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Correctamundo.

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I can’t even identify the causes of the conflicts I get into, let alone historical conflicts.

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we eat julian pie.

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fyi article i saw re grooming:

More Grooming Time Is Associated with Lower Earnings for White Women, Study Finds
Posted Sep 13, 2011 6:00 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

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White women who spend a lot of time on personal grooming tend to make less money, according to a study by Elon University researchers.

The study found that nonminority women who increase their daily grooming from 45 minutes to 90 minutes a day earn an average of 3.4 percent less money than their less fastidious counterparts, according to the Careerist and the Wall Street Journal blog the Juggle.

For minority men, however, those who increased grooming from 40 to 80 minutes a day had earnings that were about 4 percent higher on average. There was no effect on the earnings of white men.

The drop in earnings for women may be due to “negative stereotypes associated with an ‘overly groomed’ woman in the workplace,” according to the researchers. The minority men may benefit, they theorize, because grooming can help counter negative stereotypes about agreeableness or conscientiousness.

Elon University researchers conducted the study using data from a Bureau of Labor Statistics time-use survey for the years 2003 to 2007. Grooming is defined as the time it takes to shower and dress, brush your teeth, shave, comb your hair, gargle and apply moisturizers.

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I thought I was just summarizing the article.

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I pRedict that in the future people will want to be cooler.

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Could it be a function of a shrinking pie. When the pie is growing, and an average person can thrive, there is less need to selfpromote. When times are tough and the rat race is more stressful, each eat must practice better grooming and appear better than the other rats.

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Idolizing a guy like lance is silly. Yeah he’s tough but even if he never used drugs, he’s still a physical freak. His heart amd lungs are not like yours mine or 99.9999999999 percent of the poluation. He’s a giant air bellows. It’s not fair to race him. And it’s like idolizing the dunking ability of an 8 footer.

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America is hungry for heroes.

Who did people heroicize back in WWII? Their dads?

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I don’t know. Seems a littly nutty. Shouldn’t workers be judged on productivity? Why not fire them for adultery too?

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But getting back to heroism, there is a deep void in America. We do have a real hunger for heroes. Fake sports heroes and movie stars don’t cut it. Maybe 9-11 is trying to fill that void.

I realize there is literally no one I look up to and admire or say hey I’d like to be more like him. I do sort of admire the Japanese bicycle parts mfr called Nitto. They do good work not sure I want to be like them though

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The beatings will continue until morale improves.

If the USA were occupied, we would be very upset. If some guys broke out of jail and started looting art museums and some dude said, well that’s freedom, this prison- industrial complex gas been keeping people down too long, I think I’d be really pissed.

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Pomegranates are suspiciously middle eastern cultivated primarily in that region but yeah I have one pomegranate tree. Not really an American type fruit. Too complicated too messy too much ambiguity.

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What about a new holiday– national consumption day– like thanksgiving but we celebrate the bountiful supply of consumer goods. But it’s organized. We give thanks fir all the really good stuff in our life that we work to acquire.

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I also wouldn’t mind some sort of primitive dance celebrations at the equinox. My problem with thanksgiving, aside from killing all the natives, is that it’s a harvest holiday meant to celebrate the harvest after all the hard labor. Except now there’s no harvest labor and the turkey farm runs 24/7 365 days a year and the fruits get flown in from other hemispheres. We aren’t a harvesting people and a harvest holiday doesn’t make sense.

But mainly it’s the genocide.

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