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Snow in Madrid
Madrid paralyzed after historic storm with reports of 60cm+ of snow from r/europe
Looks groovy.
Three Types of Yes
I’ll let you in on a secret. There are actually three kinds of “Yes”: Counterfeit, Confirmation, and Commitment.
A counterfeit “yes” is one in which your counterpart plans on saying “no” but either feels “yes” is an easier escape route or just wants to disingenuously keep the conversation going to obtain more information or some other kind of edge.
A confirmation “yes” is generally innocent, a reflexive response to a black-or-white question; it’s sometimes used to lay a trap but mostly it’s just simple affirmation with no promise of action.
And a commitment “yes” is the real deal; it’s a true agreement that leads to action, a “yes” at the table that ends with a signature on the contract. The commitment “yes” is what you want, but the three types sound almost the same so you have to learn how to recognize which one is being used.
Voss, Chris; Raz, Tahl. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Really Random Facts
What is most "why the f*** do you know that" fact? from AskReddit
HushUK
If you shake/jangle your keys at a moth, it will do a backflip (it’s a defence mechanism)
PityLeFool
The last person who died building the hoover dam was the son of the first person who died building it.
ele-lan
MLB umpires are required to wear black underwear in case their pants split during a game.
celestialdragonlord
Fidel Castro loved dairy so much that he invested in trying to breed a cow that could survive in the climate of Cuba and still produce a lot of milk. He failed over and over for years until one day a cow that was exactly to his specifications. She produced obscene, record breaking amounts of milk even for a regular cow and could live in Cuba’s sweltering climate. There were regular updates on her health in the Cuban national newspaper and he loved her so much that when she died he erected a huge marble statue of her in her honor.
PmMeRevolutionPlans
Ubre Blanca was her name
ugagradlady
Many deaths in the Middle Ages resulted from pigs wandering into peasant homes and eating babies out of their cradles.
ifuckedpongkrell
julius caesar’s soldiers used sing a marching song about how much caesar liked it up the ass
Minerx_Thomas_YT
Hedgehogs shit when they run fast therefore if sonic the hedgehog was real he would shite himself to death
WhyY_196
Male hedgehogs masturbate for pleasure and you have to be careful picking them up because sometimes they have semen on their feet. It’s something you have to look out for when you’re a hedgehog owner like myself.
AsphaltSommersaults
you can neutralize the smell of a rotting corpse by covering it with the ashes of a common camp fire! any wood ash should work, friends.
DGatsby
Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel.
Guantanamo Mixtape
Here follows a sample of the songs played again and again at maximum volume to break the will of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay and other US detention centers around the world. In the context of harsh interrogation with no legal recourse or hope of freedom, these songs and others like them became the soundtrack of Hell for those subjected to them.
Christina Aguilera, “Dirrty”
Barney and Friends, “I Love You Song”
Deicide, “Fuck Your God”
Drowning Pool, “Bodies”
Eminem, “Kim”
Marilyn Manson, “The Beautiful People”
The “Meow Mix” Theme
Nine Inch Nails, “Somewhat Damaged”
Queen, “We Are the Champions”
Britney Spears, “. . . Baby One More Time”
Bruce, Scott G.
The Penguin Book of Hell
US – Iraq relations – April 2000
A decade after Operation Desert Storm, the US is still at war with Iraq. It’s the longest air war in American history. Nearly 12,000 missions last year alone were flown against 300 Iraqi targets. It’s the economic sanctions, though, that are causing the worst collateral damage in Iraq.
After eight years of embargo, Iraq’s currency has lost 98% of its value, and there’s a total break down in health care, education, and basic social services. Even food and water are hard to come by, and UNICEF reports that sanctions cost the lives of 200 children each day, and as many adults.
Two of the highest UN officials in charge of administering the sanctions have resigned in protest. Even Scott Ritter, the maverick arms inspector, calls US policy toward Iraq “morally bankrupt,” pointing out that it has only helped make Saddam Hussein stronger and Iraq’s civil society weaker.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
from April 2000, Connection Archives
Confluence Park
Fall is here.
Default stack @ the moment. Sept 19, 2017.
If you are looking for a default tech stack, here’s my guess on what it would be composed of, based on what I’ve seen and heard from 3 different, independent architects in the past month or so:
Front End –
Angular
Mobile –
Xamarin
Middle Tier –
.net Core
RabbitMQ
Backend –
SQL Server / NoSQL DB / MySQL
Host –
AWS