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I’m only surprised how deliberately he avoided using the term alienation - I guess he was just afraid of invoking Marx but not Debord or Graeber.

This is no different than any other law enforcement agency in the USA historically - it’s a curated source of positive PR that they get taxpayers to fund - it’s never used willingl…

IIRC in “Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman” he recalls being asked during Manhattan Project (?) for ideas to commercialize atomic energy and they patented whatever the scientists bra…

The argument echoes similar speculation about the USA's 20 years in Vietnam, the "military was held back" despite killing more than a million southeast Asians in the attempt.

Re: sausage party - Based on the salary of these guys, if they wanted they could easily afford nightly visits at something like the now closed strip club, the Mitchell Brothers the…

One of the sources for John Hersey’s book Hiroshima is being published as a separate book. The daughter of the writer of the book survived in the ruins of the church seen in some o…

That is what the one expert quoted said but others thought it might still come back over a longer time period - I interpreted it to mean that method as being more accurate than the…

Toward the end it briefly discusses a possible solution - expensive injection of water into aquifers that might have the side effect of triggering earthquakes like fracking for pet…

It can also cause adaptations to go haywire like temperature dependent sex determination where the ratio of male to females in eggs is set by ambient temperatures, skewing breeding…

For those unaware - the most famous experiment to measure this(both high school and university physics classes have drilled this into my brain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miche…

I have the same experience with eggplant. I wonder if this is one of those tiny taste differences that is some sort of genetic/epigenetic in origin (not quite supertaster but atypi…

Good points - it does point a way for other actors like Iran or Russia under sanctions though they could be doing it already since those two are pretty close lipped and Ukraine is …

In this case they have carbon dated wooden equipment for fish farming and know due to geological factors when the lake could support fish, though of course the fish might have gott…

Just from the specs in second paragraph - did they just build a better and cheaper alternative to Tomahawk missiles?

I take a little solace in the certainty he didn’t comprehend those books very much at all considering how fluid human sexuality is in the series - although it’s possible he somehow…

The car market seems tiny in Laos and Ethiopia (the other nation noted in the comments with a similar ban). It doesn’t seem large enough for an in country industry (maybe one facto…

What I meant was I was permanently banned so I can still login and get notifications of responses to my commments, just could not vote or change any of my subscriptions.

It was really bothering me that this guy was upset about the American research funding model up to 2024 - what is he doing about Canadian research?!

To take what is an official pronouncement from the White House as a semblance of truth is a political stance as indicated by all actions heretofore by said administration being exp…

We are “Amusing Ourselves to Death”.

It doesn’t match my experience either and I’m in the USA. The father of a friend of mine in high school had one of the early IBM PC with 5 1/4 disk drive at home - the father worke…