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by a4000 2y ago
Essentially that is part the 'male sedation hypothesis'. Due to the amount of incels or men who aren't really in relationships or even work these days, they should be causing significant social unrest as they have nothing to
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by a4000 2y ago
I agree this is an excellent book on the subject of nuclear weapons, also very well written and researched.
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by a4000 2y ago
The Shinkansen runs the fastest Nozomi service about every ten minutes throughout the day at around 5 trains per hour on the most popular routes like Tokyo to Osaka, then during peak hours there's another 5 added in on top of that as w
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by a4000 2y ago
I would say dating apps make it much easier for queer people to find others to date as that was always a relatively limited pool to begin with so location based dating apps would really help make it easier. However for straight people it wa
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by a4000 2y ago
There's different types of work, the on duty time you describe is what I would call being paid to be available to work during certain hours. My work is like this, I do 9-5 or similar hours, any jobs come into during that time, I work o
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by a4000 2y ago
Actually it turns out the scammers just use targeted marketing data like any other business to find out who to target with their scams. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/scammers-using-system... No need to ha
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by a4000 2y ago
Just waiting for the world police to go in an arrest them and hold them accountable for their crimes, I'm sure they'll get around to it after they have finished arresting all those Russians for their war crimes.
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by a4000 2y ago
In Britain at least, a lot of the young men who fought didn't actually have a vote at that time, "Only 58% of the adult male population was eligible to vote before 1918. An influential consideration, in addition to the suffrage m
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by a4000 2y ago
I think many police departments already use business intelligence systems to determine where units will be deployed based on various inputs such as intelligence reports, previous patterns etc.
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by a4000 2y ago
Same in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow... Banks are down so petrol stations and supermarkets are basically closed. People can't check in to airline flights, various go
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by a4000 2y ago
I've seen a lot of conspiracy types speculate that Just Stop Oil is actually a creation of the Oil companies as a controlled opposition group to basically make the climate protesters look so bad that they lose public support. Personall
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by a4000 2y ago
that's the great male sedation hypothesis
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by a4000 2y ago
It's worth pointing out that this is authored by Stephen Chen who is a bit of a joke in defence news circles with a never ending supply of articles about how China has all these amazing weapons and technological advances that render th
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by a4000 2y ago
It's also good for getting heavy metals out of the blood too.
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by a4000 3y ago
Do they not have the hand held baskets there? In most other countries I have been too in Europe, Asia, Australia the supermarkets have both wheeled trolley and hand held baskets or even only baskets for smaller convenience type stores for t
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by a4000 3y ago
I have seen a bit more criticism of electric cars of late in the press and on social media, particularly in the UK, but I think that's just because of more widespread use amongst the general public. They are not electric car haters but
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by a4000 3y ago
Pilots chasing down V-1s who shot at them from directly behind would risk immediately flying at high speed into the wall of shrapnel created by blowing up essentially a large powered bomb, often destroying or damaging their own aircraft in
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by a4000 3y ago
They are already doing this in the EU now ( https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-cars-will-stop-drivers-fro... ), albeit not with actual speed restriction as far as I know, but just bongs a warning instead. It mainly relies
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by a4000 3y ago
There's a growing cottage industry of companies that will take older classic cars and convert them into electric cars. Obviously they don't have the range or safety of a modern electric vehicle but you can essentially customise it
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by a4000 3y ago
I also just got back from Bangkok and frankly crossing busy streets is one of the worst aspects of the place, it really makes it very difficult to easily get around on foot and you are really placing a lot of faith that drivers are actually
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by a4000 3y ago
They were definitely flying drones over Iran in the recent past and probably still do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... Also there is the 'RQ180' that has been spotted flying nea
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by a4000 3y ago
Interestingly in Japan their manufacturers all voluntarily agreed to limit their domestically produced cars to 180km/h (112mph), which has been in place for decades now.
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by a4000 3y ago
As an Australian who did vote in this referendum, this is more or less my take as well. To me personally this one felt like it came out of nowhere, had very poor communication about what anyone was actually voting for. The Yes camp initiall
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by a4000 3y ago
> Although no state is openly attempting to automate its nuclear weapons systems What about the Perimeter/Dead Hand system from the Soviet Union/Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
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by a4000 3y ago
Apparently it was beef wellington pie https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/10/victo...
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by a4000 3y ago
Something that's pretty easy and beneficial is to regularly donate blood, also helps to clear out things like heavy metal build up, although you might need to be careful of getting low in some like iron.
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by a4000 3y ago
Not all jobs are productivity based, plenty are response based and you are really being paid to be available to do something within a time period if requested, regardless of whether you actually do get any requests to do something.
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by a4000 3y ago
FYI they did sell the Volt in Australia as the Holden Volt between 2012 and 2015, they only sold 246 in that whole time though, so not a lot of choice out there on the second hand market. The closest thing in a new car will probably be the
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by a4000 3y ago
Which was actually a Triumph engine, although extensively revised by Saab by that stage.
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by a4000 3y ago
Do you even swallow upside down bro?

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