Threebuddies

24 18+ Let the future evaluate each one according to his accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine -Nikola Tesla

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

New footage confirms that an errant Russian surface to air missile was responsible for the tank roof toss at the Moscow Oil Refinery this morning.

[Reese The Ram @ram_reese]

Getting my makeup done twice this week for shoots🪄 let’s keep this up baby 🥰

BIG thanks to the artists (they aren’t on X) who do such incredible work & making me feel so lovely 🙏🏻 you are angels

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

Nobody is complaining loudly enough that Wikipedia is sometimes no longer even on the first page of google results. Like what the hell are we doing

[valentine @valawakened]

If you were a fish at an aquarium, I’d read your entire little information plaque and stand there way too long watching you swim around so you’d know you were my favorite.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[mr. joshua @pants]

The New PJs (1/4)

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

Like @Oracle, we are proud to announce our rapid progress on our data center! pls giv $100 billion.

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

GN enters official LOI, enclosed, to purchase 60% of all memory supply

[Searyn 🔞 @SearynNSFW]

Playing around with the mermaid tail idea some more

[PaddedUlf @PaddedU]

merry chrimmus all!! <3 i had someone bring these up to me, so tis a double feature of xmas butts for 2023 and 2024 xmas stuff! i hope your holidays go amazingly, <3 you all!

[Rei Vyazin @VyazinRei]

This time, for the festive character party of this year, I decided to try a more complex composition and a wider range of poses. It turned out quite colorful, and I hope the idea is fun and you like it!
🎄Merry Christmas and happy New Year!🎄

[sprite and nickles🇨🇩 @n3diO]

@UofOklahoma They did the meme!

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

It's not just _____, it's _____.

I feel like a fucking crazy person. Social media is filled with this ChatGPT-like AI slop phrasing. It's everywhere I look.

We need to take it all down.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

how can life there be so good but they don't have as many billionaires?

[Posts Of Cats @PostsOfCats]

self ragebaiting at its finest

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

Actually, Frankenstein was the doctor. The monster was whoever credited Mary Shelley under her husband’s name in the original movie.