RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released 45 years ago today. The first Indiana Jones movie and one of Steven Spielberg’s most beloved films, the behind the scenes story is an adventure all of its own…
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Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.
Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.
I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.
It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.
There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.
Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.
I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...
I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.
Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.
Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.
•drafting Gerald Everett at 44
•trading up for Darrell Henderson
•drafting Cam Akers the following season
•drafting Van Jefferson at 57
•drafting Tutu Atwell over Creed Humphrey with a massive hole at C
•drafting “Logan Bruss”
•drafting Blake Corum, not playing him, then extending Kyren Williams
•drafting a 24yo EDGE with one move in R1 and then trading up for a 25yo iDL who can’t play the run in R2
•Terrance Ferguson one pick over Will Johnson
•TY SIMPSON AT 13
Les Snead is easily the most overrated GM in football. I can’t wait for his terror to end
@seattlerams_nfl@MaladeeN I thought Kupp was going to be an Edelman/Welker equivalent...so 3rd round pick a little high. Seems I'm hardly ever positive about any of the Ram picks! I had to go back to 1978 1st round (20 overall) Elvis Peacock out of Oklahoma...thought he was going to be a solid NFL RB.
Just stop, we all know your scam.
>Democrats raise taxes.
>Money flows to NGOs packed with Democratic operatives.
>Those operatives take their cut, write a check to Democratic campaigns
> Report back that the problem still exists and needs more funding.
If you fix the problem... the money stops.
So nothing ever gets fixed.
The money vanishes into a network of nonprofits and nobody goes to jail and nobody loses their job and then freaking YOU go on X and point at billionaires.
You doesn't want to fix anything.
Fixed problems don't generate donations or fund your life...
If you wanted to fix the problem you'd care about the fraud, BUT YOU DO NOT.
That's how I know you're lying.
I think almost everything that can be said about Eileen Gu and Alysa Liu has already been said, but when I step back and look at the full picture, I keep getting blown away by how reality handed us a script far more perfect than anything fiction could invent.
On one side, you have the cold, elitist “I’m the most decorated” athlete, raised in one of the wealthiest and most exclusive neighborhoods in the country, Sea Cliff, who gladly sold out the country that gave her everything in order to became the PR face of a brutal dictatorship in exchange for a few suitcases of cash. On the other side, you have the happy-go-lucky, “That’s what I’m fucking talking about” girl from working-class Richmond, coerced by Communist Party operatives, refusing to bow to them, and proudly representing the United States. And that does not even begin to touch on the tortuous path Alysa’s father had in getting to the United States, compared with the easy route taken by Eileen’s mother, or the many other layers of this story.
And then, perfectly, one wins both her competitions and the other loses both. If anyone tried to make a movie out of this story, no one would believe it.
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When I was a kid we had a German Shepherd that was indeed a German Shedder. Once a week my dad would vacuum the dog with the hose attachment and the dog *loved* it.