occitan

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by occitan 7y ago
I live in SF and can get door-to-door to a friend's house in San Diego in 3 hours. Assuming both you and your friend live in the actual, respective airport terminals. Otherwise, your numbers just don't jibe with the reality of t
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by occitan 7y ago
If climate change is truly the harbinger of the apocalypse, If you start your argument with an extremified and overly emotional premise, then sure, you can make just about any point you want.
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by occitan 7y ago
Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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by occitan 7y ago
Actually there are no guidelines about voting whatsoever. However arguably it's a bit rude to ding people simply for being (mildly) misinformed. And the guidelines do ask us not to be rude.
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by occitan 7y ago
The above comment is misinformed, but in no way obnoxious. There was no reason to downvote it.
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by occitan 7y ago
It seems what they really forget to tell you was "if you don't like Math - you don't have to study it."
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Burning issue: how fashion's love of leather is fuelling the fires in the Amazon(theguardian.com)
1 points by occitan 7y ago|1 comments
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Amazon's indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers(theguardian.com)
2 points by occitan 7y ago|0 comments
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by occitan 7y ago
"The most surprising thing, indeed -- despite always -- being repulsed by articles with click-baity titles, in the past -- suddenly I found myself overcome by an irresistible urge to start posting with titles as gimmicky and catchy as
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Greta Thunberg Arrives in New York City for UN Climate Summits(bbc.com)
4 points by occitan 7y ago|0 comments
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by occitan 7y ago
Actually, there's plenty of information to inform such a decision: While the other students were allowed to leave, Ajjawi alleges an immigration officer continued to question him about his religion and religious practices in Lebanon.
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by occitan 7y ago
What was the conflict of interest? Dunno - whatever was running through the HR people's heads. The whole point is - it wasn't simply for "having a YouTube channel".
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by occitan 7y ago
Wow, his wife left him too. Might have had something to do with the 80-hour work weeks.
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by occitan 7y ago
No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bunch of other stuff (besides the nominal "reason").