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After something bigger, where buildings collapse and stories of families where half got out and half didn't, you will always be aware of the quickest exit and where to be outside so buildings don't collapse on you
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I often rant about this, when people from home bemoan about tropical deforestation (which is of course terrible) and go on about how "they" are destroying the planet. When asking what they are doing about the problem closer to hom
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No not everywhere, but as the parent comment is talking about the Britain, the natural state of the UK before human intervention was a heavily (perhaps not densely - I don't know) forested island
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Is this actually validated? Living in an area heavily deforested for cattle grazing, the cattle grazed land does not look like a healthy land. The cattle keep all plant life cut right back. Hot sun can easily access the soil drying it out,
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They made the wrong democratic choice, they needed some freedom wars and liberty bombs to be shown who the right choice was
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The US (same as all countries ever) fought their wars to push forward their interests, no more no less. Of course the narrative the country tells itself is different (same as all other countries who fight wars), but the narrative is false.
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Looking at the stats of countries invaded, China isn't really a major concern
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What does "well deserved" even mean? Does it just mean not evading your privacy to generate income via ads? Does it mean not being too aggressive / abusive of customers? Personally, I would just call that normal / decent
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> Slack is great. debatable. It is just a chat app after all. Don't get me wrong, it is alright, but I am not sure I would ever call a chatapp "great" > The valuation makes sense 16billion? To me it doesn't. It is
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> It's fun to see smart people contemplating alternative things. It certainly is. Most recent theory I heard of whilst staying up too late watching youtube videos, was by Roger Penrose on CCC (Conformal cyclic cosmology) [1] My very
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> So to answer the question "what's outside" we just need to wait for the light to reach us. unless what is outside is moving away faster than light (which I think it is), then it will never reach us (from my very basic la
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> but do you call living in a cage with your beak cut off "prospering"? Take dogs, 6-12 in a litter, can give birth twice a year. Naturally (street dogs) most young will die, those that end up in to adult hood will be half sta
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No, our compost hole in the garden has about 10+ small avocado trees growing from it and around when the chickens disturb it. Tend to see them sprout up best after sustained rain, temps 25c-30c in the shade
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10, probably more like 15 years ago, someone told me "if the .com is available, get the .com - always the .com. If it isn't available, get a different .com"
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> We've not been the home of the brave for a while now No more nor no less than any other country, who all have their own cultural stories why they are brave as well
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This I can understand. I have a friend who travels to the US semi regularly on a tourist reason (has family there) but then works informally, selling handicrafts / jewellery at markets and posts all over his facebook about what he is s
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free mosquito nets would drastically get the death rate down
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If this is the case, then the millions if not billions of adfraud is put through by the ad companies knowingly and defrauding the ad-buyers surely?
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;)
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Terrible pay and work conditions for the people who work the fields and huge economies of scale. Recommended documentary: bananaland: blood, bullets and poison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRmtQht8-E
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Not sure any body is actually addicted to chicken in the same way
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China knocks out low quality junk because that is what they are instructed to produce in a lot of case by those putting in the order. If you want everything cheap, for rock bottom cost, corners need to be cut, lower quality materials used e
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Incompetent and failing administration flailing around in an increasingly desperate way
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last I checked youtube could be used with a web browser...
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I imagine it is more todo with politics than a cat. Ecuador is heavily indebted to China due to previous President Correa turning away from the west and pivoting to China. With oil prices so low the country is unable to pay the loans and in
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Exactly, a western toilet will use about 4-5litres for a flush. To clean yourself with water will use a mug or two of water. The people in this thread talking about the increased use of water, are quite literally talking out of their arse
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> - When you send an “instant message”, it may be instant for you but for all you know the recipient is deep in the middle of something and won’t respond for awhile. Not personal, don’t get mad at them. People don't get it. If they
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An annoying term that has no meaning and is completely pointless and would have no bearing in a court of law at all and everyone knows what you are saying is "I"
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> I don't understand how it continues unchecked. Profit and lack of regulation and lack of effective penalties
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My experience with Azure was awful. I moved a desktop app with 5000 paying customers to SAAS and wanted to not have to worry about the database management side and wanted to use azure. So not a huge business by any means, but growth potenti
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