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by stametseater 4y ago
The "salt" is in the form of brine, it's a liquid and you'd need huge evaporation ponds to keep up with the outflow if you wanted to dry it all out to sell. If you put your desalination plant near urban areas, where the
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by stametseater 4y ago
Almonds are a luxury crop, not a staple, so it shouldn't matter that they're profitable. Environmental concerns should take precedent over private profit. Also, cows/alfa or almonds is a false dichotomy, so defending almon
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by stametseater 4y ago
I don't have personal experience with it, maybe it's all fantasy, but a popular trope in mafia stories is the mafia serving as a parallel or backup government to otherwise law-abiding people. For instance, The Godfather opens
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by stametseater 4y ago
1. Cartel is a technical term which the article is using correctly. 2. Renaming the technical term would not do anything to help the victims of drug cartels (in Mexico or otherwise.) That would be textbook slacktivism.
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by stametseater 4y ago
> High rates of burnout and stress. Not to mention an elevated rate of medical errors caused by tired and overworked hospital staff.
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by stametseater 4y ago
I'm an atheist but when people sneeze I still sometimes say "God bless." It's just a phrase at this point, nobody believes that Canada is a genuine theocracy.
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by stametseater 4y ago
> The US has banned Russian media Some European countries may have, but America has not. I can still read RT just fine.
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by stametseater 4y ago
Death is an inevitability for us all. Depressed children is not.
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by stametseater 4y ago
In the context of a crowded concert, people bumping into each other without malicious intent isn't aggression, it's part of the experience which people choose for themselves. Those that don't consent to such physical contac