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Arthur McCann from Norwood, Massachusetts has transformed this lawn into the most jaw-dropping, massive, and perfectly precise American flag you've ever seen.
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..๐๐ฝ
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
BREAKING: Elon Musk just called on EVERYONE to vote out the Senators who voted Against the Save America Act
Elon Musk: โVote them outโ
I AGREE ๐ฏ
Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours.
California takes days โ or sometimes even weeks โ to count the votes.
Itโs pathetic โ and itโs corrosive to our civic culture.
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into a Tennessee cave to die. He was addicted to amphetamines, his voice shot, his career in ruins.
He carried a Bible in his pocket, and enough drugs in his system to kill a man. But as he lay in the dark, waiting for death, something shifted.
He later said God spoke to him. Whether divine or delusion, it gave him strength to crawl out. He staggered back to the surface, filthy, half-dead-and chose to start again. He got clean. Rebuilt his life.
And in the years ahead, he didn't just make music-he sold over 90 million records and won multiple platinum albums. From rock bottom to one of the greatest artists of all time.
This quite hits home every time. To every veteran โ past, present and future โ your service made all the difference. Grateful beyond words.
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ๐ ๐บ๐ธ. WWG1WGA
Predjama Castle, Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ
Dating back to the 12th century, it was built into the mouth of a cave in the karst cliffs.
One of the most dramatic castle sites in Europe.
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.
Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.
The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.
Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.
Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
๐ฅ AWESOME! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he DESTROYED Soros influence in his country โ USA needs to do the same
"Who elected Soros to dictate policy and laws? Why does he feel entitled to impose his agenda? Soros and his cronies hit a BRICK WALL in El Salvador. Thank God...Salvadorans are now IMMUNE to his influence. No one believes his lies anymore over there!"
@NayibBukele is a pure masterclass for Latin America. ๐๐ป
Impeach the judges, rule crime with an iron fist, and BLOCK SOROS' ASSETS AND INFLUENCE! ๐บ๐ธ๐ธ๐ป