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by fiblye 7y ago
Brazil exports loads of food. Not buying meats from Brazil (not so common in Western countries, though) is one of the most effective ways to change the situation.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Honest question, but do most people in North Korea have personal smartphones which can connect to outside networks and aren’t completely monitored by the government?
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by fiblye 7y ago
I don’t think China would care about cutting themselves off from the global internet.
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by fiblye 7y ago
>The theory of gay gene couldn't have been supported by the evolutionary algorithms. We have genetic diseases that kill people before they reach adulthood. We have gay people who get married, make kids, and feel zero sexual attracti
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by fiblye 7y ago
Firefox has been hilariously bad for Macs for as long as I can remember. I refused to touch for over 15 years because it was incredibly slow each time I tried. Now that I'm trying to get out of Google's sphere of influence, I&#x27
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by fiblye 7y ago
I’ve learned more in 2 months of language self-study than I got from 3 years of public school study. Being in a room with 30 kids who just want to squeak by with a passing grade and really don’t want to learn is no way to learn a language.
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by fiblye 7y ago
That’s what encourages companies to pull stuff like this. They know that at worst they’ll have a small hit on quarterly profits, but stocks won’t change and nothing serious will happen because nobody wants to hurt those poor job creators.
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by fiblye 7y ago
>Contrast Europe which has seen vast shifts in control, and utter replacements or eradication of local culture or tribes multiple times, going to prehistoric times, to the present (past century certainly, past few decades quite arguably)
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by fiblye 7y ago
How did geography have an effect here? I don't see what you mean. And China hasn't really had too much stability. It's always been full of revolutions, competing empires, dynastic changes, warring states, shifts in power, cha
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by fiblye 7y ago
That chart for reading proficiency among 12th graders is rather... shocking. Is there similar data for other countries available? It'd be interesting to know if this is an issue unique to America (among developed nations), shared among
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by fiblye 7y ago
>However, we can agree that, generally speaking, people don't like to move. I don't think that's the problem. I think most people who are capable of packing up and moving for better job opportunities will take the chance.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Good pixel artists aim for the peaks of mid-90s arcade, the Saturn, PS1, and GBA. With a proper monitor/TV and cables (or just the GBA), you were looking at sharp pixels and vivid colors. Most (not all) people going for NES-inspired gr
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by fiblye 7y ago
Had a good laugh at this. Japan is firmly stuck in the 80s. The only major change is now most people here have smartphones. Japan does some things very right, and some things horribly wrong. Not too different from most other developed count
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by fiblye 7y ago
I work for a Japanese automation company and we’ve been getting a huge surge in projects in Vietnam. Some things here are definitely exaggerated. Birth rates in Vietnam are already below the replacement rate and dropping. Poverty is a colos
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by fiblye 7y ago
Vaping has been mainstream for what, a little over 5 years? And it’s exploded in just the past couple years. Any research coming out saying it’s not dangerous is simply premature. Most young people who start smoking don’t really notice majo
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by fiblye 7y ago
Technically, all life does. According to Wikipedia, the cells have a tendency to contaminate pretty much any suitable environment around and proliferate easily. Seems almost more like a fungal or bacterial growth than what we’d typically co
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by fiblye 7y ago
Strange question, but at some point, could the self-sustaining cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks be considered a separate species?
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by fiblye 7y ago
No reason not to just drink tap water. It's one of the few places in Asia where it's completely safe.
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by fiblye 7y ago
This sounds horrific, but realistic. We already have prisoners making license plates as slave labor. All it takes is a couple congressmen in the pockets of a big social network to make it mandatory for “rehabilitation” to moderate social ne
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by fiblye 7y ago
Seems like someone just pulled entries from their study list and turned it into an article. Loads of incredibly basic words aren’t there, but some random uncommon things are. And absolute loads of duplicates and variations of the same thing
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by fiblye 7y ago
2136. But the list isn’t at all comprehensive. There are a considerable number of kanji in regular use that aren’t on the list, and when you include place/person names, it grows massively. It’s possible to memorize all the standard kan
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by fiblye 7y ago
They can. But there’s only so much TV they can sit down and watch until they start cancelling services they know they don’t use. Growth stops somewhere.
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by fiblye 7y ago
You can, to an extent. There’s a limit to what one person can buy or contribute to an economy. It’s easier to sell 2 TVs to two people than it is 2 TVs to one person.
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by fiblye 7y ago
I know people who called and got a 1 week trip. A problem is there's a "risk" in calling. There's no 100% guarantee that you won't get a knock on your door 30 minutes later. I know people will say that suicide has a
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by fiblye 7y ago
There really should be an offering for people who just need to honestly talk to someone without consequence or follow up (barring cases involving harm to others). I think a big reason so many people deal with depression in silence and end u
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by fiblye 7y ago
>CEO Brian Mariotti called his company “recession proof.” Famous last words. When another major recession hits, one of the first costs to be cut is plastic junk. These are just beanie babies with more Disney branded characters. People wi
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by fiblye 7y ago
More than just that. That need to learn to actually respect people as people and learn a little humility. There’s too much “I’ve got a gun and that means I’m right and you do what I say no matter what” style thinking among police in America
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by fiblye 7y ago
The most liberal west-loving people I know in China are claiming that these are terrorist acts being pushed by America. The chances of mainlanders being inspired by this is zero. Most seem to want to see the protesters disappear, and I don’
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by fiblye 7y ago
I didn’t even use tumblr for porn at all. I pretty much only follow artists. I’m not sure if it’s still a problem, but the ban resulted in loads of non-porn images being flagged as porn. Most people gave up trying to fight it and left. When
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by fiblye 7y ago
The problem is that in a thread about cutting back on transportation emissions, the top post will be about cows and wasteful agriculture and the emissions cost of transporting so much food and water long distances. Instead of always shiftin

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