I am uploading this because that's EXACTLY what I saw back in 1989 here in Brisbane....many years ago. And it's kinda personally interesting for me that these orbs are commonly now all over the US and other parts of the world. And clearly associated with these drones??!!?? They look like flashing stars moving around but when viewed with binoculars you can see they're orbs and basically balls of energy. So let me ask if they're 'man-made' how come we had them back in 1989? And how come some orbs can now morph into drones? And if man-made is this now the beginning of the long anticipated 'fake alien invasion'?? Not 'angels' as the video says sorry...or 'demons' as others say - sorry that's BS.

Sometimes you see something so mind-boggling you have to take a minute to digest what just happened in your brain. Be prepared to take that moment while watching these videos.Real estate investor and TikTok user Tom Cruz shared two (now deleted) videos explaining the spreadsheets he and his friends use to plan vacations. They call it the "Forbes List" and it's...well...something. Watch the first one, kindly posted by @Radio_Reem on X: What in the wealth is thispic.twitter.com/NTPTKT5CZG — Karim Alammuri (@Karim Alammuri) 1629292830 So, "Broke Bobby" makes $125,000 a year. There's that.How about the fact that his guy has more than zero friends who budget $80,000 for a 3-day getaway? Y'all, I wouldn't know how to spend $80,000 in three days if you paid me to. Especially if we're talking about a trip with friends where we're all splitting the cost. Like what does this even look like? Are they flying in private jets that burn dollar bills as fuel? Are they bathing in hot tubs full of cocaine? I genuinely don't get it.But that's not even the full spreadsheet. It might make sense if this guy was just rich, had always been rich, and only knew rich people, therefore making have a friend group made up of multiple millionaires his norm. Surely that's the reality for some born into the 1%.But that's not the case here. Though the video is no longer gracing TikTok, Cruz shared that he also has a "Welfare 10 List." He says this group of friends who make less than $100K a year call themselves that, and perhaps that's true. (If I were a part of this group, I might call myself a welfare case too because everything's relative and some of these dudes spend more in an hour of vacation than I spend on my mortgage each month.)To be crystal clear, the top 5 friends on the "Forbes List" are willing to spend more than double what the guy at the bottom of the "Welfare 10 List "makes per year on a 3-day guy's trip. I don't know what to do with this information.It's like we can see our society's wealth gap all laid out nice and neatly in a spreadsheet, only these people aren't even the uber-wealthy and uber-poor. This is just the range of this one guy's friends.I have nothing against people who build success and wealth for themselves, and even $5 million per year is hardly obscenely wealthy by billionaire standards. But Cruz says he's known most of his "welfare" friends since college, which presumably means most of those guys have college degrees and are making a pittance in comparison with the "Forbes List." One could claim the guy making $5 million a year just works harder, but does he really work 100 times harder than the guy making $50,000? Doubt it.Money makes money, and after a certain threshold of wealth or income, it's actually quite easy to get and stay rich without actually "earning" more money (assuming you're reasonably wise and responsible). So, maybe the guys who are willing to shell out $125,000 for a week-long trip should offer to pay the travel expenses of the friends they "hang out with regardless of income" who don't even make that in a year, since that's probably just the interest they're making on their wealth anyway.But what do I know? This is like an entirely different world to me and probably 99+% of Americans, as evidenced by some of the responses.Naturally, there will be a range of incomes in any group of people, but 1) most of us don't actually know how much our friends make, and 2) even fewer of us make spreadsheets with that information in order to rank our friends and figure out who can go on which vacations.People are just endlessly fascinating. That's all I've got.This article originally appeared three years ago.

The Friday, December 13, 2024, episode of “Jeopardy!” with host Ken Jennings featured returning one-day champion Ashley Chan, a publicist from Lewisville, Texas, taking on Ram Murali, a writer originally from London, England, and Carla Winston, a political scientist from Baltimore, Maryland. The most memorable question of the night stumped all three contestants and not one buzzed in with an answer.The interesting thing is that the question was about a president who shot and killed someone under dubious circumstances. It’s proof that no matter how strange American politics feels in 2024, unscrupulous characters have always been vying for positions of power. The triple stumper clue was for $400 in U.S. Presidents category: “An 1806 duel involving this future president resulted in the death of Charles Dickinson.”(Can you hear the “Jeopardy!” theme song playing in your head right now?)The answer: “Who was Andrew Jackson?”Some “Jeopardy!” superfans couldn’t believe no one got the answer right. “Surprised nobody got the Andrew Jackson clue,” a Redditor wrote on the Jeopardy! Subforum. “Yes, me too and I'm pretty sure Andrew Jackson's violent history has been a ‘Jeopardy!’ question in other episodes.”#Jeopardy contests should go with Andrew Jackson if there's a clue about a President killing someone face-to-face.— James (@JamesAMcGhee) December 14, 2024 Chan held the lead throughout the episode, with a slight lead over Murali going into the Final Jeopardy! round. Both contestants missed the final question, with Winston getting it right. But Chan scraped away a victory after underbetting on the final clue, winning for her second consecutive time.Ashley returns to #Jeopardy! on Monday. She is the 1198th contestant to cross over $25000. pic.twitter.com/EQRGswx9pR— Mr. David (@NewWavidDavid) December 15, 2024 Who did Andrew Jackson kill in a duel?The duel in question was called in 1806 after tensions mounted between Jackson, a lawyer who had served in Tennessee’s senate and his rival, Dickinson. Dickinson made some offensive comments about Jackson’s wife, Rachel, and accused him of cheating on a horse bet. Rachel and Jackson had been seeing each other while she was separated from her husband. The couple eloped and married in 1793, but the divorce wasn’t final yet. After the divorce made it through the courts, the couple was officially married in 1794.Dickinson also publicly called Jackson a “scoundrel and a coward.” This was the last straw and Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel on May 30, 1806, on the Jeff Burr farm in Kentucky. Dickinson’s first bullet hit Jackson in the chest. Jackson’s first shot misfired, and according to the rules of engagement, Jackson should not have been allowed to refire. However, he did anyway and killed Dickinson. Jackson’s wounds weren’t fatal, but he would struggle with complications from the gun shot throughout the rest of his life.Even though Jackson broke the rules of engagement, he was not tried for murder and went on to be elected president in 1829 and served two terms, ending in 1837. Jackson is known for being a populist who reshaped politics by founding the Democratic Party. He also signed the controversial Indian Removal Act, which led to the tragic Trail of Tears in which over 6,000 native Americans died. Jackson died in June 1845.

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