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06/01/2026

Myth Monday: Let's talk about the myth of the delete button.

You write an email you probably should not have written. Maybe it was venting about your boss. Maybe it was something personal you sent from your work account. Maybe it was financial information you should not have shared. You realize the mistake. You delete it. You empty the trash. You feel safe.

You should not.

When you delete an email, it does not disappear. Most providers move it to a retention folder on their servers. Even after you empty your trash, backups exist. Gmail keeps deleted emails for up to 30 days in their systems. Corporate email platforms often retain deleted messages for months or years depending on company policy. And cloud backups create additional copies you never see and cannot access.

Your employer can recover those emails. IT departments routinely pull deleted messages during internal investigations. Lawyers subpoena deleted emails in lawsuits and they get them. Law enforcement can serve Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or any provider with a legal order and those companies will comply.

This is not a scare tactic. This is how email infrastructure works. Delete means out of your inbox. It does not mean out of existence.

The only safe rule: treat every email like it is permanent. Because it probably is.

05/31/2026

Sunday Truths is back!

Last week we launched this series with baking truths for World Baking Day. This week we are going universal. The stuff that is so true it does not need an explanation. You just read it and feel seen.

The 'missed calls from Mom' one is not a joke. Two missed calls from Mom and your brain immediately goes to worst case scenario. She was probably calling to tell you about a sale at Kroger. But your heart does not know that.

And the volume one. If you are the kind of person who can leave the TV volume on 13, we genuinely do not understand you. It has to be even. Or at least end in a 5. This is not negotiable.

Which one called you out the hardest? Be honest.

New truths every Sunday. You have been warned.

05/30/2026

Slip-Up Saturday - Lost Luggage

Let's talk about the fact that airlines lost 33.4 million bags last year and somehow this is just considered normal.

Thirty-three million bags. That is not a rounding error. That is a major problem that the entire aviation industry has collectively decided to shrug at.

American Airlines was the worst offender in the US with over 720,000 bags mishandled. That is nearly 9 out of every 1,000 bags checked. United was second. Together they accounted for over a million mishandled bags.

Meanwhile, airlines collected billions of dollars in baggage fees in 2024. They charge you $35 dollars or more per bag to check it. And then they lose it. And when they lose it, the maximum compensation under most policies does not even come close to covering what was inside.

The good news, sort of: 75 to 80% of lost bags are actually just delayed and show up within 48 hours. The bad news: 5 to 8% are gone forever. That is nearly 2 million bags a year that just vanish.

Best advice: put an AirTag or Bluetooth tracker in every checked bag. It costs $30 dollars and gives you real-time GPS tracking. When the airline says they have no idea where your bag is, you can show them exactly where it is sitting. That changes the conversation immediately.

Second best advice: carry-on whenever humanly possible.

05/29/2026

404: WTF - What's Trending Friday

Six stories. Buckle up.

The wildest story of the week: a former senior CIA official with top-secret clearance has been charged with stealing hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million dollars from the federal government. He hid them at his house. Not in a vault. Not in a Swiss bank account. At his house. A man with one of the highest security clearances in the country apparently thought nobody would notice $40 million dollars in gold bars sitting in his living room. This is both a massive federal crime and somehow also the plot of a Nicolas Cage movie.

In the AI world, a major shakeup: Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former head of Tesla's Autopilot program, announced he is joining Anthropic. This is like the head coach of one championship team going to their biggest rival. Anthropic also closed a funding round valuing them at over 900 billion dollars, making them the most valuable private AI startup in the world. The AI industry is moving fast.

On the global front, the Iran situation is escalating. The US carried out strikes on southern Iran this week while ceasefire negotiations were still happening. Trump threatened to blow up Oman. Multiple countries are warning their citizens to prepare for further escalation.

The World Health Organization warned that Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than efforts to contain it. US public health officials were deployed to Kenya to assist American citizens who were exposed. This is a second major outbreak to watch alongside the ongoing hantavirus situation.

In politics, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated sitting Republican senator John Cornyn in one of the most expensive Senate primaries in American history. Over $100 million dollars was spent. The Trump-backed Paxton will now face the Democratic nominee in November.

And ending on something to look forward to: the FIFA World Cup kicks off June 11 right here in America. Signage is going up at stadiums across 11 US cities. The biggest sporting event on the planet is about to begin on our soil.

See you next Friday.

05/25/2026

Today is not about sales, cookouts, or the unofficial start of summer.

Today is about remembering the men and women who gave their lives so we could live ours.

Every freedom we enjoy. Every choice we get to make. Every morning we wake up in a country where we are free to build something, say something, and be something.

That exists because someone gave everything to protect it.

We are grateful. We are humbled. And we will never forget.

From all of us at R³ Solutions, Happy Memorial Day.

05/24/2026

Sunday Truths - Shopping Edition

Your wallet asked us to post this on its behalf.

Going to Target for one thing and leaving with $200 worth of stuff you did not know you needed is not a mistake. It is a documented phenomenon. There should be a medical term for it. Target-itis. Aisle blindness. Impulse architecture syndrome. Whatever it is, we all have it.

And the "I don't need a cart" lie. Everybody says it. Nobody means it. You walk in confident. You leave carrying 9 items in your arms, your chin holding a box of cereal in place, shuffling sideways through the self checkout like a raccoon leaving a dumpster.

The Amazon one is real too. Packages show up and you genuinely do not remember ordering them. You check the app. You see the order. You see your name. You see the 11:47pm timestamp. You have no memory of this event.

Which one called you out? Be honest.

05/23/2026

Slip-Up Saturday

Let's talk about products that should have never survived the first meeting.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the government agency literally responsible for keeping dangerous products off shelves, released 80,000 lapel pins promoting toy safety. The pins were recalled because they contained too much lead, had sharp edges, and were a choking hazard. The agency in charge of safety made an unsafe product. About safety.

A group called the Bureau for At-Risk Youth distributed pencils to kids that read "Too Cool to Do Drugs." Great message. One problem. When you sharpened the pencil, the message shortened. First to "Cool to Do Drugs." Then to just "Do Drugs." Nobody caught this until they were already in schools.

Mazda had to recall 42,000 cars because yellow sac spiders were crawling into the fuel systems and building webs that caused pressure buildup and potential fires. The investigation found the spiders were attracted to the smell of gasoline. A car company was defeated by spiders who liked the smell of gas.

Bic released a pen "designed to fit comfortably in a woman's hand." Same pen. Pastel colors. Higher price. The internet absolutely destroyed them. The Amazon reviews alone are legendary.

And Juicero raised $120 million dollars for a $400 juicer. Then someone discovered you could just squeeze the juice packs with your bare hands and get the same result. The company shut down shortly after.

Somebody got paid to approve every single one of these.

05/21/2026

SecuriTea with R³ - Why You Should Freeze Your Credit Right Now

This might be the most important SecuriTea we have ever posted.

If you have not frozen your credit at all three bureaus, you are leaving the door wide open for identity thieves. And most people have not done it because they believe one of two myths: either they think it costs money or they think it hurts their credit score. Neither is true.

A credit freeze is free. It has been free by federal law since 2018. You do it at Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. It takes about 10 minutes total. And it has zero effect on your credit score. Zero.

What it does: it locks your credit file so nobody can open a new credit card, loan, or account in your name. Not a scammer. Not a hacker. Not even you. Until you temporarily lift the freeze, which takes about 5 minutes online.

Your existing accounts are completely unaffected. Your credit cards still work. Your autopay still works. Your current loans are fine. The freeze only blocks NEW accounts from being opened.

With the number of data breaches happening right now, your Social Security number, name, and address are probably already floating around somewhere. A credit freeze means even if someone has that information, they cannot do anything with it.

Do it today.

Equifax.com. Experian.com. TransUnion.com. All three. Do not skip one.

05/20/2026

What the AI? - Episode 11: 5 Red Flags That Mean AI Gave You Bad Advice

We have spent 10 episodes teaching you how to use AI. This episode teaches you how to catch it lying.

Because AI lies. Not on purpose. It does not have intent. But it generates text that sounds true based on patterns, and sometimes those patterns produce complete nonsense delivered with the confidence of a TED talk.

The most dangerous red flag: fake statistics. AI will tell you "studies show 73.2% of businesses that adopt AI see revenue growth within 6 months." That sounds real. It sounds specific. You want to believe it. But if you Google that exact stat, you will not find it anywhere. Because AI made it up. It fabricates numbers constantly and it never tells you it is guessing.

The graphic has all five red flags. The one about AI agreeing with everything you say is especially important. If you pitch AI a bad idea and it says "great idea," that is not validation. That is a chatbot doing what it was designed to do: be agreeable.

Save this one. Come back to it every time AI tells you something that sounds a little too perfect.

05/17/2026

Welcome to Sunday Truths — our brand new series! And happy World Baking Day!

Every Sunday we are dropping truths that every human being knows, but nobody is brave enough to say out loud.

For our very first episode, we are celebrating World Baking Day with baking truths that hit a little too close to home.

Every recipe that says 'easy, 30 minutes' was written by someone who already had every ingredient prepped, measured, and laid out on the counter like a cooking show. The rest of us are still looking for the measuring cups 20 minutes in.

Room temperature butter is the biggest lie in baking. Nobody has ever remembered to take the butter out 3 hours ahead of time. You either microwave it and pray or you squeeze the wrapper until your hands cramp.

And the Pinterest thing. We all know. Your cookies will not look like the photo. They never have. They never will. They will taste great. They will look like they survived something. And that is okay.

New truths every Sunday. Follow along so you never miss one.

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