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Why would we rule out all the kids under 10 from the life expectancy stat? To skew it older just to make it seem like people lived longer back in 1875? We don't do that with life expectancy stats now, the life expectancy for 2020 is 78.81 and yes that includes anyone unfortunate enough to die as a child or infant. It also doesn't mean that anyone who is 74 will be dead in ~4 years, it's an average - which is helpful when talking about large demographics (which we are).

Wtf does the president have to do with anything lol. They only pick presidents over 35 "because they had the expectation they had lived for a lot longer". So.. They expect that people who are older than 35 have lived longer than those who are under 35? Um yes that is how the passage of time works.

I'm not sure how this helps the discussion.

The guy has been exposed as literally taking huge amounts of money from Russia for years, during which he did his best to attack all of the US institutions and government and divide the population, he even did a fawning interview with Putin in Russia, and had a puff piece tour around a model (faked/embellished) Russian grocery store - literal cold war propaganda stuff so Putin can show the big US media guy is super impressed by Russia's stores & availability.

I suspect the main reason he is coming out hard on MAGA / Trump now is because he's been given new talking points. Trump's new deals don't benefit Putin, so bad press and more division is the order of the day (now amongst the ruling conservative party, instead of Dems vs GOP). Textbook Russian statecraft IMO.

Humans have been eating meat for at least 2.5 million years, yet cancer has only jumped up to the epidemic it is today in the last 150 years. Something in the environment and diet has changed, absolutely. What is the causative factor? The anti-meat papers with weak relative risk tells me that its not the meat, we should be looking for a very strong signal (50% of people born today will have cancer in their lifetimes - 150 years ago basically nobody got cancer).

Life expectancy in 1875 in the USA was 39.41 years. The vast majority of cancers will not cause significant illness (or show up at all) in population groups that die of other disease/injuries before 40 - so, handwaving away the studied correlative links with cancer in population groups today that eat a lot of meat just because 'people ate red meat 150 years ago and they didn't get cancer' is what scientists call 'illogical'.

And that's completely ignoring the fact that we have far advanced medical technology in the last 150 years so we are actually diagnosing more cancers because we're finding them when they are smaller and more treatable (that's a good thing).

The Liberal National Coalition (right wing party) arts minister John-Paul Langbroek told parliament it was incumbent on the State Library’s board to ensure that the activities and associations of the library reflected community standards and upheld the integrity of the institution.

“Whilst I support the principles of free expression and creative diversity, any perception that taxpayer-funded awards being granted to individuals who justify terrorism undermines public trust, both in our institutions and in the cultural sector more broadly” Langbroek said.

This would possibly be fine if I didn't constantly see supportive tweets for the current Israel administration by Australian right wing politicians: ie, those given a paycheck by public.

Tweets in support of Netanyahu: great!
Tweets in support of the Israel Defense Force: keep em coming!
Tweets heaping praise upon Israeli government's recent terrorist actions: OK!

Tweets from 9 months ago showing empathy at the deaths of Palestinian leaders, deleted just minutes later by the author: this is justifying terrorism and undermining public trust!

Downvoted by people who don't like facts. There isn't a country in the world with a domestic cat population that wouldn't see a huge benefit to their native wildlife by keeping those pets inside or in a pet run. But people don't like the change or the effort of doing so, so they ignore this inconvenient fact.

Well to be honest - though the US is taking most of the flak, because they supply the vast majority of the arms, almost all major political parties of the western world are supporting Israel throughout this genocide. "Strongly worded diplomatic cable, but we won't stop shipping arms supplies" is about as far as it's gone for the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and dozens of others. Only late last year Canada and like literally this week France have stopped arms exports, as far as major powers go.

So yeah I agree with the 'fuck this'. The only major party in my country (Australia) that vowed to stop arms exports to Israel (the Greens) has been repeatedly smeared in the press and attack ads as 'anti-semitic' for the last two years - ever since they started advocating loudly for Palestine. They got ~12% of the vote in our last election just a couple of weeks ago, with a -3% swing away from them, so I guess the smears worked. Our far right parties (One Nation & Trumpet of Patriots) got just over 8% by comparison, to give you an idea of the climate down here. Israel's govt is winning the propaganda game even though we have video evidence of their crimes and they often even admit them openly, it's sickening.

Lol that's amazing, I'm not American so I've not come across this ad before. Thanks.

'Leave no trace' is about litter, damage and vandalism.

Might blow your mind but people have been making piles of rocks of all sizes since prehistoric times - they are natural.

Should have sold it as a 2/6ths burger.
The maths teachers wouldn't have been happy, but apparently the buyers would have.

"Woah, 2/6 is waayyyy bigger than 1/4, not like that teensy 1/3 burger they used to have"

Then you lack imagination. It's actually happened and not that long ago that a pilot intentionally killed himself and took the entire plane with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

No, this is from three years ago.

The stolen NFTs are now probably worth 35c.

Blatant and intentional violation of due process, this removes any expectation people have for a fair trial.

At its core, the Trump administration is tearing up the social contract that has existed since the founding of the USA and which is core to the Constitution: the state has legitimacy over the individual, and the individuals consent to this control given their rights are upheld and the state treats them with respect and in accordance with the law.

Tear up that social contract and the outcomes will be that people no longer consent to that control and the government loses legitimacy, people will fight back to protect themselves. Disproportionate violence will be the likely first response to anyone fighting back against unlawful authorities going by their prior record. It's quite possibly what they are hoping for as it feeds their right wing accelerationist goals.

Thankyou for bringing this into my life

The massive jacaranda mimosifolia (native to Brazil) which is dominating my front garden, laughs at your suggestion that it does not leave much mess on the ground.

It regularly carpets the area below it in purple flowers, tens of thousands of small leaves, hundreds of twigs/seed pods and a few larger dried branches. Not just one season either - it flowers multiple times a year with how weird the weather is nowadays. The birds and bees like it though so we're cool.

Nuclear is actually poorly scalable - with the average build time of a plant being ~7 years (worldwide). Its well over 10 years in the EU and the average in the last 30 years in the US has been 16.4 years. In nations with no nuclear power generation experience it would likely be longer (ie: most nations), and unlike solar it's been getting more expensive as the technology has rolled out over the decades. They're such long and expensive projects that South Carolina currently has two abandoned unfinished nuclear reactors they gave up on when the projects ran way over budget.

Meanwhile solar added 700GW of new generation worldwide last year, while nuclear added... 5.5GW. Solar plants take months, not years to build - that's an order of magnitude lower than nuclear.

We don't have time left to slowly build out nuclear power plants as we move to greener energy generation to address climate change, so it's pretty important that we favour solutions that are ready immediately - and if they're cheaper and renewable with no nuclear waste to manage? Even better.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/13/the-fastest-energy-change-in-history-continues/ (This source includes references to any figures I've mentioned)

It is so weird that the AI running on the global new media platform owned by the white billionaire tech idiot known for sharing his hot takes without one second of prior thought, that happens to have come from a prominent white emerald mining family on South Africa, and has professed statements regarding white genocide and 'the great replacement' is spreading information about this.

So very, very unexpected.

One of the people that handed Trump his 2016 win by announcing an investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server just a couple of weeks out from the election - while mostly sitting on all the information that Russia was assisting Trump's campaign for fear of looking biased/conspiratorial?

Can't think of a more appropriate leopard for Trump to eat the face of.

Your customers have noticed the decline in quality, guarantee it.

"My only regret is that as a felon I can't vote for Trump" apparently

I hated him. No character development, same asshole from start to finish. Whenever I had to do Trevor missions I often walked away from the game for the day, resulting in taking many months to actually finish the kind of game I usually enjoy.

Franklin was boring too, sterotype with no strong opinions on much - just went with the flow on everything. The only character I kind of enjoyed playing was Michael, and that's because he was aware that he was a piece of shit and decided to try to change. His approach to mending his relationship with his family was terrible and often put them in riskier/worse situations, but hey it's GTA it's not meant to be entirely realistic.

I remember being a lot more invested in GTA4 and thoroughly enjoyed that narrative, but maybe it's rose tinted glasses?