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Could be a window for a bunch of deportation activity? It's not very low profile if that's the case.

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'…

I think that is a mistyping - the Alcoa presses are 50,000 tons, not lbs.

Yeah you're just signaling being Bozeman or Boulder basic.

It’s ‘their’, not ‘they’re’.

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.

I love this podcast, but would say that it is not only liberal revolutions.

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 clas…

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.

I think the leading theory, here's another: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanis...

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 collecti…

You have a 100% chance of dying someday.

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 dislocati…

representing Peoria here - this is great news for that part of the country!

Was it bloated? Things bloat when they die.

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 …

Some out there are pursuing non-ToF systems: https://blackmoreinc.com/

Indeed, it is a pleonastic bit.

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…

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…

I would also reccomend 'The Unwinding' by George Packer.

I'm not advocating anything.

The improved density and efficienty allows population that necessitates the use of factory farming, petrochemical based fertilizers, massive infrastructure, traffic congestion etc.…

Because nobody wants to live like Appalachians when they can live like San Franciscans. One is clearly more comfortable.