hoveringhen

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by hoveringhen 2y ago
Buddhists are humans too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's also the Rohingyan genocide where Buddhist nationalism is involved. If you want to read a good non-fiction on the Sri Lankan civil war, check out "The Divided Island" by Samanth
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
Although I do agree with criticisms of his writing and have felt the same in his later books (as I was too young to feel the poor writing when I read A&D, Da Vinci Code etc.), I know that I'll get his next book when it releases. I
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
> Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got It's pretty obvious that this is not what the person you're replying to's talking about
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
This video is a pretty good one on how it works in practice: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/media...
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
Yeah
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the link!
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
> Also they're often criticised for overrunning verticals with their own offerings. My favourite example being celebritynetworth. Sorry didn't get this, what do you mean exactly?
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by hoveringhen 2y ago
Due to heavy regulations on the shipbreaking industry in Western countries, > 50% of ships worldwide are (or were, when the documentary was made) dismantled in Alang, India. The industry is extremely polluting (to the environment and the
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by hoveringhen 5y ago
YouTube Music / Premium does this if I'm not wrong
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
> In addition to some amazing first-person narrative about life at sea, it does answer a lot of the "why don't they just" questions in this thread. Yeah it puts into perspective how daunting the tasks of cleaning up the oc
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
I'm from a coastal state in India (Kerala), and although non-fish meat is also quite popular here, majority eat fish almost daily (often with rice).
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
For anyone even mildly interested in crime, exploitation, vigilantes and other human stories across the oceans, check out The Outlaw Ocean by NYT journalist Ian Urbina. Brilliant work. https://www.goodreads.com/book/sho
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
Hangouts is being replaced by Chat and Meet.
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
Weird name to go with in the first place.
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
Tangential, but any suggestions for sites that publish on art? Artnews, as expected, is more about the latest updates in the international art scene. I'd like to know of one with articles on art history, analysis, news etc.
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
Not exactly what they mentioned, but check this out [1]. It talks about the perception of time in the middle ages, and how merchant time slowly substituted the impractical notions of church time. A professor of mine who was talking about me
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by hoveringhen 6y ago
Yeah, this lack of knowledge in what exactly we're reading (except for a few oft-occurring words here and there) can be seen in the inability to read, say, an Arabic newspaper. Written Arabic heavily omits the equivalent of vowels in A