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Apple Will Scan U.S. iPhones For Images Of Child Sexual Abuse – NPR
How to Be Mentally Tough Without Sacrificing Emotional Intelligence – Fast Co
These Wireless Earbuds Blow The AirPods Out Of The Water For Half The Price – Amazon
The Best Ways to Handle Teen Anger, According to Psychologists – Good Housekeeping
Is Angeles Crest Highway Dangerous? – Van Life Wanderer
Target to pay 100% of college tuition and textbooks in bid to attract workers – CNBC
Unemployment rate hits new pandemic-era low as U.S. adds 943,000 jobs in July – Axios
Mom Shares A Disturbing Video Of Her Spiked Daughter In Hopes That It Could Save Others From A Similar Situation – Bored Panda
How to Strengthen Your Knees If You Have Aches and Pains from Running – Runners World
PERFECT SCORE: 14-year-old Chinese diver’s all-time diving final wins gold – YouTube
Google Founder Secretly Got Residency In New Zealand: The ultra-wealthy are buying residency and citizenship in New Zealand to hedge against the apocalypse – Gizmodo
Why Would Anyone Move to Portland Right Now? Five people who moved to here, during the last 18 months, tell us why they chose Portland – WWeek
Dr. Dre’s Oldest Daughter Says She Is Homeless and Living Out of Her Car – Complex
Mike Richards in Advanced Negotiations to Become Permanent Host of ‘Jeopardy!’ – Variety
Get an air fryer. It’s money very well spent. It’s quicker to heat up, quicker to cook and easier to clean. Meats are tender and juicy. Chicken and wings are crispy. Reheating fries and pizza is 10x better than the microwave – Amazon
A picdump of babes, awesomeness and everything inbetween – Leenks
Tesla Owner Billed Over $14,000 For Accidental Full Self-Driving Purchase – The Drive
Man with ‘the world’s largest penis’ reveals all about his large appendage – Indy 100
15 Mind-Blowing Pictures Untouched by Photoshop – Linkiest
Rare Super Mario Bros. game sells for $2M on site that sells ‘shares’ in collectibles – Polygon
Weight Lifting Spotter and Other Crazy Videos of the Day – Drunken
Elon Musk’s 5 Most Ambitious Ideas for the Future – Make Use Of
A US wrestling heavyweight pulled off a last-second miracle to win gold at the Olympics – YouTube
Stunning Turkish Volleyball Player Zehra Gunes Goes Viral During Loss to South Korea – Egotastic
Caveman Approved Products of the Week
This LED backlight kit can elevate your TV watching experience by syncing its lights to what’s on your 55-inch or 65-inch screen. The effect makes it look like the colors bleed through the bezels of your TV, out onto your walls
The Dumping Grounds
Prison In Indiana Adopt Shelter Cats Help Prisoners in Indiana Prison Rehabilitate
In 2015 in the state of Indiana, Animal Protection League started a program in Pendleton correctional facility called F.O.R.W.A.R.D.
The idea behind this initiative is to take animals from a cat shelter and place them in the correctional facility so inmates could take care of them. The program quickly proved to be beneficial for both the adorable cats and inmates.
Many cats who end up at the shelter, often have a long history of abuse and mistreatment, thus leaving them unable to socialize with humans properly.
What Is It Like To Be In Love?
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.
You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.
You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you.
When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.
Linkage
Children Of Overprotective Parents Do These 11 Things In Adulthood – Thought Catalog
‘South Park’ Creators Sign Massive New $900 Million Deal With ViacomCBS – Yahoo
Are you really prepared for an emergency if you don’t have this in your survival kit? Provides a family of 5 up to 3 years of safe, filtered water – Amazon
The Dutch East India Company was worth $7.9 Trillion at its peak – more than 20 of the largest companies today – Visual Capitalist
Why It Feels So Good to Cancel Plans Last Minute, and How to Stop – Life Hacker
16 Things Your Successful Friends Have Given Up – Medium
I upgraded the motors on my kid’s Grave Digger Power Wheels to make it twice as fast – Instructables
4 tips for talking to people you disagree with – Ideas
The 50 Best Sandwiches We’ve Ever Made – Saveur
The Google spreadsheet with over 12,000 salaries—and counting – Google Docs
These totally outperforms laser teeth whitening and at a fraction of the cost – Amazon
Thief Receives Some Bus Driver Justice (video) – Leenks
These Are The Biggest Mistakes Used Car Buyers Make – Jalopnik
The 18 Things Women Love Most About Sex – Maxim
What It Feels Like To Have Sex With A Loose Vagina – Your Tango
In-N-Out is paying its store managers $160,000 a year – California Sun
The Woman Jack Nicholson Thought Was His Sister Was His Mother – Today I Found Out
Seven thought experiments that will make you question everything – Big Think
Everything you never wanted to know about artificial sweeteners – Popular Science
The Most Powerful Weapons In The Marvel Universe, Ranked By Destructive Force – Total Nerd
10 Secrets The Catholic Church Hopes You’ve Forgotten – Listverse
What’s It Like To Have Your Film Flop At The Box Office?
When you work “above the line” on a movie (writer, director, actor, producer, etc.) watching it flop at the box office is devastating. I had such an experience during the opening weekend of Conan the Barbarian 3D.
A movie’s opening day is analogous to a political election night. Although I’ve never worked in politics, I remember having similar feelings of disappointment and disillusionment when my candidate lost a presidential bid, so I imagine that working as a speechwriter or a fundraiser for the losing campaign would feel about the same as working on an unsuccessful film.
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Where Do The Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Go To Produce A Marvel Movie?
About half the money, give or take, is for above the line talent. So you have your actors, directors, producers, ect. They get paid in a percentage or in absurdly high amounts for films.
These people are also accommodate on set so production has to rent out luxury campers to house them for weeks or months at a time when on location.
Then they need to hire drivers and trucks to move those campers. Top tier stars can make demands on top of that.
I saw Jim Carrey’s camper once and it had an entire astroturf lawn on top of it, with a picnic table, with a vase with flowers on it. Don’t ask me why he wanted it, he just did.
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Picture of the Day
This Japanese Pet Penguin named “La La” walked everyday into Town by himself with a Backpack and collected Fish from the Local Fish Market.
A fisherman accidentally caught this penguin stuck in his fishing net and released him back to the sea. But somehow he kept coming back to the boat, so the fisherman brought him home.
They built him a refrigerated room under their house. He accompanied the man to the fish market daily and eventually began making the trip on his own