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Even if it's a wash dollar wise, staying employed often means you get healthcare and retirement benefits AND the career progression that ideally comes with long term stable employm…

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It's illegal to grow alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. That's why Fondomonte Arizona was created by the Saudis to grow alfalfa in the unregulated and easily paid off state of Arizona.[0] [0…

At least the farmers have to pay something . At least one company gets all the water it can for free in California.[0] Not a bad deal for a bottled water company! [0] https://spect…

> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be r…

> use of a saxophone in modern pop music Ahh, the halcyon days of damn near every 80's Top 40 hit.

Enrique Iglesias was called out by Howard Stern for crappy vocals in his concert 23 years ago (good lord!).[0] Enrique explained that they overdubbed some of his songs so much in c…

Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson' is (largely?) attributed to his skill as a glider pilot.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

Less bots and troll farms, perhaps? That may also be a consequence of overall user activity dropping like a stone.

Don't forget the drug war. Miami wasn't built up just for local Floridians.

> Mexico has it's problems Like being completely compromised by the drug cartels and effectively a narco-state?[0] [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-s-former-defense-.…

You must be new here. Many companies keep ex-C-levels nominally employed as 'consultants' so their stock can vest (which is typically the bulk of their compensation) and avoid any …

We tell them to build . There are planet scale transformations underway and we need another incarnation of the WPA to help mitigate the impacts. For example, the pine bark beetle i…

Well, we wouldn't want the Okinawans and Yokohamans to kick us out, after all.

My friend who was killed by a repeated drunk driver might have argued otherwise. If you can't drive responsibly, it's in society's interest to make sure you never do.

>Someone apparently felt that was worthless. There is a significant probability that mom was tired of hearing "I'm gonna move it out of the garage, soon" and just said to hell with…

>It's harder to reverse-engineer an unconscious process Aside from some basic life support systems, don't almost all movements start with conscious effort? Whether you are delibera…

600+ tribes in North America and there is no evidence of pre-contact written language for any tribe north of the SW desert border.

There are so many tipping points and cascading effects at work that I doubt we have any real understanding of everything that is happening at the macroscopic level, nor even if we …

It's not just conversations around the dinner table. It's also how you get started vis a vis introductions to the right people, prized starter jobs and educational pathways that ma…

Simple? Not if Furiosa is programming the start sequence.[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5rQlfEcjY

Some people may view this scene[0] as overly dramatic, whereas I think it's perfectly understandable once it happens to you. [0] https://youtu.be/nJ_pVgV1EZQ?t=216

I once had a wasp hiding near my center console start stinging my arm as soon as put my arm down as I started driving. Fortunately, I was still in my residential neighborhood so I …

As long as they never leave Russia, they're fine... for now. But even Snowden knows Putin's imminent fall from power could upend his extradition protection.

The typical American's biggest monthly expense is housing. Owning a house drastically reduces your monthly expenses. If you're young, out of work or on a fixed income, minimizing t…