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@Jrbacon50 @evo4g63t @WSJ I did go for about 2.5 years with zero sodas. I still craved the carbonation, so I slammed Pellegrino all day every day. But I fell off the wagon. Been on ye olde phosphate ever since.

@dctune @evo4g63t @WSJ after like a week original coke tastes undrinkabley sweet. make the switch to save your entire life

As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. on.wsj.com/4wKhvI5

@timedclassic @BamChudley @MattZeitlin I will say that aspartame & neotame are two flavors I can’t embrace. To me, they taste like a headache on an overcast day. But I have tried to acquire a taste for it a few times in life.

@dctune @BamChudley @MattZeitlin i also drink like 1-2 cokes a day and switching over to zero has done nothing except improve my life tenfold. i guess some people can taste aspartame and others cant. been drinking coke my entire life and cant tell the difference

Coke Zero drinkers are not persons in any morally or intellectually significant way, they’re philosophical zombies

@Bauerpower10 @evo4g63t @WSJ Tbh I haven’t had a Coke Zero in a couple years. Back when I last tried it, I was repulsed & journeyed into the woods to a cave where I sat & reflected on what Conan the Barbarian said was best in life. Maybe they e changed the recipe since then? Perhaps I’ll give it a 2nd chance

@dctune @evo4g63t @WSJ I was a regular coke fiend and used to share this view. Recently switched to zero because I found it pretty close. I swear zero improved.

@ratpatootie69 @evo4g63t @WSJ Idk what that means, but I do enjoy badminton. At least until the tape starts coming off the racket. That drives me nuts. & I always use that as the excuse if one of my girls beats me.

@dctune @evo4g63t @WSJ 1-2 cokes per day I know they're gonna play badminton with your feet

@Herzen2thapg @evo4g63t @WSJ Excessive happiness.

@dctune @evo4g63t @WSJ “Not excessive.” Lmao

@leaf_4 @evo4g63t @WSJ I’ve had one cavity ever in my life. 20 years ago. Regularly get cleanings. Literally floss abt 5x per day (I’ve always been kinda addicted to the feeling of flossing), & brush 3x/day. Bro-in-law is dentist. Fluoride. Wife’s grandpa was a dentists. It’s a whole thing in our fam.

@dctune @evo4g63t @WSJ You should speak with a dentist and a doctor about 2 Cokes a day lol

@onedayitsyou @BamChudley @MattZeitlin Excessive happiness.

@dctune @BamChudley @MattZeitlin 1-2 cokes per day is excessive fam

@wjm911 @MattZeitlin

@MattZeitlin Not only is Zero better than Diet - it's better than the mediocre original.

@USofMind @MattZeitlin @Nero

@MattZeitlin @Nero I’m all for high octane full sugar coke… it’s either the real thing no thing, real coke or iced tea, no illusions

@BamChudley @MattZeitlin I exclusively drink Coke. Have for years. 1-2 per day. Not excessive. & I can tell you that Zero tastes nothing like original to anyone who drinks it. Diet is disgusting too. But Zero is in no way a suitable alternative to OG. Oh, & Pepsi can go light their hair on fire.

@MattZeitlin Coke Zero is what Diet Coke should taste like. Diet Coke tastes like a completely different drink, Coke Zero tastes like regular Coke, but less.

@evo4g63t @WSJ I exclusively drink Coke. Have for years. 1-2 per day. Not excessive. & I can tell you that Zero tastes nothing like original to anyone who drinks it. Diet is disgusting too. But Zero is in no way a suitable alternative to OG. Oh, & Pepsi can go light their hair on fire.

@WSJ How is it even debatable that Diet Coke tastes better than Coke Zero? Zero is pretty close to the original coke in terms of taste.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

@Bob_Janke @WDHunt68 Try disco.

@WDHunt68 I tried noise, light, a radio playing horrible classic rick at full volume you name it none of it mattered

I have a mom raccoon with babies living in the attic of my garage. She and they are becoming a huge, destructive problem. They're cute on Instagram but that is NOT reality

@Bob_Janke I called animal control. In my area, if they’re still nocturnal & showing no signs of distemper (like scavenging during the day, etc.), they’ll come humanely catch & release in the woods. Not sure if it’s the same everywhere, but worked for us.

@selectsand @aviationbrk Mormon marriage?

@aviationbrk parachutists bring along a parachute for safety, in case anything goes wrong with parachuting, is anything else like that, where you just bring a whole second X along in case the first one breaks

🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See. The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday. According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old. The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport. Video: sab_thi

@rajboshmahal @aakashgupta …society. We simply need spaces they’re not. I know this will never happen, but it’d be a net positive for society in general. You wanna serve in politics, you wanna work in news? Fine. But you’re not allowed to have SM accounts.

@rajboshmahal @aakashgupta Social media is a whole societal-level problem IMO. I try to limit my usage to 15 mins/day. But I also have another idea. Bf news & politics took it over, SM wasn’t nearly as toxic. I’d love laws prohibiting pols & journos from using SM. They already have enlarged influence in…

26 states just passed laws trying to recreate this exact classroom. The largest study on the results dropped two weeks ago. Stanford, Duke, Michigan, and UPenn tracked 4,600 schools that locked student phones in Yondr pouches. Three years of data. Test score improvement across all subjects: close to zero. Attendance change: close to zero. Self-reported attention: unchanged. The phones are in locked pouches all day. The kids still can't focus. Here's what makes the data interesting. The UK ran this experiment in 2013 and saw a 6.4% test score bump, with the biggest gains among low-achieving students. The US ran it a decade later and got almost nothing. The difference is exposure length. UK students in 2013 had smartphones for about 6 years. US students in 2024 had them for 17. One group got interrupted early. The other had already built the habit architecture. The one metric that did move: by year three, student well-being improved. Grades stayed flat. Focus stayed flat. Attendance stayed flat. But the kids felt better. Turns out the phones were making them miserable even when they weren't hurting their scores. This video looks calm because it was filmed before the thing that would make calm impossible had arrived. 26 states are now learning that confiscating the device doesn't reverse what the device already did.

Nobody’s saying LeBron isn’t great. But he’s not better than Jordan. And it’s interesting to me how Dr J is always left out of this discussion. #NBA

@ShawnRyan762 @Mach_Industries @ethanrthornton @ShawnRyanShow You really should wear a helmet when you ride a missile.

…SRS studios officially has a missile on set. All I’m missing is the instruction manual. 😂 Thank you to Mach Industries. It’ll be safe in the studio. @Mach_Industries @ethanrthornton

@MitchMi68122792 @BBGreatMoments There’s a door in the side of that mt that leads to an underground facility where the govt runs an alien breeding program. The ET kids LOVE baseball, & whenever a HR is hit, they all swarm out, snag the ball, then return through that door.

@dctune @BBGreatMoments And if it goes over the fence.....

High school baseball field in Hindman Kentucky