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Making a house an investment is social poison (archive.fo)

posted by CDanger

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That Time Campbell's Put Marbles in Their Soup (www.todayifoundout.com)

posted by Kannibal

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America’s Busiest Bank Robber Was a Product of the Opioid Crisis - A raging heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s yearlong, 30-bank robbery spree. (www.bloomberg.com)

posted by Kannibal

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When The Robert Kraft Case Fell Apart, The Women Were Left To Pay The Price (deadspin.com)

posted by Kannibal

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The Navy’s USS Gabrielle Giffords and the Future of Work - The Atlantic - As Automation and AI take over routine tasks, people transition to the non-routine and multi-hat roles (www.theatlantic.com)

posted by Kannibal

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Gun influencers on Instagram are a boon to gun companies - Bikini babes are raking in the cash (www.vox.com)

posted by Kannibal

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How the weather is screwing over American farmers in the Midwest (www.toledoblade.com)

posted by Kannibal

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Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences (aeon.co)

posted by CDanger

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The Left’s Panic Over GMO Foods Is Rapidly Disappearing (www.commentarymagazine.com)

posted by Justintoxicated

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Conservative tells CNBC the GOP is doomed because young people view them as ‘the dumb party’ – Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)

posted by Kannibal

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What Maketh a Man | Lapham’s Quarterly | How artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity. (www.laphamsquarterly.org)

posted by Kannibal

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Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song (www.mintpressnews.com)

posted by CDanger

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We sell our pizzas for $16.50. Here's how the costs break down. (thetakeout.com)

posted by Kannibal

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‘Ambient Privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. (idlewords.com)

posted by Kannibal

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We’ve been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one’s prepared - (Copy Right Law is a mess) (www.theverge.com)

posted by Kannibal

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Pay attention to the growing wave of climate change lawsuits Kids, farmers, fishermen, cities, and states are suing the fossil fuel industry and governments. Could they win? (www.vox.com)

posted by Kannibal

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In a nutshell, the pro-Trump pundits behind the manifesto reject the old Republican political alliance which was run by libertarian/pro-business/plutocratic types, and which relegated religious conservatives to back-bencher status. Instead, . . . . (www.firstthings.com)

posted by Kannibal

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The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists analysing a 3,000 mile run, the Tour de France and other elite events. The cap was 2.5 times the body's resting metabolic rate, or 4,000 calories a day for an average person. (www.bbc.com)

posted by Kannibal

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John Wick is a Modern Fairy Tale- There’s a whole class of fairy tale that opens with a man offending a witch. But after this grand offense takes place, the witch enacts her chilly vengeance on the man. And usually, all hell breaks loose. And if the Witch (www.fanbyte.com)

posted by Kannibal

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The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless? (www.smh.com.au)

posted by Kannibal

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The Submarine [PR Agencies and Journalism] (www.paulgraham.com)

posted by CDanger

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Ralph Nader: American Society Is in Rapid Decay (archive.fo)

posted by CDanger

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14 Millennials Got Honest About How They Afforded Homeownership ---- “I don't know anyone in their twenties who has the savings for a down payment without family help.” (www.buzzfeednews.com)

posted by Kannibal

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Why US troops ‘flattened’ Raqqa and Mosul, and why it may herald an era of ‘feral city’ warfare (www.militarytimes.com)

posted by Kannibal

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Twice as Many Fishing Vessels Are Chasing Fewer Fish on the World's Oceans - Since 1950, the number of boats has gone from 1.7 million to 3.7 million, even though fish stocks have crumbled (www.smithsonianmag.com)

posted by Kannibal

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