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I’m starting to think this couple in Trader Joe’s is arguing about something more than just potato salad

@LasVegasLocally I will tip everyone who contributed to helping me win that jackpot, which is no one

Why in the world would you tip after winning on a slot machine?

the most dangerous person to Google isn't OpenAI or Apple.. It's a guy named Raymond Hill who works alone, takes no money, and built the world's best ad blocker Google tried buying him. He said no Google tried waiting him out. He kept shipping Google changed Chrome's rules entirely. He moved to Firefox and kept going 63,000 GitHub stars. $0 revenue. Zero employees The trillion-dollar ad empire is genuinely scared of one developer with a text editor. That tells you everything about how fragile their business model actually is.

Robots cleaning rivers > robots writing screenplays

The cathedral in this video is only standing because of one man. In 1906, a deep-sea diver in a 200-pound suit climbed down into pitch-black water under the building and started laying bags of cement by hand. Six hours a day. In total darkness. For five years. His name was William Walker. By the early 1900s, the cathedral was sinking. It was built in 1079 on what used to be a riverbed. The medieval builders knew the ground was soft, so they laid the foundations on wooden logs. That worked for 800 years. Then the wood rotted. Cracks opened in the walls. Some were big enough for owls to roost in. Stones started falling from the ceiling. The architect's report said the east end was going to collapse. The fix was supposed to be simple. Dig out the rotted wood. Pour concrete. But every time workers dug a trench, it flooded with groundwater. Even powerful steam pumps couldn't keep up. So the engineer in charge, Francis Fox, suggested something nobody had tried. Send a diver down there. A man in a sealed suit, breathing through a hose from the surface, could lay sacks of cement at the bottom of the trench. Once the cement set, the water could be pumped out and bricklayers could finish the job. Walker took the contract. He worked 20 feet under the surface. The water was so muddy that even at noon he couldn't see his own hands. He worked by touch. By 1911 he had laid 25,800 bags of cement, 114,900 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks under the cathedral. All of it by himself, in the dark. Every weekend he cycled 70 miles home to South London to see his wife and kids. Every Monday he took the train back and got back in the suit. When the work was done, King George V handed him a silver bowl in front of a packed cathedral. Walker said the whole thing made him uncomfortable. He died six years later in the Spanish flu pandemic. His gravestone in London reads: 'The diver who with his own hands saved Winchester Cathedral.' The statues in those alcoves were also carved much later than the building. They went up in the 1880s and 1890s. The medieval originals had been smashed in the 1540s. One of the new statues is Queen Victoria. So that feeling of 'this is incredible for something 500 years old' is only half right. A lot of what's in that frame is from the 1880s. And the building holding it up is only still standing because of one man and a hose.

J'ai travaillé sur quasiment chaque plan de Tarzan dans cette scène où il rencontre Jane ! Que de souvenirs... 😃🦍

One of my first jobs was data entry at a car auction broker. A dozen people were entering condition reports & sales data for nationwide car resale. I'd been doing some Access 2.0 work on a copy of production for fun. One day, the whole network suddenly felt very slow and buggy. So I made a local backup of the database, just in case. Twenty minutes later. The network went down. Everything. An hour later, our director walked in with someone I'd never seen in tow. He was slumped over, sheet-white, and looked like he was five minutes on either side of vomiting. Our director announced that: - the database and all of our work had been wiped out - the backups had been broken for several weeks - we were going to be spending the next few weeks just trying to piece together thousands of hours of work we had already done once. I raised my hand and said I'd made a backup an hour ago, and asked where they would like me to upload it. They both stared at me (along with everyone else) like I had sprouted tentacles. Twenty minutes later we were back to work. No one ever said another word about it. No questions. No bonus. No thank you. This was a very worthwhile life lesson that has paid 100x dividends.

не курю день 13. а иногда прям хочется!!!

Thank You @sciencegirl

This hit too close to home. The younger generation will never understand the struggle.

MLB is having a moment for the exact same reason that baseball scorebook makers are seeing sales double. In our hyper-connected digital age, people are yearning for a bit of the phone-free, slowed down past. An afternoon at the park offers exactly that sportico.com/leagues/baseba…

Looks like the Magic Castle removed some hedges that have been blocking its glorious architecture for decades! We can now view it from many different angles! This was taken from the front doors of the Hollywood Roosevelt.

why is this the most accurate description of hockey interviews i’ve ever read 😭

Nobody knew how to cram in the sight gags like Tex Avery.

My girlfriend got me this for my bday with a little customization:) 26 for the year of release . It’s the little things that count #CoyoteVsAcme

今朝、婚姻届を提出してきました！ ふたりとも４９歳なのに初婚です。 やっと正式に結婚できました。ヾ(*´ー｀*)ﾉ

流行りに乗っておく　＃1日1レモンちゃん　　＃カナリア　＃鳩　＃NORISAN ＃illustration

A Faded Memory. Andersen's Pea Soup Restaurant opened in 1924, founded by Danish immigrant Anton Andersen and his wife Juliette. Originally a small roadside stand along what became U.S. Route 101, it grew into one of the most well-known stops in California. During the Great Depression, the business struggled until Juliette added split pea soup to the menu. It was simple, affordable, and filling and it ended up saving the restaurant. From there, it became a destination. By the 1930s-1960s, this was a major stop for travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tour buses lined the parking lot, families planned trips around it, and the restaurant served hundreds of people daily. The location became known for more than just food. Danish-style architecture, a windmill, gift shops, and the mascots Hap-Pea and Pea-Wee made it a full roadside attraction. Billboards across California counted down the miles until you arrived. For decades, it remained busy and became part of California road trip culture. But as highways improved and travel became faster, fewer people stopped. Over time, the crowds declined. Today, the building still stands, but the activity that once filled it is gone. What was once a packed destination is now a decaying reminder of our great past.

もう誕生日に風船飛ばなくなったのかな？？ ということで32歳になりました🎈✨️