The Panama Canal 🚢 https://twitter.com/ChannelInteres/status/1611664050357964801
oh some of these are wild
wild bridges, domesticated bridges, feral bridges,
feral pylons stalking across the hills
I feel like the sole rationale behind the existence of this bridge is: "We could build a road over land *takes a shot* like FUCKING PEASANTS, OR-" and a pure masculine id to build somehow got government funding.
I love this lamp because it's like, oh a nice little piece for an end table :)
WRONG!!!
for the low low price of £6000, you too can have a life-sized horse statue with a lamp on its head within your house, eternally judging you with its onyx gaze
help joel and grian building the bread bridge is SO FUNNY because grian is SO DEEPLY CONFUSED that he's doing this. and somehow joel is farming bloodthirstily. and they're building a bad boys bread bridge. and this is the plan they've decided to go with. and this is the plan that somehow works,
Massachusetts put Harvard in its constitution in 1780 and haven’t taken it out since. It’s the only college, university, school of any kind named in its text.
The constitution entrenches the powers of Harvard and its officers. The legislature cannot amend or revoke Harvard’s corporate powers by any act short of a constitutional amendment.
Chapter V, THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, ETC.
Section I.The University.
Article I. Whereas our wise and pious ancestors, so early as the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-six, laid the foundation of Harvard College, in which university many persons of great eminence have, by the blessing of God, been initiated in those arts and sciences, which qualified them for public employments, both in church and state: and whereas the encouragement of arts and sciences, and all good literature, tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the Christian religion, and the great benefit of this and the other United States of America -- it is declared, that the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in their corporate capacity, and their successors in that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises, which they now have or are entitled to have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy: and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed unto them, the said president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors, and to their officers and servants, respectively, forever.
(There’s something funny about putting the “President and Fellows of Harvard College” on par with “God” here.)
Massachusetts also entrenches Harvard donors’ right to see their gifts applied “according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors,” and confirms the rights and powers of the Harvard trustees.
Article II. And whereas there have been at sundry times, by divers persons, gifts, grants, devises of houses, lands, tenements, goods, chattels, legacies and conveyances, heretofore made, either to Harvard College in Cambridge, in New England, or to the president and fellows of Harvard College, or to the said college, by some other description, under several charters successively: it is declared, that all the said gifts, grants, devises, legacies and conveyances, are hereby forever confirmed unto the president and fellows of Harvard College, and to their successors in the capacity aforesaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the donor or donors, grantor or grantors, devisor or devisors.
State legislators and officials have a constitutional duty to cherish Harvard or its interests: “it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge.”
The constitution originally disqualified any “president, professor, or instructor of Harvard College” from serving in the state legislature—the same disability still imposed on state judges, sheriffs, customs officers, and attorneys-general—but Amendment XXVI removed the disqualification in 1877.
The Declaration of Rights, which was ratified together with the constitution, and annexed to it, says that special privileges are granted only for “services rendered to the public”:
No man, nor corporation, or association of men, have any other title to obtain advantages, or particular and exclusive privileges, distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public;
Harvard must be rendering exceptional service to the people of Massachusetts.
sex appeal is a type of charisma but charisma is not a synonym for sexy. a character can be charismatic without being fuckable. i don’t like that these words seem to get used interchangeably a lot, especially in the d&d stat sense.
yeah, for example, clowns have very very high sex appeal but only middling charisma in other dimensions.
My god, the Germans have done it again, they've created another painfully useless and expensive piece of energy infrastructure
TFW your 700 meter deep mine stores as much energy as $600 000 in lithium cells. An entire 700 meter deep mine to store as much energy as 50 modern electric cars worth of batteries. Clown world. Literally makes lithium cells look feasible as a solution to energy storage.
Ok, but what if - now hear me out here - what if we used lithium batteries as the weights? They're pretty heavy, right?
Hey my town has one of these crazy new gravity storage plants!
Had it for a while, actually.
Guys this is already a solved problem. You're trying to reinvent pumped hydro. You don't need to do that you can just do pumped hydro.
I don't respect christianity but they kinda popped off with cathedrals but ONLY for the purpose of having a cool backdrop for fighting horrible nightmare beasts
What if they have snails crawling down the outside?
Holy shit, this can’t stay in the tags!
Tumblr user perfectlyspreadbutthole is the funniest person alive
Astonishing that one small country should within less than a century produce both Dickens and Wodehouse, the two undisputed titans of literature about aunts. Never have aunts been so clearly realized. I know many aunts who still strive to live up to the standard.
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yknow for a post with 400k notes this comic is just niche enough still for whenever i make a reference to it (which is like, every day because it changed my fucking life) NOBODY GETS IT
Stepladders were invented so that people could get away with fucking a ladder in a porno.
Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases
the lack of his pov makes it difficult to focus in on what bdubs is up to this session but i swear every time i see him he's trying to mediate and fix alliances and break up fights. he's trying to hold the clockers family together with his bare hands. he saw jimmy was on 7 minutes and gave him a life without hesitation. its all falling apart regardless but damn good on him for trying LMAO.
