Friday, September 18, 2020

The $100 Million Mistake

How Retaining Ownership Of Trump's Hotels Cost The President A Fortune, The Largest Helicopter Ever Built Was Also Completely Useless
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Why We Don't Like Our Underground House
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Our dream home was less than perfect and certainly didn't live up to the hype from the advertising brochures.
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The Largest Helicopter Ever Built Was Also Completely Useless
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This Soviet chopper was bigger than a 737 and an engineering marvel. What went wrong?
COMES WITH A COST
Trump's $100 Million Mistake: How Retaining Ownership Of His Hotels Cost The President A Fortune
forbes.com
As President Trump has bragged about leveraging his business acumen to financially steward the country, he has managed to lose an estimated $100 million on just two hotels that look like cash cows, but in reality, seem to be money pits.
THE FORCE WAS WITH HIM
This Guy Takes Old Thrift Store Paintings And Adds Star Wars To Them
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Redditor DaveRuinsArt made excellent use of his quarantine time by adding Star Wars vehicles and characters to unsold thrift store paintings.
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The Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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Why Grown-Ass Men Get So Emotional About Carly Rae Jepsen
melmagazine.com
"Dedicated" only begins to describe CRJ's male fanbase — so we asked more than 60 grown-ass dudes to cut to the feeling and tell us why.
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The Best Tweets Of The Week
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Or some of them, anyway. Here we round up a collection of some of the best things we've seen on Twitter in the last week or so.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THE GOOD FIGHT
Firefighter Listens To Fire Conspiracy Theories, Shuts It Down In The Most Rational, No-Nonsense Way
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Some days you fight fires, some days you fight fire conspiracies.
IN THE NEWS
Trump To Block US Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat On Sunday
C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists' Objections
A Massachusetts Teenager Tested Positive For COVID-19. His Parents Sent Him To School Anyway
Canada Tesla Driver Charged Over 'Napping While Speeding' At Over 90MPH
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The Spy Photo That Fooled NPR, The US Army Intelligence Center And Me (2013)
theatlantic.com
A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past and who we are today.
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Ghoulish Acts And Dastardly Deeds (2017)
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In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
Maybe don't buy an underground house or a big helicopter anytime soon.