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chucksta··on Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok
Maybe not Nazis, at the start of WW2 a lot of (~%50) Americans didn't want anything to do with it.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

chucksta··on Toyota Prius on LA Craigslist Has a Catalytic Converter Cage Like a Prison
They do and it is. Guessing but it likely comes down to the distribution of Prius throughout the US

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2021/11/19/thefts-of-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/driveon/2013/01/22/toyota-pri...

chucksta··on Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December
It is a cult following. They even turned it into a musical in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamalot

chucksta··on US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices
They are illegal to install on road vehicles. You can do whatever you want to off road vehicles used in power sports.
chucksta··on Pots of gold: the world’s most expensive house plants (2022)
Do you have any advice or resources to share with someone considering entering the market? It seems so volatile right now its unadvisable. How long were you in operation?
chucksta··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
indirectly yes

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acqu...

more importantly; https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-...

chucksta··on Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds
>Organised crime groups in Mexico have about 175,000 members – making them the fifth-biggest employer in the country, according to new research published in the journal Science

Country in context is Mexico not US

chucksta··on Ozempic Can Cause Major Loss of Muscle Mass and Reduce Bone Density
>It's only a side-effect if it's secondary or undesirable.

What is your point? that's the definition... A side effect of turning the light on is heat.

"A peripheral or secondary effect, especially an undesirable secondary effect of a drug or therapy."

chucksta··on California and Florida now lead the country in climate change risks
They are substantially worse areas for natural disasters then other regions of the US https://www.envistaforensics.com/knowledge-center/insights/a...
chucksta··on Why musicians in Spain are going topless as a radical gesture
Not true at all, public nudity in the US can put you on the sex offenders list if the judge is having a bad day.

>In the United States, states have differing nudity and public decency laws.[4] In most states, state law prohibits exposure of the genitals and/or the female nipples in a public place, while in other states simple nudity is legal, but evidence of intent to shock, arouse or offend other persons (lewd conduct) is evidence of prohibited conduct. For example, in most states, it is a criminal offense punishable by fines and/or imprisonment, and/or registered sex offender requirements and restrictions. Some states permit local governments to set local standards. Public nudity itself has not been a crime throughout California since a 2000 Appellate Court ruling, and prosecutions and convictions are unheard of, but arrests do still occur, though they also are unusual,[5] and Vermont only prohibits "open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior"[6] so many forms of public nudity are legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure_in_the_Unite...

chucksta··on Why musicians in Spain are going topless as a radical gesture
Public nudity is very much taboo in the US, and illegal in many places. So unfortunately they kinda are here.
chucksta··on Black Atlanta venture capital firm sued for racial discrimination
>In total, three white and Asian women business owners are part of the lawsuit
chucksta··on Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time
The Florida Keys just recorded 100F https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocea...
chucksta··on Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time
Got this from the "better source" link. So its 75F in a cave under the vent I guess

>Using an underwater robot, the science team overturned chunks of volcanic crust, discovering cave systems teeming with worms, snails, and chemosynthetic bacteria living in 75 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) water.

chucksta··on Life has been found beneath hydrothermal vents for the first time
>Here, on the East Pacific Rise, an underwater robot was able to turn over sections of volcanic crust to reveal a new-to-science ecosystem teeming with worms, snails, and chemosynthetic bacteria that are seemingly thriving despite living in 25°C (75°F) water.

I don't understand, the temp under the sand is 25C/75F? Or is that a typo?

chucksta··on Perhaps it’s time to sideline the internet when evaluating collective reality
what happened there?
chucksta··on OpenAI will crush Sarah Silverman
It originally being pirated or not would not come into play if its a copyright violation or not. Its a violation if it's 1:1 and billed as such, otherwise its a parody or inspired by
chucksta··on Rain Panels: Harvesting the energy of falling raindrops
I forget the ending but I think its milliwatts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
chucksta··on Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s
>In this context, does it matter that I am in my 50s? Not really, but I thought it would make for a good hook in the title
chucksta··on Customers don't want chat bots
I should have been more specific, or understood the question more generally as "can you actually negotiate with the hospital on your bills?"
chucksta··on Customers don't want chat bots
Not really, same idea. Hospitals want to recover as much as they can with as little headache. Coming from a lawyer vs trying to negotiate yourself just means "I can actually make this difficult for you, play ball"
chucksta··on Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
You would hope, its common to find heavy metals in those seasonings too; https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb... IE Oregano is flagged across the board on the report.
chucksta··on What is driving the high suicide rate among farmers? (2022)
>Change the commodity from wheat to mining silver and nobody has their heartstrings

Meaning no one has a personal reason to care about the plight of a silver mine

chucksta··on JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records
Have a hard time believing you. Do you work in a area requiring compliance for PCI or Sarbox? This should never "just happen" with any competent team.
chucksta··on What is driving the high suicide rate among farmers? (2022)
You can't eat silver.

Farms also shape rural communities, literally and figuratively.

>Ultimately people aren’t siding with family farms for economics or fairness reasons

What would you call Community supported Agriculture? (https://www.kneehighfarm.com/what-is-csa)the farm to table movement? Farmers markets?

chucksta··on Reddit goes down fully as thousands of subreddits protest API changes
I did when they released the redesign. Took a month or so but I barely think about it now. This is just icing on the cake.
chucksta··on Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy?
How so?
chucksta··on America has paid a steep price for parking
There is a pretty big negative stigma from the early 1900s

IE Coal company towns and Fordlandia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-company-town/

chucksta··on San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic?
I live in Philly too been here ~10+ years at this point. Not in Kensington though

>There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city

Simply not true. Common its not that bad. Does it happen? Yes. Pervasive and constant through the city? No.

It is overblown in the sense that the rest of the city does not look like that, or present the same risk.

chucksta··on Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy?
Pointing sides is useless and perpetuating a problem, there is no longer any paragons of objective truth in MSM.
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