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by soperj 3y ago
We've got 40 years of data on Antarctic sea ice, and over the last 4 decades it's been growing, not retreating. [1] [1] https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
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by soperj 3y ago
> China formed a great homogenous core—that does not need lengthy restatement. Europe has a highly indented coastline with multiple large peninsulas, all of which developed independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments, plus two
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by soperj 3y ago
I was asking if they believe what SpaceX is doing with rockets is cgi. If they believe the space station is cgi, or the space shuttle, if they just made up the casualties in the Challenger and Columbia explosions? Do they believe in Project
814.
by soperj 3y ago
I also wonder which two islands are considered large out of GB, Ireland, Iceland, Corsica, Sicily... I feel like there's a couple of big islands around China too... Taiwan, some in Japan, Borneo, Philippines for instance. Indigenous
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by soperj 3y ago
> > Diamond also attempts to explain why European, rather than Chinese, conquerors were the ones who did all the colonizing. This is a simple balkanization theory—Europe divided into many areas conducive to states, China formed a gre
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by soperj 3y ago
People still deny that the earth is round. Doesn't really matter about the demos going on. Question, do moon landing deniers deny everything due to space? like do they think that the current SpaceX stuff is all cgi? What about the spac
817.
by soperj 3y ago
Why not just play videos of previous demos as if it's news.
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by soperj 3y ago
... why wouldn't we use those then?
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by soperj 3y ago
I noticed a massive difference in L/100Km when i filled up in the US vs Canada. It was unquestionably cheaper to fill up though.
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by soperj 3y ago
There's a number of animals called Ruminants that do it regularly no?
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by soperj 3y ago
It was never about GHGs, always about subsidizing corn farmers.
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by soperj 3y ago
I think the main issue is that they haven't amalgamated these small communities. View Royal is home to the biggest hospital on the island and less than 12,000 people. There's no reason for Greater Victoria, a population center of
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by soperj 3y ago
Everywhere you go in Metro Vancouver is ridiculous.
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by soperj 3y ago
> A nearby municipality's mayor is requesting a 6 month pause on development. View Royal mayor was going to do that regardless, if you look at his track record this is what he stands for. Provincial Govt will hopefully make an exam
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by soperj 3y ago
Probably not in the summer time.
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by soperj 3y ago
> I’ve already replace two out of three led light fixtures that are supposed to last at least a decade and it hasn’t even been 5 years. I think you must be getting cheap bulbs. I bought a bunch before my kid was born, and he's 10 an
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by soperj 3y ago
I worked minimum wage jobs w/out tips that were definitely harder work than serving. It was entirely too low to actually live on if I wanted to do anything, but walking to the grocery store/work and eating crummy food worked. I&#x
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by soperj 3y ago
That's not true for where I live and yet people still tip wait staff & minimum wage is over $16 an hour here.
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by soperj 3y ago
It's not augmenting anything at a humanity level. It might give people access to skills that they don't possess, but I don't see it coming up with new styles.
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by soperj 3y ago
> in situations that have no business asking for a tip In my mind there's always only been 2 situations, tip everywhere or tip nowhere. Why tip your server who has really very few interactions with you, but not tip any other custome
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by soperj 3y ago
People laugh at this, but isn't this exactly how we got Javascript?
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by soperj 3y ago
> I was hoping this would be usable for camping. What? Why?
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by soperj 3y ago
Why are they in a better place to judge? It's not like they're offering an alternative here.
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by soperj 3y ago
There are teachers who care, and then everyone else.
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by soperj 3y ago
Harmac ended up being bought by the people who actually operated the mill from an American company that went bankrupt, and has been running well since 2008.
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by soperj 3y ago
Vancouver isn't just the warmest place, it's also the most expensive. There definitely have been cases of other parts of the country paying for a bus ticket out to the coast, just like they did to homeless people in Vancouver, sen
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by soperj 3y ago
Detox doesn't really work if they don't want it. The active intervention w/r to homelessness would be to actually house these people. Lots of these people are using drugs to cope with other problems, without dealing with the
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by soperj 3y ago
> Stealing is wrong people Amazon steals from people all the time, they just call it good business practices instead of stealing.
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by soperj 3y ago
I still feel like e-bike makers are missing a mark, a lighter bike with like 30-40km range for a battery could be cheaper and will fulfill most people's needs.
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by soperj 3y ago
> 6,470 lbs (2,934 kg)【14†source】, while the Ford F-150 Lightning EV has a gross weight of 8,250 lbs (3,742 kg)【25†source】. This means the EV version is 1,780 lbs (807 kg) It's weird to me that it can get 3742kg - 2934kg wrong.

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