Interesting Articles...

[Yonah]

https://apnews.com/236eab38ba99457f89f7b6906c95602e

“People will die probably forever,” said Arik Glazer, chief executive of Rolzur Tunneling, the company building the tunnel tombs, “so you have to get space for that.”

[ExGingi]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-31/taxing-short-cheap-flights-will-cut-carbon-emissions?srnd=premium

Why do some people always think about increasing taxes for environmental reasons, rather than making the alternatives cheaper?

[chinagel]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-31/taxing-short-cheap-flights-will-cut-carbon-emissions?srnd=premium

Why do some people always think about increasing taxes for environmental reasons, rather than making the alternatives cheaper?

Agreed. On the same topic, I think the traffic cameras should take a picture of all those going under the speed limit and give them a tax break. Let's see how aggressively they'd be putting up traffic cameras then...

[ExGingi]

Agreed. On the same topic, I think the traffic cameras should take a picture of all those going under the speed limit and give them a tax break. Let's see how aggressively they'd be putting up traffic cameras then...

That would never fly. Going too slow isn't fuel efficient.

[thaber]

https://narratively.com/the-man-with-the-golden-airline-ticket/

So funny, on shabbos someone was telling me of a friend with an unlimited ticket. I thought he was making it up.
Anyway, this line resonated :
" It’s like a spa, I tell them. A certain amount of time in the sky that belongs only to you."

[Aussie88]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/singapore-airport-ticket-arrest/index.html

Man arrested in Singapore for buying a ticket just to wave his wife goodbye at the gate. Had no intention to fly.

[Dan]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/singapore-airport-ticket-arrest/index.html

Man arrested in Singapore for buying a ticket just to wave his wife goodbye at the gate. Had no intention to fly.

Also, don't chew gum or smoke pot in SIN.

[Boruch999]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/08/30/forget-the-hype-forest-fires-have-declined-25-since-2003-thanks-to-economic-growth/#c77321163d93

[ExGingi]

Also, don't chew gum or smoke pot in SIN.

I wish that was enforced in Brooklyn too.

[Ergel]

I wish that was enforced in Brooklyn too.

Then maybe the kids will get off your lawn?

[whYME]

Then maybe the kids will get off your lawn?

What's a lawn?

[ExGingi]

What's a lawn?

AKA grass

[aygart]

AKA grass

I thought you did want them smoking grass?

[ExGingi]

I thought you did want them smoking grass?

No grass here. Just some overgrown weeds.

[CountValentine]

I thought you did want them smoking grass?

Needs to get out more. 

[aygart]

No grass here. Just some overgrown weeds.

Ah so do you or don't you want them smoking weed?

[ExGingi]

Ah so do you or don't you want them smoking weed?

Needs to get out more. 

[moko]

Secular people need a way to become Jewish

Maybe someone can explain to me what this person is looking for that they can't already have. I don't believe there are any laws that preclude someone from acting Jewish (with the exception of shemiras shabbos , and that a religious law, not a secular law)

[myi]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/singapore-airport-ticket-arrest/index.html

Man arrested in Singapore for buying a ticket just to wave his wife goodbye at the gate. Had no intention to fly.

For that fine just take the flight not worth going to jail for 2 years, just take the 200 or $300 flight.

[Yonah]

Maybe someone can explain to me what this person is looking for that they can't already have. I don't believe there are any laws that preclude someone from acting Jewish (with the exception of shemiras shabbos , and that a religious law, not a secular law)

I identify as a superhero, but one without any ostensible superpowers.