Used Up

A 32-year-old single mother of three daughters clocked in at FedEx and decided to use her time on the clock to send out an SOS for a millionaire boyfriend. She poured her heart out on TikTok, saying she wants someone to come home to, who will treat her kids well and be a true 50/50 partner. The problem is the internet immediately did the math on her situation and started letting her know why she can’t find the man she is looking for. If you are interested, you can see the video pitch here. (It’s the only linkable version I could find)

A 32 year old mother of three kids from at least two different fathers, whose looks aren’t any better than a 5 and is covered in tattoos isn’t very hard to find. In short, there are a million or more women out there just like her, who squandered what value they had when they decided to get creampied by multiple men and had a few kids. This woman needs to take a realistic view of what she is offering in comparison to what she wants to receive in this deal. What does she offer?

  • Looks? No. She is below average in that department, and her looks will get worse as she ages.
  • She is obviously broke, so there is no financial incentive.
  • Brains, skill, scintillating conversation? Likely not.

In short, she doesn’t bring much to the table. The most positive thing I can say about her is a potential man knows she isn’t a tranny, which is a rather low bar to clear. There are millions of women out there who are in a better position to find a man. Now what is she looking for?

  • A millionaire who will support her and the three kids she has with other men.
  • A partner who will share everything with her. Again, every woman wants this.
  • I’m betting she wants looks, athleticism, and a man at least 6 feet tall.
  • I’m guessing here, but I would assume no older than 50 years old.

There are about 1,000 men in the entire nation who would fit these requirements. She’s looking for men who are far beyond her ability to snare. That’s why her dating experiences are so poor. She can no longer use sex appeal to get men, and no one with real money is going to see any real value in taking care of other men’s kids. (especially men in the plural)

One logical tension is also worth noting: wanting an equal partnership and wanting someone to take care of her and three children are compatible only if “take care of” means mutual support. If it means he must carry most of the financial responsibility, then it is no longer an equal-partner criterion—and the candidate pool would likely be even smaller. Now imagine how many women who are out there just like her, all competing for these men. Likely millions. Snowballs in hell have a better chance than this middle aged, average looking woman with the stretched out equipment.

Women seem to think that this isn’t a competition. All of them have been conditioned to think the possession of a vagina is enough. Women like this have reduced relationships to a straight up barter exchange, but bring nothing to the table with which to trade. They have no personalities and spent their youth and good looks by jumping into bed after bed, and now are saddled with the offspring of several of those males.

This woman has no chance whatsoever of finding this tall, good looking millionaire who will share everything equally, because she has nothing to offer that will make this an equal relationship. She already has lost anything she might have had that makes her valuable in the small dating market she finds herself in.

She might as well have made a video asking for a man who has invented a time machine, so she could go back in time and tell herself to take some birth control pills.

EDITED TO ADD:

Even if she isn’t going to hold to wanting a millionaire, she still has the extreme requirement of asking her Prince Charming to raise someone else’s kids. That’s tough. I dated a woman with kids once. It was a nightmare. I had to deal with her, and every time a kid did something fucked up and you said something, she would remind me that she was the parent, not me. Then I had to deal with this other dude coming around all of the time, a dud I knew she was attracted to, or she wouldn’t have had kids with him.

I swore I would never do it again.

Grades

Read this, and I will give my comments and experiences after:

There are people in the comments (you can click on it to read them yourself) who say giving a 0% for zero effort creates a hole that a child can’t dig out of and will cause the student to stop trying, therefore a 50% is better because it’s easier for the student to dig out of the hole.

Still others argue how allowing a student to later make up a missed assignment for half credit is better.

Let me explain my experience and why both positions are wrong:

The purpose of teaching is to ensure that the student masters the material the state says needs to be learned in that course, not simply make students do assignments. You can read the standards for every course taught in Florida by clicking here. As an example, let’s look at a course I taught- High School Biology. My students were all 15 years old or older, as Bio is taught in the 10th grade. When I was teaching the course, there were 88 standards the student had to meet by the end of the year. Some were relatively easy, requiring a day or so of class. For example:

SC.912.L.14.4: Compare and contrast structure and function of various types of microscopes.

For that one, we would spend one class period with microscopes, learning the parts. The students would have worksheets where they would label the parts and their functions of various microscopes. Then we would use those microscopes in other class days complying with other standards like this one:

SC.912.L.14.2 Relate structure to function for the components of plant and animal cells. Explain the role of cell membranes as a highly selective barrier (passive and active transport).

In this assignment, which took a few days, we would learn the parts, then perform a lab where we would use various things do demonstrate selective permeability. We also would use those microscopes to view plant and animal cells, draw pictures of what they see, with an explanation and labeling of the various organelles they saw in the cells. You can see, if a student doesn’t master the microscope lesson, they won’t be able to learn anything in the cell lesson.

The course goes like that, with things learned early in the year being used as a base for learning later in the year. The process is called scaffolding. The early lessons are the scaffold upon which the later lessons are built.

I tried other methods, including letting students make up assignments. Let me tell you how that turns out, but first I have to explain my grading process.

Each semester would see us in class for 90 days, divided into two 9 week grading periods. I gave students a grade every single day. That grade was based upon the assignment they did that day to prove mastery. The assignments could be one of three categories: Classwork, Labs, and Quizzes/Exams. They were weighted. Quizzes and tests were worth about 40% of the grade, Labs about 20% of the grade, and Classwork about 40% of the grade. Class assignments were done in class. If the student didn’t finish them during class, they became homework and were due in 3 days. After that third day, the value of the assignment dropped by 10% per day, until it was 5 class days late, then it was a zero. That gives each student 8 class days to complete an assignment for at least partial credit, almost two weeks.

At the end of the each 9 week grading period, the student would have approximately 4 Quiz/Exam grades, 4 Labs, and about 35 Class assignments. Doing the math:

  • a class assignment was worth a little more than 1% of your grade.
  • Each test was worth about 10% of your grade, and
  • Each lab was worth about 5% of your grade.

So how did students handle this? The gradebooks are all electronic, and the students can see their grades. Many of them would wait until the end of the grading period to see what their grade was, then beg to turn in assignments from weeks ago, or beg for “extra credit” so they could fix their grades. This completely destroys the structure of the learning and the scaffolding. They learn nothing because they didn’t do anything.

I would have students who failed every test, did the labs so poorly they received half credit, and did none of the class assignments. Their grade would be sitting at a 35%, and they would expect to be permitted to do all of the missing assignments during the last three days of the grading period. In the classes with a lot of low performing students, each of them would expect to be able to turn in 15 or 20 late assignments in an attempt to bring that 35% up to a C. Even if I allowed it, it isn’t possible to bring a 35% up to a 70%.

Meanwhile, I have 130 students whose grades must all be done and entered before report cards are printed. That means I have to put comments in for every student. I have to make sure all of the grades are entered and are correct. I also have to plan out the lessons and order lab supplies for the coming grade period, and I only have one teacher workday in which to do so. I didn’t have time to grade over 1,000 late assignments and still have everyone’s stuff done in time. So the answer was no.

Then the parents would start complaining. They would say they had no idea their kid was doing to poorly. They would expect weekly phone calls. I didn’t do that. The gradebook, as I said, is online. Log in and track your child’s progress. I enter grades every single day for 130 students. I had the electronic gradebook setup to automatically email a progress report to the parents of any child with less than an 80% each Friday. I don’t have time to call their parents each week. The parents would respond, telling me they didn’t read the emails. You get the point- anything to avoid their kid having to take responsibility.

So the administrators enacted a rule. If a teacher had more than 15% of their class receive a D or an F, the teacher had to have a remedial meeting with admin to explain what they were going to do to improve students’ grades. One year, half of my students had a D or an F. I was threatened with my job if m ore students didn’t pass. So what does any rational person do? They give out free grades. That’s how you get students headed to college as honor roll students who can’t read.

So why were so many students failing? Attendance.

  • more than 75% of my students are chronically absent. Chronically absent means that a student is not in school more than ten percent of the time.
  • More than a third of my students miss more than half of class time.
  • One in ten of my students miss three quarters or more of school hours.
  • In a 180 day school year, I had more than one student who were absent over 100 days.
  • Out of 180 school days, the median number of absent days is 23 for my 130 students. 

That’s right- half of my students missed a day every other week. How can anyone master that material if they are gone one day out of every nine? What happens when half of them are doing it?

The problem is schools receive funding based upon how many of them graduate and how they do on state testing. This places a lot of pressure on schools to force teachers into giving passing grades. When test scores start to drop from the lack of rigor, the schools fall back on the standby.

Special Ed.

Funding is tied to those benchmarks we talked about earlier. Special Ed students don’t have to meet them. The incentive here is to make as many kids special ed as possible. It needs to be done because not only do special ed kids bring increased funding per student, but missing the testing benchmarks means less money, unless the student is special ed. The law is called Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It says that it is unfair and discriminatory to treat students with intellectual disabilities (what used to be referred to as retarded) the same as other students. So this law was passed to make things more equitable. (Not equal, which is the same standard, but equitable, meaning that they have the same outcome.)

School funding for special education students says that they have to be permitted to pass, and that their diploma and transcript can’t say a thing about the fact that they were special Ed, or that they were passed without meeting benchmarks. In fact, my school district even had a policy stating that non-English speaking students couldn’t receive anything less than a C.

When I was put in charge of teaching Biology at my school, I was given 6 classes of it. The teacher who had been teaching that schedule before me had been fired. I was told that the school’s goal was to have half of the students pass the standardized test on Biology at the end of the year. They told me that they didn’t expect me to hit that goal the first year, but were hoping I could do it by year three. At the end of that first year, 67% of my students hit the benchmark. My evaluation? Meets expectations (in other words, average). Why was that? Because almost a quarter of my students had below a C. (Remember the limit was 15%) I countered by pointing out that my grades were an accurate reflection of my students’ abilities. That didn’t matter.

The entire education system in this nation is broken. I know- I was teaching in it for more than 6 years. It isn’t just the teachers. Administrators don’t care about the kids who are discipline problems, so they don’t do anything about it. The parents and the teachers also play a huge role in the suckage that is our school system.

The list is of reasons for the failure is long-

  • There are kids who never come to school. You can’t make them.
  • Their parents don’t care, and no one is prosecuted for truancy.
  • Many parents who claim to “home school” don’t actually bother to teach the kids anything.
  • Students who do come to school and care, largely are cheating their way through school using apps, Google searches, and other cheats. That is how the girl who is the subject of this post made it- she cheated using apps.

The truth is that not every kid is smart enough for college. Not every kid is suited for school. A school that has a student for less than 1100 hours a year can’t fix 18 years of around the clock bad parenting coupled with the handicap of losing the genetic lottery. All of the programs in the world won’t turn a student with a 75 IQ and no motivation into a scholastically successful person. 

We waste a lot of time and effort on trying educate kids who don’t want to learn, and on students with disabilities that prevent them from ever being more than simple manual laborers. There should be an exam at the end of the year when a student turns 15 (9th grade). Those who excel go to a college prep high school, students who show aptitude for it go to vocational school, students who fail are done and can go get a job. If you or your parents want to stay in school after you have failed the exam, you can pay for it yourself and go to private school. Let’s stop wasting money trying to prove that every child has the same mental aptitude. You don’t need to know calculus to run a cash register or push a broom.

Even the students who were destined for college had their own ways to cheat the system. For the first couple of years that I was teaching, I taught advanced courses like Chemistry and Physics. The courses I taught allowed a student to take an exam after it concluded, and if they scored high enough on that exam, they would receive college credit for the course. In other words, a college level class being taught at the high school level. Students hated the fact that my course was difficult and constantly complained because they were getting Bs instead of As. Meanwhile, school administrators wanted my course to be both more rigorous and easier for students to receive an A.

Educating a child is a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and administrators. If any one of those links fails to do their job, the effort will fail and all of the money spent will have been wasted. Let’s stop spending gobs of money to get the end result where a child receives an honors diploma and still can’t read or write. After six years of teaching, I gave it up as a waste of time and went back to health care.

Sirius

I don’t like broadcast radio. Too many commercials. In an hour of listening, you hear 6 to 10 songs, and it’s difficult to find a channel that plays music you listen to that comes in clearly. I’m an adult, I don’t need my songs changed. Radio versions of songs sometimes play with entire verses removed. For example, Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind has an entire section of the song edited out.

For more than 20 years, I have maintained a SiriusXM account. I liked it because it played uncensored songs. The big draw for them was Howard Stern, but I never found him to be entertaining in the least. I think I listened to his show twice. Here is how his show typically goes:

  • Stern: Here is my guest, Miss Cherry Forever. Hi Cherry. Nice tits.
  • Cherry: Thanks.
  • Stern: Can I see them.
  • Cherry: Sure.
  • Stern: Oh, those are awesome.

Stupid. It’s radio, I can’t see them or her, so why do I care about this juvenile conversation? The dude is more than 70 years old, and isn’t entertaining at all. It’s like listening to your grandfather hit on a 20 year old. Creepy and childish.

For music, I started listening to iHeart radio through their app and using Android Auto in the car a few years ago. The only reason I maintained a subscription was because I liked the talk radio on the Patriot channel. That channel was good, but many shows I enjoyed have been removed.

  • The Mike Church show was one I enjoyed. They replaced it with Breitbart news, which is a complete snooze fest. It’s like listening to Conservative NPR and is frankly boring.
  • There is Sean Hannity, but that guy comes across as a phony to me, and his show is just pandering.
  • I used to find Mark Levin entertaining, but haven’t listened to his show in years.
  • Stacy on the Right is the DEI version that lets the channel have a black woman on the air.
  • The only show I enjoy now is The Wilkow Majority.

Sirius was $4 a month when I began listening. Then it went to $9. Now, because we have two cars, it is costing over $50 a month. My cable TV provider doesn’t charge me for each TV, neither does Netflix or any other company. I just can’t justify $50 a month to hear Andrew Wilkow. He was the only reason I stayed with Sirius for the past few years, and I just don’t want to keep on doing it at that cost.

So for the first time since about 2003 or so, I am without satellite radio. When I called to cancel, they tried to get me to stay at a monthly rate of $18 per car plus an extra fee for Internet listening. If anyone from SiriusXM happens to read this:

Your service is not so different from a hundred other streaming services. There is iHeart radio, Amazon music, Pandora, and a plethora of others. None of them charge $50 a month. You either have to offer real value over what those services offer, or you have to charge less. It’s not just you- I also dropped my Amazon music subscription, and they were charging me only $17 per month.

Murderer

Last week, Devin Rice got into an argument with Frederick Lytton at the Nashville U-Haul center where they worked. They were arguing over whose drink was on the counter. Lytton walked away. As he did, Rice shot him several times in the back. Jeff Lockridge, U-Haul’s manager of media and public relations, released a statement saying team members are not permitted to be armed at work. Man, that guy is in real trouble for violating company policy. Let’s take a look:

What pisses me off about this, is the liberals are using this as an indictment of all gun owners by listing him on their website as being “lost to gun violence” instead of saying what we all are thinking: he was lost to a violent negro who has zero impulse control, a company policy that doesn’t address anything, a legal system that allows blacks to get arrested time after time, and a completely collapsed black culture of broken families, crime, drugs, violence, and a lack of any respect for others.

76 Years

Teshon Gardner (23) raped a woman in her home at gunpoint, but that wasn’t depraved enough for him. When he saw pictures of the woman and her children on the wall, he realized the woman’s 12 year old daughter was also in the home, so he stopped his ongoing rape of the woman, searched the home, and found the 12 year old little girl. He then proceeded to rape both women and used his cell phone to record himself doing so.

He pled guilty to two counts of child molestation and for that, he received 76 years in prison. As a person in prison on “Chester” charges, he will have an interesting 76 years ahead of him. You may think that’s an adequate punishment. I don’t.

That girl, and to a lesser extent, her mother, have decades of life ahead of them, decades of reliving what this animal did to them. They received far worse than this animal ever did.

This dumbass pulled a gun and raped a woman before leaving her unsupervised to go looking for the child. Even if he *had* gotten the drop on her, she would have had time to retrieve a weapon and stop the attack on her daughter. When the cops arrived, what they should have found was a dead man with a gun in one hand, and his wet penis in the other.

When people say “you are your own first responder,” this is what we mean. Everyone has a choice. Do you want to arm yourself/ with a firearm and the skills to use it, or do you want to be a victim and have police show up and take a report of the crime after it has happened with the hope that they catch him?

Jury Duty

What would you say, if you happened to get jury duty on this case:

On December 17, 2015, Ronald Exantus broke into a Kentucky home, stabbed four members of the Tipton family while they slept, with 6 year old Logan dying from his stab wounds. This fucking animal stabbed the child so forcefully the knife used was bent, the tip broken. Police quickly arrested him. A jury later found Exantus not guilty by reason of insanity on murder and burglary charges and guilty but mentally ill on assault charges involving the surviving family members.

Ronald Exantus served 11 years, nine months and 18 days before being ruled as “cured,” and while being rehabilitated, he earned enough credit to be released. He was released July 29. This is not the case I am asking about. No one deserves the blame, except that murderer.

However, the Father has some blame to assume of his own. As I have said many times, a man’s duty is to his immediate family. One of the core tenets to being a man is the protection of the lives of those who have been placed in your care. The father left the door to the house unlocked, no alarm, no real means of slowing or stopping his family’s attacker. The animal who stabbed him, his two daughters, and killed his son. There is only one clear path for that man, and I support him.

“The judge and jury gave this monster a slap on the wrist while handing down a life sentence to my family,” Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, wrote on Facebook after Exantus’ release.

I agree. As the man who should have protected his family, Mr. Tipton failed them because he took no steps whatsoever to ensure their safety. He has had to live with that for over a decade. So what has he decided to do? What he should have done more than a decade ago.

Exantus was briefly released on mandatory reentry supervision in October 2025 before moving to Florida, where authorities said he violated the conditions of his supervision by failing to register as a convicted felon.

“I’ve had my talks with God cause I’m not afraid to tell you all, I told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man. I will kill him where he stands,” he previously told WKYT.

Don’t talk about it- do it. This is the only path forward. Had he done so, his child would be driving and thinking about college by now. Instead, he is dead, and this murderer is walking around a free man. That isn’t justice. My children are grown adults. However, if someone were to attack my wife, there would only be one way to deal with this.

I wouldn’t just wait and hope to cross paths with him, I would hunt this animal down. I would find him. Knowing that, I would remember that if Mr. Tipton were to happen to catch up to this man, and I found myself on the jury. So what would I do? I would make sure he didn’t spend a day in prison. If I could (which I know I couldn’t in this scenario), I would vote to pay him a reward for ridding us of this scum. There is only one way to make sure he doesn’t happen to go crazy and kill another child.

I have alarms. I am armed nearly all of the time. If someone happened to do that to my family, and I found myself in the position of having to watch him become a free man after murdering my wife or 6 year old child, I know what I would do.

The law is there to prevent vigilante justice and ensure the guilty receive a fair trial. That no longer the case. Our legal system is a farce and is no longer concerned with justice.

The Goalposts Won’t Hold Still

Let me get this straight- the new standard is, in order to be a woman, some people have to:

  • take hormones
  • get surgery, and
  • legally change their names.

That being the case, can we define WHICH people must to these things? Obviously, they mean anyone who isn’t a woman must do them. So how do we define what a woman is?

This idea of declaring for the WNBA draft isn’t new- I posited for this very idea five years ago. I’m just glad someone finally took this insanity to its logical conclusion.

The left is incensed because up until now, we have been led to believe that a woman is anyone who says they are, and if we somehow misgender someone, use the incorrect pronouns in referring to them, or don’t believe they are who they say they are, we have committed a violent act rooted in hate. Remember Chud the Builder? Mean words are violence and justify a physical defense.

Sure, you have a 1st Amendment right to Free Speech, guaranteed by the US Constitution, but if someone attacks you because they don’t like your speech, that’s your fault, and if you defend yourself with the 2nd Amendment you belong in prison.

We were told by the lefty press how Florida can’t tell tranny bars that it is illegal to have drag shows in front of kids because it is a limit on free speech. (As a side note, when I posted “Then how is it illegal for me to bring an 8 year old to Rachel’s?”(a local strip bar) that comment was deleted as “violating community standards”)

In 2022, the liberal members of the medical profession want the DOJ to to “investigate and prosecute” Americans who question anyone declaring their transgender ideology online. You can write a million papers and have them reviewed by a million of your peers, and I will still tell you what few others will- your tranny emperor is not supposed to groom kids into being your little fuck toys in whatever evil games you are playing. That’s what this is- you get as many sports figures and celebrities to come out and tell you how cool it is to be trans. This is no different than vape companies making bubblegum and cotton candy flavored nicotine products.

The grinding of gears you hear? That is the hard reality colliding with the religious dogma in their tiny, malfunctioning brains. It’s the sound made when you drop a tranny. (kids, ask your parents what this means) They claim to be the intelligent, educated ones, yet can’t even resolve this clash of ideas with logic, because you can’t logic your way out of a conundrum created by emotion.

I am enjoying this immensely.

Claims

In his very first round of golf ever played in 1994 at the Pyongyang Golf Course, Kim Jong-il supposedly shot a miraculous 38 under par (a score of 34), which included 11 holes-in-one. It’s always the communist dictators who make the grandiose claims.

Ten Years

There are times when Twitter’s character limit is too much of a restriction. This is one of those times. I am posting an image of this, because I don’t want it deleted and lost. Below is my answer:

It used to be a war of ideas. That was back in the day when I was a single issue voter. I felt Second Amendment rights were the litmus test for a freedom and liberty loving government. After all, a government that doesn’t trust its citizens with arms can’t be trusted with power. My vote was always cast with that underlying principle in mind.

Ever since 2016, those of us who have opinions like mine, rooted in freedom and liberty and their Constitutional protections, have been under siege.

Then came the election. Many people were suspicious of the anomalies in the vote counting, and remain so today. We were told it would be a crime and was unAmerican to question the election. In fact, the Lt Governor of Pennsylvania said anyone who questioned the election results should be thrown in prison because questioning elections isn’t protected speech. The sad part is today, he is one of the more moderate on the left side of the aisle. His name is John Fetterman.

An appointee (now Justice) to the Supreme Court said she can’t define what a woman is because she isn’t a biologist. We all know she was lying. She knows she was lying. Everyone knows it.

Those of us who complained or presented opposition to these moves were kicked off social media sites, deplatformed, threatened with death, called Hitler, and there were even prominent government officials calling for us to be placed in camps- first for those who refused COVID vaccines, then later for supporting Trump. Three years ago, a woman managed to find out my real name, then called hospitals in the Central Florida area in an attempt to get me fired. Why? Because I stated on social media that I don’t use people’s chosen pronouns. I was told this was a violation of those people’s rights, was not protected speech because hate speech is violence, which made me literally Hitler.

People came to this very blog and stated we should be put into reeducation camps. The left began compiling an “enemies list” so they would know who to round up when they regained power.

A state senator in Rhode Island was caught attacking constituents who disagreed with him, and vandalized their property. The left assassinated a CEO then cheered on his murderer.

There was one man who attempted to have a dialog. They shot him in the neck in front of a crowd while he was peacefully speaking, because words are violence. Then they mocked those who mourned him, hounded his wife, accused her of being part of the murder plot, and called her a whore.

In 2022, a Rhode Island School district claimed that using the wrong pronoun for a tranny is violence and people should “respond accordingly.” At the time, I said:

Fine. Bring it on. Let’s get this party started.

A decade of attacks and violence from the left. People have been financially ruined, their reputations destroyed, they have been injured, disabled, and even killed- all for having an opinion with which a leftist communist disagreed.

There are literally thousands of examples of leftist violence, attacks, and threats documented on this blog. Right now, we on the side of freedom are responding with unconventional warfare. We are engaging them using their own rules, their own definitions. We claim that a man who wants to play for the WNBA need only claim he is a woman while playing in the league, and that’s the rule.

They respond with angst and the gnashing of teeth, calling us mean and saying we hate women. No, we are protecting women’s sports by forcing you dishonest communists into admitting your entire position on transgenderism is a house of cards, built on the faulty foundation that a person can declare themselves to be something and everyone else has to comply with their delusion.

We are fighting back- now the ball is in the left’s court. They are going to be forced to allow these men to declare that they are women and be eligible to play in their league, or they are going to have to admit their position is indefensible.

We’ve been getting attacked for more than a decade. I haven’t held a grudge, I’ve grown tired of being attacked and turning the other cheek. I’ve spent the last two days exposing the left’s position on trannies to be the ridiculous lie that it is, and I’ve enjoyed watching the mental gymnastics of the left as they try to justify their position: everything from saying these men aren’t “real” trans women, but refusing to define the term, to claiming the definition of a woman is hormone levels. Anything but the admission they are and have been lying.

Fuck ’em. This is only the beginning.