Interesting reads
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Interesting opinion piece about how the media system is playing both sides for suckers, and how we just buy in to it.
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@mariner4life Yeah. Was discussing with a friend a few weeks ago whether an experiment to unplug the internet and the television for a couple of months might yield significant benefits.
It's typical that these great inventions would be fucked up by c#nts!
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@mariner4life that was a great read, thanks for posting.
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Read this and you’ll probably want to retire to a seat in front of the fire with a large scotch and a loaded revolver
John Lanchester · After the Fall: Ten Years after the Crash
Remember that remark made by Robert Lucas, the macroeconomist, that the central problem of depression prevention had...
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@Snowy have you heard of this?
London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One On Them - Jalopnik
Six times per week, an empty plane used to fly from London’s Heathrow Airport to Cardiff, Wales. The next day, the plane would make the return trip without a single passenger. Half As Interesting, the second channel from Planelopnik-approved Wendover Productions, details why ghost flights like this...
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@jegga makes sense...especially when you have some of the bigger airlines will use means to stop a smaller airline gettign off the ground (both literally and metaphorically)
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@taniwharugby hadn’t thought of that angle , airlines are ruthless in that regard.
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@jegga Yeah. Slots are far more valuable than you might think and once you lose it you are stuffed, probably never get it back at a busy airport. Home carrier airlines often use smaller planes, not just to increase frequency, but to use up slots to stop the opposition getting them. If you take up all of the slots with a 737 it stops someone coming in with an A380 and providing cheaper seats.
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This is a great piece:
How Ex-Cop Jerome Jacobson Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
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Stories about weirdos like this interest me , I’ve met a few similar scumbags but not as bad as this one.
Literary ambition. Fabulous parties. A hidden past. Who is Anna March?
Anna March came to L.A. a spunky, unapologetic feminist ready to raise hell. But in her past there were other cities, other names and a judgment against her for $380,000.
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“This was a McSting.”
MCSCAM
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
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I got that McScam read through on a feed the other day as well. Interesting in how long it went on before someone joined the dots. The guy wasn't being that careful and considering that the company he worked for knew how much he got paid, alarms should have started ringing when they had a gold plated BBQ at his house.
Any serious employee security assessment is twofold. One to see potential for temptation (eg debt issues) and one to monitor changing circumstances without valid explanation.Not to mention that it wouldn't be too hard to spot that the employee in most at risk position was prone to being a blowhard and mixing with mobsters.
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The story of a real life replica of the Simpsons house
Home Sweet Homer: The Strange Saga of the Real-Life ‘Simpsons’ House in Nevada
The cartoon-inspired replica was given away in 1997—and was, as the eventual owner put it, “like living in a Crayola box.”
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I hate these talking heads , this is gold https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/posh-royal-expert-exposed-as-tommy-from-upstate-new-york-harry-meghan-duchess-of-sussex
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“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades
A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.
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@jegga said in Interesting reads:
A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.
That's a cracking read.
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@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane.
That's a cracking read.
Yeah, very well written. Hard going towards the end though.
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One thing you get in the undercurrent is the US' awful employment laws - there is no protection in so many states. You can be fired, on a whim, in minutes, and never even have to be told why. So despite the 'most carriers are foreign and shit', how much better are the US crewed ones in reality - when the chips are down? I've worked with the USN but not their merchant marine, so I don't know - but that problem is there. Pressonitis, where your pride is backed up by the fear of arbitrary firing!
