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Author: chris
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It seems to me this would be an interesting return to proper conversations. That and a drastic reduction of alcohol consumed during these parties.
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The allure of travel
Do you know what would be awesome? To be able to fly around and visit places.
Eventually this’ll be a thing. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau (via setbabiesonfire) -
How to fix the nursing shortage.
This is the cutest CPR ever.
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A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, [it is] an obsession about female obedience.
Lois Griffin (via fawun)
Always reblog.
Understanding this concept is probably the only reason I know longer have weight issues. Instead of thinking that I should be thinner to look nicer, I’ve got it in my head that thinner=more compliant and over my dead body is that ever happening.
(via iamayoungfeminist)
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Verizon’s vacuous statements
Can we accept that Verizon benefits no matter how the dispute with Cogent ends? Verizon claims they’re not hampering Netflix to benefit their service, Redbox. This is epic level sophistry. The implication being they’re not purposefully doing these things to help themselves.
Cogent must pay exorbitant rates to maintain peering with Verizon, increasing the overhead to Netflix’ costs of operations. Taking money from a competitor certainly benefits Verizon. Alternately if they don’t pay these higher rates to maintain similar speeds with Redbox then Verizon gets to advertise their video service as faster and (for the moment at least) cheaper for what you get.
Verizon is using the principle of double effect to get around the nasty truth their actions benefit them in what would otherwise be an unethical, formerly illegal, way. Even their primary goal is unconscionable; they want to charge a peer more for data. The secondary goal of hampering a competitor is just the freaking icing on this shit cake.
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