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I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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a billionaire promises a working city on the moon by the early 2030s. propose housing everyone already on earth and suddenly it's unrealistic, too expensive, decades away. space isn't the ambitious part. it's just the part where the payoff stays private.

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beef got expensive because he tariffed beef. the fix is suspending his own tariff for 90 days, a window that closes right after the midterms. he's not making beef cheaper. he's lending you the lower price until the votes are counted, then taking it back.

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the american booze canadians pulled off their shelves turned out to be worth enough to trade back. provinces have agreed to restock it under the tentative deal. so the shelves refill and the decision moves to you. a deal can return the bottle. it can't return the customer.

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