Taylor McBride

@presbenfranklin @2manyjoshes @historyinmemes Lmfao. I love people like you, instant reminder that no matter how hard life gets...at least I dont ride the struggle bus everyday, wearing a special walking helmet with super cool drool catching accessories and window spray flavoring.

@2manyjoshes @historyinmemes Well, it is in Los Angeles, so yeah, prolly.

Buildings in Venice rest on more than 10 million tightly packed, 60-foot-long, water-resistant wooden piles cut down around 500 years ago, driven through soft silt and soil until they reached a firm layer of clay strong enough to support the structures above. Venice was not built on solid ground, but on a shallow lagoon that forced early builders to solve a major engineering challenge: how to support heavy stone structures on water, mud, and silt. Their solution was timber—long wooden piles driven deep into the soft lagoon bed until they reached more stable layers of clay and compacted soil. Wooden platforms were then laid on top, creating a stable base for stone and brick construction above. Paradoxically, the wood endured because it remained submerged. Buried in mud and cut off from oxygen, the timber did not decay as it normally would, and over time minerals in the water and sediment helped preserve and even harden it. As a result, much of Venice’s architecture rests on a concealed “forest” beneath the lagoon. One notable example is the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, which, according to traditional accounts, was built on more than one million wooden piles.

@BungieHelp Is there a fix for the trials of the 9 flawless glitch? Completed this, and received no loot, and no emblem.