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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:22 pm
In North America, the continental pole of inaccessibility is in southwest South Dakota about eleven miles southeast of the town of Kyle, located 1,650 km (1,030 mi) from the nearest coastline at 43.36°N 101.97°W.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility
An annual survey that measures Americans' sense of well-being has revealed that North Dakota and not longtime frontrunner Hawaii is the state with the most contented people.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index showed that in 2013, North Dakota scored highest, followed closely by its southern neighbor South Dakota.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2tzggaEh5
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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smilergrogan
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by smilergrogan » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:49 pm
It makes sense to me that people would tend to be more happy when their pole (or someone else's pole) is more accessible.
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MarleysGh0st
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by MarleysGh0st » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:00 pm
Okay, tmitsss, if you're making a causal connection between these two things (and not, for instance, with the current oil boom in North Dakota), what the data for the other continents?
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Bob Juch
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by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:22 pm
MarleysGh0st wrote:Okay, tmitsss, if you're making a causal connection between these two things (and not, for instance, with the current oil boom in North Dakota), what the data for the other continents?
No one is happy at Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility, not even Lenin's bust.
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