stevenwoo

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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
NAFTA and successive treaties forced Mexico to allow much cheaper corn from the USA to displace many smaller corn farms in Mexico, only larger farms could survive that and farming of corn is declining in Mexico. Also inexpensive processed f
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Except i think the American heart and minds campaign in Vietnam was lip service to a campaign that was measured by body count, and dead non combatants can’t litigate their combat status, so McNamara was befuddled the USA was “winning” and l
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Trump is using a few very specific laws. Congress could replace them if it were functional, and not ossified by Senate rules sometime allowing even 1/3 + 1 vote bloc a blocking veto.
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Hey no love lost here for mainstream Democrats but we have a first past the post national and state systems. see independent voters polling don’t matter in the electiona since you don’t vote. /s
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
That’s good news to hear but the analysis in that article points out that many of these are people who supported Trump the third time(possibly in a row), after the rape trial finished and all the evidence of the first Trump term - maybe can
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I am surprised the USA has not attacked Cuba yet. I am guessing the rundown on missile stocks has eliminated the possibility of a 100 percent air/navy campaign like they failed at in Iran.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
The 65 percent approval rating from GOP voters right now says no, they are happy with immigration, culture war nonsense and trade chaos. Red states and rural areas would need to be targeted specifically and even then all interviews indicate
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Pikmin series shares a lot of features with Lemmings but in 3D and only available on Nintendo platforms.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
If one is or a member of your family is a woman, healthcare will be an issue, many healthcare professionals in obgyn specialties fled the state when abortion ban kicked in so only the older generation of providers who stuck it out are left
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Back then I got most of my books used from Half Price Books (prior to being able to do a quick internet search for a review) so bought both this and Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of… mostly off the title and cover blurbs and once I was able to g
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
Thought it might be useful for the untapped market for air crews on passenger airlines but the company said it does not block cosmic gamma rays.
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
It’s fun to understand just for intellectual curiosity’s sake but the number of people who get to work on shipping code where ring-0 knowledge is useful has to be minuscule as a percentage. It feels like a minor miracle I got to work on dev
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I think that purpose statement implies good intentions - we all know measurement stats become the thing that is gamed to make one's organization look good and this is well documented for American law enforcement. Unless absolutely forc
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Plus, his movement supports him even after repeated 180s on different subjects, lower consumer prices -> higher consumer prices, no wars -> forever war, Biden bad because North Korea has US citizen -> North Korea is best Korea, it&
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
For those interested, I think many of these issues are discussed (but not in the particular way we are) in the trilogy of books starting with the Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, continuing with The Story of Birds and the Rise and Reign of Mamma
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I don’t have good recollection of names of early scientists he notes but I think he discusses many of them if not in this work but also in either The Story of Birds or The Rise and Reign of Mammals. I read all three in quick succession so i
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
They were larger but not as dense as mammals, we know had adaptations like less denser bones and different respiratory systems that allow for more efficiency and much more rapid growth into maturity. Modern birds show evidence of all these
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
In addition to printed books, my library has audiobooks, dedicated audio players for single books, DVD movies, video games, audio books on CD that count in your rentals. For new digital releases when they see the queue get overly long, the
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I got to the end and was very angry - it just felt like bad Bret Easton Ellis for the tennis plot (which is a low bar even then) and low grade Elmore Leonard for the drug rehab plot with lots of terrible jokes. There’s so many jokes one wil
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
For new books I read the New Yorker and New Scientist book columns via Libby and add those to sample from my local library. This might get books before they appear on awards list like suggested by this algorithm and depends on one’s taste o
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I scanned it and it was very accurate to my recollection of listening to the audio book. There’s a lot of humor that didn’t work for me or this blogger throughout the book and the author had lots of racist stereotypes in there - I wasn’t su
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by stevenwoo 2mo ago
I haven’t noticed this at my local Costco in Northern California (plenty in stock this week) but maybe I will next week with this making the news. I usually wait to stock up when it goes on sale but I only eat two cans a week.
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It’s pretty impressive engineering but those wheels are almost at end of life sadly https://www.space.com/space-exploration/mars-rovers/curiosit...
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The chase on a glacier in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley would be a lot less dramatic today, Mer de Glace, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251106-the-sea-of-ice-t...
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Last Week Tonight has also done multiple bits on this topic over the years, with one during the current season with list of prior offenses.
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That's true, I was recollecting when we had somewhat ordinary politics in USA and Affordable Care Act passed when Democrats had majority in Senate but making it single payer was stopped by purported Democrat Joe Leiberman.
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My reading of the article was aggressive response by single payer healthcare (i.e. NHS) is responsible so that would be almost impossible politically in USA as long as senate exists on top of non scientific medical authorities.
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China had the foresight to fill its petroleum reserves when prices were lower( so much so they raised prices just by that action) and can keep going for four more months with very little impact from the USA/Iran/Israel war. They s
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I was neutral and responded to your comment. The approach portrayed in the book is pretty clinical and she sticks to things that she can back up in court as factual to the best of her knowledge, it was kind of surprising to come across anyt
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They started allowing automobile enthusiasts to test drive it a few months ago: https://electrek.co/2026/06/17/we-finally-got-to-drive-the-a... no helmets in California at least.

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