Mick_Dagger

Interests: NFL,UFC,PGA and NCAA Football , floppin trips and stackin chips, restoring & preserving personal liberties as intended by the U.S. Constitution.

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

Till this day, that's one of the most underrated discoveries

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Steve Wozniak's Apple I (1976)

In 1976, electronics engineer Steve Wozniak built one of the first true personal computers: the Apple I. Unlike most hobbyist machines of the era, which arrived as complicated kits requiring extensive assembly, the Apple I was sold as a fully assembled motherboard. Buyers only needed to add a keyboard, power supply, and a monitor to begin using it.

Wozniak designed the machine largely by himself, using a MOS Technology 6502 processor running at 1 MHz and shipping with 4 KB of RAM, expandable to 48 KB. His friend Steve Jobs saw the commercial potential and helped launch Apple from the famous garage in Los Altos, California. The first major order came from the Byte Shop computer store, which purchased 50 units at $500 each. Apple sold the Apple I for $666.66, a number Wozniak later said he simply liked because of the repeating digits.

Only about 200 Apple I computers were ever produced, making surviving examples extraordinarily rare.

One functioning Apple I sold at auction in 2014 for over $900,000, turning a simple hobbyist machine into one of the most valuable early computers in history.

© History Pictures

#drthehistories

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Canada built bridges for bears, and the bears used them.

So did wolves, cougars, elk, moose, lynx, wolverines, bighorn sheep, black bears, deer, and almost everything else trying to cross one of the busiest highways in the Rockies.

The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 km. For decades, it did what highways do: split habitat in half, severed migration routes, isolated populations, and turned animal movement into roadkill.

So Parks Canada tried something that sounded ridiculous to a lot of people at the time: they built wildlife bridges and tunnels.

They look nice, but they're far from a decoration. Forested overpasses wide enough for grizzlies and elk. Dark underpasses for cougars and black bears. Fencing along the highway to keep animals off the pavement and guide them toward safe crossings.

At the time, critics called it a waste of money and editorials opined that animals would never use them.

Fortunately, animals don't read opinion pieces. Since monitoring began, wildlife have used Banff’s crossings more than 250,000 documented times.

Grizzlies took years to trust them. Elk started testing them while they were still under construction. Different species chose different designs: grizzlies and elk tended to prefer wide, open overpasses, while cougars and black bears often used narrower underpasses.

The results were not subtle. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped by more than 80% overall. For elk and deer, they dropped by more than 96%.

Banff now has one of the most studied wildlife crossing systems on Earth, and countries around the world have looked to it as a model.

[World War I as it happened (1914) @WarHappened]

It's a beautiful day in sun-drenched Sarajevo, whose inhabitants are ready to host prestigious guests: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, joined with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, is about to take a pleasant drive through the city to kick off their official visit in the region.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 TERRIFYING: Dearborn Michigan just went maximum Islam, flooding the streets and making clear they’re here to conquer, not assimilate

This is why Islam needs to be repelled!

Islamist flags waving, THEY WANT TO END THE WEST

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Japanese reporter is left speechless after seeing japans newest $70 million maglev train fly by at 310 mph

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Dining at Long John Silver’s used to be a special fucking occasion. You didn’t walk inside the restaurant so much as you boarded that motherfucker. Then they enriched your experience even further by giving you a pirate hat even if you were 50 years old. There was no downside.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Steve Hilton: I was in Texas and we filled up with gas in Texas $3.59 On Monday in Los Angeles $8.59 that's not Trump, that's not the Iran war. That is 100% Democrat policies in California

[Mick_Dagger @Mick_dagger]

@KeenanPeachy A fool and her money are soon parted.

[Dave Baker @davebaker111]

@politicalmath @FischerKing64 And coined the phrase “Gell-Mann Amnesia”:

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Here's one of Michael Crichton's very finest quotes, especially applicable to climate "science":

"I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.

I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right ... In science, consensus is irrelevant."

Best to everyone,

w.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Michael Crichton is such a fascinating figure and it is a goddamn shame he died so young

This guy got into Harvard Medical School and said "actually, I want to write stories" so he wrote one of the most harrowing long short stories, the Andromeda Strain.

This guy was addicted to research. He read scientific journals for fun and researched everything that captured his interest. He was curious and skeptical. He thought hard about the implications of technology all the time.

And, instead of being a dork and writing a blog, he wrote entire novels warning about the dangers of emerging technologies. And they were great!

He wrote a `Prey` about the dangers of combining AI with nanobots 24 years ago. It's tremendous. You could publish it today and it would be relevant.

I miss him. I miss technically competent authors who can spin a good yarn while informing the reader about how technology is changing the world.

Crichton was a generational talent and we are poorer for his absence.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

[JayTakes @SportsWithJay0]

Colin Cowherd goes OFF on the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark snub:

“They dropped a commemorative poster for 30 years of the WNBA. Caitlin Clark isn’t on it… but Paige Bueckers and Angel Reese are.

When she entered the league, they had to move her road games to bigger arenas just to fit her fans. She upgraded the WNBA from Southwest back rows to private jets.

Yet she’s left off the 30-year anniversary poster?

It’s either incompetence or intentional. Both are embarrassing.”

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

The children of invading armies aren't considered American citizens.

The children of foreign diplomats aren't considered American citizens

So, why would we allow the children of illegal aliens to be American citizens?

[Jaime Garcia-Máiquez @JGMaiquez]

Me lo han enviado poniendo el grito en el cielo, pero a mí me ha hecho gracia. Hay que reirse, por Dios... y por nosotros

[Mick_Dagger @Mick_dagger]

Don't cuck to Globalist scum or this could be you soon.

[Juan Doe @jdoedoe101101]

Papelon histórico del modelo socialdemócrata ambientalista europeo en Alemania.

En los últimos 15 años apagaron todas las centrales nucleares, discontinuaron el uso de carbón y fueron all in con molinos de viento y paneles solares.

El modelo fracasó estrepitosamente y después de casi dos décadas de inversiones "verdes" todavía quedaron lejos de cubrir la demanda eléctrica. Tuvieron que empezar a importar gas barato de Rusia, pero esa jodita duró hasta 2022 cuando arrancó la guerra y Rusia no les vendió más.

Ahora les pegó una ola de calor y no hay energía para que todos los alemanes prendan el aire acondicionado. Entonces el gobierno está poniendo camiones hidrantes y le pide a la gente que salga a la calle a mojarse en vez de prender sus aires para evitar apagones masivos.

Qué locura qué locura!

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

You want to know how the media smears and slanders us, watch this.

Massie owned this Fox News scum “reporter” asking him “do you like gay porn?” after the propagandist asked Massie about lies and then Fox reported it.

Fox News is 100% Republican Neocon Zionist PROPAGANDA.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

Two Starbucks employees who FOUGHT OFF ARMED ROBBERS AND HELD THEM FOR THE POLICE...

...have been FIRED for "violating company policy" because they did not just comply.

They risked their lives to defend the store and customers... and Starbucks FIRED THEM for it.

This happened at a St. Louis Starbucks where 2 masked men walked in, pointed a gun, and demanded money.

Everyone hit the floor and one robber shoved a female employee to the ground.

A worker named Michael Harris tried to just give them the cash to make them leave. They pistol-whipped him in the back of the head.

Then his coworker Devin Jones-Ransom made a split-second decision and TACKLED the gunman into the drive-thru window.

The weapon broke... and they realized it was fake. They subdued the robber and held him for police.

Both robbers were convicted and they're sitting in prison right now BECAUSE of these two young men.

And a few weeks later, after the attention died down and Starbucks FIRED BOTH OF THEM.

The reason?

They "violated company policy" by not just complying to being robbed.

Just so we are clear... a man gets a gun smashed into his skull, fears for his life, fights back, helps put two armed robbers in prison...

...and Starbucks FIRES HIM FOR IT?!!!!

WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THIS?!!!!!!

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

A shop owner in my constituency was ignored by the police when he reported shoplifting.

But when he displayed pictures of the thieves, the police showed up - to tell him that those pictures violated GDPR.

Madness. A free run for criminals, while normal people get crushed.