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1. Check the receipt for your new inflatable standup paddleboard. It’s been six months since you ordered it after drunkenly scrolling your ex-coworker Brittney’s Instagram feed, which is full of majestic outdoor photos. You are way past the return window, so you might as well actually try it at this point.
2. Open the box that has been gathering dust in your garage. All of the components are included in a handy carrying case. You should find your board, a paddle, and a flimsy pump that looks like it couldn’t even handle a balloon.
3. Watch a quick tutorial on how to inflate your board and learn to paddle. It’s easy and fun.
4. Attempt to put everything back into the carrying case only to find that it magically shrank. Throw everything loose in the back of your vehicle.
5. Drive ninety minutes to a county park you found in a paddlesports Facebook group. Discover that there is no restroom facility.
6. Notice a sign posted at the boat launch. All watercraft must have an “invasive species waterway protection permit,” whatever the hell that is, or risk a two-hundred-dollar fine. You should have also purchased a life vest.
Disney looks for PR help after Bob Iger, who earns $31 million a year, derided strikers as “not realistic.”
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Alex Lawson and Ryan Grim discuss the decadeslong struggle against Big Pharma to lower drug prices.
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1. You have dark circles around your eyes.
2. You look absolutely feral when caught off guard by flash photography.
3. Your behavior is unpredictable, and you could become unexpectedly aggressive at any moment.
4. You are a mostly solitary creature, but sometimes you band together with gender-specific social groups, because it’s the only way you’ll survive.
5. Your appearance in stark daylight is alarming, and prompts calls to public safety.
6. A bath wouldn’t hurt.
7. People get upset when you come into a restaurant with your family, because your mere presence is a disturbance and they think they’re going to have to fumigate the place once you leave.
8. And everyone freaked out that one time you all got onto an airplane, even though you were just sitting there minding your own business and the one who was really stressed out in that situation was you.
9. Those whiskers are getting pretty long.
10. And you very obviously don’t shave your legs, but nobody really expects that from you anyway. To be honest, everything is looking a little hairy and untamed.
The looming quadrillion dollar derivatives tsunami part 2 Ellen Brown The Perverse Incentives Created by “Safe Harbor” in Bankruptcy In The New Financial Deal: Understanding…
The post The looming quadrillion dollar derivatives tsunami – part 2 first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.There’s been clear evidence for over a year that the US is planning to return its nuclear weapons to Britain. They intend to locate them at Lakenheath in Suffolk — nominally an RAF base but in fact wholly controlled and run by the US. If this is allowed to take place, Britain will once again […]