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by Grue3 7y ago
>Despite local and international objections, the city and its archeological sites are soon to be flooded due to the completion of the Ilisu Dam. People who object to nuclear power often claim that in the worst case scenario, the plant mi
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"Terrific" used to be a synonym for "terrible", and "awesome" for "awful". Even the word "bad" has a slang meaning of "good". In Japanese 適当 is supposed to mean "appropriate,
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by Grue3 7y ago
Imagine arguing Saddam's Iraq wasn't a basket case country. Iraqi celebrated when he was gone for a reason.
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by Grue3 7y ago
She is incredibly privileged and does not acknowledge her privilege. Her home country has literally zero risks or downsides from global warming. Her crocodile tears convince nobody because most people don't have rich parents and own a
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Young people are wrong about something: news at eleven. I can see how people who didn't live through any war, or catastrophic event in their entire life would believe that.
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It's not on the linked site. Fake news?
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by Grue3 7y ago
>It's one of those things like computer will beat humans at chess one day was. No, those are completely different things. The rules of chess are set in stone. The rules of driving are based on communication - driving is an inherentl
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by Grue3 7y ago
The negative effects (sexism, homophobia, general bigotry) greatly outweigh any positive effects that might happen. And the things they're generous towards are usually some anti-abortion or anti-LGBT organisations and politicians.
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by Grue3 7y ago
How does this fit in with research like this? [1] If all perceived differences in female brain can be explained by social conditioning, how do trans people, who are not socially conditioned, show the same brain differences? [1] https:&#x
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by Grue3 7y ago
>Attempting to tar social justice movements as Leninist is sheer speculation. When a lot of them readily use Soviet symbols like hammer and sickle to represent themselves, it's not that far-fetched.
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Russian state propagandists are going to love this feature. Right know they're constantly fact checked and called out on their hypocrisy in the replies but soon they'll be able to peddle their "death to Navalny/Ukraine&#
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by Grue3 7y ago
Vote for Bernie and Warren who want to close all nuclear plants? Which inevitably lead to rise of carbon emissions in every single country doing that.
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by Grue3 7y ago
>tumours of kids from Belarus who suffer due to the accident Sounds like bullshit to me. There's no way to tell if it's due to the accident, and the statistics of such cases are not conclusive. And of course it's a German
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With Gifu-Hashima and other "rural" Shinkansen stations the reason is usually political. For example Gifu Prefecture would not allow the line to pass through the prefecture without a station being built. From Gifu city center it&#
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by Grue3 7y ago
Well, Melanie Martinez has just released an entire concept album (and a movie based on this album) with no singles all at once. There will always be artists who care about their art and not streaming numbers.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Well, katsu refers to a pork cutlet, which can be used with other dishes than curry. Katsudon is a pork cutlet on top of donburi, for example.
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by Grue3 7y ago
1. I have lots of tabs open. I don't want to wait for them to be reloaded. 2. Because of modern web design trends like infinite scrolling and overuse of javascript, reloading a page inevitably resets the content in it. 3. I also use to
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by Grue3 7y ago
I almost never restart Firefox, and having a pop-up nagging me to update sucks a lot. Sometimes I have to look at it for many weeks straight before Firefox eventually eats all the RAM and I have to restart it.
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>However, if you think of these products as a "gateway drug" to more plant-based eating I like to think of them as a gateway drug to meat for vegetarians. Once they get hooked on the taste, they'll soon start craving for t
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Except it's obviously not a wealth issue. Even poor Norwegian people can visit Norway, because they're already there. They probably don't mind poor Swedes much either. Tourist hatred is almost always rooted in xenophobia. &gt
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Not convincing. I live in Russia, explain why I wouldn't want this turned on?
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And Japan is still using Shift-JIS...
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Yeah, the best New Tab experience is about:blank.
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It's not a blessing. It bred an entire class of programmers who are unable to write anything without copypasting chunks of code from the Internet, and unable to understand any of that code. This is where all the interview candidates wh
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by Grue3 7y ago
The issue with atmosphere escaping can be solved by building transparent eco-domes that would allow sunshine in, but prevent the air from leaking out.
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No, it's actually good. We need to terraform the Moon and get an ecosystem going. This will be much simpler to do than on Mars due to the distances involved.
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Google Chrome is bundled with a lot of freeware apps and the user needs to uncheck a checkbox to avoid it being installed as a default browser. That's literally how it got current market share, along with being heavily advertised on go
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Growing up in post-communist Russia, I learned a lot of English by playing videogames like Civilisation. All pirated, of course.
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Well, anyone who happens to include a picture of a screwdriver on a slide is obviously a fan of the neo-nazi rock band Skrewdriver.
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The solution is to leave the cesspool that is JavaScript. For some reason these sorts of "scandals" only happen with Node.js, React and other JS libraries.

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