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I’ve always believed that America’s defining trait is its ability to take a bad idea, wrap it in convenience, market it as freedom, and then defend it to the death like it’s a founding principle. This is a country where people will finance a mattress with 72-month APR and then sleep on it like Thomas Jefferson personally endorsed the coil count.
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Let’s start with a picture in your head. You hear sociopath, and immediately you’re thinking: dark alley, trench coat, possibly holding a knife and humming an off-key lullaby. Or maybe you’re imagining Patrick Bateman doing crunches while explaining Huey Lewis and the News.
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The radio cracked and spat like a fire without flame. A thin voice uncoiled from it, dry and plain and terrible. The men and women gathered in silence, hunched like figures carved from wood, their breath held like currency in a time of famine. The words came slow, as if dragged behind a cart. Germany has invaded.
Gustav Klimt’s large painting ‘Death and Life’, created in 1910, features not a personal death but rather merely an allegorical Grim Reaper who gazes at “life” with a malicious grin.
This “life” is comprised of all generations: every age group is represented, from the baby to the grandmother, in this depiction of the never-ending circle of life.
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Roselle was asleep under her owner’s desk on the 78th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center when the attack commenced. She was awakened by the plane impacting some fifteen floors above them. Roselle calmly helped Hingson to stairwell B, despite the smoke, confusion and noise surrounding her.
She led her owner and 30 other people down 1,463 steps out of the tower. After descending over half the distance, they passed the firemen who were heading up, who Roselle stopped to greet. The descent took just over an hour. Just after they exited the tower, Tower 2 collapsed, sending debris flying. Hingson later said, “While everyone ran in panic, Roselle remained totally focused on her job, while debris fell around us, and even hit us, Roselle stayed calm.” Once clear, Roselle led her owner to the safety of a subway station, where they helped a woman who had been blinded by falling debris. Once they arrived home, Roselle immediately began playing with her retired guide dog predecessor, Linnie, as if nothing important had happened.
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There’s something uniquely revealing about memes—those weird little fragments of collective consciousness that simultaneously mock and validate our existence. They’re like the modern equivalent of cave paintings, except instead of depicting heroic hunts, they illustrate the absurdity of living with an unpredictable nervous system. And when it comes to Tourette’s, memes operate as both a coping mechanism and a crash course in reality.
Because let’s be honest—most people’s understanding of Tourette’s comes from some outdated movie scene where a guy screams profanity in a grocery store. But the truth, as usual, is weirder, funnier, and infinitely more nuanced. These 20 memes don’t just joke about Tourette’s; they dissect it, translate it, and somehow make the chaos feel a little more understandable.
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A publicly traded company has to show continuous profit growth because of how investors think about money. Imagine you have $100, and you want to invest it in a company. If Company A makes the same $500 million every year, but Company B increases its profits from $500 million to $550 million to $600 million, which one would you pick? Most people would choose Company B because it looks like it’s growing, meaning their investment could be worth more in the future.
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