Mildly interesting

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

This graphic translates your position in within-country income distribution to worldwide income distribution. So the median income earner in the US is at the 93rd percentile globally.

[Copper]

You get what you deserve.

[Horace]

This resonates with what I’ve thought for a while.

Link to video

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

That reminds of this place that I used to drive past crossing the Pennines...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3633580/Mystery-M62-farm-solved-Newly-rediscovered-footage-reveals-REAL-reason-trans-Pennine-motorway-built-18th-Century-home.html

[jon-nyc]

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

If you have like 200 acres and your house was in the middle of the land, then having a mass of houses build around you is kind of okay. But, with the way their land is......... Yuck. Definitely not worth staying I dont think.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I remember a column by George Will back in the 80s where he talked about Truman being the last ‘regular guy’ president in many ways (my words not his). The examples I remember was that he was the last president who didn’t go to college, and he was the last president who walked across the street to do his banking.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

he was the last president who walked across the street

IIRC, he walked across the street to work, when the WH was undergoing renovation. There was an assassination attempt on him as well.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

Last bounty from my LSU purple tree this morning

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

According to La Wik it was a French land mine. Fucking frogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Priday

[George K]

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in Mildly interesting:

Last bounty from my LSU purple tree this morning

This is one of those optical illusions where if you look at it long enough it flips from upside down to right side up.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Best comment:

‘Great. Now I have to go buy 10,000 nails to see if this works.’