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Reasons.

Her right hand on the table is left

I've just said 'fuck it' and switched all my clocks to UTC. I don't even care anymore.

The damage to their design certainly could be reversed though.

Well, the reason people argue it's a racist argument is that Paul Ehrlich's book, 'The Population Bomb', was explicitly racist and advocated forced population control on less developed nations, and his talking points are consistently the most used throughout the conversation. For a full breakdown, I'd recommend listening to the 'If Books Could Kill' episode covering it.

What most arguments boil down to is either vague gesturing that the world capacity is nearing what is sustainable by the earth - a claim that is still very unproven and widely refuted - or claims about populations ballooning exponentially - These claims have historically been most leveled at African and Asian countries, most notably China and India.

The solution to this problem is also explicitly problematic most of the time, since the only solution to too many people is less people. Very rarely is this solution suggested in western countries, since the claims are only leveled at nonwestern nations with issues of poverty. These solutions are almost always to rob these nations' people of their reproductive autonomy.

At the end of the day, I think that the actual solution has nothing to do with population, and everything to do with developed nations hoarding their wealth. If we actually made pushes to bring impoverished nations up into a healthy state, we already know that as QOL goes up for individuals, the number of children they have declines (the key reason is still debated). Just that would potentially be enough to cease global population climb.

We could also be greatly cutting emissions from developing countries by actually helping them develop emission-free methods of power and production.

There is also still much improvement to be made on how we farm land, how we harvest the crops, how we consume those crops, and food waste reduction, so I also don't by the argument that we can't make enough food.

Another article. I don't know the skew but it has a higher definition image of the symbol.

This is not the first time that this has occurred in the US army.

US scout snipers use(d) the SS symbol , and got their own investigation in 2011. I say 'use(d)' because I don't really know how much symbol flying is regulated in the US military, especially now that we've had yet another case of guys flying this wack shit on their gear. 13 year gap, still seeing guys wearing this stuff - me thinks they're maybe getting around any regulations that are in place.

I also feel like the only reason this is getting any investigation is to cover ass, now that the public saw the footage.

Y'all really sleepin on plankton mutant ninja turtle.

Unfortunately it wasn't freefall. If you watch the video its over 5 seconds from when the bridge collapses till they're in the water.

I've heard it was construction workers filling pot holes.

The bridge at crest is around 185 ft off the water, and footage shows the collapse took about 6 seconds where the cars were.

Imagine doing a mind numbing job in the dead of night and then all of a sudden the floor starts dipping below you. The street lights go out a second or two later, and not long after you're falling for close to 2 seconds. Then either crashing hard into the concrete below you that just parted the water, having a flood of water hit you shortly after. or just jetting directly into freezing cold water.

How the fuck did this happen?

This kind of loses sight of the whole part of why these artefacts are actually important: their situ. In-situ (in the original location it was found in the position and orientation it was in when found) can tell us everything from its purpose, the culture of origin, etc. But outside of situ many of these artefacts become useless.

Yes, these objects being in unstable countries can mean much risk to those objects. This instability is often directly caused by the policies of the more politically powerful countries, though. For instance, the Afghanistan example you give is arguably directly due to Ally foreign policy destabilizing the region for our own self interest.

Rather than accepting the current political climate's default stance of leaving the middle east a wartorn region in the world - and having to choose between either leaving artefacts to potentially be destroyed or destroying the situ of the artefacts and robbing the native descendants of their ancestral objects - we should probably instead push for foreign policy which lifts unstable regions into developed States where they are better able to preserve their heritage.

Turkey at distance is the proper measure here. That's a Turkey at I'd reckon 10 football fields.

Colleges explicitly advertise themselves as means of getting training for specialized job markets. They directly partner with companies to provide internships. A college degree is required on the majority of job openings in STEM, regardless of the opening.

This was not a distortion of colleges - it was a full societal push to make colleges more useful to the general public in the 1940s, which directly lead to an explosion in the number of colleges, mostly in the form of community colleges. Since then, the major purpose of colleges has been vocational training first and foremost.

What is this cube and how does it relate to the drive?

It criticises science for profit. They literally invite various scientists who know their stuff and they all tell Hammond he's a fucking idiot. It's much clearer in the books, though, where you get to read where they notice all the enclosure mistakes that were made by Hammond's team.

I have hearing damage from fireworks, firearms, DJ work, and working in a factory. Being an audiophile was never in the cards. $30 corded headset.

I think you've falsely equated violence with revolution.

There are currently arsonists in Atlanta and elsewhere in the US fighting the creation of cop city and projects like it via property damage. That is violence with no danger of creating an autocracy. I'd argue the Black Panthers, the Suffragettes and the IRA all used violence which posed no danger of autocracy.

I do agree that strong group unity, some form of multistate participation, and good leadership and structure, are all very important for it to yield positive results.

Edit: put NRA instead of IRA, fuck me. Fixed now.

This article reads pretty bizarrely to me.

Del.icio.us does absolutely seem to be the same design as reddit if you look at old screenshots, and predating Reddit by 2 years definitely makes reddit look like a bit of a ripoff. I'd argue both are just an evolution of the forum format so not too special.

Aaron Schwartz seems to take a very big place in reddit's mythos and it feels weird seeing him take up only a single paragraph - the author is only telling their own story, though, so it only makes sense if author didn't know him. It does change my perspective of reddit hearing that Steve and Alexis were aiming to be your bog-standard startup from the getgo and Scharwz only came as a later team addition.

Article feels a bit like an advertisement for investing.

For those who don't know, Wendigoon is a creepy lore youtuber.

He's also sometimes been acredited with creating the aesthetic of the boogaloo boys, not sure how true that is.

As far as I've heard, his videos are fairly consistent with documentation of the events he covers, such as the unibomber, the MLK assassination, etc.

It's very funny to think he wasn't radicalized before the printer situation.

Putting this as a top thread as a PSA.

If the game is running smoothly but you're having random crashes, try this.

You need to run the game on DirectX 11 instead of 12 for certain graphics cards.

Insert " %command% --use-d3d11 " into the game's launch options in steam.

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