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Comment Re:News for nerds, stuff that matters (Score 1) 344

by cford (#38388228) Attached to: Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness?

I really don't understand the other AC who said, "fuck you, 1%."

Maybe I can help. It seems (and this is just my personal observation) that our culture has the pervasive notion that "If you have more than I have, you must only have gotten it through evil means". However, "If you have less than I have, you really need to try harder, after all, I worked damned hard for what I got."

Of course, both sentiments are usually fallacious, and both put the individual in the spot where they stand to be the model individual. It's absurd, it makes no sense whatsoever, but it seems all too common.
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Supersizing the "Last Supper" 98

Posted by samzenpus from the a-meal-fit-for-a-king-of-kings dept.
gandhi_2 writes "A pair of sibling scholars compared 52 artists' renditions of 'The Last Supper', and found that the size of the meal painted had grown through the years. Over the last millennium they found that entrees had increased by 70%, bread by 23%, and plate size by 65.6%. Their findings were published in the International Journal of Obesity. From the article: 'The apostles depicted during the Middle Ages appear to be the ascetics they are said to have been. But by 1498, when Leonardo da Vinci completed his masterpiece, the party was more lavishly fed. Almost a century later, the Mannerist painter Jacobo Tintoretto piled the food on the apostles' plates still higher.'"

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