Hollywood will embellish things, but no, this did happen. Verified by not only dozens of men who were present, but even captured German soldiers who were shocked by it, also confirmed it.

Years before I got married and had children, I watched a woman in a financial planning session WEEP when the budget breakdown revealed they would have SAVED MONEY if she'd just *stayed home* (which she had wanted to do). It rewired my brain. I quit FT work to stay home with my.

Is optimism warranted right now?. I think what's actually warranted is hyper over-optimism. It's like we're lion kittens who've known nothing but confinement in a pet crate. Now the door is swinging open. On the Serengetti.

I asked Grok how many people became ill from drinking raw milk in 2023. Less than 200 out of an estimated 10M consumers. 0.00002% . Why is there a perception that it is dangerous? Drinking raw milk looks safer than getting in a vehicle! .

Will Shackel; Stop posting immature crap you hear in the Murdoch - Stokes media!.They are funded by the LNP by misusing taxpayers hard earned dollars! .Do you seriously think any sane person would vote for the galoot Morrison without them posting the lying LNP garbage?.

I begin teaching 1984 tomorrow. An important book with important themes. It would be pedagogical negligence to encourage students to find its meaning on their own. The students who are capable of doing that could have done it without you. The students who are incapable of.

Welcome to 2025. As the first day of the year rolls in, you'll see a flood of posts pushing you to adopt their way of doing things. This barrage of supposedly universal advice often misses the nuanced realities everyone faces. So if anything, it just shows the limitations.

Historian Tom Holland:. The ancient world was incredibly cruel. Most modern secular people do not realize how much they have absorbed a Christian worldview. Concepts like the rule of law and human rights do not go back to the Greek or Roman philosophers. They go back to the New.

When did Americans switch from front porches to decks as their preferred place to relax outdoors?. It seems to have been a totally regrettable shift -- one pretty squarely coextensive with the death of lively town streets.

Vishal Garg, the Indian American tech CEO of better(.)com, simultaneously fired 900 American workers over a group zoom call. Indian newspapers gloated he replaced them with 1000 employees hired in India. How will young Americans move up the ladder if the jobs are all in India?

Gotten quite a few new followers in the last few days. About me:. I’m an engineer. I was a flight test instrumentation engineer for the F-35B and F-35C during much of their testing. I’ve also done verification and validation on F-35 simulations (JSE). Ask me almost anything.