Benjamin ⛳️🇵🇷

Chemical Engineer l Sports fanatic l Wrestling enthusiast l Ponceño de corazon l I love my smoking hot wife & proud father of 2!

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

September 17, 1993. A magical moment in Expos history.

“What followed was most unexpected. The fans knew Curtis Pride was deaf. They knew he couldn’t hear them. But they gave him a five-minute standing ovation… he couldn’t hear the fans, but he felt the vibration in his chest.”

[MLB @MLB]

Roberto Clemente by the numbers 👀

Legendary 😤

#ClementeDay

[MLB @MLB]

When Roberto Clemente spoke in Spanish during a national TV interview after winning the 1971 World Series, it resonated with Latinos everywhere.

It is considered by many as an iconic moment, as important as any other in Clemente’s legendary career. #ClementeDay

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

Kids today just don’t understand.

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.

In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.

But that is not really what happened.

These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.

The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.

And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”

Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.

What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.

That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.

And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.

Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.

Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.

The result was progressive collapse.

No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.

But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.

They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.

A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

New York City, 25 years later

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Never Forget
September 29, 2001 (Cold Open)

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Puerto Rico’s wet season usually begins in May, but rainfall has been low this year.

By late August, drought had spread across much of Puerto Rico, contributing to water shortages and rationing in some areas. NASA data is helping scientists track drought conditions.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th.

That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days.

Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.

[SNY @SNYtv]

Gary: "Nick Morabito first big league hit is a three-run double!"

Keith: "Alright!"

Gary, Keith and Ron on the call for Nick Morabito's big night 🎙️

[Jay Fonseca @jayfonsecapr]

🔥LA VERGÜENZA LA DEJAMOS EN LA GAVETA - El gobernador que más endeudó a PR bajo la excusa de que tenía que refinanciar y llevó al BGF a la ruina dejándole notas de préstamos impagables, metiéndole billones en deuda sin fuente de repago para cuadrar la Autoridad de Carreteras y que cogió prestado para bajar la factura de la luz justo antes de las elecciones, regresó con un discurso disque con el mejor interés de PR en el corazón. En realidad, lo que busca es que saquen a los miembros de la Junta actual que son el obstáculo actual para que los buitres se salgan con la suya y obliguen a pagarle más de lo que podemos en la deuda de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica. No me haga caso a mi, busque los datos de quién fue el gobernadora que más endeudó a Puerto Rico y busque los datos de quién fue el gobernador que más endeudó a la AEE con la excusa de que eran refinanciamientos. O sea, así cualquiera, en vez de asumir su responsabilidad de reestructurar la deuda en su cuatrienio, lo que hizo fue que hipotecó todo para poder gastarlo en su cuatrienio y que el próximo tuviera que pagarlo. Literalmente, cogió deuda hasta el 2057. No me crean a mi, busquen los datos. De hecho, con su discurso de supuesta disciplina fiscal bajó el gasto de nómina solo para aumentar en 2 billones al año el gasto en contratos y que el próximo resuelva. Lo que hizo el flamante ahora cabildero fue que tras ganar por 200 mil votos con votos del PNP y PPD con una ultra super duper mayoría en la Legislatura, aprovechó y llevo las tarjetas de crédito al máximo, las hipotecas al máximo, la línea de crédito al máximo, entonces lo cogió todo y lo metió en deuda de bonos a 30 y 40 años, para entonces decir que salvó las finanzas. O sea, esto es como si tu coges una hipoteca y el banco te da los 500 mil y los depositas en el banco. Obvio, que tienes tolta, tolta que debes y ahora vas a tener que pagar. Pero entonces la gastas en los 4 años y que el próximo se encargue. Luego haces un discurso de que todo es por disciplina fiscal, todo es por reducir el gasto eventualmente cuando sabes que lo que hiciste fue decir una cosa y hacer otra cosa. Y lo reto a que me desmienta y que presente los datos de que algo de lo que digo no es la verdad. Fortuño, si estás con los buitres, no molesta, lo que pasa es que como dijo el verdadero republicano Abraham Lincoln "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Eso era un verdadero republicano... tú eres un RINO...

#LuisFortuño #deuda #PuertoRico #JuntaSupervisionFiscal

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

MAHAspital (The New Pitt)
Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming (Segment)

🏆 FYC 🏆

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The ‘H’ might be derived from the Greek name of Jesus (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ).

The first 3 letters are transliterated iota-eta-sigma, which can look like ‘ΙΗϹ’ or ‘JHC.’

‘JHC’ was worn on clergy vestments.

We've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer.

[Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER @tiff4mahogany]

Too good.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Trump supporter: Trump has made America great again.

Q: Gas prices are a dollar higher than they were when Trump took office.

Trump supporter: I don't think the gas has anything with Trump being president.

Q: You don't think it has to do with the war in Iran that he started?

Trump supporter: I don't think that matters about the gas.

Q: Trump did start the war in Iran.

Trump supporter: No, he didn't.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Stephen A: Respectfully, Donald Trump spends a lot of money. He's contributed to the debt as well. He's guilty of the same things you're accusing Democrats of.

Byron Donalds: It was covid. If you look at the president's time in office, the debt level hasn't exploded that much.

Stephen A: I was born at night not last night. I know better. The war with Iran, nearly $40B has been spent. Trump is spending $1B for WH renovation. $1.5T proposed DOD budget. Do we leave that out?

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

During Live Aid on July 13, 1985, Phil Collins performed “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” at Wembley Stadium in London earlier in the day. He then boarded a Concorde supersonic jet, flew across the Atlantic and performed the same song again at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia that evening. Collins became the only artist to perform at both of Live Aid's main venues on the same day, making his journey one of the most remarkable feats of the historic charity concert.

[Shea Parking Lot @SheaParkingLot]

#LGM

[Corporate Dudes @corporatedudes]

POV: Me hearing white girl bangers playing at the local dive bar while on my way to work

[90s WWE @90sWWE]

From 144p grain to 4K glory. 90s WWE legends edition 🔥