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@croesuslydias6488 They're not useless. They are among the most durable material in the world when it comes to writing. Properly bound, information written on parchment can survive for over 1,000 years. That is especially useful with documents whose contents cannot be lost— not mass-produced,if they're of a sensitive nature. Digital is extremely versatile, yet fragile. Even normal camera prints last many times longer than the average SSD, and that's important for things like family photos. Plenty of people don't know that they should transfer their photos into a new storage device every several years. God forbid it gets damaged. There is tremendous value in things that are older. Losing it forever just closes another door on us.
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@yonneye2427 So, your answer to the inherently short lifespan of digital media and the comparatively durable physical storage is a version of "well that's trivial anyway"? Do you seriously see family photos as some sort of liability? I'm aware not everyone's sentimental, but to not hold any curiosity beyond the 2 generations that are likely alive in your family? I'm actually surprised. I've never seen anyone try to boil down an inherently emotionally-inspired item to pure function. Not to mention, 100 years is still far longer than the average lifespan of an SSD. You'd still, as an individual holding onto photos of just you, once every 10 years at the very minimum.
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By official metrics? Certainly not. The US, in international corruption-level studies, usually ranks in the high teens. Out of ~200 countries, not bad! ..Until you consider that lobbying is not counted as corruption, which it should, only because it's considered legal in the country in which it's practiced. At that point, measuring by sheer volume (close to 3.5 billion)- the US should rank at the very bottom. The most marked difference between the US and developing countries is that corruption is hidden much better here- you don't have flight agents asking for a $300 "transactional fee" like I did a few years ago in St. Petersburg, in addition to the standard costs for rescheduling a flight. There is no pocketing in the U.S.. However, (relevantly) Congress' tax plans, national underdevelopment in both physical and digital infrastructure (my internet was more reliable in Poland), and a generally poor social service net all point to corruption at higher levels, with far-reaching impacts. Quality of life here is very high (that will happen when you have 250+ years of uninterrupted industrialization, safe from foreign powers), but corruption is actually higher than most people think. Sorry for the text block.
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@Shadow__133 It's just that America has so thoroughly Americnaized Japan that, to its people, Japan is exotic enough to be interesting but Western enough to be approachable. Western people tend to like exotic things if they are "surface level": tangible things, like music, food, crafted goods, vacation spots, etc. They tend not to actually like eastern culture, though: intangible things, like values, worldview, societal organization, even politics, they view as either backwards or a threat. They only like foreign culture if they can keep it on a shelf.
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@alissa6 Remember that the original homeland of the Turks was Central Asia (and if you go back even further, Siberia). So while Anatolia was a center of civilization for thousands of years, it isn't part of Turkic culture. Turkic (and later Turkish) culture is also old and very rich, but modern-day Turkey is not a "Turkic land", if that makes sense.
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@yonneye2427 ...As opposed to just processing your photos onto film, and buying a scrapbook with sleeves? I'm aware of the benefits of digital storage (infinitely reproduceable with no loss of quality, huge storage space, re-organizability, etc) but the medium comes with pitfalls. SSDs can be infected with a virus and held for ransom- sometimes by a person no longer with access to his own code. A physical photo album can't be corrupted, hacked, or remotely accessed. Benefits and drawbacks to both.
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Sophisticated Swanson That's great advice for people who have now experience handling money, but if you know what you're doing, credit lines are a great way to essentially make free money off the fact that most people (see previous) don't know how to use it.
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@yonneye2427 I'm aware. But (as I'm sure you know, being so supportive of tech solutions to old problems), always keep a backup. Physical media have an air gap that can't be hacked into. And you're trusting the company storing your data to keep it safe. When very, very few things in the digital world are ever secure. End-to-end encryption is about as good as you'll get, but most services don't offer that, at least not for average people.
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 @lindaks8n But it's still juice. Unless the entire apple is blended (with the fibers) it is still just sugar and water, even if it has a little bit less sugar.
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Can somebody in Egypt help them set up an online store? Ideally a wealthy Egyptian, who can sink the costs of setting up and let their profit increase from there
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@witchdr.phantom7089 The creators of South Park stay firmly centrist, and Clint Eastwood's monetary gains don't hold a candle to Silicon Valley. At all. He's a bug compared to their output.
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@bretert Have you put any thought into this? They'll find a home to live in, usually (illegally) paying the actual owner more than they should get, just to stay in the country. At the same time, they work under the table, for cheaper than a citizen would (again, they don't have any other choices). So while they work tax-free, they get paid far less and can't take government benefits. In the end, they make our country more money than they use. But of course I'm fake news right?
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@witchdr.phantom7089 Sorry, I went off a little there. I agree, and creativity isn't bound by political affiliation... to an extent. While he may not be completely right, he has a point. Conservativism, by its very nature, discourages creativity. Unless it is accepted within a society's existing framework, holding certain things sacred and 'conserving values' holds them hostage, leaving then unable to change. Creativity, on the other hand, encourages the 'perversion' of existing ideas, be they political or not. This is especially true in comedy, where older conservatives don't want to be like 'those filthy Democrats,' seeing insults and teasing as beneath them, and modern Conservatives seemingly unable to string together a joke that doesn't use a racial slur. It's just two sides of human nature, and one happens not to like new ideas. So while you're right that Conservatives can be creative, it doesn't make the playing field even, so to speak.
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ThatOne Not sure about Brazil (have you seen the favelas?) but as for China and Russia, well.. China has been, for the last 2,000 years, an agriculturally-focused society (yes, there were emperors, but their authority was directly tied to the success of harvest). It's not hard to find food in China, whenever you end up. You'd have to try not to find a farmer's market. Russia, on the other hand, does in fact have hungry. Especially in Dagestan. I'd also like to mention (even though I despise whataboutism) that the U.S. has people go hungry too. Not saying "take that," just that corruption doesn't always mean stealing food. It's usually just nepotism and skimming off the top. The Soviet days of "collecting" are long over. We're just about the same as everyone else.
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@SlocketSeven This is where I have a lot of beef with Trump supporters. Do any of them know what you need to do to get into the U.S.? Do they know that it's essentially a lottery system for distributing green cards? And very little meritocracy involved?
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2:44 Interesting wording... though modern scholarship virtually unanimously agrees, that the famines of the 1930s were not intentional.
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