Youtube comments of John Peric (@johnperic6860).

  1. 10:30 What's the worst about the Alfalfa and Lettuce production in the Colorado River Basin is that it only contributes to something like 5% of the nation's supply. It's entirely unnecessary. Even if we were to completely get rid of alfalfa and lettuce farms in the Southwest, it would have almost no impact on their availability nationwide, including for cattle. We're sacrificing our most endangered and of our most important rivers for something that isn't even necessary.
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  2. Something I think this doesn't account for is that Titanic is near a seismic zone. In 1929, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck 300 miles west of Titanic. The wreck was likely in good enough condition in 1929 that the shaking and submarine landslides wouldn't have been too damaging. Today, however, the ship is far more fragile. I can't imagine that it would survive any sort of significant shaking today, much less so the impact of a submarine debris flow.
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  3. Fun fact, when the interstate system was built one of the largest groups fighting against it were residents of rural America. They knew that the interstate, as designed, would kill small town America. They were right of course, but ultimately ignored and forgotten. 1,000,000 people were displaced just to build the interstates, this doesn't take into consideration the displacement caused by the down wind effects, such as the perpetual recession that's consumed small town America.
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  4.  @CalgarGTX  Dont really see how giving people more freedom to choose how they want to travel is a waste of money.
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  5.  @crimsonking8942  This is Canada, my guy. Also, it has been less than a month.
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  6.  @kevinconrad6156  You're right, my number was a bit off, the Imperial Valley produces 8.5% of the nation's alfalfa, according to UC Davis and the state government of California. As for lettuce, roughly 12.8% of the nation's lettuce comes from the Imperial Valley, definitely significant, but it would not take much to increase production elsewhere in wetter parts of California, Washington, and Oregon to compensate for decreasing output in the Imperial Valley. (these figures come from the FDA and California state government). Though to be frank, lettuce is such an incredibly unnecessary and useless crop it really wouldn't hurt much to do away with it. It has some of the lowest nutrient value-to-water consumption ratios of any plant.
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  7. That's not really a great representation of the modernist movement. That might be half true for movements like Bauhaus, but that's just one school of modernist thought. Modernism as a movement is rooted in movements like that impressionist and arts and crafts movements, which essentially advocate for both humanist ideas as well as preach the breakdown of form into more abstract and subjective forms (you see this in the transition from impressionism to post- impressionism, etc. or Arts and Crafts to Art Deco).
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  8.  @DigitalConfusion1  The Imperial Valley produces 8.5% of the nation's alfalfa and 12.8% of the nation's lettuce. Boosting lettuce production in coastal-central California (e.g. Salinas) by 18% would be enough to replace the entire lettuce industry in Imperial Valley. Should be noted that lettuce is a pretty useless crop too, it holds very little nutrition, especially relative to how much water it uses.
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  9.  @KingLarbear  No, I'm claiming one million were forced out of their homes and their communities literally wiped off the face of the planet. None of what I'm saying includes... 1.) The tens of millions harmed by interstates bypassing them, interstates have been an integral player in the death of small-town America. 2.) The tens of millions harmed by decreases in property value associated with the construction of the interstate. 3.) The tens of millions harmed by interstates isolating them from the rest of the city via a "wall" of road. This was, in fact, one of the intents of many of the intracity interstates. It doesn't matter if 50 million people benefitted from it (which is questionable); that's not an excuse for destroying millions of lives. That would be a very psychopathic way of thinking. With that said the only groups I can imagine having experienced a net benefit due to interstates are: 1.) Car companies. 2.) Construction companies. 3.) Demolition companies. 4.) Shipping companies.
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  10. No, they aren't. The Golden Gate Bridge has 20-foot thick walls surrounding its piers on all sides. The bay bridge could be more well protected.
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  11. Crisis* and yes, it isn't smart, though the golf courses are much less bad for the environment than the Alfalfa and Lettuce farms.
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  12.  @attemptityourself5662  Most (almost all of it) is used in America. Doesn't really matter where it's shipped though because that doesn't change the fact it's unnecessary and it's harming the river.
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  13.  @gidgetnsweetpealacarter9797  Trump isn't in Europe
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  14. I mean, modernist architecture is definitively leftwing.
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  15. ​ @jaredreinemo9934  Okay, but why is it bad to leave crime ridden areas?
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  16. Puerto Rico voted for a Republican Governor, it isn't a particularly liberal area.
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  17. Something worth noting is that conifers are substantially more fire-resistant and dependent and therefore do well in sub-tropical and tropical environments (like Indonesia or Florida), where fires are frequent.
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  18. @iseeblood209 Alfa in the Southwest consumes something like 2 times more water than every single city in the Southwest combined. Enough water is used to grow alfalfa to sustain the city of Phoenix several times over. And unlike human beings, you can get rid of all alfalfa production in the South West with little harm to the general populace or nation as a whole.
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  19. This "far-right" comeback is quite literally no more conservative than Germany was in the 1960s. lol. Quite literally, their entire policy, specifically on social and cultural issues, would be regarded as extremely moderate for 95% of German history.
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  20.  @cFull_Rtrd  what does maga have to do with censoring bellies?
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  21. Not with towns downstream. People down stream should be aware of the risky situation.
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  22. ​ @zacchariaturnbull5322  A few speed bumps blocking traffic is certainly destructive when it's keeping a woman from getting her baby to the hospital.
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  23.  @RextheRebel  I generally enjoy the walkable environment of a dense business district more than the hot, ugly parking lot of a strip mall.
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  24. It's astonishing that you can feel a 1F Fahrenheit difference in temperatures between 1950 and today.
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  25.  @kcha2004  Do you have evidence it's staged? Just trying to be safe because there is so much misinformation nowadays!
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  26. What does this have to do with excessive heat? And nobody said the river is going anywhere...
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  27.  @jamalgibson8139  No, that figure exclusively looks at the number of occupied homes demolished and households displaced. This figure does not consider the displacement caused by downwind economic effects, which likely amounts to several millions or tens of millions in both Urban and Rural communities.
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  28.  @djanatta1681  cool, but if you're doing journalism you should know better than the people you're reporting to.
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  29. Also something to note: Frequent fires are natural to Mediterranean climates. Mediterranean climates are primed for fires, as they have cool wet winters and hot dry summers. Historically fires in most Mediterranean climate zones would occur once every 2-30 years on average for any given square kilometer. This is made clear by the presceence of fire dependent plants around the Mediterranean, such as the Black Pine or Turkish Pine, which need fires both to germinate seeds and remove competing hardwoods. Decreasing the frequency of these fires infact causes a build up of fuel which in term increases their intensity, so while the suppression of fires has caused fewer fires, it's made them much more devastating than they otherwise would be.
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  30.  @TheNobleFive  Faster connections isn't the problem (please read carefully). The US already had 160,000 miles of paved federal highways built by the 1940s, and 260,000 miles of efficient passenger rail built by the 1920s (more than any country on Earth today). Every town in America with over 1000 people had a rail station. Despite these extant means of rapid transport, small towns continued to grow throughout most of the US (granted at a slower pace than cities) until the 1950s. So again, the problem isn't rapid transit, it's how the rapid transit is done. Railways and federal highways were built along existing trails, and took travelers directly to the center of small towns, where they would then get to purchase goods and services from local stores. Hence why Route 66 is often called the main street of America. Fast-forward to the 1950s and the federal highway defense act is passed, which seeks to expand existing highways and reroute them around (rather than through) small towns. Once the new interstates were rerouted away from the downtowns, people of course stopped driving through downtowns, stopped buying goods and services from said towns, and the towns therefore entered a perpetual recession and their residence of course left (especially the young ones). Mainstreet was replaced with the truck stop. A great example of this is Lordsburg, New Mexico. The town was the historic junction between federal highway 80 (the precursor to interstate defense highway 10) and federal highway 70. At its peak before the rerouting in the 1960s, the town had a population of 3,500 and a median income comparable to the national average. The town's population steadily grew until the I-10 reroute (which shifted traffic half a mile away from downtown). Once this happened, Lordsburg's downtown quickly died as travelers stopped coming in. Since then its median income has plummeted to one third the national average and its population has fallen by nearly 40%. This was a direct result if the I-10 reroute. Other towns which haven't been bypassed by defense highways (to save 2 minutes of driving) have typically continued growing in pace with nationwide birthrates (biggest difference being they don't attract foreign migrants).
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  31.  @belgianbushrc7934  I thought they were fair. It is ridiculous when a country acts as if we owe them sovereignty and resources, and gets upset when another country says they will not bend over to them.
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  32. When did he say that Europe needs to bend a knee to America?
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  33. When you say bullied, what do you mean?
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  34. ​ paramoubruvm8  Rare insults
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  35. What did he say that was wrong?
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  36. So good to see the elderly be able to live functional lives because of this. Here in South West Florida, we gladly toss our elderly to the side when they can't drive. It would be great to see something like this down here.
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  37. how?
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  38.  @jimm9157  Yeah... in Canadian airspace... with Canadian air traffic control. Trump has not done anything about the highering process of American Airlines, as that is well outside of the bounds of his power.
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  39. I noticed you made it 2999 pieces for the 2999 lives lost. It should be noted that 22 of those lives were the terrorists themselves.
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  40.  @BourbonBandit-  Well I'm glad you agree with Trump finally, other NATO members seriously need to pick up slack and fund NATO themselves.
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  41. Considering a 6.4 caved the chimney of my mom's home in Los Angeles, I kind of doubt that.
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  42. This seems feasible; could you provide a reliable source for this? Just want to see a source since there's so much misinformation nowadays!
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  43. My dude, this is such a wildly ignorant take.
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  44.  @Dfgdf91 , what are you talking about? My Bible is a 400 year old translation, which itself had only been translated twice - once from Greek to Latin and then Latin to English.
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  45. ​ @MikeyA5693  Bots can't make comments like that.
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  46.  @MikeyA5693  After all, America has attained complete and total perfection. Our tax rates are perfect, our government spending is perfect, our regard for our history is perfect.
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  47.  Joeshmoe120  some people also like chicken medium rare, whats your point?
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  48.  @f-86zoomer37  won't fix anything.
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  49.  @basedoz5745  What's worse is that the Colorado River Basin only produces something like 5% of the nation's Alfala. There are small counties in Iowa that produce more Alfalfa than the entire Colorado River Basin but with relatively little impact on the environment. So we're destroying one of the world's most important and unique rivers to produce a crop that could be produced cheaper and with far less environmental impact in Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, or Mississippi.
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  50. Can you please cite evidence that the conditions in Lahaina were amplified by climate change? For instance: • provide evidence that powerful wibds are becoming more common in Lahaina during the summer. • provide evidence that Lahaina's dry season (the summer) is getting drier, oe that winters are getting wetter. Why are you people spreading misinformation and claiming these fires are caused by climate change when there is quite literally nothing to suggest this is the case?
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  51. The Salton Sea was formed when an agricultural diversion canal failed and formed a new branch of the river. Without the flow of additional diverted water the Salton Sea would've dried up in a matter of years, as it did after the 1862 flood. The only reason the Salton Sea hasn't dried up is because the Colorado River has been diverted for agriculture and agricultural runoff now empties into the Salton Sea.
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  52.  @harmless9336  Delulu comment. For the last 300 years, and especially the last 50, we have been racing left on almost every social, moral, religious, and cultural issue. We've moved so far left that what was considered centrist 20 or 30 years ago now gets labeled as far-right fascism today.
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  53. collapses of the AMOC didn't happen before humans came along?
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  54. You don't believe in the Devil or Scripture, and Vance is definitely not the threat from within (I mean, perhaps the threat to the threat, but I digress).
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  55.  @OKnotOK09  "Childcare is wildly expensive" Then instead of paying someone else, how about you raise your own children or form co-ops like literally every society in human history has done? "and the cost of living means you need a dual income." If living includes needing 4 times as much living space as a typical person had 100 years ago and having subscriptions to three streaming services, then sure, it's more expensive. If you don't mind living frugally like every human being to ever live before you have, then living is extremely cheap and there's no reason, outside of extreme circumstance that you need two incomes (especially considering the welfare systems we have today).
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  56.  @galanoth17  Outdoor hobbies aren't expensive; it costs me 5 dollars in gas to go hiking.
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  57. Agriculture is unnatural homie, but we weren't given domain over Earth to be mindless wild animals. Cities are an organic consequence of humans interacting. You can destroy every city on Earth and give every single person 2 acres of habitable land, and within a century you'd have cities again.
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  58. @DecadeAgoGaming No, that's rather extremely unlikely. 1.) A runaway greenhouse effect has never occurred on Earth in the last 4.5 billion years. It is very likely not even a physical possibility, because real uninhibited positive feedback loops rarely exist in real life, and no evidence of them exists within Earth's climate. 2.) While ecosystem collapse is certainly a possibility, it isn't attributable to climate change. This is almost entirely attributable to the loss of ecosystems to humans developing and altering natural regimes on land. For example, the loss of wildfires in the eastern United States has resulted in the expansion of dense forests, invasive species, and the loss of prairies, wildflowers, and the pollinators they supported. 3.) Massive methane releases are unlikely. During the Eemian climate maximum, temperatures were around 1- 3 °C warmer globally, and the fastest rates of warming were comparable or greater than today, and yet we did not see this massive release of methane. Given the insane heat capacity of our oceans, the rapid release of methane carbonate deposits is extremely unlikely. Essentially all of the current increase we have seen in methane in our atmosphere can be attributed to agriculture, building reservoirs, and deforestation.
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  59. LA isn't a desert and if you don't want to walk around junkies then fix the drug problem.
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  60.  @louisschueler7608  How was it a lesson not learned? The new skyway bridge is extremely well protected.
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  61.  @rosalinaayala5963  how are they going to get to NY homie?
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  62. So true.
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  63.  @kylee.woyote7237  what does staying in Idaho have to do with expanding Idaho.
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  64. It's a bot message homie, they'll never see that.
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  65. It's often overlooked how small towns were impacted by interstates rerouting around them. I've traveled coast to coast several times and I've seen first hand dozens or hundreds of times when the interstate is rerouted. The saddest example is probably Lordsburg, New Mexico. It was founded as a mining town, but quickly became a junction and rest stop for travelers on highway 80 and 70. It was bustling, and a prosperous middle class town until it was bypassed in the 80s. Today, all but one or two of the buildings in downtown are abandoned and today the town has a nearly 30% poverty rate, with pretty much the only available work being a couple of truck stops and hotels on the interstate exits.
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  66. There are cannibalistic tribes in Papau, though. I legit saw a video of a reporter interviewing one and they threatened to eat him because they thought he talked too much during dinner.
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  67. ​ @sydn2698  It doesn't make sense and isn't funny and I'm literally the funniest person at my office job.
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  68.  @ron4501  Both are true, that's the point Vance is trying to make. America and Europe have shifted rapidly to the left and abandoned pretty much all of the values they held true.
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  69. They weren't managed at all. The Colorado River only supported a few hundred thousand natives, many of which were nomadic and non of which had mass agriculture (bar the Hohokam people who disappeared 1000 years ago). This is akin to saying that a room that's clean because almost no one uses it is well-managed.
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  70. tbh I thought Trump's response was perfect.
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  71.  @CheeseBae  You are confusing technological modernization with modernist (enlightenment) philosophy. The Arts and Crafts movement opposed technological modernization (industrialization); it did not oppose enlightenment philosophy but was rather founded in it. Modernization and modernism are not the same, and your confusion about these two things is what has you confused. Modernism is a liberal enlightenment philosophy applied to art and form. Liberalism is simply the rejection of objectivity in favor of subjectivity and individualism (this was often manifested as anarchism). Conservatism, conversely, is the embrace of objectivity (this is often manifested as upholding authority). The Arts and Crafts and Impressionist movements were founded on the philosophies of humanist-socialist thinkers, such as John Ruskin and William Morris, and Deists, such as JMW Turner. The main tenets of these movements were: - Embrace a more abstract and simple form. - Embrace the capabilities of the individual - Embrace human craftsmanship, especially separate from the divine (e.g., humanism) - Embrace naturalism. It was liberal, enlightenment, and therefore modernist in every sense. John Ruskin, among others, called JMW Turner the Father of Modern Art (which most scholars today agree with). The Arts and Crafts movement laid the foundations for the later Vienna Secessionist movement, Modernista movement, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, etc. This isn't controversial. In fact, the Modernista movement was also very upfront about its opposition to industrialism and the bourgeois class, similar to the Arts and Crafts (this didn't make it any less modernist, of course).
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  72. I mean, can you? Most of my friends read books that large, albeit we're a writing group.
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  73. I've noticed this too while looking at precinct viting results. Nearky every inner city has moved right, in some cases by 40 points. It was suburbs and rural areas that ultimately shifted left and pushed Biden over.
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  74. ​ @winterburden  Exactly, I wish he made railroad cars purely for his passion for trains and then threw away all of the waste material and wasted it. Why are you demonizing using resources efficiently?
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  75.  @winterburden  Not inherently, but some exploitation (for better or for worse) is efficient. What Pullman did with utilizing waste material was objectively efficient and saved resources that would've otherwise been wasted. Not wanting to waste material because you'd like to make money is a good means of achieving high efficiency.
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  76. We have a similar effect here in Florida. The Gulf usually stays clear during the day, but becomes cloudy and full of thunderstorms at night and in the morning. On land, the opposite happens and we get very large and powerful thunderstorms almost every day (at around 3-5 pm) during the summer.
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  77. You people have to seriously realize there is more to the world than Northern and Western Europe. lol.
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  78.  @tonyburzio4107  Last year commercial passenger plane crashes killed 200 people, what's your point? Accidents are bound to happen; we live in an imperfect world. Trains are the second safest form of transport behind planes.
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  79.  @pauld.b7129  You can't fly a train into two skyscrapers. Most rail stations have minimal security because there's very little harm one can do with a train.
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  80. If we can build the Defense Highway system, we can build a national rail system. And America had nation-wide passenger rail in the 1930s, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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  81.  @baldeagle4710  Well, of course, nobody uses it; it travels for less than half a mile between three hotels, and the only way to get to it is by going into the hotels. lol
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  82. ​ @StephenGillie no, we fixed it by doing crop rotation and no longer being in a drought.
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  83. The only other place I can think of with a climate like this is Cleveland, Ohio.and Erie, Pennsylvania. You have a humid-subtropical climate, but total 60-100 inches of snow annually.
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  84. ​ @richinoable  Most people are really boring, like 95% of the population.
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  85. ​ @ryannechvatal9888  Our water treatment plants are more than capable of treating that. 👍
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  86. When you comment on videos like this Youtube recommends them to you more often.
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  87. "Why is everyone moving there?" Maybe because not everyone is a schizophrenic.
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  88. 80% of homeless people in L.A. became homeless while living in L.A., 90% became homeless while living in California. It is because of drugs and unaffordability.
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  89.  @nickforest7816  Dog, you realize 80 meters is 260 feet right? That's substantially more than the 150 feet I cited. lol
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  90.  @That-Guy_  1.) Conservatives and liberals by large have the same graduation rate, though their performance varies by subject. Liberals perform better in liberalarts while conservatives perform higher in STEM (at least based on SAT scores). And if what you're claiming is true for primary and secondary school, it'd be true fir tertiary school too. 2.) Conspiracy theories aren't an inherent virtue of conservatism (infact you just had a major contradiction, one can't be overly obedient to authority and simultaneously distrust in authority). Though I do agree, submission to authority is an inherent conservative philosophy, though I don't see how that hints a lack of critical thinking, any more than an appeal to anarchy does.
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  91.  @nt4908  It literally is. The modern art and architecture movement draws its roots from the enlightenment, particular figures like JMW Turner and John Ruskin. It was created with the intent of breaking down architecture into subjective and abstract forms.
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  92. Stupid take, most of the agricultural canals in Phoenix today were built using those already built by the Hohokam people 1000 years ago. And in your stupid dreams, it will never happen nor should it happen. People can learn how to live in a desert and with the river.
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  93.  @CheeseBae  Thank you for ignoring my entire comment. A simple "nuh-uh" would've been a much better response. Breaking from the past doesn't make something modernist; by that logic, every new style that's ever emerged is modernist.
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  94.  @CheeseBae  I'm talking about architecture, modernism is liberalism embodied in art (and architecture is art), philosophy is inseparable from it unless you treat it completely utilitarian. Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  95. Half half. Suburbs have always existed and always will, but the post-war conception of them is absolutely a mistake and a culturally destructive one at that.
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  96. That isn't true, a redditor made that up.
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  97.  @TomGlander  Only 10-15% of California's homeless are from out of state.
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  98. Honestly, if they just had AC and kept the water tight doors shut on the Britannic, it wouldn't have sunk. At that point, sinking it would've required an event that would have probably killed every instantly anyway.
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  99.  @rnarine89  I mean you should. If this trend in the NYC metro continues it could legit cause Democrats to lose a stronghold and have it turn into a swing state. The shift seen in NYC in the last 10 years is on par with what Florida has seen.
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  100. ​ @Pwnya145  I don't really feel all that exploited (not in the negative connotation you're using at least) so I don't really care. Like, if I want bricks and rail cars and someone finds out how to sell me both without increasing their production cost and resource use, I don't really care.
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  101. ​ @1rotimi  Not really, because conservatism isn't libertarianism
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  102. ​ @user-ve9tu5rv6e was it climate change in 1939?
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  103. ​ @telaviefilms280  Carnegie libraries weren't profitable at all. They were total money pits, yet Andrew Carnegie still built hundreds of them.
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  104.  @jefffentross6932  I think he was on his way to saying 50 states and corrected himself. Also, Trump won 31 states, which totals 62 senators, which makes your conspiracy theory make even less sense.
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  105. Having children has always been expensive; this isn't new. The thing is... we're vastly richer than our grandparents are.
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  106. @ Our current phase of warming has only lasted about 300 years thus far. The Eemian lasted several thousand years, with several centuries being warmer than our current one.
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  107.  @MikelosM  Hmm, no, every single day on average has warmed by roughly the same amount (though there's difference between the rate and linearity of the warming between the summer and winter). Summer temperatures have actually risen slower, on average, than winter temperatures, with average summer temperatures only rising about 1.5° since 1950 (this is because summer temperatures in Florida are more impacted by marine air rather than continental air, like in the winter). And no, 2-3°F of warming means on average the entire distribution of temperatures will shift 2-3°F upward, meaning instead of 90° as an extreme, it should be 92-93° (which again, isn't discernable, especially over. 50 year period, especially when year to year temperature changes are highly variable). And according to Florida's state climate summaries (which I can link in another comment, if YouTube permits) the state has seen no discernable trend in the number of days exceeding 95°F in the last 120 years. As for heat indices, I can't find any historical data on that except from Miami, which has seen a warming of 0.54°/decade. Since Florida's precipitation has stayed relatively constant then the average dew point must've increased at a similar rate to temperature trends, particularly during the summer (Florida's wet season), which would correspond to a state wide increase in summer heat indices of around 2° since 1950. And lastly, nowhere in Florida is the sea temperature getting up to 98-100°F. I live 60 miles west of the station where that temperature was recorded (Manatee bay), and our sea temperatures have not exceeded 91° ONCE this entire year, and are currently sitting at a balmy 86°. Further, no buoy surrounding the one in Manatee bay recorded such high temperatures; for instance, Biscayne bay, 5 miles east, was a balmy 85-87° when that 100° water temperature was recorded.
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  108.  @Henry-Official003  Thank you for the correction; my point was more that the mass murderers shouldn't be counted.
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  109. No, it isn't.
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  110. What leftism does to a planet. 😳😳
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  111. The same reason every other form of art is getting weird, lol. These buildings are to architecture what W.A.P. is to music.
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  112.  @whythelongface64  dawg das was I was sayin. des wypipo ain't go NO CLUE
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  113. idk my main issue on this election is abortion because that's frankly the most important issue. Abortion kills hundreds of thousands of innocent preborn humans each year.
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  114. What would those values be? Are you claiming that Europe has no shared values or culture with America?
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  115. Didn't no compassion was a leftist virtue. And there's no historical precedent for what your saying, only 120 years ago cities in America were almost as conservative as the countryside (albeit more populist), and going back further cities were often much more conservative than the countryside (e.g. Londinium, Rome, Florence, etc.)
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  116.  @robertfetrow4612  "And hundreds of millions of Americans who use those interstates to travel and guess what? Most everyone you claimed was displaced most likely used that interstate highway system." And why does that matter? If I blew up your home and replaced it with a McDonald's, the fact you ate at said McDonald's wouldn't make blowing up your home any better. I don't know what kind of reasoning that is. Most of those displaced by the interstates would be communities that would get little use out of them (e.g. rural communities or dense, walkable communities). And it shouldn't go without mentioning that highways literally existed before the interstate. All the defense highways did was add lanes to existing freeways and reroute traffic around small towns rather than through them. That's LITERALLY all they did. Americans, and those who would be displaced, could've just as easily driven our already extant 160,000 miles of paved highways WITHOUT the interstate Defense highways. "It was the greatest advancement in travel in the USA" No, the greatest advancements in travel were: - The Numbered Highway system, which was completed in 1926 with 160,000 miles of paved highways (this includes roads such as Highway 66, Highway 101, and Highway 80). - The National Rail System, which was completed in 1919, with 260,000 miles of railways and a station in every town with over 1000 people. - The National Air transport system (which is the safest and most efficient means of transport today). The Defense Highway Act only added lanes to 1/4 of the highways already built in the Numbered Highway system, destroyed rural and urban communities, and displaced millions of people.
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  117.  @ejharris7607  The position of the magnetic poles has almost no effect on the weather. There's also no evidence a magnetic pole shift has caused extinctions for species.
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  118.  @MikeyA5693  Ok, I'm just clarifying that there's zero chance they're a bot account.
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  119.  @hisanorsato  and as we all know, only small countries can have good leadership.
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  120. No it wasn't
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  121.  Joeshmoe120  That's a pretty loose definition of the word cook. Like I said, some people consider medium rare chicken to be cooked.
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  122.  @multi-milliondollarmike5127  Do you not think that our government's reckless bureaucratic mess and 9.3 trillion dollars in annual spending is problematic?
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  123. @ So, what's your point? We should settle for that fact and do nothing about it? Let our children suffer from the consequences of our stupidity? No real effort has been made to cut government spending in decades. Indeed, the last time we had an effort comparable to DOGE was under Andrew Jackson, 190 years ago. I will absolutely hold faith in DOGE, and hope that it succeeds or helps lay the foundations for a cut back of our over bloated government.
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  124.  @user-wm3hu7lo1g  No modern bridge is built to survive a 1 billion newton point load.
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  125.  @eat_ze_bugs  No, they aren't. No bridge on Earth is built to withstand a 1 billion Newton point load.
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  126.  @eat_ze_bugs  I mean, I'm about 90% of the way through my civil engineering degree. What you said is kind of nonsense. As I said, no bridge on the planet is made to withstand a 1 billion Newton-point load (nor should they be).
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  127.  @kod-s @kod-s   Well, that's not true; if it was, you wouldn't see buildings given complex and expensive to build designs, such as the Gherkin or the Walkie-Talkie. Even this building's design has a gigantic cantilever, which is notoriously expensive to build.
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  128. yes, that is what forecast models were saying. The news was communicating what models were saying. Maybe be intelligent, use dicernment, and realize that while models are useful you should act as if they're perfect.
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  129. Where did you get that the Pennsylvania dude voted for Trump? He had no voting record because he was too young to vote in the previous election cycle.
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  130. Why would city lights be on during the day, and how would city lights be brighter than full-day lights?
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  131. Your guys' quality of research is really going down. 1.) Cargo ships have not become larger since the 1970s. Most cargo ships were about the same size as they are today. The largest cargo ship ever built, The Sea Wise Giant, was launched in 1979 at 1500 feet long and about 650,000 tons at full capacity (quit a bit more than 116,000 tons!). The only thing that has changed is that there's more ship traffic. 2.) No bridge on the planet is built to withstand a 1 billion Newton point load, nor should they be. In an event like this, every new or old bridge would either have failed entirely or required a long-term closure for repairs/demolition. 3.) There was essentially no engineering failure by anyone who designed this bridge. It was a well-designed and strong bridge that withstood the forces it needed to. The only thing this demonstrated is that greater efforts should be made to keep ships away from the bridge piers, e.g., by building concrete dolphins (or other types of barriers) to keep ships away. The Francis Scott Key Bridge had these, though not enough and the ship didn't impact them.
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  132. Maybe not that, but instead repurposing them exclusively for flood control. So instead of removing the Hoover Dam, you keep it in place and keep Lake Mead empty, so that it can capture all the flood water that flows into it.
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  133.  @tolson57  Yes, absolutely, I would have nothing against replacing the dams with nuclear power plants. And there are other ways to get nuclear power without placing massive water-wasting dams. You can use small diversion dams that divert water into aqueducts which then drop water down a steep slope a few miles further downstream (this is commonly done in Appalachia).
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  134.  @PringleSn1ffer  The central and northern coasts of California aren't deserts; they receive 15 to 100 inches of rain annually. I recommend looking at a map because only South Eastern California and part of the San Joaquin Valley are deserts.
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  135.  @MbisonBalrog  I know, but you can't grow lettuce in upstate New York in February. Also, the central and northern coast of California isn't exactly water sparse either. The coast receives 15 to 100 inches of rain, with most areas, such as San Francisco, receiving over 20 inches annually. Not to mention that California's dry season is in the summer, and almost all of the state's rain and snow falls between December and April.
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  136. ​ @SoundFantasy  You mean he had them circumcised by a medical professional - circumcision being recognized as a very effective way at preventing infections on male genitals.
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  137. ​ @tarstarkusz  Don't look to America as an example of what passenger rail should or could be, look at Italy, Japan, or heck 1930s America.
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  138.  @tarstarkusz  Which is about 4 times slower than taking a train in Europe or East Asia. In fact, a single Shinkansen in Japan can move about twice as many people as an interstate per hour.
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  139. What's wrong with the claim? Papu is legit full of cannibalistic tribes.
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  140. There's literally zero evidence or reason to believe black holes have a singularity. The singularity is only a product of mathematical modeling. Everything in the universe can be modeled to have a singularity. There is no serious belief that there is an actual singularity inside a black hole, and no evidence to suggest that matter can even collapse into a singularity. If your model says a value reaches or approaches infinity, the model is too simple. We had this with Newtonian equations on gravity, which is why Einstein's theory of relativity had to replace it. Einstein's theory of relativity, while fantastic, has this samee issue but for singularities. Now it is simply a matter of time until someone produces a superior model that solves this problem. While currently impossible to prove, chances are that black holes are just denser versions of neutron stars (infact it's been theorized that black holes may the hypothesized quark stars), in which they're so dense that they are hidden behind their event horizon, while still not being infinitely dense.
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  141. Most people aren't paranoid schizophrenics.
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  142. We didn't cut education funding decades ago, public education funding has quite literally never been higher, at around 18,000 dollars per pupil. Even when adjusting for inflation, this is two times higher than what we spent in 1970. You are the ignorant and uneducated voter you are complaining about.
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  143. While flooding and heat waves are likely being intensified by climate change, what other weather events are being intensified by climate change, specifically in America and the South East?
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  144. ​ @peterclarke7240 okay, but that has nothing to do with the ambient temperature of the air. The sun can spontaneously ignite fuel even if its -30 outside.
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  145.  @elephantintheroom5678  A drought isn't climate change, climate change is defined by long term trends, not anomalous occurrences. If you wanted to blame the drought on climate change, you'd have to show that there us a long term decrease in precipitation in Lahaina. And the weather has been average in Lahaina, with Temperatures in the low to mid 80s for the past week.
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  146.  @That-Guy_  No, it is, as much as you may want to refuse it, there's nothing new under the sun, you're just the same as the 30,000 people living in pompeii 2000 years ago. There is a natural objective law and morality, and while the source of this law is revealed in Christianity, it is accessible to any culture through secular means. e.g. this is where conservatism and liberalism ultimately come from, a rejection of this universal objective truth versus and acceptance of it. Nothing more, nothing less. We're currently just undergoing our new liberal phase, just as the Romans did, the Athenians did, the Damascus did, Babylon did, and so on. There's absolutely nothing new under the sun.
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  147. ​ @nickforest7816  Dude, that's not because the water is murky, it's because its 12,000 feet deep. In the middle of the Atlantic you can typically see a good 150+ feet through the water.
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  148. ​ @ælfrædtheretard  Not really, the Titanic dumped its sewage directly into the ocean during its voyage, so little if any would've been inside the ship while it sank.
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  149. A total eclipse only happens once every 1.5 years. On average, a total eclipse only happens in the Western hemisphere once every 3 years. A total eclipse only happens once every 375 years for any given location.
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  150.  @Tijereño  Notice how I said "mass agriculture" Having a few acres of farmland next to the river isn't mass agriculture. The Hohokam had tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land and hundreds of miles of agricultural canals. They were the only native society in the Colorado River basin that came remotely close to the level of agricultural development we have today. The river did not support as much as it could, natives supported themselves as much as they could. What's disingenuous is saying that natives managed the river better despite the fact they were supporting a dozen times fewer people.
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  151. this is incorrect
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  152.  @That-Guy_  This is incorrect, conservatives who go to college typically stay conservative, especially past their freshman year. Though I agree, secularism (especially with respect to Christianity) is both a result of and a cause of liberalism.
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  153.  @CJ_Espinoza  1.) My comment regarding education was in response to "That-guy-", not you. My apologies for the confusion. 2.) Conservatism has nothing to do with fear. It's about objectivity and collectivism versys subjectivity and individualism. A great example of this is the pre-and-post enlightenment definitions of freedom. The pre-enlightenment definition of freedom was freedom from sin and vice, the post-enlightenment definition is the ability to take part in sin and vice. And lastly, if what you're claiming was true, you'd see it throughout history, which you don't. Cities have on average been no less conservative than the countryside, historically speaking.
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  154.  @CJ_Espinoza  Which part of my comment are you referring to? The first about objectivity or the second about God and His existence?
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  155. There's nothing to indicate that black holes aren't neutron stars. There have been studies that propose that black holes are simply an extremely dense neutron star or something along the lines of a quark star. So dense and small that their physical radius falls below their eveht horizon, rendering them unseen. (if this were true, it does solve some apparent problems with black holes).
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  156.  @jeepstuff4004  No, there hasn't. Most of this area was essentially completely unpopulated before 1900. If a landslide and flood did happen it would basically affect nobody. Now hundreds or thousands of people live downstream, so if an outburst flood happens then now you have hundreds or thousands of people at risk.
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  157.  @seendon5394  Space isn't infinite though, and life is almost infinitely unlikely. If life has only arisen once in 3.8 billion years in the most hospitable place in the known universe, and has never been replicated in a lab even with the intelligent guidance of some of the brightest men and women, then it almost certainly exists nowhere else.
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  158. The U.S. had more passenger rail in the 1930s than any other country today. In 1930, the U.S. had 260,000 miles of passenger rail (the moon is 280,000 miles away for comparison), and every town with over 1000 people had a station with regular service. Trollies were generally intracity services, though, yes, even the trolley system of meager cities like Boise rivaled that of some of the modern public transport systems today.
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  159. ​@ no, I honestly think Trump is pretty gross and has done very wrong and evil things in the past. In this case, how he reacted was very appropriate. We don't owe Ukraine our protection and resources, and we don't owe them their sovereignty. It would be pathetic for the most powerful country to bend over to an ungrateful leader of a small weak country that wants our help.
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  160.  @thecoolestmanever9068  I agree
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  161.  @CheeseBae  Okay, here's a test: was Gaudi a modernist?
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  162.  @TheNightshadePrince  The humanist and socialist founders of the movement disagree, such as John Ruskin. The arts and crafts drawing inspiration from medieval craft does not indicate it is not a modernist movement. With that said, Art Deco is objectively modernist. It originated at the Art and Decir exposition in Paris in the 1920s, as an architectural avant-garde. Everyone in the 1920s regarded the style as modernist and Avant Garde. Refer to my previous comment for more detail.
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  163.  @TheNightshadePrince  I'm aware of what you said, I'm saying that arts and crafts is still modernist regardless. Art Nouveau and the preceding Modernista movement were objectively modernist. Art Deco is objectively modernist avant garde. Simply because something contains vestiges of the past does not make it any less modernist. Was Gaudi a modernist? And again, go read the comment I made prior to responding to you.
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  164.  @CheeseBae  You are confusing the modernist movement with something being modern (as in new). I'm using the word modern as the broader modernist movement encompassing all modernist architecture, including moderne (such as Villa Sovoye), prairie school (such as the Robbie House), Bauhaus school (such as the Bauhaus building), Art Deco (such as the Field Building), Art Nouveau (such as the Sagrada Familia), etc. Gothic architecture was modern (as in new) at one point but not modernist; those are two very different terms. Modernism (not modern as in new) is a broad philosophical liberal movement in art. For instance, when someone speaks of "modern art," they do not just mean the Avant-Garde of the 20th century, they mean the entire modernist movement, including its earliest stages, including impressionism. I'm talking about the philosophical movement behind the architecture, you are talking about whether something is recent or not. So again, was Gaudi a modernist? I'm not continuing forward until that last question is answered.
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  165.  @CheeseBae  "Gaudi did not build Modern architecture, he built in a form of Art Nouveau architecture." So, modernista is not a modernist style? "Prairie school is not Modern architecture, it is an outgrowth of Arts and Crafts." Fascinating, so you mean to tell me the Robbie House is not modernist? How about Organic Architecture, such as Frank Llyod Wright's Taliesin West, which directly stems from his earlier Prarie school? "You need to decide if you're talking about architecture or philosophy" I'm talking about the philosophy behind modern art, including architecture. These are not mutually exclusive terms. "while Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts were a continuation or an evolution of traditional architecture." No, they were fundamentally different, in respect to their philosophical roots, from traditional architecture. Having vestiges or even some inspiration from the past does not make something traditional. By that logic, "post-modernism" isn't modernist. This is like saying the Pearl Academy of Fashion isn't modernist since it has vestiges of traditional Indian architecture. A swallow does not a summer make - just because vestiges of tradition exist does not mean something is traditional. Arts and crafts, and the subsequent modernist styles, such as Vienna Secessionist, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, etc., were based on rejecting objective form and the divine in favor of subjective form and naturalism/humanism. That's what separates Arts and Crafts from, say, Queen Anne and other traditional architecture. This is made very clear by the fact that these movements were literally founded by secular socialists, humanists, and naturalists; if you don't know this, then you've done little research on the founders of these styles.
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  166. ​ @x8jason8x  The humidity after the afternoon storms is insane. Every drop of water that falls immediately evaporates and the humidity is just insane.
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  167. Total solar eclipses happen once every 1.5 years, and they only happen once every 375 years on average for any given location.
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  168. I don't think the corporate interest is the cause, they're more like an effect that's turned into a positive feedback loop.
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  169.  @zachweaverproductions2523  You're not really negating my point. Companies and their cronies ("foot soldiers") are not the cause, they're a feedback for sure, but not the cause. The cause far predates Amazon, Google, and so on, and goes back to the 17th century with philosophers like Descartes and John Locke. Think of the cult of the free thinkers, American revolution, the rationalist movement, the humanist, the impressionist, and so on before thinking Amazon or Target.
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  170. ​ @tonyraffetto931  Considering conservatism isn't libertarianism, this isn't hypocritical.
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  171.  @mohammadibrahim6122  No, not in any sense that you mean it, at least. Jesus doesn't have a Creator. Jesus is God, He is The Creator, and He and The Creator are one.
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  172. You would rather life on Mars - an entirely uninhabitable planet with an unbreathable atmosphere and toxic soil - over Earth simply because of warmer temperatures? LOL
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  173. That USGS map is also idiotic because pythons can't survive in arid regions. Everything west of San Antonio, Texas is either too dry for pythons or it is blocked by an arid wall of desert. There is zero chance that pythons could ever get west of the Rio Grande.
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  174. ​ @Sevenfold120  Was the 1939 storm "extremes becoming more extreme"?
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  175. ​ @russelljohnson6267  Big deal, a billion towards restorations would be 4500 times less than our government already spends each year. BIG WHOOP.
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  176.  @samuelspace101  The Knowing is about a Solar Flare.
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  177.  @ILWeatherguy87  It isn't impossible. There are sun-like stars that periodically form sunspots that cover up to half of their surface and then have mass ejections (several thousand times larger than anything ever produced by our sun) that are powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of a planet off completely.
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  178. Libertarians destroyed America
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  179. Good video. Conservatism is not an inherent objection to change and conversely, liberalism isn't an inherent acceptance of change. Liberalism and conservatism are philosophies that can best be summed as the following: Objective collectivism versus subjective individualism. A great example of this is the divide on morals, The conservative position would be that there is an objective and universal moral truth while for liberals one would claim that morality is subjective and up to the individual or culture at hand. Further, there's nothing inherent about cities that makes them more conducive to the other, with one exception... The only argument I can see that cities may be inherently more liberal, especially with respect to the Judeo-Christian heritage of the West, is that cities are wealthier and as people grow in wealth they rely on themselves rather than God for answers. Taking that into consideration, and as you said, cities are bell weathers, they just reflect the trends society will be going towards, be it conservative or liberal. For instance, the culture of Christian Rome was more conservative than the countryside that surrounded it (this is especially visible in the British Isles), or the European Renaissance, which was born in cities and was more conservative than the countryside that surrounded said cities. And lastly, if you purely define liberalism and conservatism by these basic philosophical notions of objectivity versus subjectivity, then I would say 5th century BC Athens or 1st century BC Pompeii was probably more liberal than even the most liberal cities today.
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  180. Daily reminder that there's no evidence of the existence of a singularity outside of mathematical models. They are just mathematical artifacts of Einstein's model and that the presence of a value approaching infinity in the Einsteinian model does nothing more than show that Einstein's models are incomplete and approach their mathematical limit in instances of extreme densities (e.g. extreme distortions of space). That's not to say his model is bad, its the best ever developed, but in the same nature that Newtonian physics were incomplete and needed to be replaced, same goes for Einsteinian physics. I repeat, there's zero reason to believe singularities are an actual phenomenon. Black holes are not magic infinitely dense objects, chances are black holes are simply denser forms of quark stars that hide within their own event horizon.
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  181.  @Elizabeth-yg2mg  real lover of democracy here.
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  182. Nah, research out of NOAA has shown that the Gulf Stream has remained remarkably stable over the last 40 years. Additionally, there's no evidence that we have seen an increase in the frequency of highly intense hurricanes over the last 150 years. That said, though, rainfall has definitely increased in the Eastern United States, largely due to an increased capacity to hold moisture in the air.
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  183.  @OldsmobileCutlassSupremeConver  There isn't low rent in New York.
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  184. There's not much space for cars in downtown LA. Very little of downtown LA was demolished to build parking, and most of the space that was has been redeveloped.
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  185. ​ @adas1988  The key for no cars is high density living. You can't have walkable neighborhoods and functional public transport without relatively high density. Now, I don't mean Manhattan density, but Charleston or Savannah density.
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  186.  @newhybrid101  Helene wasn't really an exceptional storm outside of rainfall. As for Milton, nobody claimed it was normal. It was an exceptional storm, no different than how Dorian, Wilma, Allen, Camille, San Felipe, The Labor Day hurricane, or the great hurricane of 1780.
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  187.  @thomasneal9291  That's not entirely how it works either. If it was, then you wouldn't expect to see the massive storms that occur in the grid Southern Ocean (these are debatably the most powerful storms on Earth). Hurricanes are heat engines, meaning they take a difference in thermal energy and transform it into kinetic energy. A hurricane whose water is only 25C but has cloud tops as low as -100C will be much more powerful than a hurricane whose water temperature is near 35C but has cloud tops of only -30C. This is because the temperature difference of the first hurricane is 125C while the second is only 65C. It's this much larger temperature difference that makes it stronger. In the case of Milton, it had cloud tops as low as -100C and sea surface temperatures of 30C, an extremely large and rare temperature difference only seen in a handful of storms.
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  188. That was a pretty poor answer from Chat GPT, and an example of why you need to challenge and ask for supporting evidence of its claims. Essentially none of the heightened rate of extinctions can be attributed to climate change. It is instead almost entirely attributable to habitat loss caused by human development and expansion. If you're goal is to stop mass extinction, fighting a red herring won't fix it.
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  189. ​@DecadeAgoGaming 1.) All cases of anoxia in our oceans thus far are occurring due to nutrient overloading from sewage and agricultural runoff. 2.) Yes, you can argue that climate change is a factor, but it is not the determining factor. With climate change on its own, said ecosystems and species would be able to adapt, and most are even now. The issue is environmental degradation, which, regardless of climate change, will cause ecosystem collapse and despeciation. Preventing ecosystem degradation and restoring lost ecosystems and disrupted environmental regimes should be our goal, and would almost eliminate the issue entirely. A great example of this is the Great Barrier Reef. While yes, heat stress was harming the reef, it was primarily a product of chemicals released into the water by agricultural, sewage, and shipping runoff as well a chemicals in sunscreens causing the decline of the reef. Since these issues have largely been addressed, bleaching in the reef has plummeted, and coral cover has recovered to a record high since record keeping began. 3.) The Eocene occurred 33.8 million years before the Eemian even started. The lack of a methane release during the Eemian, which was only 0.12 million years ago, has nothing to do with the Eocene. The amount of methane stored in permafrost in the Eemian should have been comparable to modern times, considering its preceding glacial maxima were equal in magnitude.
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  190. Only the eastern half of West Virginia has true mountains, the western half is a deeply incised plateau.
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  191. ​ @puppergump4117  Iowa - the second crossroads of America.
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  192.  @TheHistoryOfEverything-  I would disagree. If a man raped a little girl and ended up in jail because of it, you wouldn't count him as a victim.
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  193.  @Theggman83  yeah, because civilization revolves around cities.
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  194. Phoenix (Arizona as a whole) has not had a defined downward trend in precipitation over the last 120 years, and unless you're 100 years old and can detect a 0.2F/decade change in temperature, I doubt you can see any sort of trend in temperatures.
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  195. Wild how that's not a problem for all the countries that put tariffs on us.
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  196. It's really fascinating how much things would've changed had the great depression only happened 5 years later.
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  197. Based, that's awesome.
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  198. ​ @theoreticalphysics3644  Conservatives aren't libertarians, never have been. And having sex in front of a camera in order to make money isn't art lol
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  199. ​ @darkgalaxy5548  Yes, because we always make laws on the premise that they will be 100% effective.
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  200. He fought against the same Nazis we're fighting against today. He sees what republicans are bringing.
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  201. ​ @joemarchinski914  Yup, because the Zionists are lying about a 3-meter ride pipe of rock for whatever malicious reason.
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  202. Schizophrenia
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  203. It's an insane change, but I'm not surprised. NYC has a heavily populist side, and Trump's messaging and grit, better or for worse, resonated with New Yorkers. You saw this in 2020, when even despite the nation as a whole moving left NYC moved right. If this isn't just a spoof but rather a real trend, this could have significant impacts on future elections in NY and the nation as a whole.
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  204.  @JohnnyKuto-hi7hf  You do realize there were two failed assassination attempts on Lincoln before he was finally killed, right? In August 1864, a sniper shot at Lincoln, missing his head by inches. There have been dozens of assassination attempts on presidents, many close calls, that ended up failing. So, could you provide a source for your information, please? There's lots of disinformation nowadays, so I'd like to know if your claim is just a baseless conspiracy or whether it has any grounding in reality.
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  205.  @henyo5409  nah, the direction didn't really matter. What made the difference was that Hunga Tonga was a submarine eruption, so 90% of the ash never entered the atmosphere.
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  206. I believe it, America is pretty gay snd stupid.
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  207. Wow, I am from Kentucky as well. What town and zipcode are you from?
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  208.  @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88  Rather incredible that you can perceive a temperature change of 0.75C. You must have an unparalleled sensitivity to temperature.
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  209.  @bsmlbn  99% of newborn infants are adopted within one year of their birth, once they enter the adoption system. Yes, some infants aren't and some children aren't, but a child is better off alive with a chance to be adopted than dead with no chance to live.
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  210.  @street-rides  The government should intervene in someone's choices when said choices kill another human. The government and people have the right to intervene to protect the most vulnerable in society. I think we can both agree the government can and should tell people to not murder other people.
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  211.  @BigMan.270  Because the dark side of the moon is several thousand times darker than our bright blue sky. It's like staring at car headlights and wondering why it's hard to see the driver's face. You don't see it until it blocks out the brightest object in the sky, the sun. You'd know this already if you had thought for more than five seconds.
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  212.  @BigMan.270  " Surely if that were the case, wouldn't it have been more advantageous for the space agencies that landed rovers on the "dark side of the moon" now & not when they did?" What?
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  213. Brightline is as low as 15 dollars per ticket from Miami to Boca Raton and 75 dollars per ticket from Miami to Orlando.
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  214.  @questioner1596  yes
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  215. There are literally hundreds of skyscrapers built between 1908 and 1925 and dozens built before 1908...
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  216. Homie, water in the middle of the Atlantic is crystal clear, maybe just a bit foggy just from dissolved salt and what not. And once inside the ship the water would've been illuminated by the ships lighting. Don't know how you got the idea it'd be dark and murky. Edit: 2:20 The scene you're showing with the stern vertical is after the break up, in which case it DID almost go completely vertical. Before the vreak up the angle was about 25-30°
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  217. Another contender for the wettest is the Alaskan Temperate rainforest, which may receive as much as 15 meters of rain water equivalent precipitation annually.
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  218. ​ @86Corvus  So the video says. His ear was hit, do you know how close your ear is to your head?
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  219.  @ju5e3  "liberalism is when you don't sleep with 20 prostitutes per week and get a dozen women pregnant."
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  220.  @davidpayne697  yaw deys wassup, deyz waz racis as heck
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  221.  @scottmong8763  democratic states would leave the airports open as a hurricane comes in?
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  222. 4:30 I immediately knew that was Naples, FL the moment I saw it.
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  223. The urban population of Phoenix in 1940 was 215,000. Not sure where you got that smaller number from. Edit: 2:40 you switched the Salt River and Gila River. The Salt River is the northern branch that goes through Phoenix. Edit 2: You should read Wikipedia articles before referencimg info from them. The historic flow of the Salt River was nearly 900 cfs (25 m^3/s), and rhe discharge of the Gila River at the confluence south of Good year was 1,800 cfs (50 m^3/s), enough to supply most of modern Phoenix's water demands.
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  224. The eruption volume was found to be 13,000 km^3
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  225. What if President Wilson was a Wilson ball?
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  226. Governor of North Dakota, he was probably the most competent and qualified person on that stage. Shame he isn't more well known. Glad that he was made Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
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  227.  @ronvandereerden4714  you didn't answer my question
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  228.  @ronaldsmith6829  "This is another argument that sounds valid on the surface and fails to address the whole issue. The N.H.S. did contribute to the degrading of Small Town America." I didn't say the National Highway System, I said the Federal Interstate Defense Highway system. The original federal highway system was great, with literally no harmful societal side-effects I can think of. It made it so people could safely get across America in a matter of a few days (similar to today) rather than weeks. "However it wasn't the major cause. Yes the N.H.S. did reduce some of the business in small towns, particularly when they were denied an offramp. However what really killed off business in small towns was the growth of Chain Stores like Walmart, Home Depot, etc... Even in the cities, small business is hard put to compete with Chain and Big Box stores. There are studies that have proven Walmart killed every small town and small business within twenty miles everywhere they were built. " No, it definitely was a major cause, even for towns with off-ramps. If a new road diverts traffic from your town, even if there’s an off-ramp, people aren’t going to drive through your town, and if they don’t drive through your town, they can’t see what business is even there and if they can’t see what business is there, they can’t stop to spend their money. Going back to the Lordsburg, NM example, the town didn't begin dying when the closest Walmart was built 80 miles away in 2011, the city began dying the moment the interstate re-route was completed because people began driving past the downtown rather than through it (for obvious reasons). When people stopped driving through downtown THEN chain corporations, such as Mc. Donald’s, Pilot, Hilton, etc., moved in and opened hotels and truck stops. The economies of these small towns along the highways were not sustained by locals but by travelers, and when the interstate re-route was done, it took those travelers away from Lordsburg. This is the case for every small town bypassed by the interstate. Literally, EVERY instance you look at of an interstate by-passing a town’s business district, the town’s business district (and typically the town itself) dies. The rise of major chains in these watering-hole towns is largely an effect of the interstate that only acted as feedback to killing the town. Sorry, if people don’t know your downtown exists, they won’t stop there to use its goods or services.
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  229.  @bigjared8946  "The highway system isn't what's killing the small town model. It's the long process of industrialization rendering them economically non-competitive." 1.) Industrialization has been happening for 300 years, most American small towns continued growing until the mid-century. 2.) The plateau and the following decline of populations of small towns, especially near or along interstates, literally occurs only a few years after the opening of the interstate reroute. It's a very, very straightforward cause and effect. Small towns on highways are growing > bypass is built > towns stop receiving travelers who buy use their goods and services > businesses close > job opportunity is lost.
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  230.  @jujitsujew23  "investigating political leaders to ensure they're not literal criminals is a dictator move" don't you have a gay orgy you're missing right now?
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  231.  @turtlenecksarepoggers  When did he imprison 1.2 million people?
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  232.  @douglasross594  12 lanes isn't enough??? 💀💀
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  233.  @hotdogstandman  The walk from the Mandalay Bay to Fremont Street is 2 to 3 hours, assuming no stops to rest.
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  234. Yes, global warming is happening and this isn't a sign of it.
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  235. Unalakleet
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  236. 0:20 I think that's the dude who said Hurricane Harvey came from the Mediterranean sea.
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  237.  @pavld335  Trump said he'd begin working on it on day 1. Not that he would turn America into an autocratic dictatorship with a command economy and that he would place price controls on everything day 1.
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  238.  @annabellelee4535  Yes, because it gets to 120F everywhere in the U.S., every day of the year, regardless of the season.
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  239. Three minutes and forty seconds in, and I can say this is the most well-crafted and beautiful video you guys have made since I started watching your content 10 years ago.
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  240. ​ @Chrismarquez7  Oh my goodness, two earthquakes in seismically active areas 😯😯😯😯😯😯
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  241. Apparently photos of dead little girls with their eterus torn out wasn't enough evidence.
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  242. ​ @cupcake8867  No duh, really?
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  243. Destin, you make me so excited to live life. So much to look forward to. :-)
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  244.  @Yaqins  Okay, and that doesn't negate the fact that tourists destroy towns too. Tourists make Orlando billions of dollars, but that doesn't change the fact that Orlando is a terrible cesspool because of it.
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  245. I'd imagine this sort of stuff could help chalk streams out a whole lot.
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  246.  @maxzytaruk8558  so the average is more than the average?
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  247.  @cosmickitty3009  Would California be willing to follow in Florida's footsteps and burning 2-5% of the state annually, to restore grasslands, savannas, forests, and reduce fire severity?
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  248. ​ @mimble  hottest I ever experienced when I lived in Queen Creek was 120. That kind if heat is just mind boggling.
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  249. First guy would've killed Trump had Trump not turned his head.
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  250. Much more importantly, habitat destruction from land development and alteration of natural regimes, and pollution from non-biodegradable waste.
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  251. ​ @kirk1618  The USS Oriskany has been beneficial so far.
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  252. ​ @Invisableme39  Because it isn't polluting and harmful
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  253. ​ @Couchflyer-NY  USS Oriskany has been beneficial
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  254. Bro showing mostar for France 😭
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  255. God bless Dr. Kathy Alman, what a tragic but beautiful testimony. What a good human being she must be to have that change of mind and do so much to help fight against abortion.
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  256. Apart from what that Kaiser guy above me said, this has no historical precedent. Cities have been highly conservative in the past, and only 120 years ago American cities were not much less conservative than the countryside.
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  257.  @hankhill6469  Yes, our country already pays some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet we have nothing to show for it. If we could build the interstate, we can rebuild the rail network we destroyed. What's your point?
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  258. That seems unlikely considering there's no historical precedent for this.
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  259.  @joselopez-he1mc  As a Californian who's family lived in L.A. for 60 years, Seattle is far better than L.A., Portland, and Baltimore.
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  260. Was it a sign of the apocalypse when 30 inches of snow fell in Beaufort, Texas in 1895?
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  261. He is trying to avoid a government shutdown. Are you legit so dumb that you think we can just undo our bureaucratic mess of millions of pages of regulations, layers of bureaucracy, etc. in 43 days??? Sorry dumb dumb, but this is a process that will take months or years before we see a balanced budget. Maybe you should've thought about our national debt and government spending every time you've voted in the past so we wouldn't be in this mess.
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  262. Denying climate change won't save you.
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  263.  @Anomize23  Brightline is being managed by a Japanese company already.
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  264. There probably isn't. There is not one single instance in the last 3.8 billion years in which life has arisen from non-life, not even in a lab with the guidance of humans.
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  265.  @cycrothelargeplanet  I'm aware we have this thing called a fossil record, and at the present nowhere on Earth has life arisen from non-life, not even in a meticulously guided lab process.
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  266.  @cycrothelargeplanet  Because if over the course of 3.8 billion years of time, trillions of chemical reactions, and guidance by intelligent humans in controlled laboratories life could not arise from non-life twice, chances are it can't happen elsewhere too. The same laws of physics that governs life on Earth today governed life elsewhere and in the past. We don't see life arising from non-life in tide pools, mud pits, charged clouds, or hydrothermal vents today and can't simulate any condition in which this can occur in a lab. If we can't even replicate it in a controlled laboratory with the guidance of super computers and some of the most intelligent people in the world, then it absolutely can't happen elsewhere.
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  267. ​ @xzibit8614  If it filters through soil, it should be easy to treat it..👍
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  268. ​ @BRUCE_the_MOOSE_  And is democracy integral to conservatism?
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  269. ​ @doug6723  More so that he would need to show his finances.
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  270. Pretty unlikely, there's a high pressure over Texas and the Coriolis effect, which will drive it eastward. Further, Hurricane Franklin will pull this storm eastward via the Fujiwhara effect.
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  271. ​ @justinw5476  I wish 😭
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  272. You should probably start by finding someone who's actually committed to you. If you've been with someone for seven years and you're still calling them your "partner" rather than your spouse, they have no commitment to you (vise versa), and you're wasting your time and energy. Either you need to change and finally commit, or you need to ditch and find someone who would actually commit to you.
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  273. Wiki links are added automatically based on the presence of keywords/phrases. It also isn't a warning, it says: "Alien abduction refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation. People claiming to have been abducted are usually called "abductees" or "experiences"."
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  274.  @DavidUSA2525  who's the right guy for the job?
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  275. Well, if it makes you feel any better, recent studies done through NOAA have found that the Gulf Stream has remained remarkably stable over the last 40 years.
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  276.  @glaefke17  lol, someone wasn't loved by their parents.
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  277. Just wait for the Twinkie 2.0
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  278. ​ @matthewmechtly5026  a single bullet and just punishment is wasteful?
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  279. Is the effect the same when they eat lettuce?
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  280.  @tolson57  I know, I'm aware. What's your point?
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  281.  @teukukalkausarfird4037  prophets of God, especially good ones, don't claim to be God.
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  282.  @OmarOsman98 @OmarOsman98 Yes, He did; He directly used God's personal name, "I AM," for Himself. Jews recognize this and see Him as a blasphemer.
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  283.  @OmarOsman98  "So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.' So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple." Jesus was very clearly claiming to be God and the Jews recognized that, hence why they immediately picked up stones to sentence him to death for blasphemy.
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  284.  @OmarOsman98  "So the Jews said to him, 'You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?' Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.' So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple." Jesus was very clearly claiming to be God and the Jews recognized that, hence why they immediately picked up stones to sentence him to death for blasphemy.
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  285.  @OmarOsman98  Claiming to be a prophet isn't a cause for stoning under Mosaic law, much less stoning without trial. If they stoned him for claiming to be a prophet without trial, they'd all be punishable up to death as well. And no, he literally said, "Before Abraham was, I am." "I and the Father are one.” Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’[d]? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. John 29:39 Jesus very clearly claims to be God, and Jews very clearly understand what He is saying, and they very clearly want to stone Him for blasphemy (not for claiming to be a prophet, which pretty much every other Jew at the time was doing).
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  286.  @OmarOsman98  Really? The jews standing with Him and actually talking to Him certainly thought He was claiming to be God.
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  287.  @OmarOsman98  “'We are not stoning you for any good work,' they replied, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'" - literally the Jews speaking to Jesus in John 29
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  288. Dedars are native to Texas and specifically Hill Country. The difference is that centuries ago their population was kept in check by wildfires.
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  289. Why are drivers in Florida so incredibly incompetent. 90% of the videos I see of people getting their car stuck and hit by a train are in Florida.
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  290.  @uhhidk127  "its new to us" Dog, your city has legit burned down twice.
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  291. So if they told you you should be concerned then would you be saying there's no need to be concerned? lol
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  292. Could be, but dust being blown by wind can also produce powerful static electricity. This is actually part of how dust storms form, the built if static electricity helps suspend the dust in the air.
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  293. ​ @SkyeRangerNick  There's nothing to indicate that Global warming causes more extreme weather.
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  294. What's a hate state, and by God do you mean YHWH?
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  295. Republican propaganda 😂
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  296.  @Juneisthebestmonth  No durrr really???
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  297. ​ @jeffwills1892  I'll keep that in mind if I ever see people trying to gang rape you. I'm not a cop and it isn't my body!
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  298.  @EstonianBerserker  The same side of the moon faces Earth all the time. In this case that side was in the moon's shadow.
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  299. Skyscrapers are generally good and necessary, but London has done them very poorly, making the city look hideous. If developers want people to be receptive to their office towers, they ought to stop looking for the horrible "experimental" designs. People don't give names like "The Gherkin," "Walkie Talkie," or "Cheese Grater" because they like these buildings; they call them that to make fun of them for being the eyesores they are. Developers in London should be conservative with their designs. That could be anything from trying to design skyscrapers with traditional methods (e.g. the Royal Liver Building), or simply more conservative and subdued designs (e.g. One Canada Square). Frankly, both London and The City of London should make design rules for how building in the city should look.
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  300. ​ @krankynstyns_lair based
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  301. Agreed, the guy who was "shot and killed" at the previous "attempt" in Pennsylvania was clearly just an actor.
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  302. The use of blood in food is present in Europe too, blood sausage is literally a staple of English food. This video is pathetically bitter.
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  303. lol, this is a win. The vice mayor of Naples definitely quit for good reason, lol. They'd never see the end of it if their finances came out.
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  304.  @anarkitty0  wdym, New York is generally pretty good, among cities in developed countries. Though zoning laws are causing an affordability problem.
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  305.  @Lana-pf5ce  whats legal occupation?
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  306.  @TattooedDancer91  Nobody is denying that, the point is that clearly, it was the pollution that was the problem and that the decline we had seen would not have occurred had pollution not been present. That said, yes I agree that we need to mitigate CO2 to mitigate ocean acidification
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  307.  @jodywade5617  We're seeing a disaster unfold, I don't see whats funny about innocent people dying.
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  308.  @cynthiaholland13  I'm fully aware, and air traffic control in Toronto is Canadian. The thing is, we can go back and forth with this all day! Delta is a private company, no actions taken by the government in the last 3 weeks have affected Delta's hiring process or how their flights are managed.
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  309.  @clemc4648  Coming from the U.S. and being guided by Canadian Air traffic control. We can go back and forth with this all day.
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  310. Were you disappointed when you saw a total eclipse?
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  311.  @DaRedeyeJedi808  What has changed? The climate? Nobody denied this. I'm asking for evidence that these fires are fueled by climate change.
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  312.  @Trahzy  While that is true, there has been a definitive increase in annual rainfall in the Midwest and Southeast over the last 100 years. That's not really up for debate, the data is very clear on that. But besides that, there's not much evidence for the claim that climate change is intensifying weather or natural disasters.
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  313. ​ @bardgold4553 yes, but they're not caused by 85° temperatures.
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  314. ​ @AaronOkeanos  Except Lahaina is and always has been an arid area, and it isn't getting any drier. Lahaina only receives 14 inches of rain annually (comparable to Los Angeles). The ground is rarely wet, especially during this time of year, which is the dry season. And lastly, Hawaii historically had active fire regimes, especially in its more arid or Mediterranean climate zones.
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  315. ​ @soundscape26  No, it doesn't, fire spreads just as well in 100° air as it does in -30° air. A 2000° fire doesn't care about a 130° difference in temperature. And besides, Lahaina has been in the 80s this past week, that is hardly extreme heat.
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  316.  @soundscape26  Is that not what this entire thread is talking about? And the journalist doing the interview strongly insinuated that heat waves may be causing the fires in Maui, I recommend rewatching the video.
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  317.  @Rnankn  "healthy biome in a stable climate is resilient and not easily ignitable" Did you just claim that fires rarely happen unless a region's climate has changed? So I take it that you believe the research which has found 40-200 million acres of land burned annually in contiguous America before European settlement is just a lie, correct? This is absolutely untrue, literally, nothing in your comment is scientifically accurate whatsoever. I can't even fathom where you got this made-up idea.
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  318.  @peterclarke7240  You forgot what you commented: "The heat from the sun CAN start fires, if there's sufficient dry fuel and oxygen. However, most wildfires are the result of human actions, whether deliberate or accidental. Even a spark from an overhead electrical wire can be sufficient, particularly in an area experiencing a drought, such as Hawaii" I then responded: "okay, but that has nothing to do with the ambient temperature of the air. The sun can spontaneously ignite fuel even if its -30 outside." You argued against them, by saying the sun can cause spontaneous ignition. While this is true, it isn't exactly relevant to the discussion of ambient temperatures causing fires (and therefore climate change fueling fires). So yes, when you are discussing whether Climate Change increasing ambient temperatures has fielded fires, it is not relevant to bring up direct heating from the sun, which is not related to climate change whatsoever.
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  319.  @elephantintheroom5678  "John Peric Drought IS a result of climate change." No, drought is a result of short-term weather patterns (such as the location of high-pressure ridges). A CHANGE in the frequency or intensity of droughts would be an example of climate change, but one single drought on its own is not. "Warmer temperatures enhance evaporation, which reduces surface water and dries out soils and vegetation." This is not what drought is. Drought is when an area experiences below-average precipitation. In Lahaina, temperatures were in the mid to low 80s, within +/-1C of the typical temperature for that area for the past week.
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  320. By waiting for society and culture to take its natural cycle, just like in Rome where liberalism spread from cities like Pompeii to the countryside. The only thing is that society always collapses right after and a conservative reset happens in cities (e.g. with Christianity taking over cities all across the Roman Empire within a century).
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  321.  @nickforest7816  Anyone who has functioning eyes and is in clear water can see 150 feet through the water. In silfra, Iceland you can see over 300 feet through water. You really need to get outside more.
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  322. Per cup peta 😭😭😭😭😭
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  323. I absolutely love summer. Nothing better than all the greenery, taking a swim in a cool lake, river, beach, or spring when it is hot outside, or sleeping under a tree with the warm breeze. Absolutely sublime. I do love the cold too though. Snow is one of my favorite experiences.
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  324. ​ @raideraaron5623  No it isn't, it's far away. If you notice, this building is 80 feet tall.
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  325. Homie, I usually love your content, but this is stupid. While some measures have improved Salmon passage, they haven't and won't recover to their pre-dam numbers - not even close. You used populations in the 1970s and 1980s—when they were at their lowest — as a baseline, making 100,000 salmon seem like a lot. How about using the pre-dam populations, when tens of millions of salmon would pass these places now blocked by dams? Before the dams were built, the salmon swim was dozens to hundreds of times larger than it is today. The only places in America where we still see swims like this are dam-less areas in British Columbia and Alaska - the only places where wild salmon fishing is still commercially viable and sustainable. Fish aren't the only problem; water conservation is another. Lake Powell and Lake Mead together lose around 2000 cubic feet of water per second on average—enough to sustain Phoenix's entire water demand—to evaporation. That's 20% of the Colorado River's flow lost to evaporation. Draining Lake Powell alone would be enough to provide 1000 cfs of water to the Colorado River delta and restore swaths of what used to be one of the most biologically diverse and productive regions on Earth.
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  326. Pretty on brand tbh
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  327. I mean, Biden is right. Papau is full of extremely primitive people who are well known to cannibalize.
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  328. Could you provide a source with evidence that it was staged! I'm not saying you're wrong; there's just so much disinformation out there that I'd like a source just to be safe!
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  329.  @SimoneBellomonte  hey, I amused you with my comment.
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  330. ​ @harmless9336  My guy, there's no way you actually believe governments are further to the right now than they were 50 or 300 years ago, lol. 100 years ago it was illegal in every Western country to be an atheist in government. 60 years ago Abortion was illegal in almost every circumstance in every Western country. 25 years ago same-sex marriage was illegal in every country on Earth, today it is constitutionally PROTECTED in almost every Western country. I can keep going. And frankly, no, the changes that happen at a societal level are much more important and consequential than the issues that happen at a state level.
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  331. America's tallest building would've been the Metlife North Tower at about 1,400 feet tall (comparable to the Sears and Twin Towers, built some 40 years later). Had the depression not happened, there would've likely been a lull in skyscraper construction, but it would've been much less extreme. America's, Canada's, and Latin America's skylines would've looked very different.
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  332. Yes, and he sees socialism as bad and therefore hitler as bad.
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  333. Exactly, they expect us to believe the "assassin" shot and killed an innocent by-stander at the Pennsylvania rally. That guy they claim was killed was clearly an actor!
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  334. Not as strong as the 9.5 Chileans were in.
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  335. ​ @Trrippy_Shades why would someone lie about that lol
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  336.  @Trrippy_Shades  that didn't answer my question
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  337. 15 minute city propaganda
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  338. 13:30 out of curiosity why is it you choose to display the unadjusted hurricane data instead of the adjusted data?
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  339.  @MichaelTatro-xv7hx @MichaelTatro-xv7hx Oh yeah, they photoshopped the eclipse into my midwestern Grandma's retina.
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  340.  @CJ_Espinoza  Well I'm glad we could establish you're a classical liberal at most and not a conservative. Fearing change to the status quo isn't an inherent virtue of conservatism. And objectivity is literally the core of conservatism. What's objectively true does not change with time, or else it wouldn't be objective. And yes, God and His Word are objective universal truths.
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  341.  @CJ_Espinoza  Dog, what people "consider" objective doesn't matter, that's literally just subjectivity at that point. I'm talking about objective truth, what's true regardless of what a person's opinions are. God is an objective truth to everyone regardless of whether they accept it. Just the same as how the Earth being a sphere is an objective truth for everyone.
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  342.  @CJ_Espinoza  If that's what I conveyed originally, my apologies, that was not my intent. Objective truths are independent of our subjective interpretations on reality. My point is that the core defining feature of conservatism is that it inherently favors objectivity over subjectivity, etc. And as for God: 1.) God's existence would be true regardless of whether man can prove it. That'd be like saying the Earth being round wasn't an objective truth before Eratosthenes proved it. 2.) I digress however, because God has been proven, so the abive doesn't even matter. God has been proven through three things: • His creation and the logical conclusions of its inception. • The fullfillment of His prophecy and word (considered statistically impossible to happen by chance). • Miracles through Him and the testimonies of those touched by Him.
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  343.  @CJ_Espinoza  "God or gods* ... scientific community" It does not matter what I or the scientific community believes, God is real regardless. With that said, God is provable, and I didn't provide evidence because... 1.) You didn't explicitly ask. 2.) It would massively distract from another aspect of our conversation, and I left my evidence vague so you can ask questions. You're trying to have two conversations now, we should stick to either one or the other. Since you've made it clear you want to save the issue of objectivity for later, we can focus on the conversation of God. "My point is you cannot... not based in fact" You've made it clear you want to focus on the topic of God, so let's keep this conversation coherent and save this conversation about objectivity for later. So with that said, let's start talking about God! We can start with prophetic evidence. So to begin, can you tell me what event is being described here? "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. 10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. 11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."
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  344.  @CJ_Espinoza  You wanted to discuss God and evidence for His existence though.
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  345.  @PJH13  1.) Is there evidence that his mother said this, if so provide it. 2.) Is there evidence that he actually abused women, if so provide it. 3.) Even if he had done that in the past, if he turned away from it and his heart is in a new place why would you hold it against him? Why are you so graceless and unforgiving?
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  346. ​ @PJH13  "If he was 17 at the time, I might agree with you." Why does it matter if he was 17 or 40 at the time? That literally has no bearing on whether his heart has changed regarding that. Heck, whether or not he did it a year ago would have no bearing on whether his heart changed regarding that. "It was only a few years ago and he was a fully grown adult." And fully grown adults can have a change of heart. Similar to how you absolutely still do wrong to people yourself, but we both know you can change from that. "It's not a matter for me to forgive someone anyway, it's for their victim." No, it is actually everyone's business to forgive someone, if said person is truly repentful and turned away from the wrong they did. And frankly, you are the one holding the weight of the wrong he's done in the past over his head right now. If he has genuinely had a change of heart and turned away from his abusive behavior then you are absolutely are in the place of needing to forgive him, especially being you're the one holding it against him. "What I am concerned about, is what it tells us about how suited he is for one of the biggest responsibilities in the world." With all due respect, even if he had zero change of heart regarding his abusive behavior in his personal relationships, this would have literally zero bearing on his capacity to be a leader. Sorry to let you down, but if personal wrong-doings was a bearing on one's capacity to lead, then literally every person to ever hold a position in the executive branch in all of US history would be unfit, by your books. That said, if he HAS had a true change of heart and is truly in a different position regarding how women should be treated, e.g. with respect and dignity, why would you hold his past over him and say that his past disqualifies his merits now, even if his heart is where it should be now?
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  347. Why would we do that? Libertarians are something else.
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  348. Wind chills in Louisiana were around -20F in some spots.
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  349.  @ohsweetmystery  Yes, because they're being informed by others such as the media
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  350. I would wager that if any "alien" life is found anywhere in the solar system, it is life that originated on Earth and ended up there via transport on debris from asteroid impacts. I still think its unlikely there's life there at all, and absolutely see zero chance of life existing there that isn't related to life on Earth.
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  351.  @Mike-bt3ki  Homie, the lowest temperature recorded in the U.S. is -62C. In Bismarck, North Dakota, the average low in January is -16C, and the average yearly low is -33C
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  352.  @xinyiquan666  the lowest temperature recorded in China is -53C in Mohe City,
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  353. Earth is and will always be the only planet where life has arisen in all of the history of the entire universe.
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  354.  @Kyplanet893  Can definitely say it with a high degree of certainty. Even with Earth being as habitable as it is life has only successfully arisen once in the last 3.8 billion years. And conditions for creating life are so infinitely unlikely that it has never even come close to being replicated in a lab.
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  355. Yes it was
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  356. ​@ssisnake It definitely is. Learn what the word parody means.
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  357. 1.) Europe isn't a race. 2.) Vance is the same race as Europeans. 3.) How is what he said in any way prejudiced against Europeans?
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  358.  @robertmcgiveron2301  That's not really an excuse to eat people, lol. I saw a video of a news reporter interviewing a tribe of cannibals from Papau and they threatened to eat him because he talked too much during dinner.
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  359. As much as I want this to become a reality, I don't see how it can work in sprawled, un-walkable cities. For High-speed rail to be practical, it must be easy for people to get to a train station without a car. This means that the train station must be an easy walk from residential areas or that there must be readily available public transport between the train station and residential areas. So long as cities are sprawled, walkability and public transport will be hard or impossible to attain, which means that getting to and from train stations can only be done reliably via car. This is the only flaw I see in high-speed rail transport in America, and until our sprawl and intracity public transport is fixed, I don't see how high-speed rail can become functional.
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  360. https://youtu.be/FDEiOHUxhOk?si=dDXtWob1gM5VvROX
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  361. For those wondering, the answer is that they're heavy, strong, shaped to reduce wind loads, and can absorb wind loads elastically. I did a quick calculation for the Empire State Building. If treating it as a completely rigid object, the wind would have to blow around 400mph to make it fall over. This only takes into account the fact the building is extremely heavy and it would take a massive amount of force to blow it over. Hope that saves 10 minutes!
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  362. Calling the apostles, evangelist, Mary, and Jesus mythical figures is a bit condescending, insensitive, and tactless don't you think?
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  363.  @Wog68  no, that is the point, they're claiming climate change contributed to Hunga Tonga erupting, lol
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  364. Dang, if I was in BC right now I'd go find a nice lake and swim. What a waste to stay inside.
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  365.  @bart_u  The Arts and Crafts movement was literally founded on the Enlightenment-era humanist and naturalist philosophy of men such as John Ruskin. Most of those in the Arts and Crafts movement were devout humanist socialists, such as T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. It developed in tandem and from the same philosophies of the impressionist movement. "The Arts and Crafts Movement was, in many ways, a precursor to modern architecture and design. This Movement’s emphasis on basic forms, asymmetry, and stripped-back design provides a foundation and framework for the later, modern designs to emerge from twentieth century." The arts and crafts movement was the direct visual and philosophical precursor to the Vienna Secessionist movement, Modernista, and Art Nouveau. The Bauhaus School is a merger of the Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Art and Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts. It is not remotely up for debate that the Arts and crafts movement, starting the the 1850s-1860s, was the start of the modernist movement.
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  366.  @CheeseBae  Was Gaudi a Modernist? Was Prarie school modernist?
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  367. ​ @CheeseBae  Per the Getty Institute (First source that appears): "The term 'Modern architecture' describes architecture designed and built within the social, artistic, and cultural attitude known as Modernism. It put an emphasis on experimentation, the rejection of predetermined 'rules,' and freedom of expression in art, literature, architecture, and music." Per Wikipedia (The second source that appears): "Frank Lloyd Wright was a highly original and independent American architect who refused to be categorized in any one architectural movement. Like Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, he had no formal architectural training. From 1887 to 1893 he worked in the Chicago office of Louis Sullivan, who pioneered the first tall steel-frame office buildings in Chicago, and who famously stated "form follows function".[21] Wright set out to break all the traditional rules. He was particularly famous for his Prairie Houses, including the Winslow House in River Forest, Illinois (1893–94); Arthur Heurtley House (1902) and Robie House (1909); sprawling, geometric residences without decoration, with strong horizontal lines which seemed to grow out of the earth, and which echoed the wide flat spaces of the American prairie. His Larkin Building (1904–1906) in Buffalo, New York, Unity Temple (1905) in Oak Park, Illinois and Unity Temple had highly original forms and no connection with historical precedents." There is a Modern movement, more formally Art Moderne, which is a streamlined and futurist movement, including Villa Savoye; however, this is simply an avant-garde movement in the broader modernist movement.
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  368.  @CheeseBae  With that said, I'm not responding further until this is answered: I'm talking about architecture, modernism is liberalism embodied in art (and architecture is art), philosophy is inseparable from it unless you treat it completely utilitarian. Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  369.  @CheeseBae  Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  370.  @CheeseBae  I'm asking you, not me. Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  371.  @CheeseBae  Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  372. ​ @scrupulousscruples  The goal of impressionism was to break down imagery into more subjective and abstract forms. This is made very evident by JMW Tiurner's works: Norham Castle, Sunrise (1798), Norham Castle on the River Tweed (1823), and Norham Castle, Sunrise (1845), which was a series of three paintings created over some 48 years. The first work from 1798 was of a romanticist style, objective in form. A straightforward communication of his first visit to Norham Castle in 1797. The second work from 1823 was one of the first examples of impressionism in history. While still clear in form, a clear breakdown between representing reality objectively was occurring (with the painting deliberately being left to appear incomplete). The third and final work from 1845 was a definitive example of impressionist art. Form had completely dissolved into total unrecognizable subjective and abstract form. One could not look at it and discern anything except perhaps water and a sunrise. Completely abstract in form, this is what impressionism is, and it was the definitive start of the modernist art movement. I highly recommend reading about JMW Turner's philosophies on art, especially later in his life, and why Humanist socialists, such as John Ruskin, praised him so highly.
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  373.  @CheeseBae  Until that gets answered, yes.
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  374.  @CheeseBae  I'm asking what you think, not what I think.
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  375.  @CheeseBae  I am asking you to apply the definition of 'modernism' you provided. Given the definition you provided... Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  376. We're discussing THE definition of modernism. According to you... "Modernism destroyed individual craftsmanship and fully embraced industrialism... Actual Modern architecture was a complete rejection of the past" Using the definition of modernism you provided... Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur modernist?  @CheeseBae 
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  377.  @CheeseBae  Philosophy is integral to art, and understanding art and its movements requires understanding the philosophy behind it. According to you... "Modernism destroyed individual craftsmanship and fully embraced industrialism... Actual Modern architecture was a complete rejection of the past." Using the definition of modernism, you provided... Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur modernist?
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  378.  @CheeseBae  "Modernism destroyed individual craftsmanship and fully embraced industrialism... Actual Modern architecture was a complete rejection of the past." Using this textbook definition of modernism, you provided (textbook according to you in the least)... Is Organic architecture, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, modernist? Is The Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur modernist? These are very simple "yes" or "no" answers.
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  379. ​ @BartonStewart-g4n  Because a redditor made that up. The address of the donation and the voter registration match.
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  380.  @AngesCoughMedicine  "would take", "I thought"
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  381. The Kamala video almost made me kill myself - almost - you didn't get me this time Kamala.
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  382. You were in the path of totality twice?
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  383. Love Pete. It's always ironic that those who are Godless are consistently the most graceless and unforgiving.
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  384. Why is no one talking about that wet fart at 2:47 😭
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  385. I live in SW Florida, DeSantis did a wonderful job down here, and it was definitely one of the best disaster responses we've seen in Florida's history.
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  386.  @capnkirk5528  The bluest part of Texas is Dallas. Don't know where this whole "Austin is the most liberal city" idea came from (I mean I do know why, its a scape goat, but I digress).
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  387. No, it happens once every 1.5 years. And any given location can only expect to see a solar eclipse once every 375 years on average.
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  388. Why is nobody dancing? Literally, everyone is so stone-faced.
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  389.  @Ap_twsh  No they aren't. lol. Exploiting dozens of women and telling other men they should do the same is the opposite of a role model man.
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  390. This is the worst news I have heard about Florida since Hurricane Milton. Legitimately gross.
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  391. The Earth certainly is a shape; we can be sure of that. Whatever shape that may be, I think is yet to be known.
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  392. I would be cautious to act as if the art that survives represents the best of the era. The art that's most likely to survive is that made by the average person. Lets say you go and grab 100 people of the street right now and ask them to draw the best picture of a human that they can. Chances are, none of them will be fantastic, maybe some would be decent, but non what anyone would call mastery. Now, lets say you're an archaeologist, you find 100 surviving depictions of the human form carved in tablets or drawn on somesort of paper. Just like with our previous scenario, chances are none of them will be fantastic, some bad, some mid, and some decent - what the average person can do. I would say that if you're trying to find a reference of what the best in society were capable of, looking at bust is a better proxy for how good artist were at capturing the human form (as statues will be more likely to survive the test of time in greater numbers than some drawing on paper).
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  393.  @scottnelson1713  The route from the south is pretty, much more remote though.
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  394. The lowest temperatures recorded in Austria, Italy, Croatia, and Spain were all recorded in nearly identical geologic settings (high altitude limestone sinks).
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  395. ​ @aaronthenorm5400  All things considered, it's pretty liberal for conservatism. The average Republican is about as far to the right as a typical Democrat was 25 years ago.
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  396. ​ @Nirrrina  It's because the dog, like you, is less dense than chlorinated water.
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  397.  @jorgej5916  No they aren't. Europe is a culturally degraded as America is.
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  398. Yup, the 30,000,000 people who saw it are actually deepstate zionist zealots and actors lying about witnessing the eclipse (including my grandma).
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  399.  @JonnieK2006  doesn't that depend on the size? Like a moon-sized object isn't going to tear the Earth apart.
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  400. ​ @Triiiee24  No, they're saying this storm isn't related to climate change.
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  402. 8:30 small correction, but it's the other way around. The Coriolis effect is weakest at the equator and strongest at the poles. This is why hurricanes rarely form within 500km of the equator. The reason hurricanes form in the tropics is only because of the fact there's lower wind shear, warmer water, and good atmospheric circulation. Edit: 18:50 another correction. There is no evidence that shows an increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes (at least in the Atlantic) over the last 140 years. At best the data is inconclusive and there's essentially no consensus on how global warming is impacting hurricane intensity, frequency, and strength (this is coming from the IPCC, NOAA, and AMS). Hurricanes aren't as simple as "warm water". Hurricanes are heat engines and thus require organization and energy gradients. There's no evidence that conditions have garnered increased energy gradients and improved organization. And citing damage as a metric for trends in hurricane strength is very misleading. This phenomenon is not because hurricanes have become more intense or strong, but rather because we have more infrastructure in their path. When normalizing hurricane damage for the amount of infrastructure present, there's essentially no trend in hurricane damage over the last 100 years (within the Atlantic, where data is available).
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  403. ​ @jasonduke3608  What does the government have to do with maintaining the Statue of Liberty?
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  404.  @jasonduke3608  The statue is a national monument because we made it one. The ship was built, funded, owned, and run by the US government. It was a legend and the pride of America until Apollo 11. It's one of the greatest feats of nautical engineering in all of history. The only reason it isn't a monument is because the US government abandoned it. If the statue of Liberty or USS Texas can be a monument, so can this. The federal government spends 4500 billion dollars every year - thats 1 billion dollars every 2 hours. If we can dish out a billion dollars every 120 minutes, we can dish out a billion in the course of 10 years to restore an American legend.
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  405. Just a coincidence
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  406. ​ @mappsmappings4025  have you seriously never heard of the 1878 Bangor referendum?
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  407. No it isn't
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  408. ​ @stevescuba1978 it is likely in the cat 1-2 range already
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  409.  @stevescuba1978  Did I say it isn't? As of 5pm radar data shows sustained wind velocities of 70 mph, both models and radar currently show winds of 75-95mph.
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  410.  @medstud  Why does that matter lol? He's Christian.
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  411.  @epicphailure88  That's the enlightenment confusion of libertarianism with conservatism. Conservativism, as an ideology, is the upholding of objective and universal truth, the submission to authority (especially righteous authority), and in the most ideal case an obedience to God. This is in contrast to liberalism, which is the upholding of the individual, subjective "truth", and an anarchistic opposition to authority (how this is achieved varies, but is fundamentally the same).
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  412. ​ @waylondesnoyers4606  But did they?
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  413.  @waylondesnoyers4606  Use context clues dude, what was your first comment responding to?
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  414.  @BlueRusso  125 mph is considered highspeed.
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  415. What an Awesome experience, it could very well be that hundreds of years from now this could be viewed as one of the most important places in the history of the advancement of mankind.
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  416. don't leftists worship satan?
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  417.  @Winddancer1991  So planes are much much much safer?
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  418. ​ @imapilot4  Libertarianism destroyed America
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  419. Yes, my grandma is a Jewish actor who lied to be about seeing the total eclipse in Indiana.
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