Rheum from the eyes is particularly common. Dried rheum near the eyes is commonly called 'sleep', 'sleepy-seeds', 'sleepy buds', 'sleepy bugs', 'sleepy sand', 'sleepy winks', 'eye boogers', ''s sand', 'eye goop', 'sleepy dust', 'sleepies', 'eye gunk', 'eye crust', 'sleepy men', 'crusties', 'dozy dust', 'eye globs', or 'sleepy dirt'.
Last year, the reviewer Emma, who is 25, accomplished a lifelong goal of reading a book a day. “There’s no such thing as quantity over quality,” she insists, while explaining that she’s naturally speedy and needs just three hours to read the average novel. “I work remotely, and a lot of it was about being intentional in making time every day for something I’m passionate about. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.”
Internet culture reporter Kelsey Weekman was inspired by bloggers like Emma to “become a book person.” She’d read a few dozen buzzy books between 2017 and 2021. But in 2022, she tore through 390. By mid-May, she’d already made it to 200. She achieves such numbers by reading some six hours daily — before work, on her lunch break, as soon as she clocks out. “I’m a binge reader. Very obsessive, very intense. The same mindset that I used to have towards scrolling on the internet, I’ve replaced with books,” Weekman says. She’s off BookTok these days, but Goodreads prevails.
I didn’t mind all the beige, the slowness of the search feature, the sense that, if I turned around too quickly, I might catch the platform taking a nap. The site catered to my undergraduate hunger for pretension, my need to perform my taste—a flame it continues to fan very capably in its users.
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"Happiness is not how many things you do, but how how well you do them."
Noah Lyles of the United States warms up his hamstrings ahead of his 100m heat.
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I shoot about three-quarters of the show. But I have about four second unit teams that go out every single day when I'm in production and just harvest as much strange B-roll as they possibly can. They usually have a scavenger hunt list of certain things, like insane accumulations of trash, or bottles of urine on the sidewalk.
When I was making it by myself, I would sort all the footage into mood-based timelines. So like, this footage makes me feel sad, or this footage makes you feel happy. Or really rich colors, or cops, or people hugging.
But now I have a team of editors and assistant editors that meticulously log every single word on every awning … a description of every activity that was filmed, every gesture, and it's all put into a database that they can search and recall any image I need. It's like, oh, I need this shot of a man with an iguana on his head. And they pull it up immediately because myself and all of the editors have almost total recall of everything that's ever been shot.
There’s reportedly a popular beer and shot combo in Florida called “The Wild Buffalo”—a shot of bourbon, chased with an Athletic Run Wild IPA. At the Pencil Factory, a bar in Brooklyn, they have an unofficial joke special called “The Hypocrite.”
How did it build a loyal customer base, 80% of which drinks alcohol but still chooses to pay almost $15 for a six-pack for the nonalcoholic stuff?
Before founding Athletic in 2017, Shufelt had been employed at a hedge fund, a gig that comes with a built-in work-hard, play-hard ethos. He was also big into endurance races, and decided to take a break from alcohol to feel and perform better.
“It turns out over 30% of people [in America] don't drink at all, and almost 60 percent of people barely drink. That’s a ton of money left on the table, so the economic opportunity was obvious to me,” Shufelt says. “Everyone always thought the occasion base for nonalcoholic beer was one percent of one percent of the time. It's pretty much totally the opposite—most people are not drinking most of the time.”
Today, Athletic is the number two nonalcoholic beer in the country, but is on track to surpass Heineken 0.0. And while beer sales in general are plummeting, the nonalcohol category is growing. At the time when Athletic launched, nonalcoholic beer made up 0.3% of beer sales; now it’s closer to 2%.
Figuring out how sauropods evolved their uniquely enormous sizes has proved challenging because historically they had a relatively terrible fossil record—much worse than that of many other land animals and orders of magnitude worse than that of most animals that live in the sea. The first step in becoming a fossil is burial, and for immense sauropods that would have required an event that could deposit a lot of sediment on the body at once. Think landslides and flash floods, which might take place only a few times a decade or century in a given region, as opposed to the seasonal flooding of smaller streams and rivers that can bury smaller animals multiple times a year.
To reach their record sizes, sauropods underwent record growth. They had the most growing to do of any animal (in an absolute sense), passing through four orders of magnitude in body mass. They had to grow so much not only because their adult body sizes were huge but also because they started out so small. Like other dinosaurs, including modern birds, sauropods hatched from eggs. The larger an egg is, the sturdier the shell needs to be. But evolution can thicken and strengthen eggshell only so much because the shell must allow for gas exchange and the eventual exit of the hatchling. These demands greatly restrict egg size. Sauropod eggs were cantaloupe- to basketball-sized, smaller than those of the biggest birds. Even a 100-foot-long sauropod started out life just a foot or two long. In contrast, placental mammals, which give birth to live offspring, have young that start out relatively large. For example, blue whale calves are around 20 to 25 feet long when they are born, so they must approximately quadruple in length to reach their adult size—a modest task compared to the perhaps 100-fold increase in length set before a hatchling sauropod.
“ICP weren’t real gangsters, but they knew (and tussled with) plenty. They had punk hustle. They fucked girls who worked in print shops to get free flyers.” …
And one thing ICP know about their fans is that they value unmediated experiences and stuff they can hold in their hands. In another United States of Insanity interview, Violent J said, “You can’t download a thong.” …
Camera surveillance is vastly more ubiquitous now than it was in 2011, but luckily, juggalo face paint turns out to frustrate facial recognition software. …
On the first day, I watched the Mr. Juggalo Pageant. I was struck by the variety of contestants, especially in the talent portion of the show. One man performed wheelchair tricks; another sang a very long, sad song in Japanese from his favorite anime; another simply showed hole.
But perhaps what negging really has going for it is that it’s inescapably personal. It requires effort and attention to detail. You can message a dozen women the same compliment on Hinge, but honing in on some little detail of a person’s profile you can lightly joke about takes a bit more time and energy. You can’t perform a roast without knowing your subject. To be negged, in other words, is to be seen.
“We’re overdue,” another pilot told me. “When it happens, the reaction is gonna be, ‘Why didn’t we see this coming?’ ” But we do see it coming.
For example, in 1980, only 6 percent of 40-year-olds had never been married. As of 2021, 25 percent of 40-year-olds have never been married.
“Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America. Specifically, the odds that men and women say they are ‘very happy’ with their lives are a staggering 545 percent higher for those who are very happily married, compared with peers who are not married or who are less than very happy in their marriages.”
“When it comes to predicting overall happiness, a good marriage is far more important than how much education you get, how much money you make, how often you have sex, and, yes, even how satisfied you are with your work.”
But what about the right for unelected community leaders to exert their will over the people they've claimed dominion over?
Robert Walpole, the country’s first prime minister, warned that the dearth of crews had rendered a third of the Navy’s ships unusable. “Oh! seamen, seamen, seamen!” he cried at a meeting.
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My ride was so smooth, the novelty began to wear off, turning a trip to the future into just another journey across town. The car was precise and deliberate, albeit without the flexibility or interactions you would have with a human driver. It paused for pedestrians and yielded to emergency vehicles.
