The Sultan of Brunei spends a cartoonish amount of his country’s oil revenue (state-owned oil infrastructure IIRC) on the largest supercar collection in the world.
Reader, it’s a largely jungle country with to my knowledge, no race tracks (not even on the grounds of the Royal Palace), and their income disparity rates look something like this.
@timecaptales Harold Bloom's opinions are famously useless, for example he said of David Foster Wallace "he can't think, he can't write". This should tell you all you need to know about Bloom.
In the summer of 2000, as the Harry Potter series was quickly becoming a global sensation, legendary Yale critic Harold Bloom gave one of his most unpopular takes, calling 35 million readers wrong
This isn’t a sci-fi set—it’s the Art Deco control room of the Kelenföld Power Plant in Budapest.
Built for an age when electricity felt almost magical, the plant opened in 1914, and its iconic control room—lined with curved green metal panels, analog gauges, and an oval stained-glass skylight—became its “cathedral to power.”
The station was shut down in 2005, leaving this room as a haunting time capsule of knobs, dials, and human-scale engineering—long before touchscreens ran the world.
Not gonna lie…every single time I drive down Ward Parkway in Kansas City, I look for, and wonder about what the backstory behind, the nose cone of a Concord displayed in a gazebo is…
Ferrari chassis welds are on a whole new level. Looks like it’s been welded with a tube of toothpaste by a 3 year old.
This was actually on display at the Ferrari museum in Maranello. 🤦🏻♂️😬
@Five_xtra yeah it is, I made the account yesterday to share the news. Yes, I know its not the one is used for an AMA many years ago, id forgotten about that and frankly didnt have any means to recover it even if I had remembered.
@DAMendelsohnNYC@nytimes This "solecism" is perfectly understandable to a reader. English language will be bent into whatever shape is required. It deserves no respect, it's just a simple tool for international communication.
@JagexRamen Very clear and obvious attack telegraphing. A boss that can be done on 120ms ping that half of your playerbase plays on. Respecting defensive abilities instead of cheating and ignoring the player's resources. A drop system with intelligent bad luck protection.
These statues were carved from a single solid block of diorite, whose hardness is between 6 and 7 on the Mohs scale.
How?
Hammer and chisel?
Another point...
What are they holding, some kind of technology?
And where did those little hands on the pharaoh's arms come from?
@desert_canto@sovietsoleri That's not a sniper's view, I'll tell you that much. It's from an excellent 1974 film titled "The Conversation", highly recommended.