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- Every day, hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap. 14 years ago, one man wondered what happens to it. The answer led him down a path that has since saved tens of thousands of lives around the world.
- NEWS: "Horizon is the social platform Facebook is building in the metaverse." - Zuckerberg Some photos:
- Replying to @PopBase and @ncolphillipTaking Beyoncé’s check mark is wild
- America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach. Since 1960, the cost of a baseball game, the movies, and a trip to Disneyland have increased at 2-3x inflation — and families have to work up to 2x as many hours to afford them today.
- Replying to @TheHustleLet’s assume a family of 4 goes to see an esteemed motion picture like Minions: The Rise of Gru. 4 tickets, 4 sodas, 2 popcorns, 1 candy All in all, today’s movie outing averages $68.73. Back in 1960? About $3.76 ($34.15, adjusted for inflation).
- Replying to @TheHustleFast forward to today, Clean the World partners with more than 8k hotels. As the largest hotel soap recycler in the world, Clean the World has helped lead to a 60%+ reduction in the number of children who die from diarrheal diseases each year. Read: trib.al/cWaZAbj
- Replying to @TheHustleHow about the “happiest place on Earth” — Disneyland? It’s hard to feel the magic when you see the price for parking. It used to be a mere $0.25 ($2.47, adjusted) to park your car there. Today, it’s $30. That’s an 11,900% bump in price since 1960, or 13.5x inflation.
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GIF - Slack's CEO Stewart Butterfield made a huge announcement: - On Clubhouse - About building their own Clubhouse into Slack - While Clubhouse's CEO was also a speaker DAMN. This is exactly what was said while Clubhouse's CEO raged while on mute:
- Replying to @TheHustleSeipler came to a realization: • ~9k children under 5 were dying from hygiene-related illnesses every day globally • Studies showed regular hand-washing could cut those deaths in half So he launched Clean the World to get bars of wasted soap to children in need.
- Replying to @TheHustleAssuming 40-hour weeks and a standard 2,080 work hours per year, the median family wage in 1960 ($5,620) worked out to ~$2.70/hour. Today’s median ($84k) is $40.38/hr. How many more hours do families have to work today to afford these activities?
- Remember that "Charlie Bit My Finger" video? It sold for $761k as an NFT. Wild times.
