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Forklift certified beer man, attempting to be an author.

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@Dr_Arrac Gonna be a warm one on the east coast the rest of the week, but ain't no one complaining.

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@SuspNine @sanson_ganbaru Insulation prevents heat transfer, cold stays cold, hot stays hot. Please stop parroting this "Our houses are made to retain heat" nonsense.

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The problem with this is logistics, no one that owns of those half a million dollar cookie cutter houses wants to deal with the truck traffic having this would bring.

[Nim @AnchorStill]

Most Americans would like this in theory, but it has a very foreseeable consequence which pretty much ruins everything nice in America.

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@DanielConlin6 @CitizenAmedia "Stay fresh for weeks at a time" dude a majority of that bread is sold within days of being stocked. Things don't sit on shelves for long here.

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@sacruseuropa @WomanDefiner Ah yes, we famously didn't napalm the living hell out of Vietnam, or use chemical weapons. Either we war crimed the hell out of that war, or it was an embarrassing loss, you can only have one.

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@ja3k_ @LynneJay00 My commute is 30 miles one way, man.

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@cooldaddydino @JohnCArens @jeffdtauzin Some states/counties do require permits, not all.

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We did a blue/purple color shift for this amateur rattle can job. My thundercat will look mint from 20ft away.

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Rearranging the garage, and then I'll be putting her back together.

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I would be so satisfied with myself, imagine getting shit on for decades, and finally hit a comeback like that. I'd be a smug bastard for a month.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It annoys me that so many people are under the impression that this guy, Steven Bradbury, is some subpar goober who lucked his way into gold.

That could not be further from the truth.

This is one of the most satisfying victories in the history of the Olympics if you know the full backstory.

This medal final was during his fourth Olympics, in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Earlier in his career, he was among the best athletes in the world in this specific event, the 1000 meter short-track men's speed skate.

But despite his talent, he just had some of the shittiest luck in the sport. We're talking a decade of shit luck.

In the '94 Winter Olympics, he was considered the odds-on favorite to take gold, but he fell in his heat after getting illegally pushed by an opponent (who was later disqualified). He didn't get a re-do. That was it. He got shoved by some asshole, and his Olympics was over.

Then in the '98 Winter Olympics, he was a favorite to at least medal in the same event but got caught up in a collision that wasn't his fault and failed to advance.

In 1994, he got his thigh sliced open by a competitor's skate during a race, which required 111 stitches and 18 months of recovery time.

In 2000, he broke his neck during training because a skater in front of him fell and tripped him up. That required a bunch of screws and plates being inserted into his skull and back and chest.

And doctors told him that he should stop skating. But he didn't wanna give up. It meant too much to him.

So, there he was in Salt Lake City in 2002, past his prime, a walking erector set, going up against opponents who were faster and younger and in their prime.

He manages to win his heat and advance to the quarterfinal but then has the shit luck (yet again) of having to go up against the best two athletes in the quarterfinal and only the top two advance.

He finishes third and thinks: "Damn, I gave it my best shot." But then, the second place finisher is disqualified, so Bradbury gets to advance to the semifinal.

Now, at this point, he's thinking: Well, shit, I'm not as fast as these younger guys, and I got a bad habit of getting taken out by crashes that aren't my fault.

So, he consults with the Australian national coach, Ann Zhang, and they decide that he should hang back from the pack and hope the pack crashes.

That is a perfectly valid strategy. If you crash, you lose, but speed skaters risk crashing to gain an advantage in order to win.

It may not feel exciting, but it is a valid strategy and just as risky: avoid crashes entirely and hope that pays off.

It paid off in the semifinal: the pack, including the defending Olympic champion, jostled too much and crashed. Bradbury wins and advances.

So, he's improbably in the final and takes the same approach, and it works: the entire pack jostles too much and crashes, and Bradbury's risk of hanging back pays off.

This victory was not some un-athletic schlub lucking his way into gold.

It was a journeyman athlete who never gave up and played smart after a career of shitty luck and finally got his due after it being snatched away from him so many times.

Hands down, one of my favorite Olympics stories.

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Here I thought my job was safe lmao.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Heineken are laying off 6000 staff due to falling beer demand, as studies show Gen Z are drinking less than previous generations

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Keep it a buck, it's more like no one wants to fight a civil war over illegal immigration. Protests are as far as it'll go on the left, and the right will remain indifferent.

Things will be tense over the next couple years but once the term is up, it's back to the norm.

[Niggapokemon333 @willsgardevoir]

200k likes on this and I think people forget how powerful the US government is, they have Super Sonic soundwaves that give instant vertigo and seizures. The second amendment is all hype moments and aura more than anything else

[GHOST Artemis 👻 @ArtemisFrostt]

Imma break some of your hearts by saying that if your YouTube short has under 1,000 views, you didn’t hit the algorithm.

YouTube will test your short to a small pool and if it doesn’t stick, your video will plateau.

If you hit 5k and plateau, it’s a good start but still not the best. You managed to get past the first initial push but the algorithm didn’t bother pushing it any further.

But your shorts are still lacking.

In terms of actual content, the start of your short is the most important. If it isn’t catered to your audience outside of yourself and your community, you already failed the algorithm. If you put a ton of effort into editing but your first 5 seconds is silence, fluff, or leaving your audience confused… you’re not hitting the algorithm.

People want quick and fast entertainment and if you’re recycling your streams into content, you’re competing against a ton of other people doing the same thing.

Make your shorts for the purpose of them being good quality shorts with the intention of getting over a 100% retention rate, good engagement, and whatever other goals you’re aiming for, not just clip slop.

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I love broken exhaust bolts.

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@123ryanc @gequib2_0 @dadbodsrule1990 @raven_apex @fleshsimulator Yeah, nothing positive ever gets done because "other side bad" two party system sucks for that reason, no real change comes because it's literally their job to maintain the status quo. It's much more interesting when shit just gets done lmao.

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@123ryanc @gequib2_0 @dadbodsrule1990 @raven_apex @fleshsimulator You've brought up reform like three times, these people just don't get it.

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I did, but I clock in at 5.

[Cassie Cynical🐩 @TuckerPoodleMA]

So did the great 2pm walkout happen?

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Nothing like a garage full of bikes.

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~Hello there.

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Both are true, to get government benefits, you have to have low to no income. Undocumented migrants can be paid slave wages, and receive benefits.

Not enough people are actually aware of how those benefits work, nor do they have an idea of what it's like to be low income.

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

So which is it: are immigrants working the same jobs as citizens, but for 70% less pay, or are they lazy and living off our tax dollars? I'm confused.