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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So when you read a tweet (an X? Xpost?), can you select to read all the proposed "added context"?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So how does the "readers added context" work? They vote for shows up?

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Had to think about this but I don't think an island is considered an exclave.

The reason for this is because it is entirely surrounded by water, not another piece of land. Islands are not usually considered to be exclaves.

https://homework.study.com/explanation/is-hawaii-an-exclave.html it's paywalled but the answer came through on google.

The island is right beside both Canadian and Denmark (greenland) land, so it's not exactly isolated or surrounded by either.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Canada now has a land border with Denmark. Have fun with that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Has anybody ever seen the movie “Gangs of New York?” That’s what I’m talking about. We know that when you have these massive ethnic enclaves forming in our country, it can sometimes lead to higher crime rates. .... things like what we’ve done over the last few years, which is have 20-25 million illegal aliens just setting up shop here with no control, no enforcement, and no real ability to police what’s going on. That is a disaster.

Worth reading the whole quote, the article goes right to it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

DJI FlyCart 30

I can't ever take the word perilous seriously.

Pretty cool, worth the watch. They don't show the size very well, with arms folded in fits in the back of a pickup. 30 kg with one battery, 40 kg with 2 batteries, hot swap battery, 16 km range, 20 m/s (72 km/h), 6000 m ceiling, record and repeat flight paths.

Looks like they think the chinese delivery market will be huge.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

It is not exactly clear when and where the video was taken, nor who exactly “they” were. According to a BBC report earlier this year almost 350 Russian fighters, ground attack aircraft and tactical bombers have been shot down over the battlefield during the last two and a half years. These have been by both Ukrainian air defense assets and “friendly fire” incidents.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

My comparison is that the metric system is like color vision. It's like colors for traffic lights, but USC people insist it's fine memorizing which light is which location. In metric you just see the world in a way USC can't, but USC people insist they're just fine.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The most serious blow came from the Supreme Court in the 2013 decision Shelby County v. Holder, which ruled that states with a long history of voting discrimination no longer needed to approve their election changes with the federal government. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion that “things have changed dramatically” in the South, but since the ruling nearly 100 restrictive voting laws have been passed in at least 29 states, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. As a result of the Shelby decision and a slew of new anti-voting measures passed by Republicans in the wake of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, voters in almost half the country will face new voting restrictions at the polls in 2024.

Also talks about a map which sounds like gerrymandering.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

From wiki

Red Ventures is an American media company that owns and operates brands such as Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, The Points Guy, Healthline, and Bankrate.[1] Red Ventures focuses on news, advice, and review websites.[2]

Seems pretty straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

No spine and succumbs to peer pressure. No surprise here.

 

An oldie but a goodie.

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Sounds like it's a quick primary? So will VPs be picked before the nomination is finalized? Can multiple candidates pick the same VP? If after the nomination, it has to be pretty fast. Pick the second place finisher?

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Not getting much by Googling.

If not, what's the ETA?

 

Mercury poisoning of hat-makers – In 18th and 19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was commonly used in the hat-making trade at the time. Long-term use of mercury products often resulted in mercury poisoning-induced erethism among hat-makers.[1][2] In the late 19th-century United States, a notable example occurred in Danbury, Connecticut, where hat making was a major industry. Instances of erethism were so widespread among hat-makers, the condition became known locally as the "Danbury Shakes." It was characterized by slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and in extreme cases hallucinations.

 

That is all.

 

We saw his father, his mother, his grandfather, his brother, his other brother, and his daughter. Not too shabby for an Android.

 

I found this fascinating, and interesting history.

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