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September 09, 2018

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The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
-- Susan Brownell Anthony
From the moment of his birth the customs into which [an individual] is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his cuture.
-- Ruth Fulton Benedict
We must look at the price system as...a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function.
-- Fredrich August von Hayek


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This is fascinating. You oldsters who know what camera film is will enjoy it.
Spying High: A Rare Trip in America's U-2 Spy Plane
[Hat Tip: MTF]
There is something satisfying knowing that we can fly planes over backward shitholes and take pictures without having to worry about anything. It's low-tech (compared to satellites), but it works.
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Come on...it's not such a big deal. We have all done it.
Woman Severely Injured After Mistaking Dynamite for Candle During Power Outage
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They don't get it...They. Just. Don't. Get. It.
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Jupiter's magnetic field is surprisingly weird
"We were baffled" at the finding, says study coauthor Kimberly Moore, a graduate student at Harvard University.

Clearly she doesn't understand the modern scientific method. Just change the data to fit your hypothesis.

Duh.

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I don't fly as much as I used to, but I appreciate the incredible efficiency of our airlines, and just how damned cheap it can be in any market with competition. That doesn't mean it is pleasant. I took Spirit Air once. Once. I didn't bother with the return.
Original Disruptor Southwest Airlines Survives on Ruthless Business Savvy
Southwest has managed to avoid being the absolute shittiest airline on the planet and still remain competitive in price and above average in service. Pretty impressive.
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