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A Few Glorious Clips For Your Consideration

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Savage

 

Popeye is back!

 

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

 

LOL!

 

Bit over due for an oil change.. 

 

Attachment for wheelchairs

 

True Friendship

 

Insurance scam goes wrong

 

When the light turns green in the middle of an argument

 

Worst Luck Ever

 

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The Daily Man-Up

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It is the norm to waste large portions of one’s time.

Most people have very low standards for how they use their time.

They don’t have clarity about where they should direct their attention.

They haven’t created conditions to get clear on a daily basis.

They don’t believe they deserve to spend their time on ONLY those things which fascinate, challenge, and motivate them.

They haven’t discovered nor clarified their deepest held motivations, both for specific goals and for their life in general.

They act and operate from their base-level reasons, which aren’t inspiring.

Hence, most people’s time is spent either on stuff that literally irritates them, or at best, is merely “okay.”

When you spend most of your time doing activities that irritate you, or are just okay, how do you think you come-off to the rest of the world?

Irritated and bored?

Lacking clarity and purpose?

Disconnected and distracted?

 

How do you make the shift?

How do you get clear about what you want?

How do you connect with your deepest held convictions and identity?

How do you operate at peak levels, daily?

How do you enhance your sense of self-worth, and continually upgrade what you believe you can have in your life?

How do you surround yourself with other people who are focused on growth and giving, rather than greed and taking?

By the end of this article, you will be better suited to grapple with these questions.

Your Life Is A Reflection Of What You Believe You Deserve

Everything in your life, right now, is a reflection of what you believe you deserve.

Subconsciously, you believe you are “unworthy” of anything beyond what you currently have.

Unworthy to have more.

Unworthy to contribute more.

Unworthy to experience more.

Unworthy to connect deeper.

Where do these internal attitudes come from? They come from your behaviors.

Your behaviors dictate your beliefs about yourself and the world. If you eat unhealthy food, how do you think that will influence your sense of identity?

What if you changed it up?

What if, instead of eating unhealthy foods, you DECIDED to eat only healthy foods, just for one single day.

How you act and what you do shapes your internal identity. Hence, when you make a personal investment in yourself, you create an immediate psychological upgrade.

You raise the bar on what you believe you’re worth.

You raise the bar on what you believe you can do.

You raise your standards for:

  • the type of person you want to be
  • the quality of work you want to do
  • the types of people you want to be around
  • the way you spend your time
  • and the lifestyle you have

Elevating your sense of what you deserve isn’t about entitlement. It’s about growth. At the deepest level, it’s about giving and gratitude — the hallmarks of abundance.

You give because you already have so much (everything you need and more).

You give because you’re grateful.

You give because you genuinely want to help other people.

You give because you want to grow.

And you grow, because you want to give more. As the saying goes, ‘don’t work to make money… make money so you can do more and better work.’

The first step, then, to using your time in the best possible way, is to elevate what you believe you deserve. If you don’t believe you deserve to spend your time on amazing things, you’ll continually sabotage yourself. You’ll continue to act in ways to PROVE TO YOURSELF you aren’t worth more. You’ll try to keep yourself small.

You elevate your sense of belief by changing your behavior in the here-and-now.

At every next level of your personal evolution, you’ll realize how low your standards once were. You’ll realize how limiting your beliefs and behaviors used to be.

You won’t judge your former self based on your current values, skills, and circumstances. You’ll love your former self, and steps upward you were taking.

You’ll only look back with gratitude.

You’ll only look forward seeking growth and transformation, not greed and transaction.

Check ou the rest of the article here

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The Story Of Hisashi Ouchi, A Victim of Fatal Radiation Kept Alive for 83 Days Against His Will

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Hisashi Ouchi was one of the technicians working at a facility operated by JCO (formerly Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co.) in Tokai of Ibaraki Perfecture. He is one of the two fatalities of Tokaimura nuclear accident that exposed him to, perhaps, the highest amount of radiation any human had exposed so far. The ethical value of his prolonged treatment and efforts to keep him alive, that lasted for almost three months despite his wishes and the pain he had to endure, was questioned and the efforts received criticism.

The accident occurred on September 30, 1999, when Hisashi Ouchi and two of his colleagues added a seventh bucket of aqueous uranyl nitrate solution to a precipitation tank. Upon adding, the tank reached critical stage and went into a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction releasing intense gamma and neutron radiation. 

During the accident, Ouchi was exposed to 17 sieverts of radiation with 8 sieverts being normally considered fatal and 50milli sieverts being the maximum limit of annual dose allowed for Japanese nuclear workers. 

At first, Ouchi came into the hospital with just some puffy redness to his skin. Ouchi’s chromosomes had been hit by a direct blast of radiation and were a jumbled mess. Without this vital blueprint, his cells would no longer be able to regenerate. The first real problem doctors noticed was a drastic decrease in white blood cells. Day 6, he was placed into a sterile (bubble) room. The doctors determined that the only way to improve Ouchi’s condition would be to give him a transplant of cells that would generate white blood cells. Day 7, Ouchi receives a transplant from his sister (a match). The doctor would meet with the family every day to candidly discuss his condition. Signs of radiation sickness were beginning to show up on the surface of Ouchi’s body. A nurse recalls how at first, they were able to use tape on his body, but soon when they’d go to remove the tape, skin would come off with it. Ultimately, there was nowhere left where tape could be used. When his skin started to slough off from the top down, no new cells could be formed to repair the skin. His breathing started to get erratic. (At this point, they show a nurse’s written record of Ouchi and he’s saying, “No more” “I’m going home” “Please stop” “Mom”) Day 11, to help him breathe, Ouchi is hooked up to a ventilator. This meant he’d no longer be able to speak to his family. The family (wife, son, parents, and siblings) visited him every day.

Day 18, the transfusion from his sister seems to have worked, and Ouchi’s white blood cell count returns to healthy levels. A week later, abnormalities are found in his blood. It seemed that the radiation in Ouchi’s body had damaged the chromosomes in the cells that he received from his sister. Day 27, problems beyond the skin and blood: (They show video of his intestines. The membranes are deteriorating.) He begins experiencing excessive diarrhea. 3 weeks after the diarrhea starts, the intestines start to hemorrhage (another video of his intestines, this time with blood.) He was given lots of blood transfusions, as many as 10 times in 12 hours. To help his circulation and put less pressure on his skin, Ouchi is moved to a special rotating bed. The places where he’d lost skin were seeping blood and fluids. He had to be wrapped almost completely in gauze. A nurse recalls how there was so much fluid leaking that it’d take half a day just to deal with the gauze, and how painful it must have been for Ouchi, although they gave him lots of medicine to sleep. His wife recalls how he bled out of his eyes, as if he was crying blood. He was losing 10 liters of fluid a day through his skin and intestines.

In order to curb the loss of fluid through the skin, doctors began daily skin transplants with special “bio skin.” (At this point, his skin was pretty much gone.) Unfortunately, the bio skin wouldn’t adhere to his body. A doctor explains that all the doctors probably knew that Ouchi’s chances of survival were low, but nobody dared say so out loud. Vocalizing any doubt could have led everyone to start questioning what they were doing and for who. A visibly traumatized nurse recounts how Ouchi continued to deteriorate and was hooked up to a machine, and in her losing battle to keep him alive, she wondered, “What am I doing this for?” She had to remind herself that she was doing it for Ouchi. 2 months after the accident, as Ouchi goes through a continuous process of hemorrhaging and blood transfusions, his heart continues to work hard to pump blood through his body, averaging over 120 beats per minute. The strain on his heart is similar to someone who is running a marathon. Day 59, suddenly, Ouchi’s heart stops. As the medical staff works to revive him, his heart starts and stops three times. After an hour, Ouchi’s heart begins beating on its own again. The traumatized nurse recounts that she was relieved when his heart started beating again, “but…” (implying conflicted feelings.) Having his heart stop for an hour affected his brain, kidneys, etc. and his condition quickly declined. His body was essentially being kept alive by machines and medicine.

The head doctor admits to debating whether or not to continue treating Ouchi, but says that the family didn’t want to give up hope until the very end, and that kept the doctors going. The family was still visiting Ouchi and encouraging him to fight on. Day 65, more problems with the blood. (I don’t understand the explanation exactly, but his white blood cells were being attacked and decreasing in numbers again.) Day 81, the head doctor sits down with the family and suggests that if Ouchi’s heart stops again, they should let him go. The next day, the wife visits Ouchi and expresses her desire for him to survive through the new year. Day 83, the young son visits and encourages his father to keep fighting. That night, Ouchi died. They show pictures of his muscle tissue and explain that all of his muscles were destroyed except for one: his heart.

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The Happiest Prisoner On Death Row

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Joe Arridy’s parents knew something was different about their son from a young age. Born on April 29, 1915 in Pueblo, Colorado, Joe had great difficulty in school and couldn’t understand a number of basic concepts. By the time he reached his late teens, he was admitted to Colorado State Home for Mental Defectives in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Because he had an IQ of just 46, the other boys at the mental home would often take advantage of him—and even beat him. Though they were troublemakers, he didn’t know better when he joined a few of them one day as they hopped a train that was passing by the home. They traveled for 24 hours all the way back to Pueblo.

Unfortunately, Joe would have no way of knowing about an incident that had shaken his hometown that same week. There’d been an attack on two teenage girls in their own home, in which someone raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl named Dorothy Drain with a hatchet. Her 12-year-old sister, Barbara, miraculously survived. Understandably, everyone in Pueblo was on edge, and they were hunting for the “perverted maniac” responsible. Sadly, this news didn’t bode well for Joe…

While the other boys from the mental home had returned from their train adventure, Joe ended up traveling alone all the way to Cheyenne, Wyoming—roughly 200 miles away from Pueblo. There, police found him and brought him in to Sheriff George Carroll, who suspected that Joe might be connected to the crimes in Pueblo. Following hours of interrogation, Joe ended up confessing to the attacks.

Sheriff Carroll immediately contacted Pueblo Chief of Police Arthur Grady. He said, “We are holding a fellow here who says he killed the little Drain girl in your city.” For his part, Chief Grady was shocked. He already had a man named Frank Aguilar in custody; Frank was a prime suspect because he’d been fired recently by the father of the victims, Riley Drain.

Further cementing his guilt, authorities has discovered items from the Drain’s home in Frank’s own house, as well as a hatchet that matched the police’s description from the crime scene.

What should’ve been a clear-cut murder case was now complicated by Joe’s confession. “He’s a nut—he can’t even read or write—and he’s told us two or three different stories,” the sheriff told Chief Grady. “But he seems to know all about the Drain murder.” Because of this, Sheriff Carroll informed the press that Joe was the murderer before the young man himself was even charged.

Certain things didn’t line up, however. Joe also claimed to have killed people who were still alive, which should have been a clear sign of mental instability—thus rendering his claims contradictory. Frank also originally said he’d never even met Joe, but after he was interrogated further, he implicated Joe in the crime—possibly seeing a way out of his own guilty sentence. Afterward, both were taken to court.

Little Barbara had even already identified Frank as her attacker; she was never asked to testify against Joe. Meanwhile, Joe’s defense pushed for a verdict of innocence by reason of insanity. After all, three state psychiatrists said that Joe had only reached the mental age of six, and they stated that he was “incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and therefore, would be unable to perform any action with criminal intent.”

The judge, though, sided with the four lawmen, including Sheriff Carroll, who claimed that Joe knew what he was doing.

Notably, Sheriff Carroll had received a $1,000 reward for catching Joe. Likewise, he recited Joe’s confession from memory. Nobody else saw or recorded it. Moreover, Colorado State Home superintendent Dr. Benjamin Jefferson said that Joe was vulnerable and suggestible. For example, he would confess to stealing cigarettes, even when he clearly hadn’t.

During his questioning, it was revealed that Joe didn’t know who Frank Aguilar or Dorothy Drain were. Additionally, he couldn’t identify the then-current president, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He didn’t even know why he was in court, or what a hatchet was. Nevertheless, on the strength of Sheriff Caroll’s testimony, he was jailed and sentenced to death.

While on death row, Joe liked to play with the toy train that Roy Best, the prison warden, gave to him. He enjoyed making faces after polishing off his dinner plates and using them as mirrors. Unlike at his previous homes, people in prison actually liked him. The warden even called him “the happiest prisoner on death row.”

When a reporter asked Joe if he’d like to return to the mental home, he replied, “No, I want to get a life sentence and stay here with Warden Best. At the home the kids used to beat me… I never get in trouble here.” Although Frank Aguilar was executed in 1937, future Colorado Attorney General Gail Ireland won Joe nine stays of execution. Unfortunately, though, the tenth appeal failed.

“He probably didn’t even know he was about to die,” said the warden. “All he did was happily sit and play with a toy train I had given him.” He showed “blank bewilderment” when asked about the execution, and told the warden, “No, no, Joe won’t die.”

After eating his last meal—ice cream, per his request—the priest reciting his last rites told Joe that he’d have to give up his toy train, as he’d get a golden harp in return. Then, on his way to the gas chamber, he was quoted as saying, “I want to play the harp like the padre told me.” He was executed in 1939, at the age of 23. Warden Best wept in response.

A book was published in 1995 by Robert Perske, who advocates for the disabled, detailing the case and arguing Joe’s innocence. “I’ve worked on a lot of miscarriage of justice cases,” he said, “and the trial, conviction, and execution of Joe Arridy is the worst miscarriage of justice I’ve ever seen.” In 2011, 72 years after his death and following years of appeals from advocates, Governor Bill Ritter finally pardoned Joe Arridy.

“Pardoning Mr. Arridy cannot undo this tragic event in Colorado history,” said the governor. “It is in the interests of justice and simple decency, however, to restore his good name.”

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A Freed Slave’s Letter to His Former Master

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P. H. Anderson, a planter, wrote his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, who had previously served as a driver or an overseer and escaped during the war, to offer him employment after the war. P. H. Anderson, deep in debt, hoped that his former slave would help to bring in the harvest and convince other former slaves to return and thereby save the plantation. This document presents Jordan Anderson’s reply, dated August 7, 1865. Jourdon Anderson did not return, and P. H. Anderson ultimately lost the plantation.

 

Dayton, Ohio, 

August 7, 1865

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee

Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams’s Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.

From your old servant,

Jourdon Anderson

 

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The Dumping Grounds

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Teacher Arrested for Asking Why the Superintendent Got a Raise, While Teachers Haven’t Gotten a Raise in Years

 

Quick nap (via @chicklet.hf)

 

Soda to the head? Like Scott Hall gives a fuck

 

In 2006, Guy Goma showed up at the BBC for a job interview as a computer technician. He was mistaken for Guy Kewney, a computer expert, and put on live TV to discuss a judicial verdict.

 

Food From LA County Jail

 

5 Creepiest Sounds of War Ever Recorded

 

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Linkage

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A Day Before Her Death, This 27-Year-Old Wrote A Letter, And It May Change Your Life Forever – Bored Panda

How Coinbase could disrupt traditional brokerages and dominate the investment market – Venture Beat

20 Of The Most Creepiest And Bizarre Deaths in History – Ranker

Softest blanket ever that will exponentially increase your comfort level while sitting, sleeping, and lounging – Amazon

Megachurch pastor receives standing ovation for admitting to ‘sexual incident’ with teen girl – Daily Dot

North Korea to join Olympics in South Korea – LA Times

10 Acts Of Astonishing Charity Performed By Ordinary People – Listverse

Look Younger By Becoming An “Exceptional Skin Ager” – Health Headlines

Dealing With A Suicide Jumper In Saudi Arabia – Leenks

Adult Film Star Olivia Nova Passes Away at 20 – Maxim

Lily Rose Depp Topless of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

Bangkok’s Only Michelin-Starred Street Food Vendor Wants to Give Back Star – Eater

Hot Instagram Pictures Of Caitlin Arnett – Lurk And Perv

Here’s Which Supercar Guzzles The Most Gas, In MPG – Jalopnik

Emma Watson, Olivia Munn and Other Random Women – G-Celeb

5 Psychological Techniques Companies Use To Take Advantage Of You – Grumpy Sloth

10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing – i09

Guy Has Epic MELTDOWN During National Championship Game – Radass

Everything You Should Know About Happy Relationships in One Infographic – Big Think

5 Underreported Acts Of Total Madness By Modern Countries – Cracked

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Jessica Beppler


The Daily Man-Up

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In case you hadn’t noticed,
it has somehow become uncool
to sound like you know what you’re talking about?
Or believe strongly in what you’re saying?
Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)’s
have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences?
Even when those sentences aren’t, like, questions? You know?

Declarative sentences—so-­‐called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true, okay,
as opposed to other things are, like, totally, you know, not—
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don’t think I’m uncool just because I’ve noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It’s like what I’ve heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?

I’m just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?

What has happened to our conviction?
Where are the limbs out on which we once walked?
Have they been, like, chopped down
with the rest of the rain forest?
Or do we have, like, nothing to say?
Has society become so, like, totally . . .
I mean absolutely . . . You know?
That we’ve just gotten to the point where it’s just, like . . .
whatever!

And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness
is just a clever sort of . . . thing
to disguise the fact that we’ve become
the most aggressively inarticulate generation
to come along since . . .
you know, a long, long time ago!

I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you,
I challenge you: To speak with conviction.

To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks
the determination with which you believe it.
Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker,
it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY.
You have to speak with it, too.

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Welcome To Caveman’s Fight Club!

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McDojo Black Belt Testing

 

Khabib’s scary guard from the two times he was put on his back by Trujillo

 

Trujilo asking the ref for help against Khabib

 

Every finish from the incredible UFC 217 card

 

Broke this guys will and knocked him the fu*k out!

 

Matt Serra starching GSP and taking his title

 

An overly confident brawler challenged a Muay Thai trainer to friendly fight, got kicked in the head savagely multiple times when the trainer decided to start trying

 

Referee doesn’t stop fight, promoter has to throw in towel and the crowd reacts

 

There’s always that one person that escalates the sparring

 

Conor McGregor in the locker room after his loss to Nate Diaz at UFC 196

 

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A Few Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About

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What’s it like to be a pscyhopath?

Emotionals: Flatlines. Most days are just flatlines. You go out there, and you do what interests you, and sometimes the monotony of your existence is punctuated by events. Sometimes you feel pleasant and happy, sometimes you feel angry, but your emotions are like calm ocean waves. It comes, and then it goes, invariably around the clock, and they’re just as mild and watery as waves. There are no tsunamis in our world. We do not implode. We do not explode.

Our emotional range typically lacks the highest peaks and the lowest lows, but especially not the lows.

Relationships: We don’t love, and we don’t bond, and we don’t grieve. I treasure some people, but if they fell off a really tall cliff I would ask why and (if no justice needs serving) I move on. There are psychopaths who invest in people and have inner circles. There are those who do not. I’m one of those somewhere in the middle, with an inner circle I will not kill for. Regardless, we are fiercely loyal to our people. We go to great, incomprehensible lengths for them, because we are never concerned with the question, why me?

Why me, is for me, the singularly most damaging, self-pitying question people ask in a relationship. Why me? Why do I have to put up with this? Why do I have to suffer so? Why am I trapped into this? Well, we don’t have that. When we want to leave, we dust off our asses and get on our bikes and ride into the satanic sunset. If we stay, we are doing it of conscious choice and we don’t fucking whine about it.

Most importantly, we do not stalk, and we do not trap you into a relationship you don’t want to be. Your stalker ex? Not a psychopath. Your boss? Not a psychopath.

Masks:

A mask is something we use to fit in.

It is the minutiae of faking empathy, emotion, and NT thought processes in order to fit in. It is not some glamorous Sailormoon transformation process that immediately levels us up from human to dark vigilante. It includes, but isn’t just limited to:

  • Responding with ‘I’m fine’ instead of ‘Fuck off’
  • Caring about your epileptic kid stories
  • Being afraid with everyone else when an escaped lion appears, and screaming like a little girl.
  • Griping about bills.
  • Nervousness about a big day, speech etc.
  • Caring deeply about being fired
  • Complaining about the prices of things.
  • Showing low-self esteem sometimes ala ‘I’m so fat! I hate myself!’
  • Pretending to remember and keep grudges from that time Albert from Accounts was slightly rude to you, because that’s expected behavior and you don’t want anyone to know that you’ve all but forgotten his existence.

Extrapolate to everyday interactions that fits this trend. In other words, it’s mostly to cover up the fact that we biologically cannot give a shit, because everyone else expects us to give many shits and fit in with their model of NT behavior.

You dial these up and down depending on what your culture/society is like, but the end goal is the same — to fit in.

In tldr terms, we biologically cannot give a shit about most things that people give many shits about, so we have to hide it.

Diseases and assorted NOs:

No, we do not get PTSD. No, we do not get depressed. No, no insecurity, nor arrogance. Not sadism usually, but there are exceptions. We do not play with people for fun. We do not kill. We do not kill ourselves either. We do not post our brain scans online. We do not self-diagnose. We do not care what you think about us. We are all here for a reason, and that reason is not to nurture your disbelief.

I hope that is comprehensive insight into our day.

– Carlis Kwok

 

 

What is it like to be a trophy wife?

 I spend a lot of time complaining to myself and my friends (girlfriends and guy friends) about my life but overall it is good.  I would not trade it for the alternative if that’s what you mean.

The good parts:

  • I love him, for real.  Sure, I won’t lie that him being successful didn’t influence my decision to date him and later when he proposed it was a no-brainer, but there isn’t a single girlfriend of mine or woman I ever talked to honestly who didn’t want an older man with a good job and money.  So it’s not a loveless marriage or a marriage of convenience, I fell in love with a man who happens to have a lot of money, and that’s still one of the things that makes me happiest about my life, having met someone who I love so much and who loves me, despite our age differences and whatever else.
  • Never having to worry about paying for things.  I had a $27,000/year job trying to do writing for small (often failing) newspapers in a big city before I met him, sharing an apartment with a friend. I spent the money I made on my wardrobe and shoes and hair (and I guess I’m glad I did) but a couple months choosing between rent and utilities like phone or heat was a real issue.  I know a lot of people think self-respect and making your own way is a big thing (including me) but I do not want to go back to that life.
  • He makes a lot of money.  I mean a lot.  I literally could not believe it when I first began to understand, but pretty much unless I want to buy a house or a very expensive car (like a Ferrari, not a Lexus) I don’t have to worry about the price ever.  It’s nice being able to shop all you want and he is more than happy to provide so that I look my best.  And what girl doesn’t want to look good?  Especially since her man is the one who appreciates her more than anyone?
  • I get to associate with a lot of interesting people.  I was raised with good middle-class manners, so I can get along passably with “high society” especially since many of the people he socializes with at work-related events are self-made and not “blue-blood European old money” types, so I get to meet lots of interesting and accomplished people and their spouses.  Much more interesting than my slacker friends who I feel a bit bad not talking to as often but the truth is that a lot of my friends from high school are still doing nothing with their lives and smoking pot and these people aren’t (as much, or as openly).

Now the bad parts:

  • People (including yourself) judging me.  There is always an unspoken feeling of disapproval about what I’ve done or the arrangement we have, even if both of us are happy.  It’s obvious that society frowns on this sort of thing and feels like a talented young woman with a college degree should be making her own way instead of stopping out and becoming a kept woman.  Probably my own worst critic is myself to be honest.
  • Not really feeling like I truly own anything.  The most expensive thing I’ve ever owned myself was a used car I bought for $2400 with money I earned at my first job out of school.  I loved that car, but it made too much sense to trade it in when he bought me a much, much nicer new car many years later as a birthday present.  Everything else, even if it’s something I’ve picked out myself that he could never have any use for (like shoes, jewelry, makeup, accessories) still feels like it doesn’t belong to me because it’s really his money.  Most days I try not to think about this and it’s all right but occasionally it comes to mind.
  • I feel like I have to keep the marriage together.  It does feel a bit like a hostage situation, because I know if things were to break up, I would lose a lot of this.  Yes I would be entitled to some of his stuff, but he is the one who has powerful lawyer friends so it probably wouldn’t turn out well for me.  We don’t have children yet (but we are talking about it) so there wouldn’t be any child support.  I’ve met some wives and ex-wives of his friends and the ex-wives say that in a divorce situation I will do okay but not great, and if I love him I should do my best for the marriage especially if we have kids (obviously).

All in all I can say that obviously we would like to be completely independent and financially-secure women but if life finds us in a situation where we are a trophy wife there are worse things that can happen to us.

– Anonymous

 

 

Why We Don’t Just Have Sex With Anyone

One of the immediate reasons for not having sex with everyone is because there is a cost associated with doing so!

If you accept that the idea of “life” is to propagate your genes, and thus, you want your genes to be the most fit they can be, then making a pairing with a “low-quality” partner will hamper your genes in the long run!

While the cost of sex is comparatively low for males physically, since sperm is a relatively “cheap” gamete, it is quite expensive for females! Once impregnated, a female, as everyone knows, has to gestate an infant for nine months! That’s nine months of moving slower, needing to be more careful, and then however many years to raisea baby into adulthood!

If you mated with everyone, you would need to hope that random chance slotted you with a great partner! For those on the extremely genetically “unfit” spectrum, random mating would be great, because usually, they would mate with higher quality partners!

Those on the other side of the bell curve would, by the same rationale, do worse, as they would typically end up mating with lower-quality partners.

If we’re just talking about sex for pleasure, that’s a slightly different story. But similarly, every mating with a lower-quality partner would mean you weren’t having sex with a higher quality partner. This could lead to reduced quality elsewhere besides children. Perhaps “quality” in a mate is governed by resource giving, or attention, or help with social problems or tasks.

In reality, we don’t operate like bonobos simply because we’ve evolved under different circumstances, so it’s difficult to simply rewire our brains to behave as such! Even if we don’t like to think so, there is a nearly constant assessment of “quality” going on in our social interactions

 

 

What it’s like working at an animal shelter which has to put animals down?

On a daily basis, we clean up after the animals, feed them, take their pictures, vaccinate, medicate, socialize, etc. For every cute puppy or kitten we adopt out, we usually find ourselves getting two in return. Whether its a stray off the streets, or some heartless chode that decided their dog of 5+ years doesn’t “fit” with their lifestyle anymore. No matter how hard we try, we grow attached. To some, we attach more than others.

Euthanasia is a necessary evil. Space isn’t limitless, and even if it was, who would pay for all of the animals? I’m just sure our fellow Texans are salivating at the thought of increased taxes, especially for taking care of feral cats and breeds that have been labelled violent by a very ignorant public (i.e. pit-bulls).

It doesn’t matter how hard you steel yourself, or how long you’ve been doing the job. You never get used to it, and you never grow completely numb. Imagine getting 12 cats in the span of a single day, and having to pick the 12 that have to die so there is enough room to accommodate them. I’ve stopped eating for days. I’ve cried myself to sleep. I’ve grown very disgusted with my fellow man.

Now on top of all that, imagine doing the job and running into disdainful assholes every single day. People that scoff at your profession as if it’s nothing more than playing dog-catcher. Well-wishers that stand on pedestals moaning about how cruel it all is, but offering nothing more than hot air when it comes to real answers to a very real problem. My personal favorites are the “animal lovers” that fall over themselves to rescue the yorkshire terriers and miniature pinschers that occasionally trickle into the shelter, but never seem to notice the 2+ year old mutt in the adjacent cage that is just as sweet, if not more so than the other dog that has a crowd of willing adopters and a guaranteed ticket out the door. That reminds me, let us not forget about the pool of dimwits that only support no-kill shelters, and continually ask why the municipal shelter you work at isn’t no-kill as if it were as simple as flipping a fucking switch. (Protip: It’s easy to label yourself no-kill when you can pick and choose what comes in, and shut your doors on a whim)

– shadow_kick

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Confessions Of An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Owner

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What is the largest amount of food you have seen/heard about someone eating at one sitting?

Personally I had seen one man pile 9 plates of Chinese food (mostly cheap noodles and chicken). When they eat by themselves, I think they eat a lot more. When they are with friends, the social pressure keeps them from gorging too much. My waiters had said a larger number, but they might be overestimating. No one can really eat more than 2 pounds.

If people constantly get multiple plates of the most expensive foods, do you lose money?

Fortunately that does not happen often, but when it does, we lost at most the price of the buffet. They will not cover the cost of labor, rent, and utilities, but I’m pretty sure no one will pack several pounds of heavy-protein food, so it’s less than the buffet price. They also bring their friends along, so if there is one glutton in the group, they convince the rest of them to go to our place, while we make money on the glutton’s friends.

Is your restaurant menu fairly standard, or do you try new menu items regularly to mix things up?

I would say about half of them are rotated regularly, but on a fixed schedule. Some things we just try because the ingredients are cheap. Right now tomatoes are at $57/cs while they were $11/cs 4 months ago. However the price of cabbage and potatoes dropped, as well as bass. That influences the new dishes we make.

How much is prepared by your kitchen vs how much is prepared outside of your kitchen?

The meat dishes are made from scratch, but the base for the sauces are from the supplier. Most of these dishes are made with ingredients common to each other, such as General Tso’s Chicken, Sesame Chicken, and other American Chinese dishes. Some things like the pizza, fries, sesame balls, desserts, are all from the supplier and come frozen. The microwave is not used that frequently, but the fryers are.

How long does it take to prep and cook everything before the store opens?

2-3 hours before we open is how long it takes, with a complete team. Most prep work is done the night before, so it isn’t that unreasonable.

What is the exact number of shrimp that you would cut someone off at?

Depends, what size. I have the ability to buy shrimps from 200 to a pound size to jumbo 4 ounce shrimps.

But really, we just would change out the type of shrimp for another type of shrimp with a different sauce/cooking method. The customer won’t come again, but if they are losing us money, we cannot let them take advantage of us. They are already getting their meal at a fraction of a la carte price, but the abuse cannot happen, as it is unsustainable. Before you know it we have to raise prices because of a group of people who become too greedy and just want to make us lose the most.

Do you ever have to ban someone from returning because they ate too much or wasted too much food?

Regulars do not eat too much, as they are there just because we provide a comfort to them. Most are very picky eaters who love the idea of getting anything whenever they want. Fortunately we make a lot of money on these people. The heavy eaters do not come very often. I still don’t know why that is the case.

We have never banned anyone because they ate too much food.

Some children however, I would love to ban, throwing food all over the place, and wasting whole plates of deserts they cannot finish, and their parents not giving a shit.

What is one item you would advise people to stay away from at an all you can eat buffet?

Crab legs. I’m being serious. I have seen Chinese buffets at the fish market going and buying bottom of the barrel seafood including crab legs past their prime. And then they don’t steam them properly either to save on volume.

The sushi on the other hand, a common misconception, is relatively safe to eat IN A BUSY PLACE, as the health code standards in the region of raw food is very strict, and you cannot skimp out on prices of salmon and tuna fillet.

Isn’t getting the crab legs past their prime dangerous? Wouldn’t it make people sick?

It does, unfortunately. Very often. But it is very hard to sue with the little amount of evidence people have. We do not even risk giving cheap crab legs for that reason

The oysters always sketched me out. You say the crab legs you should avoid and the sushi is fine. But what about the oysters?

Oysters are also to be avoided as they source them, especially in the midwest, from groceries and fisheries past their prime. Sometimes on the coasts they are imported from China and South America, but are decent quality while they are fresh.

Are sushi made from a factory? Or made in-house? The’re usually pretty bland

Sushi are not made from a factory. They are made in house, but not from the finest fisheries or filling. They are made with pretty safe treated fish, but we have to tone down the flavor since it’s a wide crowd we are appealing to.

Why are you always running out of chicken wings?

Chicken wings are hard to make in a busy kitchen. Each wing has to be spun and dipped by hand in sauce, which increases time. Chicken wings also come in smaller cases from restaurant wholesalers now for some reason, and the price increased.

Hot and Sour Soup…my absolute favorite but it is never the same place to place. Some it is ok, some it is amazing, never had one I hated, what is the story on it?

Egg composition. Hot and sour soup contains a lot of egg, and some places put less in the soup base when egg prices swing too high. It is made in a wok on high heat, so a high egg content makes it thicker.

Why do the deserts always look so delicious but taste like stale cardboard covered in colored sugar?

That’s what they are. They all come from the same factory in one of the major cities for Chinese immigrants in the US. The ingredients used are not half bad, but they lack preservatives to help it taste fresh. Some customers do say they get hard after some time on the trays. But I doubt these factories hire any food scientist to prevent them from turning into cardboard.

What measure do you have in place to prevent ‘water drinkers’ from drinking the soda?

Our waiters serve the soda, so that is not a problem.

There’s a buffet near me that charges people for any food left on their plate. What do you think about that kind of policy? Do you think it’s sensible, or risks driving customers away? Is wasted food a serious enough problem to necessitate such strict measures?

I would imagine if we implemented that policy we would lose some of our new customers. In practice, it is sensible, as running this place is very low margin, and any food wasted lowers that. But driving customers away ultimately results in fewer customers, which is more devastating than a bit more wastage.

What do you do with the food which is left after end of service? Serve it up again the next day? 

Half of the stuff at the end of the day is reprocessed much like other restaurants, even MCD and Panera Bread. You can turn so much stuff into soup, and will still taste fresh. We mark all our food to make sure that the day old soup, while it would normally last 2 days with fresh ingredients, we would only put out for a day. In almost all cases, the food is eaten and turned over within the next 12 hours by the morning. Stuff like fried food however and mushrooms, have to be thrown away.

What is the buffett crowd really like to deal with?

Some customers will bitch at you and purposely spoil the food in order to get their food for free. Some customers leave out their food at their table for 10 minutes and say it is cold, AFTER THEIR MEAL, and demanding it should be free.

What is your worst customer experience?

The worst experience was when a customer wanted a take out box from the buffet, which was by weight. He got two huge boxes, and the bill turned out to be higher than the price of the buffet. He argued and started yelling in the whole restaurant that it was a rip off that he took 5 pounds of food (verified on the scale) and should pay more than the buffet price. He said that he could eat more than the amount in the boxes, but it was 5 POUNDS of food! After arguing and initially lowering the price a bit, he threw a fit and wanted the whole 5 pounds of food for free. Regardless, we have a price policy in place, but some just don’t want to pay it. If you are going to take your food home, we cannot charge you the buffet price. This was well known before even walking in. Not to throw a fit and bother other customers.

I’m always interested to know how these all-you-can-eat for $15.00 joints manage to turn a profit. After paying salaries and operating expenses, how do you manage to stay in the green?

You only eat $6 worth of food in a $15 buffet. If my labor at $14 an hour including taxes can cook for 7 people, thats only $8 total. Add the drinks margin and you are profitable. A la carte restaurants are a rip off in this scenario, where you might only get $3 cost of food for $15.

How profitable are buffets in general?

Very low margins, but good if high volume. Low labor cost. Food cost is slightly higher.

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Pit Bull Used as Bait Dog Gets Rescued And Experiences Human Kindness For The First Time

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Image via YouCaring

This is a story of the right person, in the right place, at the right time. Rock Hill real estate agent Casey Lawrence found the injured Pit Bull dumped in the woods after getting lost while showing a property. The dog was discarded and left to die after likely being used as a bait dog by dog fighters. He was surrounded by bones and animal carcasses!

Fortunately, Casey found the dog, now named Rambo, in time! She rushed Rambo to Baxter Veterinary Clinic. Rambo was covered with bite marks and lacerations and was severely injured, and his leg wounds infected with gangrene.

There is no way of knowing the amount of time this poor dog, now known as Rambo, was left lying there alone, after being thrown away. Judging by his injuries, and the fact that there were other long since discarded carcasses, it is pretty clear that he was used as a bait dog in a fighting ring.

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Baxter Veterinary Clinic immediately stepped in to care for Rambo, preventing him from going into shock and saving his life.

Despite the trauma, neglect and abuse, Rambo did not give up on humans – he continued to wag his tail and give the staff kisses.

Once his condition was stabilized, Rambo was placed in a shallow tabletop basin where a technician lovingly cleansed his wounds with warm water. You can see from the photo posted to the Baxter Veterinary Clinic’s Facebook page that he was relaxed and soothed by the treatment – likely the first kind, gentle contact he’s ever had with a human.

a bait dog at a vet

By the following day, the timid, submissive pup was already wagging his tail for staff members and displaying a healthy appetite. Veterinarian James Doyle described Rambo’s personality as a perfect example of a bait dog. They’re not aggressive dogs and that’s why they’re used as bait dogs, because they’re not any good at fighting.

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Every Life Matters Animal Rescue and donations from the community have helped cover the costs for Rambo but they, like other rescue organizations, continue to need funds to continue paying for his recovery, along with all the other dogs who need help.

Investigators believe the site where Rambo was found, was the dog fighting rings personal dump site. Rambo’s serious injuries to both back legs are what led his captors to leave him for dead.

Image via Baxter Veterinary Clinic

Rambo’s abusers are still currently being searched for by South Carolina Police. But in the meantime, this sweet tempered pooch keeps his tail waggin while snuggling with his plush toy. His recovery will likely be long and painful, but, his prognosis is good. His experiences with the loving and caring humans that have been taking care of him, have seemed to make him feel his nightmare is now over. Every comforting pat or rub given him, he happily repays with kisses.

A YouCaring page has been set up for updates and for those interested in donating.

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The Dumping Grounds

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Teacher’s union will be holding a rally in response to Deyshia Hargrave’s removal for questioning Superintendent’s raise

 

This kid accidentally broke a window – his mum is NOT going to be happy when she finds out

 

This is the most pathetic armed robbery in the history of crime

 

Children Medieval Band

 

Cool Footage of AV-8B Harrier Cockpit View : Take-Off + Vertical Landing on Aircraft Carrier

 

This Combination Knife, Brass Knuckle, And Revolver Was Used By 18th Century Gangsters

 

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Linkage

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A Hit Man Came to Kill Susan Kuhnhausen. She Survived. He Didn’t – Willamette Week

How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves – Quartz

Russia has interfered in 19 countries’ elections over 2 decades, report finds – AMN

A Testosterone Booster That Actually Works? Could It Be? – Amazon

14 Secretly Gay, Bisexual, Or Queer Stars Of Golden Era Hollywood – Ranker

Bitcoin Crash – This May Make Investors Rich in 2018 – Underground Finance

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1968 – The Atlantic

10,000th Shoplifter Gets A Parade – Leenks

Exactly Why You Need To Warm Up Your Car When It’s Cold – Jalopnik

Kendra Sunderland’s Very First Supermodel Photo Shoot – Heyman Hustle

How To Defeat Your Opponents Using Game Theoy – YouTube

Dad turns in teenage son after finding child pornography on cell phone – KMOV

With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone – ARS Technica

The Golden Gate Bridge to get a suicide net – CBS News

LeAnn Rimes Bikini Ass of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational – i09

Hump Day is a Happy Day (36 Photos) – Radass

Why did my boyfriend like Emily Ratajkowski’s butt on Instagram? – The Verge

7 Regular Guys Who Became Heroes When It Mattered – Grumpy Sloth

Today’s Hottest Girls on Instagram – The Blemish

Meet “Synyster Ink” – The World’s Worst Tattoo Artist – Sad And Useless

How to Make the Classic James Bond Vesper Martini – The Art Of Manliness

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Hot Instagram Girl Of The Day: Chrysti Ane

The Daily Man-Up

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“Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat, his lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.”

– The Ultimate Warrior

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Reaction GIFs Beeeyotch!

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When the new white belt dominates you on his very first day because he’s a ex Division 1 wrestler

 

When I click on a NSFW post on my phone while at work

 

When a particularly overweight man at the gym gets off the treadmill, takes a quick breath, and gets back on

 

When I get hooked on a tv show after watching the very first episode 

 

When I grab the cereal from the cabinet and realize it’s empty because my brother is a dick

 

When my girlfriend wants to go out and do things Sunday morning 

 

When my ex says that I was the main problem in the relationship

 

My wifes reaction every morning 

 

When your sibling hits you in front of your parents

 

When you smell your own fart but you lowkey like it…

 

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There Are Some Things You Just Can’t Argue With

Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts

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After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying “We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers.” 

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-black regiment in US history. On July 18, 1863, the regiment was ordered to spearhead an assault on Fort Wagner. Shaw was killed during the initial charge as he led his men into battle.

While the assault was initially successful, Union forces were eventually pushed back and Confederate troops held on to the fort. Common practice at the time was for fallen officers to be given an honorable burial, regardless of the side they were on. However, as Shaw led the first all-black regiment, commanding Confederate General Johnson Hagood did not deem him worthy of that honor, stating

Had he been in command of white troops, I should have given him an honorable burial; as it is, I shall bury him in the common trench with the niggers that fell with him.

Union troops tried to recover his body and give him a proper burial, but were unsuccessful. Hearing of this, Shaw’s father sent a letter to the regimental surgeon, stating:

We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers….We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company. – what a body-guard he has!

And so, the act considered by General Hagood to be an insult, came to be seen as the greatest honor that could have been bestowed upon him.

 

Organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one

In the US, if you are a living kidney donor (i.e. when you freely donate a kidney while still alive), you are automatically reserved a spot at the top of the transplant list (for kidneys only)

The average wait time for a kidney transplant is 1600 days, it’s about 150 days for a living donor.

 

In the 1880s, many farmers communicated by connecting their phones to barbed wire fences. This process often allowed for up to 20 people to be connected at once, everyone’s phone would ring regardless of who called, and the invention helped many farmers overcome depression and loneliness. (article)

A young woman homesteading in the area in 1899, remembered how the line kept loneliness at bay and brought neighbors closer together. “The theory was that we would answer only when our own ring sounded, but whenever the bell rang, every woman on the line rushed to a receiver,”

Homesteaders often suffered from what today might be thought of as crippling clinical depression, brought on by days, if not weeks, of solitude, isolation, and physical labor. Marble herself lived alone on a property of 160 acres. “News and gossip were common property, like the sunlight, and we never had any privacies when we went to the telephone.” … Every now and then, someone cut into a conversation, while multiple listeners reduced what any one of them would be able to hear.“Get off the line!” was a familiar refrain.

 

 

Flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time

Csíkszentmihály’s model  is a really great visual representation of what Flow is: the mental state (focused, happy) of doing something that requires a high level of skill to tackle something with a high level of challenge.

Relevant Reading: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

 

 

Teddy Roosevelt’s Son Died Flying for the US During WWI. When His Body Was Discovered Behind Enemy Lines, the Germans Gave Him A Full Military Burial With Honors. (article)

After Quentin’s death, the once boisterous former president was more subdued, and his physical health declined rapidly. In his final days, Roosevelt often went down to the family’s stables to be near the horses that Quentin as a child had so loved to ride. Lost in sorrow, Roosevelt would stand there alone, quietly repeating the pet name he’d given his son when he was a boy, “Oh Quenty-quee, oh Quenty-quee…”

 

The Oakland Buddha, placed by a resident on a street corner to prevent illegal dumping, the statue has now become a shrine for the local Vietnamese population who leave offerings and have even built a shelter for the Buddah. Crime in the area dropped 82% (article)

 

In 2007 workers in Antarctica discovered several perfectly preserved crates of Scotch Whiskey left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1909. (article)

Once the ice, speckled with lumps of scoria, was gone, conservators recovered 11 bottles of whisky, carefully wrapped in tissue paper and protective straw. Meek describes them as being in “fantastic condition.”…

The initial plan was for a small sample of liquid to be removed to find out more about historic whisky making, but when the current owner of Whyte & Mackay, the parent company of Mackinlay’s, got involved, the project took a grander turn. Three bottles of whisky were transported to Whyte & Mackay in Scotland for analysis by the distillery’s chemists…

In Scotland, chemists at Whyte & Mackay’s Invergordon distillery, with input from analysts at the Scotch Whisky Research Institute in Edinburgh, subjected the whisky to a battery of tests. Under sterile conditions, a sampling needle was passed through the cork of each bottle to remove a 100ml sample…

After the mass spectrometers and gas and liquid chromotographs had done their work – including radiocarbon-dating the whisky and measuring levels of ethyl esters, phenols, cations, anions, sugars and metals – it was up to a panel of 15 expert “noses” from the Scotch Whisky Research Institute to profile the whisky’s flavour…

The first thing the analysts noted, in a paper recently published in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, was how well the whisky was preserved. Whisky ages in the cask, not in the bottle, and temperatures at Cape Royds had preserved the whisky in its 1907 state. Analysis revealed a well-preserved malt whisky of 47.3% alcohol by volume – high enough to stop the alcohol freezing – made with water from Loch Ness and using peat from the Orkney Isles…

 

As a child, Michael Jackson’s father would torment him about his appearance, calling him ‘fat-nose’. Michael went on to have four rhinoplasties and fussed over how his body and face looked for the rest of his life

 

In 2005, Facebook hired graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals in their new office space. Choe accepted Facebook shares instead of a cash payment, and when Facebook went public in 2012, his shares were valued at $200 million

Great interview David Choe did with Howard Stern

 

Genie Wiley was a girl who was raised in a dark isolated room with no indication of an outside world for the first 13 years of her life, her father was incredibly abusive, and when authorities rescued her she couldn’t speak at all and only made infantile noises.

Genie is a ward of the state of California, and is living in an undisclosed location in Los Angeles. In May 2008, ABC News reported that someone who spoke to them under condition of anonymity had hired a private investigator who located Genie in 2000. According to the investigator she was living a simple lifestyle in a small private facility for mentally underdeveloped adults and appeared to be happy, and she only spoke a few words but could still communicate fairly well in sign language.

 

Before the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write essays about their characters. Watson turned in a 16 page essay, Radcliffe gave a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in

 

John Travolta has a rank of Khakhan within Scientology which means he could kill someone and get away with it as the Church would cover it up as part of Ethics protection (article)

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