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Alan Watts – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey

In Japan movers neatly pack all of your things up and take photos of furniture placement and how things are placed on shelves. When they arrive at your new home, they place everything exactly as you had it in your previous home. In Japan, moving is an art

Robbers get locked in cellphone store, crowd watches and laughs

Extremely honest car commercial

Detroit In The Hood At Night Part 2

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Top 7 Smoking Hot Ex-Girlfriends – Maxim

10 Adorable Clips That Will Surely Make Your Day – Ned Hardy

7 Surprising Secrets To Aging Well – Retired Improvement

After Protest Gesture, Medalist Can Never Return Home – Newser

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesome and everything in between – Leenks

Gigi Hadid Rockin’ the Thong Bikini in Tahiti – G-Celeb

Sunnies Bring Out the Bunnies (75 Photos) – Radass

He Got A Call From Some Anonymous Sellers Looking For A Little Cash. They Had No Idea They Were Sitting On A Gold Mine – Slip Talk

Hillary Clinton Attempts To Read Donald Trump’s Ridiculous Quotes [Video] – Bossip

Guy had a cyst for 25 years and after it became infected, popped like puss-filled champagne – Faves

Instagram Heat Check Of The Day – Barstool Sports

10 Government Officials Who Admitted The Existence Of Aliens – Linkiest

50 Ways Happier, Healthier, And More Successful People Live On Their Own Terms – Medium

Low Level Famous Girls Grabbing Bewbs on Snapchat of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

30 Hot Asses in Snug Yoga Pants – Regretful Morning

The Unbreakable Genius Of Mark Zuckerberg – Popular Science

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Chopped him down like a tree

High School Kids Rampage Power Bomb Slam

Donald Cerrone’s Beautiful 4-hit Combo

Guy in middle of haircut gets a one punch KO

You don’t see leg kicks in a street fight often….this dude knows how to fight!

Oldie but goodie…loud mouth gets knocked the fuck out!

2 rednecks fight over the same girl

Damn, even the dog gets in on this fight!

That kick sounded like brain damage

Troublemaker gets dealt with

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What processes happen in your body when you get knocked out?

Jaw Impact

A punch to the jaw causes the head to suddenly spin around. This quick motion of causes trauma to the brain that knocks the recipient out leaving him unconscious. Points on the jaw that are especially vulnerable to knockouts are the sides of the chin, and where the jaw is attaches to the skull.

Acceleration and Deceleration

When the jaw is punched, the head quickly accelerates around. After a fraction of a second, it quickly decelerates as muscles, tendons, and bones prevent the head from spinning any further. The brain inside the skull is floating in fluid. It accelerates slower than the rest of the head. This forces it to crash into the inside of the skull when the head stops.

*Brain Trauma * When the brain slams into the inside of the skull, it suffers trauma. It then bounces off the inside of the skull and slams into the opposite side. This causes even more trauma. Depending on the force of the punch, this can happen several times before the brain comes to rest inside the skull.

Nervous System Response

The trauma to the brain stimulates an overwhelming number of neurotransmitters to fire at the same time. This essentially overloads the nervous system sending it into a state of temporary paralysis. The person who is hit in the jaw loses consciousness and his muscles relax. The injured person falls to the ground with no memory of being hit.

Recovery

A person who is knocked out by a punch to the jaw suffers a severe concussion. It can take anywhere from several seconds to several minutes to regain consciousness. It all depends on the severity of the brain trauma. In mild cases, the person who is knocked out can shake off the punch with little more than a headache. In severe cases, brain trauma from a knockout punch to the jaw can cause cerebral bleeding and death.

Source: http://www.livestrong.com/article/25152-punch-jaw-cause-knockout/#ixzz2lliYRnYR

Why do primitive animals/species know how to animal/specie by themselves, while us humans have to be taught since birth almost everything?

Actually, humans are born with the innate knowledge and ability to survive as is necessary for a baby. We’re born with a suckling instinct, for example, to latch onto nipples and draw food. We also have all the autonomic reflexes already, such as ticklishness, breathing, heart rate regulation, etc. These are common to all mammals, of which we are a member.

This is because primates are social animals; we are born into a group collective (a family unit) and predictably have a social group to learn from. You have to remember that when it comes to survival, humans know everything they need to know right when they’re born, because all that is required of them is autonomic in nature (breathing, heart rate, feeding, urinating, defecating, sleeping, waking), and we only require more complicated systems when we’ve grown. Humans as a whole are very weak when they’re first born, and require a great deal of security for quite a long time, compared to other animals. This is likely because we devote such a great percentage of the nutrients we ingest in order to develop our brains, as opposed to most other animals needing only to develop their bodies. This is likely why parents have an overwhelming emotional bond with their children.

Some animals are not social, and are therefore unable to learn from others of their species, and so they’re born with (or learn shortly after birth) more complex instincts.

– Kotama

Why is Blackjack the only mathematically beatable game in casino?

I’ll start with some terms here:

House edge: expressed in a percentage. The money the house expect to win on each bet.

Basic stragety: a tested theorem that that dictates a players move in a given blackjack hand. Please Google basic strategy, there’s a neat color coded chart you can look at.

Units: the number of increments of the minimum bet that the table maximum will allow. For example, if you are on a $5 minimum BJ table with a limit of $250 that only allows you to play one hand you can bet 50 units.

House edge is a representation of the mathematical advantage that the house has built in its rules.. Here are some examples.
Roulette: straight up bet pays 35 to 1. I’d you win you get 35 plus your bet. There is 1 way to win, and on a double 0 wheel, 37 ways to lose. If you cover every number (stupid) you lose 38 and win 36. So your return is 36/38. That’s 94.7% return giving the house an edge of 5.3% Craps: betting on a hop (one roll bet) pays to 30 for 1, 30 to 1, 15 for 1, or 15 to 1. Deference here is academic in this case, most casinos only for one, but to one is better. The 30s are for pairs (hard ways). Let’s say you think 11 will come next roll. There are 2 ways to roll 11, 6-5, and 5-6, if you have problems seeing this, pretend the dice are different colors. 2 dice x 6 sides = 36 combos. You have 2 ways to win out of 36. Or, 1 in 18. This bet at best pays 15 to 1. So win 16, lose 18. That’s an 88.8% return giving the house an edge of 11.2%. SERIOUSLY, I KNOW HOP BETS SUCK. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOUSE EDGE. Bet the pass line with 10x odds. Happy?

The edge represents the difference between the true odds vs payable odds. With me so far?

Here’s where things change. In all other games of “chance”, these odds never change. Two dice always roll 11 with the same 2/36 chance, number 21 comes up approximately 1 out of 38 times in roulette. This is inescapable. Short term variance is expected and even necessary, no one would play a game where they always lost. But blackjack and it’s variants (of the non continuous shuffle variety) are different fundamentally, they have memory. There a finite number of cards in that games universe if you will. In a 6 deck shoe (suits don’t matter in BJ) there are 312 cards. 24 of each A-9, and 96 10 value cards (10, J, Q, K no difference between these functionally) Basic strategy is a statistical model that, based on the rules of the casino at which you are playing, help you make the least bad decision. I say least bad, because it is accurate. There are no good decisions in blackjack because statistically it is still a negative expectation game. Meaning, over a large sampling, with perfect basic strategy, you will still lose. Now, this is for everyone in the back, STATISTICAL OUTCOMES HAVE NOTING TO FUCKING DO WITH SHORT TERM SUCCESS OR FAILURE!!!!!!

So, a recap here. Most games suck because the odds are bad and built in. You can chose less bad bets, but all bets are bad, get it?

But wait, you said Black Jack is different! It is. As I said, basic strategy lets you make the least bad decisions. Some situations actually have a positive expected outcome, like doubling down when you have 11 vs a dealers up card of 6. Keep in mind though, that the aggregate of all those situations still places you in the territory of negative expectation.

Card counting: there are plenty of tutorials online to teach this, but as a very simple rule of thumb, because of the rules of hitting and staying that casinos follow for their dealers, big cards favor the player, while little cards favor the dealer. I’m not going to get into the math here, it’s rather lengthy, but suffice to say that knowing the ratio of big cards to little cards remaining in the deck can offer an advantage to the player.

So, why does the dealer have the advantage on black jack? It’s not their hit/stand rules. Those only exist because if they were any more lenient to the dealer no one would play. THE ONLY ADVANTAGE THE HOUSE HAS IN BJ IS THE DOUBLE BUST LOSS. Scenario 1. Player has 20, dealer busts. Player wins Scenario 2. Player has 20, dealer has 20. Player pushes (ties) nobody loses/wins Scenario 3. Player busts his hand, dealer has 20. Dealer wins.

These all seem fair so far. Here’s the one that earns all the house it’s money. Scenario 4. Player busts his hand. Dealer busts his hand. Player still loses.

That’s it. They only advantage. So, try not to take hits that can bust you unless you statistically need to.

Let’s now regroup.
1. You know that busting loses your money, though paradoxically, standing when you should hit, while reducing your bust %, actually lowers your statical overall win % more. 2. You know that because 10s are good for you and little cards are bad, if you can keep track of the ratio of that and are in the right situation, you can have an advantage over the house. The average difference in expressed advantage generally is only 2%. Let’s say the house has a 51-49 advantage over you, sometimes you can make that 51-49 in your favor with counting.

How do you take advantage of this? Unit betting.
Let’s take a $5 dollar table. It has 7 spots. You are the only player. It’s max is$ 500. This casino let’s you play all 7 spots if the table is empty. Therefore, the unit spread is as follows 500/5 = 100 units per spot *7 spots = 700 unit spread. (This is an example only, doing this will get you labeled as a counter on the spot and backed off immediately) As you know the deck (shoe) favors the dealer most of the time it makes sense to expose the least amount of your money to that negative expectation. When the 10 ratio changes in your favor, you can now expose 700 times that bet to a positive outcome.
So while you’re only going to have a %2 advantage, you’re now betting 3500 with a better than even chance of winning. (YES I KNOW THINGS GET STREAKY SOMETIMES. SHUT UP, THESE ARE BASICS.)

So, get it? Expose less of you money when you’re at a disadvantage and more when it’s in your favor. Counting is the exact reverse of the casino model. You’re eking out wins on a small marking, but unlike the casino, you can alter your betting and actions with this knowledge

– thecasey1981

Why a lawyer can help you so much during a police interrogation

As the video above explains, what the lawyer will do is tell you not to talk.

The lawyer isn’t magical. The main take away, though, is that a good lawyer will have a sense of what the police actually know, when they are telling you the truth, and whether what you want to say might get you in trouble. (and what you’re actually getting in return).

As the second speaker in the video mentions, cops have a lot of experience and training in interrogating people and getting them to admit things and give them the information they want. You almost certainly don’t. The lawyer helps even that playing field.

Why do orchestras need conductors?

Well if we are talking non professionals (so College (though many top band colleges are pretty close to professional) on down), the reason is because the conductor helps them rehearse and does help them keep in time and things like that.

But for professionals, you are right. The musicians ARE really really good. They know their parts, and generally the “rehearsal” is playing through the song once before the performance, then the performance. With the understanding that each person knows their part perfectly, and they do. You will notice that in lower level bands, like in high school, the conductor is keeping a steady beat a lot. This is to help the players. But you will notice in professional levels many times it seems like the conductor isn’t keeping the beat really at all… this is because the musicians don’t really need help with keeping the beat anymore because they are quite good.

Now what does he do? Well think of it this way. Get 20 people together and have them close their eyes. Now everybody clap at the same beat together. It will be pretty easy to do that. Now have them slow down at the same pace together… not too easy at all. “How slow are we going down to? How fast do we slow down?” All these things people have difficulty doing without any sort of cue. That is where a conductor comes in.

Or another thing a conductor helps with is emotive expression. Playing a single instrument in a band doesn’t actually give you a good representation of what the band sounds like to the audience. If you are a clarinet, for example, you can hear the clarinets REALLY well, the flutes pretty well, and the brass sitting behind you will be particularly loud. It can be difficult hearing the trombones though on the other side or something like that. While good players do know how to balance and how to listen, it helps having the conductor signal “more, more!” or “back off a little” since he is hearing everybody.

He also cues different sections which is helpful for placement issues, as well as when you get into mixed meters such as 9/8 where it can be broken up as 2+3+2+2 and the next bar be 3+2+2+2 and keep switching around. In cases like that it is helpful having somebody denoting where the emphases are.

And then there are cues that come down to the conductor. The conductor decides when a certain instrument comes in. For example the brass section is holding a long note, and then the conductor decides the flutes to come in, and then the clarinets. The conductor also decides how long pauses last and whatnot. Where it is difficult to do with a large band.

You will notice small chamber groups (like 4 members) don’t need a conductor, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t synchronizing. They are constantly watching each other for the beat, and many times the lead of the group will be the one to signal cut offs and starts by their body movement, so still acting as a “conductor”, but it is hard for somebody in the 5th row to see somebody sitting in the 1st row for these cues, which is why the conductor is at the top.

How much work does a pilot really do and how much is controlled by autopilot?

Before the flight even takes off the pilots are planning the route, making sure they have enough fuel and reserves, filing the flight plans and getting them approved. They also check the airplane for any issues. If there have been any previous issues reported in the log they will check to see if the issue have been resolved and go though the maintenance logs and talk to the maintenance crew.

When they finally are ready to leave the gate they will have to coordinate with the ground crew and traffic control. There is no autopilot for taxing yet. The airplanes are not built for easy taxing so even maneuvering around on the airport without hitting any other planes requires lots of communication with the tower. This communication goes both ways as the tower might not see all airplanes on the airfield and it is not the optimal situation for radar either.

Once they are in the air they will monitor the airplane for any issues. There are issues that the autopilot can not deal with, most of them are sensor failures. A human is much better at determining what instruments are working and what is not. Humans also handle unknown situations better then computers. In addition the pilots will be communicating with the air traffic controllers on the ground. There is no standard for communications between the flight computer and ground control so all information needs to be relayed though voice radio communication which requires a human at both ends.

This being said most of the military drones use commercially available autopilots and flight computers and can be left without attention for longer periods of time. However these do not have passengers on board and do not have to follow the standards of civil aviation.

And what´s with turbulences? How much can a airplane really handle?

Short answer: A whole lot more than you’ll ever experience.

Longer answer: First and foremost pilots are constantly checking: weather, radar, and PIREPS (reports from other pilots about what the ride is like, etc). They will ask ATC to change their course as much as they can, but sometimes they can’t (other traffic in the way, or would cut too much from fuel reserves/add too much time to the flight. Additionally, some airlines restrict how much throttle the pilots can use to “make up” for lost time. Airlines like Southwest give their pilots free reign of the throttles, which is why most SWA flights, even if they took off late, will land early.

If you’re on a East-bound flight, the pilot will likely try to ride the “jetstream,” which often has wind shear associated with it. This windshear can cause moderate turbulence, but it is often a good trade off for the shortened flight time.

The “spectrum” of turbulence, if you will, is classified as: Light, Moderate, Severe, and Extreme.

Most turbulence that you would encounter in your average airline flight is what is referred to as “clear air turbulence.” This is most often light turbulence, but sometimes can rise to moderate. Keep in mind that turbulence is still considered moderate up until “passengers are thrown violently, and walking is impossible,” in which case it would then be classified as “severe” turbulence.

Everything short of Extreme cannot and will not break the airplane, (assuming that it is well maintained. Airlines are held to some strict standards, so chances are the plane you’re flying in is well maintained).

Extreme turbulence is where it becomes an emergency, and the pilot needs to use any and all means to exit the turbulent area. If, for some reason, you were on a flight that ended up in extreme turbulence, you would likely feel the plane dive rapidly without any warning. This is not a problem. The pilot is likely doing an emergency dive and is too busy flying the plane to tell the passengers what is happening. The chances of you ending up in extreme turbulence as the passenger of an airliner is slim to none, as this is typically only associated with a storm. Pilots do not fly through storms on purpose. The only way that you would end up in one would be if it came out of nowhere, which hardly ever happens anymore.

The wings on airliners are strong. I mean really, really, really strong. They bend on purpose to relieve the energy in them, and they can bend A LOT. By a lot, I mean a good margin higher than the top of the fuselage. There are videos on YouTube of wing bending tests so you can see this for yourself. Here  is the test of a 777 wing. You can hear the narrator saying “154” in the background. That was him letting the audience know that the wing was bent to 154% of its designed breaking point. The wing will not bend to anywhere near that extent in flight.

Any turbulence causes the wings to bend in a wave like motion as it dissipates the energy. Note: this motion may cause the fuselage to oscillate higher and lower, creating the feeling of stronger turbulence than reality, depending on the period of oscillation. The wings are supposed to dampen oscillations, but natural resonance still exists to an extent.

Also a side note, the engines can handle more weather than you can. There are videos of Rolls Royce testing their engines to ensure that they still run with heavy rain, and they shoot several firehouses of water through the engine and it still runs. here  is a video of that happening.

All of this is to say, you have NOTHING to worry about. So next time you’re on a flight and it starts getting turbulent, you can kick back with your drink be a weirdo like me, watching the wings bend with a big smile on my face as I appreciate the beautiful engineering at work.

What it’s like to be a man who was born with female sex organs?

So – when I look at myself naked in the mirror, I see something beautiful. Really, just the pique of feminine beauty. I have very attractive features for a woman and I don’t take issue with my body aesthetically. It’s solid. I am one hot lady. I would totally do me.

But – when I put on my chest binder and wear guy clothes, I see myself. It doesn’t matter if I’m attractive as a guy, or if other people see me as a man (not to me, anyway – some trans guys are different), or any of that. I just want to look in the mirror and see who I am. I want to be able to recognize the person looking back at me. That just doesn’t happen when I’m in “girl mode”. Wearing a dress and make-up, I feel like I’m dressing in drag. Dressing like a man, I feel like myself.

I have to hide my breasts from myself so I don’t look down and have that cognitive dissonance between who I know I am and the body I have. Because, in my head, I don’t have breasts. I have pecs. I’m not ripped. Just a small skinny dude.

I even respond to my male name instinctually. That never happened with my female name. It always took me a while to realize that someone was talking to or about me.

Also, I’ve noticed that since I’ve come out, I’ve been more myself: more outgoing, happier, more likely to crack a joke, etc. Overall, I just have more of a tendency to say and do the things I’ve always wanted to say or do, but didn’t because I was trying so hard to hide my true self – afraid that people would see through the facade and see the man underneath. I just wanted to fit in. But now, where others might people see a freak, I feel myself. Whereas, the opposite was true before.

I don’t insist on people referring to me as a man. Because there is nothing wrong with being a woman. It’s just simply not who I am. It’s not how I’ve ever thought of myself. And I understand that the self and the body don’t match up (yet) so I don’t fault people for referring to me as a woman.

However, when my friends do refer to me with my male name and with male pronouns, it feels right to me. And I’ve always been “one of the guys”. So, it didn’t surprise them much either. They tend to agree that it makes more sense to refer to me in the masculine because of how my brain works, my mannerisms, my interests, etc.

When I came out to them, most of them just said “Finally! Great. What do you want me to call you?”

So, if my brain tells me “male” and my personality and temperament says “dude” to others, but I have a vagina, then you really only have to decide which you personally think is more important in defining me: who I am or who I looklike I am.

Honestly, I don’t care what you choose. I know who I am. And if you define people by their physicality, that’s your prerogative. But I would hope you see people as more than their bodies.

Anyway, I hope that at least somewhat helped to answer your question. I’m still very early on in my transition and trying to work a lot of this out myself.

– betkettle 

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When you get into a relationship, make a real effort to hang out with friends who invite you to hang out with them

Once you are past the honeymoon period, make an effort to see your friends. You’d be surprised how easy it is just to settle in and feel like that one person can fulfill all your needs (or that the needs they don’t just start to seem unimportant). Maintaining your friendships, though, is actually really good for your psyche — it keeps you growing and grounded in a ways that are different than with your partner. Often there is a lot of inertia to socializing outside of a couples context or without your partner, particularly if you have a demanding job, but it’s worth it.

You might feel like you don’t really need your friends anymore, or that friends in general seem less important, but this is likely untrue and you could end up finding this out in a rough way. And just because you feel like you don’t need your friends doesn’t mean they don’t need you, or don’t notice you have disappeared.

When you get to choose your seat on a flight try to pick the row just before the wings of the plane begin. Plane stability is based on center of gravity so close to the wing will almost always be the smoothest flight

The bumpiest place to sit is in the back. A plane is like a seesaw. If you’re in the middle, you don’t move as much. 

Always be prepared to leave a job, because your employer is always prepared to leave you

Do it to advance your career and shield yourself from layoffs.

• Resume is always up to date.
• Periodically ask people if they will be your reference.
• Go on interviews, even if you don’t want the job so you can practice this skill.
• Have money saved for in between jobs.

“The best time to find a new job is when you don’t need it.”

If you have an indoor cat, put “Name (Indoor cat)” on the name tag. That way, if someone finds your cat, they will know that it is not supposed to be outside and call you

Many cats are outdoor cats, so a kind stranger will probably not call you if they find your cat outside. But if you make it clear that it is supposed to be inside, this can greatly increase your chances of being reunited with your furbaby!

Before signing the lease for a new apartment, make sure you look at your actual unit first, not just the demo unit they show you

When viewing: -bring your phone charger. Test every outlet.

– test water pressure and hot water

– if furnished check stove and oven for cleanliness and whether it works

– Check the damn fridge!!! Had a place where there was black mold in the sealing around the door. Had to fight to get it replaced

– check every lightbulb and light switch

– Bathroom. Dear god, check for mold and mildew. The bathroom fan didn’t work and humidity+no window= mildew’s new home

– if it’s furnished check for signs of bedbugs

– Also check under any furniture. You don’t know what might be hiding under there

– test heating/AC

– take note of how many outlets and where they are placed

Bonus: if at all possible check out your states regulations and codes. Many states have specific codes on everything from how wide a doorway is supposed to be to how many windows per room. In Illinois each bedroom must have at least one window. It’s a fire hazard. Not something they can change but it could be used as leverage.

Complete a simple task like making up your bed or preparing a real breakfast when you wake up in the morning. The feeling of accomplishment will encourage you to achieve more throughout the day.

“Get the first hour of your day right and the rest will follow.”

 Always greet someone by their name if you know it. This makes people feel more important and makes you instantly more likable

When you start a new job and someone is kind enough to take the time out to tell you who, in the office, you should be wary of, be wary of the person telling you.

If you can smell yourself a little, others can smell you a lot. If you do forget deodorant, use hand sanitizer. It kills that bacteria in your Pitts that cause the odor.

If you accidentally dial 911, follow through with the call

You may panic and not say anything, then maybe hang up. You aren’t in trouble and you’ll actually waste more of the operator’s time by hanging up, because then they have to call you back to make sure there was no emergency.

If you ever feel like making a decision when in high emotion, wait 24 hours before committing to the action

My mom taught me this rule when I young, and I have lived by it ever since. Everyone has been in a situation where their emotions are high, and immediately create an idea of action in order to solve the issue. For example, your boyfriend pisses you off, and you decide that the best idea is to call him to bag him out. Or you’re excited about a new car test drive, or seeing a new gadget (take my money) amazon purchase etc., and you immediately decide to purchase it.

It’s amazing to see how your brain can process your choice of action over the 24 hours. When the emotions settle, you think more cognitively and can decide responsibly without the influence of your strong emotions from the initial creation of your idea.

I’ve personally noticed I’ve saved money, dignity, and relationships from just waiting 24 hours before committing to a high emotion decision. It’s something I wanted to share, and hopefully this advice can help someone who is in a similar situation.

Daily use of the art of UPOD (under-promising, over-delivering) will help your life. Tell your S.O. that you will be home at 6pm and you are home at 6:30pm, doghouse. Tell them you will be home at 7pm and arrive at 6:30, hero. 50% of successful relationships are about managing expectations

Under-promise, over-deliver (UPOD). Not new advice, I know, but there are some very specific caveats to be successful at this. These are specifics that have helped me in my parenting of my 4 children, my successful career in the pursuit of an M.D. Ph.D. in Neuroscience/Neurology, my marriage of almost 12 years, and even my self-confidence (yes, I under promise and over deliver in my personal expectations).

1.) Realize that under-promising and over-delivering is not an attempt to be dishonest, it can actually be more honest, giving you a buffer in case weird stuff comes up (traffic, health issues, the other obligation you hadn’t originally factored in). People often tell if you are just lying to them to impress them.

2.) UPOD only works in relationships in the long term if the under-promise is still relatively close to what your gut estimate would have been in the first place. You shouldn’t tell your SO that you will be home at 10pm every evening, and show up at 6:30pm every day, as 6:30pm will be the new expectation regardless of what you say, and what you say will lose credibility.

3.) Don’t over-promise to try to initially impress someone, it will hurt you in the end. If you are like me, you want others to think highly of you, which might tempt you to “offer” to do something quicker or much better than you probably can’t do (or only can do under ideal circumstances). This is especially true for people in new jobs and new relationships. Although this might work out for you initially (you work crazy hours to meet a crazy deadline that you set for yourself to impress someone), it comes with some natural consequences that are nobody’s fault but your own. First of all, you have now set the bar very high for yourself, making it difficult to over UPOD with them again. Many will, going forward, expect you to maintain that expectation of you going forward. Second, even if you somehow manage to keep it up, you will eventually OPUD (Over promise and under deliver), which can really hurt you in the end. You might also come to resent the other person because of their expectations of you (even though in truth, you were the one that initially seeded those expectations in the first place).

4.) When starting out, Buffer UPOD with “I wish” statements. I have 4 kids, and with my M.D. Ph.D. training, I literally cannot make it to all of my children’s extracurricular events. At the beginning of each school year, I remind my kids that although I wish I could make it to every event, I will not be able to attend everything. Every time I show up, my kids are totally stoked. I sometimes wait until just a few hours before to let my kids know I can make it to an event (even though my wife has a much more advanced heads up) just to manage expectations. Although some might say that this makes it hard for my kids to feel that they can rely on me, or trust me, I have found quite the opposite. I have an almost 100% success rate at being to the things that I say I will be at.

5.) When employing UPOD, Focus conversations on what you know 100% that you can do. For instance, when a colleague is really trying to pressure you to attend a conference that you probably don’t have time to attend, reply with “I really wish I could go, but I probably can’t. Could you do me a favor when you get back and do lunch with me to discuss the interesting tidbits you learned/shared at the conference?” When a customer at your restaurant asks you to make a specialty order that you are not sure the chef can do, let them know “I will check with the Chef to see if I can do this for you, but it is unlikely that we can do this. However, I can bring you some free extra breadsticks that I can see you have all enjoyed so much this evening.”

6.) You can maintain an optimistic attitude while still UPOD-ing to yourself. I just realized that UPOD-ing yourself sounds really weird, but my point is that it helps to have realistic expectations of yourself, and to give yourself some buffer. I used to always tell myself that I would get more work/homework done over Christmas vacation. Turns out, I was always disappointed at how much I actually got done. Now, before the break, I tell myself I will be happy to get 10 or so hours’ worth of work done each vacation period. If I get more done, I am pretty proud of myself. For instance, even though I spent about an hour putting this post together, I am only really expecting it to be looked at by about 20 people, with only about 5 or 6 reading all the way to this point. This is okay to me as if it helps even one or two people enjoy the success I have, it is worth it (also, I plan on sharing some of this directly with my close friends and family).

7.) Under-expect in your own relationships with others, and give people a break. Realize that thing come up, and that everyone is fighting a hard battle. Teach them, in gentle ways, how to UPOD.

8.) In some instances, it is okay to let them know that you are UPOD-ing. Example, tell your friends that you would love to play games with them online this evening, but you are pretty sure that your boss is likely going to keep you after work (because he usually does on a Friday evening). I say “some instances” because excessive explanations might actually get them to distrust you, especially if the explanations are beyond their current level of comprehension. For example, for some, when a mechanic or doctor starts using words that no one has ever heard of, people become suspicious or resentful of that person. For instance, you don’t need to explain why the pizza might be an extra 5 minutes later, just quote them 5-minutes later and wow them when you get there 10 minutes early.

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Alexandra Botez

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Articulate homeless man explains why you should never smoke crack

Brooklyn is Pizza Heaven: The Pizza Show

Game show opponents choose to either split £13,600 between them OR be greedy and steal it all for themselves BUT if they BOTH choose steal, they get nothing! This guy uses logic to break the game

Crushing carbon fiber with hydraulic press

Kid buys weed off Instagram

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Clever Seal Goes to Desperate Lengths to Dodge Killer Whales – Newser

Postman Makes Sure Dog Gets A Daily Letter Even When There Isn’t Any Mail – Ned Hardy

Here Are 8 Ways To Last Longer In Bed – Maxim

The Best Hacks For Getting Rid Of Weeds In Your Lawn – Better Homes

Celebrity Big Brother’s Chloe Khan sucks seductively on a lollipop as she flaunts her eye-popping assets – Linkiest

This First Aid Blanket Will Help You To Save Lives – Leenks

Cowardly Computer Geek Hacks Leslie Jones’ Phone, Leaks Nude Photos – Bossip

He Turned A $50 Mobility Scooter Into A Tiny Jeep For His Daughters – Slip Talk

Emilia Clarke, Charlotte McKinney and Other Random Ladies – G-Celeb

Hump Day is a Happy Day (38 Photos) – Radass

A small car tries to brake-check a big truck, and how did that work out? – Faves

Women’s Volleyball is the greatest spectator sport – Terez Owens

Park Rangers Describe Creepiest Things They’ve Seen – Ranker

Emily Ratajakowski is a damn fine woman – Drunken Stepfather

18 Ridiculous Luxury Home Movie Theaters – Regretful Morning

Courtney Cox Regrets All the Work She’s Done to Her Face – The Blemish

Mischa Barton is an idiot – Celeb Slam

Daily Man Up (31 Photos) – Suburban Men

Selfies Make Tuesdays a Better Day – Bro My God

Guess That Ass – Barstool Sports

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Instagram

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This is what happens when you cheat on a Latina

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When I am staying with my parents and I hear the bed creaking

When the girl I’m seeing suggests sex when I am mad at her

When an employee at the grocery store opens an extra checkout lane and waves me over

When I end a conference call

Watching our single friend hit on a girl at the bar

As a 30 y/o man I don’t get a reply inmedialty after “seen”

When I spot my friend who had turned Vegan a couple of months ago at a Steakhouse

When my girlfriend asks me if I came already 

When I overhear my coworker say “I can’t finish this I’m too full”

After I eat a bag of trail mix then do the math on the calories and it turns out to be over 4000

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Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, is the richest person who ever lived (inflation adjusted) 

Born in 1280, Emperor Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire, which made up Timbuktu, Ghana and Mali in West Africa. In the 14th century Musa was worth the equivalent of $400 billion today.

Musa’s wealth came mainly from his country being the supplier of half of the world’s salt, and gold. He also invested in architecture and education, leaving behind an intellectual and economic awareness that established Mali as a global superpower and continue well into the Middle Ages

A Russian dog whose owners were killed in a car accident. Despite attempts to adopt or re-home him, the dog refused to leave the site of the accident and waited for them until it died 7 years later. The city informally adopted the dog and dedicated a statue honour its loyalty. 

Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated with a technique (explained in the vid) learned in under 2 minutes

Prosecutors tried to put wrongfully convicted Juan Rivera back in prison for murder by introducing new evidence of blood on shoes; defense proved the shoes were not available for sale until after the alleged murder, resulting in an evidence tampering investigation 

At the time of the crime, Rivera was wearing an electronic monitor from a previous conviction. Electronic monitoring system records showed that Rivera did not leave his home on August 17, 1992. Phone records also showed a call from Rivera’s home to a relative in Puerto Rico that evening.

Hershey Bars contain only 11% cacao, only 1% more than the FDA legal minimum to be called chocolate

There are only three northern white rhinos left on earth, the only male has 24×7 armed guards, and there is a gofundme to raise half a million bucks to develop rhino IVF to keep the species alive (article)

None is capable of breeding. The northern white, which once roamed Africa in its thousands, is in effect extinct. The three – named Sudan, Najin and Fatu – are the last of their kind.

In a few months, however, a group of scientists from the US, Germany, Italy and Japan will attempt the seemingly impossible: to rescue the northern white rhino – smaller and hairier than its southern cousin – from the jaws of extinction. In October, they plan to remove the last eggs from the two female northern whites and by using advanced reproductive techniques, including stem cell technology and IVF, create embryos that could be carried to term by surrogate rhino mothers. The northern white could then be restored to its former glory. The procedure would be a world first.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.” (article)

In 2012, Rowling became the first person to fall off the Forbes list of billionaires because of charitable giving. She had given away an estimated $160 million to charity, what amounts to 16% of her net worth.

Even before […], Rowling wrote books for the specific purpose of making money for charity. A series of three books taken from the Harry Potter universe — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard — has raised about $30 million for various charities.

The real owners of Buffalo Bill’s house from “The Silence of the Lambs” tried to sell the house for almost a year but couldn’t. The house still looks like it did in the film and comes with a signed copy of the book and a thank you note from the film crew

‘The Villages”, An over-55 community, has the highest consumption of draft beer and STD rate in the state of Florida (article)

The most effective treatment for CDI (a bowel disease causing chronic diarrhea) is a fecal transplant, where poo from a healthy person is put in the infected person’s bum, thereby transplanting healthy bacteria into the digestive tract. It is 94% effective as opposed to 30% for antibiotics

British banking giant HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), but there were no criminal charges and no one went to prison. (article)

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Hi, I’m Dan. A few years ago I drove a Jeep from Alaska to Argentina. I learned a lot on that trip about where I want to go and what kind of vehicle I want to live in.

After years of saving and planning, I bought a 2007 four-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon to turn into a house on wheels to drive around Africa for two years.

My build focused on interior living space and strong 4×4, and it had to fit inside a standard 20-foot shipping container.

Here’s what it was like:

First, the finished project: my house on wheels completed.

I started by stripping the entire interior. No backseat for me.

I had a plan to create a lot of interior living space, so the stock roll bar had to move. I was too timid to cut it myself, so that’s my buddy, who was all too happy to cut up my Jeep.

My friends and I made a new roll bar that’s much farther out of the way.

After lining the tub with dynamat and lino, I built cabinet frames out of aluminum tube and corner connectors. The whole setup was designed around a 35 L Dometic fridge mounted behind the front passenger seat.

I lined the cabinets with plywood — light and durable.

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Another view. The ones up high on the left can un-clip and fit in the isle to make a flat sleeping platform when needed.

I was dead set on a diesel engine for my Jeep, so I paid to have a Mercedes 6-cylinder 3.0-liter turbo diesel installed.

It turned out to be massively more time, money, and effort than ever imagined … Then the engine blew up the week after I got it back. It sucked diesel from a leaking return line and ran away (Google it) pegging at 10k rpm + for 10 seconds or so. Melted pistons, valves, injectors, and glow plugs. It was scary as hell, and completely devastating. Years of planning and saving and then months of working on the Jeep down the drain. At this point I didn’t know what to do. I almost gave up.

After tons of soul searching, I decided this dream is worth going into debt for, so I sold the old Jeep and bought a replacement. It’s a 2011 Unlimited Rubicon, in my favorite color (tan).

This was a huge blow to my budget and plans. I will have to deal with it down the road when I run out of money — likely I’ll put a lot of the trip on credit now, and maybe stop for a year or more and work somewhere.

This one has a 3.8L gas engine, and 6-speed transmission. I’m leaving the entire drivetrain stock. A gas engine is not ideal for Africa, but so be it.

So my friend and I moved everything over from the silver one to the tan one in less than three weeks. We put a steel security center console in.

I installed dual isolated Optima Yellow top batteries. This way the one that starts the engine is separate from the one running the fridge and everything else — so even if it goes dead, the engine will still start. The isolator joins them when the engine is running, so the alternator charges both.

I mounted an ARB air compressor under the hood so I can pump up my own flat tires. I had 16 flats from Alaska to Argentina.

We installed a heavy-duty rear bumper and swing-away carrier to hold the extra weight of the stuff I’m putting back there …

We installed a 2.5″ AEV suspension lift. Not so much for the lift, but more so because it’s beefier, and will handle the extra weight better.

We installed a Warn Zeon 10-S winch with synthetic line. It’s nice to know if I snap the line when I’m in the middle of nowhere by myself, the line won’t cut me in half.

I also installed an AEV front bumper that protects the radiator really well, and has a skid plate for the steering. Not pictured: I also installed an engine skid plate to protect it from rocks.

I’m expecting severe dust in Africa, so I installed a snorkel with dust pre-filter to remove dust before it goes down into the air cleaner. It’s more for dust than deep water, though that can’t hurt either.

I mounted a Titan Tank on the rear carrier, which is an extra 13 gallons of gas.

I designed and built a water storage, pump, and filtration system. It’s got an RV 12V pump and a 0.5 micron filter with a UV lamp built in.

Underneath, I moved the EVAP canister out of the way and then mounted a 12-gallon tank for drinking water.

Then I made a rock guard to protect it.

I had a pop-up roof installed by a company called Ursa Minor. This replaces the stock Jeep hard top, and pops open. Normally it’s a bolt-on to a stock Jeep, but my modified roll bar meant we could open it right up, so I can stand up and walk around in the back of the Jeep for massive interior living space.

With the upper sleeping slats removed, it’s wide open back there. I’m 6-foot-2 and have tons of head space.

When upstairs, this is the view down. There are wooden slats and mattress sections that slide into place to make the opening a flat sleeping platform.

This is during the building of the sleeping slats. They fold and slide out of the way on each side when I want standing room, or make a flat surface that the mattress section sits on when I want the upstairs sleeping platform.

On the rear carrier I’ve got the spare tire and 13-gallon gas tank, maxtraxx recovery mats (the orange things), a high lift jack, and a shovel to dig myself out.

We mounted an ARB awning on the back of the Jeep for a rain/sun shade. You can see it open in the first pic.

I mounted two 100-watt Renogy solar panels on the roof. These are extremely thin and lightweight panels.

The panels are wired into a charge controller that’s wired to the second battery. I left it for a week with the fridge running, and the battery was at 14.5V so the solar is easily keeping up with the fridge.

I bought a tailgate table with built-in cutting board, and then made a cutlery holder/organizer so all my often used stuff is easy to get at.

I’m running BFGoodrich All Terrain KO2s, which should be the most versatile for all the varied conditions I’m expecting to encounter.

I’m extremely happy with how it’s come together. It’s just under 7 feet tall, and weighs 6,000 pounds with me and all my gear, food, clothes, tools and spares. It’s a few hundred pounds heavier than I would like, but it is what it is at this point.

As a trial I did a couple of weeks camping and off-roading around Moab, Utah. The popup has transformed the Jeep into something completely different.

I’ve put a map of Africa on the hood and I’ll be painting in my line as I move through the continent. It was a huge hit from Alaska to Argentina.

Given that you’ve read this far, I figure you are interested in what I’m doing. I’ll be updating my website and social media as I make my way around Africa. You can follow along at the links below.

My Facebook

My Instagram

My Twitter

And my website

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Brother Ali killing the freestyle!

A Snowboarder’s Unbelievable Tiny House

Baby left in hot car in Philly…wait for it…

Bill Burr talks about the super cars from Qatar that arrive by plane in London

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People’s Average Weight Around The World (16 pics) – Leenks

Hilarious Photos Of Parents Celebrating Their Kid’s First Day Back To School – Ned Hardy

Emily Ratajkowski Gives Instagram Followers a Gift From Greece – Maxim

The top twenty most beautiful women of the 21st century – Linkiest

10 Surprising Things To Do With Ripe Bananas – Better Homes

Top College to Freshmen: Don’t Expect Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings – Newser

An Abandoned Orient Express Train Leaves Us In Awe As It Slowly Rots Away – Slip Talk

BB Gun Shots Fired: Kate Upton Clowns The Kardashians [Video] – Bossip

14 Totally F*cked-Up Spectator Events That Drew Huge Crowds Throughout History – Ranker

Spider bite causes a huge elbow infection and when that cyst is popped, it erupts in goo – Faves

Jessica Alba still looking good! – G-Celeb

Hot girls that are generous with the cleavage – Radass

Booty Booty Rockin Everywhere! – Bro My God

Kim K’s Wtf Body and Her Terrible Clan of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

30 Ink-Covered Instagram Pics of Alysha Nett – Regretful Morning

Usain Bolt’s Rio Groupie Says His Dick Is Less Than Olympic Sized, ‘Male Parts Do Not Match’ – The Blemish

Marvel vs. DC : Comic Universe Battle – Gunaxin

Dresses so tight it’s like an extra layer of skin (25 Photos) – Bad Sentinel

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