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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Seriously? Boring politicians in Brussels or wherever. Not a fucking visiting NATO chief to an active warzone. Plus you can't even join if you have territorial disputes, so NATO can't even accept them right now. Everyone knows this.

You seem to have basic staff and activities utterly twisted up and can't separate them out. I can't keep correcting you all night so I'm probably out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Trump will definitely intervene and bomb the shit out of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. This is the guy who took the most insane extreme option and killed that Iranian general.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

The two most memorable Trek comics in one thread.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

Seriously? Ukraine may have, but they are not in. NATO answers to current member's politicians. JFC. NATO chiefs should trapeze around, the politicians can, not the NATO chiefs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Fallen bananas are slippery.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's all stepping stones for them. That's why they say everything they don't like is a slippery slope, because that's how they work.

Like it just happened. First it was illegal, now it's the legal temporary. Next it will be legal _____, etc, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

During an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Trump said he planned to strip the legal status of the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status.

“Springfield is such a beautiful place; have you seen what’s happened to it? It’s been overrun. They have to be removed,” Trump said.

“So you would revoke the Temporary Protected Status?” asked the interviewer.

“Absolutely, I’d revoke it and I’d bring them back to their country,” Trump said.

During his first administration, Trump rescinded Temporary Protective Status orders for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal, and Honduras, placing hundreds of thousands of legal residents at risk for deportation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If they get the race war they want, rich will only offer you the last place in line.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Text back now to overthrow democracy!"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Pic has Yoshi. I believe that was Super Mario World, 1990.

 

Normally idioms are language specific, but number of hours and days are the same.

 

Very interesting.

 

At the age of six, Obama and his mother had moved to Indonesia to join his stepfather. From age six to ten, he was registered in school as "Barry"[31] and attended local Indonesian-language schools: Sekolah Dasar Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi (St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School) for two years and Sekolah Dasar Negeri Menteng 01 (State Elementary School Menteng 01) for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother.[32][33] As a result of his four years in Jakarta, he was able to speak Indonesian fluently as a child.[34] During his time in Indonesia, Obama's stepfather taught him to be resilient and gave him "a pretty hardheaded assessment of how the world works".[35]

In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou School—a private college preparatory school—with the aid of a scholarship from fifth grade until he graduated from high school in 1979.

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The decision to demilitarize started from a proposal to put more money into education and healthcare by the then Defense Minister Edgar Cardona, who passed it to the Interior minister Alvaro Ramos and then, taken to the constitutional assembly by the provisional President at the time, Jose Figueres Ferrer.

But even though Costa Rica has no Army, it has a special police force, officially called the Public Force of Costa Rica (Fuerza Pública). It was established in 1996 by the Ministry of Public Security to perform law enforcement, policing, and border patrol tasks. The force’s motto is “God, Fatherland, and Honor.”

The Effects of Costa Rica not having an Army

The budget previously dedicated to sustaining the Costa Rica Army is put into other aspects of the society like education and health care.

This, in turn, allows for improved political, economic, and social stability. New schools and hospitals lowered the country’s infant mortality and heightened the literacy rate.

Today, Costa Rica’s infant mortality rate is the second-lowest in the region, and the literacy rate is 98%. It also has a higher life expectancy, averaging 80 years old. So, overall, the standard of living has increased.

In fact, in 2012, based on the Happy Planet Index, it was the happiest country in the world!

Population of 5 million.

 

Yes I inverted it to burning coal is called the industrial revolution because I think it's neat way to look at it.

I'm thinking through the history of energy: We burned wood. Then we burned coal. Then we burned oil. Then we burned atoms.

 

Found on Imgur

 

To have discussions and pose questions.

 

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the Penguin or gare-fowl, is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is unrelated to the Penguins of the southern hemisphere, which were named so after their resemblance to the northern species.

...the auk foraged in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain and along the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

Early European explorers to the Americas used the great auk as a convenient food source or as fishing bait, reducing its numbers. The bird's down was in high demand in Europe, a factor that largely eliminated the European populations by the mid-16th century. Around the same time, nations such as Great Britain began to realize that the great auk was disappearing and it became the beneficiary of many early environmental laws, but despite that the great auk were still hunted.

Its growing rarity increased interest from European museums and private collectors in obtaining skins and eggs of the bird. On 3 June 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on Eldey, off the coast of Iceland, ending the last known breeding attempt.

The word "penguin" first appears in the sixteenth century as a synonym for "great auk".[20] Although the etymology is debated, the generic name "penguin" may be derived from the Welsh pen gwyn "white head", either because the birds lived in New Brunswick on White Head Island (Pen Gwyn in Welsh) or because the great auk had such large white circles on its head. When European explorers discovered what today are known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although biologically, they are not closely related.[21]: 10

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