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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

There was a lot of great Russian literature. There was no great Soviet literature.

There won't be any great novels or great movies based on the current woke formula either.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

On the bright side, my daughter can now afford a place in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Of course he "resigned." It was a childish copycat move.

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jackneefus 4 points ago +4 / -0

I went to college and have an MBA. Honestly, I feel more comfortable living in a racially mixed working-class neighborhood.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

I agree. I feel compelled to leave a political comment on Reddit occasionally just to keep the bubble from getting too small.

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jackneefus 3 points ago +3 / -0

It would be good if that happens.

Still, what the fusion people have been trying is one of the most technically most difficult things human have even done -- keep a gaseous plasma contained at 100 million degrees.

Atoms are held together closely in a crystal or lattice structure, creating a better setup for two atoms to fuse. This is what the SAFIRE project is trying to commercialize. In an experimental setting, they are already excess energy and getting self-sustaining reactions.

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jackneefus 3 points ago +3 / -0

There were numerous lynchings on the West Coast, but they were never associated with black people.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Russia might create a Northern-Cyprus-like area in Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine won't like it, but the local population is Russian and does not want to be part of Ukraine. It will is not something the US should try to intervene in.

If China invades Taiwan, ooh, millions will die or be enslaved. It would be a catastrophe and signal will not protect its allies. It is also the most likely trigger for a nuclear war in almost fifty years.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I hope we do not want to get involved.

The Ukrainian government installed by the Obama administration in 2014 is hostile to Russians. It was not a legitimate transfer of power. They immediately delisted Russian as an official language. These regions do not want to be part of Ukraine.

This is not a situation where we should be "defending" Eastern Ukraiine from Russia.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

but are there non-universal genetic memories?

I think we don't know yet.

We are genetically programmed to fear spiders and snakes. There are many other seemingly innate fears.

Darwin's survival of the fittest is very, very slow. These other innate memories would have to have been developed by a more active evolutionary process. The need for this is obvious but it has not been acknowledged yet.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was never dead while Chauvin was kneeling on his neck. He was given a blood test which resulted in the substance report which has been widely circulated. This shows he was alive at the hospital.

Everyone was just waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Seems like an odd time to kill someone.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

If Floyd had been killed by Chauvin, the blood test at the hospital would have been impossible. We've all seen the results.

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jackneefus 2 points ago +2 / -0

Well, the Japanese are naturally conservative. If they really absorb the culture . . . .

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Y'know, if this gets out, it might be the one thing that reduces illegal immigration.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Good good good.

The more of these there are, the more it encourages other states to conduct their own investigation and the broader the provable evidence becomes.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wow. That was easy.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

The government that took over in 2014 immediately took a stance hostile to Russia and delisted Russian as an official language. In response, Crimea and Russia-speaking eastern Ukraine broke away with varying success. I don't understand why any of those areas should be forced to stay in Ukraine. It's certainly not worth a larger war.

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jackneefus 1 point ago +1 / -0

“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.” Krishnamurti

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jackneefus 3 points ago +3 / -0

Darker skin = lower Vitamin D = greater susceptibility to Covid

That is one reason.

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