Now this is worthy of the title "People are Awesome".

It must have some fuel left. Fastest big rig in the world?

I used to think it'd be fun to survive a tornado...

That was terrifying.

Actually, if you get the windshield and transparent side-panel options, you'll be mostly fine. I drove a Honda S2000 (and later S2000 CR) for 10 years, and the top was pretty much always down (or off), even in driving rain and light snow. You simply don't get wet at > 30mph, and the occasional stoplight isn't a big deal. Stop and go traffic starts to suck though.

I also got a ride in a 300hp supercharged Atom. It was just around the block but I thought it was going to break my spine with the acceleration, cornering grip and braking distance. I was actually honestly scared.

I got to go to Jordan on business a couple years ago, and it was probably my favorite trip anywhere, ever. Petra is astonishing and absolutely worth a visit. Gerash and the Dead Sea were just as captivating, and the Jordanian people were lovely.

It is worth watching this all the way through.

This tech came from an app called WordLens that Google bought a year or two ago. I successfully used it in a few different European countries.

The bigger, less-stylized, more-contrasting the text, the better it works. Try it out, it feels like the future!

As a low brass player, I'd say a sousaphone is in the tuba family: the lowest common brass instruments, an octave below trombones and baritones/euphoniums.

A sousaphone in particular is a marching tuba (named after composer John Philip Sousa), constructed to wrap around the player and place the load on the shoulder, with the bell projecting the sound forward instead of up.

Another type of marching tuba is a contra, more common in drum and bugle corps. It looks like a normal concert tuba but with a 90-degree twist to the valves and mouthpiece pipe so that it also rests on the shoulder with the bell facing forward.

Hiding from ceiling cat.

"Let's make a Red-Band trailer, it'll go viral.
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I don't know, just put the word 'fuck' in it."

This might get more upvotes if the title and thumb weren't so spoilery!

Still upvoted.

This is a well-titled sift! Thanks for not spoiling it.

What's Dag's boner rule again? Just asking.

"Might makes right" is the language of tyranny and the morally infirm.

I personally expect the trend away from religiosity in America to accelerate. In more urban areas where people are exposed to more diversity, they tend to leave behind the tribal myths of their elders. The Internet is bringing some of that diversity to the masses.