congratulations to andy samberg and joanna newsom for being the most romantic people to have ever existed
So I looked it up, and am not at all surprised by what I found:
Andy Samberg is Jewish.
Why doesn’t this surprise me? Because what he’s describing is literally an ancient Jewish tradition.
Yep, reading this I was like “you mean a yichud?”
Like…I did this. This is what Jews do. Once upon a time, I think it was for consummation? But these days, after a ceremony? Who has the energy! We had a drink, took a micronap, and then dealt with family AFTER.
Yichud is such a great and so Jewish tradition, haha. I found a quora asking “what do they do in the yichud room?” and my favorite answer is the photo of someone’s niece(?) and her new husband – their faces are colored over, but he’s holding up a carton of Ben and Jerry’s “Tubby Hubby” ice cream, and she’s holding up a carton of “Karamel Sutra Core.”
the CUTEST.
I think for a lot of people it’s the first chance to have something to eat as many people fast on their wedding day. We just sat alone and took a moment to be together without the crowd of people and it was great.
We called Sushi’s dad and listened to him gas on about the neighbors.
This whole bankruptcy thing was a money making scam by the suits who bought out the company back in the 2000s and ran it into the ground.
Not only is the toy store brand not dead, but 30,000 people are now angry as this scheme blocked them out of severance pay and they are now unemployed and unable to return to work when they start up again.
Many toy companies including Hasbro are raising eyebrows at this, as the initial bankruptcy cost them millions of dollars in sales revenue and their stocks took a nasty hit (Mattel being the worst off from it, as Toys R Us closing compounded with steadily falling sales of their products). Advocates are calling this a “bad PR stunt” since the suits want the company to make sales for the holidays.
Hopefully, this will cause enough of a stink to kill it off for good. I’d rather say goodbye Geoffrey as I knew him than have him come back as a reanimated corpse controlled by greedy hucksters who put thousands of people out of work for no other reason than to line thier own pockets and escape the consequences of their own failings.
this is whats called a ‘coffer dam’, you basically build some walls, drop them in the water, tie them together, and then pump out the water from your new hole in the water so you can build while staying dry
its oddly not that hard- the flippin ROMANS were able to do it with logs and mud
occasionally particularly devious people would use this to hide treasure or tombs underneath the river so its not only impossible to find but impossible to get to without an engineer division
that last part gives me ideas for campaigns
“Not that hard – the ROMANS were able to do it” – people seriously underestimate how advanced some ancient cultures were and the organized effort it takes to come up with something like this and actually implement it. The Romans had heated floors, glass windows and ceilings that could be rotated to reflect what you were eating (forests for game, sea landscapes for fish). Hell, the Greeks built cameras and moving robots. The Minoans, who lived four thousands years ago and were wiped out by a tsunami three times as powerful as the one which devasted Japan in 2011, had running water and modern toilets. And let’s not get into how China basically invented everything centuries before anyone else.
Bottom line: just because someone was already doing it thousands of years ago, doesn’t mean it’s not very difficult and an extraordinary feat of engineering.
someone: you build how many bridges on a single military campaign…?
Death By Catchphrase 