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LEGO is about to sell you a $600 replica of a building that took 144 years to build, didn’t have a building permit until 136 years in, and just became the tallest church on earth last month. The real one and the toy version run on the same business model. The leaked set is a LEGO version of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, a massive church designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, who started it in 1882 but never finished it. He was hit by a tram in 1926, dressed so poorly that people on the street thought he was a beggar. He died three days later. Construction kept going for a hundred years. On February 20 of this year, workers finally placed the last piece of the tallest tower, at 172.5 meters (about 57 stories), making it the tallest church in the world. The LEGO version would be 12,060 pieces. That beats every LEGO set ever made, including the World Map (11,695 pieces for $250) and the Eiffel Tower (10,001 pieces for $630). At $600, you’re paying about 5 cents per brick. The release date, July 1, lines up with the 100th anniversary of Gaudí’s death. Here’s the money part. The real Sagrada Familia has never received a dollar of government or church funding. Almost 5 million tourists visit every year, and their ticket money literally built the building. Revenue in 2024 was €134 million (around $145 million), all private. In 2018, the city of Barcelona finally gave it a building permit, 136 years late. The permit fee alone was €36 million, the biggest in the city’s history. LEGO runs on the same engine. Adults buying toys for themselves now make up roughly 1 in 4 toy purchases worldwide. LEGO pulled in $12.9 billion last year (up 12%), and its sales grew twice as fast as the rest of the toy industry. They put out 868 different sets in a single year. A church built entirely by people who just wanted to walk inside it. A toy company is worth billions because adults keep buying bricks. Same fuel.

Jim Hacker: Humphrey, I'm told there's a situation at Diego Garcia. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Only geographically, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: Geographically? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes. It's still in the Indian Ocean. Jim Hacker: Humphrey, Iran fired missiles at it! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Towards it, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: Towards it? Sir Humphrey Appleby: One missile ceased to function and the other was intercepted. So the island remains entirely where it was. Jim Hacker: I'm not worried about the island moving! I mean the implications. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Ah. Strategically speaking, the implications are extremely stable. Jim Hacker: Stable?! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes. Since nothing actually hit us, we can express grave concern without the administrative complications of retaliation. Jim Hacker: But the base is on British territory! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Indeed, Prime Minister. Which means we are in the enviable position of being attacked in principle while remaining uninvolved in practice. Bernard Woolley: It's what the Foreign Office calls a very tidy situation, Prime Minister. Jim Hacker: Tidy? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes. Untidy situations are the ones where the missiles land.

“CUANDO TRUMP HABLA DE ENVIAR TROPAS A IRÁN NO TIENE NI LA MÁS REMOTA IDEA DE LO QUE HABLA”, declara el ex coronel Douglas McGregor, ex principal asesor del secretario de Defensa de la primera Administración Trump. Lideró tropas en combate en la guerra contra Saddam Hussein. “EEUU ya no tiene un ejército como el que tenía en la guerra del Golfo. Eso desapareció. El Pentagono tiene alrededor de 120-150 mil militares que podría desplegar. Y para eso tendría que sacarlos de varias partes del mundo. No hay más”, señala. “Irán tiene millones de personas en armas. Se llevan preparando para esto décadas. Sería sin duda otro Vietnam, pero mucho peor. Morirían miles y miles de americanos para nada”, agrega. “EEUU necesitaría diez años para crear otro ejército como el de de la guerra contra Saddam. El resto es decir tonterías. Trump no sabe de lo que habla”, concluye.

Jon Stewart isn't so sure Trump is actually talking to Iran's "top person"

Every person. Every day.

Only way I can see this war ending is throught complete & absolute regime change. The sooner Trump goes, the better.

April fools day is cancelled this year because every day is a fucking joke

This is a cute story about Harrison Ford but my only thought the whole time would’ve been “dawg you’ve crashed a lot in these I’m pretty sure”

“Where is Vader today?” “He’s in imaginary peace talks, sir.”

She calls her mom because the recipe she’s making calls for pasta water and her grocery store doesn’t sell it. The mom’s response is freaking hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

Irritating the wife is a fine old tradition.

Only Star Wars fans will see it😅

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

And history was made ✨

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He lowered his altitude, spotted a woman in a boat below and shouted to her: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I’d meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The woman consulted her portable GPS and shouted back, “You’re in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You’re at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude." The man rolled his eyes and yelled, “You must be a Democrat." “I am,” replied the woman. “How did you know?” “Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information. Frankly, you haven’t been much help to me.” The woman smiled and yelled, “You must be a Republican.” “I am,” shouted the balloonist. “How did you know?” “Well,” said the woman, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are thanks to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow now it’s all my fault.”

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

Las últimas fotos de las Torres Gemelas y la trágica historia del que tomó las fotografías

Donald Trump es ahora en hazme reír de los EEUU. Miren cómo se burlan de sus decisiones y declaraciones a largo de esta guerra con Irán. Es el presidente más estúpido en la historia del país del norte porque sólo un estúpido se metería una guerra así