The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋
The Soviet Moon Machine: The Colossal N1 RocketIn the fierce heat of the Space Race, the Soviet Union forged a true giant of the skies: the N1 — the most powerful rocket ever built at the time, designed to hurl cosmonauts to the Moon and seize victory from the Americans.Standing taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighing over 2,700 tons when fully fueled, the N1 was an engineering marvel of raw ambition. Its massive first stage alone was powered by a staggering cluster of 30 NK-15 engines, roaring together with a combined thrust of 45,400 kilonewtons (more than 10.2 million pounds of force) — enough to shake the Earth itself.Above it rose the second stage (Block G) with four NK-21 engines, and crowning the stack was the third stage (Block D), driven by a single high-efficiency RD-58 engine. Together, these three stages formed a towering behemoth meant to conquer space.Yet despite its breathtaking scale and innovative design, the N1 was plagued by immense technical challenges. All four launch attempts between 1969 and 1972 ended in dramatic failure — some exploding spectacularly just seconds after liftoff. The program was ultimately canceled in 1974.Though it never reached the Moon, the N1 left a lasting legacy. Its groundbreaking technologies, engines, and hard-won lessons pushed the boundaries of rocketry and helped pave the way for future heavy-lift vehicles that would one day carry humanity deeper into the cosmos. A fallen titan, but one whose shadow still looms large in the history of space exploration.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI's Top Token Spender Burns 100 Billion a Month
#tokenmaxxing
https://t.co/0QxhGcWDWl
OpenAI has a culture of token spending. The company reportedly has a token leaderboard, and employees sometimes flex their high totals on X.
https://t.co/oIxLTsiwGo
This is awesome: New Patriots WR AJ Brown got a signed Patriots jersey from Tom Brady in the mail and his reaction was PRICELESS.
Julian Edelman also sent him one just days later.
Brown was born to play for New England 😈
Lunenburg voters reject override tax hikes 65–35.
The response from members of their School Committee?
“The public doesn’t know what they want.”
“They’re not paying attention."
When officials dismiss voters like this, it says more about them than the public.
instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture
it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work
useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year
I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude
find it below
🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
Taught by the people who built it.
Free. No registration. No paywall.
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.
Watch it and bookmark it now.