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To the a**hole who thinks he knows what I need to do to "fix" my life and how to pronounce French words (while badly mispronouncing them himself):

 

The fool provokes and enrages when he speaks as if he were the wiser. But listen on and let the fool extol the greatness of his wisdom, for his performance is itself the reward.

I'm pretty sure the people who knew a thing or two about speaking French were laughing silently with me as he was talking. Edited by CenSin
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So I'm doing a bit of a project, and I would like to ask for some opinions on the following interiors. I would like to see opinions voiced as a rating of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, and any comments (or ideas) you may have. I've included a few different views of the same interiors, because sometimes, the amount of sun is everything - evening sunlight streaming in makes an interior a lot more cheerful than a gloomy, rainy day. I'd like for opinions on the colors and general atmosphere and mood - NOT the seat style.

 

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DPB 7952 - interior 2 by t6a5iii, on Flickr

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DPB 7952 - interior 1 by t6a5iii, on Flickr

 

All of these photos except the last two are not mine - they come from a Slovak transit enthusiast website. Thanks!

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The wealth gap is huge in the United States:

Do Americans know their country's wealth distribution?

 

A remarkable study (Norton & Ariely, 2010) reveals that Americans have no idea that the wealth distribution (defined for them in terms of "net worth") is as concentrated as it is. When shown three pie charts representing possible wealth distributions, 90% or more of the 5,522 respondents -- whatever their gender, age, income level, or party affiliation -- thought that the American wealth distribution most resembled one in which the top 20% has about 60% of the wealth. In fact, of course, the top 20% control about 85% of the wealth (refer back to Table 2 and Figure 1 in this document for a more detailed breakdown of the numbers).

 

Even more striking, they did not come close on the amount of wealth held by the bottom 40% of the population. It's a number I haven't even mentioned so far, and it's shocking: the lowest two quintiles hold just 0.3% of the wealth in the United States. Most people in the survey guessed the figure to be between 8% and 10%, and two dozen academic economists got it wrong too, by guessing about 2% -- seven times too high. Those surveyed did have it about right for what the 20% in the middle have; it's at the top and the bottom that they don't have any idea of what's going on.

Americans from all walks of life were also united in their vision of what the "ideal" wealth distribution would be, which may come as an even bigger surprise than their shared misinformation on the actual wealth distribution. They said that the ideal wealth distribution would be one in which the top 20% owned between 30 and 40 percent of the privately held wealth, which is a far cry from the 85 percent that the top 20% actually own. They also said that the bottom 40% -- that's 120 million Americans -- should have between 25% and 30%, not the mere 8% to 10% they thought this group had, and far above the 0.3% they actually had. In fact, there's no country in the world that has a wealth distribution close to what Americans think is ideal when it comes to fairness. So maybe Americans are much more egalitarian than most of them realize about each other, at least in principle and before the rat race begins.

 

Figure 4, reproduced with permission from Norton & Ariely's article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, shows the actual wealth distribution, along with the survey respondents' estimated and ideal distributions, in graphic form.

Figure 4. The actual United States wealth distribution plotted against the estimated and ideal distributions.
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In reality, the bottom 60% of the population own less than 4% of the wealth (something even I didn't even know). The remaining wealth is owned by the top 40% of the population with the top 20% owning the lions' share of it—far from ideal (though the ideal itself seems ridiculous).
 
Read the entire article here from the University of California Santa Cruz: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

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How does one post videos and photos on SubChat? I tried embedding, but when I preview it doesn't appear. (I'm asking this here because I want to make my first post a photo/video thread).

 

EDIT: It seems Chrome doesn't let me view the videos in the preview, but IE does.

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How does one post videos and photos on SubChat? I tried embedding, but when I preview it doesn't appear. (I'm asking this here because I want to make my first post a photo/video thread).

 

EDIT: It seems Chrome doesn't let me view the videos in the preview, but IE does.

for pics <img src="image properties link"> Iirc. click preview post first to make sure it works. Photobucket has this very link as an option, so i just copy and paste the link.

Vids, dunno, i usually just copy from youtube as they should have an embed vid option.

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http://www.sydneycricketground.com.au/venues/webcams/scg-cam/

I wouldn't want to be the guy standing in Centre Field. The roped off bit is the cricket pitch square. Not exactly known for being soft.

I'd have to imagine they'd cover it with turf. But even if they don't, we have a team here that plays on carpet-covered concrete, which isn't known for being good on the knees either. Two games won't kill anyone.

 

What really surprises me is that they're constructing actual baseball dugouts.

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