On my way home from a 12 hour day of cutting lawns, I seen this gentleman, I have no c...

On my way home from a 12 hour day of cutting lawns, I seen this gentleman, I have no clue who he is to this day. But I said no way was I gonna let this guy tackle this on his own. So I turned …

Top stories for Long   Matthew Brooks, Startup Consultant at Seven Parallel Consulting, T at Startup Consulting (2018-p... • Posted Jun 24, 2023 On my way home from a 12 hour day of cutting lawns, I seen this gentleman, I have no clue who he is to this day. But I said no way was I gonna let this guy tackle this on his own. So I turned aroun... Read more » 2K 61   Why did Nokia fail? Susanna Viljanen, knows Finnish • Answered May 1 It ceased to be an engineer-driven corporation and became a businessman-driven corporation. The same reason why McDonnell-Douglas failed and was eventually eaten by Boeing, ... Read more » 783 93   Rational thinkers, here is a simple Gallup poll for you: Which proposition is more probable? (1) There is God. (2) There is antimatter. Krister Sundelin, lives in Gothenburg, Sweden • Answered May 19 Hello, Radhakrishnan (Arkay) Nair ! This is a banana. This is a PET scanner. Okay, what do those have anything to do with anything in the question?... Read more » 854 69   Why does Quora like to make comparisons of Trump and Obama all the time? Alex Denethorn, Commentator on US and UK Politics • Updated July 19, 2020 That's easy: because Trump does that all the time. He's made it clear that he believes Obama to be a traitor, to be corrupt and criminal, and that his two terms in office we... Read more » 1.1K 37   Ancilla Bernstein (Jerez), Sr International Realtor in Budapest/firm in Chile & Spain • Posted Mar 10 Laura Cornelius Kellogg - Princess Wynnogene, ca.1913. Laura Cornelius Kellogg (1880-1947) was an Oneida leader, author, orator, activist and visionary. Kellogg, a descendant of distinguished Oneida... Read more » 48 1   How long can someone hold raw uranium without harm? C Stuart Hardwick, Scifi author and science nerd. • Answered May 13 and a If wearing rubber dishwashing gloves, quite a long time. Uranium, like you, is radioactive but not very. It's more radioactive than you only because your radioactivity... Read more » 258 9   How did early software companies try to prevent piracy, and what happened if your floppy disk got damaged? Benjamin Murphy, Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies • Answered May 12 Jet Set Willy was a popular game written for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Back then, you would buy the game on a cassette. The cassette came with a piece of card that had a col... Read more » 1.6K 145   I find school to be completely worthless, and have to slog through each day. Does anyone who graduated agree? Matthew Bates, Teacher (2009-present) • Answered January 15, 2018 Honestly, and I'm not saying this to be mean, but this sounds like a pretty standard teenage bad attitude. When I was in high school in the 90s, I had classmates who felt th... Read more » 1.7K 81   The English mathematician John Horton Conway (1937-2020) studied a curious sequence of positive integers, which he called "The look and say sequence". Nick104 • Posted Feb 5 You will understand the reason shortly. Let's suppose we start from the number 1. What we see is "a one", that is, in numbers "11". This will be the second term of the sequence. Now, to describe "11" w... Read more » 191 16   Why don't bears fast a few days before hibernation to fully empty their bowels, so they wouldn't develop constipation upon waking up? T. Barczuk, studied at Gdansk University of Technology • Answered May 10 Thinking about bears developing constipation might be funny, and I think I know why this might come to mind. However, this sorry fate doesn't really await them, and even if... Read more » 531 22   What are some things paramedics see? Sean Williams, Paramedic for 45 years. • Answered April 20 Lots of death, misery, destruction, and lots of entitled people that are just too freaking lazy to take the bus to their doctors office. I have spent time helping the medica... Read more » 226 12   The U.S. construction industry needed over 500,000 laborers in '24 , with another 425,000 projected needed in '25 , so where is this labor going to come from? David W. Rudlin, Author of the Political Thriller, "Scandalous." • Answered May 11 It's both better and worse than you say. At the end of January 2025, there were 236,000 open jobs in construction. That's actually a 42% decline year-on-year. That's actually... Read more » 545 11 Read more in your feed

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