there’s a German guy named Freddy here for the World Cup
as far as I can tell his meals on Monday were:
Waffle House at 1 AM
Wendy’s for lunch
Chili’s for dinner & NBA Finals Game 3
little does he know he just earned his citizenship, that was the secret meal combo to unlock it
All of America watching Euros rave about Waffle House, Chilis apps, buying Combos at a rural gas station, floating the Chattahoochee, and ranch dressing on the internet:
@jared_shult People could, you know, take care of themselves. I’ve had healthcare through my job for almost 30 years and used none. I subsidize everyone
As someone who covered the region for a dozen years for the WSJ, and reported in astonishment how even under conservative Pres Ronald Reagan USAID was funding socialist projects in Latin America, I can assure you that this is 💯 accurate.
This video is turning me into a burn-it-all-down populist ready to toss out the arrogant political elites (these Ivy League ex-Bernie staffers who recruited Graham Platner).
I love Americans. We were about to walk an hour to the stadium in the rain to save on an Uber, and the receptionist at the hotel we were parked in front of decided to drive us there.🙏
Once the pool is filled up and it’s clear to everyone that it (1) reflects much better, (2) is much cleaner, and (3) is not the color of a swimming pool, everyone who was mad about this is going to pivot to saying they now hate it because there’s no difference. Calling it now.
Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.