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by mc32 1y ago
The national stuff was okay to good. The Children’s programming was in general good. The local stuff though was quite questionable. For example they’d support different causes or efforts by referencing a single poorly supported research p
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by mc32 1y ago
Yah they also took money from the “Archer Daniels Midland” corporation (not that I’d have anything against organic produce, for example) and the Ford and many other biased endowments —so I think it’d be hard to believe their messaging was u
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by mc32 1y ago
It'd be nice if bills were one item only and on failure or passage, there would be a timeout before it could be brought to vote again either to try to pass it again or to repeal it. Like at least a year. For some things maybe five ye
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by mc32 1y ago
I'm hopeful that with the aggressive digital tipping options being set to 20%, 30% and 40% Other that people will get exhausted and stop tipping altogether. With many states implementing $15 minimum wages, it no longer makes sense that
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by mc32 1y ago
Oh, is that the majority of their content, traditional educational content? I must be mistaken in thinking they were funneling their audience into “shorts” and that kids obviously naturally recoil from “shorts” as much as they do green veg
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by mc32 1y ago
People also moved (were displaced) for other reasons beside war: drought, depletion of game, disease, pests, tribal splits, insufficient carrying capacity, ecological pressures, etc.
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by mc32 1y ago
Pop density before the 1870s was generally low in most places with a few exceptions. After all there was no "industry" it was 95% + agrarian, pescatarian, pastoral. Many populations had a preference for coastal, riparian settleme
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by mc32 1y ago
When China expanded in the 1600 and 1700s the non Han ran to uninhabited Southeast Asia. One example are the Hmong who moved to mountains of SEA from interior China. Also lots of internal movement in Africa.
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by mc32 1y ago
Right. But before you could “run away” if you were willing to. Today you don’t have places to run to without running into other people willing to defend their places. In the past you had lots and lots of peoples who just got erased as mod
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by mc32 1y ago
The problem is that until a few hundred years ago, you could stand your ground and either win or lose (happened a lot) or you sought uninhabited land elsewhere )or a weaker party to kick out) That also happened a lot. Back then borders wer
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by mc32 1y ago
Unfortunately, so do ticks... (grass blades)
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by mc32 1y ago
It’s also possible some insects have learned to avoid certain corridors at certain altitude to avoid getting splattered. Animals do adapt behavior to avoid new threats. Now, admittedly it’s just conjecture but I would not rule it out nor a
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by mc32 1y ago
It’s is! Just in medicine alone. And then economically, as well as justice. From 98% of the people living in abject poverty, no pairs of shoes, two changes of clothes, selling off relatives for money, dying from simple infections… to wh
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by mc32 1y ago
I agree. Kind of like factory vases vs hand thrown or glass blown vases. They’re practically the same but some people will pay lots more for certain hand made ones.
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by mc32 1y ago
Or lose a war, or bet your property or not pay taxes or eminent domain… but I guess nomads never had a immovable property claim.
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by mc32 1y ago
So tax charcoal and wood used by the poorest of the poor too or are we allowing exceptions? What do we do about seasonal burnings some people engage in to prepare and fertilize their lands?
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by mc32 1y ago
And it’s not only a problem at for profit organizations but also a problem for so-called NGOs and other non-profits —who you’d think would be different… Screw it, tax them progressively for every multiplier above the average Jack and Jill’s
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by mc32 1y ago
I think that statement is misleading because: "...China whose 2010 urban per capita emissions are larger than the national value but with much slower growth. [It could be...] the result of an explicit policy to move high-emissions indu
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by mc32 1y ago
China is incentivizing density and that results in tens or hundreds of millions moving from the hinterlands to cities and that in turn requires massive build out of housing infrastructure, transportation infrastructure and more. The people
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by mc32 1y ago
Who are the "we"? By and large developed countries are not paving it --and in many cases are greening their countries. Developing countries, on the other hand, are paving and, in many cases, exporting people to some developed cou
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by mc32 1y ago
Not "fahrvergnügen"?
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by mc32 1y ago
I dunno. Without cultural appropriation, the word would be poorer. The Romans took from the Greeks, renaissance Europeans took from the Romans, America took from the Europeans and Romans... Japan took from Europe and America, etc.. etc.
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by mc32 1y ago
So you agree! I have point that term usage and grammar matter when talking about serious issues. Sorry about the typo, I'll be more mindful. Thank you.
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by mc32 1y ago
It’s ironic how something homemade, idiosyncratic and counter-cultural like burning man can get co-opted (even by its founder) and become such a mainstream and beyond mainstream (where now only people with lots of disposable income attend)
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by mc32 1y ago
When making an argument, using slang like that kind of lowers it’s impact.
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by mc32 1y ago
Not innate but some people will breach mores more readily than others under similar circumstances. Some people feel deep shame and failure if they have to steal, others not so much. So there are degrees.
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by mc32 1y ago
It’s “giving the poor…” You don’t have to pluralize poor. In rural America you do have some poor people selling their plasma to afford gas. Drug screening means they avoid doing drugs. Not being on drugs lowers propensity to engage in pe
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by mc32 1y ago
Or macro/micro zoom-ins and exploded diagrams: people are interested in detail.
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by mc32 1y ago
Indeed. Enhancements are used too freely. They should only be an option in egregious cases, otherwise just charge people with the actual crime they committed. I don’t like how enhancements are distributed like candy.
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by mc32 1y ago
They couldn't even get the phonemes right. For them "blue rimes with your." I'd buy the /u/ "you're" and "blue" but not "your" and "blue."

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