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Can You Be At Peace With Getting Things You Do Not Understand How To Construct?

builderofcastles — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:56:12 GMT

This is a big question.
This is a serious question.
And this is a question mostly for men.

Imagine that aliens came down and built a "Flying Saucer Factory".
If you want a flying saucer, go to the factory and push the button. One will be delivered to you shortly.
You can't study it. There is no clue about how it actually works. And no explanation is given to you.

Would you be fine with that? A lot of people, especially women (who deal with that almost every day they drive a car) would not care. Dude, free flying saucer, dude.

Now imagine something more mundane. A refrigerator. Those mother WEFers build it in their dark factories. You have to trade your work-chits for one. You do not know how it is made. You aren't allowed to work on it yourself. If those mother WEFers ever turn off your supply to refrigerators, you are out of luck.

Do you feel ok with this arrangement?

And this is exactly what happens when we send refrigerators and trains, to 3rd world countries. Imagine being beholden to another nation for your country's continued prosperity.

We need to think about this carefully and deeply. I think that there is only one refrigerator actually made in America. But, at least we have a lot of technicians that could work things out if China stopped exporting next week.

## Engineered Helplessness

Those mother WEFers and those above them, have done everything they can to make our cars, appliances and computers a black box that people cannot understand. "No user repairable parts inside". Automobiles are actually simpler today than they were back in 50s. The computer controls make an engine seriously simple. (there are no spark gaps to measure, no carburator to adjust, no timing to adjust…) Yet, all the automakers have made it harder or impossible to work on a car. (and i mean IMPOSSIBLE!)

Guys back in the 60s were doing all kinds of modifications to their cars. Today, all the guys do is add bolt on parts. Rarely anything more. And, this is really caused by making the car unserviceable by the common person.

Everything is built to be thrown out, and not repaired. Often a new motor costs more than buying a whole new item. Often there is no replacement parts. Even a simple o-ring is not a standard size, and so cannot be replaced.

Basically, those mother WEFers have made it so that you CAN'T fix it, so you are completely reliant on them.

## Constrained by IQ

I can think up, build and repair things that most of the world would find impossible.

Idiot proofing is a serious engineering problem.

If you can't get your car running again, should you own a car?

You can say, as did Buckminster Fuller, that the very intelligent are the engines that pull humanity forward. However, what i have found is that reducing the drag from the back of the train is just as important.

Right now, i could put together a car that gets 100 MPG. But only auto mechanics and engineers could keep it running. Things like hydrogen injection (dual fuel combustion) increase burn efficiency so much that every car should have it… except that you would have to teach every idiot how to fill up the hydrogen tank. (very explosive)

I could also add water injection. It makes the engine run cooler and much more efficient. However, you better be using purified water, and keep those injectors clean, or your engine breaks down. Also, you have to make SURE to change the oil. Especially just after you install the water injection.

I could also add air injection… no, seriously. The gasoline injectors spray a stream of liquid into the cylinder chamber. If you blast it with a stream of air, you can atomize that gasoline for a MUCH better burn. But, now you have just doubled the costs of building the injectors, and quadrupled the problems you would need to fix inside the engine.

These are a few examples of things we could do, right now, to increase fuel efficiency in cars. And all of them may be a bridge too far. They would make it so that most people couldn't drive a car. We already hear of people running their car with no oil. This would be a setup for worse problems.

## Teaching Someone vs Doing It For Them

This is one of my biggest "wastes" of time. It is also the best use of my time ever!

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Cow decides to go for a walk on the highway

dumb-news — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:56:03 GMT

I found a story from Maryland that doesn't involve the lottery! And since this story has a happy ending there is nothing to worry about.

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It's hard to tell from the low quality image but it appears as though a dog might have gone along for the trip! I hope so. Dogs looking out for other animals and also humans always make for great news. Much better news than completely made up stories about regular people winning the lottery is anyway.

This made me think about something I read on here recently about someone visiting India in a travel forum and how there are cows on streets on a regular basis and everyone considers them sacred and the cows just get to hang out there until they feel like leaving.

Well, things are handled a little bit different in USA. The State police were dispatched to lead traffic around the cow as it searched for a way off the highway - which isn't always so easy to do since anytime there is a neighborhood the highway has to be inaccessible via fences and what not.

Unlike the lottery stories that are from the same site, this story actually had accountability. The farm, the area, the name of the owner, the officer's name that responded, are all named. It's almost like this thing actually happened! This is the difference between the state "definitely not advertisements" advertisements for the lottery where they give intentionally vague and almost certainly untrue information about some rogue winner of some vast sort of money. This story actually happened.

We probably like to think that the reason such care was taken was probably because we feel so bad for the poor cow but it is really a question of that thing will create a much larger problem if it is struck by a car or truck than the problem is to get it off the highway. I don't know how much you know about the bovine population of the world but they are friggin HEAVY and if you hit one with the car you are likely going to get extreme damage to the car. Not to mention the fact that once this thing dies on the street it's not so easy to remove something that can weight over 1000 lbs.

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This one was a considerably smaller one though and I suspect it is a younger cow called a "calf." Police directed traffic around it while the owners of the farm corralled the cow into a trailer and brought it home. Apparently this curious milker found a weak point in a fence and decided to go for a little adventure.

"The one thing about a farm that you can count on is there's always something going on. You just never know, you can't predict animals always what's going to happen next,"

That's a quote from the owner of the ranch and although I haven't spent very much time on farms I did have a friend when I was in grammar school whose grandparents owned a farm with cows and I went to visit with him once. There certainly is a lot going on at those places, all day every day.

I'd kind of like to leave my phone at home one of these days and visit a farm. I took it for granted when I was visiting that one time but what a peaceful way to live!

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Cuba and Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the UN

limonta — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:15:33 GMT

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Florida native Mike Waltz stood before the UN General Assembly, in his capacity as ambassador to the international body, to deliver a hodgepodge of nonsense more fitting for a podcast or YouTube channel devoted to political gossip, sensationalism, and outright disinformation than for a diplomatic forum. One that he himself appeared not to fully grasp. This came in response to an annual resolution promoted by Cuba to denounce the sanctions regime that Washington has enforced since 1960 in pursuit of overturning the island’s communist political system.

I am not suggesting that the alleged corruption of Cuba’s political leadership is a minor issue: far from it. Yet it is absurd to devote most of a speech, in what is supposedly a solemn setting, to discussing, for example, that the Cuban president wears Hermès ties, checks the time on a Rolex, and signs documents with Montblanc pens. There are truths in Waltz’s remarks that are embarrassing and infuriating. The problem lies in how he builds upon them to distract attention and misinform. Ultimately, the ambassador’s own argument turns against itself.

After all, the Republican narrative, historically oriented toward hardline policies, rests on the claim that it is targeting the structure of the Cuban “regime.” But if, in the final analysis, the political elites allegedly continue to enjoy all the privileges, benefits, and luxuries that Waltz described, then what practical purpose does that policy serve? Because it is clearer than ever that it contributes enormously to worsening the suffering of ordinary Cubans.

This is the point that should be emphasized when discussing the United States’ role. One is left astonished listening to Waltz wonder how his country became Cuba’s leading supplier of fuel, fuel that benefits wealthy private actors. He invokes the existence of trade flows from the United States to Cuba to deny the existence of what is, in fact, the most powerful sanctions regime Washington has imposed on any country, a fact acknowledged even by OFAC. These commercial exchanges take place through general and specific licenses granted in certain sectors of the economy, once again privileging the private sector.

For Waltz, the key point is that nearly $880 million worth of goods had been shipped by August of this year. Yet this highlights a fundamental difference in perspective. The important issue is not merely the volume of trade, but the very distribution of those goods within Cuban society. Or simply identifying where they ultimately end up. Apparently, it is enough to claim that goods go to the private sector, or that it distributes them, for the outcome to be considered positive. But between the suffocating intensification of American economic warfare and the failures and distortions of domestic policy, the reality is that ordinary Cubans are becoming ever more impoverished and increasingly left to fend for themselves. The same observation applies to Cuba’s so-called friends, assuming any genuine ones remain. Whether they have been intimidated or simply see no reason to bleed and place their necks on the guillotine to provide even a small amount of oxygen to the Cuban political process, and above all to the Cuban people, the result is much the same.

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Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and Redefining Terms

builderofcastles — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:51:57 GMT

Telling the truth is more important than ever.
Like, a matter of life and death important.

No, more important than that.
Not just your life, but humanity's future existence.

We are in a time, where all will be revealed.
Because, all NEEDS to be revealed in order for us to make accurate choices about what stays in our reality and what doesn't.

All of the futures stem from what we decide now.

"You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality"

And the consequences have been greatly increased.
So, if you lie, you are going to be exposed AND, the consequences will be severe. Like, destroying your life consequences.

Like the WOKEian got people fired by calling their target's employer.
Today, it will go like, they call the employer, and not only doesn't the guy get fired, the people who lied on the call will not be able to do business with that company, nor any of their partner companies.
Imagine that Amazonium doesn't deliver to you anymore.

Imagine that a WOKEian tries to shut down a conversation by saying, "You're a RashistPaedoNazi" and that instantly stops the argument/debate, and the WOKEian loses. And "She" will REEEEeeeee that "he" totally is a RashistPaedoNazi, and the people will respond, "His being a RashistPaedoNazi has no bearing on this debate. And, after this debate, we will look into your accusation of RashistPaedoNazi, and see if it does apply, and then we will investigate into you about how the accusation shows your deeper nature."

We will no longer tolerate low-IQ arguing strategies. Or basically, the grownups in the room will take over.

## Low IQ will become a serious label

This isn't what most people would think. It isn't going to devolve to "you stupid idiot", it is going to become something like a person with sub 85 IQ will be considered a child. Never a grownup, even if they are old.

And the grownups are the ones who make decisions and are involved in discussing how to handle things.

People, right now, consider lower IQ as just being slower. There are even some people who believe that low IQ people are that way because they couldn't go to the best schools.

People talk about Calculus being hard, and not for everyone. However few recognize that doing things like being able to comprehend analogies requires a certain level of IQ. Comprehending generalizations a higher level of IQ.

If they cannot comprehend it, we cannot talk with them about it. We can only educate by rote.

In the future, this will not be used as a way of putting down people, but more about an honest evaluation of whether they can grok something. You know, some people cannot understand an engine, while mechanics deal with them all the time. We don't call non-mechanics stupid for not understanding internal combustion engines, we just tell them that they should take their car to a mechanic.

A bad example (and a reason people do not want to even look at IQ) is allowing people to vote. If a person cannot comprehend the 2nd order effects of a bill, they should not be able to vote on that bill. (I am looking at many of you congress-critters) Not because they aren't a good person, or that we are working to deny a subset of people, but simply because they cannot understand it. And if you cannot understand it, debate is wasted on them, and a vote should not be allowed to them.

We do this when limiting people to who can get a drivers license, but everyone freaks out when we talk about limiting voting by IQ.

(this is mostly because those mother WEFers want the idiots voting, because it is easy to brainwash them, and lead them to vote for whomever T.H.E.Y. want them to vote for.)

But, in the future, voting will be nowhere near the atrocity of what we allow today. People will be classified as an adult, by whether they can act and be responsible as an adult. Not by their age. (only adults vote)

Further, there will be no popular vote. It will be more like, each tribe/small community/"family" has a vote. And the vote will be used to say whether a person is capable of being an advisor. Not whether the person will be THE LEADER. (president, governor, emperor…)

## We do not expect babies to build flying saucers

We do not expect everyone to become rocket scientists. (we will give up that shit for flying saucers) And we will not expect everyone to grow up and become an adult.

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I do not care about the midterm elections

beelzebubba — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:16:21 GMT

I really cannot stand what politics has become. I recall once when I was in college and there was a race that was meant to be close, I honestly don't remember which one it was, I think Clinton was involved, and we were just inundated with advertising all day, every day. The mudslinging was getting nasty and every time you opened your mailbox (a physical one, it was a while ago) there would be some flyer from some PAC or another.

North Carolina was considered a battleground state at the time (I think it still is) and our vote all of a sudden was the most important in the world, even though the government doesn't really pay all that much attention to us the other 90% of the time.

Then we had the very courageous door-to-door volunteers and people that would approach you in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Many of these people would be sternly told, with a gun in the background, to get the hell off of the property. I didn't go that far. I was polite but whoever it was at my door I just told them I am voting for the other guy. It doesn't matter who the candidates are ya'll, I just want to be left alone.

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If the national news bothers to talk about it at all they will mention Roy Cooper vs. Michael Whatley as being some sort of super-important race that will control the world of something much more critical than it actually is. Depending on the lean of the publication in question they try to make it sound like this is a close race but it is NOT. While Cooper is a Democrat he was the governor of North Carolina despite the fact that the conservative population tends to win in NC. He was never nearly voted out of that job either and concluded his max amount of terms that he was allowed to have. People were ok with him because despite the D next to his name, he didn't try to turn this state into California or Vermont. I dare say that he may actually be a decent human being. Even during Covid when conservative counties, like my own, were intentionally violating state rulings, he never attempted to intervene and force people to his will. He did his job well.

Also I can't name a single fucking thing that actually changed during the 8 years he was in office as is often the case with politicians. I'm sure his personal wealth went up a great deal.

Anyway, this race is not close and much of this has to do with the fact that the Republicans chose a guy who looks and talks like he would find your wallet and then not return it to you. He seems like a slimy politician and he probably is one. He is going to lose, you can bank on that. The last I got information about this race against my will Cooper was 10 points ahead. you don't come back from that. This race was over months ago.

It isn't just this race that I don't care about though, it is all the rest of them as well. I loathe election season because we are just bombarded with this sort of information for half a year and then the big day happens and both sides complain for a month and then we get back to the business of the government accomplishing nearly nothing other than grandstanding.

If the Dems win the House and Senate, they are just going to bitch even more than they already do about Trump and all things are going to stagnate while the one side points the finger at the other. The R's have been in control of both for a while now and nothing meaningful has passed. Do you think it is going to be different once (and if) it flips? If it doesn't flip, isn't it reasonable to presume that things are just going to remain the same that they have been?

There are some local offices up for grabs this time around too and as usual, people aren't really paying any attention to them and they should. None of this circus affects your life as much as your local officials are going to be capable of doing, yet it seems that almost nobody even bothers with those elections.

I am going to vote if the line isn't too long, but I am not going to bother to vote for anything that involves someone outside of my county line. I really wish more people would pay attention to what is truly important rather than what their Instagram told them to believe is important.

People are winning the lottery by accident now! Amazing!

dumb-news — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:17:00 GMT

The definitely not advertisements because that would be illegal advertisements that the governments of various states are throwing out there continue. This is something that if you advertised in the same fashion some sheriff deputy would aggressively knock your door in and throw you in jail. But if the government does it, it's fine!

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Calling something "fake news" is just kind of boring these days and for the most part I like to reserve that term for the intentionally misleading headlines or outright stories that MSM will slant in a particular political direction.

This news story about the lottery is another animal altogether though and I don't think it is a coincidence that it comes from one of the poorest states in the Union with some really bad societal problems.

A lot of people like to be an apologist for Maryland and look up these figures about certain cherry picked portions of the state to suggest that it is not poor but if you take out the DC metro area, the nice (wealthy) parts of Baltimore, and a couple of places that may as well be gated communities, then you have a mostly very very poor state indeed. In fact, outside of the areas of Baltimore that politicians love to lump in with the rest of it, that city has one of the highest poverty rates (nearly 20%) of any major city in America.

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People there are being encouraged by their government to remain that way as well with fake stories like this one about a man who doesn't even think about playing the lottery but does so. He is so lackadaisical about his playing that he put a ticket in a sun visor and forgot about it and then later on discovered that he had won 30,000 in cold hard cash!

The fake story doesn't mention that if someone actually did win this prize they sky high tax bracket that a windfall like that would land you in and other state and federal taxes would result in you getting less than $20,000 in the end though. But let's not talk about that! People win the lottery SO FREQUENTLY that sometimes they don't even know that they won it! This is just because it is so common.

This winner is just as conscientious as apparently every other person who wins the lottery because the unnamed (that's convenient now isn't it?) winner plans to save the money in a bank (also a bad idea) and take his roommate out to dinner since his roommate drove him to pick up the prize.

Hold on a second. Didn't this exact fake story talk about how the winning ticket was hidden behind the ticket purchaser's visor on his own car? Now he doesn't have one anymore? Sheesh, these fools can even keep all their ducks in a row for a 400 word fake article!

Here's how all of these definitely not advertisements all work. They are in a state that has an, I guess, gullible population that plays the lottery a lot, they mention an area that is populated enough that it is actually a real place, they describe a very generic place to buy a lottery ticket that there are a lot of, like a 7-11, then they end the piece by talking about how the person who won has some extremely responsible plans for their winnings. Winners names are never mentioned but they are always blue-collar hardworking citizens of the highest order.

None of this can be confirmed and therefore it is the perfect lie for gullible people.

Americans lose approximately $35 BILLION per year on state lotteries, and this is before we factor in taxes which is the real winner in all of these things since you can basically count on at least 30% of it disappearing immediately to that even if you do win, and you wont.

Don't play the lottery folks. Do literally anything else with your money.

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The Universities Are Collapsing. What Happens To "Science" As They Do?

builderofcastles — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:26:36 GMT

The Ivory Towered Hierophants are the gate keepers of science.

They tell everyone that Newton, Einstein & Hawking are indisputable pillars who have defined science. Without them telling every young scientist that they must agree, or never graduate, what will happen to science?

Compared to Tesla or Kozyrev, those three are lame. Boring. Not at all interesting. They are better examples of conspiracy theories. Maybe they will be used as examples of how not to do science in the future.

But, seriously, if universities all close because of lack of funding/lack of students, how long before people start questioning Modern Materialistic Science? Will new burgeoning scientists all choose to drop Einstein, if there was competing videos about it on the webz? Or will it be a new war, where there are the Einstein-ists vs the Tesla-ites?

## What if you never heard the name Einstein?

Without science constantly saying "Einstein was a genius" would you even know about Einstein?

Einstein hasn't actually done anything. E=mc² is not testable. The tests we can do, without blowing ourselves to smithereens, are quite inconclusive. The margin of error is so large, that it could be E=mc³. And, who actually uses this formula. And quantum physicists are actually creating matter with layered light.

So, if you didn't know Einstein, would the video on the life of Einstein even come up on your feed?

But, lets say that there was some 5chan articles that says, "to be a real scientist, you need to choose between Einstein and Tesla". And so, people went to ThemTube and watched both videos… Tesla is really, really interesting. The things he invented, and the rumors of inventions is fascinating. Einstein is boring, unless you are into relativity… Einstein marrying his relative/cousin and wearing women's clothes.

If the new science student wasn't told about Einstein, would they ever find them?

## If they weren't told, which would they choose, Theory of Gravity or Electric Universe model?

Lets say we could perform an experiment. We get these new scientists, before they ever heard about the Theory of Gravity, or Newton. And then we got them to watch videos that explained the Theory of Gravity, and the Electric Universe model, which would they choose?

Well, Newton's theory doesn't accurately explain many phenomena that we measure. (neither does Einstein) However, it is more fully formed. It has decades of people building shit off of it.

The Electric Universe model is fairly new, and it explains all kinds of things that Newton's their doesn't. It is internally consistent. It is quite simple and straight forward. However, it does not have the body of work that the Theory of Gravity has.

So, which would a brand new, untainted, scientist choose?

## Why haven't you heard of Kozyrev?

Because Ivory Towered Hierophants really HATE what he did. He disproved so much of what scientists consider pat science, AND he made a bunch of experiments that are simple, straight forward, and almost anyone can perform them.

How dare someone make science simple!!! Modern Materialistic Science demands it to be complex. To keep the riff-raff out. "You just don't understand, because you are not smart enough"

Tesla and Kozyrev aren't talked about in science class. Basically, these two, have bodies of work that are truly fascinating. Their lives, stories and inventions are top notch. I could do a whole semester class on either one, and not run out of material.

Our only problem today is that there is so many lies and untruths muddying the waters. It is really difficult to get to the truth behind either one.

Truly, i find two opinions on Nikola Tesla. Either the person believes Tesla was sent to bring advanced technology to Earth, and was blocked by bad forces. Or the person believes Tesla was a fraudster extraordinaire. And, sadly, the truth is different than either story.

The Philadelphia Experiment is truly terrifying if any part of the rumors are correct. And that it is still classified, when science could be advanced by decades with accurate info, is truly sad.

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Count your blessings! Several childhood friends of mine have died from rogue illnesses

beelzebubba — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:19:21 GMT

Like most people, I sometimes get frustrated with the complications of day to day life and have to calm down and try to look at things as a big picture sort of thing and realize that the things that are really getting under my skin are rather minor things indeed.

not that long ago my family got a bit of a scare when a sibling of mine had to have brain surgery because of something strange that was discovered inside her skull after weeks of bad headaches and finally going to a doctor to check it out. She survived and is fine now, but there are a lot of ways that this could have ended very badly, that's for sure.

It can be a bit tough in USA, but if you have headaches that don't seem to have an explanation for a long period of time in a row you really NEED to get and get that checked out regardless of the expense. There ARE affordable options in almost all communities including my own where clinics operate at very low or no cost for diagnostics. Now the actual surgery can be another situation entirely of course, but there are programs to help with that as well - charities and what not. The medical Billing system in the United States if fucked though, I am not denying that but it is a conversation beyond the scope of what I want to talk about today.

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The blessings I am referring to instead are the ones about where you and I haven't come down with some horrible illness or even worse, one that we didn't catch in time and then it ends up ending us very quickly.

There is a story about a guy that I knew that was always a party guy. I would see him from time to time because he came from "legacy money" and even though he never really did much on his true own, his family money turned everything that he did into a mid-level success. he had his interests such as preserving marine life in the sounds and off the coast of North Carolina, and this was his only job. He was passionate about it, but there was no denying that if it wasn't for the family money, there is no way that this thing would have carried on for as long as it did. He partied his entire childhood, he partied his entire adulthood, but then after his daughter was born he decided that he wanted to stick around for a bit longer to see her grow up and he "flipped a switch" and completely changed his life. He stopped drinking, he started making much healthier choices as far as his food was concerned, and he was even out on long walks to get his steps on on a daily basis.

It was extremely admirable and things were really looking up for him and we were all excited for his fantastic change in direction. Then on vacation in the UK he started feeling drained out of nowhere and ended up going to a hospital while he was there and he died right there in a hospital in London. He had some sort of brain bleed and they couldn't get it under control.

We find is sadly ironic that this guy lived the life of a rockstar for 30 years and it wasn't until he tried to be healthy for the sake of his family that health problems got him.

next up we have a girl that I went to high school with and was a confidant of mine for all of those important 4 years. I will admit that I fancied her, but didn't have the balls to close that gap and I friend zoned myself pretty hard with this one. I accepted it though and we remained friends and stayed in touch occasionally seeing one another on holidays. She was a very accomplished signer and would perform "O Holy Night" at church every Christmas. It was like hearing an angel sing. She wasn't someone who stood out in the choir, she was something else entirely. She was incredible.

That was the one time of year my family went to church. I think that was true for almost all the other people that were there as well. We endured the rest of the service for the "halftime show."

She had recently gotten married and just had a baby when one day she was complaining about bad headaches. Then, just like my sister and the other two, she finally relented and went to the doctor to discover that she too had a brain bleed of sorts and just like my friend in the UK, they couldn't bring her back. She died that day and her daughter was less than a year old at the time.

There was no other indication of anything being wrong with her. She wasn't all that healthy in high school but beyond that she had been especially when she knew she had a child on the way. The photos I saw of her with her baby were the photos of pure joy and just a few months later her life was cut abruptly short before she made it to 40 years on this planet.

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