What's happening at Starbase, Texas is truly incredible.
Deep in south Texas, Musk and his team have pulled in some of the most brilliant people on Earth to make space travel as normal and boring as air travel.
The energy there is just insane. It feels like a modern day Manhattan project, but built for peace not war.
The building pictured below is the actual factory where they build Starship, like a car factory for spaceships. You probably wouldn't have guessed it, since it looks like a nice office building. Most factories are cold and industrial but Starfactory feels warm, clean, with design touches that make you feel like you're in Silicon Valley.
There's something really special happening here. I envy everyone who gets to work here and live here. Most people never get a chance to devote themselves to something so meaningful, something that potentially bends the river of human history. It kind of feels like a college town, except everyone's building spaceships instead of going to class.
显示更多
My mom fed a homeless man behind our house for 20 years.
Three meals a day, even when we couldn’t afford electricity.
I hated her for it.
The day after her funeral, that same man took my hands, looked me straight in the eyes, and said:
“Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
I honestly had no idea what he was talking about.
For 20 years, this man had lived in a makeshift shelter behind our rental house.
My mom brought him breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Every single day.
And the crazy thing was, we were poor too.
My sneakers had tape covering the holes. Sometimes we struggled to pay our bills, and there were days when we couldn’t even afford electricity.
But somehow, my mother always found enough food to feed him.
I never understood it.
I remember coming home two days before Christmas and finding a yellow eviction notice taped to our front door.
We were struggling to keep a roof over our heads, yet my mother was still preparing three meals a day for a stranger.
That night, I finally lost my temper.
Me: “Maybe if you stopped feeding strangers, we wouldn’t live like this!”
My mom turned around so quickly that I knew I had crossed a line.
Mom: “Don’t you ever DARE say that again.”
I had never seen her that furious before.
I didn’t understand why she was defending him so strongly when her own child was going without things.
I moved out when I turned 18.
We fought less after that, mostly because I stopped asking questions.
But the man stayed.
Year after year, his little shelter remained behind our house, and my mother continued feeding him.
Then my mom got sick.
Cancer made her small.
She became quiet, and it was the kind of quiet that scares you because you know something terrible is happening.
Two weeks before she died, she reached out and grabbed my wrist.
Her grip was so weak that it broke my heart.
Mom: “Promise me you’ll keep feeding him.”
I looked at her.
Honestly, I wanted to say no.
I wanted to ask why she was still worrying about that man when she was the one who needed help.
But you don’t lie to a dying mother.
So I promised.
My mom eventually passed away.
The day after her funeral, I prepared the best meal I could, put it on a plate, covered it with foil, and drove to her house.
I had promised her I would keep feeding him.
But when I got there, the man was gone.
His shelter had been completely cleared out.
Everything was gone.
The ground had even been swept clean, as if those 20 years had never happened.
I stood there holding the warm plate, wondering where he could have gone.
Then I noticed something.
A black SUV was parked at the curb.
Standing beside it was a man wearing an expensive wool coat.
He was clean-shaven, well-dressed, and looked nothing like the homeless man I had known for 20 years.
But the thing that caught my attention was what he was holding.
My mother’s old silver locket.
The same locket she had told me she lost when I was eight years old.
He looked at me and said:
Man: “I thought you wouldn’t come.”
I stared at him.
Me: “Wait… is that you? What’s going on?”
He smiled, but his expression was unsteady.
His eyes were already filling with tears.
Man: “Your mom hid something from you.”
I felt my stomach tighten.
Me: “What did she hide?”
He looked at the plate in my hands before responding.
Man: “Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
My blood went cold.
Me: “Silent about what?”
He gently shook his head.
Man: “Sit down. You shouldn’t hear this standing in the cold.”
We sat on the front steps.
The plate was still warm between us.
He turned my mother’s silver locket over in his palm as though it might break.
Then he began telling me something I never could have imagined.
Man: “My real name is Vernon Hale. Before all this, I owned a company. I had a big house in Connecticut, a wife, and a little girl. My daughter was six years old.”
I just stared at him.
显示更多
My biggest giveaway yet! 🎁
1 $BTC ($69,000) will be shared between 25 winners
Like this post, comment “ME” and you should follow
@coldtrz
Yes, its for real. Ends in 24 hours ⏰
显示更多
MY PAYCHECK WAS SUPPOSED TO BE $4,000. INSTEAD, $50,000 HIT MY BANK ACCOUNT.
I reported it to HR the next morning.
Twenty minutes later, the CEO walked into the office, locked the door and said something that made my blood run cold.
"I was beginning to think nobody here was honest."
I've worked for this company for six years. My regular paycheck is $4,000. So when I checked my banking app on payday and saw a $50,000 direct deposit, I knew something was wrong.
I didn't spend it.
I didn't transfer it.
I didn't even tell my coworkers.
The next morning, I walked straight into HR.
ME: "I think there's been a payroll mistake."
HR: "What kind of mistake?"
ME: "My paycheck was $50,000."
She stopped typing.
HR: "How much?"
ME: "$50,000. My usual paycheck is $4,000."
She stared at me for several seconds.
HR: "Have you moved any of it?"
ME: "No."
HR: "Not even a small amount?"
ME: "It's not my money. Why would I touch it?"
She slowly closed her laptop.
Then she asked a question I wasn't expecting.
HR: "Did you receive a notification about the payment?"
ME: "Of course. That's how I noticed it."
She picked up her phone and made a call.
I couldn't hear the person on the other end, but I heard her say:
"He's here. And he hasn't touched it."
She ended the call.
ME: "What's going on?"
HR: "How much do you know about the company's payroll system?"
ME: "Nothing beyond checking my paycheck."
She stood up, walked to the office door and closed it.
HR: "Listen. You're not the first person to receive that amount."
My stomach tightened.
ME: "What do you mean?"
She turned her computer towards me.
There were eleven employees on a payroll report.
Every single one had received a $50,000 payment.
ME: "Eleven people?"
HR: "Yes. You're the only one who hasn't moved the money."
ME: "What happened to the others?"
Before she could answer, someone knocked.
Two firm knocks.
Her face changed.
Then a man's voice came from outside.
"Open the door. We need to talk about those eleven payments."
It was the CEO.
🧵
显示更多
In traditional Chinese culture, the plum blossom is admired for its ability to bloom in the cold of winter, making it a powerful symbol of resilience, strength, and perseverance.
Now, let's take a moment to enjoy soprano Geng Haolan performing “Plum Blossoms” with the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra.
May the beauty of the plum blossom—and the music inspired by it—remind us that even through life’s coldest seasons, we can continue to stand strong and bloom.
=============
☘️ Watch more videos:
☘️ Watch live:
显示更多
❄️ What makes NICE1® different from traditional ice?
Dr. Eric McCarty demonstrates how NICE1® combines cold + compression in an iceless system.
No bags of ice. No constant refilling. Less hassle.
Recovery technology designed to fit the patient’s routine. 💪
#
SportsMedicine#
显示更多
tired, COLD, and overstimulated asf on the boat 😭
Clavicular cold approached Sky Bri and told her his 6.75 by 5.5 measurements. Sky started smiling and looked like she wanted to take Clav home for the night.
🆕 This suspected second-generation planet has solved a Hubble cold case 🕵️♂️
Since 1999, mysterious chemical signatures from a white dwarf, HS 0209+0832, have sat in the Hubble archive. Now, sleuthing astronomers have revealed unusual chemical abundances, including of the element niobium. 1/3
显示更多