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Thanks, this was a good and educational read.

Yeah, there are those who argue that conservation programs benefit from the money generated by zoos, but I still don't feel great about them. Ideally it would be nice if we could w…

Gonna be honest, it doesn't sound like you have a lot of relevant experience on the effects of incarceration. I'm no expert either, but prison is a lot more than just making sure p…

Robin Williams actually had a degenerative brain disease. I know a lot of the news didn't wait long enough for that information about his situation to come out, but it's on Wikiped…

There's nothing wrong with it, I've been using it for ages.

> quiet, neat, and über-efficient I wish the same could be said for the Tokyo office I work in!

Hello, I'm a real boy! I happen to support both of these positions, but it is indeed possible to condemn ICE without feeling the same about the GOP in general, and jumping immediat…

Sorry, I didn't realize that if you don't kill as many people as they did at Dachau, that makes it okay! My mistake xD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_inte... From the article: > In 2019, many experts, including Andrea Pitzer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History o…

Yep! The current GOP is corrupt in every way you can imagine, and by all accounts doing their best to turn the United States into a dictatorship.

Yeah, I would love that actually. ICE runs concentration camps. Not enough people treat them how they deserve.

If you liked this one, you might also enjoy reading about the mycorrhizal networks some plants can use to communicate between each other: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-pl…

We may not end up underwater, but ecosystem collapse leading to famine, and increased pressure on all sorts of support systems due to the need to direct aid to people from coastal …

You mean the 2018 midterm election?

Well, if we fail to develop solutions to clean up after ourselves, we won't need to worry about climate stability because we'll all be dead. So that's one way to handle things.

Holy hell, that must have been frightening. What was going through your head at the time?

You need to understand that just because there are upsides and downsides doesn't imply they're in any way equal, and pretending they are causes plenty of harm.

When you vote with your wallet, people with more money get more votes.

How awful. Imagine if the subject of this was a dog instead, it would anger so many people.

Leadership at top companies is disproportionately sociopathic compared to the population at large, as well. How admirable.

Wow, fuck that guy.

If having partners necessitates causing burnout in young people, maaaybe it's not a great way to structure things.

There are a lot of people who feel like the primary goal of what we call the criminal justice system is making the victims feel like criminals are treated poorly enough. While perh…

I read this from my chair in an office in Tokyo, and found it to be pretty dramatic and kind of silly. There are definitely cultural differences, but I don't feel like this article…

Fossil fuels are a large contributor to climate change, which is forecast to, and in fact is already causing, great harm. In order to profit from them you have to have some form of…