It's Sunday June 12th, 2016 and the world is mourning the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Trump, who recently clinched the Republican Party nomination, posts on Twitter that Obama should leave office over the shooting.
You walk to a nearby cafe thinking about the possible implications of Move 37 (played a few months prior) and how neat the SpaceX reusable rockets are.
On the way, a mysterious gentleman pulls a newspaper out of his cloak and hands it to you. It's dated June 12th, 2026.
Top Headlines:
- Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX IPO's
- Department of War Publishes Third Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files
- Citing Safety Concerns, Trump Administration Places Anthropic's New 10T Parameter AI Models Under Export Control
Huh? Still holding the newspaper, you look up... but the mysterious gentleman has already vanished. You look down... the headlines are also gone. Sipping your coffee, you think to yourself "Wow, these art students sure are are getting stranger and strfr!"
Before heading home, you find yourself checking the price of BTC... honestly, $600 per BTC seems pretty high. Maybe it's time to sell??
They dropped a camera into a crab colony underground and what they discovered inside the hole was absolutely unbelievable Wait until you see the ending twist😳😳😳😳
Bottomless apps is one of the highest-margin promos in chain restaurant history.
I'm serious. The math is wild.
Boneless wings: $2 to $3 to plate. Mozzarella sticks: under $2. Pretzel bites: under $1.50. Bottomless customers average 2 to 3 rounds before they stop, and portions shrink with every refill. Real food cost per head: $5 to $7. They charge $9.99.
The apps are profitable before the second-order math starts.
The actual play is what bottomless does to the rest of the check. Tables on app promos stay 30 to 40 minutes longer than baseline. They add 1 to 2 rounds of drinks. Drinks run 75 to 85 percent margin. A four-top adding 2 beers past minute 45 is $25 to $35 of pure profit on top of the bottomless tab.
Now the social layer. The headline says "$9.99 for your group, not per person." 15M views. The reply underneath says base tier is $9.99 for up to four, premium is $12.99, and over four is $2.99 per head. That reply pulls a fraction of the headline's reach.
The hook does the distribution. The reply does the legal lifting. Same account, two posts, two jobs.
This is what promotional engineering looks like when virality and accuracy run as separate channels.
The most promising longevity drug isn't a peptide or metformin. It's the Shingles vaccine.
New data shows it slows biological aging and lowers systemic inflammation for 4+ years post-shot. We are seeing a 20% reduction in new dementia diagnoses and a 25% lower risk of stroke.
Stop waiting for a magic pill. One is already on the shelf.
There’s a moment that happens to new parents, probably around four in the morning, when you’ve been up all night with a sick kid, and they’ve just thrown up again, and you’re so fucking tired and frustrated, but it’s outweighed by the sympathy you feel for this helpless dependent, and most of all you just want them to feel better, and then it hits you that this is what your mom did for you, and in that moment you understand your parents in a new way, fully comprehend what they did for you — like, you really get it, way down in your stomach, not just in the abstract way that anybody can understand what parents do for children — and you realize that from now on you’re always going to see things from the perspective of the parent, not as a child, and a lot of your complaints and hangups and neuroses will melt away, never to return, and from now on the stories you’ll tell about your childhood, stories you’ve told 1000 times before, will have a slightly different character, will be based on a fuller understanding of who you are and what actually happened to you, and you’ll think, “my God, in all those years of childlessness, I’ve cheated myself of this realization, of this opportunity to understand the world as it really is and move on.”
And if you’re childless and reading this, then maybe you’re thinking, “sure, but obviously I can intellectually understand this without having children of my own” and it’s just, like, no, probably not.
It just doesn’t really work like that.
This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.
People who dismiss walking as 'not real exercise' have never tracked a consistent 10,000 steps daily for 3 months alongside a proper diet and then looked at their body composition. Walking is underrated by everyone who hasn't tried it seriously.
Gauss meets real life.
Also - Notice how people lifting 95 already say, “Fuck it, let’s do 100” - so there’s a discontinuity point.
Mathematical theory faces reality.