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'Without precedent': Virtually all news outlets reject restrictive Pentagon press policy

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The policy would force news organizations to refrain from publishing material not approved by the military. Media lawyers say it violates the 1st Amendment.

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The CHP stopped a Nissan with a suspicious license plate. It was homemade

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A Central California driver of a Nissan Sentra was pulled over and cited for driving with a drawn license plate instead of a proper one in Merced County.

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freeAgent
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At this point, whenever I see a Nissan on the road (with the exception of the Leaf), I just assume that the driver is someone who has made many poor choices in their life.
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The Robbery of Epicurus

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Clear skies ahead – Delta partners with Maeve on M80 hybrid regional aircraft

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Delta Air Lines is teaming up with Dutch aviation startup Maeve Aerospace to take its idea for a more advanced, fuel-sipping hybrid-electric aircraft powertrain from the drawing board and into regional commercial service.

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freeAgent
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Cutting fuel consumption by 40% sounds great!
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Tech billionaire Marc Benioff says Trump should deploy National Guard to San Francisco

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Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff says President Trump is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.

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freeAgent
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Remember when Benioff was pretending to be a Democrat?
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China understands negative emotional contagion

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China’s censors are moving to stamp out more than just political dissent online. Now, they are targeting the public mood itself — punishing bloggers and influencers whose weary posts are resonating widely in a country where optimism is fraying.

The authorities have punished two bloggers who advocated for a life of less work and less pressure; an influencer who said that it made financial sense not to marry and have children; and a commentator known for bluntly observing that China still lags behind Western countries in terms of quality of life.

These supposed cynics and skeptics, two of whom had tens of millions of followers, have had their accounts suspended or banned in recent weeks as China’s internet regulator conducts a new cleanup of Chinese social media. The two-month campaign, launched by the Cyberspace Administration of China in late September, is aimed at purging content that incites “excessively pessimistic sentiment” and panic or promotes defeatist ideas such as “hard work is useless,” according to a notice from the agency.

Here is more from Lily Kuo from the NYT.  If you are spreading negative emotional contagion, there is a very good chance that, no matter what you are saying, that you are part of the problem.  A more fundamental division these days than Left vs. Right.

The post China understands negative emotional contagion appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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freeAgent
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This is an interesting link, but I do not subscribe to the belief that "you are part of the problem" if you "spread emotional contagion" online. Weird take by Cowen.
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