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> Why are not enough people volunteering? Because these particular wars are pointless and immoral? Your segue from briefly discussing mercenaries on to gender roles, marriage, Trum…

This is so wildly off-topic.

The extent of NSA surveillance was known to thousands, if not tens of thousands of people before Edward Snowden clued the general public in.

I've tried both pdftotext and pdf2txt and I remember not being satisfied with either. Neither seem to handle non-ASCII characters very well, but I'll take another look soon though.…

My gripe with PDF is that it's the standard format for academic publishing, rendering a whole mass of scientific knowledge largely inaccessible for text processing purposes. I've w…

Many die. Are you surprised from watching the videos that it's dangerous? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_solo_climbing#Notable_acc... One of my favorite climbers and free soloi…

Vaporwave is inspired by hollow consumerism and the false promise of technology ("vaporware"). Vaporwave takes it aesthetic from dated software, corporate brochures, etc. of the 80…

The article says they're not sure if it was volcanic activity that triggered the release, or something else.

> The invasions initial execution was beautiful (first few days) The initial "Shock and Awe" campaign in Baghdad killed an estimated 6,600+ civilians. [1] It's stated purpose was t…