6K followers, 1585 engagements


"It's quite likely that a higher percent of the New England population in 1820 had been to the far east versus now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978207888813232157) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T21:14Z 34.6K followers, 11.6K engagements


"@RodeoProfessor They say that many of those might not be true "tree lines" in the western sense so much as the remnants of thing like Indian burning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979339810662945229) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T00:12Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@harold_bracy Everything was taken up back east. In my area we had inflows from Connecticut Quebec Germany Arkansas OK TX etc. I have quite a few distant cousins in NM they came out from the east XXX years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979357763643019490) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T01:24Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements


"The scale of Anabaptist colonization into Mexico and Latin America is a very unknown story. You can literally see their "colonies" from space they are terraforming large area of the desert in N. Mexico. Now they are sending extra kids off to Bolivia etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1734339471930524051) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2023-12-11T22:28Z 34.6K followers, 65.3K 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) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-03-07T03:32Z 34.6K followers, 63.6K engagements


"Saudis are are culturally coded as being very exotic but often just look like Italians when in western clothes. Many such cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1972025564321247690) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-09-27T19:48Z 34.6K followers, 444.6K engagements


"It's easy to forget that your average American is born into a "year zero" type situation. House built in 1990 in a suburb built in 1990 minimal if any physical heirlooms no inherited business or trade little culture other than current TV and Internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1975581700366471567) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-07T15:19Z 34.6K followers, 669.5K engagements


"Quite likely that gaming is more pleasurable than actually being a dictator IRL. Similar to how some billionaires seem to prefer posting on X versus doing the billionaire stuff you might expect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976763712888512554) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-10T21:36Z 34.6K followers, 34.3K engagements


"Westerners left the Church and ignored all attempts to save them. If people had listened to the Church on birth control and abortion there would be so many westerners today we wouldn't know what to do with them. They would be settling new colonies building ocean cities etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1976849558933324232) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-11T03:17Z 34.6K followers, 34.8K engagements


"In a worst case scenario nuclear exchange most models agree that the two largest centers of mostly untouched population and infrastructure would be: #1 West/South Texas #2 The "North Woods" of the upper Midwest. Interesting scenario for rebuilding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977493100223250492) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-12T21:54Z 34.6K followers, 7553 engagements


"Let's say you find an inoperable but rust-free old truck near you. Is it worth fixing Plus factors IMO include: granny gear manual transmission straight six or big block gas motor 3/4 or X ton PTO winch or other unusual accessories 4x4. Probably shouldn't scrap anything with 2+ of the above points and honestly I hate to see anything with just a granny manual go to the yard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977556492724138297) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T02:06Z 34.6K followers, 8614 engagements


"Honestly a lot of hardcore solo backpackers are atheists. I think atheists have a strange sort of spiritual "armor" the Jinns of the Desert and so forth can't even do anything with them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977557587530047596) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T02:10Z 34.6K followers, 40.8K engagements


"I would also add that if it's a 4x4 of any sort with a SOLID front axle it's cool. I will also repeat that all straight six engines (ford XXX GMC and Mopar "slant six") are cool especially with a manual transmission whether 2wd or 4x4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977564031927123993) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T02:36Z 34.6K followers, 2384 engagements


"Covid really broke the tacit consensus that school was in any way mandatory. Especially in states with fairly free homeschooling laws it feels like an optional public service now not an institution that can dictate much of anything to parents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977585184175436207) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T04:00Z 34.6K followers, 30.5K engagements


"So many are asking "what would happen in the motel world if all the Indians went away" Most areas would no longer have "no reservation cash motels." You would have a combination of big chain lobby style hotels and in more remote areas you would have non-staffed app-based stuff where you reserve online and just enter a door code. In fact the Indian motels are actually on the way out. Most are in rough shape being operated by XX year old 1st gens their kids are MDs and so forth. Soon there won't be a "no reservation cash motel" in most areas. It will be all apps and credit cards etc. In some"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977752535164219825) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T15:05Z 34.6K followers, 17.9K engagements


"One of my more interesting realizations is that I just don't *like* maximum order and development. If you go to the Colorado mountains parts of Canada or New England it's alarming. Everything is formalized up-to-date and very expensive just feels "tight." No cheap motels no greasy spoons. Just B&Bs expensive hotels everything is reserved in advance locked down app-based there is no spontaneity. I really don't even think this is an objectively desirable form of life these places feel really dead and often have the lowest possible fertility high secularism etc. You need that motel on the edge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977756841015738377) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T15:22Z 34.6K followers, 247.6K engagements


"I don't necessarily like them and many of them certainly don't like me but I objectively think the "Groypers" are the only part of the far right with legs. They look like the real youth of America which leads to some tough identity issues they are struggling with. But it seems like there is an opening for a youth movement which is diverse yet opposes new migration rejects woke and is focused on the economic grievances and desires for justice and redistribution of Gen Z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1977871806632771650) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-13T22:59Z 34.6K followers, 39.6K engagements


"Is there even any practical point in messing around with 3rd world countries Much of Spain is living on 10k or less a year. If you just want to chill and look at olive trees I'm not sure it really costs any more than Mexico at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978110885018124303) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T14:49Z 34.6K followers, 31.7K engagements


"Salesmen are the biggest stumbling block for the "IQ" maximalists those who deny any signficant sub-types of general intelligence outside of IQ. But this seems irrational social intelligence obviously exists semi-independent from IQ and salesman have a lot of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978117293201641877) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T15:14Z 34.6K followers, 197K engagements


"One interesting thing about New England is how strongly the imagery and mythos has turned inland. We now immediately picture the leafy Vermont village. Kids don't go down to the sea much anymore don't set sail for Senegal or Round the Horn. That is almost forgotten"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978181983650955591) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-14T19:31Z 34.6K followers, 9159 engagements


"To the true Conservative or "Tory" mindset the property tax is uniquely offensive. It specifically attacks the foundations of long term generational landholding which is the basis for higher life leisure etc. With excessive rates you live in a castle built on sand you must scramble and scurry and always be "productive." You have no safe harbor from the incessant demands of capitalism the looming threat of dispossession if you don't constantly earn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978475061506875586) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-15T14:56Z 34.6K followers, 68.7K engagements


"I'm glad they rebuilt Mont Saint-Michel before the era when we stopped rebuilding ruins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978865190528483687) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T16:46Z 34.6K followers, 201.3K engagements


"To be fair it's been many decades since America has made new cars that will burn up all their oil between scheduled changes and seize the motor at X months old. But we make them now be careful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978867686604988445) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T16:56Z 34.6K followers, 16.1K engagements


"Yeah a lot of genuinely privileged Westerners are looking for something more like this not a new-build glass tower in Dubai (or even a new suburban house in an exurb). This can be really hard for immigrants/non-westerners to grasp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1978897640747110498) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-16T18:55Z 34.6K followers, 111.7K engagements


"In areas of the world that approach apocalyptic conditions I don't think bikes are used all that widely. Bike societies seem to require a pretty deep network of spares shops paths etc. In the real rough areas transport is by foot horses/camels and a few big trucks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979195425119740147) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-17T14:38Z 34.6K followers, 23.9K engagements


"@Paul_America For some reason the drystone world has hung on a little better than mortared work which is what I mostly do. There are still a fair number of people who rebuild those New England walls. But so few who are into authentic mortared walls that are all full thickness stone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979386137350189404) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T03:16Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements


"Pretty cool New Mexico beaver flowage even caught catfish in it. This is a deliberate restoration they trapped beaver brought them in and planted cottonwoods inside wire cages to let them get started. The beavers are storing *a lot* of water and sub-irrigating that entire valley bottom it will be super impressive and very forested in a few more years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979668290457817113) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T21:57Z 34.6K followers, 17.3K engagements


"@normonics It varies but I've never seen the pond parts dry. I have to think that it takes 2-3 years to grow keeper sized catfish so it certainly doesn't dry out often"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979678554087715231) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T22:38Z 34.6K followers, 1304 engagements


"Becoming Presidents Senators etc. Individual leaders differ but the median "maximum winner" in human life is somewhere around high average"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979680196925202466) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T22:45Z 34.6K followers, 5483 engagements


"I don't have it in me to be a surfer or whatnot. Not hating on it but I have to be producing something. Have to at least be trying to get a fish some meat making something looking for gold etc. Even if it's not really worth the gas or time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979687807296868356) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-18T23:15Z 34.6K followers, 40.7K engagements


"This is an example of universal progressivism. The expectation of "Childcare" type behaviors by fathers is now absolutely universalized across the political spectrum. A VP in 1900 probably never changed a diaper in his life but we are all progressives/feminists now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1979948096671920573) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-19T16:29Z 34.6K followers, 184.8K engagements


"In general each and every material factor (free daycare subsided housing homogenous society etc.) that people claim would increase TFR actually exists in some other place and never increases TFR whatsoever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1980121718657351740) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-20T03:59Z 34.6K followers, 5319 engagements


"Well you could built that room. Oddly the authentic methods needed are quite simple in theory. In US terms its a version of southwest style the high end kind where it's done in the real way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Empty_America/status/1980126599019475236) [@Empty_America](/creator/x/Empty_America) 2025-10-20T04:19Z 34.6K followers, 6767 engagements

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@Empty_America ""One thing I still cant comprehend is that many other UMC whites apparently don't use a washcloth just their hand & soap. wow" Many are shocked to learn that UMC+ people often just use the bar of unscented castile soap or whatever. No washcloths no aggressive scrubbing"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-08-25T21:30Z 34.6K followers, 28.5K engagements

"I have endured terrible ordeals with both Speed-queen and Maytag Commercial Toploader. Bought a Speed Queen maybe XX years ago they had "updated the old design" and it was a lemon. Just got the Maytag back from "control board failure" after X years of ownership. Store said this failure is almost universal they had a row of them needing control boards"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-09-24T01:04Z 34.6K followers, 6629 engagements

"As a pumpkin breeder I regret to inform you that pumpkins have no "pumpkin" flavor at all nor is the flavor American. It results from Cinnamon (Ceylon) Nutmeg (Banda Islands) Ginger Cloves (Moluccas) and Allspice (Caribbean). Pumpkin Spice is a homage to World Trade"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-10T02:17Z 34.6K followers, 376.2K engagements

"It's dumb since too much time spent together in childhood impairs forming a later romantic relationship. In really small schools kids tend to seek out someone from a different school who they first meet as a teen via sports or activities"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-11T16:00Z 34.6K followers, 26.1K engagements

"Property taxes tend to reduce buy-in cost but impose a high permanent carrying cost. They also tend to make property turn over faster making it more accessible to newcomers. At the cost of discouraging multi-generational holdings"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-12T19:57Z 34.6K followers, 6519 engagements

"So as many have pointed out there are R voting areas of New England. But consistently picking the single most Blue part of the entire country for your conservative aesthetics is odd and legitimately draws dunks. Why don't they show Oklahoma or Mississippi"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T00:11Z 34.6K followers, 42.5K engagements

"To a large extent this is a map of Baptists and Evangelicals. Notice that places like WV E. Kentucky Oklahoma are exactly the same as the deep south. The sweet tea lifestyle isn't good for you"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T03:10Z 34.6K followers, 559.7K engagements

"I've looked into Mexican real estate but it seems like the epitome of an opaque market guarded by legal uncertainty linguistic barriers insecure title and possession rights etc"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T18:17Z 34.6K followers, 16K engagements

"When country of origin labeling comes out on X accounts someone in the Republic of Chad should figure out a simple way to rout accounts through a Chadian ISP address. You could charge $X per month"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-15T00:04Z 34.6K followers, 4896 engagements

"Is there a "Burberry League" Private colleges of great legacy and considerable endowment but perhaps slightly faded reputation. Perhaps willing to extend rather gracious financial considerations to a promising but pecunious youth with certain scores. . "
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T00:50Z 34.6K followers, 9141 engagements

"I'm sorry but you simply are not any kind of elite if you have to worry about "keeping the Microsoft Teams circle green." I just can't recognize that we have to be real here"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T16:27Z 34.6K followers, 360.6K engagements

"You could say that George Soros is the prototypical top elite. Combination of "boss-lessness" high financial resources and political power. Lesser elites have these same characteristics but in less powerful or complete forms"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T16:51Z 34.6K followers, 11.7K engagements

"I'm about half way through this job now heavy re-pointing just putting literal tons of mortar into the cracks and cavities. Mortar Repointing is the core activity of saving structures. If you look on the internet you might get the impression that stone work is all about precisely cutting stones artistic finish type work etc. But that is the icing on the cake sort of the equivalent of a finish carpenter or cabinetmaker. The actual "cake" is built or saved by gaining the sheer audacity and fitness to move many tons of material like the equivalent of a house framer. Sure I cut stones as needed"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T00:53Z 34.6K followers, 14.2K engagements

"Do New Yorkers have an instinct to periodically vote for the worst possible candidate in hopes of inducing another "wild period" in NYC Sort of a reset on the gentrification cycle maybe get prices down for a while etc"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T04:02Z 34.6K followers, 13.7K engagements

"I want you all to focus on how much better you feel that first Monday when Standard Time returns. That good feeling = Standard Time. The bad tired feeling you have now as the mornings get darker and darker and it gets harder to get up = DST. So you DON'T WANT year round DST"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T22:12Z 34.6K followers, 20.3K engagements

"@dj_soubise Yeah I can't get into that either. I mean I don't claim to be working 24/7 and I will certainly take a casual hike and so forth but getting seriously "into" and investing money in stuff like Skiing or Surfing or birdwatching just isn't happening"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-19T02:27Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements

"You can really see the lack of daily showers in old pictures. You woke up with "bed head" tried to tame it with vigorous brushing and went about your day. Might have shampooed once a week or less"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-19T03:23Z 34.6K followers, 14.3K engagements

"I have contemplated the rarified pleasure of living in in Lordsburg NM along the majestic line of the Sunset Limited. Walk down to the station jump on the train. Glide westward towards Los Angeles in Summer towards the Gulf Coast in Winter . . "
X Link @Empty_America 2025-07-29T02:59Z 34.6K followers, 2898 engagements

"The "Suicide Line" in California is crazy. Lines up exactly with where you start to feel that heavy darker "woodsy" vibe. Similar thing in New England as you go North"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-08-29T15:43Z 34.6K followers, 38.7K engagements

"The Argentine Peso has been collapsing for my entire life"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-09-23T16:59Z 34.6K followers, 7156 engagements

"@silvopasturist Yeah I would say you can basically predict provider ability from teenage work history"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-05T16:19Z 34.6K followers, 4575 engagements

"I'm fascinated by masonry roofing techniques. Using a dome or vault as the exterior roof. A big part of "forever building" that we often are totally unfamiliar with in this country"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-07T03:16Z 34.6K followers, 8082 engagements

"Interesting take and quite accurate"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-07T15:58Z 34.6K followers, 5378 engagements

"At a certain point you begin to suspect that Rustbelters have just internalized suffering as an identity and don't actually want "jobs." They are blocking the factories of our day (Data Centers) from being built and using their over-abundant water resources"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-07T16:23Z 34.6K followers, 31.9K engagements

"You can tell that RFK Jr. is a Democrat at heart because he didn't remove the moss from that real wood shingle siding. Ultra-Blue coded. Whereas Red-coded would be power washed vinyl or composite"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-08T16:50Z 34.6K followers, 59.3K engagements

"True but let's not forget the extensive Pitbull culture that survives among real Peckerwoods either They are very popular in lots of rural areas both South and North. Most of the serious breeders of game dogs are backwoods types Okies hog hunters etc"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-08T17:58Z 34.6K followers, 5862 engagements

"It's really quite interesting that beyond a certain point of material development humans start preserving things like crocodiles. Saltwater crocs almost went extinct in Aus around 1970 but now there might be as many as 200K"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-09T02:56Z 34.6K followers, 10.7K engagements

"@harold_bracy Yeah you might be surprised how many of those guys would take a deal where they get US residency and some type of annuity where they can live in a really nice suburb forever"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-10T21:44Z 34.6K followers, 1255 engagements

"@gaulicsmith There is a weird social pressure among middle class + people to NOT get married right after or during college. Which is odd because college is as you note the absolute ideal setting to find a spouse and marry"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-11T00:00Z 34.6K followers, 1737 engagements

"I don't know whether or not immigrant motel owners get some type of special loan. But I'm rather skeptical that large numbers of natives really wish to run marginal motels in Buffalo Wallow ND but are prevented from achieving this dream by lack of financing"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-12T20:16Z 34.6K followers, 29.5K engagements

"Weird question: why does Anglo-American cookery have no tradition of yeasted wheat flatbreads We like them very well once we are introduced to them and many prefer Naan or Pita to a slice of loaf-bread. But as far as I know the concept did not exist before cultural exchange"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-12T22:31Z 34.6K followers, 18K engagements

"Ultra-red coded"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T03:00Z 34.6K followers, 28.1K engagements

"Husband should hide the stove somewhere like a buddy's garage. When the new stove breaks in XXX years he can triumphantly re-install the old one"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-15T01:19Z 34.6K followers, 22K engagements

"@neipate96 More like upper slave class if we are going to be entirely honest about it. Rome also had rich slaves"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T16:52Z 34.6K followers, 11.6K engagements

"This is the single craziest Mass Affluence thing"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-08-22T19:23Z 34.6K followers, 103.4K engagements

"This too reflects the aging society. Early bedtimes desire for quiet less drinking etc. In the aged society even the young act old"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-09-24T14:19Z 34.6K followers, 49.4K engagements

"This really isn't true. There are huge numbers of people at that IQ level who are entirely unable to perform/qualify for a stressful high comp job for various personality reasons. In fact only a small minority can do it"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-09T02:14Z 34.6K followers, 57.8K engagements

"@OttokarHochman Same way that public school history treats Jamestown as a sort of addendum to Plymouth although in reality it was quite the opposite the founding group was VA centered"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T00:36Z 34.6K followers, 1585 engagements

"It's quite likely that a higher percent of the New England population in 1820 had been to the far east versus now"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T21:14Z 34.6K followers, 11.6K engagements

"@RodeoProfessor They say that many of those might not be true "tree lines" in the western sense so much as the remnants of thing like Indian burning"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T00:12Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@harold_bracy Everything was taken up back east. In my area we had inflows from Connecticut Quebec Germany Arkansas OK TX etc. I have quite a few distant cousins in NM they came out from the east XXX years ago"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T01:24Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements

"The scale of Anabaptist colonization into Mexico and Latin America is a very unknown story. You can literally see their "colonies" from space they are terraforming large area of the desert in N. Mexico. Now they are sending extra kids off to Bolivia etc"
X Link @Empty_America 2023-12-11T22:28Z 34.6K followers, 65.3K 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 @Empty_America 2025-03-07T03:32Z 34.6K followers, 63.6K engagements

"Saudis are are culturally coded as being very exotic but often just look like Italians when in western clothes. Many such cases"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-09-27T19:48Z 34.6K followers, 444.6K engagements

"It's easy to forget that your average American is born into a "year zero" type situation. House built in 1990 in a suburb built in 1990 minimal if any physical heirlooms no inherited business or trade little culture other than current TV and Internet"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-07T15:19Z 34.6K followers, 669.5K engagements

"Quite likely that gaming is more pleasurable than actually being a dictator IRL. Similar to how some billionaires seem to prefer posting on X versus doing the billionaire stuff you might expect"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-10T21:36Z 34.6K followers, 34.3K engagements

"Westerners left the Church and ignored all attempts to save them. If people had listened to the Church on birth control and abortion there would be so many westerners today we wouldn't know what to do with them. They would be settling new colonies building ocean cities etc"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-11T03:17Z 34.6K followers, 34.8K engagements

"In a worst case scenario nuclear exchange most models agree that the two largest centers of mostly untouched population and infrastructure would be: #1 West/South Texas #2 The "North Woods" of the upper Midwest. Interesting scenario for rebuilding"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-12T21:54Z 34.6K followers, 7553 engagements

"Let's say you find an inoperable but rust-free old truck near you. Is it worth fixing Plus factors IMO include: granny gear manual transmission straight six or big block gas motor 3/4 or X ton PTO winch or other unusual accessories 4x4. Probably shouldn't scrap anything with 2+ of the above points and honestly I hate to see anything with just a granny manual go to the yard"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T02:06Z 34.6K followers, 8614 engagements

"Honestly a lot of hardcore solo backpackers are atheists. I think atheists have a strange sort of spiritual "armor" the Jinns of the Desert and so forth can't even do anything with them"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T02:10Z 34.6K followers, 40.8K engagements

"I would also add that if it's a 4x4 of any sort with a SOLID front axle it's cool. I will also repeat that all straight six engines (ford XXX GMC and Mopar "slant six") are cool especially with a manual transmission whether 2wd or 4x4"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T02:36Z 34.6K followers, 2384 engagements

"Covid really broke the tacit consensus that school was in any way mandatory. Especially in states with fairly free homeschooling laws it feels like an optional public service now not an institution that can dictate much of anything to parents"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T04:00Z 34.6K followers, 30.5K engagements

"So many are asking "what would happen in the motel world if all the Indians went away" Most areas would no longer have "no reservation cash motels." You would have a combination of big chain lobby style hotels and in more remote areas you would have non-staffed app-based stuff where you reserve online and just enter a door code. In fact the Indian motels are actually on the way out. Most are in rough shape being operated by XX year old 1st gens their kids are MDs and so forth. Soon there won't be a "no reservation cash motel" in most areas. It will be all apps and credit cards etc. In some"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T15:05Z 34.6K followers, 17.9K engagements

"One of my more interesting realizations is that I just don't like maximum order and development. If you go to the Colorado mountains parts of Canada or New England it's alarming. Everything is formalized up-to-date and very expensive just feels "tight." No cheap motels no greasy spoons. Just B&Bs expensive hotels everything is reserved in advance locked down app-based there is no spontaneity. I really don't even think this is an objectively desirable form of life these places feel really dead and often have the lowest possible fertility high secularism etc. You need that motel on the edge"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T15:22Z 34.6K followers, 247.6K engagements

"I don't necessarily like them and many of them certainly don't like me but I objectively think the "Groypers" are the only part of the far right with legs. They look like the real youth of America which leads to some tough identity issues they are struggling with. But it seems like there is an opening for a youth movement which is diverse yet opposes new migration rejects woke and is focused on the economic grievances and desires for justice and redistribution of Gen Z"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-13T22:59Z 34.6K followers, 39.6K engagements

"Is there even any practical point in messing around with 3rd world countries Much of Spain is living on 10k or less a year. If you just want to chill and look at olive trees I'm not sure it really costs any more than Mexico at this point"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T14:49Z 34.6K followers, 31.7K engagements

"Salesmen are the biggest stumbling block for the "IQ" maximalists those who deny any signficant sub-types of general intelligence outside of IQ. But this seems irrational social intelligence obviously exists semi-independent from IQ and salesman have a lot of it"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T15:14Z 34.6K followers, 197K engagements

"One interesting thing about New England is how strongly the imagery and mythos has turned inland. We now immediately picture the leafy Vermont village. Kids don't go down to the sea much anymore don't set sail for Senegal or Round the Horn. That is almost forgotten"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-14T19:31Z 34.6K followers, 9159 engagements

"To the true Conservative or "Tory" mindset the property tax is uniquely offensive. It specifically attacks the foundations of long term generational landholding which is the basis for higher life leisure etc. With excessive rates you live in a castle built on sand you must scramble and scurry and always be "productive." You have no safe harbor from the incessant demands of capitalism the looming threat of dispossession if you don't constantly earn"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-15T14:56Z 34.6K followers, 68.7K engagements

"I'm glad they rebuilt Mont Saint-Michel before the era when we stopped rebuilding ruins"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T16:46Z 34.6K followers, 201.3K engagements

"To be fair it's been many decades since America has made new cars that will burn up all their oil between scheduled changes and seize the motor at X months old. But we make them now be careful"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T16:56Z 34.6K followers, 16.1K engagements

"Yeah a lot of genuinely privileged Westerners are looking for something more like this not a new-build glass tower in Dubai (or even a new suburban house in an exurb). This can be really hard for immigrants/non-westerners to grasp"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-16T18:55Z 34.6K followers, 111.7K engagements

"In areas of the world that approach apocalyptic conditions I don't think bikes are used all that widely. Bike societies seem to require a pretty deep network of spares shops paths etc. In the real rough areas transport is by foot horses/camels and a few big trucks"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-17T14:38Z 34.6K followers, 23.9K engagements

"@Paul_America For some reason the drystone world has hung on a little better than mortared work which is what I mostly do. There are still a fair number of people who rebuild those New England walls. But so few who are into authentic mortared walls that are all full thickness stone"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T03:16Z 34.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Pretty cool New Mexico beaver flowage even caught catfish in it. This is a deliberate restoration they trapped beaver brought them in and planted cottonwoods inside wire cages to let them get started. The beavers are storing a lot of water and sub-irrigating that entire valley bottom it will be super impressive and very forested in a few more years"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T21:57Z 34.6K followers, 17.3K engagements

"@normonics It varies but I've never seen the pond parts dry. I have to think that it takes 2-3 years to grow keeper sized catfish so it certainly doesn't dry out often"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T22:38Z 34.6K followers, 1304 engagements

"Becoming Presidents Senators etc. Individual leaders differ but the median "maximum winner" in human life is somewhere around high average"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T22:45Z 34.6K followers, 5483 engagements

"I don't have it in me to be a surfer or whatnot. Not hating on it but I have to be producing something. Have to at least be trying to get a fish some meat making something looking for gold etc. Even if it's not really worth the gas or time"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-18T23:15Z 34.6K followers, 40.7K engagements

"This is an example of universal progressivism. The expectation of "Childcare" type behaviors by fathers is now absolutely universalized across the political spectrum. A VP in 1900 probably never changed a diaper in his life but we are all progressives/feminists now"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-19T16:29Z 34.6K followers, 184.8K engagements

"In general each and every material factor (free daycare subsided housing homogenous society etc.) that people claim would increase TFR actually exists in some other place and never increases TFR whatsoever"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-20T03:59Z 34.6K followers, 5319 engagements

"Well you could built that room. Oddly the authentic methods needed are quite simple in theory. In US terms its a version of southwest style the high end kind where it's done in the real way"
X Link @Empty_America 2025-10-20T04:19Z 34.6K followers, 6767 engagements

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