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When you swallow your pride and double text but you still get left on read

When my girlfriend suspiciously asks if I want to have a three-way with her best friend

When you creep on a chick and you see a date next to a heart emoji in her bio but then you find out it’s just the day her grandma died

When two studies come out at roughly the same time, one claiming that alcohol is responsible for surviving to old age, the other claiming that it’s responsible for developing dementia.

When the hottest girl I know spins the bottle and lets out an audible groan as it lands on me

Her reaction when she wants to jump his bones but she can’t right now

When a girl says “Come on you can’t be that bad at dancing” 

When you’re reading about people who died from the flu and you feel yourself getting a sore throat

When opportunity knocks

When the customer demands to speak to your manager but you are the manager

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After working for Elon for over 5 years at SpaceX as the Head of Talent Acquisition, there are many potential answers to this question.  Any answer I might give will be completely colored by my own experiences, so full disclaimer this is not an unbiased piece free of personal narrative.   

It is said that you cannot dream yourself a character; you must hammer and forge one yourself. If any leader and any company has done that, and continues to do that it is SpaceX.  To try and capture in words what  working with Elon is like, I’d like to share some specific memories, particularly of one really rough day and its epic aftermath.    

On Aug 2 2008, 8 months after I joined the company, SpaceX launched its third flight of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle.  Falcon 1 was the predecessor to the Falcon 9 launch vehicles that the company flies today.  

It was a defining moment for the company. Elon had a couple years prior stated in the press that his $100M personal investment in the company would get us up to 3 tries and if we couldn’t be successful by the third flight we may have to admit defeat.  In addition to the pressure created by this narrative in the press, the lobbyist armies of our competitors  (largest, most powerful defense contractors in the world) had been in overdrive in DC trying to undermine SpaceX and damage our credibility by painting us as too risky and inexperienced in order to protect their multi-billion dollar interests in the space launch business.  

SpaceX executed a picture perfect flight of the first stage (portion of the flight that gets the vehicle away from Earth’s gravity and where the vehicle experiences max Q/maximum dynamic pressure, or basically where the conditions on the vehicle are physically the harshest) clearing some of the highest risk points of mission.  

However, shortly after the first stage flight, immediately following stage separation (when the first stage of the vehicle detaches and falls away from the 2nd stage of the vehicle which continues its journey to space) we lost the vehicle and mission.   

SpaceX, VP of Propulsion Tom Mueller, the modern day godfather of rocket science and one of the most brilliant scientific minds on the planet, and his team had done such a great job redesigning the vehicles engines systems that they were even more efficient and powerful than in some ways projected. 

We turned off the first stage engine, and then proceeded to separate the vehicle stages; however when the stages uncoupled there was still a little leftover ‘kick’ or thrust in the first stage engine- so our first stage literally rear ended our second stage immediately after we had tried to separate the two sections of the vehicle. It was a devastating emotional experience.

I stood around with the then 350 or so employees, and we cheered the vehicle on as it took off, and as we were watching the mission clock and knew that the stages were about to separate – the video feed was cut.  The company is on a 20 second viewing delay from the mission control team as we are being projected the external press feed which is delayed in case of major mission anomalies.  So when we lost video, we knew something had gone  wrong in a big way.  

Elon and about 7-8 of the most senior technical people at SpaceX were commanding the mission from a trailer in the back of the Hawthorne factory; and we all waited anxiously for the trailer door to open and for someone to tell us something.  The mood in the building hung thick with despair; you have to keep in mind that by this point SpaceX was 6 years old, and many people have been working 70-80+ hours a week, swimming against extremely powerful currents, like difficult  barriers in technology, institution, politics, and finance- by sheer force of their blood and sweat.

They had all given so much, were mentally and physically exhausted, and really needed a win in order to replenish their spiritual wells and give them the faith to keep following this man up a treacherous mountain that had depleted the hopes and resources of the many others who had come to conquer it.  

This night would forever impact the future of the company, it had the potential to send the company into a downward spiral, from which we may not have ever recovered. A failure in leadership would have destroyed us not only from the eyes of the press or potential consumers but it would have destroyed us internally.  

When Elon came out he walked past the press and first addressed the company. Although his exact words escape me in how he started off, the essence of his comments were that:

• We knew this was going to be hard, it is after all rocket science;  then listed the half dozen or so countries who had failed to even successfully execute a first stage flight and get to outer space, a feat we had accomplished successfully that day. 
• Elon has (in his infinite wisdom) prepared for the possibility of an issue with the flight by taking on a significant investment (from Draper Fisher Jurvetson if I recall correctly)  providing SpaceX with ample financial resources to attempt 2 more launches; giving us security until at least flight 5 if needed.  
• And that we need to pick ourselves up, and dust ourselves off, because we have a lot of work to do.  Then he said, with as much fortitude and ferocity as he could muster after having been awake for like 20+ hours by this point that, “”For my part, I will never give up and I mean never,” and that if we stick with him, we will win.   

I think most of us would have followed him into the gates of hell carrying suntan oil after that.  It was the most impressive display of leadership that I have ever witnessed.  Within moments the energy of the building went from despair and defeat to a massive buzz of determination as people began to focus on moving forward instead of looking back. This shift happened collectively, across all 300+ people in a matter of not more than 5 seconds. I wish I had video footage as I would love to analyze the shifts in body language that occurred over those 5 seconds. It was an unbelievably powerful experience. 

What happened in the days and weeks following that night is nothing short of a series of miracles:

• Within a matter of hours the SpaceX team identified the likely cause of the launch failure. Typically turnaround time from others in the launch business can range from weeks to months for failure investigations. Our team combed through every ounce of data to make sure we understood exactly what went wrong as quickly as possible.
• By Aug 6th we announced the results of our investigation and came 100% clean with our supporters and customer community in order to make sure we could retain their trust in this difficult time. (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) 
• In 7 weeks, we had another rocket fully manufactured, integrated and on location ready to fly again. No one else could have done this in less than 6 months with unlimited human and financial resources; SpaceX did it in 6 weeks, with less than 400 people and on a restricted financial diet.  
• On Sept 28 2008, SpaceX flew its Falcon 1 launch vehicle from Kwajalein Atoll in the south pacific and executed its first 100% successful launch becoming the world’s first privately built rocket to achieve earth orbit.  An accomplishment of truly epic portions and a task previously completed by only 6 mightiest nations in the history of the world.  A much needed and much deserved victory for the entire SpaceX team and as it hopefully will turn out the future of humanity overall. 

So for those who ask the question, this is in my opinion the true character of Elon Musk. Undeterred in the face of all odds, undaunted by the fear of failure, and forged in the battlefields of some of the most terrifyingly technical, and capital intensive challenges that any human being could choose to take on.  Somehow he comes out alive, every time – with the other guy’s head on a platter. 

Working with him isn’t a comfortable experience, he is never satisfied with himself so he is never really satisfied with anyone around him. He pushes himself harder and harder and he pushes others around him the exact same way. The challenge is that he is a machine and the rest of us aren’t. So if you work for Elon you have to accept the discomfort. But in that discomfort is the kind of growth you can’t get anywhere else, and worth every ounce of blood and sweat.

– Dolly Singh

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How do mathematicians know that they’ve correctly solved a complex math equation when other equally skilled mathematicians cannot?

Here’s an analogy. Let’s say you’re trying to find the solution to a very difficult maze. Everyone might be stuck trying to find their way out, but you’re the first to find the solution. How do we know your solution is correct? You showed us the path – it’s easy to verify that the path is correct, even though finding it is hard.

It’s the same in math – finding a solution is hard, verifying it’s correct is easy.

Another example is Sudoku – it’s hard to solve, but checking whether a solution is correct is easy.

It’s true that more difficult math problems might be more difficult to validate, but it’s still easier to validate the correctness of a solution (typically a proof) than to find it in the first place.

How does sodium pentothal a.k.a truth serum make people tell the truth? 

It reduces brain functions and makes people more susceptible to pressure to tell the truth. It doesn’t force people to tell the truth so much as it makes them have less control over what they say & think. Similar to how you may be more talkative or honest when you’re drunk, since you have fewer inhibitions.

Remember the saying “the easiest version is the truth”? This is true in our brains as well. It’s harder for the brain to think of a lie than to tell the truth and it requires a higher level of function. It makes sense when you think about it: to tell the truth you have to remember something, to lie you have to remember that and think of something else.

Drugs like sodium thiopental lower higher cognitive function. This makes it harder to lie. An experienced interviewer can then more easily spot that you’re lying as it will become more obvious. Your lies won’t be as good and won’t be as easy to think of them. They can use that to figure out what you’ve said is true and what isn’t.

However if you never say anything, they can’t learn anything. Though if someone is breaking out the sodium thiopental, they’ve probably been using sleep deprivation and other fatigue techniques as well. Once you start talking, it becomes very hard to lie accurately while under the influence.

– God_Given_Talent 

During a police interrogation, can you actually get away with not saying anything until you’re provided with a lawyer?

In the US, the sixth amendment to the constitution says the following:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Brewer v. Williams (1979) held that once adversarial proceedings have begun against a defendant, he has a right to legal representation when the government interrogates him.

So basically, yes, it works like it does on TV. At least, it does in the States.

Now, in practical matters, the police are allowed to lie to you. There’s nothing stopping them from trying to convince you that you don’t need a lawyer. You could say to them something like “I think I need a lawyer,” and they could say something like “Why do you need a lawyer? Lawyers are for bad guys. You aren’t a bad guy, are you? We just want to get a bit of information”

What are the inner thoughts of a person suffering from Anoerxia?

I lost around 50 pounds in a bit less than 3 months at my worst, must have lost 60 pounds in total. It started very slowly, as I got used to everything, as I eliminates food. But once I got the hang of it, it got fast terrifyingly quick. I guess I had the predisposition, I can get sickeningly single minded with my purpose.

I have, however, wonderful parents who acted in time and while I was diagnosed with atypical anorexia, although my lowest Bmi was 17, I still had my period so never got diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in itself.

I don’t know how to qualify the way I viewed myself. Days I knew I was too thin and others where I viewed myself as in need of losing weight. Small things, skin roll when sitting, bloating, skin pinching, that made me obsessed over every ounce of fat.

I don’t think I viewed myself as fat or obese, necessarily. I was aware and unaware of being thin. I knew my ribs sticked, I knew I looked I’ll. But the need, the will, the absolute triumph I felt when my weight dropped trumped everything else. This feeling mattered more to me than the consequences, I felt important, I felt good and in control.

And seeing and feeling my ribs, my hip bone, having a thin waist line. It was both soothing and comforting. I craved the touch of my fingers over the bones. Seeing my weight go up even by a pound, was an experience so… Traumatic, each time. I felt like a failure, like a worthless pig who had no control over herself. Not eating, enduring the hunger was my quest for control back in a period where I felt I had very little of it. It felt empowering that I could control the most basic of instincts. I thought I was strong each time I ignored it. I genuinely thought myself better than other people, while being so so jealous. I was miserable, in a twisted form of happiness that just shattered over time.

And then, even when you realize you’re too thin, you can’t stop. The vanity of being thin is such a small part of the whole thing… It’s not about your appearance anymore. I did not care about what I looked like, what I felt like. I cared about what other saw in me and to the me of that time it was fat. It was ugly. It was bad, and awful, and I just projected myself. Every thought I had about myself I threw it on others and then comforted myself in believing I was a superior being who could ignore instincts. Oh how I envied them and hated them.

There’s nothing logical in this thinking process. It’s just the visceral desire of introducing control in your life. It’s like believing you can extinguish fire with oil and you keep repeating the process, completely unable to see how violent the inferno became. And you can only realize much too late that the fire you were confronting in front of you made a full circle, and you’re trapped. You want out, but you just have the oil in your hands to put it out, so you just make it brighter and stronger.

– Murderous_squirrel

Could someone who has steadily and determinedly studied MMA for two years survive in prison?

Do you mean survive based solely on their MMA prowess? Nope.

Daryell Dickson Meneses Xavier was a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor who was accused of sexually abusing his 1 year old stepson, leading to a seizure and eventually the child’s death.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the the martial art that the winner of most of the early UFCs used. And is now an integral part of almost every MMA fighter’s training.

Despite almost certainly being the best fighter in the jail, once the other inmates discovered what he was accused of, he didn’t stand a chance.

According to reports, at his initial 30-day incarceration, the perpetrator is said to be brutally raped by his 20- fellow inmates as he awaited for a hearing of his case before a presiding judge – receiving vigilante justice. After the initial assault, Xavier was then tended to by the jail’s medical staff with numerous sutures across his back and noticeably on his anal area.

However, he was then instituted back to the prison where he received another round of prison justice, raped and otherwise abused for the second time tearing out the fresh stitches from the wounds, brutalizing him more. Injuries became more prominent over his entire body especially on the region of his back side.

An image of Xavier following the savage attacks was posted on the internet – attesting the form of justice he has undergone from the bloody stains on his back.

No matter how good a fighter you are, numbers will always win. An amazing fighter might be able to take on a higher number, but if you have a whole cell block against you then you’re out of luck. I imagine that BJJ, which relies heavily on grappling and submission, is especially ill suited for multiple opponents.

– Sam Priestley

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DEADMAU5 said this bassline is impossible to play, someone proved them wrong

Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?

Cockpit view of an F/A-18 catapult launch

Ever wonder how computers work

Man Sneaks Through Window In Attempt To Rape A Bikini Barista (article)

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The Year I Spent Addicted to the Xbox 360 – Medium

Brendan Fraser on His Comeback, Disappearance, and the Experience that Nearly Ended His Career – GQ

A marijuana entrepreneur brings in over $1 million a year running a ‘bud and breakfast’ hotel – Independent

10 Gruesome Execution Methods You Won’t Believe Still Happen Around The World – Ranker

20 Powerful Photos That Will Stop You In Your Tracks – Slip Talk

New "Discovery Mode" turns video game "Assassin’s Creed: Origins" into a fully narrated, interactive guided tour through a detailed recreation of Ptolemaic-period Egypt – The Verge

This handy gadget eliminates keychain bulk by folding up all your keys into the size of a small swiss army knife – Amazon

31 Amusing Photos That Will Make Your Day – OMG

Peter Wang, a 15-year-old member of the Junior ROTC who was killed as he tried to help fellow students escape a mass shooting in Parkland, posthumously admitted to the U.S. Military Academy. Wang and two other cadets, Martin Duque and Alaina Petty, both 14, were also awarded the Medal of Heroism – NPR

Nigerian man organizes trash cleanup in the world’s most polluted city – CNN

5 Myths About Food You Believe Thanks To Jerk Companies – Cracked

There’s a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu – NY Times

High School Student Nicknamed ‘Trash Girl’ by Bullies Refuses to Stop Collecting Litter – One Green Planet

Beyond Suspect: Inmates Hold A Beauty Pagent In Prison – WorldStar

Bijlmer, The Failed City Of The Future – 99% Invisible

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 “Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again…to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside…and it will be easy enough to fail…but don’t, don’t, don’t. Just watch them. Listen to them. Do you want to be like that? A faceless, mindless, heartless being? Do you want to experience death before death? Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Think about it. Think about saving yourself.”

― Charles Bukowski

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A Chinese father in the Sichuan province walks his son to school every day. But this isn’t your typical father son stroll. Yu Xukang uses a specially constructed bamboo basket that he straps onto his back to carry his 12-year-old, Xiao Qiang, to school. Xiao is three feet tall and born with an undiagnosed disability that left him with a hunchback and twisted limbs. So every day, Yu walks eighteen miles across mountainous terrain to make sure his son gets an education. After a four-and-a-half mile journey to drop Xiao off, Yu heads back home to work in the fields. Later in the day he makes the same trip to take his son home.

Even though his body is disabled, Xiao Qiang’s mind is sound, and his father knows that. The only school that would take him is Fengxi Primary School, which is 5 miles away. “My son with his disabilities is not in a position to walk on his own and it also means that he can’t ride a bike,” 

So his dad carries him to school, walks back so he can work to provide for them both, then walks back to the school to pick up his son.

When the local government discovered just how many miles the father walked (approximately 1,600 so far), they offered to help him rent a room near the school in the future. That way, Xiao could stay at the top of his class.

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Girl Follows Her Dad Around With a Confetti Cannon

“I’ll handle this, human.”

Dancing with your best friend

Sea otters hold hands with their friends and family while sleeping so that they don’t drift away from each other. It’s called rafting

Dreaming about being a dad

Prosthetics don’t just help heal physically

Inside a Dog Retirement Home: A group of women have dedicated their lives to providing a loving home to nearly two dozen elderly dogs at a time

No, wait, watch how awesome I am too

Elderly woman reunites with her lost dog in the rubble of her neighborhood following a tornado in Oklahoma City, in the middle of a live interview

Dad Uses Brilliant Technique to Allow His Blind Son to Enjoy Football Match

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Crazy bar brawl

A very tense interview were a forensic psychiatrist analyzes a hitman right to his face and tells him why he became a serial killer

Solo: A Star Wars Story – Trailer Re-Cut with Beastie Boys “Sabotage”

Inside The Safest School In America

Inside Westside Barbell, Powerlifting’s Most Exclusive and Controversial Gym

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

This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like – The Atlantic

The Essential Guide to Retirement – Get Rich Slowly

What Happened To Osama Bin Laden’s Gigantic Family After 9/11? – Ranker

My dog is getting older and she always needs help getting on and off the bed, this ladder lets her get on the bed without my help – Amazon

Putin’s Real Long Game – Politico

The 8 Biggest Fitness Myths You Must Dispel to Achieve Real Results – Knowledge For Men

The Daily Picdump Of Hotness – Lurk And Perv

Here’s the secret that dealerships don’t want to tell you – Discount Drivers

5 Rare Signs That Prove You Were Meant to Lead People – INC

Iskra Lawrence Big Girl Ass of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

All The Tricks Smartphones Are Using To Keep You Addicted – Digg

These hotties are generous with the cleavage – Radass

Kylie Jenner Just Knocked $1.3 Billion Off Snapchat’s Market Value with a Single Tweet – Maxim

Here Are 25 Very Strange Things Happening On Earth Right Now You Didn’t Know About – Slip Talk

Bella Thorne, Emily Ratajkowski and Other Random Women – G-Celeb

How to Help Your Kid Calm Down: An Age-by-Age Guide – Life Hacker

WWE superstar discusses an important aspect to Ronda Rousey’s new career adjustment – Fan Buzz

Juli Annee Was Born To Wear A Bikini – Hollywood Tuna

Liberty Walk’s Japanese Headquarters Is Just As Crazy As Their Tuned Cars – Jalopnik

These Supportive Parents Want You To Do Whatever Makes You Happy As Long As It Doesn’t Embarrass Them And It’s Law School – Runt Of The Web

What Each Slider on an Equalizer Does – Ziyad

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Taking the back from the kimura

Renzo Gracie’s Unstoppable Counter to Over Under Pass

Renzo Gracie Kesa Gatame Escape

Eddie Bravo vs Marcelo Garcia 

Rafa and Guilherme Mendes black belts look like whitebelts

How to Grapple a Larger Opponent – Coach Zahabi vs 220lbs Purple Belt

Awesome fight betweeng two little champs!

Iwan Hermawan taking four slams, some grounded knees and still gets the triangle

Garry Tonon Heel Hook Defense

Defending the triangle, the ‘Murican way!

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Women aren’t in the business of trading sex in exchange for you being nice to them.

If you think being a nice guy should be enough to get you laid, then you got another thing coming.Women don’t owe you sex, or a date, or a relationship because you’re a nice guy.

Since you’re so desperate for a relationship (or a date, or sex, or attention, or love), you think every woman puts you in the friend zone, when in actuality you’re the one putting every woman in the girlfriend zone.

There is no friend zone, girlfriend zone, or boyfriend zone.

There are simply two people (and sometimes more) spending time together and deciding what kind of relationship they’d like to have together.

Every now and then, those desires line up. You meet someone who wants what you want. Amazing.

But for the most part, there’s a mismatch in what people want. You want a relationship and she wants a friendship. Happens all the time. Get over it.

But instead of moving on you get mad and start asking things like, “don’t women want to date nice guys?”

…..

You say women don’t want to date you and put you in the friend zone immediately. Is that because you’re not being clear about your intentions from the get go?

Perhaps you’re approaching the whole interaction from the angle of a friend. Perhaps you’re scared of being honest about what you really want because you think that’s what ‘nice guys’ do.

Have you ever considered taking charge of your dating destiny and accepting responsibility for why women don’t want to date you?

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When his dog and best buddy died, animal lover Steve Greig set out to give older, overlooked dogs in shelters a new life full of love and happiness. Now, he’s ended up with an entire menagerie.

His home in Denver, Colorado houses 10, mostly senior, dogs, a couple of cats, a rabbit, a pig named Bikini who thinks she’s a dog, two chicks, two ducks, two pigeons and a koi-filled pond.

It all started when Greig’s beloved dog died. Even after months went by, he was still devastated by the loss so he decided to give another dog a good life.

But when he went to his local shelter, he wasn’t looking for a young pup, he wanted to adopt the “least adoptable” senior dog, as they’re often overlooked and have a slim chance of finding a forever home.

His first was a 12-year-old chihuahua named Eeyore, who came with four bad knees and a heart murmur. That was just the beginning, Greig told The Dodo.

Now, he’s a super busy human dad to a host of animals, including a total of 10 elder dogs.

“A normal day for me is getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning and making breakfast for all of them,” he said.

He also has to administer medication to his seniors with health problems. After taking care of his pack, Greig goes to work but comes home at lunchtime to let the animals out and give them treats.

The animals have plenty of comfy spots to make themselves at home, and Greig’s bed tends to get pretty crowded with them too.

While his animals are obviously enjoying a very warm welcome, Greig says it’s them that make it “feel like home.”

“It’s just fulfilling knowing that these guys are happy and loved and well-taken care of. It makes my days worthwhile,” he adds.

You can follow Greig and his home full of animals on Instagram here.

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