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"Shout out to all the short guys…there’s hope for you"
When Nick Santonastasso was born, he was given a 30% chance of surviving birth. One of only 12 people in the world born with Hanhart Syndrome – an extremely rare genetic disorder that caused Nick to be born with no legs, only one arm, and one finger. Growing up was hard, and Nick found himself self-loathing and thinking about ending his life.
Go To The Pain, Rather Than Avoid It
If you don’t let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That’s just the way it is.
Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion. The irony is that if you choose the healthy route, the pain will soon turn into pleasure. The pain is the signal! Like switching from not exercising to exercising, developing the habit of embracing the pain and learning from it will “get you to the other side.” By “getting to the other side,” I mean that you will become hooked on:
Linkage
SBF started a Substack. Everything is Caroline and CZ’s fault apparently, and not smol bean Sam’s – Substack
Michelle Pfeiffer Refused to Star In a Movie that Made $272 Million and Won 5 Oscars – Ned Hardy
If you cycle on the road, this is a safety must have! – Amazon
If you are ever in Los Angeles, you MUST visit Jumbo’s Clown Room – Van Life Wanderer
U.S. Inflation Slowed for Sixth Straight Month in December – WSJ
JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition – Forbes
‘It altered my entire worldview’: leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind – The Guardian
The Most Beautiful Place in Every U.S. State – CN Traveler
9 Masculinity Traits That Changes Boys Into Men – Knowledge For Men
7 “Chinese” Foods That Aren’t Really Chinese – Linkiest
Ukrainian Mob Tosses Corrupt Politician Into Dumpster (video) – Leenks
10 Tax Loopholes Everyone Can Use – Listverse
What is Amber Heard Doing In 2023? – Ned Hardy
Really freaking good hiking backpack, that is comfortable to wear for long periods of time and comes with a hydration reservoir – Amazon
How To Escalate With A Woman Sexually | EXACT Steps & Without Being Creepy – Wing Girl Method
Top 100 Radiohead Songs, Ranked – The Ringer
How to get your kid to do stuff without having to constantly remind them – VOX
An Age-by-Age Guide to Why Kids Lie (and What to Do About It) – Life Hacker
Employees across industries and salary levels reveal how much they’ve made over their careers – Insider
25 Best Open-World Games Ever – Den of Geek
The Dumping Grounds
Life Isn’t All Sunshine And Rainbows
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 – A plane with almost half of its ceiling torn apart could land with just one causality
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking due to poor maintenance and metal fatigue.
The plane was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. The one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, was ejected from the airplane. Another 65 passengers and crew were injured.
What Would It Be Like To Sink To Crushing Depths Inside a Submarine?
Reaching crush depth wouldn’t be a slow crushing. Once the first deformations appear in the pressure hull, the whole thing caves very very fast, likely over the course of a couple seconds at most, depending on the pressure when it finally gives (44psi per hundred feet, at 1800 ft would yield almost 800psi, that’s a lot of pressure, and a massive release of energy once the hull finally gives.).
The strength of the hull comes from its shape more than material strength (though that does play a massive factor).
What feels slow, and would feel like an eternity, would be everything that leads up to crush depth.
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Dracula’s Armor designed by Eiko Ishioka for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Faced with a limited budget, Francis Ford Coppola declared early on that “the costumes will be the set.” For its costume designer, he picked Eiko Ishioka, an art director and graphic artist whose poster for Apocalypse Now (1979) he had loved a few years earlier. Something of an unexpected choice, Ishioka had never before seen a vampire movie and had limited costume design experience in feature films.
Mixing Eastern and Western cultural influences, she drew upon everything from insects and lizards to armadillos and red-blood corpuscles for inspiration, creating costumes that evoked haute couture, superhero attire, and traditional Japanese formal wear.
15 Tough Lessons I’ve Learned From Life
1. Be Proactive, Not Reactive
So many times I found myself being too complacent, or too “easy-going”…so much so that it wasn’t what I did that cost me; it was what I didn’t do that created more difficulties.
Often my thinking was that I could wait for some perfect opportunity, perfect timing, or perfect people to conveniently fall into place for me to do anything from getting better women, to a better job, to a better place to live, and so, so much more.
Linkage
How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day – The Verge
Kevin Costner Passed On One Of The Greatest Movies Of All Time To Be In This Box Office Bomb – Ned Hardy
Most Audiophiles Agree This Is The Best “Bang For Your Buck” Amp Under $200 – Amazon
Texas grand jury weighs whether Houston armed diner who shot, killed robbery suspect will get criminal charges – Fox News
The psychological traps of online shopping, explained – VOX
Ke Huy Quan Tears Up During Emotional Golden Globes Speech, Thanks Spielberg for First Movie Role – Variety
Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $1.35 billion for the next drawing – CNBC
In-N-Out to open restaurants in Tennessee by 2026, company says – CBS
20 Clean Jokes That Are Actually Funny – Linkiest
Three Spreadsheet Tips to Make Beginners Feel Like Pros – Popular Science
An amazing budget choice for a gaming mouse – Amazon
The Best Sci-fi Movie You’ve Never Seen – Ned Hardy
The Daily Picdump – Leenks
How Do Stocks & Bonds Perform Following Big Down Years? – Wealth of Common Sense
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to Keep Sportswashing by Buying WWE? – Inside Hook
Why Woman Flake On You | #1 Most Common Lie Women Tell Men – Wing Girl Method
A Week In Portland, ME, On A $100,000 Salary – Refinery 29
Prediction Consensus: What the Experts See Coming in 2023 – Visual Capitalist
