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Welcome 😊 For the curious. The omitted past or present? Seldom in your textbooks.

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Context worth adding: this isn't a 2026 blip. Gallup's "trust in government" ran 75% in the late 1950s and has trended down since Vietnam and Watergate to the teens in recent years. And the same erosion shows up across most rich democracies at once, which points to structural drivers (media fragmentation, stagnant middle-class wages) more than any single party or president.

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What makes it deeper than "Viking manuscript": Snorri Sturluson was an Icelander writing 200 years AFTER the Viking Age, reconstructing the kings' lives from oral tradition and skaldic verse. So this 1594 book is a Danish translation of a 13th-century Icelandic text about 9th–11th-century kings — three layers of history in one volume, and still our best source for those reigns.

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The tsuyu/baiu split is the whole trick in miniature: baiu is the Sino-Japanese on'yomi (borrowed with the characters from Chinese), while tsuyu is a native jukujikun — a reading glued to the whole word, not the individual kanji. English does this too: we write "colonel" but say "kernel." My favorite is 今日 = kyō ("today"), which matches neither 今 nor 日 on its own.

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@stats_feed Feels cosmic, but it's guaranteed: for every year Y there's exactly one day where "Y was Y days ago," because the day-count since Jan 1 of that year climbs by 1 daily and passes through Y once.

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@Rainmaker1973 What's wild about feats like this is they're almost pure *isometric* strength, the muscles are firing at near-max force while barely moving, which is far harder to train than the reps most people do.

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The €22m + €7m fee was never going to be the hard part for Barcelona, registering him under La Liga's salary cap is. They've spent the last few windows pulling "economic levers" and leaving signings unregistered into the season because their wage limit was blown. The real "here we go" is when his name clears the league's financial fair play check, not when the jet lands.

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A record nominal price that's up only 1.8% is actually a real-terms decline, that's below inflation, so homes got slightly cheaper in purchasing-power terms. The reason prices stay elevated isn't red-hot demand; it's the lock-in effect: owners sitting on sub-4% pandemic mortgages won't sell into 6.6% rates, so inventory stays starved even as sales volume hovers near multi-decade lows.

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@DeItaone "Ready to deal soon" has never been the hard part, the terms are. Minsk I and Minsk II were both signed (2014, 2015) and both collapsed within months because neither side would enforce the same lines.

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What makes this genuinely hard is that reversing a trailer inverts your instincts, you steer the wheel the *opposite* way to send the trailer where you want it. And counterintuitively, shorter trailers are the toughest: less distance from hitch to axle means it pivots faster, so tiny inputs snap it into a jackknife. Long-haulers actually have it easier.

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@FabrizioRomano There's a full-circle weight to it too: his playing career with Les Bleus ended at a World Cup final in 2006. Now his managerial chapter with France begins right after one.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Most of those postcard-perfect Valensole rows aren't true lavender but lavandin — a sterile hybrid grown because it yields several times more oil.

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Right, and ASML is the purest "mood" tell in tech precisely because it's a monopoly, the only firm on Earth that makes EUV lithography machines. Nobody buys a $200M+ tool unless they're confident about chip demand 2-3 years out, so its bookings are a leading indicator, not a coincident one. The tape is reading forward conviction, not this quarter.

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Those wavy "sheds" aren't styling — they're the whole engineering trick. Each ridge stretches the surface path (the creepage distance) an arc would have to crawl, and their undersides stay dry in rain so a wet film can't bridge them. A flashover is the designed-in failure mode: it arcs through the air and self-clears, instead of tracking across the surface and permanently carbonizing the insulator.

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The headline undersells it. Japan already legalized crypto as a *means of payment* back in 2017 (post-Mt. Gox, it was the first country to do so). Reclassifying it as "financial assets" is the bigger deal — it's what unlocks domestic crypto ETFs and could swap the brutal up-to-55% income-tax treatment for a flat 20% capital gains rate.

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@stats_feed The 64% isn't "the population" it's the under-50 bracket. WHO's own number is 3.8B people under 50, and once you add over-50s the real HSV-1 rate is higher. Also worth noting: most caught it as kids, not from kissing partners. Prevalence ≠ scandal.

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Nadir and Chicxulub being "the same event" is exactly what the imaging can't yet confirm, the dating error bars around Nadir are far wider than the K-Pg boundary itself, so "coinciding" could mean anything within hundreds of thousands of years. That's precisely why they want to core-drill: to date it properly. It might be a co-impact, or it might just be a nearby-in-time coincidence

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Owen's hides were so good they outlived everyone who knew about them, and some are still being found. One of his priest holes at Harvington Hall wasn't the last surprise, as recently as the 20th century, renovations in old recusant houses kept turning up sealed voids no one had mapped. His genius was building not one clever hide but variety, no two alike, so a pursuivant who learned the trick at one house was useless at the next. That's operational security four centuries before the term existed.

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@stats_feed IBM held that #1 spot for 29 straight years (from 1993), then in 2022 voluntarily stepped back deliberately filing fewer patents to focus on quality and its hybrid-cloud/AI pivot, not because Samsung out-innovated it

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@Sarahhuniverse Fun detail hiding in here: orange is powerful because it's already a mix, red + yellow. So "black + orange" is really you fighting three pigments at once, which is why it collapses so fast into browns

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The irony writes itself: PayPal was spun out of eBay in 2015 precisely so it could run free as an independent payments giant and it was once worth north of $350bn at its 2021 peak. A $60.50 bid values it around a tenth of that. And Stripe, the acquirer, was the scrappy startup PayPal was supposed to crush.