Mike Opelka

If hatred of someone or something is all that unites you, in the end, hate is all you’ll have left. Unite over something or someone you love. Trust me on this one. Start with love.

“Sam Stone” — (the whole damn song, buuuut) “There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes.”

Thankful.

@aakashgupta @CathyYoung63 Hey @Grok is this all true and accurate?

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.

Thread. Read it all. Classy lesson, @MikeBinderjokes

Let’s go Reilly Opelka! #FrenchOpen #RolandGarros

@MeghanMcCain May his memory always make you smile.

I am deeply saddened to share the news of my brother Doug McCain’s sudden passing. He was a truly wonderful, joyful man who supported me throughout my life. He brought humor, fun and great conversation to every room. I will cherish our memories together. Our prayers are with his wife Ashley and children Caroline and Shepp.

It’s a tie!

Why is @cnn lying?

@TyJohnsonNews Whisker Sour

What was your first alcoholic drink (not beer)?

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for your Service. Godspeed ❤️

Praying

This is new low. @SenAdamSchiff you are a despicable individual.

“Pathological envy bathing in suicidal empathy fuels socialism.” — @GadSaad — line of the year? Get the book. Suicidal Empathy

God bless this family.

Classic. And also shameless. Hunter Biden goes on Candace Owens — who thinks Israel killed Charlie Kirk — to say Israel was behind the effort to impeach his dad. The conspiracy industrial complex built around “the Jews did it” is flourishing. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

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Friday should start with a little Bukowski wisdom. “You are marvelous.” Indeed you are.

Hey, @6abc - preempting Jeopardy! is a bad idea.

@von912 Yes it is.

@stuntbrain so sad!

@JeffyJFR @StuDoesAmerica @megynkelly One well aimed bottle rocket fixes everything.

Unbelievable! I can't get my briefcase. @StuDoesAmerica is in studio doing @megynkelly show. Ummm, I've done two shows today and now held captive in the building.