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American culture did not think killing Osama Bin Laden was objectionable.

My friends that tattoo aren't getting automatized anytime soon.

A lot of people have a really shitty negotiating position. They're barely literate, living paycheck to paycheck and raising children. Are you really choosing your job when your options are super limited and you don't have the means to invest in yourself?

A lot of people would be willing. The people with power and contradicting interests don't.

It's easy to not give a fuck when you benefit from the inequality.

I live in revelstoke, if we do that Canada cant ship goods from coast to coast from december to april (the subsidy I have in mind is the Rogers pass avalanche control program) Those subsidies exist because they benefit people.

Look at the appalachian and pacific crest trails. Its really hard in occidental countries to be more than 50km from a city, so you always have places to buy food.

Lactobacillus is omnipresent in our bodies, from our stomach to our boogers, and is the main lactic acid bacteria used in sourdough bread and quickly brewed sour beers.

Most bacteria in boogers and sweat is pretty harmless stuff, and a lot of it can be used to metabolize some tasty compounds. Even some clostridiums (same category of bacteria as the disease c. difficile and an omnipresent type of bacteria in our stomachs) are used to produce esters in rum.

­>A lot of people think that mass transit is for the poor

That's because it is. I had to take the metro in Montréal to get to work this week, hadn't taken it in months because I usually bike, it's such a shitty experience. It smells bad, it's hot, it's filled with tired people that don't feel like going to work (you feel it in the air), beggars harass you, it's slow (it can take 3x as much time as riding a bike to get where you want to) and it's operating past maximum capacity during rush hour. I haven't even gotten started on when service is interrupted and you show up over an hour late to work or class. Anybody who can afford a bit more for reliability and comfort will spend it without looking back.

There's not really other ways to do politics other than to project soft power (cold war) or hard power (armed conflict)

>You either have to take full central control (lets not go there)

In Montreal we have heavily government funded universities, tuition is less than 4k a year. It works great, we're building leadership in AI right now.

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Women bring different perspective on a vast variety of issues. It has obvious bearing on the technical work.

denmark pays their students the equivalent of 700usd per month while they're in school