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811.
by mc32 1y ago
Still a lot of holes: When did the pop in Africa spread out within Africa? When did the many ‘Edens’ happen and why? Why were the previous expansions out of Africa dead ends? Presumably they mean ones that ended up being Denisovans and Flo
812.
by mc32 1y ago
I dunno, man, It's rumored they have this thing called cellular telephony technology allowing just such a thing while in traffic --I could be wrong though, thems being wealthy and shit.
813.
by mc32 1y ago
I think your explanation makes the most sense. getting the slack out of the system and reducing corruption plus driving some marginally middleclass to opt for commuter rail because $50/week puts them under. For many commuters, though,
814.
by mc32 1y ago
Sure, but that's because you can "squeeze" the price on people. You can't squeeze the price on something where there is no negotiation or haggling. If you can get your plumber to do the 400 job for 250, are you gonna
815.
by mc32 1y ago
Do people put a value on time when not doing value added stuff? When they go for a walk, do they instead run? Do they try to only meet up with friends who can return an investment on their time? Do these people not shoot the shit? Are th
816.
by mc32 1y ago
If poor people aren’t driving in then it means that they are not a source of the reduction in traffic. On the other hand, if only the wealthy drive in then are we saying the wealthy are price sensitive? That seems very unlikely! Someone i
817.
by mc32 1y ago
Granted; but concentration would go down at something like inverse of some exponential of the distance from source.
818.
by mc32 1y ago
It can. “Door knobs” can be removed from place A and installed in location B. Or a weapon can also be placed somewhere else…
819.
by mc32 1y ago
Definitely a Grumman when it was built.
820.
by mc32 1y ago
At the time the materials they were using were kind of experimental in the use case. Likely materials science, and definitely computing power have advanced to make the design viable in an operational vehicle.
821.
by mc32 1y ago
It’s true; however it’d probably be a nice parenthetical to add context to the division bring referenced. Kind of how it’s good manners to initially spell out any acronyms at the beginning of a text.
822.
by mc32 1y ago
Japan did some very nasty stuff in the pacific, rivaling leopold in depravity. Do we attribute polpot to the Japanese, or the stuff in Burma to the Japanese? Moreover they really fucked up Manchuria and Korea, yet I don’t see the same leg
823.
by mc32 1y ago
Ah, the anti generalization warrior. You must have lots of examples where you rile against the stereotyping of Americans all over the Internetworks.
824.
by mc32 1y ago
Upstream someone was saying the problems in Africa are due to conquest, subjugation, colonization, etc. I'm saying just about every country of consequence experienced this over the last half dozen centuries so it's not attributab
825.
by mc32 1y ago
I think one can, if one were to look at recent and current conflicts there: https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2022/11...
826.
by mc32 1y ago
I’m saying it’s not a special case. It’s everyone’s history.
827.
by mc32 1y ago
Is that not the history of just about every country of consequence? They were conquered and vanquished multiple times with wealth extracted by foreign powers throughout history? Africa, Asia, Europe, Asia Minor, etc? No continent was free
828.
by mc32 1y ago
“in”
829.
by mc32 1y ago
African tribes were the same as any other tribe on earth. They fought each other, they had animus against other, etc. even before Europeans explored Africa, even before Arab colonization too.
830.
by mc32 1y ago
I'm not sure if this quote takes into account mob rule. Take ethnic strife in Myanmar or in Africa or rural Mexico, etc. It's not governments doing it --it's mostly grass roots after a grievance is unaddressed and explodes.
831.
by mc32 1y ago
Readers of this book are not first graders or elementary school kids. Why does this need a trigger warning? Are they going to place trigger warnings on erotic novels for adults too, now?
832.
by mc32 1y ago
It’s absolutely sad and heavily ironic that this book now gets slapped with trigger warnings[1] What in hell has happened to people? How in hell is any adult supposed to read any book of consequence if routine things trigger them? Moreso f
833.
by mc32 1y ago
Until further evidence is found it’s premature to say that there is no doubt that it was widely used in the Americas. I think there is doubt though that could be removed with more evidence.
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by mc32 1y ago
It’s mating behavior. The don't have the concept of rape. They don’t have peers who punish them for this behavior. It all instinct and nothing else.
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by mc32 1y ago
The Sun had to begin. At one point it was just accreting gasses, then at some point gained enough mass to ignite. People also start at some point they begin as a daughter and grow eventually into a viable life. But also our galaxies had
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by mc32 1y ago
They’ll probably keep dispensing hydrocarbon fuels. But we may see fuel stations migrate or integrate into other destinations a bit. Mostly Costco these days, but as we transition to electrically powered vehicles, we’ll see more charging +
837.
by mc32 1y ago
There are lots of things people don’t like to be categorized by such as weight/mass, height, intelligence, income, medical history, criminality, etc. There’s no reason we can’t be categorized along the lines of breeds.
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by mc32 1y ago
I disagree. Someone like Condi Rice would be electable, if she were willing to enter the fray of politics. It’s like saying, we’d never elect a Jew because Bernie didn’t do well. No, he just didn’t have policies the majority of the country
839.
by mc32 1y ago
I’m saying we sidestep race altogether or at least treat it like cat coats and categorize people along other lines, some cultural some genetic.
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by mc32 1y ago
They’d be the same breed! Or at least American athletic vs Kenyan athletic breed, like we have different terriers or different shepherd dog breeds .

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