Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar-coatedin fact, its sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. I simply want to give you the tools you should probably enrich your damn lives. If for whatever reason you dont like my advice, feel free tofile a formal complaint here. Now then, lets get on with it. Its not that I dont want to, its that I dont really know how....
The Berbers of Matmata, a small village in southern Tunisia, do so too. The Berbers have been digging out homes in the ground this way for more than a thousand years. Today, these cave dwellings are a major tourist attraction. Matmata has another claim to fameit was one of the location for thefilming of Star Wars. The home of Luke Skywalker is actually an underground hotel named Sidi Driss.
And, as it turns out, there are some great lessons buried beneath all that cringe-y humor. Dev asks Christine questions about her job at the Dog Hotelsomething she said she didnt want to talk about. Dont get high or get too drunk on a first date, especially if youre not doing it together. Dont tell people why you canceled plans if its going to be off-putting. This is one of those instances where its totally fine to say you had something personal come up....
Do you care about the 2020 census? Literally every American social program uses census numbers to allocate resources. Transportation grants and education grants, among others, are distributed proportionally. If the numbers are off, the hospital gets mis-sitedand the vets dont get health care. Prewitt continues, Or take emergency relief. If theyre wrong, they dont find people. If you want your community to have the services it needs, your neighbors need to be counted....
The ridiculously expensive Texas Instruments graphing calculator is slowly but surely getting phased out. The times they are a-changin for the better, but Im feeling nostalgic. I have some wonderful memories associated with my TIs. You probably have an expensive Texas Instruments graphing calculator packed away somewhere. In fact, I still have two. When I was in school, everybody had one. Guess what?Theyre still just as expensive, even though your watch probably has more computing power now....
The Big Circles are a collection of 12 giant circular stone structures spread across parts of Jordan and Syria. For reasons unknown, Rees findings were ignored and promptly forgotten. It took another 60 years before anyone noticed them again. They are nearly circular, ranging from 720 feet to over 1,200 feet across. The circles originally contained no openings, although over the centuries some of the walls have crumbled. But why they were built is a mystery....
The media is ablaze overPresident Trump sharing classified information with Russian foreign officialsbut what is classified information exactly? And what happens if you disclose it? Good news: Youve been granted clearance to acquire this not-quite-top-secret knowledge. Usually laws or regulations are made so only specific groups of peopleusually government officialscan get into the restricted content. Ideally, this information is never accessed or learned by those who do not need to know it....
The scale is fickle: we lose weight when we pee or when we do a sweaty workout. We gain weight when we eat or drink or put on a sweater. But how much does that kind of fluctuation really impact the numbers we see? I weighed myself fifteen times in one day to find out. 140.3 pounds at 9:16am: I step on the scale for the first time. Ive just woken up....
I wasnt bad at making the meal, but one element always eluded me: the freaking pan sauce. The steak wasnt the problem. I could cook a steak. I could also bake a potato. I even made little baby chocolate lava cakes for dessert. Suffice to say, my early-days sauces were somehow acridandsyrupy, and rarely made it onto the actual steak. The funny thing is, pan sauces are actually quite easy to make....
But when a devastating flood hit the valleys in 1913, the need to tame the river was felt. A concrete spillway bowl was also built to allow independent regulation of the upper reservoir. As soon as this phenomenon was discovered, the Linesville spillway became an impromptu tourists attraction. The frenzied feeding scene has been described by some as ugly and fearsome. “If you threw a child in there, they’d eat it,” said another....
Time flies when youre figuring outhow to navigate a post-recession economy. This year, theres an entirely new generation graduating from college: Generation Z. And theyre facing a competitive job market and a still-uncertain economy. So heres some expert advice for the latest grads entering the workforce. The displacement of in-person social interaction by screen interaction seems to be reducing social skills. Before entering the job market, recent college graduates shouldpractice their 30-second sales pitch,Hopkins suggested....
Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar-coatedin fact, its sugar-free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. I simply want to give you the tools it’s crucial that you enrich your damn lives. If for whatever reason you dont like my advice, feel free tofile a formal complaint here. Now then, lets get on with it. I mustered the courage to ask her out, and she said yes!...
Theres been a lot of disdain aimed toward airline companies lately, and for good reason. Spirit Airlines canceled a ton of flightsover labor disputes, stranding tons of passengers. Plus,there was that whole rabbit thing. Needless to say, people are up in arms, andairlines like United are taking a pretty big hit. Hold up, though. These stories have people upset, shouting about their rights as a paying passenger. But do you know what those rights actually are?...
