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I respect the hell of trades people.
My wife and I are both college educated and if are kids don't want to go into engineering, law, medical, or have significant ambitions in business beyond first level, they need to rethink college. There are some other degrees that are worthwhile but I need to be convinced.
If not the above, the opportunity they have is trades and I would push that obnoxiously hard.
My kids are very young but I see the above will be the opportunities even a decade and a half from now...
New Jersey police officer dressed as a shrub catches 74 drivers on their phones within six hours - AOL https://share.google/C56Rvn9JtGhVmVj3s
"They’ve done the math: for every five tradespeople who retire, two come in. It’s been that way for about 12 years now."
Not exactly the same, but my profession, which requires state licensing and some fed approvals, has done similar. 15ish years ago the "wise" people in charge of licensing decided to make things 3X as hard to become licensed. Since then our numbers have continued to drop. They even dialed back requirements trying to bring in more people, but our numbers are still dropping. I have friends and family who work professionally as mechanics. I know a little bit of what they go through, and I know one is actively looking for something else right now because he's tired of the daily BS.
KennethS
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Kinda similar here. I have to wonder what exactly these folks thought they were gonna do with the video?
https://www.12news.com/article/news...izona/75-5b5bfcc2-e7a0-494f-acb5-9b41ce3442ac
16 drivers cited for trying to record crash aftermath on I-10 in Arizona
Sixteen drivers were cited for breaking Arizona's hands-free law while passing by a crash on I-10, according to state troopers.
WILLCOX, Ariz. — Everyone always wants to get a peek at a crash scene as they drive by, but in some situations, it could get you in trouble.
Just ask these 16 drivers in Arizona.
On July 26, Arizona DPS Troopers were investigating a fatal car crash blocking I-10 outside of Willcox. As they investigated the scene, they saw traffic backing up and numerous near-miss crashes caused by drivers who stopped or slowed to film the scene while driving.
Troopers eventually started enforcement action on any drivers using their cell phones as they passed the scene. Officials said a total of 16 drivers were cited for violating the hands-free statute. Another driver was also arrested for DUI.
DPS reminds drivers to use hands-free technology installed in your car or your smartphone assistant or just put the phone away until you get to your destination.
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Adolf Hitler’s $42M Luger — the ‘most valuable pistol on Earth’ — at center of sensational court battle
By Alex Diaz
Published Aug. 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m. ET
The “most valuable pistol on Earth” — a reputed $42 million Luger that belonged to Adolf Hitler — is at the center of a sensational court battle involving an appliance repair man and a cop in Argentina.
The weapon — described as the “Holy Grail of firearms’’ — was allegedly swiped during a SWAT-style raid by masked officers at repair man Juan Pablo Ruppel’s home in rural Buenos Aires province in 2016.
“It’s a one of a kind piece, and there is no question that it is the most valuable semiautomatic handgun in the world,’’ the 48-year-old dad of four told The Post in his first interview since a recent court ruling in the case.
The make of the gun, a Luger Parabellum .45 calibre No.5, is one of only five 1907 prototypes forged by the late famed Georg Luger — and already so legendary that it was mentioned by Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko in the hit 1987 flick “Wall Street” as “the rarest pistol in the world.’’
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Adolf Hitler’s $42M Luger — the ‘most valuable pistol on Earth’ — at center of sensational court battle
By Alex Diaz
Published Aug. 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m. ET
The “most valuable pistol on Earth” — a reputed $42 million Luger that belonged to Adolf Hitler — is at the center of a sensational court battle involving an appliance repair man and a cop in Argentina.
The weapon — described as the “Holy Grail of firearms’’ — was allegedly swiped during a SWAT-style raid by masked officers at repair man Juan Pablo Ruppel’s home in rural Buenos Aires province in 2016.
“It’s a one of a kind piece, and there is no question that it is the most valuable semiautomatic handgun in the world,’’ the 48-year-old dad of four told The Post in his first interview since a recent court ruling in the case.
The make of the gun, a Luger Parabellum .45 calibre No.5, is one of only five 1907 prototypes forged by the late famed Georg Luger — and already so legendary that it was mentioned by Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko in the hit 1987 flick “Wall Street” as “the rarest pistol in the world.’’
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Angry Farmer shoots and hits crop dusting plane, @Farmergreg's neck of the woods
https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/co...hoots-at-plane-charged-with-attempted-murder/
https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/co...hoots-at-plane-charged-with-attempted-murder/
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Angry Farmer shoots and hits crop dusting plane, @Farmergreg's neck of the woods
https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/co...hoots-at-plane-charged-with-attempted-murder/
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A Thorntown man was charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly shot at a plane that was spraying crops near a field where he lived.
I plead the 5th….
RIP, 84, heart attack
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RIP Cooter. He had a place in Luray VA, too. I stopped there this past March, but it was closed.
If You’re Freezing Your Eggs At 36 Like AOC, You’ve Been Lied To
Contrary to the messaging that’s permeated our culture since the sexual revolution, fertility can’t be controlled.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a baby, but not enough to get married to her longtime fiancé and try to conceive one naturally now. Instead, the 36-year-old democratic socialist plans to freeze her eggs so that sometime in the undefined future she can pay to get possibly get pregnant.
Even more shocking than hearing that the Green New Deal architect who once asked if a climate change-induced end of the world means it is “OK to still have children” suddenly has plans to start her own brood is seeing her display the private and sensitive details of her family planning in an influencer-style “get ready with me” livestream over the weekend.
“I want you all to see that. And because women can do anything, and I think it’s bad-ss that I’m going to be giving myself shots in the green room [as I] get my glam on,” she said.
“This is just not something that men deal with,” AOC added. She conveniently omits that it’s not something she has to “deal with” either.
AOC claims she’s undergoing the expensive and physically painful process of egg cryopreservation so she can “feel more in control of my life.” Contrary to the messaging that’s permeated our culture since the start of the sexual revolution, however, fertility can’t be controlled. Anyone pitching something that promises otherwise is simply selling a very pricey illusion of control.
It’s hard to know if hormone shots in the greenroom is political stunt or legitimate attempt to preserve the potential for future pregnancy. Either way, AOC and everyone who believes her recitation about how egg freezing shows “women can do anything” are being duped by an industry that thrives on the lies told by fourth-wave feminism.
No matter what AOC and celebrities say, the sometimes traumatizing procedure of harvesting and freezing ova for future in vitro fertilization (IVF) is no guarantee to motherhood. For one, egg cryopreservation is far less successful at yielding pregnancies later than advertised. And in terms of egg freezing optimization, AOC is already behind.
Egg utility notoriously diminishes in most women by the time they turn 30 years old. By 35, both females’ egg quantity and quality are susceptible to a rapid decline. As one BBC article plainly put it, 35 is the age when female “fertility falls off a cliff.”
“For those who do become pregnant later, there even are particular medical terms, including ‘geriatric pregnancy’ and ‘advanced maternal age,’ used to drive the point home,” the article warns.
Also often omitted from the discourse about ova retrieval is that women who undergo it can suffer side effects such as excessive bleeding, abdominal swelling, discomfort, weight gain, nausea, infection, problems urinating, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, fatal colon cancer, a potential increased risk for breast cancer, and even sudden infertility, which could further affect pregnancy potential.
Chance of pregnancy is diluted even further for women who plan to try for motherhood with IVF, which is also marked by what one 2026 study called “declining efficiency” over the last decade and a half. Every embryo that fails to implant adds to the countless little lab-created lives that are already sentenced to death by indefinite cryopreservation and discard.
Contrary to what corporate media insist, IVF isn’t the only way women can have a career. And it certainly isn’t the easiest path to parenthood. In many cases, reproductive technologies such as egg and sperm freezing and IVF and the “babies by any means necessary” ideology fueling their popularity grant a false sense of security to men and women who think they can cheat their biological clock and further deter them from settling down and raising a family.
AOC’s known her live-in beau since her Boston University days in 2011 and has been engaged to him since 2022. If she wants kids, she could tie the knot today and start trying to conceive naturally. A husband and children would double AOC’s likelihood of being happy. Instead, she’s indefinitely engaged and further delaying her pregnancy to pursue her career in the House of Representatives (and perhaps a presidential run).
That’s not an anomaly. Countless women for decades were told a career is more fulfilling than a family. As a result, many have spent oodles of dollars trying to reconcile their desire to climb the corporate ladder with the limits of their biological clock.
The consequences of this brainwashing have been vast. Infertility is rising, birth rates are dangerously low, and unhappiness, especially in single, childless females, persists. The solutions to these issues are widely and ferociously debated. All data suggests that getting married young and optimizing your chances at natural conception by trying for babies during peak fertility years can’t hurt, though.
Modern science has made it easier to increase or decrease chances of pregnancy, but no one person or technology can perfectly promise anyone a baby. The only thing promised is that the longer women like AOC wait to welcome a chance at motherhood, the harder it will be for them to have children.
Contrary to the messaging that’s permeated our culture since the sexual revolution, fertility can’t be controlled.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a baby, but not enough to get married to her longtime fiancé and try to conceive one naturally now. Instead, the 36-year-old democratic socialist plans to freeze her eggs so that sometime in the undefined future she can pay to get possibly get pregnant.
Even more shocking than hearing that the Green New Deal architect who once asked if a climate change-induced end of the world means it is “OK to still have children” suddenly has plans to start her own brood is seeing her display the private and sensitive details of her family planning in an influencer-style “get ready with me” livestream over the weekend.
“I want you all to see that. And because women can do anything, and I think it’s bad-ss that I’m going to be giving myself shots in the green room [as I] get my glam on,” she said.
“This is just not something that men deal with,” AOC added. She conveniently omits that it’s not something she has to “deal with” either.
AOC claims she’s undergoing the expensive and physically painful process of egg cryopreservation so she can “feel more in control of my life.” Contrary to the messaging that’s permeated our culture since the start of the sexual revolution, however, fertility can’t be controlled. Anyone pitching something that promises otherwise is simply selling a very pricey illusion of control.
It’s hard to know if hormone shots in the greenroom is political stunt or legitimate attempt to preserve the potential for future pregnancy. Either way, AOC and everyone who believes her recitation about how egg freezing shows “women can do anything” are being duped by an industry that thrives on the lies told by fourth-wave feminism.
No matter what AOC and celebrities say, the sometimes traumatizing procedure of harvesting and freezing ova for future in vitro fertilization (IVF) is no guarantee to motherhood. For one, egg cryopreservation is far less successful at yielding pregnancies later than advertised. And in terms of egg freezing optimization, AOC is already behind.
Egg utility notoriously diminishes in most women by the time they turn 30 years old. By 35, both females’ egg quantity and quality are susceptible to a rapid decline. As one BBC article plainly put it, 35 is the age when female “fertility falls off a cliff.”
“For those who do become pregnant later, there even are particular medical terms, including ‘geriatric pregnancy’ and ‘advanced maternal age,’ used to drive the point home,” the article warns.
Also often omitted from the discourse about ova retrieval is that women who undergo it can suffer side effects such as excessive bleeding, abdominal swelling, discomfort, weight gain, nausea, infection, problems urinating, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, fatal colon cancer, a potential increased risk for breast cancer, and even sudden infertility, which could further affect pregnancy potential.
Chance of pregnancy is diluted even further for women who plan to try for motherhood with IVF, which is also marked by what one 2026 study called “declining efficiency” over the last decade and a half. Every embryo that fails to implant adds to the countless little lab-created lives that are already sentenced to death by indefinite cryopreservation and discard.
Contrary to what corporate media insist, IVF isn’t the only way women can have a career. And it certainly isn’t the easiest path to parenthood. In many cases, reproductive technologies such as egg and sperm freezing and IVF and the “babies by any means necessary” ideology fueling their popularity grant a false sense of security to men and women who think they can cheat their biological clock and further deter them from settling down and raising a family.
AOC’s known her live-in beau since her Boston University days in 2011 and has been engaged to him since 2022. If she wants kids, she could tie the knot today and start trying to conceive naturally. A husband and children would double AOC’s likelihood of being happy. Instead, she’s indefinitely engaged and further delaying her pregnancy to pursue her career in the House of Representatives (and perhaps a presidential run).
That’s not an anomaly. Countless women for decades were told a career is more fulfilling than a family. As a result, many have spent oodles of dollars trying to reconcile their desire to climb the corporate ladder with the limits of their biological clock.
The consequences of this brainwashing have been vast. Infertility is rising, birth rates are dangerously low, and unhappiness, especially in single, childless females, persists. The solutions to these issues are widely and ferociously debated. All data suggests that getting married young and optimizing your chances at natural conception by trying for babies during peak fertility years can’t hurt, though.
Modern science has made it easier to increase or decrease chances of pregnancy, but no one person or technology can perfectly promise anyone a baby. The only thing promised is that the longer women like AOC wait to welcome a chance at motherhood, the harder it will be for them to have children.
Robots will have those jobs in less than 3 years is my guess. Starting to see them on a lot of job sites these days. Some welding robots can weld and Xray the welds all in the same machine.
We are also installing a lot more surgical robots in hospitals these days. A whole new wave of them was approved in the last 18 months.
Neither Cyberdyne Systems or Skynet is involved.... that I can see.
@Zorba would approve (if he could see it)
View: https://x.com/ConstitustionX/status/2086965254039511521?s=20
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The meat of that;
"Structure works. Discipline works. Focus works. Phones don’t. This isn’t just a baseball story. It’s a wake-up call for every parent, every coach, every school in America. Are we raising champions…or scrolling zombies? Drop the phones. Raise the standards. Watch what happens."
I hate seeing kids, and people in general, glued to an electronic device. We see it all around us. Go to a restaurant and people are doom scrolling on phones while kids stare at tablets. Sporting events are similar. I hate it so much. My kids have very limited access to TV/tablets/video games. We talk while we sit at the table. We play in the grass, the dirt, the sand, the mud, but that seems to be the less common way now, and that makes me sad.
"Structure works. Discipline works. Focus works. Phones don’t. This isn’t just a baseball story. It’s a wake-up call for every parent, every coach, every school in America. Are we raising champions…or scrolling zombies? Drop the phones. Raise the standards. Watch what happens."
I hate seeing kids, and people in general, glued to an electronic device. We see it all around us. Go to a restaurant and people are doom scrolling on phones while kids stare at tablets. Sporting events are similar. I hate it so much. My kids have very limited access to TV/tablets/video games. We talk while we sit at the table. We play in the grass, the dirt, the sand, the mud, but that seems to be the less common way now, and that makes me sad.
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