Curve Dweller
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Curve Dweller
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What historical fact sounds fake but is true?


META built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Water pressure collapsed. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are common.



For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.






President Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system could cost as much as $1.2 trillion over 20 years, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis — far exceeding the administration’s initial $175 billion estimate.


people posting 50-year old Salma Hayek as an example or “Latinas Aging Gracefully” is incredibly funny when you know her actual ethnic background is 50% Lebanese and 50% Spanish


Any theory of what's happening to human beings re: marriage and fertility has to explain why young Chinese people and young Americans both became deep marriage-and-family pessimists across the 2010s:
















