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  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • That's fair, but I believe cities can't be like that regardless. It's where you live everyday, the forests do not fix that. Your surroundings everyday affect mental and physical health (and these two interact with each other as well) and although a Sunday walk in nature is important, it will be negligible.

    You have a much higher chance of living a sedentary life because you have to be in a car all day, so statistically less exercise, more obesity, worse quality of sleep (shown in scientific studies) all of which lead to mental health deterioration. There is also more noise pollution the more cars there are and the less trees there are, not only in the house(let's suppose you have good insulation) but also when you are out of the house. This is causing stress (you can't always realize this but it's happening), so high blood pressure, mental health issues etc. And of course air pollution. Besides all that, there are also less interactions with other people, less public spaces, so less socialization which is also a big factor in mental health and overall wellbeing. I personally really value the latter.

    I'm not trying to throw shade to the country, I wish the way of life was better, cause I'd like to work there for some years and I'm not saying Europe is perfect, obviously the problems exist there as well but to a very lower degree. I could live almost wherever in Europe, but I can never live in the US.

  • US President Joe Biden: “No administration has helped Israel more than I have.”

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  • Why do you think you can tell me who to vote for?

    Why would it be incredibly stupid to go against Israel in this political climate? She is the vice president, she with Biden take the decisions, they are the top of the hierarchy. If they out of all people don't have a will/say, what's the point of voting?

    If she needs the warmongers to support her to win the election, then she needs to maintain their support during her term cause they fund the democratic party. She needs their support all the time and would never harm their interests. This next part is really important I really need to emphasize how ridiculous it is:

    If she doesn't make a couple concessions now in her campaign, that politicians have to make promises and grand statements, then when the important time to take actual decisions comes and the "warmongers" are pressuring her and threaten her possibly, what makes you think she will do anything about it????

    How will she do anything if she has admitted that she will always support Israel? What more there is to know?? This is beyond outrageous and ridiculous, next level gaslighting, I can't even describe how appalling these arguments are.

    Vice presidents don't decide shit? Who says that? Does Biden seem like someone taking decisions? He can barely read the speeches they hand him. She could have expressed her disagreement in literally any way, pressure not to send money, weapons, protection to Israel, but she didn't, cause that's her deal, she is with Zionists 100%.

    The last part doesn't make sense to me, it's more incoherent rambling and mental gymnastics about why I should vote those who commit genocide in Palestine and are funded by the military industrial complex.

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Haven't been there, I can imagine, but could it be any other way? I mean, what would the alternative be? Have no forests and green spaces in the entire country? That would not be sustainable.

  • US President Joe Biden: “No administration has helped Israel more than I have.”

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  • What exactly are you on about? Isn't she the current vice president that has expressed her unwavering support for Israel countless times already? What could possibly change with her?

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Your urban planning. Your cities are unwalkable, the scenery makes me depressed af, everything is scaled up for cars, even restaurants are for cars, the highways are huge, all I can see is tar. I don't know how you can live like that.

  • Engineering rule

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  • The mathematics mentioned in the first source have nothing to do with engineering though.

    Ratios, a little trigonometry and geometry, all of which are essentially under the geometry category and arithmetic are not what concerns the engineering field. They are architectural tools if you will. Of course they utilized geometry, that's not something innovative. Maths in general does not mean anything here, maths can be about number theory(completely unrelated to any practical application).

    What differentiates them and engineers now is essentially mechanics. Forces, torques, stresses, materials, masses, moments of inertias etc. They never applied quantitative engineering principles, their structures were only sound from experience and intuition, the geometry mentioned was for architectural purposes.

  • Engineering rule

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  • Sauce?

  • Why do podcasts have preroll ads now?

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  • Ong, first they eliminate the competition and then they start going for profit, which always goes hand in hand with enshitification, for the very simple reason that if there was something they could add to increase profits and user satisfaction at the same time, they would've already added it.

    They are not trying to make the app work for the user but against him, to take his data, privacy, attention, money etc.

  • US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid

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  • There are ways to get it without destroying the machine. If it's an electromagnet it will cost you several thousand dollars because there is cooling helium inside you have to remove, but you can stop it. Even if it's a permanent magnet there are techniques to remove metal objects. Incidents with metal objects in these rooms happen all the time in hospitals.

    I don't get why you would defend this stupid cop, especially by making stuff up. A medical device like an MRI scanner is infinitely more important than a gun, for god's sake. Even if we assume they cost the same, what deserves to be saved is the medical device.

  • US cops get gun stuck to MRI machine in bungled cannabis raid

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  • I don't know which part is worse, that they destroyed a several hundred thousand dollar machine for a fucking gun, that they left the magazine behind, or that they did all that for cannabis.

  • Utterly fucking bizarre

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  • You are literally twisting my words to the point it is disgusting. I said the exact opposite, this is so toxic or your reading comprehension is very bad.

  • Utterly fucking bizarre

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  • Once you realize that the reason they are not treating women equal is because they've been uneducated and starved to death by imperial powers to reach the point to have this government, and not because they are stupid or something, then we can talk. Oh and once you learn to read how I never said it's acceptable, but rather that we can applaud them for one thing and condemn them for another.

    If you let them live for a couple of decades they will sort it out is the main idea.

  • Utterly fucking bizarre

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  • One can do a good action and a bad action at the same time. They can support a national liberation struggle and oppress their citizens at the same time. I don't know why you'd have to make a final verdict, countries are not people you should hang out with. They are bureaucratic entities with interests that are a lot of the times opposite to those of the people. How about all counties are bad?

    Also I don't understand why you would hold the poorest country in the world that was facing a genocide and the worst humanitarian crisis in earth 5-10 years ago by the Saudis and the US to the same social standards as the West. These people are hungry, poor, destroyed in every way and up until recently had to fight to gain their independence. Who do you expect to rule except for these Houthi fighters? If the west and the Saudis had let them live, then we could talk. I see this stupid take so often like with Afghanistan, it's frustrating.

  • Capitalist logix

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  • I don't get why you purposefully obfuscate what ruling class I am referring to. What kind of example are managers and drivers when I am clearly talking about the people comprising the decision making body or Communist party under communism? I think that's simple enough and also the fact that any communist government that survived long enough gradually became more and more authoritarian, more detached from the people - never in the other direction. The evidence is there and we both know it. The burden of proof that this isn't the case is on you, not me..

    You simply dismissed my claims without any evidence on that. Although you seem to like to meticulously answer every sentence separately, you dismiss the core of the argument. I understand most communism movements start off with noble and admirable intentions and I'm not ignoring this, but the fundamental issue here is that in the longterm, by design, in order to preserve state power, for whatever reason, you'd be heading to the opposite direction of a stateless society.

    I've read enough Lenin to understand this from his descriptions of the ideal Party. I don't need reading recommendations, thank you. I am not saying anything profound here, this is like mainstream critique of marxism.

  • Capitalist logix

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  • What does it mean to have a misreading in this context (last point)? You are just reiterating what they said but reassuring us that the most "advanced" among them are not going to turn into a ruling class because...?

    Any form of political power is poison. You don't get to a state-less, egalitarian society by going in the exact opposite direction, by enforcing a ruling class and an hierarchy like any else.

    And you can see this practically not in any massacre, genocide, famine or war communist countries have inflicted, these are up for discussion. The actual evidence that this is not the right path is in the lack of accountability of the governing Party under communism, the lack of freedom of speech inside that party and the decision making body, the absolute discipline required to be in it or you get kicked out for having a different opinion for any topic, the gradual increase in authoritarianism by it and the Party's gradual alienation from the people. These all are fundamental structural problems that stem from the fact that you set out to solve a problem by endorsing it and practising it.

    People are never going to free themselves from hierarchy and the state if they don't learn to live without it in practise, take decisions for themselves, develop the skills, knowledge and tactics to abolish it etc. You are/become what you practise in your life, not what you preach.

  • Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!

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  • Nah a lot of things have changed, it's just that the US hasn't, sadly.

    Unless Afghanistan and Iraq was in 1970 or singlehandedly funding a genocide as we speak doesn't count.

  • Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way!

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  • Yeah I'm sure, the US would never let that slide, just like in Laos, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

  • 7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • Wait what do the android updates have to do with Graphene? Does the phone need to still be supported by Google and android for Graphene to be secure and work?

  • 7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • For how long will the older pixel phones be supported? Is it worth it to buy a cheaper older model like pixel 6 and have graphene in it?

    Cause I'm not giving more than 200-300 for a phone. I'll stick to cheap android phones that lack nothing compared to expensive phones for my needs.

  • Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' | Business Insider India

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  • Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves