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[CBZ @barryboy32]

@HealthyAlfred I thought taking it in pill form was not effective but I could be wrong.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@JoshuaBarzon Hands down..E

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@jamestmurphy_ Isn’t the issue that we set all “safety” standards here in USA at a per dose measurement instead of accumulative?

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@waif0000 C-Section more profitable and efficient for hospitals. Worse for us as a species though. Just do the hard thing people..it’s better in the long run.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@krishashok Love this! Thanks for posting

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 This year overtourism has become so insane that even UFOs would probably avoid us 🛸

Vernazza, Liguria, Italy 🇮🇹

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Overtourism Armageddon in Italy 2026 🇮🇹🙈

Part IV - Rome

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@ricardo10101994 @mamboitaliano__ I would have to agree that it’s insane to already have that many tourists in early May!

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@bryan_johnson Does chewing mastic gum help?

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@TheDefiantGhost Adam Back. We’ve known for years.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@cheesegraterftp @AdamSchefter I agree 100%. This is stupid.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@flabbytofit99 His brain detoxed from the constant dopamine from screen time.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@megynkelly I think both guys are dipshits but I think you need to sit this play out @megynkelly.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@elonmusk Put the phone down for a couple days. Touch grass. Get some sun.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@elonmusk Ya’ll are being played.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@SStricklandMMA You’re a bootlicking dipshit.

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@elonmusk What does this administration have on you?

[CBZ @barryboy32]

@elonmusk The food served at the Republican memorial for Iryna was amazing. The Dems had nothing. So pathetic. Not even a cheap buffet.