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1. Two trains are heading toward each other. Jane’s train left the station in Atlanta at 5 a.m., traveling north at 60 miles per hour. 1,124 miles away, Tom’s train left the station in St. Paul at 5:30 a.m., traveling south at 70 miles per hour. At what time will Jane’s train collide with Tom’s, and how much sooner would the collision have happened had our country invested in high-speed rail like most other industrialized nations?
2. Would bureaucratic interventions and government regulations have been able to prevent this disaster? If yes, would you reconsider your answer, knowing that those regulations could negatively impact shareholder dividends by up to 4 percent over the course of a fiscal year?
3. Calculate how likely you’d be to watch a video of the train crash if it popped up in your social media feed. It’s a tragedy, but it would probably be crazy to see, right? While you’re on Instagram there, do you follow my wife, Evelyn? Can you look her up and see if she’s posting stuff on her stories with a guy named Mark? I don’t want her to see that I’m looking at her stories. We’re doing a trial separation thing. It’s no big deal.
A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.
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So, this was true once:
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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Last month, a Korean pop star and a legendary MMA fighter found themselves doing the same thing: apologizing for their apologies. BTS’s Suga had drunk driven an electric scooter, while Ronda Rousey had shared a Sandy Hook conspiracy video. They both immediately apologized—and then they both had to apologize again, for the shortness and shallowness of their initial apologies.
1. Are you sure you’re really trapped? You don’t look that trapped.
2. But you’re too smart to be trapped in a well.
3. Yeah, I was trapped in a well once too. It was pretty dank. But the well just went away when I made sure to sleep more every night, eat protein at breakfast, and cold plunge every ninety minutes.
4. Are you sure this is even a well?
5. It could be worse. You should do some gratitude journaling.
6. Have you tried getting out once in a while? Call a friend. Go to a movie. Rent a luxury sedan, drive yourself to a remote Airbnb in the woods, and go on a three-day-long hiking adventure searching for the perfect gnarled walking stick.
7. Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff.
8. Have you even bothered to look outside of the well? It’s beautiful out. The sky is cyan, the sun is shining, and the dewpoint is a perfect fifty-four degrees. All of us out here love how it’s just sultry enough to skip the lip balm but not so much that our hair’s all frizzy.
9. Maybe there’s something you need to learn from this well, like resilience?
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A damning new report reveals growing numbers of small businesses and retail outlets have used a series of scams to evade paying tax
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