Daron Redd

self-inquiry / growth. sharing my experiences 🔗

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans taking their young kids to the beach are very concerned about so many men wearing META Glasses that record video

The man took his 6 year old to the beach and he begins getting notifications from a special app that tells him about nearby Meta glasses. Before he knew it, there were 4 Meta glasses within 30 feet

“I just gotta ask you creeps, uh, why are you bringing them to the beach? What are you using them for? — I just gotta ask again, when is our government gonna take this seriously and stop letting creeps on the beach?”

Of course they are sunglasses so it would make sense people would have them at the beach but it’s still concerning. It’s a very discreet way to record what you shouldn’t be recording

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Lucio Fulci was nearly sent to prison for this scene in "A Lizard in a Woman's Skin" (1971)- Here is the reason why:

In this scene, Carol [Florinda Bolkan] encounters fake prop dogs in the clinic. It became quite controversial at that time because of the startlingly realistic appearance of the fake prop dogs.

Director Lucio Fulci was nearly sent to prison because it was believed that the dogs were real and Fulci had used real animals in the film. However the crew members were able to testify in court that the "dogs" were indeed fake.

Special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi even presented the dog props in court to convince the jury. This was the first time that an effects artist had to testify in court that their work was not real.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On this day in 2000, 118 Russian sailors died at the bottom of the Barents Sea, and 23 of them survived the explosions only to be abandoned in the dark while their own government lied about it for a week and turned away the foreign divers who might have proven it.

To understand the Kursk you have to understand what it meant. In the 1990s the Russian navy had rotted. Ships rusted at the docks, sailors went unpaid for months, and the once mighty fleet barely left port. The Kursk was supposed to be the answer to all of that. An Oscar-II class nuclear submarine, K-141, named after the largest tank battle in human history. It was as long as two jumbo jets parked nose to tail, it had a double steel hull, and it was engineered to survive a direct torpedo hit and keep fighting. The crew called it a floating city. The admirals called it unsinkable. In August 2000 it was the centerpiece of the biggest naval exercise Russia had staged in years, a show meant to tell the world the bear was back.

On the morning of August 12 the Kursk was firing practice torpedoes at a battlecruiser. Then everything went wrong at once. A cheap, volatile torpedo propellant called HTP leaked through a faulty weld and detonated in the bow. The torpedo room flashed to more than 2000 degrees. 135 seconds later that inferno cooked off the remaining warheads in a second explosion so enormous that seismic stations across northern Europe registered it as an earthquake, and foreign submarines quietly monitoring the drill felt the shock through the water. The front of the boat was torn open and 24000 tons of steel drove into the seabed 350 feet down.

Everyone in the forward compartments died almost instantly. But at the very back of the submarine, 23 men were still alive. They dogged the hatch shut, gathered in absolute darkness, and waited for the rescue they were certain their navy was already launching. One of them was 27 year old Captain-Lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov. At 13:15, roughly two hours after the blast, he began writing a note by touch because there was no light left. He recorded that all the men from the flooded sections had moved into the ninth compartment. He counted them. "There are 23 people here." Then the line that would break a country: "None of us can get to the surface." On the same scrap of paper he wrote something private to his wife, and a few haunting words about how dark it was, how slim the odds were, and how he hoped someone, anyone, would one day read it.

Investigators later concluded the 23 probably did not last long. In the freezing black they were burning chemical cartridges to make oxygen, and one is believed to have dropped into the oily seawater sloshing across the deck, triggering a flash fire that devoured the last of their air. So the cruelest part is this. While those men were dying within hours, the Russian navy was telling the world they were alive and well for days.

Because that is exactly what the state did. It lied from the first hour. Officials announced the crew was fine. They claimed rescuers were tapping steady Morse code back and forth with the trapped sailors. They insisted the oxygen was stable and rescue was minutes away. All of it was fiction. Their own rescue submersibles were rusted, half-abandoned relics that failed over and over to lock onto the escape hatch in the current and the near zero visibility. And rather than admit that their own weapon and their own decay had gutted the pride of the fleet, they floated a cover story to the public. The Kursk, they said, had probably collided with a NATO submarine spying on the exercise. A foreign hand. Never their own.

Through all of it, one man was missing. Vladimir Putin, only four months into his presidency, was on vacation at his Black Sea resort in Sochi. He did not cut the holiday short for five full days. Pictures of the new president relaxing in the sun circulated while an entire nation stood at the shoreline begging for news of their sons and husbands. Years later he would admit he probably should have flown back, then add coldly that it would not have changed anything.

The whole time, Norway and Britain were pleading to send their trained deep-sea divers and rescue crews. Russia said no. Again and again. For days it chose national pride over 118 human lives. When the pressure finally became unbearable and the Norwegians were allowed in, they did something that exposed the entire charade. The exact escape hatch Russian officials had sworn was hopelessly jammed and impossible to open, the Norwegian divers cracked open in a matter of hours. Inside, the compartment was completely flooded. Every man was dead, and had been for days. The lie was now a corpse-filled fact.

Then came the moment that told you everything about the new Russia. When Putin finally went north to face the widows, the mothers, and the fathers in the bleak naval town of Vidyayevo, they did not thank him. They screamed at him, wept, and demanded to know why their children were dead and why help had been refused. As the cameras rolled, one grieving mother, Nadezhda Tylik, was jabbed with a sedative needle from behind and slumped in her chair mid-sentence, her fury chemically switched off on live television. The image seared itself into memory. Grief would not be permitted on screen.

And Putin learned his lesson from the Kursk, just not the one anyone hoped. He decided the real problem was not a rotting navy or a botched rescue. The real problem, he concluded, was that independent television had shown the country the truth. Within the year the free Russian TV channels that had covered the disaster so relentlessly were pressured, seized, and brought to heel. The Kursk was not only a grave for 118 sailors. It was the opening act in the slow strangling of the free Russian press.

Months later, sitting comfortably on American television, Larry King asked Vladimir Putin one simple question about the tragedy that had consumed his country.

"What happened to the Kursk?"

Putin paused, gave a small, cold smile, and answered in two words.

"It sank."

118 dead. 23 who lived through the blast and were left to suffocate in the dark. A week of open lies, a fabricated collision story, foreign rescuers turned away out of pure ego, a mother sedated on camera, a free press marked for death, and a president who could not be bothered to leave the beach. The wreck was eventually raised from the seabed the next year, but something else was raised too. For the first time the entire world got a clear, unobstructed look at exactly who Vladimir Putin was and how he would rule.

That was 26 years ago. He is still running Russia today.

[Daron Redd @DaronRedd256]

@Kekius_Sage Where they find it?

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Archaeologists discovered an ancient tablet containing the Pythagorean theorem.

It dates to about 1,000 years before Pythagoras lived.

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In 1947, children could order a toy containing real radioactive material from the back of a Kix cereal box for just 15 cents and a box top.

The Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb Ring contained a tiny amount of polonium-210, allowing kids to look through a lens and watch real radioactive particles create flashes of light.

Although the amount used was considered safe when sealed inside the ring, it contained the same radioactive element later used to poison Alexander Litvinenkoin 2006.

Today, the rings are no longer radioactive enough to produce the glowing effect.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

A total solar eclipse occurs because the diameter of the Sun is about 400 times that of the Moon, but it also approximately 400 times farther away,

[Total solar eclipse on July 2, 2019, Argentina at sunset]

[MYGOLFSPY @MyGolfSpy]

This might be the most insane golf cheating story we’ve heard in years.

A 2-handicap was playing in his club’s Member-Member with money in the hole-in-one pot.

And according to security footage, he didn’t just cheat in the moment.

He allegedly planned the entire thing ahead of time... 🧵🧵🧵

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

One of the world's largest industrial mines is in the California desert

“Roughly 4 million tons of borate ore are mined here every year, worth on the order of $600 to $800 million. All just a few hours from Los Angeles”

It’s foreign owned. The mine is called The Rio Tinto Boron Mine, it’s in Boron, California. It’s 100% owned and operated by Rio Tinto, a dual-listed Anglo-Australian mining company

- Rio Tinto plc, registered in England and
Wales
- Rio Tinto Limited, registered in Australia

Why are foreign companies pulling hundreds of millions of dollars of minerals from America

A US mine that produces 1/3 of the world supply of boron isn't owned by an American company. It's owned by Australia and England

That's between $700 million to $800 million leaving the US every year minus operating expenses and payroll

[Suzee Q @SusieM414141]

This mom has 6 young boys. Look how well behaved they are when given a daily routine to follow. They know the drill and it’s pretty well organized. This is how your parent right here!!

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Now that’s the kind of practical thinking I like 😂 Bro used the plate to keep his shoes dry. Genius.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 American went to lower the air conditioner in her home and her Smart AC gave her a warning she was not allowed to lower the temperature

“My own thermostat was 79 — it had a little warning that said, "You are not allowed to lower your thermostat set point because the energy grid in your regional area is stressed”

This is with Xcel Energy in Colorado

This woman enrolled in Xcel’s voluntary demand-response AC Rewards-style program. Apparently they lure you in with sign on credits of around $50-150 dollars and then they can set limits on your AC

These programs are being run in multiple states already

It starts out as optional to get you used to it and then it becomes mandatory

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Tippi Hedren considered the casting of Sean Connery, in "Marnie" (1964) to be "the sickest thing of all". She asked Hitchcock why would Marnie scream when a man as handsome and attractive like Sean Connery comes near her. She felt he could melt the coldest woman on Earth. Hitchcock replied, "Well, you just have to do it." When she questioned him again whether he had seen Sean Connery, Hitchcock immediately said, "Yes, my dear, it's called acting." She later understood and said, "Maybe that's why he cast him, to show how damaged Marnie was."

["The blonde queen of King Alfred (II)", The Guardian, 1999]

P.S: Remembering one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock, on his 127th birthday!

[Airforce Geek @PrecisionLabs0]

You can’t see jet blast coming until it throws you off your feet.

Watch this Su-27 taxi at Kleine-Brogel in 2019. As the engines spool up, the blast hits the people standing too close, sending one ground crew member tumbling across the grass.

Jet engines accelerate enormous amounts of air, creating a powerful, invisible airflow behind the aircraft—even without afterburner.

Thankfully, no one was seriously injured.

A fighter jet doesn’t have to take off to be dangerous. ✈️

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1666, it took just 4 days for the Great Fire of London to destroy over 13,000 homes. Necessity created an entire industry- a dentist named Nicholas Barbon started the first ever fire insurance company.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The Map Room scene in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) is filmmaking firing on every cylinder.

John Williams’ score, Spielberg’s staging, the shifting light and Harrison Ford’s stillness all converge into one unforgettable moment.

[Daron Redd @DaronRedd256]

@SamaHoole This is so good.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Kaleb Cooper's mother is a dog groomer and his father is a carpenter. He inherited no land. He spreads ninety thousand tonnes of muck a year, cuts thirty thousand bales and runs eight hundred hectares of arable contracts.

Every argument about British farming starts from the assumption that the gate is bolted. Grass is making close to nine thousand pounds an acre. You inherit or you never get in. The whole trade is a closed shop in a wax jacket.

At thirteen he was handed three chickens and four acres. Within months it was four hundred and fifty hens and he was selling eggs to his own teachers. At fourteen he was breeding sheep and working on a dairy. At fifteen he spent five thousand pounds on a Case 1394 and two thousand on a topper, then knocked on the door of every house in the district with a horse and a scruffy paddock and told them their field would look considerably better mown.

Not one acre of it was his.

When Ukraine sent fertiliser vertical, he and Jack Tuckey spent a hundred thousand pounds on two spinning disc spreaders with not a single tonne booked to go through them. Then they went and bought the chicken muck nobody else wanted and put it on at variable rate.

That is the whole business. He sells the one asset in agriculture that has never required capital behind it, which is knowing how to do the work and turning up on the day he said he would.

Jeremy Clarkson's farm was already a customer before a camera was switched on. He was doing that ground when the previous farmer gave up. The programme did not discover him. It filmed him explaining a field to a man who had never drilled one.

Fourteen million people watched that and came away talking about the accent.

Land is the most expensive barrier in British farming. The tallest one is free, and nobody in the industry will say it out loud: we have spent thirty years telling every capable fourteen-year-old in the countryside that the way in is a degree, a placement and a graduate scheme, and they believed us.

There is a lad in your parish this morning who would do exactly what Kaleb did.

He is being told to finish his A-levels first.

[claire rogers @kclairerogers]

I am once again reminding you that one of the coolest parts of amateur golf is the fact that spectators can walk on the fairways during competition.

How cool is this from Merion?
(Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

[Daron Redd @DaronRedd256]

@awkwardgoogle The self control was really amazing