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Culture, Art, Craft, and Tradition: 📌 A thread of threads.

It costs more to build a train from London to Birmingham (£102.7 bn) than for NASA to return to the moon (£100 bn) England is so broken.

🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.

How the world works in a nutshell: giant corporations profit from an illegal war whilst the governments who wage them tell the rest of us to tighten our belts.

Allah + Toyota Land Cruiser is one serious combination

Notice that Apple didn't comment on the iPhone pictures from Artemis II until the crew safely landed

I'm deeply embarrassed by our TV news channels today. A former US diplomat had to bluntly tell our anchors to shut up for pushing their foolish anti-Pakistan agenda during the important Iran-US peace talks in Islamabad. These anchors have become a global joke, so juvenile and obsessed with hate that they've made India lose all respect internationally. The biggest act of patriotism these channels can do right now is to stop this clownery and stop embarrassing our country in front of the world. Time to grow up! 🇮🇳

Video de la reentrada a la atmósfera de la nave espacial Orion de Artemis 1. 25 minutos comprimidos a poco más de un minuto. Crédito: NASA

Always go to the funeral. Always go to the hospital. You don't need to know what to say. In times of profound crisis, people don't remember your words, they only remember whether you showed up for them at their lowest moment.

Crazy to think that this was taken with a regular DSLR and is sitting on one of the astronauts' camera roll. On a normal memory card. Not some special exterior mounted NASA camera. They just pointed the lens out the window and snapped this. Makes it even more real somehow.

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

The US priority has gone from preventing weapons that were not being made, to opening a strait that wasn't closed, to rescuing pilots who weren't missing.

Had somebody made this man’s biography into a film before it happened, we would walk out of the cinema on the account that the plot line is ridiculous

people just be tweeting their crimes on the internet

This war is more likely to end up doing regime change in America than in Iran

Boomers in 2030: ok, you were right about Iraq and Iran, and frankly everything in between, but this war with Turkey is really necessary

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

atheists when they can’t understand why a sunset made them cry:

At this rate the Trump administration will release the full unredacted Epstein files to distract from Iran.

This is smart but they need to make inflatable fake hospitals and schools to really throw off the US and Israel