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Last year I became a morning person, learned a new language, and read five times as many books as before. Sounds like I got a lot done, right? But it wasn’t daunting or strenuous; rather, all these outcomes came from doing small things every day over a long period.
When I first started focusing on building more healthy habits a few years ago, one of the biggest mistakes I made was to ask too much of myself. I would go from reading hardly ever to attempting to read one book per week. Or from getting up at 9 a.m. most days to trying to roll out of bed before 6 a.m. every morning.
The distance between where I was starting and where I wanted to be was so great that I would fail a lot. And each failure made it harder to succeed the next day.
At their heart, as James Clear explains, habits are about routines. And what I really needed was small wins and visible progress to help me create new routines I could keep at every day. Finally, I came across this idea of starting small. The point is to focus on repeating the habit every day, but not worrying about how effective that habit is. In other words, quantity first; quality later.
A great example is flossing. Say you want to floss every night, but you haven’t flossed for years. If you take up flossing out of the blue and expect to spend 10 minutes doing it every night, you probably won’t last more than a week. It’s a very big ask. But starting small is so effective, it’s almost like a super power.Here’s how it would work for flossing: you take the tiniest part of the habit you can work with—in this case, it would be to floss just one tooth. It’s still considered flossing, but you won’t make huge leaps in dental hygiene this way.
But here’s where it gets powerful: at first, you focus on just flossing one tooth every night. And you stick with it for more than a week. Then, more than two. Then three, four weeks. You can stick with this habit because it’s so easy. There’s barely any effort involved with flossing one tooth, so it’s hard to make an excuse not to do it. And once it’s become easy and automatic to floss one tooth, you start flossing two.
For a while, you floss two teeth every night. Then, you increase to three. And slowly you work your way up, never taking such a big leap that it becomes a chore. By starting small you focus on making the behavior automatic, before you worry about making the behavior big enough that it produces a useful outcome.
As Scott H. Young says, we tend to overestimate how much we can get done—especially when we’re stepping into the unknown. Scott suggests planning as if you can only commit 20% of the time and energy you’d like to, in order to be more realistic.
Here’s how I applied the “start small” process to my habits in 2015:
I started by reading just one page of a book every night before bed. Often I would read more, but if all I could manage was one page, I would count that as a win. Later, when the habit was already strong, I would put on a timer and read for 15 minutes, and eventually I was reading for 30 minutes before bed and another 30 minutes most mornings.
Just starting with one page added up: In 2013 I read 7 books. In 2014, 22. In 2015, 33. That’s almost five times what I read in 2013. I worked on this habit over about a year and a half. That probably sounds like a long time, but it only seems that way in retrospect.
When I’m working my habit, all I think about is how much I need to read today to count a win. It’s always a small, daily effort that I focus on. But when I look back on my progress, I realize what big achievements those daily habits have developed into.
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Scholars have critiqued American sex education for its overemphasis of danger and risk, noting the cost to teenage girls…. [and] the missing discourse of teenage love in American sex education, and its effects on boys, who confront a broader culture that provides scant recognition of, or support for, their emotional needs.
In comparison, sex education in the Netherlands tends to frame boys’ and girls’ sexual development in the context of their feelings for and relationships with others. Curricula include discussions of fun and exciting feelings. They also validate young people’s experience of love.
The Walton family invested about $150 million in 2014 through two separate entities, according to the investor list. Mr. Murdoch put in about $125 million, and the extended family of Ms. DeVos invested about $100 million.
Other prominent investors, according to the list, included the Cox family; the Atlanta billionaires who own the media conglomerate Cox Enterprises and who invested $100 million; and a company affiliated with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim that put in about $30 million. Robert K. Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, invested $1 million.
The last entry, dated on August 28 2013, reveals she survived for at least 26 days after she got lost while going off the trail to relieve herself.
On one torn-out page, dated August 6, Largay wrote: “When you find my body, please call my husband George and my daughter Kerry.
“It will be the greatest kindness for them to know that I am dead and where you found me – no matter how many years from now.
“Please find it in your heart to mail the contents of this bag to one of them.”
You squeeze your way into the cramped lavatory, thinking this is just going to be a routine bowel movement, and then you can return to your seat and relax until you land. Maybe even take in a movie, who knows. You can’t watch any videos on your phone, and you can’t browse the internet, being on an airplane and all, so you are alone with your thoughts. And then you feel it.
The first inklings that something isn’t right. Was it the two-week-old Mexican takeout you ate the night before? Was it the 12-pack of beer you washed it down with? Maybe it was just nervousness? Possibly a mixture of all three, you will never know. What you do know is that something unholy is about to start in this small room, 30,000 feet in the air.
It starts slithering out of you in the most violating way, as if your colon had detached and was slowing pulling itself free of your body. And the smell. Like burning hair and decomposition, and maybe a little two-week-old Mexican. You start to gag, and then you hear people outside of the bathroom join you. Dear god, you hadn’t even thought of the collateral damage. All the while, the shit is still pouring out of you, and showing no signs of slowing.
Minutes later, you finish. You don’t even bother wiping, you know that nothing can be done. You pull your trousers up, and sheepishly open the bathroom door. Women and children are crying and holding their shirts up to their faces to mask the stench, and men look at you with a perplexing mix of disgust and admiration. You slide into your seat, numb to the horror that is wafting through the air.
The intercom breaks the deafening silence a moment later. You only hear coughing and gasping at first, but then the captain’s trembling voice squeaks through. He tells the entire plane that he can’t finish the flight, he has to land, to go home, so he can hug his children and remind himself that God hasn’t left him. You feel the plane turn around, and you feel the eyes of everyone judging you. And then you feel something worse.
Round two brewing in your stomach.
– thr33beggars
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What are tiny houses? The tiny house movement? Tiny living?
Simply put, it is a social movement where people are choosing to downsize the space they live in. The typical American home is around 2,600 square feet, whereas the typical small or tiny house is between 100 and 400 square feet. Tiny houses come in all shapes, sizes, and forms, but they enable simpler living in a smaller, more efficient space.
People are joining this movement for many reasons, but the most popular reasons include environmental concerns, financial concerns, and the desire for more time and freedom. For most Americans 1/3 to 1/2 of their income is dedicated to the roof over their heads; this translates to 15 years of working over your lifetime just to pay for it, and because of it 76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
So what is the alternative? One solution might be to live smaller. While we don’t think tiny houses are for everyone, there are lessons to be learned and applied in order to escape the cycle of debt in which almost 70% of Americans are trapped.
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There are girls for every sport. Some girls go for football players — “puck sluts” is a slang term for hockey chasers. Girls message you, get right down to the point and say “Let’s hook up.” Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook. I’d say I’m hooking up four or five times a week. Sometimes on the weekend I’ll hook up with two or three different girls. Many of them are just hooking up with me because I’m a basketball player. They’re using me as well. We’re men, got our hormones and everything, and we kind of just want to release those every now and then. Hooking up does depend on what the girl looks like to a certain degree, and then it depends if I’m tired or not.
Sometimes the guys on the team get competitive about sex. Our freshman summer we actually made it a competition: Who could have sex with the most girls. We had a point system, and we called ourselves the EFC: Elite Fucking Committee. We’d keep track and meet up on Sunday and tell stories.
As an athlete, I’ve gotten talks from the school about girls and hooking up and alcohol and stuff. I don’t want to overstep my boundaries. The girls make it very obvious what they want, so I don’t push them at all. But women are kind of crazy sometimes, especially with athletes and wanting to get their money. Obviously, as college athletes, we don’t really have money right now, but it’s kind of scary: Any girl that I hook up with could lie and say that I sexually assaulted her or raped her. The woman usually gets the benefit of the doubt in those cases. I remember reading an article on Justin Bieber and how he had a consent form for girls to sign and I’ve honestly thought about doing something similar.
It gets old sometimes, sleeping with people and having it not mean anything. I did have a girlfriend once for like three and a half years, and sex was much better when you were emotionally attracted to that person. There’s times now where I definitely want a girlfriend. But at the same time in my head I’m like, How am I supposed to know if she likes me for me or because I’m an athlete?
I have girls at several Big Ten schools who will come to my hotel room when I’m on the road. Before I go to bed, we’ll hook up, and then I just pass out. I’ve made the mistake of having them stay over, but they keep me up, and then I’m really tired the next day when I have a game. Now I politely ask them to leave, or I just turn over and go to bed and they get the point. They seem fine with it.
I’m actually starting to think about how my sex life will change after school. It depends on how my career goes. If I go pro, it’ll be professional jersey-chasers after me, and if I don’t, well, then I’m actually going to have to put some effort into hooking up and be a normal person.
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How much the average person in 40 different countries takes home after taxes – Business Insider
Great Things Take Time: Why Focusing On The Long Term is More Important Than Ever – Medium
10 Most Breathtaking Day Hikes in the U.S. – Wise Bread
Did You Know There Are 5 Levels of Listening? – Black Swan
Transform Your Life By Transforming Your Habits – Darius Foroux
11 Classic Film Sets That Actually Killed People – Weird History
The Logitech G305 wireless gaming mouse is like a family sedan with a sports car engine- Logitech
How to Be a Middle-Aged Rock Star: An Appreciation of Maynard James Keenan – The Ringer
16 of the highest paid movie roles of all time — including $100 million for a single film – Insider
Meet the Gorgeous Flag Football Player Who’s Taking The Internet By Storm – Maxim
15 Of The Most Glamorous Street Style Photos Ever – Who What
How Gross Is it to Wear Your Shoes in the House? – VICE
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations – City Lab
If you suspect Bitcoin is going to crash, I just want you to know, you’re right. – Underground Finance
A damn fine collection of bewbs and awesomeness – Leenks
Demi Rose is perfect in a bikini – Drunken Stepfather
Pakistani girl who died in Texas shooting ‘wanted to experience American culture’ – Indian Express
How Big Of A House You Can Buy For $200K In Major US Cities, Visualized – Digg
If You Hate Hot Yoga, This New Workout Is for You – Domino
Raven Lyn Is Hotter Than Your Girlfriend – Yes Bitch
Why Are School Shooters Always Described as “Quiet”? – Slate
How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds – New Yorker
The 25 Best Horror Movies On Netflix Right Now, Ranked – Uproxx
Who’s Getting Head With a Condom On? – Mel Magazine
Meet Skellie: The Skeleton Who Imitates Every Girl On Instagram Ever – Sad And Useless
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Simple question:
Do you want to meet more women?
Then here’s the hard truth:
At some point…
You WILL get rejected. Some women will be unavailable or uninterested to you.
You WILL have awkward moments. You will be nervous, stuck in your head, and not know what to say.
You WILL be seen as creepy. A woman may not find you attractive in the moment and perceive you as creepy. This may happen even when you introduce yourself in a normal, polite way that doesn’t justify it.
People WILL judge you. Someone may see you trying to talk to a woman and think it’s weird. Your friends might make might fun of you.
But the huge payoff is…you find an amazing girl who’s crazy about you!
So if you ever want to attract and connect with the women you really want…
You HAVE to accept that you’ll endure some emotional pain. You HAVE to be okay with causing some discomfort in the process. And you HAVE to accept the unavoidable reality that some women just. won’t. like. you.
As Ray Dalio says, “Pain + Reflection = Progress”
Those experiences are the only way you can grow and improve. That exposure and feedback is essential.
One reason you struggle to have choices in your romantic life is because you do the EXACT opposite of what will help you succeed.
You do everything possible to avoid pain.
You never want to have a “bad” real-world experience.
So you constantly read advice because it gives you a false sense that you’re making progress. You believe there’s some secret that will fix everything and make sure you never embarrass yourself.
You wait around hoping that some opportunity will present itself without you having to do anything. You spend years using online dating even when it’s frustrating and doesn’t deliver the type of women that interest you.
But the likelihood of this approach providing romantic fulfillment is almost non-existent.
When you avoid pain you avoid your potential for growth. Pain is an inevitable part of getting better at anything.
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There is so much focus in the western media about North Korea’s military and nuclear weapons. There is rarely any stories about average North Koreans, especially those that live outside the capital Pyongyang. Most North Koreans are ordinary people that want to live peaceful lives but the media makes it look like every North Korean wants to destroy America or South Korea.
My fondest memories from North Korea revolve around my family. Everyday when my mom would come home she would give me a big hug and I loved that. I also have great memories of family talent shows where we would sign karaoke late into the night!
Whenever I had something delicious to eat! I really looked forward to preparing the food and enjoying it with my family.
Most people that live by the Chinese border know that the propaganda is fake. They have a lot of exposure to foreign media that is smuggled in through China. The people that believe the propaganda usually live in secluded areas with little access to outside media.
I remember that a textbook once said that Kim Il-song turned a pinecone in a bomb during the Korean War and killed many Americans with it. As a child I thought it was totally true. Now I laugh at how impossible that is!
How many people would you say actually believe all the propaganda by the government, how many think Kim Il Sung is a God?
I did not spend much time in school because of how difficult life was for us. The Great Famine left us without food and we needed to work on the farms instead of going to school. I remember textbooks always portrayed America as a terrible place and Americans as evil. We were told that the South and North could not reunite because America wanted to keep our countries separated to weaken us.
It is not cultural, I think young North Korean children are not really aware how difficult life is. But I know plenty of adults that smile too!
Only people that are deemed loyal by the regime are allowed to live in Pyongyang. I live in the northern part of the country which made it easier to cross into China.
I knew many people that disappeared and it was rumored they were taken to prison camps. There was never a way to confirm it, they just vanished one day.
My step-mother wanted me to get married and I wasn’t ready. I was only 18 and needed to find a way to make money to provide for myself. I thought I could go to China and find a well-paying job.
My step-mother wanted me to marry so I would not be her responsibility anymore. I heard rumors that I could escape to China and be adopted by an older Chinese couple and live a happy life there.
I found a broker who gave money to the border guards so they didn’t patrol when I was supposed to cross the Tumen river. When I got to the middle of the river I felt that the ice was quite thin so I had to crawl to cross the rest of the river that was covered by snow. I didn’t realize that moment but later after I arrived I realized that my feet got so swollen because they got frozen from crawling the river in the snow. I couldn’t feel my feet for a while.
After I finally got picked up by the broker, we got onto a bus. The bus got stopped by Chinese police twice and every time the police came aboard I pretended to be asleep. I was ready to take the opium pill I had stashed in the collar of my shirt and end my life if I got caught, but thankfully I didn’t have to. I got some rest for a couple of hours after I arrived at the house and then I was connected with the second broker. The second broker was a North Korean defector. I told her that I wanted to live with an old Chinese couple as their foster granddaughter. She shook her head and told me my only option was to be sold into marriage to a Chinese man so all the brokers who helped me escape could take my bridal cost as payment.
I couldn’t even think of refusing because I was afraid the brokers would do something bad to me or drop me off somewhere alone to get caught by the Chinese police and sent back to North Korea. I had also heard that if North Korean women refused to get married in China, then they could be sold to brothels or sex websites so that the brokers could receive payment. At that point, I realized that I was trapped and I didn’t have any other choice but to be trafficked. The second broker told me that I could escape after living with my Chinese husband for at least six months. If I escape in less than 6 months, the brokers that sold me would return my bridal money to the Chinese husband.
The second broker took me to different small towns to sell me. Every time I went to a town, many old Chinese men gathered around me to bargain my bridal cost. I felt so ashamed. I was being treated as an animal and not as a human being. The North Korean broker finally found a man who was willing to pay the amount the broker wanted for me as a bride. I couldn’t even communicate with him because I didn’t speak the language. I remembered looking at the broker’s face. She seemed to pity me. My whole being at the moment was filled with so much bitterness, hopelessness, and sorrow toward everything in the world. I felt like I was losing everything including my own body to someone I didn’t even know. I was only 18.
When I started living with the Chinese man I was sold to, I thought of escaping after six months. I just did what the Chinese man wanted without thinking about birth-control—I never had proper sex education. Two months later, he and his family took me to a hospital for a pregnancy test. I was pregnant. I am so sorry to my daughter for this, but after I got pregnant was so miserable and I felt like I was stuck in this situation because of the baby. I knew that I couldn’t escape until I gave birth to my daughter and raised her for a while. I was not happy, but the Chinese man and his family were. I am very sorry to my daughter for how I felt about having her back then, but the pregnancy was not what I wanted and I didn’t love the Chinese man. I actually tried to abort the baby by jumping down from a high tree many times but it didn’t happen. I ended up having a daughter and raised her for two years before I escaped.
The man was not abusive to me. I was lucky in that sense. But it was still so hard to be forced to be with someone that bought me.
When I was still raising my daughter and living with the Chinese man and I was losing hope about my life, the North Korean broker who sold me into marriage got back to me and introduced me to some people who later connected me to LiNK’s network. She told me that she felt really bad for selling me to the Chinese man but she had to do it to survive in China as a North Korean herself. When she told me about going to South Korea and life there, I felt like that was my last chance to have my life back again. At that point, I was no longer breastfeeding and my baby had started to talk, so I thought the Chinese man’s parents could take care of her. I decided to leave for South Korea.
I was so sad to leave my two-year-old daughter in China. Before I left, I thought of taking her with me, but she was still very young and I was not sure if I was going to make it to South Korea safely so I didn’t want to risk her life. To this day I feel guilty and sorry about having left her so I could have freedom and better life. I know my daughter has been hurt a lot by my leaving.
Before I started moving to get out of China I stayed with some other defectors before I got connected to LiNK’s network. At the time, I cried every day thinking of my daughter. Even when I was sleeping in the house, I kept waking up to see if my little daughter was sleeping well on my arm and realized that she was not with me anymore. I didn’t want to cry in front of other defectors, so I cried behind a curtain and I found another North Korean woman crying there because she also left her child. We ended up hugging each other and crying together.
The first big cultural shock was when I saw South Korean women is very short skirts! North Korean culture is more socially conservative so I was very surprised to see couples in the South holding hands and kissing in public.
Korean society is very family oriented. It was very hard at first to adapt in the South when I didn’t have a family to see or talk to anymore. On holidays I didn’t know what to do because I had no family.
It was also difficult to decide on what to study and what career to pursue. In North Korea, I didn’t get to choose what my future would look like. It was kind of overwhelming to choose a path to take when there were so many choices.
I face the most discrimination when I apply for jobs in South Korea. When I have an interview, the South Korean employer can usually tell I have a North Korean accent. They will then tell me they do not hire North Koreans and end the interview right then. That happens about 7 out of 10 interviews.
The food in North Korea is similar to South Korean food. The food is spicier and saltier in the North.
Because the North Korean government is so militaristic, the language is very direct and authoritative. South Korean’s are more passive in the way they use Korean.
Also, in South Korea they borrow so many English words and it was hard to learn all these new “Korean” words.
Unless there is a reason for me to stay in South Korea, I am open to living anywhere after I finish university. I like South Korea but don’t feel the need to stay.
I am not sure. If I am lucky, I have another 60 years of life so maybe by the end of my life I will have the chance to go back to see my hometown.
Since I resettled to South Korea a few years ago, I have been talking with my daughter through online video calls as often as possible. She is doing well and is now in elementary school, but I can tell she has been so hurt by my absence in her life. It breaks my heart when she asks me why I am not with her. Whenever there is homework about family or whenever her teacher asks her to bring her mom, she gets so sad and I feel so helpless and remorseful. I plan to visit her in China on one of my summer breaks from college.
It is so ironic because I was so hurt a lot by my mom for leaving me and my family when I was a little kid and I did the same thing to my own daughter. Now I understand why my mom had to make such a decision…Hopefully there will be a day my daughter can understand and forgive me.
Everything in the underground broker networks revolves around money. North Korean women that cannot afford to cross the border are told it is free to cross and then when they cannot pay on the other side they are sold instead. That was my experience. If you want to get involved in helping North Korean women avoid sex trafficking you should fund rescues through organizations like LiNK. The safest way a woman can avoid being trafficked is to have her rescue paid for before she leaves the country. Then when she crosses she can enter a safe network that can move her out of China before she is exploited.
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I have been incarcerated on a few different occasions in my former ( young and stupid) life. One thing that I came to realize when I was in those situations was that, although I was there because I did something that was against the law and I got caught, and the things I did were serious offenses, I did these things simply because I was young and dumb kid. I knew that I did not belong there.
The people that I encountered during my stays were mostly psychopathic, sociopathic and basically people who decided that they were not going to follow the rules of society. Most of the time people like this will never conform to the rules set by our society and culture. They just do not and will not get it. These people use violence and the fear of violence to try to achieve their goals, whatever they may be. For whatever reason this is how they learned to navigate the world. These people will use violence or the threat of violence to get whatever it is they want from you because this is all they know. If you show them that you are not afraid of their attempts to scare or intimidate you, most of the time they will leave you alone and you will even gain their respect. This is all that they will understand and these people belong in prison, locked up like the animals that they are.
So, yes….that asshole that is trying to start some shit, talking shit to you or trying to take something from you…you punch that motherfucker in the mouth…break his fucking nose or some appendage on his body. You may even have to kill him. Do whatever it is you have to to get this waste of space to leave you alone. If you do not, these predatory individuals will continue to attempt to prey on you. This is the way the world is unfortunately and prison life is the epitome of this reality. Leave me alone and I won’t have to fuck you up!…. Non violence does not work against those who are violent against you.
– Quincy Gordy
I think it’s easy to forget how big a deal Brando’s performance was in Streetcar Named Desire. It was a watershed. He changed acting forever. Brando was to acting as Babe Ruth was to baseball.
Before Babe Ruth, a home run in baseball was basically an accident. The game was all about ball placement out in the field. Place the ball where it would be hardest for the fielders to retrieve so you can advance the furthest along the bases. If you hit it out of the field of play, well that was kind of a screw up, so just walk around the bases. Like a ground rule double. Then The Babe came along and just knocked it out as much as he could because fuck running, amiright? He’d rather strike out than run the bases. Yada, yada, yada… modern baseball is unrecognizable compared to what it was before.
So think about Brando that way. He is widely credited with bringing realism to acting. He wasn’t just a good actor or a big star… He redefined what people considered film acting, bringing something to the art form that changed it forever. In his acting, he stripped the process and affectation away that you often see in old movies. And depending on how you see art, he brought the audience closer to the truth of the character and the story.
Before Brando people were using Trans-Atlantic accents (literally not a thing in real life) and doing vaudevillian-era stage blocking more akin to choreography, but in front of cameras. Brando didn’t just act like he was crying and upset. He got himself all upset and ugly cried. He would really lose his shit and didn’t care about his posture or a fake stylish accent or if he looked cool, etc…
It’s all very passé now, but that’s because it’s just the norm… because of people like Brando. But at the time it knocked audiences, critics, actors, producers, writers and everyone else right out of their seats. It moved the entire art form forward–for everyone.
Sure, old Brando coasted on that, and was by all counts an insufferable entitled asshole. But he could still get work because his influence on film making in his early career almost cannot be overstated. He was living legend. He added a tool to the toolbox that the industry uses to tell stories.
Brando’s legacy is more along the lines of sound, or technicolor than “he was just really really really famous”. That’s the big deal about the “Stella!” scene in Streetcar. When people saw it, it was something they’d never seen before and it immediately made everything else they had seen seem dull and outmoded.
The people who actually sell them to the consumers don’t usually add them, it’s hard to make it without chemistry knowledge.
Fentanyl doesn’t inherently kill customers, although an overdose obviously does. If it did, then several hundred thousand people would be dead within a day, and that’s just the statistics of people who use illegal opioids. Think back to basic economics, if you kill your customers, then you have no more business. There is a limit to how much a cartel or manufacture can add fentanyl before it becomes so risky that it will kill their consumer base, even after accounting for the mostly inelasticity of the demand.
As for the why anyone would do that, it’s because it makes 1 effective dose need less volume than things like heroin. It’s about 50–100 times as powerful, but that means that you can either have less detection via the smaller volume or get much more profit for each distribution trip, or some combination of the two depending on how the criminal syndicate wishes to distribute. The same thing happened under alcohol prohibition. If you had a volumetric capacity of 100 litres, then it would be more advantageous to distribute hardened spirits (or moonshine if you could make it), because instead of having only maybe 300 doses to sell, you could suddenly sell between 2200 doses to 4400 doses depending on the ABV of the liquor for the same expense of fuel, same detection potential, and only minor upfront costs to distill. If you were any profit driven businessman, which would you chose to make?
Islam was born into a violent context. The Koran was written in the 7th century in the Arabian Peninsula during a time of war. The prophet Muhammad and his early followers had to fight constantly for survival in a brutal desert environment where various tribes were competing for resources. In other words, the first Muslims were a scrappy, persecuted crew in a dog-eat-dog world and this experience almost definitely influenced the way they wrote the holy texts that later became Islamic scripture.
Knowing the historical context of the birth of Islam helps us understand why parts of the Koran and other Islamic texts are so brutal. There are over 100 verses that appear to condone violence in one way or another in the Koran alone?—?and that’s not even getting into the hadiths, or sayings, of the prophet Muhammad, which include some pretty gruesome stuff, too.
Some Koranic verses are explicitly violent. “Kill [nonbelievers] wherever you find them,” says a line in the 2nd sura, or chapter. “Strike off their heads and strike from them every fingertip,” says another, also referring to what Muslims should do when they encounter someone of another faith.
Other verses in the Koran do not explicitly condone violence but could be interpreted that way. One widely quoted verse occurs in the holy book’s 5th sura. It states that murder is bad unless someone has “spread mischief in the land.” Obviously “spreading mischief” or “villainy” (as it’s sometimes translated) in “the land” can be interpreted in a wide variety of ways, which has proved problematic for Islam over the years.
Similarly, the Koran says that those who “wage war against Allah” should be punished with execution, crucifixion, or the “cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides,” which sounds particularly unpleasant. Again, “waging war against Allah” is vague. That very vagueness is exactly what terror groups like the Islamic State or Al Qaeda exploit to increase their own power.
In Islamic scripture, it’s not just infidels who deserve to die. The hadiths (which are the second-most important piece of Islamic scripture after the Koran) contain stories of gay people and adulterers being put to death for their abominable crimes and some people have taken this to mean that Islam allows for homosexuality and adultery to be punished by execution.
Of course, just because medieval Islamic scripture decrees certain things doesn’t mean that contemporary Muslims do them. The vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are peaceful people. Indeed, Islam itself is based on peaceful values: the word “Islam” comes from the Arabic word for peace (salaam). Muslims’ primary way of greeting each other is salaam alaykum, or “Peace be upon you.”
The Koran also contradicts itself about the whole accepting-people-of-other-religions thing. Though some verses advocate killing infidels, others say the opposite. “There shall be no coercion in matters of faith,” says the 2nd sura, for example. The Koran also encourages its followers time and again to be kind, generous and loving to each other. “Compete with each other in doing good,” says one verse. “Allah is with those who are of service to others,” says another.
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18 Unforgettable Countries Where You Can Roll Big On Less Than $50 A Day – Thrillist
Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins – Bloomberg
A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture – Wired
Introducing ‘Elevator’ – The Must Read Newsletter for Guys – Cool Material
A Gentleman’s Guide to Nude Beaches – Mel Magazine
WTF?! – When You Say “I Would Never Date A Trans Person,” It’s Transphobic – Medium
5 Real People Who Have The World’s Worst Superpowers – Cracked
New NFL policy: Teams to be fined if players kneel during anthem – NBC
Families of Sandy Hook victims, FBI agent file defamation lawsuit against right-wing radio host Alex Jones – ABC
San Francisco’s housing market is so out of control that this 385-square-foot studio home is selling for $500,000 – Business Insider
An Urgent Health Alert From America’s Top Doctor – Nutriton Healing
Sara Jean Underwood Naked BTS – Drunken Stepfather
Girl Goes Unnoticed With Body Painted Jeans – Leenks
15 Years Ago, Reebok And Addidas Wanted Him Badly – So How Exactly Did LeBron James End Up With Nike – The Undefeated
Robot submarine finds “holy grail of shipwrecks” with up to $17 billion in treasure – CBS
Found: A Plant-Based Protein Powder That Tastes Good In Anything – Mindy Body
Iggy Azalea Posed in See Through Lingerie! (nsfw) – The Slip
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Hot stripper took a naughty selfie – Ehowa
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Over the past few years, masculinity has gotten a bad rap.
We’ve been told that it’s toxic, that it’s dangerous, and that it’s a vice instead of a virtue.
Somewhere along the way, men took the hint and decided to reject mature masculine virtues in favor of a seemingly permanent adolescence.
As a result, we have an entire generation of “men” who have yet to grow up.
They live at home, rely on their parents’ income to support their lifestyles, and opt for the life of the permanent partier instead of a life of contribution.
I’ve interviewed more than 400 highly successful men from dozens of fields over the past half decade.
Over the course of these interviews, I noticed that nearly every “Great Man” has a core set of mindsets and habits that lead to massive productivity, impact, and fulfillment.
Their tactics, strategies, and approaches to masculinity might differ. But the core values remain the same.
Being a “man” isn’t determined by your age, your experience, or your accomplishments.
It’s determined by the core virtues and values that drive your life.
There’s an old quote that says, “Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, being a gentleman is a matter of choice”
For our purposes:
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. Being a strong grounded man is a matter of virtue and choice
1. Boys Act on Feelings Men Act on Vision
The most basic distinction between boys and grounded men is that boys act on feelings, men act on vision.
Boys are like a feather in the wind. They allow their emotional state to govern their actions and they decide whether or not to keep their commitments in the heat of the moment.
If they don’t feel like doing something then they don’t.
Boys will hit snooze on their alarm instead of waking up early and doing what needs to be done. They will show up late to meetings. They will procrastinate on their work. They will defer what they should do for what they want to do in the moment.
Men are different.
Men create a crystal clear vision for their future and then base every action on that vision.
It doesn’t matter if a man wants to eat another piece of cake, smoke that cigarette, or sleep in an extra 50 minutes. He knows the vision that he has for his life and he isn’t willing to compromise his future success for pleasure in the present moment.
A strong grounded man is willing to do something that he dislikes, even something that he hates if it will propel him forward towards his vision. Boys will not.
Does this mean that grounded men never compromise? That they never screw up, sleep through an alarm, miss a workout, or cheat on their diet? Of course not!
They are human just like you and me.
But “real” men know that their actions must be congruent with their vision most of the time if they want to survive and thrive in this world.
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An unemployed 30-year-old man whose own parents sued him to evict him from the family home has denied being an “entitled” millennial while declaring he was just “trying to do what’s best for me”.
New York man Michael Rotondo made headlines after parents Mark and Christina were forced to take the drastic action against their lazy son, following repeated pleas and legal notices demanding he grow up and get out.
A judge in the Onondaga County Supreme Court this week ruled in the parents’ favour, ordering Mr Rotondo to comply with their numerous eviction notices since February this year. The self-described “businessman”, who recently lost custody of his young son, has lived at home rent-free for eight years.
“I would consider much of what they were doing to try to get me out as attacks, and I was just trying to do what’s best for me, which is trying to be bit more reasonable. I’ll leave, I don’t like living here, but I need reasonable time.
“The first notice I received, the February 2nd notice, was basically, ‘You have 14 days to leave before you’re outside in the winter.’ I made sure that wasn’t going to happen. I contacted the police department, I said is this something that could happen? And they’re like, ‘No, you just call us, they can’t do that.’”
The first letter read, “Michael, after a discussion with your mother, we have decided that you must leave this house immediately … You have 14 days to vacate … We will take whatever actions are necessary to enforce this decision.”
On February 13, they informed “Michael Joseph Rotondo” that he was “hereby evicted … effective immediately”. “You have heretofore been our guest and there is no lease or agreement that gives you any right to stay here without our consent,” it said.
They even offered him $1450 to “find a place to stay” and gave him advice including “organise the things you need for work and to manage an apartment” and “sell the other things you have that have any significant value”.
“There are jobs available even for those with a poor work history like you. Get one — you have to work!” they wrote. Each letter was signed, “Mark and Christina Rotondo”.
Asked by CNN if he was trying to get a job, he said he had “plans to be able to provide myself with the income I need to support myself, but it’s not something that’s going to come together tomorrow”.
“I’m trying to do what’s best for me,” he said. “I do want to leave and I want to leave as soon as possible, but it’s not tomorrow, I don’t think it should have to be tomorrow.”
In a separate interview with TMZ, he said didn’t think his parents were good people. “I would say no,” he said. “I just think that when you attack someone, who’s supposed to be someone you love, it reflects poorly.”
Earlier, Mr Rotondo said he would comply with the judge’s order as long as it didn’t force him out within 30 days. “I want three months. I think that’s reasonable,” he told the New York Post.
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