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The World Breaks Everyone: 3 Steps I Learned In Prison to Put Myself Back Together

I was arrested by the FBI, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced to two years of Federal Prison.

I lost everything. All because of the choices I made.

It’s been an incredible, challenging, frightening journey. A massive part of that journey was the fall to my personal rock-bottom.

That fall led me to write the following on New Years Day, 2015, my TEDx chronicles that journey in even more detail if you are interested.

“I cannot shake the image that 2015 is going to be the year I put a bullet in my head. I see myself making it through prison, making it to halfway, and the next vision I see is a pistol in my mouth or at my temple. I want to tell someone but I’m ashamed. I’m ashamed of being weak. I know how much it would hurt my loved ones. But the way I feel, the self-loathing, the amount of shame I carry, I have a hard time being in front of my loved ones. I’m no good to them, I can’t even face them. Why won’t it just end?”

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Photos And Videos That Will Put A Smile On Your Face – Ned Hardy

France hit by ‘terror’ attack as ‘woman beheaded in church’ and city shut down – BBC

Serious Audiophile IEM Headphones For $100 – Amazon

The 10 Foundational Practices for a Good Life – Scott Young

France imposes new national lockdown as virus deaths mount – AP News

The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary – Smithsonian

Here It Is: the Army’s New Infantry Squad Vehicle – Popular Mechanics

It’s Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History – The Verge

100 Frugal Habits to Live By, If You’re Trying to Save Money – Apartment Therapy

People Are Convinced Melania Has A Body Double Hanging With Trump – Ruin My Week

Ray Dalio: Don’t be blind to China’s rise in a changing world – Financial Times

How to boost happiness hormones like serotonin and dopamine in everyday life – CNET

These Artists Are Illustrating The Incredible Facts About Our World (20 Pics) – DeMilked

Bugatti Unveils Insane 1,825-HP Hypercar With 310-MPH Top Speed – Maxim

Transform any room in your home on command by installing these amazing color changing light panels – Amazon

The iPhone 12 Pro Is, Dare I Say It, a Near-Perfect Phone – Gizmodo

Wrongful Conviction Compensation Payouts Are Wildly Uneven (and Often Grossly Unfair) – Mel Magazine

Why This Ex-Wall Street Intern Walked Away From Porn Stardom – The Daily Beast

7 Harsh Truths That Will Improve Your Leadership Skills Overnight – INC

Asteroid discovered 170 years ago could be worth $10,000 quadrillion – Fox News

The Biggest IPO in World History Is Stoking an Investor Frenzy – Bloomberg

Streamer Gets Robbed For His Phone & Cash While Trying To Buy Meth Live – Worldstar

Nose Picker. and Other Videos of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

 

Pictures of the Day

Cross Section Of Different Bullets

Why do the bullets have different gun powder? Some of them it is finer and some more corse.

The grain size and shape effects the burn rate of the powder. The faster the burn, the more impulse it will have. The goal is to have a charge burn for the duration of when the bullet is in the barrel of the gun, so faster burn or not loading enough grains will be inefficient because you aren’t providing enough energy, more like slapping a drag car and expecting it to make the quarter mile. Too much powder charge can be dangerous for chamber pressure and can cause physical failure of the case and firearm, and too long of a burn is just inefficient because you’re burning after the bullet is long gone, like holding the gas pedal to the floor well after your drag car has passed the quarter mile mark and the race is over.

 

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A damn fine collection of hotties – Leenks

10 Animals With The Most Ferocious Bite Force – Ned Hardy

China Is Sending Young Single People On An Overnight ‘Love Train’ In A Bid To Tackle Its Sex Problem – Insider

So Much Water Pressure: When you replace your showerhead and rezlize just what you’ve been missing – Amazon

This incredible Google experiment lets you time travel to your hometown 200 years ago – Fast Co

Elon Musk Asks This Confusing Riddle During Job Interviews. Can You Answer It? – Popular Mechanics

Glimpse the gold mine where scientists are searching for dark matter – Popular Science

Bugatti Bolide weighs less than a Subaru BRZ and has over nine times the power – Autoblog

33 Frozen Pizzas, Ranked by How Close to Delivery They Taste – Thrillist

20 Times Tinder Cheaters Got Caught And Shamed By Their Partners – Ruin My Week

WWE Superstar Mandy Rose Shows Off Her “Backroad” Body – Egotastic Sports

Top 10 Movies That Destroyed The Studios That Made Them – Listverse

Put one of these packets in your water pre-, during, or post-workout to rehydrate, cure headaches, and aid in muscle recovery. Also works well prventing hangovers – Amazon

Emotionally Extreme Experiences, Not Just “Positive” or “Negative” Experiences, Are More Meaningful in Life – Scientific American

The Illustrated History of How Sugar Conquered the World – Sauver

Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly – Gizmodo

Kng Fu Woman VS Store Manager and Other Videos of the Day – Drunken Stepfather

Be a Time Wizard: How to Slow Down and Speed Up Time – The Art Of Manliness

Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You’ve Faked Your Death – Mel Magazine

Inside the Weird World of Restaurant Critics – Eater

26 Urban Design Ideas Every City Needs to Adopt – Bright Side

8 Horror Movies That Get Better The Deeper You Go – What Culture

What Happens When We Die? A Comic Book Guide to the Afterlife

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What happens when we die? Ramin Nazer’s comic “After You Die” answers that very question.

It’s a brilliantly-done look at the various after-death scenarios posed by world religions, science and philosophy. The comic covers the many possible futures that await a human being upon shuffling off this mortal coil. Never has existential dread looked so colorful!

The great question of what happens when we die has been asked by every human being that has ever lived. That means billions and billions.

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Hot New Music of the Day

The homie sent over the new video from Los Angeles singer songwriter Leila. Entitled “Go On Young Soul”, the visuals show the destruction of not making your voice heard.  The singer reminds us to vote in the upcoming election with her documentary type visuals. Besides being a singer, Leila is also a documentary filmmaker.  She has even created a film called “BDSM Pain For Pleasure”. 

Linkage

Model Puts Phone In Back Pocket To Catch All The Guys Checking Her Out – Ruin My Week

Why Are Honey Badgers So Hard To Kill? – Ned Hardy

The best electric toothbrush for under $40. It makes your teeth actually feel like they do when you get a cleanup at the dentist – Amazon

Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old as well as young adults – Reuters

French doctor warns his country has ‘lost control’ of virus – AP News

Banksy’s Foolproof Plan for Dealing With Anyone Who Steals His Art – Inside Hook

25 Of The Most Dangerous And Unusual Journeys To School In The World – Bored Panda

How I Infiltrated a Chinese Drug Lab – VICE

The Lease Payments On A Bugatti Chiron Sport Will Make Your Head Spin – Jalopnik

Kazakhstan Travel adopts ‘Borat’ catchphrase as its official tourism slogan – Fox News

This controller addon makes it possible to achieve more precise aim on shooter games like COD and Fortnite – Amazon

I Tried Allrecipes’ “World’s Best” Lasagna, and Now I Understand the Hype – The Kitchn

OUCH!!! Guy jumps off top rope, both knees bend wrong direction – Trending Views

Everything You Need To Know About Lamborghini’s Most Powerful Supercar – Maxim

11 Subtle Gestures That Can Reveal a Person Is Insecure Right Away – Bright Side

Guy Unleashes An Epic Rant To All The “Cop Haters” – Leenks

White Castle is adding Flippy the $30,000 robot fast-food cook to 10 more locations in 2021 – Engadget

The best way to answer ‘Why do you want to work here?’—plus examples from 3 people who got the job – Make It

Here’s How Americans Would Spend a Second Stimulus Check vs. The First One – How Much

A bettor missed out on a $1 million payday due to a brutal stat correction when a sack was taken away from the Bears – Insider

Hands-on with Sony’s PS5 DualSense controller – Popular Science

Realtor Fired and Arrested After Telling Black Men His Neighborhood is a ‘No N***er Zone’ – Towleroad