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Commented in Archery Could Date Back 48,000 Years in South Asia
that title is so misleading it is completely contradicted in the article itself. from the article verbatim:
Bow and arrow technologies first appeared in Africa some 64,000 years ago
so how is it then that "archery dates back 48k ya in Asia"?
pop-sci creates so much unnecessary confusion
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Commented in Poor Countries Borrowed Billions from China. They Can’t Pay It Back.
Something about the pot blaming the kettle.
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Commented in What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Long read, but really interesting. A lot of interesting evidence.
Added: Clive Irving's Daily Beast hit piece was also interesting but not as much. Consider this pair of paragraphs:
Langewiesche, suggesting the opposite, adds his own dramatic color by saying “The airplane disintegrated into confetti when it hit the water.”
That idea is absolutely confounded by the solidity of the pieces of debris that survived. The main and heaviest parts of the jet, the engines and the fuselage, would have been shattered on impact, but never shredded like confetti. Confetti better describes Langewiesche’s detective work.
Clearly the airplane disintegrated into little pieces. Probably many hard bits like the engines did not so much, but the wings definitely did, and the wings and the fuselage are similarly constructed and so the fuselage probably broke up. Most of the parts probably just sank, and many were unidentifiable anyway, like backpacks etc. But having bits of the wings float to West Africa proves the aircraft disintegrated like confetti.
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Commented in Report: Trump Admin Denying Passports to Citizens Along Border
See the related link, the Obama Administration did not start those practices. For the sake of argument, let’s pretend they did. After all, it’s not like they didn’t excel at what they did. If we’re honest with ourselves, though, Trump announced his presidential campaign on expressly bigoted terms. Trump owns his bigotry. Why would you try to take that from him, do you think?
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Commented in South Africa farm seizures BEGIN: Chaos as first expropriation of white-owned farms starts
Set aside this is a British tabloid chumming the waters with racially-charged third and fourth-hand hearsay because it sells. Let's ignore what appears to be a one-sided version, to the point of dishonesty, of an underlying story, if for no other reason than the subject of land reform in South Africa can be so easily cleaved along racial lines. All that agreed, this article is utter shite.
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Commented in Australia’s mysterious nuclear fallout
I remember reading (a long time ago) that there were other suspects. France, possibly in conjunction with an undeclared power (Israel, Brazil, and South Africa were named), topped the list. Israel alone, Pakistan, and India were also suspects.
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Commented in Trump cancels Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Send 'em to Africa like they do to sports hats/t-shirts of the losing finals sports teams.
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Commented in Why Germans Are Getting Fed Up with America
Nothing to do with Europe being flooded with refugees from wars caused by US interventions and adventures in the middle east and Africa? I don't imagine Europe is happy about that.
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Commented in PM presents 'conclusive proof' Iran lied 'big time' about nuclear weapons program
Technically, the story goes, South Africa developed them then sold the program to Israel just before the end of S.A.'s Apartheid government.
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Commented in Woman accused of faking illness to avoid UK deportation died five days later
“We were detained separately, but after we were released Nancy told me that a nurse at the detention centre told her she was too ill to be detained, but the nurse was overruled by a superior and she was held overnight,”
It's a sad thing when medical staff are overruled by non-medical staff.
Nancy’s body was eventually flown to South Africa on 5 April after the country’s high commission agreed to provide an emergency travel document.
There are some things really wrong with this. The British Home office was desperate to get rid of her then once she died didn't want her body to go? Then they wouldn't release her passport. And finally, the fact that a body needs a passport to travel.
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Commented in White South African farmers to be removed from their land
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Commented in White South African farmers to be removed from their land
I want countries to institute the right of return laws. If they're going to be massacred and the leaders of South Africa want to play their little race game like Hitler then we should be able to save them just like the Jews who were killed in Nazi Germany. 2018 and I thought we'd see progress
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Commented in White South African farmers to be removed from their land
Let's take a moment and consider the source here. It's the Daily Fail with a race baiting headline.
What's the matter, OP, you couldn't get quite the shrill tone you were looking for from the Breitbart and Daily Caller versions of this story?
Potential land reform in South Africa might just be the kind of difficult policy subject one ought to find better sources about than the trashiest fucking British tabloids.
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Commented in 10 rivers are responsible for 90% of the plastic in the ocean
8 of the 10 on that list go through China at some point. 2 of those 8 are only partly chinese rivers (Indus, Amur). Still, 6 of the 10 worst offenders are chinese rivers (Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Meghna, Pearl, Mekong). The other 2 rivers are Africa (Nile) and India/Bangladesh (Indus).
Yay Western hemisphere?
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Commented in 24 Things Americans Don't Realize Are Weird
#22: Americans don't like coffee, because American coffee is comparable to the water where you washed your socks. That's why you need to make it almond vanilla latte pumpkin spice and put enough sugar to give all of Africa diabetes in it. So you don't taste how shitty it is.
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Commented in Toto - Africa
Agreed, it's a striking ballad. One quibble, it's from the early Eighties. Source: being staggeringly old enough to remember. I knew Toto better from their Dune soundtrack with Brian Eno.
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Commented in Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa in the growing crisis no one is talking about
Nice press release.
“As we enter 2017, over 37 million people across Africa are without food,” International Development Secretary, Priti Patel, said in a statement sent to the Independent. “Families face losing their homes and livelihoods as the effects of widespread drought worsen. That is why ‘Global Britain’ is leading the response to the escalating crisis by providing life-saving food, water and shelter.”
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Commented in These Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist
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Commented in Owner of ClintonKaine.com wants $90,000
Stupidity is expensive. It makes people pay for shit like this.
I think it was Bierce who said that lottery is a tax you pay for being bad at math. This is similar but slightly stupider.
Maybe we could, you know, spend this money on fixing things like clean water access or vaccines for people in Africa? Surely human lives are more important than someone's shot at buying an expensive car?
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Commented in Religious People Say They Don't Watch Porn. Internet Data Says Otherwise.
Religion is the single biggest obstacle to human progress. Why do we keep spending time arguing about people's genitals when we haven't figured out how to fix global warming, end wars, or feed the hungry? What kind of "good" God would worry more about you the kind of porn you jack off to than about children dying horrible deaths from hunger and preventable illnesses in Africa?
Edit: Can'p shpell
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Commented in Sexist, maybe? Extra wide, pink parking spots for women in China
Men growing up in any culture today are never leaving boyhood because of how emasculated they are.
Yes, why would there be the color pink if any male, let alone you, could realistically reach sexual maturity?
Now women have special parking spots that give them more space.
There exist in Asia some number of parking spaces that are not as small as the rest, provided as a courtesy to ladies in a culture that in broad strokes has more traditional roles for women such that their inexperience is a significant actuarial factor in parking outcomes. That's what castrated you and generations of your gender?
Sure this starts as an insult to women but it's equally as insulting to men.
I should like to see how well you park in typically-sized Asian parking spaces before I take your opinion that an offer of luxuriously large spaces to park in is an insult.
The result? Men have to use smaller spaces instead of giving everyone adequate room.
And this gender-equity fairness authority ensuring that you and your fellow castrati are pampered enough? Is that going to shrink the people and the cars or magically enlarge Asia iself to fit your wounded sense of masculinity-never-achieved? Ia that properly fair to Africa? Ganymede?
The better method? Instead of making this about gender, try making this about skill?
Note that your skills have yet to be put on the scales and weighed in this matter. Note, also, that if parking skill were uniformly distributed in the Asian countries that have this sort of parking accommodation, you might've been anatomically correct right now,
Put a green triangle in the middle of the space to represent unskilled drivers and let people decide for themselves.
What could go wrong? Well, other than the green part. After all, a third of men are colorblind to some degree, but I guess you at least have a redundant coding in the triangle. Unless a symbol like the triangle may have implications you hadn't counted on in your careful consideration of pan-Asian culture.
Until this becomes about generating ticketing revenue in the municipality.
Parking tickets are emasculation at the point of a gun?
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Commented in The best African American figure skater in history is now bankrupt and living in a trailer
Let me explain how the world works
Here it comes.
if you live by the sword you die by the sword.
Nope, no cult-like, deeply-ingrained brainwashing here.
What does this mean to a mindless social justice warrior?
A rote-memorized phrase by which you mean someone that’s not a bigot.
when you fight racism and say people should be judged on their actions and not by their skin
Notice, here, that racism is assumed to be the normal state of affairs. At least until someone got all uppity about it.
or that women should be judged by their accomplishments and not put down by their gender
Did somebody once tell you not to demean and degrade women just for the sake of it? You poor thing. There, there.
you can't tell us to stop hating people because of their skin color, but to love them for it.
Note, again, the presumption that racial hatred is the natural way of the world. Moreover, that feeling anything other than racial hatred is somehow being forced on the natural born bigot by outside forces.
The same goes with gender: women ask for equality, but get mad when guys don't throw their coats in the puddles anymore, or are debated and treated like a man.
You may meet an actual woman someday. When you do, you won’t be able to hide attitudes and ignorance like this. Nor will you be able to conceal bigotry like this from people that know and care about you, like friends and family. The best you can hope for then will be their pity. Quiz yourself: Has a woman ever asked you for equality? Has any of that other drivel ever happened to you personally? No? Shocker.
Either you want a world of equality where all burdens are shared the same, or you are delusional and should expect to be called out on you crap when you riddle your argument with basic logical fallacies.
False dilemma, Genius. You’re in deep enough, maybe stop digging now. Someone having a race or a gender is not carte blanche for you to be a dick.
Let me tell you something that is going to be hard for you to learn in life, but we should just rip the bandaid off quick: all feelings are invalid.
You accused me of psychoanalyzing you before. When, in point of fact, I simply concluded you’re struggling with an acute case of bigotry. Go on serving up weird little platitudes like this, and one might be tempted to read something into it. All I read into it, though, is that you got this out of The Turner Diaries or some other bigotry-outreach material somewhere. This is likely to be you parroting someone else’s sociopathically-analytical lack of emotional affect. Where do you get this stuff?
This is the biggest thing BLM and feminism don't understand about white men-we operate on logic alone.
Imagine that. People of your particular combination of race and gender turn out to be creatures comprised of pure logic. What’re the odds?
White man can be subdued with feelings and sorrow for moments, but we always wake up to present the logical extrapolation of what people are saying.
Nope, you’re not racist. Or the product of any racist indoctrination. Good thing, or you’d be making my skin crawl.
Right now people like you are mindless
Cults usually have ‘terms’ for cult-outsiders like this. You’ve resorted to this one a few times so far. You ought to get new material. Maybe you should try and trade tower guard duty at your rural Idaho compound for one of the supply missions into Couer d’Alene. Get out a lit...
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Commented in The Evolution of Dr. King
Of course it is. There have been and will doubtless continue to be many socialist political parties in the United States. You may notice that I hadn’t capitalized ‘socialist’ above, which was because I meant it in a broader sense. Tell me, did you happen to’ve followed that link? Dr. King wasn’t about to endorse any system which oppressed its people, just as he wouldn’t pick and choose which atrocities to accept as necessary consequences of his side in a war. It was a sign of his first rate mind that he would hold many contradictory ideas in mind at the same time.
Yes, he said “There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. Call it what you may, call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.” He also said “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems, it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against.”
It’s easy to mistakenly pigeonhole people into our private interpretations of ideology. The wrong-headed urge to identify King with my own world view makes me see his relentless concern for suffering people as a sign of his humanism. Ultimately, while there is a grain of truth in it, that’s a simplification that I would find convenient to make, like when anyone claims him for their particular ideals of politics, or religion, or world view. Like many key historical figures, he was more than we make of him now.
There is something much more basic than crass political labelling in ideas of King’s like this: “I started thinking about the fact that right here in our country we spend millions of dollars every day to store surplus food. And I said to myself: ‘I know where we can store that food free of charge — in the wrinkled stomachs of the millions of God’s children in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even in our own nation, who go to bed hungry at night.’”
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Commented in Why ISIL won't be defeated
Of course one can't defeat ideology. One can exert control. It takes local forces and a centralized government. Ooops we left Libya wide open, abandoned Iraq, and even call for the downfall of Syria's opposition to these very forces. Yep with these tactics and goals Isis or anybody will/can win. Our President seems content with "containment", just where, the whole of Middle East and Africa?
The problem is this: Isis is growing in numbers/ability every day...........How long do we put off the inevitable? Is the number 200,000 as it may be today or 500,000+ tomorrow. ..........Which will cost us more in lives and dollars?
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Commented in “243 People Disappeared. Young People. Women. Children. And No One Cares”
This is a great read in the sense that it gives a human face to the global refugee crisis. Especially one that focuses on Africa instead of the middle east.
Not much of a mystery, though. I mean...it's pretty likely it sank. Most refugee boats trying to cross the Mediterranean are ill-equipped for that kind of travel so it's pretty likely it sank midway. That kind of thing rarely leaves evidence.