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I have known serial PIPites.


Way back when a co worker was powering up a fire alarm control panel. Poof, capacitor popped and damaged his eye


Effort will get one far even without natural talent Effort and talent cannot be surpassed.


My 4th grade teacher used the orange track to swat hands and backsides. The worst offender in class was taken to the book room and disciplined. I swear the both liked it. She also brought a refrigerator card board box in and set over him and his desk.


A handy means something entirely different in the US


An English chap once asked a US friend of mine for a cigarette, or as he innocently put it, "Can I bum a fag?"


Yes they do. Consider weed. It was well established before being legalized. Legalization brought higher taxes and interference. The black market continues as an alternative to the free one.


There is debate about the new deal. Its not clear it was a success.


There really, truly, isn't. Classical economists can't handle being wrong, but given an alternative reality did not happen, it was a success.

We can speculate and play armchair economist all day. But the hard reality is that the New Deal revitalized the economy and created countless jobs to pull the US out of the Depression. Maybe a "do nothing" approach would've worked too, eventually. When I unlock the secrets to interdimensional travel, I'll let you know.

Armchair economists set up an argumentative scenario where they cannot be wrong. You see, if they're wrong about a situation then secretly they're right, because if you did what they suggested instead it would've worked too (and better!). But if they happen to be right then of course they're right, and countering suggestions are obviously wrong and would've caught the economy on fire.


7th grade shop class. We all held hands and teacher crank an old telephone generator


Ireland was a poor country. They recognized low taxes would attract business. It worked. They then became a “tiger”


Shiny Beast is a great album


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