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by durge 7mo ago
Could be a window for a bunch of deportation activity? It's not very low profile if that's the case.
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by durge 3y ago
Interesting how people who have been through acute hardship, meaning random and senseless death of their immediate community, are less apathetic. Ie your parents', my grandparents', generation. Something about the human animal doe
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by durge 5y ago
I think that is a mistyping - the Alcoa presses are 50,000 tons, not lbs.
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by durge 5y ago
Yeah you're just signaling being Bozeman or Boulder basic.
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by durge 5y ago
It’s ‘their’, not ‘they’re’.
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by durge 5y ago
If you are any good at mechanical engineering or math, you can find a job in those fields. If you're not very good, learn Javascript. It works itself out.
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by durge 6y ago
I love this podcast, but would say that it is not only liberal revolutions.
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by durge 6y ago
I think you are on to something in your second sentence. To what extent do you perceive these social effects being a result of the cultural character of those places that your classmates or their parents have emigrated from? It seems that a
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by durge 6y ago
Maybe he thinks that this would be many separate conflicts because of the different powers that partook and over different decades? Does seem to be a big deal.
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by durge 6y ago
I think the leading theory, here's another: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...
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by durge 6y ago
I think the ties that bind in the Anglosphere are pretty much done for. These countries are basically malls that people move-to to get stuff, I think we need a little more collectivism - at least on the state/provincial level to be bet
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by durge 7y ago
You have a 100% chance of dying someday.
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by durge 7y ago
You should read 'The Storm Before the Storm' by Mike Duncan. It details the fall of the Roman Republic and highlights the role played by land consolidation and the social dislocation that gave rise to the empire. For better or wor
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by durge 7y ago
representing Peoria here - this is great news for that part of the country!
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by durge 8y ago
Was it bloated? Things bloat when they die.
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by durge 8y ago
I lived in Vancouver, BC for three years having moved from Ames, Iowa. It was my first longish-term experience in a big city in which poor people are 'atomized' by their inability to make due in their current circumstances.The USA
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by durge 8y ago
Some out there are pursuing non-ToF systems: https://blackmoreinc.com/
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by durge 9y ago
Indeed, it is a pleonastic bit.
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by durge 9y ago
I can't really speak from experience on the Canadian mid-major metros, as I only experienced 'big' Vancouver. But there is a bevy of American cities where you can actually save and have little ones (Minneapolis, Cincinnati, S
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by durge 9y ago
It's not quite that rosy on the guns and butter issues there. I moved to Van for grad school from the Midwest looking for opportunity, worked for two years after my degree and then moved back stateside. One makes so little money there,
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by durge 9y ago
I would also reccomend 'The Unwinding' by George Packer.
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by durge 9y ago
I'm not advocating anything.
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by durge 9y ago
The improved density and efficienty allows population that necessitates the use of factory farming, petrochemical based fertilizers, massive infrastructure, traffic congestion etc. Per individual the carbon footprint is smaller (until you g
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by durge 9y ago
Because nobody wants to live like Appalachians when they can live like San Franciscans. One is clearly more comfortable.
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by durge 9y ago
I hear you, and agree. An individual human being living to increase the fitness of others would be considered extrememly mentally ill, possibly toxic in their inability to sustain themselves. When this is taken to a societal scale (ie many
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by durge 9y ago
Imo it is relative poverty within communities that is most damaging. This causes learned helplessness and deprivation of self respect. That is part of the reason the world is getting more unstable-- because it's shrinking and so people