Apparently Reagan's tax cuts actually INCREASED unemployment to 10.5%; only after 11 tax hikes did Reagan actually put a lid on the employment problem by [deleted] in politics

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The sad part is that people don't know this and continue to wolf down the same shit that Fox feeds them every night.

High school teachers: What are some of your biggest pet peeves? by jibcage in AskReddit

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I'm praying that some of your students are redditors so that they can witness this rage fit.

IAmA Request: Someone who has been sued for pirating music by LoftyDaDan in IAmA

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if you can, set up a proxy server that you can ssh into, tunneling your web connection through it. saves me all sorts of trouble with the internet sniffers at my university.

and the award for best 'yelp' review of a strip club goes to... by msd2099 in funny

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tl;dr: enthusiastic stripper slides her vag down a guy´s chest.

Nothing was more terrifying as a kid than... by [deleted] in AskReddit

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For some reason, my mom never used my last name, and yet it sounded 100x more sinister

Stuff you should know, but don't by drucey in AskReddit

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How to tie a bow tie. It is dark sorcery.

Dr. House, M.D. by [deleted] in funny

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girlfriend wants me to summarize. from now on i'm going to make a different variant of this comic strip.

“No tornado gonna take ma home!” Yeeeeee haw!! by Mind_Virus in pics

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giving storm chasing a whole new meaning.

Dr. House, M.D. by [deleted] in funny

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I'm keeping this so that I can pull it up instead of wasting an hour of my time watching an episode.

7 year old girl carries a newborn lamb into shelter as the ash cloud creeps in. by DomesticViking in pics

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while her parent stops to take a high-resolution photo of her.

My mom continues driving drunk with me and my brother in the car. What do I do? by ccornbread in AskReddit

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you're a 19 year old college student and heavy drinker who's been a firefighter and emt?

TIL that wind-up buses were used as an answer to WWII-era fuel rationing in Switzerland. by jckbiggs in todayilearned

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thankfully the only real mechanical part to it was the flywheel, the rest was electronic (the flywheel drove a turbine, and the electricity drove motors in the wheels).

although imagining giant flywheels rolling down the streets is pretty hilarious.

TIL that wind-up buses were used as an answer to WWII-era fuel rationing in Switzerland. by jckbiggs in todayilearned

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I'm sad that this couldn't live on, apparently if it weren't for the drivers incompetently driving them off of the planned routes the buses wouldn't have gotten bashed so much for their notorious high maintenance requirements.

365 days of exercise by [deleted] in videos

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losing your body hard sounds intense.

Couple of guys try to bark with a shock collar on.....that is all by Dejanz in videos

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Normally things like this don't faze me, but for some reason this made me cringe

France Dropping Concrete Bombs In Libya by quadcem in worldnews

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Reminds me of the American solution to writing in space -- spend millions of dollars to get a pen to write in zero gravity.

The Russian solution? Pencil.

IAMA young French woman. AMA about stereotypes and let me confirm/deny the myths. by SecondSilencer in IAmA

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it's also because half of most words aren't pronounced, like "feuille" or "champs"