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Walmart is just a symptom of our excessive consumption, and the importance we place of low prices over quality an sustainability. That emphasis has been slowly leading to the decay of our economy for 30+ years. No reason to fault Walmart. We did it.
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This the policy my wife and I have. It's wonderful. I'd rather her tell me I have bad breath than someone I don't like. White lies are like faking it when you make love; you only train people to repeat the stuff you don't really like.

Then you just spend your lives secretly annoyed 24/7, instead of enjoying life together.

Now, if my wife compliments me on anything, or vice versa, I know I must have done well. I feel more self-esteem, emotional independence, and confidence.

Wanting to be lied to = not emotionally prepared for reality.

But look at how stupid the article is: A husband and wife both agree that their marriage has improved, thanks to a policy of total honesty. So what do they do? They close with a "relationship psychologist" who gives the opposite advice.

What a load.
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Good thinking.... all the nobs and buttons right their where you would otherwise be able to strum...

The only cool thing about this is the pickup being on a track so you can adjust it continuously.
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Non BS version of this story:

Man discovers a way to fool the breathalyzer in his car into giving a false positive, and tries to use the existence of the false positive in court to get the device removed from his car.

How is this newsworthy?
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If they had a pre-existing rule that specifically forbade hair designs like this, and they enforce it uniformly, then I have no problem with the school's decision.

If however it was decided to be a problem after the student did it, then it smacks of something.....
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It's funny how if you post anything related to race on the internet, you are flooded with white people calling "foul".

It's funny how the fact that anyone of any race can be racist is trotted out in defense of white-against-black racism.

Yes, anyone can be racist against any race. Chinese people can be racist, blacks can be racist, Mexicans can be racist. So can white people. So what? Do you want our scientific studies, and our movies to be forced into a quota system to keep it all equal?

So long as we behave tribally, minorities (I mean that as a number, not an ethnicity) will always fare worse than majority groups. This is game theory. They have less connections.

While movie and news, etc., might be often slanted towards making saints out of minorities and criminals out of white people, that doesn't mean that those minorities have a huge life advantage over whites. It means there is a cultural backlash to what the status quo has been for so long. Minorities still have, on average, shorter and poorer lives.

This is a very useful study to see how our minds work. The bottom line is that we have a hard time predicting how we will feel and act in sensitive situations. White Americans in practice may not be as distressed by witnessing racist behavior, as they think they are. This is interesting.

So knock it off with all the race-related generalizations. Judge people as individuals based on their individual actions. Evolve.
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You two are idiots.

The first entry did not involve rape. ("He asked her")

Secondly, the entire book is about awkward and strange sexual situations under often deceitful circumstances. It's a satire of Victorian sensibilities that were simultaneously prudish and misogynistic.

But I guess it went over your heads.
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