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ranting

Look what I did! Again!

Scan 1

Same. Due. Date. (Plus 4 years) ‘Nuff said.

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ranting

Trending on Mondays

Trending on Mondays

Why is my site more popular on Mondays?

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quotes

overmedicalized, poorly educated Americans

The money we spend on health care is money we don’t spend educating our children, or investing in infrastructure, scientific research and defense spending. So if what this means is we ultimately have overmedicalized, poorly educated Americans competing with China, that’s not a very good investment.

Uwe Reinhardt, quoted in Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
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photography

Rave on

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This is actually a scan of an old 35mm negative. I took this photo back in 1998 at a rave in my hometown, long before I knew how to handle my camera. But I’ve always loved the effect, though I think it looked better printed on glossy photo paper than it does scanned.

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ranting

Tracking things for no good reason

Could someone explain to me the use of documenting one’s parents ethnic and language groups on a child’s birth certificate is? What possible use can that information be other than for discrimination — either denying something or granting something on the basis of one’s or one’s parent’s ethnic or linguistic group? The only thing I can think is that it could be used for statistics, but that could just as easily come from the census. I think this information is a hold over from when it was used for discrimination, and they just have not removed it, because why would they unless someone forced them to?