Month: October 2017
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Tweet: All the usual suspects are here a…
All the usual suspects are here at #minnedemo https://t.co/vOtzbbvcn7
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Tweet: There is no “n†in restaurate…
There is no “n†in restaurateur, so stop adding one. I’m guilty too, and I went to hotel school.
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Tweet: Deckard is human. Except he used…
Deckard is human. Except he used to be one of the servers at Sunrise International Leasing.
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Tweet: ‘Blade Runner 2049’: The Deckard …
‘Blade Runner 2049’: The Deckard Question Matters More Than You Think https://t.co/Dyd3ZK9H05 via @thr
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Minnesota “nice”
It might be nicer not to say “sorry”: A study of more then 1,000 people in Frontiers of Psychology found that people reported feeling more hurt about a social rejection when it contained an apology and that the words “I’m sorry” made people feel obligated to offer forgiveness when they didn’t want to.Time, 2017-10-02 [edited]
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Finishing School
We’re not the top species on the planet because we’re nice. We are a very aggressive species. It is in us. And people talk a lot about how well the military turns kids into killing machines and stuff; and I’ll always argue that it’s just finishing school.Karl Marlantes, USMC on Vietnam Episode 5 by Ken…
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Awakenings
We were probably the last kids of any generation that actually believed our government would never lie to us.John Musgrave, USMC on Vietnam Episode 2 by Ken Burns