The hypocresy is from the side that refused to denounce Trump when he was foaming at the mouth yelling riggeeed! And now they don't like it when some people, not clinton nor obama, ask questions.
With the effect that it will just screw amazon further. Because of this problem I've started buying products directly from the brand stores or walmart/costco/target.
I completely stopped buying from ebay years ago because of similar problems.
I guess curation (of products, content, reviews, vendors, everything) remains one of the big problems of the internet age, where there's a million of everything and it's hard to know who to trust.
This should be enough for a colony though. With a recycling program it would probably last indefinitely. Much better than bringing the water from Earth.
Recyling could mean never letting it out into the atmosphere in the first place. Or maybe would, since there is no water cycle to talk of on Mars. Think closed-loop aquaponics systems etc.
I mean that water if going to be the least of your problems, unless you've mastered terraforming (we haven't) or you're okay with living under a huge dome (that we don't even have technology to build, either). Liquid water cannot exist on Mars, and liquid blood can't either, so you would die horribly if you went on Martian sole without a spacesuit. Apart from having gravity, living on Mars would be like living on the ISS, minus the food they bring to the station from Earth...
Very true indeed. Trump got elected. That pretty much means that as long as you have power and say the right things you can get away with almost anything. I used to be stupid enough to believe this was not true in our country but god bless Trump, he opened my eyes.
Same here. I keep thinking that there must be a way to legally take advantage of people that will easily believe Trump's lies. There just have to be a way, anybody have any good startup ideas? I'm not joking. Half the country is willing to elect Trump. I'm sure there is a market there.
It's already happening. There are gigantic businesses that don't manufacture or really do anything - they just encourage their users to post pictures and videos of their cats and their meals, all the while spying on their habits and likes, in order to facilitate other businesses tricking them into buying their products.
These guys are smart though. They don't just target Trump supporters.
Regardless of one's political leanings, earnestly encouraging taking financial advantage of people one believes to be gullible is highly unethical, even if it is legal.
The election was about electing a white racist bygot. Everything else they say it was about is just deflection. He could have defrauded students, assaulted woman, have a wife pose in pseudo lesbian porn pictures, use his charity for personal expenses and he still would have gotten elected. Ho wait...
Edit: At least the white nationalist guys admit why they like trump so much.
My advice would be that if you really want to learn something then you have to do it. The book is a reference but there is no substitute for on hands training. Unless all you want to learn is facts like an encyclopedia, which I guess is ok but I find it hard to see as a good method to learn something deeply.
True - doing is an important part. But good (and hard) books are not like encyclopedias - they're not a collection of facts, they're also a way to discover and internalize author's mental model. You get to learn the connection between the facts and their relative importance. I feel it's something that later greatly aids you in the "doing" phase.
Pretty much everything celebrates white america. You don't name it so because it is already implied. Unfortunately you are so insecure that when a bunch of historically opressed people try to make room for themselves you feel like you are the one being opressed. Highly ironic.
Oh, no, I don't feel oppressed. I am pointing out the ironic nature of a museum, and a general culture, that has the mindset of trying to "account" for past racism with treating one race differently to another, far since the effects of the past have dwindled to nothing but natural human impulses.
You need to stop using the word "race" this way. It's not a museum about "race". It's a museum about a cultural history shared among millions of Americans. It's got slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement, but also James Baldwin's passport. Black history in the US is an enormous rich topic; it would clearly deserve a museum even if blacks had never been discriminated against.
I think this is maybe the core of your argument, that racism and its effects are no longer noticeable, so this kind of thing isn't necessary. I would encourage you to look up the many studies of how simply having a black sounding name can affect job prospects and other things, and ask some black people if they've ever been affected by discrimination.
a) there hasn't been many studies. Many headlines about few studies which makes you think there are lots however...
b) If you read past the headlines into the correlation and probability theory of each study, you'll find that the reason why there is the difference is because of education and lower ambitions and goals of black people. You could say there is no real racism, only perceived racism, which then mentally affects the perceiever, and dissaudes them from getting better qualifications and therefore worse job prospects.
That is not in itself racism. That is a false perception of reality ends up affecting reality later on. I think it's called the self-fulfillment fallacy.
> a) there hasn't been many studies. Many headlines about few studies which makes you think there are lots however...
The social sciences suffer massive publication bias. Results ranging from failure of the study to support the hypothesis to the gathered data having being politically incorrect lead to research being abandoned.
This sort of seems like a semantics argument. If the effects of "perceived racism" are the same as the effects of real racism, isn't it still a problem? Don't we still need to deal with it?
