What’s It Like To Be Poor
To be extremely poor feels debilitating. It’s as if your vision is limited by your circumstances clouding the view beyond the now.
It’s isolating and oftentimes hopeless.
It’s like an unprepared army of one, who, if equipped with the right tools (knowledge, strategy, preparation, support and resources) could overcome and achieve anything.
How Would Japan Have Fared in a Fight, Had the US Landed on Mainland Japan in WW2?
Japan would have lost, horribly.
And it would have been a blood bath for the invaders. I personally question how much of Japan or Japanese culture would have survived such an invasion.
If the US had landed in Kyushu as originally planned, they would have been fighting against about 1,000,000 well fortified troops; troops that were well dug in. The Japanese would have been heavily bombed and heavily shelled for months, and it still would have been hell for the invaders and death for the defenders. Just like the battle of Okinawa, the Japanese would have lost inflicting horrible casualties.
Picture of the Day
Building in Detroit being built from the top down, from a company called LIFTbuild
The main theoretical advantages are efficiency, safety and accessibility. It’s much easier, more efficient and arguably safer to build each module on the ground, then raise it into place versus having your iron workers, framers, etc. working at height.
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50 Essential Restaurants Every American Should Visit – Thrillist
She Played ‘Alex Jensen’ On The Big Bang Theory. See Margo Harshman Now At 36 – Ned Hardy
Raleigh Shooting: Gunman Kills Five in North Carolina, Including Off-Duty Police Officer – WSJ
This desk lamp is the shit! It has 5 lighting modes with 7 adjustments for brightness and it has usb and wireless charging for all your devices – Amazon
The 7 Most Famous Gunslingers, Criminals and Cowboys in the Old West – Linkiest
Alex Jones’ $1 Billion Payout To Sandy Hook Families May Be Far More Than He Can Afford – Grunge
“Harry Potter” Star Robbie Coltrane Has Died At 72 – BuzzFeed
The Last Time the Fed Created a Recession – Wealth of Common Sense
Phil Mickelson Says Players Must “Pick a Side” Between PGA Tour and LIV Golf – Inside Hook
A Rerun Of ‘Mythbusters’ Just Helped Free A Wrongly Convicted Man From Prison – All That’s Interesting
Loyal Dog Stands Guard For Over A Month Outside Home Where He Last Saw His Family – The Dodo
Clicker training is so effective I feel like it’s cheating. I am absolutely blown away by how effective and simple this form of training is and I feel like I’ve switched from bribing my dog into doing things to rewarding him for his obedience – Amazon
Best Horror Movies of the Last 15 Years – Den of Geek
A damn fine collection of babes and awesomeness – Leenks
Just Stop Oil Activists have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London and glued themselves to the wall – Reddit
Use These ‘Boundary Phrases’ During Uncomfortable Conversations – Life Hacker
What Do Men Think It Means To Be A Man? – Five Thirty Eight
Visualizing 40 Years of U.S. Interest Rates – Visual Capitalist
7 Ways to Sabotage Your Financial Future – Kiplinger
The 25 Greatest Revenge Movies of All Time – Mental Floss
Caveman Approved Products of the Week
Get a motion activated toilet bowl light. They’re amazing. Don’t kill your eyes in the middle of the night when you gotta pee
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Useful Pieces Of Advice That Will Help You On Your Travels Through Life
One way to help keep hanging out with friends as you get older is to pick a regularly a occurring thing you do together. Ex: every week watch Game of Thrones together, or a sports team (football is best since it’s once a week). Sounds silly when you’re young, but keep this in mind in your 30s.
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It’s forbidden to be buried in Longyearbyen, Norway. The town’s only cemetery closed over 70 years ago because it’s so cold that bodies previously buried there have never decomposed, and some still carry traces of an influenza virus that caused an epidemic in 1917.
Dying has been banned on the island since 1950, when it was discovered that bodies in the local cemetery were not decomposing because of the chilly temperatures.
