Such a shayna punim! 📷
The least likely scenario for the 2020 election is that Trump both loses and accepts defeat graciously.
What Could Happen If Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?. By Masha Gessen at The New Yorker.
“Hurting people at scale: Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built. Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman go in-depth for BuzzFeed News.
The most charitable interpretation of Facebook’s behavior is that it’s trying to remain neutral in a fight against racism and autocracy.
I don’t know how how to spell “entrepreneur” but I know there’s an extra R in there somewhere.
“Delicious, but too messy to handle,” was how Ruth Burt described the new ice cream treat her father, Harry Burt, concocted in 1920—a brick of vanilla ice cream encased in chocolate. So her brother, Harry Jr., offered a suggestion: Why not give it a handle?”
A brief history of the Good Humor ice cream truck: How the Ice Cream Truck Made Summer Cool, by Colin Dickey at Smithsonian Magazine.
That was, indeed, unexpected.
Zoom and Enhance! from r/Unexpected
In his biography of Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson makes a case that Franklin was one of the greatest people who ever lived, anywhere at any time.
Franklin rose from poverty to become a successful businessman, writer, publisher, journalist, diplomat, statesman, politician, and political philosopher. Success in any one of those fields could get him a couple of statues. Franklin succeeded in all.
Franklin was a leader in building a government that has lasted longer than any other extant today. No other major nation today is still using the government it had in the 18th Century.
Franklin was also a legitimate scientific genius.
And as a friend points out, Franklin invented technology that is still in use today: his stove, lightning rod and bifocals.
Also, Franklin invented swim fins, the urinary catheter and a musical instrument called the armonica. The last invention is not still in use much today, but it’s lovely.
Venice is reducing the number of people allowed on individual gondolas, as tourists have gotten fatter. “Going forward with over half a ton of meat on board is dangerous.”
Previously, “Greece banned hefty tourists from riding donkeys on the popular island of Santorini, after activists complained that the animals were suffering spinal injuries.”