James

I can honestly say my greatest achievement is my 9 wonderful children. When I manage something else I'll put it on here ☺

[ARIatHOME @ARIatTWIT]

nah how’s this even possible 😂

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

For my non-Spanish speakers:

There’s apparently a 3,000 year old pressure point trick for clearing your sinus

Put your middle finger here on your nose, press hard inwards for 30 seconds, and make small circles on both sides

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Photographer Phil Thurston shot a wave.

Slowed it down until those few seconds became 40.

Turns out the ocean is doing something extraordinary every single moment.

We're just moving too fast to notice.

[✯ @fw_bigjay]

From the way he was dressed… I already knew

[🅱️ete oaks @b0newalljackson]

every single thing about this video is funny to me

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Three people just died of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. The strain kills nearly 40% of the people it infects. And yet no virologist on earth is panicking about a pandemic, because the reason it stays small is one of the strangest rules in disease science.

The rule is simple. The deadlier a virus is, the harder it is to spread.

If a virus kills you in days, you can't ride a bus, board a plane, or even leave the hospital. You're in a bed or a body bag. Either way, the virus killed its only ride.

Hantavirus has been around for at least 70 years, but fewer than 1,000 Americans have ever caught it. The CDC says it kills 38% of those who do. The cruise ship strain, called Andes, kills closer to 40%. If hantavirus spread like COVID, it would kill billions. But it can't.

Most hantaviruses spread only one way. You breathe in tiny dust particles from rat or mouse pee, droppings, or spit. No mice in your house, no virus. The cruise ship is the rare exception, because the Andes strain can spread between people, but it usually needs close contact like spouses sharing a bed. A Johns Hopkins virologist called Andes spread "unbelievably rare."

Compare it to the viruses that scared the world. Ebola kills 60 to 90% of people, but only through bodily fluids and only late in the illness, so each patient passes it to fewer than 2 others. SARS killed 10% before being wiped out in 8 months. MERS killed 35% but never spread far beyond the Middle East. None of them became pandemics, because the spread was always too slow.

Then COVID showed up. It killed about 1 in every 100 people who caught it. That is almost nothing compared to hantavirus. But COVID was mild enough that you could work for a week without knowing. You would ride the bus, hug your kid, eat lunch with a coworker, and infect four other people. It killed 7 million.

Flu works the same way. Mild fever, sore throat, but you still drag yourself to school or the office. The virus walks right into the next host.

Hantavirus is the opposite. Within 4 to 10 days, your lungs fill with fluid. There's no medicine that fights it and no vaccine to prevent it. The only treatment is a machine that breathes for you, and even that just cuts the death rate from 50% to 20%. Every outbreak, from 3,200 UN soldiers in the Korean War, to the 1993 Four Corners cases, to Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa last year, traces back to mice.

The viruses that worry scientists are the boring ones. The ones that give you a sniffle for a week and let you walk around the city while you're contagious. Hantavirus, brutal as it is, never had the spread to do real damage.

[Oops That's Moments @PplRegretting]

it's not just me

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Matt Berry (52 today) gave the greatest James Bond audition of all time. Just give him the goddamn role already.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

😂

[Happy Punch @HappyPunch]

One of the nastiest cases of “f*ck around and find out” just went down in Korean MMA

Straight out of a movie 😳

[KARMA IS REAL @KarmaUnl0cked]

Is there anything better than instant karma? 😁

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

It’s literally this easy for guys to become friends

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

This is how dudes become friends.

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

It's good, but the actual best version of Pumped Up Kicks is this.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The lesson from this is very clear

[💥LoLo💥 @ZOrtiz9919]

Is that an air conditioner unit hanging off her rear window?

[Oops That's Moments @PplRegretting]

Smooth moves caught on camera