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Orange Devil posted:How much safer would the US be if they instead spent $30 billion a year to end world hunger. And yes, that's the UN estimate for total cost to end food insecurity for the roughly a billion people living in that state. Probably not much, both because outside of Afghanistan the only food insecure nations appear to be central African nations who aren't that troublesome to our interests (Somalia is but it's not food insecure, interestingly enough) and that by giving away free food you're pricing poor people out of one of the most consistent sources of income. edit: My data apparently only included "extreme" food insecure nations but even in the less extreme ones the latter point would still apply.
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Orange Devil posted:That's a good reason why you wouldn't solve the issue in that way, which I'm pretty sure the UN took into account. Yeah but that's the traditional approach (e.g., "it's not a food production problem it's a distribution problem"). Looking through this report where the number appears to have come from, it seems that there is a focus on local initiatives but that worldwide investment is not just limited to "give them money to invest"; rather, that biofuels and food subsidies should end: quote:It all added up to a situation in which supply and demand were out of sync and exacerbated by the demand for biofuels. To deal with that problem, the distortions caused by subsidized foodstuffs and biofuels should be eliminated. Food stocks should be rationalized, and research boosted dramatically. This would be unpopular in the US and other countries for a variety of reasons.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I thought it was primarily lead paint? Lead in general isn't good for you, but the gasoline is usually what got in the air.
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Apr 19, 2014 23:23
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Berke Negri posted:The freakonomics theory always sounded pretty hardcore (though not intentionally) racist/classist to me. Especially since 'overpopulation' isn't an issue with developed economies but the opposite. Overpopulation typically isn't a problem with developed countries because there's free access to birth control and abortions, because kids cost a ton. In fact, I believe it was shown that in countries like Sweden where there's a fair amount of security for the average person, birthrates went up slightly.
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Apr 20, 2014 14:57
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The Warszawa posted:CNN tackles the question of our times: can the Klan rebrand? And I thought I'd heard all of the Judean People's Front jokes.
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So my friend pissed off an MRA website- http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/lulu-chang-vigilante-journalist-and-bureaucrat-from-dartmouth-college/ choice comment: quote:Straight up, feminists are slimy and sleazy. They claim to represent equality, or essentially human rights, but some major turd like this just exposes the movement for the hypocrisy it stands for.
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There are still probably more scores/minute in American Football than soccer though. Really if you want to fix soccer (at least the stuff I've seen in the World Cup) you just make the field smaller and allow substitutions. It's way too easy to grind out time and prevent scores right now.
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Jun 26, 2014 04:34
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joepinetree posted:Or perhaps sports interest are based on culture and history and not stuff like "scores/minute." "I like this boring game because heritage but your game is boring because people aren't running around literally doing nothing for an hour and a half".
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30.5 Days posted:Is this actually true, though? I literally cannot recall anytime someone acted in an uncalled-for way toward me since leaving high school, except in the context of political arguments and other nerds being mad about games. It's not even a thing in high school any longer unless you consider "not being able to get a date because I'm a weirdo" to be nerd oppression. computer parts fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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goku im piss posted:Its the internet, whats new about that? Hmm, maybe people who traditionally haven't been part of "the internet" (that is, the parts of the internet that talk about raping people) are trying to engage with it now and are being offended.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:48
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7c Nickel posted:Still not actually a statement about "all gamers" in general, which was the original claim. People who self identify as gamers possess these traits in very high quantities.
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Nov 19, 2014 22:20
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Redeye Flight posted:Additionally, while you have a lot of video games that are just Shootbang: the Warfighter, you're starting to see more that have different viewpoints or less glorifying approaches to the idea. Spec Ops: The Line is the big, big name here, and recently one's come out called This War Of Mine where you play as a civilian in a besieged city trying to survive. It's not even that, there's just fewer games about war. That's what the big fear has been for the past decade, that "hardcore" games would stop being made because it was easier and cheaper to make dumb baby games
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Nov 22, 2014 03:25
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PT6A posted:What makes online gaming so attractive? Is it the legions of utter morons you can encounter? The thrill of being called a "friend of the family human being jew" by someone whose voice hasn't dropped yet? I deal with enough morons in my day-to-day life, I want my recreational activities to be as free from them as possible. Being replayable, mostly. If you're paying $60 for a game* you may as well get your money's worth out of it. *Which, incidentally, is lower than what you would pay for a game in real dollars compared with 15-20 years ago.
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Nov 25, 2014 00:26
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PT6A posted:How is this addressed in other industries? Do movie critics stop receiving pre-release copies of movies or access to special screenings if they say mean things? I believe car reviewers have similar constraints but those are also heavily regulated in the areas that most people care about (safety).
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:It should be noted that Chicago stands with Boston as an incredibly racist Northern city. As you read that editorial, remember that blacks were being red lined with intense fervor, that the black neighborhoods received severely substandard city services compared to what whites received despite paying the same taxes and that people were and in some place still are very upfront about hating black people. And (at least pre-White Flight) there were many incidences of Blacks & Hispanics being beaten by Italians for wandering into the wrong neighborhood.
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Starving Autist posted:While it's true that homosexuality and transgenderism are distinct and separate phenomena, homophobia and transphobia spring from the exact same type of ignorance. Bigots don't make distinctions between gay and trans people, to them they're all just gross deviant fags. Hence it actually makes a lot of sense to form a coalition. They don't make the distinction until they do.
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MaxxBot posted:Just a brave patriot defending his parking freedoms from evil mooselimb hordes No, it was just a parking dispute.
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Nenonen posted:tbh I don't see anything wrong about that piece and it's interesting to know that the guy apparently was a crazy Ron Paul type who finally snapped quote:In a news conference after her husband's arrest, Karen Hicks claimed to be as baffled as anyone about how a man who loves the Pittsburgh Steelers, the United States Constitution and dogs — especially his own black and brown mutt, Rocky — could have done something so vicious. She was adamant that the shootings stemmed from a long-simmering dispute over parking at their condo complex, not the victims' faith.
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OwlFancier posted:God forbid people maybe believe that someone can be a nuanced and complicated person and still be a murderer. Only white ones though.
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Nathilus posted:This probably belongs more in the rwm thread but I legit find how we program kids with the pledge really loving bad and creepy. It's very minitru-like. It's one thing for an adult to voluntarily utter a pledge of allegiance but forcibly indoctrinating a child to repeat it every morning is super hosed up and an entirely different matter. Just pretend it was put into place during Reconstruction to keep those dirty Southerners in line and I'm sure you can justify it to yourself.
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Nationalism is all about the quelling of local interests and loyalties in service of a larger national interest. The quelling of states rights fits exactly into here. Nationalism is a tool that's not just used by the "bad guys ".
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