Michael 🌞

Brand Manager, @EconomicSecProj

[Michael 🌞 @michaeljconti]

@doloyeung wow

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

Found a great American photographer. Carbon County series by John Sanderson.

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@natuccio3 @roundrock @america The coronation of God-Emperor Craig Morgan, and the dawn of his glorious thousand-year reign

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The inflatable eagle floats down the Immortal Ten Bridge in Round Rock, dips under the Mays Street sign and ascends. #America250 #July4th

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Unpasteurized mango vanilla bean ice cream:

- 2 cups raw cream
- 1/2 cup raw milk
- 3 ripe mangos
- 1/3 cup raw honey
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 vanilla bean

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All you need is love

[Oh, Shenandoah @longhunter09]

I love being able to time my run on these foggy mornings to catch the sun exactly as it hits that lone tree on the ridge

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Eurwangni Beach

[Brandon Fuller @fuller_brandon]

States legalized sports gambling chasing tax revenue. A new @ManhattanInst report by @CharlesFLehman shows that the revenue isn't there.

Sports gambling is ~0.2% of state tax revenue on average. It clears 1% in exactly ONE state. Across states, it raises less revenue than alcohol, less than tobacco, and about the same as cannabis (which is legal in 16 fewer states).

Much of the revenue it does raise is cannibalized. A study of 17 states found online betting cut lottery sales 5–6% after legalization. Dollars move from one taxed pot to another, or out of state entirely.

And the social costs show up on state balance sheets: bankruptcies, child-maltreatment cases, addiction treatment, Medicaid comorbidities.

The revenue is so small, costs barely have to register to erase it. Take Ohio, a state the generated $209M in gambling tax revenue last year. Estimated added costs from child welfare, Medicaid, and lottery losses range from $173M–$221M. The state may be a net loser.

The lesson for legislators is to stop letting an empirically unsupported revenue argument stand in the way of sensible regulation. Set policy on public-health and addiction-prevention grounds, not revenue maximization.

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@lukeburgis My wife @Oh_Joi and I were married there! It is a treasure.

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An e-trike departs from the SM Mall of Asia

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Convent of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Baguio. The convent is served by the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, more commonly called the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters or the Pink Sisters.

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@Cait_Cavell

[WYRDO 🇸🇱 @Anglokinist]

The wide ziggurats of Blade Runner's future are the most dated part of the setting. Peter Lamborn Wilson in his last interview recognised London's Shard and NYC's Steinway Tower as the architecture of our future:

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Easter Weaving in Baguio

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Carabao in Tarlac City

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Seoul

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Wonju

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El Nido

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

The Bangor Daily News, Maine, June 6, 1934