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5 Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About
1. Why does a publicaly traded company have to show continuous rise in profits? Why arent steady profits good enough?
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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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
A Khmer Rouge soldier waves his pistol as he orders store-keepers to abandon their businesses as the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh falls to Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975
The fall of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, was not a triumphant conquest in the traditional sense. There were no cheering crowds, no coordinated military parades, no careful transition of power. Instead, the Khmer Rouge’s entrance into the Cambodian capital was a moment of controlled chaos—an event where ideology, paranoia, and ruthless efficiency collided with the lives of millions of ordinary people.
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July 23, 2026
laudatory
expressing admiration or praise
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5 Fascinating Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About History And The World
When Stalin was dying, his doctor was unavailable because he was being tortured by the secret police. Paralyzed and unable to speak, Stalin lay untreated for 12h while his terrified subordinates debated calling a doctor, fearing he might recover and punish them for acting without orders.
On the night of March 1, 1953, Joseph Stalin—the man who had ruled the Soviet Union through terror, purges, and absolute authority—lay helpless on the floor of his Kuntsevo dacha, his body betraying him at last. He had suffered a massive stroke, leaving him paralyzed and unable to speak. But the true tragedy, the dark poetry of the moment, was not just his failing body—it was that no one dared to help him.
When Flirting Goes Off the Rails: The Horror of Creepy Asterisks
There’s a point where online communication stops being normal and starts feeling like you’re trapped inside someone else’s weird little daydream. And that point? That’s where the creepy asterisk lives.
For the uninitiated, a creepy asterisk message is like a regular text, except it’s inexplicably narrated like a bad fanfiction. Maybe it’s a harmless shrugs or nods thoughtfully. But more often than not, it’s something shivers nervously while scooching closer to your warmth or licks lips and adjusts wolf ears. Suddenly, you’re no longer texting—you’re an unwilling participant in some stranger’s unsolicited roleplay.
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6 Things That Brought A Smile To Our Face This Week
82-year-old woman reunited with cat presumed lost in Palisades fire
For nearly two months, Katherine Kiefer held on to hope. The 82-year-old Los Angeles resident had already lost her home to the Palisades wildfire, but the absence of her beloved Maine Coon, Aggie, felt like the real heartbreak. The cat had been a gift during the pandemic, a quiet and constant presence in Kiefer’s life. When the fire came roaring through on January 7, Aggie, prone to hiding in the best of times, was nowhere to be found. As the days turned into weeks, even Kiefer had to admit—begrudgingly, painfully—that her companion was likely gone.
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Dragon’s Lair: The Most Beautiful Scam in Arcade History
There are two types of people in this world: those who remember Dragon’s Lair as a mesmerizing, cinematic leap forward in arcade gaming, and those who remember it as the most humiliating waste of a quarter they ever experienced. If you belong to the latter camp, you are correct. If you belong to the former camp, you’re probably lying.
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This Is What Life Looked Like In 1969
Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)
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A Young Dolly Parton With Her Husband Carl Dean, Married Since 1966.
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29 NEET Memes That Capture the Beautiful, Soul-Crushing Art of Doing Nothing
There was a time when being a NEET—Not in Education, Employment, or Training—wasn’t an identity, just a temporary blip in the existential static. But thanks to the internet, this once-unspeakable limbo state has evolved into a fully realized subculture, complete with its own aesthetic, its own lore, and, most importantly, its own memes. And that makes sense: memes are the perfect medium for the NEET lifestyle. They require minimal effort, offer maximum relatability, and let you engage with society without actually engaging with society.
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