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Letting Go of the Expectation of How Things “Should” Be

We all have a script in our heads, a narrative of how life “should” unfold. It whispers expectations about relationships, careers, and even the weather.

But clinging to this script can be a recipe for disappointment. The truth is, life rarely follows a predetermined path, and the magic often happens in the detours.

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17 Fascinating Photos You Must See – Ned Hardy

This New iPhone iOS 17.3 Feature Makes It Much Harder for Thieves to Ruin Your Life – NY Times

The quietest, lightest, and most powerful generator that even exceeded its listed capabilities. A life saver in case of an outage – Amazon

Don’t Let the Boeing Headlines Fool You. Air Travel Is Really Very Safe – Wired

10 Countries With the Best Work-Life Balance – Traveler

11 Things Your Cleaning Person Wants to Tell You—But Won’t – Domino

How the Weirdest (and Best) Video Game Soundtrack of the Century Came to Be – Inverse

The drug pilots take to stay awake – BBC

George Lucas Backs Disney and Bob Iger in Proxy Fight: “Creating Magic Is Not for Amateurs” – Hollywood Reporter

Dude with zero street smarts gets robbed on stream at 3am in Los Angeles – Reddit

The Crow’s Original Director Denounces Upcoming Remake – Consequence

This Is What It Would Look like If Historical Figures Took Selfies – Ned Hardy

This is a basic laser printer that connects to Wi-Fi, works reliably, and lasts ages on a single toner cartridge. It’s a printer that just prints without all the hassles – Amazon

The Billionaire Taking on Disney Just Wants Some Respect – DNYUZ

 I Tried Scraping My Tongue for Two Weeks And My Breath Has Never Been – HUM Nutrition

Willem Dafoe Makes The Internet Fall In Love With Him All Over Again During A Street Style Check – TikTok

This Tech May Stop High Beams From Blinding You at Night – Daily Beast

They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives – Washington Post

Beijing says Evergrande and its tycoon founder committed a $78 billion fraud. That would rank it as one of the biggest financial frauds ever – Insider

Inside The Lurid History Of Ortolan, The French Delicacy That’s So Tasty It’s Illegal – All That’s Interesting

 

16 Homeowners Reveal Things They Wish They Knew Before Buying Their First House

1. Get the sewage pipe scoped. I wish I would have down that with my first house. If I would have known that, I would have never bought the house. Tree roots were growing into the sewer pipe. Every 6 months or so we would have the sewer pipe back up and had to call a plumber out on an emergency call. It was advised to us that we should probably replace the sewage pipe with a PVC pipe. This would involve tearing up the concrete in the basement and digging out the front yard to get access to the pipe. It was going to cost a lot of money. We eventually moved (for those wondering, we did disclose that information to the buyer and they were ok with that for whatever reason).

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This Has Squatter Written All over It!

From the ad, if the individual were to seek to become a squatter after being invited into the home under the pretense of house sitting, they could potentially take advantage of the situation by:

  1. Establishing residency: They might begin to receive mail at the address, use it as their address for identification purposes, and generally establish a presence that might appear legitimate to outsiders.
  2. Refusing to leave: After the agreed house sitting period is over, they could simply refuse to vacate the property.
  3. Exploiting legal protections: Depending on local laws, once someone has established residency, even illegally, there may be a formal eviction process that the owner must go through to remove the individual, which can be time-consuming and costly.

 

17 Welders Reveal How Much They Make

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1. My background is welding but I branched out and learned more trade skills. I make $45 an hour with pretty much unlimited overtime. I know I’m far above average in pay. I was making $50k for a couple years. That’s pretty normal for average welders doing shop and fab work.

Unless you are willing to endanger your life or be moving around constantly with no job security you probably won’t be making 100k a year.

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